skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia is all about the citations. 90% of my Wikipedia edits are either adding citations or [Citation Needed] if I couldn't find a source for an uncited claim.

There are some math and physics articles that can go 10 paragraphs without a single citation. They'd be great blog posts or chapters in a book. But they're poor quality Wikipedia articles.
Given that they are taking a TAX surplus and returning it to the people who paid the LEAST taxes - it's just theft.

They aren't even trying to hide behind providing some societal service - they're just seized money from one family, and handing it over to another.
That is a hilarious position to take without any proof. I would love to see your stats on how cops and prosecutors are happy to ignore violence at scale, everywhere.

If non-violent crime is indeed rare, would you be eligible for parole in my thought experiment where everybody starts off incarcerated? How could I trust that you wouldn’t violently jaywalk or violently forget the contents of your trunk and bring an apple across state lines?

Serious question: Do you work in or for law enforcement? The only people I’ve ever spoken to that maintain “people that smoke weed are indistinguishable from rapists and murderers” are people whose income in some way relies on holding that opinion.
The intent of Wikipedia vs. Pornhub are so different. The difference in outcome of seeing fellatio on those sites are not even comparable.
It’s because the hash of the roms changed so make complains
"Consensus of experts" and "consensus of internet users" can also be two entirely different things.
Generics are useful for some purposes. But mostly they can be avoided in favor of simpler language constructs. Most Go developers understand the importance of using simple code constructs.

There are many experienced developers who (through long experience fighting C++) have come to understand that using a simple language (like Go or C) allows you focus on the algorithms and complexity of the problem you're trying to solve. This is part of the Go culture.

A junior developer might not understand this yet. He's still having fun finding obscure and convoluted contortions of the language that allow him to save little or no effort... not yet realizing that nobody gives a shit and he's wasting his time and the time of his coworkers.
Wait, maybe not. Seems like it was taken from the BNB chain. Not sure if that's "created out of thin air", though... maybe closer to printing money from the central bank? Not sure xD
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I like the initiative.

The main concern is whether to stick to "proprietary" design framework, either it's Jetbrains Ring UI, Atlaskit, and so on.

There are _lots_ of community-driven alternatives, and it feels much safer to pick something that doesn't belong to a corp.

I'm willing to hear pros for choosing such UI framework.
>his sounds good but I actually don’t buy it anymore. I consider myself to be a pretty empathetic person, but over time I’ve realized empathy doesn’t solve any problems unless you’re forced to put your money where your mouth is

Exactly. Modern society suffers from a dearth of people being forced to practice what they preach because everyone is happy to look the other way when someone in their tribe is a hypocrite.
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Even for multi-year, if you factor in everything does it still come out cheaper and AWS? Would you be running everything 24x7 on an HPC? I don’t think so. You need scale at some points and there are probably times where research is done on your desktop.

You could invest in an HPC - but I think the human cost of maintaining one especially if you’re in a high cost of living area (e.g. Bay Area, NYC, etc.) is going to be pretty high. Admin cost, UPS, cable wiring, heat/cooling etc. can all be pretty expensive. Maintenance of these can be pretty pricey too.

Are there any companies that remotely manage data centers and rent out bare metal infra?
Well said. It's especially frustrating to come across what I'll call "Mudslide Pages" for prominent entities. These consist of a decade or more of minor news items, piled atop one another. No effort to distill key elements of these entities' impact -- let alone the how and why of what they do. It's just endless what and when.

So on top-tier companies, the pages are cluttered with details of brief moves in and out of old headquarters buildings -- plus long-ago product rollouts and cancellations -- plus stock-market zigzags in 2013, 2015, etc. For authors/artists, each work is treated in isolation, without an effort to define their style and how it evolved.

There's no natural entry path for a subject expert to step in and make it all coherent. Instead, the mudslides just keep coming.
>written at several levels simultaneously,

I don't understand why this bothers people. If something on Wikipedia is above or below my level, I just skip it. It takes all of three seconds to recognize. I've consistently found it to be a great starting point for self-study in all sorts of math.
>are simply much better as they just work with native web standards. React is just another way FB/Meta hurts people :)

Sure, and all you need are 50+ dependencies to work with those "standards": https://www.npmjs.com/package/@shoelace-style/shoelace?activ...

If you're doing JS development, just use React. There's really no good reason not to, and I would argue that in an enterprise environment it would be negligent not to.

