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I think you have those numbers reversed. According to the article (I presume its accurate), the endowment total is $300M [including funds from multiple years], and the fundraising total so far this fiscal year is $142M (I assume that's gross, fundraising has costs).

The majority of Wikimedia's money goes to software development, not keeping the lights on. I think there are definitely reasonable criticisms that could be made about WMF's priorities and efficiencies (Not to mention how its situation is conveyed in the fundraising campaign), but I struggle to see a world where WMF spends the absolute bare minimum to keep the lights on, with no further funding to new software development, and Wikipedia is still a success.

Disclaimer: used to work there, don't anymore.
This has been reported in the US press for decades.

Mexican cartels send a rep to your door, and ask you, "Silver or lead?"

Also, it's also been reported if there's a "stable" government, it's been completely bought off - otherwise there wouldn't be stability. For example, when there's a dramatic prison break using a mile-long tunnel, officials had to be involved.
They're making a comment on the HN/general paranoia around Huawei in the face of the actual privacy concerns regarding the US government. Does someone need to be a Chinese agent to find this paranoid behavior objectionable?
probably. I just know I'm sick of buying plastic shit that doesn't last.
You're totally right.

It's like there are multitude Battlefields on a War of Opinion & Truth.

In my case I may have compared 1 year ago a certain world leader that was sending minority demographic to specialized facilities to a Disney character.

Though it certainly took quite a while for me to be labeled and permanently suspended.

I don't know why my alt account would be banned as well, though.
They're awful. 95% of the time it's stock questions and stock answers. The only time they're entertaining is when it's someone like the Patriots' head coach Bill Belichick. He very clearly hates stupid questions but rarely he'll be asked a good one and have a chance to launch into a detailed discussion on punting in the NFL or some other lesser discussed aspect of the game. Ask him good questions and he'll happily give thoughtful, detailed responses, it just almost never happens.
Can we all chip in for a fund so the countries that have no qualms about the inevitable tragedy of the commons situation can test their anti-sat missiles elsewhere?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_anti-satellite_mis...
I don't think he purchases climbing carabiners. No one in right mind searches for those on amazon.
Wars happen anyway, someone might start a war with you and then you need to manage to defend yourself without killling too many civilians, if AI helps then why not?
Makes sense, shot an email as well. Thanks!
> Let's be clear about this, the donation money isn't just used to keep the encyclopedia online.

This is the very source of the complaint though. People want to donate to fund the thing they actually use, not a bunch of other arbitrary projects they don’t care about.

I mean take a look at the donation page under “Where your donation goes”.

It does technically mention a “wide variety of projects” but the whole thing is written to make you feel like you are donating to the encyclopedia that is barely scraping by. And it certainly doesn’t mention anything about an endowment.
How much are they bringing into Mozilla with that?
Except that its in the China Russia KGB CCP interest to hurt American industry wherever and whenever they can. Who actually goes around sifting through all of these peoples content? Its honestly pathetic. Fix social media now. We're all under attack!
> I offer no advice on how to write this kind of stuff, but i'd like to bring up the point that my situation , as someone who is paralyzed, is totally different than the situation of someone who is clinically depressed.

Thanks for writing this in such a non judgemental way.

I really didn't care much about such imprecise language but I too am starting to wonder if something needs to be done - and where.

This and similar wordings are what my teachers would refer to as a literary tool (not sure of the correct English translation but it should suffice.)

But it seems a lot of people doesn't understand (and some won't understand) this. This holds true for both writers and readers.

Recently someone said something about a certain well known country being apartheid, so I pointed them to the encyclopedia (not Wikipedia) that describes apartheid. It didn't work. Journalists had said apartheid so apartheid it was. Was it apartheid? Only in the same sense where the bank "robs" someone by not adjusting interest rates in a timely manner: as a way to spice up language.
Hey, ente is currently not directed at an audience that has the knowledge and energy to set up and maintain a reliable storage infrastructure.

We had started off as a self-hosted project, but ran into difficulties monetizing that model. We wanted to pay our rents, and continue working on this, and an E2EE SaaS was a way forward.

We are not averse to supporting a self-hosted version in the future. But that commitment requires engineering and support bandwidth, which we don’t have right now.
wiki profits are all time high. what a impressive business model, the entire planet can be added to Wikipedia and the best part about all this, its user generated content that Wikipedia uses to get millions around the world.
You won't find an uninterested party anywhere near crypto, but this is a discussion between an NFT issuing artist and an anti-crypto gentleman about NFTs. They're friends so they get into a back and forth, and the artist I think does a good job of explaining what they like about them. [1]

[1] https://anchor.fm/aviv-milner
Interesting to look at the replies to the Facebook post from over a year ago.

