skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of these things are egregious violations of any ethical standard. Wikipedia is not a source of excessive spam, and their beg banners on the website, while mildly annoying (especially if you already donated), aren't so frequent that they bother me. The site has no ads and provides tremendous value to the world. Nitpicking some minor marketing annoyances (which are probably handled by hired guns) comes off as petty.

One could make an argument that Wikipedia already has enough money that they could beg less and possibly survive indefinitely by just managing their current endowment well. One could make an argument that Google and others benefit so much from Wikipedia's high-quality search results that Google should help support them (although I wouldn't want Wikipedia to rely on corporate money). There are plenty of reasons why Wikipedia might not need to beg as often or at all.

None of that makes these minor issues a problem.
Political ideology is not a protected class, whereas the others are.

That's clearly a mistake of history. Political affiliation or non-affiliation really needs to be protected at the same level as religious affiliation or non-affiliation.
Sounds like an opportunity for a tax-middle-man-as-a-service to disrupt that industry. The uber of outsourcing. I honestly don't know if this is a tongue-in-cheek reply or not.
The point is that hosting content uses resources, and resources are limited. Therefore, if nothing prevents it, an attacker could theoretically use up all the resources available, which would bring this supposedly unstoppable publishing platform to a stop. Yet, if they prevented it, it would be a kind of censorship, so the platform could not claim to be uncensorable.
You should strip the ?ref= from indexed Urls [for multiple reasons].
Why are you speaking in absolutes? High speed e-bikes are a problem on my local bike path. They should either go slower or ride in the road. How is this controversial? E-bikes are fine if people ride them responsibly. But terrorizing the locals isn’t a good way to drive adoption.

I actually think the Super73 is great, on the road. I’d like to see something even more capable. I’m hoping they lead to light e-scooters (like a small motorcycle, not the stand-up things) that can do 45+ MPH. That should probably require a license plate and motorcycle endorsement but I’m ok with that. America needs more two wheeled transport adoption.
AFAIK, the creators created incident.io as a spin-off [1] :) Smart move, I must say.

1 - https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/incidentio-raises...
That's my biggest problem with it. They raise all this money, and yes, a bunch of it goes to infrastructure. But the thing is, they always seem to find ways to spend whatever money they have, and none of it ever seems to make its way to their most critical and valuable staff: editors, admins, etc.
Exactly, most management would prefer to just set investors money on fire and keep risk profile low if their business model can support it
> 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.

It's not about whether or not the engineers can make the colocated setup work.

It's that you're going to pay a lot of hidden costs with a colocated setup. Engineers can't set up, maintain, and do on-call for the colocated setup without subtracting from their primary working hours.

Each additional engineer you have to hire to help with the colocated setup is $200-400K fully loaded out of your company's budget. If you have to hire 3 additional engineers to fill out your colocated on-call schedule and help set up and maintain the system, that's easily an extra $1 million per year on your budget. Cloud is expensive, but $1 million goes a long way.

It's easy to look at a potential AWS bill and a potential colocation and hardware bill and declare colocation the winner, but then you still have to set up and maintain it all as well as constantly train everyone on it.

With AWS, you can hire engineers with AWS experience and they'll understand the big picture of how to work with things on day 1. With a custom setup, you're at the whims of whichever employees set up the system because they know it best.

Colocated systems tend to work very well at first when the original engineers who set it up are all still at the company and it hasn't run long enough to start encountering rare failure modes. They quickly become a nightmare when your engineering staff turns over multiple times and nobody can remember who knows how to do what on the colocated system or if the documentation is up to date or not.
NPR and PBS both are among the most accurate/neutral according to a media study. [1] I honestly worry that we're having a political disparity in truth that's pushing a choice between politically neutral and factually accurate.

[1]: https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/
>Perhaps that's more of a cautionary tale for new projects than a justification for the expense though.

You can find case studies for both positions:

- migrate to AWS to save money: Netflix, Guardian newspaper [1]

- migrate away from AWS to save money: E.g. Dropbox [2]

A lot of companies (especially non-tech businesses) don't have the technical skills to run internal datacenters at the same competency as AWS. Thus, they don't want to be "locked in" to their own IT department that's slow and handicaps their business.

Dropbox, Facebook, and Walmart would among the very few that can competently run their own datacenters with advanced services like AWS.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160319022029/https://www.compu...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+migrates+off+aws+sav...
s/1990/1992/ - thanks.

Of course a hell of a lot of people supported it - most of them now long dead. [This mandatory prelude is so tedious]

However, as I have shown, clearly not enough that the ruling National Party were prepared to trust their own people with continuing to vote for it. An the 1992 referendum proved their suspicions to be correct!

Hence the outrageous - from the start - manipulation.

