skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it quite astonishing that Twitter is gating UX improvements like Undo/Edit and Reader view behind a paywall — both are problems of their own doing!

- Undo/Edit is just basic functionality being sold for money.

- Reader View wouldn't be necessary if twitter threads weren't hot garbage to begin with.

I really don't mind paying for a good product, and overall I like twitter the most out of all the other big social sites. However, what I've been seeing for years now is that they refuse to build the best product possible for most of their users, and they would rather stagnate than improve it "for free".
Hasn't had a new episode in almost ten years, sadly, and likely will not have a revival as Tom passed away. Apparently radio distribution was slated to stop at the beginning of last month
I’ve said many times if they had just bought Bitcoin with their pledges long ago they would never have had to annoy us with this. I remember saying this when Bitcoin was $1800 in 2017. Even a less risky investment like the SP500 should surely have been enough. It has 4x’d in ten years. It doesn’t take $100 million and 500 employees to run some light Wikipedia pages. All the content is provided by users!
In europe it's illegal.. but they are french :p

No. Seriously. It's not allowed to have that in terms of the consent dialog which is displayed upon the loading of the site, but it is allowed to say or all nothing*.

So basically, you will get the information about data usage and all, but you have to give full consent, or you won't be able to see the content. Except: you log in and verify as subscriptor or similar (mostly monthly fees)

Thats the way to force people and they still can decide, whether to pay (monthly, or one time pay) or sell their data.

* that "all or nothing" is usually visually differentiable from the cookie consent. It's more like a paywall which gives you the chance to view the content in exchange of your data
The newest example would be Europe's Digital Services Act. Here is an article by Cory Doctorow about it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/europes-digital-servic...
Not really sure what it is. Seems to be meant for projecting art and design. What does it control? What does it visualize?
Was expecting an IoT framework. But thats not it.
On your last point, i would also argue that monogamy is a stabilizing agent in society, imagine how many wars would break out if the majority of the men didn't find partners.
That's not a lot of money in context.
> Said another way, you can either believe

1) the pie can grow a lot (and so, e.g. we should encourage trillionaires and the creation of far more wealth), or
2) it can’t (and so, e.g., we should abolish billionaires and divide up everything we have now equally).

What a naive and ridiculous false-dichotomy. This just takes as a premise that growth and ever-widening inequality are inextricably linked. Is this just a sly rhetorical trick or do these people actually believe what they write? I don't that he's so uncreative that he simply can't image any alternative possibilities. Or is being a beneficiary of the current system so blinding that it obscures any honest and critical thinking?
The reality is this person was never going to donate anyway and so they found their excuse to not do so. Do you suppose they use wikipedia any less as a result?
Wikipedia is great but I similarly don't trust their cries for help anymore.

I won't donate till they communicate more honestly or Wikipedia - not wikimedia - needs help. It feels a lot like my local food bank begging for food but it turns out it's only their side venture composting food that's in need.
> Honestly, who would justify apartheid.

Judging by the calls to segregate un-vaccinated people, I guess most people.

History (Nazi Germany, USSR, Apartheid South Africa etc) shows most people go with the flow, they don't care about morals as long as they're in the majority.
I'm curious what type of content you believe requires/prefers claimed uncensorable mediums of being published. Do you envision it being movie reviews and cake recipes, or can you imagine that ideologies prone to being censored may make up the lion's share of that content?
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The sim cards cannot be used as a secure element or a TPM in most android phones. The SWI lines that connects the SIM to Android are cut in most hardware designs.
Google cuts them in the nexus (with one nexus having a notable exception), Samsung cut them and forces you to use their embedded secure element.
Who decided this was anime? It doesn't look like any anime I have ever seen, it just looks like a smoothing filter. It looks more like a toonme but not as good and maybe more private? For referece look at this waifu generator, nobody would call these portrait conversions anime. http://thiswaifudoesnotexist.com/
I'll donate to the annual email every year to keep them from adding ads or other forms of monetization.
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How many times is this now?
If you have petabytes of data in AWS you already have a number of on-staff engineers with significant six figure salaries.

If the problem is that your group of six-figure salary people only know how to put data into AWS, or other cloud services, and not design/engineer/maintain your own bare metal infrastructure as well, then that would definitely be a limitation.

