skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the issues here is this funding goes toward some of the more hidden work that folks using and even contributing to Wikipedia don't see. Let's take two examples:

1) Automatically identifying, reporting, and perhaps removing spam, hate speech, advertising, conflict of interest, etc. content. That's done in part by a system called ORES which was designed, built, and is managed by folks working for Wikimedia. Could volunteers have built such a system? Of course. Did they? No.

2) Identifying, blocking, and reporting child pornography. Like any site on the Internet that allows users to upload images, thousands of images of child pornography are uploaded to Wikipedia (and its sibling projects) on a regular basis. There are tools designed to catch most of these. However, humans still have to moderate a lot of this content. Would you volunteer to do that work all day long? I wouldn't. And that's why someone needs to be paid to do it.

So, while there is likely bloat in the organization (as in any group of humans endeavoring toward a shared goal), there is a lot of work done that volunteers wouldn't or couldn't or simply shouldn't do.
I think the OP of article is achieving the inverse of the effect they intended.

Instead of posting and allowing the discussion to flow naturally, they are angrily rebutting every point people in favor of donating make with the same argument.
The problem with .com is that it is both popular and heavily squatted. You'll potentially need to use a non-English word or two or more words to describe your business or website.

.io is still squatted, but much easier game. And it makes sense in our field.

As an example, I wanted a common English word name for my startup. The .com is owned by a squatting firm that balked at a $1M dollar offer. They want eight figures, no less. The .io, on the other hand, is listed at mid-five figures. Considerable delta between those two. Once you start doing business and begin to grow, you can potentially negotiate to lease the .com and redirect. Set up a lease to buy if you exit.
>> This isn’t to say that you should in any way not prepare for those earlier interviews

Implies ascending order so that you are well prepared for the later more important ones by rectifying the mistakes you made in the previous ones.
I remember reading that book late into the night on many nights while I was still at uni. It was an awesome read, thank you!
> I obviously was referring to e2ee;

So you admit you weren't just spreading inaccuracies you heard from someone else but you knew you were posting disinformation.

> I further stand by my assertion that Telegram's encryption is nearly guaranteed to be backdoored, because there is literally zero reason for a startup to invest the massive engineering resources needed to successfully develop and maintain its own encryption algorithms, unless they were being paid to do so.

This is a good argument.

> Do you seriously think Putin would allow a domestic company to develop a communication tool that would allow Russians to communicate with each other in complete privacy?

Telegram is not a Russian company?

>> prove it or shut up.

> Go read the HN commenting policy (specifically around civility) or shut up.

Sorry. I was too harsh. I actually regret.

Compared to willfully spreading disinformation however it seems pretty minor though?

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A bit more: I know local police used to use Telegram. That worries me.

It is actually even more complicated:

If Putin reads my most personal messages I don't care.

If NSA or even worse, local police actually took their time to read my messages I'd be mad or worried.

However if FSB asked for help they would need a very good reason and I'd try to consult with local law enforcement first.

If local police however asked for help I'd go out of my way to help them.
Study with 22065 participants finds herbs reduce risk of getting a cold by 90%
Indeed. I mentioned those specific things because it has been done. However, I think the likelihood of the average user being affected by things near the end of the list is generally quite small. If we aren't willing to accept this, at some point, we can't use technology for anything important.
I thought the post yesterday was isolated hiccup in the process, I guess not!

Scaling HR must be less of a priority & nightmare when the entire company is engineering focused. Human touch get lost with such growth.
I think raising the price of TLDs is the only way to stop domain squaters. When even the lowest price for a domain you're squating on is 2k you can sit and pay 50 a year for 50+ years and still come out on top.

Kinda sucks since I have some .io domains and I could only renew them as far as 2025.
It shouldn't be democratic, but for a non-democratic institution, the Supreme Court in the U.S. has outsized power at a level not originally intended in the constitution.
I wouldn't want a .co if I didn't also own the .com variant, though.
I always wonder. That has to be unsustainable, there is no way everybody can be borrowing like hell even for simple consumption and not having that collapse one moment.
Build an amazing app/platform/service. Host it on whatever tld is cheaper/convenient/some_other_criteria. No one will care what the extension is - especially with current and upcoming consumption models (mobile apps, vr/ar, and so on).
The application is the client. It calls connect() to reach the display server.

Even Windows and Mac have a concept of a display server which is pretty closely the same. Yet people don't seem to criticize that?
Kubernetes: Evenly Distribution of Pods Across Cluster Nodes
This is a temporary injunction not a ruling on the merits. Just like Democratic judges doing this to Trump, it's far more likely to be influenced by politics of the particular Judge or Court of Appeals that any meaningful statement of the law (which it is not).
Yes, someone else, (including themselves and billions of us) are enjoying the fruit of their labor. So we are eternally thankful for that. The fact that someone makes 400k at Wikipedia doesn't take away from its impact on the world.