If you think banal voting manipulation isn't as big a deal as the evil that lurks in mens' hearts then ask yourself - now that Iran has an Islamic democracy (they do hold elections) how does the current/next generation ever return to a secular democracy via the ballot - if that is what they want?

As as in Apartheid South Africa, enormous effort has been made by the initial true believers to prevent it from ever happening.

I could be wrong.
But, you can nevertheless install bash on Android. That was my ask -- show me a widely-used OS that cannot run bash but can run other similar shells.
> I'll measure my empathy based on the fact that their continuing to agree to work that job is in fact enabling Comcast's abusive/neglectful behaviors towards customers, contractors, hell even non-customers can get caught in the crossfire.

Wow. I've seen people say that you shouldn't work for people like NSO, or national security agencies, or Facebook, but you should fall on your sword for Comcast customer service problems? There aren't many jobs left that meet your standards. I think we are taking rationalization way too far.
The student can just use an auxiliary device.
I've seen it firsthand, but we're talking about an early-stage startup moving from MySQL to Postgres. It's definitely not enough to convince me not to use database-specific features.
I’ve been playing with GPGPU on Julia lately also, and it really seems like things have come a long way in the last few years. Check out the Juliacon 2021 talk on GPU compute if you’re interested.
I was able to use it without installing anything.
Ask HN: What's the Opposite of an NFT?
I'm an artist / dev, not sure what to make of NFT's but after reading through a lot of this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29159693) I feel like they're problematic at best / yet another boring pyramid scheme at worst.

In any case I'm just wondering if someone (hypothetically) hated NFT's but wanted to make some art, what type of art would represent the polar opposite of an NFT?

Dumb question maybe but just a thought experiment.
I'll give you a hint as to why they are doing this. There are already protections for race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, and disability.

This is all about getting "political ideology" added to the list so that they can publicly discuss their horrendous beliefs and not get fired
Search engines have not always existed, though. Somebody else could have built a better search engine than Google before Google.
Stockholm's War on Interoperability
Dobman/Daudman were my original thoughts, because I've known two families.
Another favor you should do yourself is use bigint keys (unless using uuid as suggested elsewhere, or you're very, very sure you'll never chew through 2 billion ids).
It should if it's not suggesting action (e.g., posting "Death to America" should be allowed but "Death to America, Let's Go Bomb an Arby's" should not).
They state it. Compression
The only people I see excited for "web3" (which I believe has become a blanket term for the metaverse, NFTs, and other crypto schemes) are those carving out real estate there for themselves in order to become future landlords.
you can't make a rights-based anti-universalist argument in favor of an attitude and framework like racism that is straightforwardly totalitarian and universalist.

furthermore, it is totally normal to have a value system and then take efforts to make material reality reflect my value system. if a lot of people agree with me, it might even happen, maybe even against the will of people who disagree and hold a different value system.

all people do this. real anti-universalism and your faux abstinence are both in fact just another kind of value system within this ecosystem.

it's true that a value system does not have to be rational to dominate, but that is not an argument in your favor, it just emphasizes the necessity of aggressive activism and action against racists and their exposed weakness of irrationality.

in closing, i highly value the destruction of things that i think are morally and ethically wrong. you can't fault me for having a different value system that demands i act against my enemies...

for the other readers, this faux anti-universalism is a common neoreactionary talking point designed to subvert a weak conception of cultural diversity, by portraying oppressive policies as respectable cultural disagreements. i would encourage yall to recognize it when it appears. anti-universalism has utility, but this is a perversion.
Makes sense when you think of the very high rate of ‘symptomatic’ people who get tested and are negative. Signal/noise: and ‘placebo’ effects are stronger when it produces ‘side effects’ rather than being inert
sudo zfs rollback mypc/ROOT/ubuntu@tuesday
Okay. Then why do you compare cash to endowments?
If ...tube is the first suggestion, you're still in a good position
He seems to have had a very successful career doing something that he enjoys. I don't really understand your point.
The question we're discussing is whether or not Pinterest's claim that this is all Google's fault is credible.

If you'd like to have a different discussion, you'll be wanting to have that with someone else.

Yes, Google have a problem.

At best, Pinterest exploited it. At worst, they actively worked with Google for some presumptive mutual benefit, screwing over the rest of the Web community.

Either way, Pinterest are culpable.
TransUNet: Transformers Make Strong Encoders for Medical Image Segmentation
Author here - as others have noted, there's a lot of benefits to a company of our size operating infrastructure on AWS vs. managing physical hardware. A couple of the highlights for managing our primary database cluster include:

- Automation - this was noted by another commenter, but with AWS we can fully automate the instance replacement procedure using autoscaling groups. On hardware failure, the relevant database is removed from its autoscaling group and we automatically start restoring a fresh instance from latest backup. This would be much more difficult if we were to manage our own hardware.