If anyone can give a non-ideological reasoning for a better choice, I'd love to hear it.
That's why you don't. I have to relink every time I try to use it because I use it so rarely. I forgot what the cut off is these days (30 days or 6 weeks).
Understood. I installed that old version a couple years ago. Unfortunately, I had no idea how to use it and the documentation I found wasn't the best, so I moved on to something else.
Some people actually think this way.

I once worked with someone in an important position in a major media organization who believed nothing was recorded before the printing press, and was quite vocal about it. He quite strongly believed that everything else was made up.

I always wanted to ask him what he thought about Egyptian hieroglyphs, but he was too far above my pay grade to approach or challenge.
I wonder when people will stop unquestioningly believe this 10k hours crap.

If you spent a lot of time in one job there is good chance a lot of your skills are transferrable to the new one.

When I decided to change jobs I figured out I want to make good use of the skills I already had, supplement them with some new skills and create a niche for myself that is overlooked/unpopular because it requires skills that you can't normally find on the market when looking at people who spent their entire life doing just one thing.

Make the fact you are changing jobs your advantage, not your disadvantage.
Study: Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica
Datalite: A Simple Datalog Built Around SQLite
2fa is a good option, but there are many situations where a plain password is just superior. if you ignore this reality, that passwords are legitimately more secure and better for a lot of people, then you're undermining an existing working security system and will just cause chaos and loss for people.
I would expect wikipedias to be more accurate than teachers.

I am a software engineer who spends his life showing people the origional sources of information to help them unpick collective repeated misunderstandings. That takes me, with more experience that my team combined to do that.

teachers have experience of teaching - not possessing knowledge or the practises of sifting, applying and validating their hypothesis aroudn the veracity of information.

Most curriculums are out of date in ways that don't matter all that much. But i still rekon wikipedia is still more up to date than them.
I don't have a horse in this race, but I think you're presuming simplicity where there is none.

A bittorrent client, even in CLI form, is not simple software at all. Have you ever taken a look at the myriad of available settings?

Most GUI clients have a sort of "wizard" that helps you pick acceptable connection parameters. This feature alone has a truckload of assumptions coded in. And that kind of feature exists for a reason: no nonsense-seeking users. They're the majority. Just let me download my file bro.
Re>> "if I impose a rule saying that citations must be written in Comic Sans size 11 font with every third word italicized." You would not be "playing God"; that would be the opposite. [Que Church Lady] Satan!

Snark aside, thank you for your contributions. Re >> "there are few checks against bad teachers" -- do you think there should be more checks or do you think well intentioned checks could be weaponized against good teachers?
The vital services are provided by the government, but require an email address. Some people have trusted Google to be their email provider, and Google is failing some of those people by denying them access unnecessarily.
One of the most useful parts of a wikipedia article are the table of references on every article, glad the author mentioned that. Maybe they've dealt with some uninterested teachers, but I only remember mine telling me to not CITE wikipedia, not that it was untouchable. For any topic, you have a starter kit of references to go and check out, with a light synopsis of why it's relevant so you can filter out the junk ones, that's a pretty valuable tool on it's own!
Wow - these comments are wackier than anything I have ever read in Wikipedia.
1. Using XKCD as a source for academic malfeasance.
2. Thinking that encyclopedias should be/are written by a single individual.
3. Wikipedia's editorial policies result in the amplification and ossification of (political, academic, medical, etc.) establishment narratives and standards, which are often corrupt for a wide variety of reasons.
4. Wikipedia is anti-useful.

I'll add my own.

Wikipedia causes halitosis and ED.

Before Wikipedia people did not have to evaluate their sources.

Wikipedia is causing the culture wars in the US.

Kids should be looking things up in the card catalog because it teaches patience and persistence.

Wikipedia articles don't cover the topics in depth......
A "social network" is a networked system for leaving and retrieving messages. Again, it is not a group of friends. It is a messaging system for a group of friends, just like a map is a graphical system for navigating a piece of terrain.
Would a Google Doc survive nuclear war?

A full scale nuclear war? No, not be any stretch of the imagination.

All datacenters/POPs/Telco/ISP's above ground and/or connected directly to the grid would be conflagrated paper-weights after receiving upwards of 50,000 volts per meter [1] of induced energy. The EMF would easily jump all surge absorbing devices and isolation transformers. The cost of EMP hardening all of the infrastructure end-to-end would instant-sticker-shock any investors away from the idea.