Also as I read this article, I get the sense that the person writing it has no clue what an endowment is, and that's driving a lot of the misguided indignation in this article.

If you have a $300 million endowment, it doesn't mean you have $300 million to spend. It's the interest/investment gains from that money that fuel the organization. So the interest/investments from $100 mil vs $300 mil doesn't equal that amount. It's much less. The whole point is that the $300 mil will remain "forever."

I don't know what the solution is, to be honest. I worry more about articles I read about how very few people actually have an outsized amount of contributions, and who is checking their biases?
Deploying a Multi-Cloud API Gateway on AWS and GCP
Spammers. They mirror SO stuff on their own sites and put google ads on them
Another server has to set up a video redundancy for the clip for that to happen. Otherwise, yeah, it just goes poof. Avoiding this is one of the major benefits of IPFS.
as usual smartest comment in HN thread has no replies
Like @zerocount alluded to, asking her to come by the office "and meet the whole team" has a completely different connotation than "for an interview." You could probably spend an entire chapter of your book on the differences.
> The share of individuals living below the 'International Poverty Line' of 1.90 international-$ per day.

1.90 is absurdly low. That totals to $57 for a 30 day month. That hardly covers just your food and water intake in most areas of the world. If you live in the temperate climate zones where fresh water isn't extremely limited and your menu consists solely of rice and potatoes... Maybe, just maybe. I live in a relatively cheap country with plenty of fresh water around and that would get you 500 grams of rice and 2 liters of mineral water. At 70kg I could hypothetically just survive off of that but only just. Anywhere else where food and water requires transport or significant amounts of processing, you are very much screwed.
Except this isn’t about almost anything else. This is about control over one’s body.

This is from someone who chose freely to get the vaccine. Even at my own peril I support other’s freedom to choose.
"Weathering With You" is my favorite among his works. Its the closest one to a Ghibli film.

How I wish Satoshi Kon is still around making great films...
That's a fair characterization. I think DDG is almost the nostalgia play. What's the David Byrne lyric? You got what you wanted, but you lost what you had.
Posix thread (pthread) libraries (2004)
Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Fair enough I misunderstood your point then
101st lesson - 100 is a nice number but no one is going to read a blog post with 100 lessons learned. Either focus on the 5-10 most important lessons or consolidate and summarize.
That's an odd comment to me. Different TLDs have different pricing, different restrictions, and so on. Giving the topic some thought isn't stupid. And .com is a pretty crowded namespace.
Good list! As a PhD student and therefore AI researcher for a few years now, a lot of this rings true. Though 100 lessons is too much and some of these are obvious/minor, i'd distill it down to the main ones.

Here's my 2 cents on the topic from a thing I wrote last year ('Lessons Learned the Hard Way in Grad School (so far)'): https://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/life/lessons-learned-...
Or maybe because it's motives, and what level of capture they have over their 'customers'? Seems pretty simple to me. They have a monopoly of service and the only retribution people can take is political which means everything is done on appearance.
In Wisconsin, where I live, certain judicial offices are elected. Judicial elections are as nakedly partisan as you might fear, and it fosters no confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary. Based on my understanding (as a generally conservative libertarian), many decisions are predicated on conservative political promises and ideology, rather than any sound legal reasoning.
Now do masks
Is there any objective reason (performance, reliability, etc) to avoid certain TLDs?
> I'm not sure this will take off.

This sold out within hours of being released, so I'm pretty sure it already did :)
Two examples is not remotely proof that "booster shots do not stop people getting it or getting infected."

Stop pushing this agenda. It is ignorant and false.
Migration from Amazon Cognito Guide
Okinawa is the 2nd largest EV scooter Brand in India
> No one will care what the extension is

Until you try to send emails from your random TLD domain and they all end up in spam.

Or when your shitty TLD has a NIC-level DNS outage. (.club had one a few weeks ago for instance, experienced it firsthand.) Or no outage, but resolves slowly.
Actually that one could be affected by competition too. If the market keeps driving down prices and they don't adapt, nobody will end up buying their wine because it'll cost "too much" compared to the competition. But they can fight back in ways other than price. They can gain an appellation designation which gives them more value for being unique, or they could lobby local politicians to secure more favorable terms for local taxes or distribution.
I wish headlines would include the country it refers to when it says nationwide
It seems like 80% of people I've heard talking about AoC are planning on doing it in Rust (including me!). It's definitely a great way to get up to speed with a language you're interested in learning.
If you got paid market rate, people would be on here complaining about your compensation.
ICU is very strongly tied to "Intensive Care Unit" for me.
Confusions Re: Higher-Level Game Theory
Wait, people lease domain names? Is that common? Doesn't that violate the TOS you agreed to with your registrar?
Some create a language just for AoC, for example: https://github.com/healeycodes/adventlang
The masses should have access to this kind of information so that they will be aware of what is happening.
Yep, standard of care is used in control groups. Also, there are trials in which people are moved from the control arm to the experimental treatment upon increase in tumor size, which allows participants to get a chance to actually trial the drug.
ccTLDs are perhaps marginally less reliable given who has overriding control over them (.ly is Libya, for example), but beyond that it's probably pretty low on your list of things to care about.
> Protocol spoke with two Stripe candidates who received either verbal or written offers from the company and then had those offers revoked because of “shifting business priorities.”

