skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This implicitly assumes companies have acted rationally as a whole. It took a pandemic to get the majority of software dev to have a taste of remote work more than 1 day a week. Meanwhile we still have companies who burned their hands on outsourcing to the lowest bidder possible proclaiming remote work as a whole doesn't work. We have companies doing the bare minimum to accommodate remote work point out one deficiency, then proceed to say "look, see? Remote work doesn't work for us!".

I'm skeptical given there's this entire content called "Europe" with tons of English speakers, even native speakers, living largely in a 9-5 culture with plenty of skilled, educated developers willing to work unconventional hours and the US has barely tapped into that workforce yet. Given there are many legal issues and gates, but it's not like the US and Canada are the only places with skilled developers.
I really like how simply Julia unifies many computational concepts. For example, MPI is a classic solution to some of the same problems, but it is only for coarse parallelism. OS-specific threading libraries are available for fine-grained parallelism, but the ligature between the two is typically messy.

I have heard about Go's parallelism being awesome, does anyone know of a comparison between Go's and Julia's models?
For clarification, that's the number of UUIDs at which you have a 50% chance of at least one collision.

Wikipedia also adds: "the probability to find a duplicate within 103 trillion version-4 UUIDs is one in a billion."
> I'd have imagined one the biggest website on the internet has better, more effective ways of raising money.

How many of them are good for users, though? Sure, you can slap some Google AdWords on there, but there's a reputational and privacy cost. NPR-style sponsorships? Maybe, but I cringe when NPR does a story on Facebook that's bookended by "Facebook is a sponsor of NPR" a little.

I'm a fan of the current model, in that it makes a conflict of interest quite unlikely.
Which, ironically, is something the GDPR exempted small businesses from.
FWIW, I don't think Harvard Extension School is a good example of this trend. It was founded in 1910 with a fairly egalitarian ideal to serve the people of Boston. Not quite a latter day cash-in.

I retook Calc I through the extension school six or seven years ago out of curiosity when I was considering doing an online Master's. Rigor was on par with my undergrad Calc I or perhaps a little higher and the quality of instruction was definitely higher. The lecturer (Eric Towne!) had a command of the people and history surrounding the concepts he was teaching and shared lots of fascinating context.
> Like librarians

Funny you should mention librarians. It is not uncommon for any role which is titled "librarian" to require a masters of library science / information science. Example job ad: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/... *

Other roles are commonly called "Information Specialist" or assorted similar titles (example: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/...).

* Picked this library at random. I'd imagine smaller cities are a bit more flexible here, but I'd still take an even money bet that anyone who is under 45 at any library at random with the formal title of "librarian" has a masters degree.
I can't really any good ways for them to raise money, outside of becoming a subscription service or selling user data. What ways did you imagine? Because the more I think about it, the harder this problem appears to be...
Some interesting points I gleamed from skimming the draft:

1. The way “small-to-medium” and “large” businesses or “entities” are defined. The bill separates entities into 2 classes based on any of 3 factors: annual revenue, number of users, and percentage of revenue from the sale of consumer information. So even if you’re a one-person startup with 20 users, if you make the larger part of your revenue from consumer data, you are considered a large entity. The extra compliance requirements for large entities seem quite onerous.

2. Two levels of personal information. This might be pre-existing in U.S. code (I don’t know) but the bill defines a separate category of “sensitive information,” that is quite broad, including data on your health, geolocation, biometric markers, finances, children, private communications, and government IDs. All other data that is not encrypted or de-identified is “personal information.”

3. Most of the rights and procedures defined in the bill apply only to personal information, and there are many exceptions, such as “performing a task carried out in the public interest.” So you have no right to privacy if the entity believes sharing your data will be in the public interest?

4. No rights or restrictions apply to the collection and usage of “sensitive information” except that “express prior consent” and “separate consent” are given before collection, use, and sharing of it. I would have expected there to be more rules and restrictions around the sensitive data, not less.

It seems to me that very little of what today’s companies collect would be considered “personal information” according to this bill. Most of it would either be disqualified by encryption or de-identification, or fall under sensitive information.
Two things that aren't exactly lesser-known, but that I wish more used continuously as part of development:

- generate_series(): While not the best to make _realistic_ test data for proper load testing, at least it's easy to make a lot of data. If you don't have a few million rows in your tables when you're developing, you probably don't know how things behave, because a full table/seq scan will be fast anyway - and you'll not spot the missing indexes (on e.g. reverse foreign keys, I see missing often enough)

- `EXPLAIN` and `EXPLAIN ANALYZE`. Don't save minutes of looking at your query plans during development by spending hours fixing performance problems in production. EXPLAIN all the things.

A significant percentage of production issues I've seen (and caused) are easily mitigated by those two.

By learning how to read and understand execution plans and how and why they change over time, you'll learn a lot more about databases too.