For reference, a few petabytes of data is not actually that many systems these days, if you have something like a bunch of 72-drive supermicros or equivalent with 14-16TB drives in them. Set up properly this can be administered by one FTE (of course with additional staffing/tech resources for when that FTE is on vacation/unavailable, and appropriate training for other persons who might have admin on the setup).

my very rough calculation here says that a 36-drive ZFS RAIDZ2 composed of 16TB drives is something like 492TB (447TiB) usable storage capacity.

so five such arrays would be 2460TB.

compared to the monthly AWS bill for 2.0 to 2.5TB of data you could probably afford to entirely duplicate the whole setup in a twin identical set of hardware at a geographically diverse off-site location.
> Also, unless the game itself is open source and any forks / successors honor the same chain, how is that any better than just storing who owns what in a SQL database?

I think future game development in the metaverse actually will be mainly open source and community driven. Imagine if you will a DAO that players of the universe can interact with and basically vote on new features that will be added to the game world. Rather than waiting for a centralized developer to patch and update the game they want, players will pool assets together in a sort of tax that helps fund future game development. Pair that with a Retroactive funding and other cooperative mechanisms and you will be providing incentives for player themselves to build out the game that they want to see.

It would almost be like building a town in the real world, but this is in the digital world.
We should aggressively target universities who commit this type of fraud and seize their assets, buildings, real estate, donations and endowments to recoup the taxpayers money.
China has a huge internal economy. You won’t be able to replicate that in many a country. At all. You’ll end up with useless, expensive, outmoded products that seem to only ever get worse. (Speaking from personal experience.)
Oregon State University offers an online B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. [0]

They also offer an accelerated course if you already have an undergrad degree (e.g. for those looking for a career change). [1]

[1] https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate...
[0] https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate...
The majority of people don't donate without being asked. I'd estimate a ~70x increase of donations during a donation campaign.
The discounts you can get from doing anything at big enough scale will push your costs back to colocation prices. Don't assume that anyone with a cloud bill over 200k is playing anywhere near the price you read on the pricing page.
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There has been some concern about their inflating spending for a while. I'm honestly not well versed in if this is some potential disaster or problem like it can be made out to be, but it does seem like Wikimedia will generally find ways to spend money they get, whether it's a good use of the funds or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
Ok and ? That’s not excuse. I could compare Canada’s emissions to those of Qatar and claim it’s no big deal, or I could compare Chinas emissions to those of Burundi and label them privileged polluters. CO2 is CO2 at the end of the day, and China and India are not doing their part , quite the opposite actually
Not OP, but I suspect they call the field "useless" based on the belief that social work doesn't achieve its aims, not on the grounds that the aims are bad.
"Also it would immediately be used to cheat the stock market."
So what exactly are you saying? /s

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053851755/blue-velvet-and-qu...

Dean Stockwell, actor from Quantum Leap, reported dead today.
Oh! facepalm I'm mixing up "per minute" and per second. Thanks.
>My point is that small software matters, always mattered, and will always matter, just not for the reason you'd expect.

Well said, I would go further and say that smaller, simpler more efficient programs are more efficient, I mean even from a purely energy consumption viewpoint, 1 gigabyte of whatever will always cost more (in money or electricity) than 1 megabyte (even if not 1 thousand times, still a lot of times).
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Chromebooks must be enrolled under Chrome Education in order to be recognised as 'school property' and therefore become controlled and monitored by schools. Signing in with a school account will not enable these extra features.

However, signing into Chrome on any computer (Chromebook or not) will send search results into the Google Account's search history, which, if the Google Account is a school one, is monitorable by IT to see search history and browsing history etc.
The claim was that they would rather not buy anything that is being made scarce artificially, which is a perfectly reasonable position. You don't have to agree with this principle. But, again, this is bears no relationship to the question of why a t-shirt is worth $10 and another t-shirt is worth $5.
Not only that, but the National Party were so rabid that in 1948 D.F Malan - their new prime minister - proposed in an actual parliament speech to deprive white English-speaking citizens of the vote.

God alone knows how they were going to enforce that in a completely multi-lingual society.

Strange times. A warning to us all.
That sort of matching is real, but usually just a psychological trick to encourage people to donate more.

A foundation or rich person says "hey NPR we wanna give you $10 million" and NPR says "what if instead you match every donation we get dollar for dollar up to $10 million?". That way, they can encourage smaller donors while still getting the original $10 million.
Thanks for the info. I guess I remembered when companies stopped printing out social security numbers on everything (badges, informational letters, etc.) and using them generally due to, probably, this California law[1].