- Flexibility - we have the ability to easily change instance classes via selling/buying reservations. Some of our biggest wins historically have come from AWS releasing new instance families - we've been able to swap out the hardware for our entire cluster over a week or so, for negligible cost (often saving money in the process due to the cost per unit of hardware decreasing on new instance classes). While we could leverage the same developments in a self-managed environment, it would be more difficult, and likely more expensive due to how capital-intensive self-hosted is.

Additionally - there's a ton of value in the integration of the AWS ecosystem. We use many AWS managed services, including heavy use of RDS, Kinesis, S3, and others. For a company with a relatively small engineering team managing a large infrastructure footprint, it hasn't made financial sense yet to invest in moving to self-hosted infrastructure.
Alexa rank for wikipedia is 13, OSM is 4550. It's not on the same planet. No, not on the same galaxy.

Wikipedia is not only read and written by the entire planet of humans, including the smallest 3rd world countries, it's also a bot feast, and busy powering APIs all over the world.

It got hundreds of links in some articles, which are automatically connected to all other articles in a gigantic graph of data. Oh, each article may also exist in a hundred languages, times each version, thanks to the history of all edits ever performed or suggested.

It's not just links though, now articles have plenty of metadata that generate connections, tables, ranks, toc, indexes, hierarchies, and listings as well.

All that is edited, rollbacked, debated, diffed and rendered almost on the fly for millions of articles, while respecting the permission system, and of course, the fun part, detecting the thousands of attempt at abuses by second.

In the blink of an eye. Because wikipedia is _fast_. It's one of the fastest site around.

Of course now it is also serving billions of images, sounds and videos. And the foundation is also maintaing:

MediaWiki

Meta-Wiki

Wikibooks

Wikidata

Wikinews

Wikiquote

Wikisource

Wikispecies

Wikiversity

Wikivoyage

Wiktionary

Not to mention animating workshops all around the globes, helping NGO to provide offline wikipedias for poor countries and providing and maintaining the wiki as FOSS.
Bullshit. Nazis do not deserve any sort of special protection for being Nazis. Same for communists.

Also, politics isn't a religion. Your holding political beliefs is a choice you freely make. If you treat politics as a religion, then you should consider seeing a therapist.
I'm glad I paid $40k to learn to be a great waiter.
> Colocated systems tend to work very well at first when the original engineers who set it up are all still at the company and it hasn't run long enough to start encountering rare failure modes. They quickly become a nightmare when your engineering staff turns over multiple times and nobody can remember who knows how to do what on the colocated system or if the documentation is up to date or not.

Everything above really sounds like it's just regurgitating AWS sales person talking points.

Sounds like a systemic management / CTO-level problem to me if a company isn't willing to put in place the hiring practices and compensation, documentation systems and operational procedures to deal with that sort of concern.

If your core engineering staff is turning over multiple times for arbitrary reasons you have other problems to deal with.

> Engineers can't set up, maintain, and do on-call for the colocated setup without subtracting from their primary working hours.

If a company can't hire datacenter techs to install hardware, cables, and swap hardware as smart remote hands, maintaining as little as a couple of 45RU cabinets of gear, you also have other management/systemic problems to deal with. I'm looking at this from the point of view of a facilities based bare metal ISP that owns/runs all of its own hardware, and can tell you it's not rocket science.
Will it still start recursing and deleting most of the stuff owned by your user? That's arguably more important than the system files!
You are obviously invested in the false narrative that most white South Africans always secretly opposed Apartheid, and it was just the work a few bad men who somehow kept millions of Black South Africans oppressed for decades -- conveniently, to the material benefit of the white minority.

It's your choice to believe something so stupid. But to propagate this racist myth of Hacker News is a profound act of intellectual dishonesty at best.

Your proof that most white South Africans opposed apartheid is that the 1990 referendum came out in favor of ending it? This vote took place after it was clear that apartheid had no future. The ANC (main black freedom party) was increasingly organized and powerful, while years of economic sanctions had taken their toll on the economy.

You claim that a majority of whites opposed apartheid the entire time. Then how could the system have persisted for decades?

> to remove all possible doubt, Apartheid had no redeeming characteristics...

This is a cheap trick performed by the right. They denounce an unjust system while minimizing anyone's participation in it. It's oppression without any oppressors. This is how the United States lionizes Martin Luther King while downplaying the white politicians and bureaucrats (like head of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover) who persecuted him every step of the way.

You may not be defending apartheid per se. But you are certainly defending millions of white South Africans who supported, enforced, and benefited from apartheid for decades, all at the expense of the overwhelming non-white majority. The fact that being reminded of their misconduct bothers you so much should tell you something.