(CTEs/WITH-expressions are life changing too)
30 Days of Terror: Launching the James Webb Space Telescope
But at least they're (mostly) honest? They take up some time, but they're clear about what's happening. The only "deceptive" practice they have is the two-for-one matching grants, which I'm dubious about whether they exist or not.
The vast majority of elite institutions are completely unwilling to take the risks to capture 100% of the online revenue pie:

a) They are unwilling to spend lots of money on upfront content development costs without knowing future revenue.

b) They are unwilling to hire a bunch of temporary workers to help spin up new content and then re-allocate them.

c) They are unwilling to adopt (aggressive) modern marketing techniques.

d) They are unwilling to cold call.

e) They are unwilling to maintain call centers.

f) They are unwilling to spend millions on FB and Goog ads even if it has positive ROI.
Not for now, might open source parts of it as the project progresses!
It's not just the $60k developer in Sleepville, USA. Salaries in Bangalore have literally sky-rocketed.
And which side of that continuum between craftmanship and lazy brand-markup are NFTs actually on? I don't look at the NFT artwork I'm seeing sold online and find myself filled with an appreciation for incredible, intricate, hand-finished work. Digital apes in particular are incredibly derivative and feel very mass-produced, this is the kind of artwork that would sell for maybe $50-100 tops as a commission. Except honestly not even for that much money, because part of the commission price is being able to choose what gets made, you can't just recolor the same image and give it a little cigarette and an earring.

It's all well and good to talk about designer watches that are perfectly constructed masterpieces, but NFTs aint that. They're the $3 mass-produced digital watches that are getting a brand slapped on them and then sold purely for the name. The only thing more mass-produced than the bored ape collection are the silly pixel avatars on Twitter; we're not really talking about significant skill or craftmanship or even creative expression here. Zoom in on some of the images in the bored app collection, the artist is very literally copying and pasting parts of the drawing between pictures, that's why they all look the same.

It just feels really silly to try and artistically compare some cookie-cutter Photoshop templates to a hand-crafted watch.
>Take chemistry for example. All of chemistry should be in a laboratory setting. All of it. It’s a perfect hands on discipline, yet the standard sequence is just year after year of memorizing facts and definitions with very little comparable lab time.

I mean this is just... Incorrect. High school chemistry (generally the first time it's called chemistry and not science) is often taught in a lab (I assume mainly a function of whether lab facilities are available). Undergraduate general chemistry and organic chemistry generally have a required lab component that is required to be taken concurrently (this is even true at community colleges). Using general chemistry as an example, the lab portion is usually 1 three hour (at least) class per week, while lecture is 3 one hour classes per week (organic chemistry is essentially the same). More advanced chemistry might not have lab components (e.g. physical chemistry), but the foundations are almost always at least combined with a lab.
Wikipedia is not expensive to run. Wikimedia is a classic bloated nonprofit that keeps “needing” more money to grow the number of useless administrative sinecures they can support. https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_c...
It's not an alternate runtime, so the GIL is still there and Numpy performance should be unchanged, though any pure-Python modules from Numpy could potentially benefit from the JIT speedup.
What did you have in mind as those better and more effective ways?
Moderators are essential gatekeepers, but also our enforcers, curators (2020)
Ya, I forgot that point. But it is usually one semester of classes + one semester of writing a thesis (not sure what MIT does these days, I think this is what UCLA does), which isn't the usual one year of courses + one year of thesis writing.
Layer 2: side chain

Potato: Potato
It seems that this is approximately how much they spend each year and have ~500 staff.

I like Wikipedia but does it really take that many people and that much money to run it?

Having grown with startups from a very early stage to mid-stage, it seems pretty clear that 500 people never do 10x as much as 50 people, more like 2x if that.

That much spend seems unsustainable long term.
But other countries don’t want to pay.

EU, for instance, might be paying even less than developing countries (but mostly due to social charges, which may not apply to overseas workers?).
Covid-19: lockdowns caused a huge transfer of wealth from small businesses and services to big tech, media and Amazon.

Did that motivate decision making and political pressure? I have no idea - perhaps not. But the financial incentive from certain actors was there.
>petabyte scale are doing it on AWS. I would think that by then you could save millions more by migrating to your own colocated hardware.

Usually, those types of judgements are based on thinking of AWS as a "dumb datacenter" such as a bunch of harddrives or just bare cpu.