It was patently clear to everyone back then that the WHO was wrong about this.
Not, sure - but I just came across this in the Nim standard library:

http://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/pegs.html

> Simple PEG (Parsing expression grammar) matching. Uses no memorization, but uses superoperators and symbol inlining to improve performance. Note: Matching performance is hopefully competitive with optimized regular expression engines.
Can't it just be that since 2007 most of the obvious topics for an encyclopedia to cover have been covered?

It's probably less satisfying to change the wording in one sentence in an article about an Australian cheese than it is to write that article. So fewer people care.
He was one of the highest paid athletes in the world last year and almost none of it (percentage wise anyway) came from fighting.
HN logs IPs.
Played with it a bit. Looks good, although rough around the edges as expected of an alpha.

Lot of times, it gets stuck at 'Pipeline running', specially with dataset and web tables. Ability to fetch remote data via web JSON and XML/RSS will be nice.
A lot of new information was released today in a collaboration between danish, swedish, german and french media. Sadly, I haven’t found a good english language article yet.
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The Teams installer is the worst. Every time I open Teams, the damn thing installs itself in the login items on my Mac. This is straight up malware behavior. I wish I could report this to Apple.
I believe that’s the one I got, too, after looking at basically all the options available. It’s still, I regret to tell you, a terrible product.

First of all, the sound design is criminally bad. Whenever you touch the controls it lets off an obnoxious beep that is way too loud for a home environment. It should of course be completely silent, except a pleasant sound to let you know it is done, and of course, like other reasonably designed home electronics, it should allow you to adjust the volume or turn the sound off completely. (Imagine, for sake of argument, that your iPhone beeped whenever you touched it. It would be bizarre. Why would you want that in a microwave oven?)

Second, the controls are flimsy and glitchy. If I try to increase the time slowly or by a small amount, the value tends to jump erratically up or down by some random amount. I need to firmly push the dial inwards while turning to avoid this.

Third, except for the noise pollution of those beeps, it also brings in more light pollution in my home, through a blue blinking seven-segment display that insists on always showing the current time. This is a bad feature that is irrelevant to the purpose of the microwave, and I would prefer to turn it off.

Finally, I hate the way it looks. Silver-coated plastic, reflective blacks and blue LEDs looks good in a cheap sci-fi flick, not in a home. What’s funny is that the inside actually looks pretty nice, a navy-blue metal with an organic white splatter pattern.
Not all dishwashers have it. I found that most dishwashers in the US don't have it, so you have to work to find one that does.

If they do, it's usually a compartment at the bottom of the thing with a sealed screw-cap.

Oh, and don't bother buying "dishwasher salt", just buy medium-grain table salt, it's 10x cheaper.
I don't look at it that way at all. I'm choosing to conserve my finite energy for the things that matter most. It's all about priorities: of course I would like to have a job that I'm both excited about and not too stressed about, but I can be happy and fulfilled with one that simply doesn't dominate my life (in terms of time or energy, because those are separate things), because my job is not my life. And being uncompromising about having a job that really excites you can force you to make all sorts of other sacrifices (time, stress, risk, maybe even things like money and lifestyle), which is where the prioritization comes in.
I don't get the hate towards Corporate Memphis. I'm not sure what would be better instead; a stock photo seems just as bad.

To me the problem isn't in what the ad looks like, but that the ad is there. I also don't like that the ad is shown to a particular group of people, i.e. ones who aren't doing what lies in the company's best interests.
Japanese understanding for copyright is like enforceable shrinkwrap software licensing entitled to authors, literally “authorship rights”.

American version is like rights holder’s right to protect mostly financial interest, almost literally “copy-rights”.

When ones from different sides meet a misunderstanding like this happens; one side says “it’s not going to hurt your sales”, the other side says “how dare you mess with someone else’s binary” and the discussions go nowhere.

As for resolution, an emerging choice is to make the author monetize the pirated translation and let them take down the free version. Don’t work always as sometimes the rights holder consider that a negligible gain or minor loss with high reputation risks to day jobs.

So, “it’s not going to hurt sales” won’t work. “Do you have any idea to make it official” is probably better.
Here's the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

You'll note that (eg) Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, The Economist and Al Jazeera are all considered "reliable" (green), while Fox News is yellow (OK except for politics).
I wish it was an improvement over WPF, it can hardly match WPF in feature comparisasion, every time someone complains we get the standard reply of getting in touch and explaining our case.

The XAML is incompatible as the rendering engine doesn't expose the same feature set.

Well, our use case is not to rewrite everything yet one more time, a use case that apparently is hard to understand.

Designers aren't supported, yet another please get in touch and explain your business case kind of answer.
Might be Netflixland by then.
This is absolutely wild. I had watched that video earlier, and assumed it was a car transporting cash.