Google have a patent on EMP protection but I have no idea if they have implemented this on Google Docs. [2] Reading through the patent this appears to be for uses cases of regional / tactical EMP and not a global nuclear war. I can not find any documentation showing they implemented data replication for Google Docs in this manor, meaning that all content is replicated everywhere around the world. It would be great if someone from Google could say for certain how far this was implemented and who paid for it. Even better, if there is an API to query to show what regions specific data was replicated to and how they managed to side-step regulations like GDPR.

I should add that this assumes nobody is using "Super-EMP" weapons. These theoretical devices could induce upwards of 200,000V/meter. China and Russia are purported to have experimented with these. Cue Fallout NV playlist [3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse

[2] - https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100250497A1/en

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MreKzYQ9uxc&list=PLE9B1B5196...
Note that the article is specifically about the SEGGER toolchain, not to be confused with GNU's or LLVM.

Personally, I won't use a toolchain that isn't open source, so I can't care less about how bad SEGGER is at producing dense RISC-V code.

As for the actual facts, 32-bit RISC-V is very dense, but Thumb2 was better at some point. It is indeed still better than ratified spec, but watch out for Zc and B extensions.

Last time I checked, 32bit RISC-V was already more dense than Thumb2 with these extensions.

In 64bit, RISC-V has held the code density crown for a long time now. Wins by a wide margin. There's no contest. And it is indeed also getting even better from these extensions.
What do you mean by "the game link"? The only page that seems to make sense is https://mortalkombat.plus/mk1 , but there's no PDF link anywhere on that page; I even checked the source.
Some things are more or less important to censor

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/3/2126267/-Facebook...

I don't use companies that contribute to mass casualties.
> The upshot is basically that if you ask people binary yes/no questions (or binary left/right votes), the population appears divided, bimodal.

SHOCKING! (I laughed a little too much at this comment)

But this is also why surveyists tend to ask the "strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree" questions. Because it can measure the temperature better. This is effectively a type of cardinal voting too. After all, voting theory is also known as "social choice theory."

But I definitely agree that in practice we find more normal like distributions in preference. Which is why I find it odd when commenters argue that other voting systems "give advantage" to "moderates" or "centrists" as if this is not in reality "gives 'advantage' to candidates that have low variance to the mean opinion." (aka, the most representative). Isn't that the goal of voting systems? To be the most representative?
If you look up numerical algorithm in Wikiepedia you will find plenty of discussion of error bounds. Of course matrix multiplication performed on exact numbers doesn't have errors, the calculation is exact. Computers and the algorithms they run do not have that luxury when dealing with approximations.
Yes, you can. You probably also want to take it step-by-step – i.e. test the waters before jumping in. If you are concerned about transition, take it slow: make a side project, then see if you can freelance on the side, part time it, then full time it.

Mastery will come if you have a passion for the subject, and probably will not come otherwise. No amount of perseverance will make you interested in something you are not interested in.
Thanks, does indeed look neat.
> It's 10x cheaper to build your own infrastructure than use AWS on-demand instances

It’s always cheaper on the bill of materials. Who is going to build and maintain the complex infrastructure. It would be interesting to see the TCO over 5 years.
It’s Time to Consider RISC-V
> So the choice is for them to permanently lose access to their email?

If an attacker breaks in and changes your password, you already do very likely permanently lose access to your email. Account recovery from that point is a hairy process even for people who have a place to safely store important documents, let alone those who don't.

> Even stuff like your bank account has secondary means of recovery

Those rely on forms of identification that the unhoused disproportionately lack (for the same reasons that they are more prone to lose access to phone numbers). This is also among the reasons why being unhoused tends to correlate with being unbanked.
I agree. Furthermore it's extremely distasteful that Signal alerts people in your address book when you install Signal
Neither. Gmail is an email provider which has provided access to an account that these people have registered with providers of vital services.
The official Go release policy is to only support the 2 most recent versions, currently Go 1.18 and 1.19. So libraries can strictly follow this policy and use generics without any need for build flags.

That said, libraries often want to be friendly to older Go versions, so I agree with your overall hypothesis.