AWS is more cost-effective if you use high-level AWS services instead of just storing files in the cloud. In this case, it looks like Heap is also using AWS Redshift and probably a bunch of other services in the AWS portfolio. A similar comment I made previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28288352

So for self-hosting hardware, Heap would not only build up the petabytes of diskspace, they also have to replicate Redshift functionality and the entire AWS services portfolio they're using. If you use enough AWS _services_, it becomes cheaper than self-hosting because you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Silicon Valley CEO(Melinda Byerley) asks Indians to go back to their own country
The "make a book" function has been literally broken (see: non-functional, with a "sorry about that" message) for years now. It used to be my favorite part of Wikipedia and now you can't do shit with it.
They don‘t need the money tho. They have enough money, I believe, to run without raising anymore money for 1.0-years.
Surely the primary reason for the name is much fewer people would click and share otherwise. It's clickbait with software.
Hmm. The closest analogue to metaverse is probably the internet. And the way that played out is probably the most notable counterexample to your claim. It's not clear to me that it's a foregone conclusion how this will play out.
This site still holds up better than most today. Imagine if we had how-tos and tutorials like this instead of a youtube video for everything.
>Do you have a link for it?

<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091FGYTXV/>

I use the MacOS driver for Oaustect OT-425A, but cannot find a download link for it. HPRT's own driver at <http://hprt.com/Downloads.html> works; the Oaustect driver just starts printing a few seconds faster. Also try the driver and instructions at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-la3VYrJEk>.
Wikipedia is 21st century PBS.
Tor Browser 11.0
I agree with this. I'm on "the left", but I don't need a media outlet confirming my biases or stroking my ego. I was originally drawn to NPR precisely because it seemed like a relatively neutral news source (still discernibly left-of-center, but not aggressively so) and because it frequently exposed me to other perspectives; however, it seems to have been dragged into the swamp of "activist journalism" just like everyone else.
Hubble_Space_Telescope / Origin_of_the_problem
How long ago was this? AFAIK the `rm` command in almost every linux distro these days will NOT let you delete `/` unless you add `--no-preserve-root` parameter.
Some profit taking there - US$2.99 is not NZ$4.49 more like $4.20 - it's not like it costs extra money to NOT ship ads across the Pacific
Looking at 2019, since 2020 was Weird, emissions per capita appear to be down to 1970s-level https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/canada. Much work to do, but it's still progress.
Vantage Launches an AWS Cost Metric Dashboard
>they have some initial mission they can do efficiently

Because the initial mission is still, by and large, done by volunteers and unpaid editors.

Wikimedia is a bloated leech
Leap Photovoltaic says it can cut the cost of solar cells in half
It costs $20 to install 1 MWh of solar PV[1]. That's 18 cents per watt averaged over the 8760 hours per year. And since the sun doesn't shine at night, that's 18 cents for at least 2 watts, probably 3-5.

It costs $40/MWh to install solar with batteries[2]. That's 35 cents per watt.

1: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/888004cf-1a38-4716-...
2: https://www.energy-storage.news/developer-8minute-says-more-...
All the lefty democrats in the Bay Area are just like this. They say one thing but are truly decrepit creatures in real life.
So much talk about VR. In the end of the day the question is how good the tech can be in the next decade. I don't question the value that VR can bring to enterprise and consumer, but these things usually don't succeed until the tech is really good. I'm happy a company like Meta is going all in on it.
You get a lot of value out of a 4 year undergrad degree, much more than a masters. So just building on that degree immediately with more intense course work and some independent thesis project seems like a win to me. I would have loved to have had an extra year on my undergrad degree for some graduate-level courses and independent project time.
> …reinforces white supremacy, sexism, ableism, and transphobia.

Article proceeds to use a lot of words to not show any of these being true.

I am against it for the general dystopian surveillance normalization it encourages. We don’t need to throw a word salad of made up progressive insults against it to resist its implementation.
Are other people only having a single email per year?

This year I've had three (two in September, both from donate@wikimedia.org, and one from jimmy@wikipedia.org in October saying 'We've had enough').
When I only had a pedal bike, I would often go 30km/h on a flat. I'm happy you can't assume bikes are super slow anymore.
> Wikipedia is far and away the most valuable project the world has ever seen

[citation needed]
Missing teen girl rescued after using hand signal learned on TikTok
Oh, interesting, thanks. Do you have any idea of where all that code comes from?

(I'm a big fan of your work btw, I'm just really sad that a few people on this forum seams to like Zig for the sole reason it's not Rust)
No alt-text on screenshots, seriously twitter?
They're cool, but keep in mind that this often means you cannot run them on managed Postgres services.
>China has big pharma too

Why do you say this? anything I can read about ?
From what I see in the news the government makes a plan for the future and executes it, it does not care about some billionaires or some company.

China does not need to create a convoluted scheme to pump money into some company, so it makes no sense. They could just give the population the miracle medicine/plant stuff and then write a contract for the big pharma for some vitamins that will be mandatory.
Too complicated. I would make a rule that any Bachelors program costing more than 15k is ineligible for student loans. Magically those $60k programs will fall to $15k.

The reason college is so expensive is because that is what people are willing to take loans to cover.
RIP Jimmy Wales
I would challenge the downvoters of this comment to contribute an informed rebuttal.