Emphasis mine. Two people. How many people does Stripe employee?

I don't care too much either way, but this post and the one yesterday seem to be a bit of a coordinated scheme.

" Protocol also reviewed multiple online complaints detailing similar rescinded offers; the most prominent of these complaints was posted on Hacker News and received a rousing defense of Stripe from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong."

Lol. How long until I see HN drama on the magazine rack?
Related thread from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292818
There's definitely a selection effect - the type of person that will spend time on Advent of Code is also likely to be the type of person that learns and uses more exotic languages, or at least languages that aren't used that much commercially.

Some stats to confirm - https://preview.redd.it/jrhlcxrzy0761.png?width=2275&format=... - taken from from last years' unofficial survey - https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/kj53l1/unoffi...
Yeah that is true. I still take my skinny ones out a couple times a season. They turn quick and you get to feel the depth on the powder turns.
Years back I had the idea of a patreon-like site, where people could support a person/project by keeping a tab open, mining. Nothing like it materialized afaik, guess none of the usual pow algos really shine in browser tabs.
Huh interesting, I was the exact opposite, I really liked Inside Out but thought Coco was entertaining/ok but obviously everyone enjoys different things! Have you seen The Book of Life? Came out some years before Coco and had similar themes (not exactly the same).
Cloudflare renews ".com" for $8.57 USD/year (if anyone is looking for cheaper; not sure if they are the cheapest). Namecheap seemed to have the lowest price for ".io" for a while.
That's pretty uncharitable spin. The bug linked says in the first issue

> macOS' OpenGL implementation never supported compute shaders

which is a pretty valid reason to drop it. Nothing to do with Chrome. Further, OpenGL is dead, every graphics developer knows this. All the browser vendors are working on WebGPU. No reason to waste time on implementing outdating things. There are finite resources. No other browser vendor named any plans to support webgl-compute. So stop with the ridiculous spin
i'm convinced two-way binding is an anti-feature in reactive UI. bindings should flow one way from model to view, and view changes should be reflected back to the model via events.
Some country tlds are risky because they don't necessarily check residency requirements when you purchase, but might later if your domain catches their attention. Not all have residency requirements, but some do.

There's also some TLDs that are well known for web spam, phishing, or email spam, sometimes because of free or cheap subdomains. Those might have issues getting indexed in Google, or issues with SMTP delivery. Google once deindexed the entirety of *.co.cc, for example.
These are healthcare workers. Jobs have requirements. They're free to quit instead of increasing the dangers of disease for their sick and older patients who are at highest risk for covid. No one is controlling their body any more than making it show up at work in order to get paid. Coal miners are forced to work in dangerous conditions around the world in order to keep their job. Getting a vaccine is far less risk, there have been 8 billion plus vaccine doses given against covid around the world.
I am not sure about this, because I don't like to be hugged at all, and if someone does hug me I want to run away and hide.
Interesting. In Tango Argentino, you explicitly lean slightly forward, because your upper body needs to move independently from hips & legs.
Apart from the senior people that have been there since the beginning and are still directing (albeit slowing their pace and involvements), I imagine Pixar is virtually indistinguishable from Disney's animation studios.
I remember reading a blog post that I can't find that one company saw a massive uptick on email deliverability when they stop using .xyz and moved to a more standard one.

It makes some sense, .xyz are so cheap that I've bought mines for $1 so just buying a domain every day isn't outside the realms of possbility for spammers. Personally, I just use my .xyz domains for internal stuff where I still want things connected to the internet and available.
i'm pretty sure the average person on Hacker News would be ok with the Social Security administration banning gas powered leaf blowers.

This place has become as intellectually low-brow as Twitter and Reddit.
What’s the incentive to pay the hit bucks for the .com these days?

Most people finding your site will do so through google or other links right?

As for myself I hardly consider the real URL these days (except in some cases to check it’s right before entering credentials).
Neat but how can it be compostable and anti-microbial?
I'm sorry to veer off topic but is anyone else infuriated that a brand new hard cover edition of this book is $13 (or as low as $7 from other sellers) but the Kindle version is $15? I don't even own a Kindle but that's ridiculous pricing.
Is there really much incentive to pay big bucks for the .com these days?