[1]https://www.kmm.com/articles-195.html
interested in seeing where this is going.
I totally share your vibe on this, but I also think we do ourselves a disservice when we turn our noses up at stuff lots of people actually like. I try to separate two different questions: "Is this something that people will find valuable?" and "Is this something I want to dedicate my scarce time and energy toward working on?". I think in the case of all this shallow stuff, those answers are "yes" and "no". But I think we have a tendency to conflate the two questions and since the answer to the second one is "no", assume the answer to the first one is also "no". I personally did that with Facebook for many years and really talked down the business because I considered it superficial and actively bad and not something I wanted to have any involvement in, but the truth is that it is a very valuable business that I just don't want to work on, and that's fine. I increasingly see a lot of this cryptocurrency stuff as very much the same. I may not like it, but that doesn't at all imply that it won't be valued by a large number of people.
Indeed, Wikipedia is so important that they absolutely should not be using scammy and spammy techniques to solicit donations.
The donation matches are typically not grants, but rather _other donors_ playing those games (surely in collaboration with NPR's development dept). They definitely exist.
It's 100% part of the Grafana Cloud, not a separate product. It's deeply integrated with the rest of Grafana.

Same time we've focused on making it useful for those who don't use Grafana for monitoring. Feel free to sign up in the Grafana Cloud and use just OnCall if you want.
It's one of the most visited site on the planet, and people are constantly writting on it. It's on the same scale of facebook, youtube or twitter, activity wise.

And I wager those sites have more than 500 people working on them, for a lot more money. And they are for profit!
I live near one of their facilities on strike, though don't know any direct John Deere employees closely. From discussions I've read, a major component of the frustration is forced overtime.

I imagine John Deere probably ran similar to a company I used to work for. The order book was full, there was money to be made. 9-10 hour days Monday-Friday. Most Saturdays was mandatory overtime. The only way to guarantee you can do something over the weekend with your family is by taking PTO on Friday, which would get you out of overtime on Saturday.

Pair in that the last couple negotiations have been during downturns in farming, it's pretty reasonable that they're trying to make up ground after taking concessionary contracts.
So it's not free speech?
Just to be clear, I was talking specifically about "the circumstances zz865 describes", meaning generic large bureaucratic organizations. I meant that as distinguishing it from the circumstances of the original article, but I should have been more clear. I entirely believe there are situations like you describe where the checks are both necessary and properly funded.
Here are some other antidiscrimination clauses in Federal law that read in a similar fashion:

From EEOC on employment: "race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history)." [1]

From FHA: "The Fair Housing Act prohibits this discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability." [2]

Note that this act's (a) clause does not contain "sexual orientation" as above, and (b) specifically contains the new protected category of "political ideology".

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/small-business/3-who-protecte...

[2] https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/f...
I have no magic solution I'm afraid. The first thing I do every morning is load my outliner and review what I have listed that needs to be done (organized by day, week, month, half year, and year). From this I compile a list of what I would like to accomplish, but it's a very good day that I get more than a few things done. ADHD is a perpetual struggle. But, so is life. Good luck.
> Discussing Signal is somewhat unavoidable in this context though.

In which case I feel the need to share this very interesting talk from Moxie about the negatives of decentralization from the POV of product. I have no education or horse in this race, but I found this talk very interesting and dare I say brave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

Would love to be pointed to the best counterarguments, but again the focus on product was the interesting take for me.
I'm curious what the overall take will be on this. Normally, this action would be frowned upon if it was a private company, but I'm assuming that people may be more open to it being done by Treasury because it's "for the societal good".
Rampant property theft and homelessness in SF predated Chesa Boudin and the ballot initiative the article mentions.

I’m not convinced that changing those two things will be a panacea to SF’s problems.
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It's quite a lot of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
"Political ideology" really is the trojan horse here. Political ideology is not a protected class, whereas the others are.

This bill is really about banning content moderation. Everything else is window dressing.
It's about as much money as Signal has. One of those two serves a lot more people though!
I'm for that, but it's a very subjective definition of objectivity.
The important difference is what happens if they receive less than $10m from other donors.
go-sumtype[0] has completeness checking for sealed interfaces.

[0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype
It's common to all donation based non-profits groups and whether you like it or not, it works. Spamming donation request letters to the previous donors yields better outcome than not to do it.
We switched from LZ4 to Zstd in almost all of our compression use cases to great effect. Reducing the data on disk or over the network is a huge win with only a minor loss in decompression speed (using the appropriate level of Zstd). E.g. data in Kafka: https://amplitude.engineering/reducing-kafka-costs-with-z-ta...
Complain to the SQL standard authors, not the Postgres developers :)
Same scale? We're talking about almost static pages, with some videos / audio. At heart wikipedia is very simple and did not changed much from 15 years ago.
> I like Wikipedia but does it really take that many people and that much money to run it?