Backwards compatibility is another major concern for libraries: I assume you can't safely change the signatures of existing functions from interfaces to generics, for example. (Well, aside from some special cases like interface{} becoming "any".)
That was the kind of thing that kind of just seemed logical to me back then. I don't remember reading it anywhere, I think I just had the perception from VHS tape recording lengths.
"Sponsor" may not be the right word, but Wikipedia by its nature ends up privileging the most motivated. Sadly, "the most motivated" are not always the most reliable. Sometimes they are! Lots o' love to the That Guy who is obsessed with the 14th century French poetry, and writes an entry that the most detail-oriented academic could hardly hope for. But in general... it's not a good bet.
Nocodb seems to create REST API endpoints for SQLite. Might be worth checking this project out.
> And although the attack was formally a success, there is no reason to get scared and stop using Signal.

This conclusion — “no reason to…” — sounds strange and premature. Such attacks may not get older messages, but contacts of the person whose phone number has been used can still message the new device, which the hacker would get and could launch further attacks on the contacts. Since practically almost nobody verifies “safety number” changes, the contacts of the phone number that has been taken over may not realize they’re chatting with someone else. Isn’t that reason enough to be scared? This problem exists for any app that relies on an external identifier, especially one like a phone number that’s easier to take over (including through SIM jacking).

Signal may be secure for specific definitions, but your contacts may not be safe with such takeovers.
What you described is stupidity, not greed. Stupid investors get their capital taken away.
I don't see any particular reason to think that Wikipedia is worse than what existed prior. What exemplar from, say, 1980, do you think was better in terms of information quality?

I'm thinking back to going in to a library, where a given topic would generally have 0-3 books. Books often put together by a single person, a person often chosen because of personal relationships with a publisher, plus that publisher's intent to turn a profit. Or opening up a daily newspaper, where I might get a few paragraphs on a topic, written by one person and edited by a couple more, all paid for by an ad-supported company run by people who often had local political connections.

There may be no mechanism for consensus on the web, but Wikipedia certainly has one, one that has worked reasonably well for 20 years at this point.
No real regrets here. Sure, there are peers that are doing better and have more prestigious jobs, which I envy, but I chose the path I did to have a stable life. Hopefully my kids can take more risks knowing that they have a solid safety net
> In fact, new money supply is a minority influence on inflation

This obviously depends on how the money supply is created and deployed. If you take out loans to hand out stimulus check you get more inflation than you would from a similar dollar value of QE.
being homeless doesn't mean you don't have the ability to remember a good password. good means not duplicated.
I think this post is identifying scientific computing with simulation studies and legacy workflows, to a fault. Scientific computing includes those things, but it also includes interactive analysis of very large datasets as well as workflows designed around cloud computing.

Interactive analysis of large datasets (e.g. genome & exome sequencing studies with 100s of 1000s of samples) is well suited to low-latency, server-less, & horizontally scalable systems (like Dremel/BigQuery, or Hail [1], which we build and is inspired by Dremel, among other systems). The load profile is unpredictable because after a scientist runs an analysis they need an unpredictable amount of time to think about their next step.

As for productionized workflows, if we redesign the tools used within these workflows to directly read and write data to cloud storage as well as to tolerate VM-preemption, then we can exploit the ~1/5 cost of preemptible/spot instances.

One last point: for the subset of scientific computing I highlighted above, speed is key. I want the scientist to stay in a flow state, receiving feedback from their experiments as fast as possible, ideally within 300 ms. The only way to achieve that on huge datasets is through rapid and substantial scale-out followed by equally rapid and substantial scale-in (to control cost).

[1] https://hail.is
People who care about generics already decided not to use Go because it didn't suit them. People who used Go value different things in a language or they wouldn't have been using Go.
A mentor of mine who made MD (very senior) at a know place and a good MBA at a known school told me this:

Bob’s Business School of the South and Harvard teach basically the same thing.

You pay for the network of classmates largely.
Not only that, 4 paragraphs until the first citation, 16 paragraphs until the next one. All that information might be correct, but there's no easy way to confirm it.

PDEs are a significant enough thing that the article is probably correct. But once you get into more niche math articles, a lot of the writing is incorrect.
We‘re working on something similar at airsequel.com. Except GraphQL API instead of REST, focus on only SQLite, and hosting is taken care of by us.
I'm in this group. There isn't really a better and cheaper alternative to streaming for entertainment imo. But cooking is a better and cheaper alternative ative to eating out, so that's where I've been saving money.
I hope a student finds this blog post on Google and shows it to the teacher
Who do you feel React is hurting, and in what way?