Most people finding your site will do so through google or other links right?

As for myself I hardly consider the real URL these days (except in some cases to check it’s right before entering credentials).
It seems, that .io is rising the price every year this time around.

Just about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25534498
> The elected representatives chose to delegate this power to the person they approved as the head of CMS.

The courts clearly disagree with you.
Warning: tangentially related rant!

> The typical approach, apparently, is to acquire a "dump," which is the bank of actual questions, and then repeatedly take "practice exams" so that they've already seen (and memorized) all of the questions that they might encounter during the actual exam. So, blatant cheating.

Children I know in UK high schools (12-18) are being "educated" solely in this manner that you describe as cheating.

I don't think you're wrong.

Basically, the "teacher" gives them past exam questions to do right from the very start of a 5 year course. They never get any reference books (nor online equivalents), they're not taught the subject matter, only taught how to answer the exam questions. It's diabolical but what passes for state education at the moment.

To clarify, I have no problem with practising on past exam questions but you need to actually educate people before you ask them to answer questions on the material.
In last year's survey Rust was around 10%. It's definitely overrepresented but not quite that much.
With the proviso that you must use their DNS service.
I have no idea if this is true or not. If it is, we should all know about it. This is one of the most shady things a company can do. Think about it, you're accepting an offer and telling your employer you're leaving, maybe rejecting other good offers you got, making plans etc. Then the company rescinds the offer... There might be some rare situations where this can happen and would be understandable, but Stripe is definitely not in that situation.

Reminds me a shady startup company I interviewed with 10 years ago. They kept lying about their financials and kept hiring people, knowing they gonna run out of money within 2-3 months. Their plan was getting these people on board, pay them salary for a couple of months, then announcing they company needs to raise more money, asking everyone to work without a salary for the time being. Everyone left 2 months after that.
Exactly. Number of pages is almost meaningless. The system stores a diff of every edit, forever. That includes diffs between binary objects like images and videos.

Increasingly, what's being stored is metadata about the content within those pages. Not to mention projects like Wikidata [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page] which is storing "structured knowledge" about literally everything.
Same thing with .sh Domains among a few others. .sh in particular is going up from 40-something to 80-something, renewal.
I have a feeling that - software along with hardware today has got lot more complicated than what was 30-40 years ago.

Most production software (esp low level stuff like Kernel, filesystem) today is written and maintained by people having that work as jobs. I wish it was any other way. Also, what users expect from production software is way different than situation 30-40 years ago. An Operating sytem must work for different CPU, GPU. A bare-bones OS is basically a non-starter. I mean look at Haiku-OS or any of other operating system projects, for most part they have gone nowhere.

A filesystem is also fairly complicated piece and what we expect from a filesystem is different. Speed is good but that is not the only criteria and I am afraid it does take serious engineering effort (edge cases and all) to get it usable on today's hardware.
.com/.net/.org - your name is probably gone

New gTLDs - The registry can pretty much arbitrarily set prices in the future

ccTLDs - Politics might make you have to change domain (e.g. UK owners of .eu)

Pick your poison, I tend to stick with the original TLDs and my own country's ccTLD
What's the reasoning or history behind why domain prices A) vary between TLDs and B) are allowed to be sold at any price (think huge markups from domain speculating)?
The $1 TLDs like .top .xyz .fun etc will be blocked in a lot of places due to heavy spam and malware distribution.
> Malpractice insurance is an important part of police reform

It disagree:

(1) Malpractice, by definition, is negligent violation the professional standard of care, i.e., what is routine in the profession; violations of that are by definition not the issue with systemic problems.

(2) The actual systemic problems are the kinds of things which are generally categorically uninsurable for very good reasons; intentional, and often—though usually unprosecuted, which is why people are concerned with civil liability—criminal wrongdoing.

> If you combine some sort of mechanism that sees lawsuits against police departments being paid out from the police pension plan instead of taxpayers coffers I imagine you would see police reform really quick.

The police pension plan is the public coffers; it's a fund set aside to fulfill a contractual obligation of the public agency and which the contributing agency is legally obligated (barring discharge in bankruptcy) to make up any shortfall in.
the lab leak hasn't been disproven yet. There was a senate investigation that biden killed (https://nypost.com/2021/05/25/biden-team-shut-down-inquiry-t...)
Why he cancelled it, who's to say, but it COULD be something to do with this; https://nypost.com/2021/11/29/joe-biden-expected-10-percent-...

and the senate minority concluded that it was a lab leak; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/2/house-gop-re...
This is the same problem as land value tax that was never solved.
This is a big issue, especially when notices that stretch the truth are the first thing you see on a page that is striving for factual accuracy.
Problem is not that they are loaded but they continue to expand their expenses as they get more money