Someone should start a drone cellphone delivery business for South Africa. It's hard to understand people putting their lives on the line like that to deliver cell phones.
Or maybe they're marked "reliable" because they're less likely to make stuff up. I know that it is problematic when all the most obvious sources are slanted towards one political point of view, but citing the Daily Mail and other tabloids for stuff that the viewer's supposed to trust is even worse.
Then let those projects fight and advertise for themselves.

People donating to wikipedia only want wikipedia, they are unaware of the other stuff wikimedia does.

Those projects would crash and burn though, because frankly, no one cares about them. Stuff like wikidata and SPARQL endpoints are an academic curiosity with no real value.

The semantic web won't happen, articles do and will.

In addition to that, the whole deletion first and no primary information attitude makes sentences like "ecosystem of free knowledge" laughable.
Weren't DEX trade fees in the thousands of dollars during the big part of the crash a few weeks ago?
As an European journalist I’ve been to Iraq, Mosul and Sinjar during the war 3 times in 2014-17-18. I’m a photographer, here are my reportages www.giuliomagnifico.it (under reportage menu).

The north Iraq (Kurdistan region) is a wonderful place for tourist! I absolutely suggest to go there, with all the precautions of course.

If you need something, just ask me. I’ve got some contacts/friends in Kurdistan.
> But keeping Wikipedia online is a task that the WMF could comfortably manage on $10 million a year

This part is disingenuous and bordering on malicious. The linked email (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March...) has so much more nuance, and in typical fashion a single number from it is taken completely out of context to push a certain narrative. It is also an estimate from almost a decade ago.

Wikimedia's finances are audited and published every year. Here's the latest one from 2019-2020 - https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu.... They had $120M in donations and $9M in other revenue for the year. Expenses were $112M. That isn't even close to the buffer that the article implies. The foundation's total current assets (~$160M) would keep their sites running for <2 years, and maybe a few more with major operational cuts. Why on earth shouldn't they fundraise more?
The barrier to entry is often that more articles exist now, it's likely the random thing you know enough about to start an article about already has one.

Having 10% of new editors stick around seems amazingly high.

Has anyone done the same for post 2015?
Looks like fun. Wonder how many HN readers will end up playing together today off this link!
Sounds similar to what's been happening in certain cities of Colombia this past month. And that country is still a tourist hotspot.
Rust is definitely a significant and important project. That said, Firefox's peak market share was a little over 30% of desktop browsers (in 2009 so they weren't yet a sideshow), while Rust isn't even currently in the TIOBE Index top 20 (can't find any easy way to see a peak position sadly).

More importantly though, we have other Rusts. Rust has half a dozen competitors and essentially nobody thinks that making a robust new systems programming language is an unachievable goal. Firefox is the only non-profit browser engine we have and most people consider it an impossible undertaking to develop a new one from scratch at this stage. Indeed, Microsoft recently tried before conceding defeat and switching Edge over to Chromium's Blink.
Related: I'd done a diff[1] on Rowling's new book (The Ickabog) - UK v/s US editions (using the text published on the website which I was compiling[0]). The differences were fairly minor and mostly down to standard US/GB differences. Most of it was just quoting and punctuation.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/7d5dae42769e575676708560399...

[0]: https://github.com/captn3m0/ickabog-ebook/
Just a modern version of the same mail order distributor.
I mean, I didn’t say you couldn’t. But that doesn’t change the fact that cartels are businesses and the reason for these terrible things aren’t because the people are evil but because it’s their livelihood. I’d also wager that working for a cartel pays a lot better than working on a farm in Mexico. It also isn’t a “take.” When you start throwing around words like evil you are demonizing the enemy which you should never do.
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In emergency situation, I can come up with mitigation something like: YouTube could reduce available video quality options only for 144p/480p/1080p/2160p for some rarely watched videos and remove other quality converted videos (but keep original file internally). Such mitigation will work for consumer oriented services, but not work for AWS/GCP. Possibly they can also stop internal analysis/research project that consumes a lot of resources.

They can also delay replacing hardware by accepting higher power usage and failure rate.

Yes it's serious problem but not critical as much as hardware company for immediately.
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Good point. I don't see many AI apps being experienced together in the same way Roblox games are experienced together. The social aspect for Hal9 would be on developing AI solutions together, building components together, etc; but I agree most users play Roblox socially while only a few build games together.