IPFS is just content-addressing+p2p. In the conventional sense it is similar in comparison to the greater internet. Joe Blow can be on his blog talking about blenders and mixing spoons all day and none of us have to know he exists until we follow the address to his content, thereby downloading it.

Where IPFS takes this a step further is enrolling the viewer/reader/participant in the swarm of peers replicating this content.
That western medicine is often full of itself, deeply [insert -ism or -phobia] in practice, and frequently misguided is all very true and reasonable criticism. The person I replied to was essentially writing off the entire foundation of western medicine because doctors and medical science people don't always fully understand why things work.

It would be like someone writing off Newtonian physics before quantum mechanics was a thing because a lot more of the how wasn't yet understood. The practice of medicine has moved past the "if she floats, she's made of wood, and that means she's a witch" phase even if it still sees anyone other than cishet white dudes as witches.
Am I missing something, or is "customer success" one of those things where people come up with a new term for existing things, but with "... done correctly" implied? I read the "What is customer success and why does it matter" part hoping for clarity, and that's what it reads like to me.
As someone who does computer vision for a living, you're going to need to explain how this is:

1. The most valuable take from computer vision

2. The simplest take from computer vision

Not to mention this is rarely useful unless you're in a specific context where you're looking for circles in an image.
RIP

edit: fine, downvote me, I am just memorializing a fallen hero. guess I will do it alone
I completely misunderstood your comment. Thanks for the correcting me.
Why is this interesting? It is not news. The Republicans aren't in power so this won't pass. This is just signaling and PR.
We have this in France too. Prestigious schools often have a "main" program, for which you need to do a classe préparatoire and a competition. But there are also other diplomas that you can get that still have the name of the school.
I think the biggest takeaway here is not for society as a whole, nor for those involved in "science" directly, but for the individuals, families, tribes, small communities, and caretakers.

Progress is inevitable, and so is the damage from it.

This article is a guide on how to stay out of the way and avoid being trampled by its wheels.
That's not a valid TLD for most people.
It's also ridiculous to say they "don't pay taxes" when in fact they do pay taxes. Bezos has already sold at least $15 billion in Amazon stock over the past 2 years. All taxable. Musk has a $15 billion tax bill that we know is due in 2022.

It's not nothing. People can say that it's not enough, but it's not nothing.
I don't agree it's dumb (perhaps fashionable incarnations are dumb, but not the general idea of being inspired by an ancestral diet). We evolved in that setting and our bodies were optimized for our ancestors' diet. This doesn't mean we should commit the naturalistic fallacy but as a first approximation it's a good rule of thumb.

The other thing is our understanding of nutritional science is so, so bad. It's just such a difficult area to attack with the scientific method. We've made good progress for sure but there's still so many unknowns.
Since there are so many "I screwed up my rm" command examples in here, let me recommend to you all `safe-rm`. It's in Homebrew and launchpad: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/safe-rm and https://launchpad.net/safe-rm

Basically the entire implementation is defined by this one file, it's pretty simple, like you'd hope: https://git.launchpad.net/safe-rm/tree/src/main.rs
I would guess that's the crux of their efforts now. That is, like it or not, it works. As long as it's effective there's no incentive for them to change.
That's what I thought too. The title of this article is as much clickbait as Wales' emails.
You end up building your product for who gives you your money.

With advertisers you build your product to sap as much attention as possible.

With corporate sponsors you start to let them moderate your product.

With annoying users for money you at least want your users to like you instead of making them a product of some kind or another.
Except:

- no country pay like the US. Worked for silicon valley companies remotely, and made twice the money I made in France, while being 3 times cheaper than local competition.

- no country have the volume of hi-level coding gig job offers the US has.

- few countries even have has many interesting projects. If you want to code in Haskell or Lisp in Europe, good luck.

- the USA don't care about your diploma, only what you can do. You will be limited in opportunities and earnings depending of your background in many countries.

- talent attract talent. It's better to work with companies already full of good devs, the colleagues are coolers, the projects are more interesting and the infra will be better. Inertia is in favor of the USA.

So no, it will break no monopoly. If anything, it will make it easier to work FOR the US.
Did the same thing, wiped out server (it was running stuff like nagios, nothing 'production)

No big deal, restore from backup, right?

It turned out nobody had connected the backup drive to the new server. It was still connected to the server it replaced, which was still in the rack, but turned off.
I don't resent them doing what they need to do.

Wikipedia is one of the few things on the Internet that feels right.

If they need to play the same shit game as everyone else, so be it.

The tone of resentment here from the commenters is disappointing - it's like Wikipedia needing money is somehow not OK.
So you really just need a subsidy for people below a certain income level.
But the game developers own the database, so if they want something to be unique, they can already do that!

None of this are either actual problems that developers have, or things that users want. Never once has someone playing a game say "boy I sure wish all these hats were more expensive!"