It takes a lot of people and money to raise $150m/year ;->
You are comparing an RDBMS with a cloud service provider, which is nonsensical.

"Microwave ovens can solve pretty much everything that Plato and Socrates does".

You need to frame your problem better. You can run Postgres _in_ AWS or Azure.
It's great to see more competition in this space. Generally speaking, what I miss in these "incident management" products is also an integrated, flawless way to handle incidents when they're happening. I'm talking about:

1. Quickly creating a proper chat
2. Quickly creating an incident document where you can pin chat messages and use it in the post-mortem. Ideally, pinning some graphs that you'd extract from your observability solutions
3. Having a status page to put a small description for non-technical stakeholders.

PagerDuty covers some of this. Monzo's Response [1] and now incident.io [2] try to cover it too. I'd like to have this experience end-to-end.

1 - https://github.com/monzo/response
2 - https://incident.io/
Can somebody enlighten me on why you would use ZFS for DB?, seems like there would be overlap/conflict of features. The only benefit that I know of would be quick restore to previous state, but how often would you need to restore?
I stopped believing in "decentralized free speech" platforms the moment they all decided to censor and attack anyone they politically disagreed with (ie Gab's treatment at the hands of Mastodon). None of the people running these projects actually understand what freedom of speech really is (the ability of THE PEOPLE YOU HATE to speak, a principle, not just a law). When these people drone on and one about "Free Speech" and "Anti-censorship," they really just mean "for people who agree with me," which is no free speech at all.

Beyond that, IPFS is a joke. It's hovered in toy status for years, devoid of the core features it needs to justify its existence (a way to motivate people to host besides the goodness of their hearts, a DNS replacement that's not laughable, a simple and stable interface etc). But even if IPFS was everything it claims to be, using it for something like this is laughable:

1. There is no security in IPFS. It's a content mirroring technology. If you're hosting something illegal, the authorities can find you just fine.

2. IPFS is entirely voluntary. Mirrors can opt out of mirroring things they don't want to host. What are people going to opt out of most? Controversial content. Oh yeah, you can host "controversial" content of the type a teenager things is controversial. But anything actually hot is going to get shit-canned before you can blink.

Overall, IPFS, and anything built on it, is either absurd over-engineering or absurd under-engineering. If you wanna mirror bland, non-hot stuff, just mirror it in the usual ways. You don't need all this cyber-punk larping cloak-and-dagger shit. Nobody cares. And if they DO care? IPFS ain't gonna save you.
I wonder, will this preclude GE Energy getting hands on new GE turbines?

Most turbines GE Energy sells are aeroderived.
>The existing ones were un-changable aspects about you that you can't control, and are born into.

That's not how westerners feel about gender any more.
The first major release that lacks all support for most tor onion service domains. Tor v2 code was removed for security reasons. But the community still mostly uses v2.

Follow along with the death of most tor onion services in the plots at: https://www.encryptionin.space/tracking-hsdirs-and-the-versi... (here's a snapshot mirror if the site is slow under load, https://i.ibb.co/9NzVcsz/plot.png)
So you're saying all I have to do to take down free speech is to shout racialisms incessantly?
Exactly my thought when I read this pull quote: If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim “we need more research.” And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.
Let me guess, your system hadn't ionice back then?
We're getting there: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
I'm curious in the ways that clojure is faster to get going and more intuitive. Sbcl and quicklisp seem like they are a bit more straight forward/stable than figuring out how to do a jvm nowadays.
Wikipedia is a wonderful project built on the back of highly qualified unpaid staff.

Management is milking the cow and has been for years.

This is tricky because they rightfully have a stellar brand value, I am not sure that will last forever.

As you know, the fish always rot from the head, this is a good example.
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To substantiate these (accurate) claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
> Quest2 is $299, so actually on the scale of a very cheap phone.

The Quest2 is $299, but how much is a GPU good enough to deliver a better than a regular desktop/laptop/smartphone user experience these days?
> it's going to be an absolutely massive failure.

And if it's not, and like a smartphone it becomes a requirement for life in the modern world, this is the step where I say nope and go full Ted innawoods for good.