We considered other analogies like "Unity for AI", but we felt it missed the marketplace component. Another strong contender was "Unity and Steam for AI". At the end, these analogies are going to be imperfect but hopefully they give a quick (yet incomplete) sense of what is being built. In general, we don't use this analogy in our site, but we figured HN would appreciate the analogy.
Because 10 years earlier WMF's expenses were $10M/year, and it's pretty debatable if they're delivering 10x more today than they were back then.
I'm with you. Wikipedia has revolutionized access to information. I can't imagine where we would be without it today. I'd much rather they be more than ready to weather a few storms than about to pull the plug before people feel the need to donate.

I think this article rubs me the wrong way because it leans a little heavily on vagueness to take you from the facts to how you should feel about them. Some volunteers are not amused? How many? A majority? A vocal few? "Wikipedians who have made hundreds of thousands of edits may well feel someone else is enjoying the fruit of their labor." Well, do they or don't they? Did you ask them?

I'll even admit that my initial reaction to this article was why do they need more of my money? But I gave $10 last year (basically nothing for my current income), and I'll do the same this year. Don't give so much money that you get bent out of shape about where it goes. If everyone gave an amount that meant relatively little to them, they would be in great shape. That's also basically what the donation banners say, too, but the article doesn't mention that.
There are gang members in the U.S. who join the military to receive weapons training. It won't eliminate the problem. You will just see corrupt soldiers instead of corrupt police.
As the neighbor just moved in, I'm guessing they were unaware of your friend's liver transplant. If this was indeed the case, I find your friend's situation difficult to sympathize with. .

If you did the slightest bit of digging, I think you'd find that 99% of people mean no offense, and would be deeply apologetic if their "transgression" were brought to their attention.

If you're sensitive enough, you'll find yourself offended all the time.
The amount of money and power a cartel have is not even comparable with the police resources. And even if a local police would want to things with proper training and weapons, the cartels are still having influence at the state and federal level.
Ah, there’s already a bbc article on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27338555
In some product categories, I've found out that price increase doesn't increase the quality proportionally all the time. Similarly, there are some companies which produce items for a substantially lower price, but their items punch way above their weight.

HiFi gear is one of them. My CD player (from Yamaha) and speakers (from Heco) were cheaper when compared to other brands, but they're at least equal with their qualities, and they proved themselves over the years.

Similarly, if I can get 90% quality of a Wusthof by getting a Victorinox Grand Maitre, I'm OK with that.

I've also found out that technology has improved dramatically in certain categories. I've bought an entry level Sony BT headphones (Sony WH-CH510), and the sound quality for that price is unbeatable. I have much better headphones, but for something which I can grab and go, it's unbelievable. I had to pay thrice the price for that sound quality 10 years ago.
I see many of you didn't get the train. Maybe you work on a big tech but you are not a hacker anymore. Real hackers are in crypto since its inception. And they will be your bosses. Just wait for it.
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Which cryptocurrency do you use for it?
Look into how BMW and Walmart are using Vechain:

https://nederob.medium.com/bmw-uses-vechain-to-combat-mileag...

https://medium.com/vechain-foundation/walmart-china-takes-on...

The "why": https://www.reddit.com/r/Vechain/comments/7ra0tt/honest_ques...
This sounds like a testimonial ad for Herbalife.

$50 consumer-grade products are almost always "crap," but you're making a sweeping generalization across dozens of product lines in 2 brands without offering any evidence or proof that you used appropriate products for the task. Fans on most UPSes only kick-in when their inverters run during an outage or a test for cooling.

I happen to have an SMX1500RM2UNC with humidity and dual temperature logging. It's floor or rack mountable, uses commodity batteries in a repairable pack, expandable, remotely manageable, logs details, works like a champ with under-voltage and other edge-case transfer conditions.

A writer is extremely unlikely to be an expert on backup power supplies anymore that I am an expert on coronary cannulas. Appeal to authority or an anecdotal testimonial is flimsy support, at best.

Sorry for your loss, but you might be wandering into the weeds on this one.
The taxes will have to be low enough where a grey market would not thrive. In LA, I roughly estimate half the dispensaries are illegal. This is because taxes (local, state, and sales) amount to 30%. Grey market is automatically cheaper by a substantial fraction.
I realize the browser is the target audience here, but... I prefer tmux, esp. because it does NOT bypass local access control.
Could be working for the cartels.
Sure, but when is having lots of cheap stuff related to standard of living? I still maintain that access to healthy food, good education, healthcare and security are what determines standard of living, not the amount of stuff you have.
Man, I do not trust any government to run Wikipedia.
I'm of the opinion that a fan translation is acceptable, so long as it requires the end user to have purchased the original product.

In some visual novels, patches are distributed via delta patches that are designed to be used on the binaries provided by the original installation. Or in some other cases, the group only provides certain modified archives which are installed by overwriting the original installation.

In both cases, the end user who doesn't understand Japanese (or in some other VNs, Chinese) are able to play while the publisher/developer still gets compensated for their work.