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Land ownership under apartheid limited Black ownership to just 7% of the country: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/20/africa/south-africa-land-refo...
What is driving you away from Evernote? I haven't found it really lacking, but I might be missing something.
Entire reason to have separate hardware is so that you don't have to wake up the main processor. If you wake up the main processor every 10 seconds you've completely lost the advantage. The idea is if someone's phone is asleep in their pocket you need to wake it up occasionally to check for notifications and so on, but you don't want to be waking it up constantly.
That frontpage needs to do a significantly better job of explaining what it is. From the showcase I can sort of guess that it's meant to do art installations and the like?
What's this insurance for? Data breach liability?
Right. They want regulation...but NOT THAT REGULATION!! No one will be able to agree on anything as politicians bounce between big donors bitching and various voter poll data.

Somewhere out in left field are the right things that need to be done.
If it's free for users, then that usually means you're selling user data to create income.

How is You making money without Ads and without selling user data?
That's all fine, I just don't think it really refutes the point that "It takes a lot of people contributing to uphold it [Apartheid]."

>An the 1992 referendum proved their suspicions to be correct!

Well, sort of, except the National Party was campaigning for a 'Yes' [to end apartheid] vote.
Yes, it probably is. Most people use tor because they just want a pseudoanonymous proxy to the clear web. For them the switch to v3 internally is important and probably required. For users of the .onion and onion services in general it's more split but I think most would say v2 going away is good. Soon it will be possible to spoof v2 domain prefixes at a feasible cost.

I personally don't like that v2 is being shut off instead of let run alongside v3. I thought I owned my tor domain I've been using the last decade but it's clear the tor project has the same amount of control as any registrar. I thought I could work on building a community like I have on the clear web but the tor project doesn't consider that a priority and will throw 15 years of history away to make sure non-technical users don't accidentally use v2 services. Tor is not really a place for community building. My mistake. I just won't use it anymore.
Remided me of "Waifu Synthesis- real time generative anime":
http://everyoneishappy.com/portfolio/waifu-synthesis-real-ti...
That is not how the article described these organizations, and I am too tired now to look them up.

Ultimately I don't think it is unusual if people with the same interested work together.
I still get this unless I try it in incognito.
Well that's not what I heard.

I think my comment says essentially the same thing theirs did.
So we should just leave this security hole because there's others?
Do you / have you ever worked at one?
https://strawpoll.com/a584xf5re
People have been envisioning virtual show rooms and virtual stores/malls forever... but I don't believe they serve an actual purpose. What function does it solve? Unless you have fully realistic graphics and fully simulated senses (touch), why would a virtual store ever be better then just browsing a webpage?

Things like "try your clothes on virtually", "buy furniture and upload your room schematics" have existed for decades, and have all been pretty much failures. I don't think most people care about a more "immersive" experience when it comes to commerce, a picture on amazon does the job. A product/review video on youtube does the job. I don't think people care about a more immersive meeting room, or a more immersive online event, because again those products have been tried for decades and have all failed.

It honestly seems to me like the only actual feature of the "metaverse" is to force people into a gated experience, and to try and get them to stay there for as long as possible. Then you can advertise to them, then you can hook them into addictive behaviors (games, casino), then you can sell them worthless "pieces of the metaverse". The only function of the metaverse that I can see is to hijack 100% of a persons attention. In that sense, it is the obvious evolution of social media, yet as an evolution of the Internet as a whole it completely misses the point.

Of course, I am likely completely wrong, and leaps in VR/AR could change everything, and what you are doing is very cool. It just seems like and updated VRML is just promising the things people 20 years ago said would exist. At the end of the day, there is still no Virtual Mega Mall, because amazon.com beats it in functionality by a long shot. Give me the best VR available, I still think amazon.com beats it by a long shot. The day I can't distinguish VR and real life, well maybe then you got something, but we are many moons from that sci-fi dream.
Intel Hardware allows activation of test or debug logic at runtime
The point isn’t that existing companies in the US or wherever will lose talent, but that the existing companies might retain or even gain talent, and that the workers will reside in locales other than the US. Your points seem to be in favor of the author’s argument that the importance of physically residing in the US will decrease, and that there is an opportunity for other locales/governments to attract remote workers.
Yes. So almost all keys had a hash code of 1, forcing linear search lookups. Insidious since the code still works, it's just slow -- and only really slow in production, after seeming fine in tests that only put a few items in the map.
Because it shows intent? The House Republicans want to establish a federal regime that allows punishment for data use but does not include privacy from data collection for commercial purposes?

That’s a stance lots of people on various parts of the political spectrum would be interested in.
Are you new to the whole startup thing? They aren't making money, they're just burning VC cash.