skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implied subscription threat is a complete red herring. They should be ashamed for even mentioning it in their fundraising messages.

Wikipedians wouldn't work for free for a subscription service. The whole project would fork to a new host. The Wikimedia Foundation's own mission statement says, "The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the internet free of charge, in perpetuity."

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/
Ask HN: Given AI content generation, how will society know the truth?
I have increasingly seen deepfaked content where Both the text, the voices and the 3d models have been AI generated (eg with GPT-3, Audition, Stable Diffusion for video). We have been able to do this for a while.

Being in tech we have been aware of the progress of AI content generation for a while. AI can generate a ton of fake crap all day long and soon the actual human generated content will be a vanishingly tiny proportion. Most of the news and political speeches will be fake news, deepfaked war crime videos, and people will think they’re real.

For a while, “deepfake detection” will work until the deepfakes will become indistinguishable (up to a margin of error) from real stuff. At which point, we will only be able to rely on “official” sources, for anything. This is indeed a big issue, similar to how we rely on “official peer review” for science.
That twitter thread is garbage start to finish. It starts with 'wikipedia started out in a basement on a shoestring, so clearly all the millions spent two decades later is being pissed into the wind', which is absurd.

...then attacks SERCH claiming they've done nothing but release 'youtube videos with 50 views', attacks them for not having produced any within the last year (maybe their grant ended?) when if one google "SERCH foundation" they'd quickly see "Our signature program is Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM, an online platform and monthly web series focused on women of color in STEM." and further:

> WHAT WE DO

> Produce a live web-series with timely and relevant content

> Celebrate women of color with weekly #WCWinSTEM features

> Publish original content written by and for women of color in STEM

> Foster support and networking via our online platform

> Convene as a community virtually and at in-person events

> Advocate for ourselves + our STEM interests

....and then the big bad boogeymonster really blows its dog whistle when the author associates a foundation distributing grants to journalists who are people of color with "bankrolling the inescapable American culture war." You hear that sound? That's the sound of my eyes rolling, hard. Grants to people of color who work in journalism is furthering a "American culture war." Gosh, those pesky people of color, spreading their "culture war."

The author of the thread then mentions Guy Macon, who, from a quick google, appears to be a transphobic bigot and a troll who made a point of purposefully misgendering a trans wikipedian just to get a rise out of them, and then made a huge scene when he wasn't allowed to erase history and pretend the whole thing didn't happen, and demanded that the person unblock him. Good lord, what a fucking child. https://www.reddit.com/r/RealWikiInAction/comments/rv9x94/gu...

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=292896

....and then it ends somehow vaguely tying wikipedia to an experiment involving octopii hatchlings getting killed, or something.

It's a gish-gallop mess, and what a giant surprise it was to find that the author has a long, rambling thread about police killings in the UK that seems to say "that, really, if those black people just stopped committing crimes, they wouldn't get arrested and shot and stuff": https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1574101120347168770.html

...and their response to "uh, who exactly is this person" is to troll people by giving them the name of an anime: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeKtlilX0AAqnKA?format=png&name=...
That's where I heard about it too!

Very simple book and loved her talking about it. She possibly saved lives just by sharing her story.

Never been a smoker but the take that it's marketed as addictive is something I never considered
To be clear, your complaints are:

1. Wikipedia is biased toward Anglo perspectives.

2. Wikipedia is trying to recruit contributors with a broader range of perspectives.

This doesn't seem like a problem with WMF.
Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two.
Creating a Simple Tooltip Component in React
> If I'm scrolling down a listing page, I don't want to open a new page because returning will often leave me not where I was before.

Have you actually tried doing that on this very website you are now reading?

Click on my profile. Then click back. Where are you?

When I tested this just now, I was returned to exactly the point in the page where I left it.
You will find it beneficial to learn what a "prior probability distrubution" is.
From elsewhere ITT:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579778161889652736.html
I don't disagree, plus the Amazon metric has been quoted everywhere with very little context, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was not fully accurate.

However, there are teams that have a lot of insight into the needs of ecommerce that are investing heavily in reducing the hydration overhead – I imagine the reason for it is that in very dynamic sites it feels clunky that the user can't interact with the page until it has hydrated.

It is no coincidence that the only other framework besides Qwik that is being built around resumability is eBay's Marko 6
>Income gets reinvested in the transport infrastructure, e.g. public transport.

Money is fungible. People said the same thing you're saying in defense of seizing assets from drug dealers and punitive sin taxes. Why is it going to be different this time?

>Ultimately, only public transport can "solve" congestion and air pollution

Congestion is a supply and demand problem. Acting like a gridlocked highway is congestion but a packed subway train isn't is simply an exercise in broadcasting cognitive dissonance. No realistic transit system of any type can deal with peak demand without some amount of congestion regardless of the form said congestion takes. Increasing the overall bandwidth of the system reduces the length of time the congestion occurs.
Internet is domesticated in Iran, which is kinda like an intranet without access to the outside, however there are some data centers in Iran which still can access the Internet. For any kind of VPN to work, clients have to go through a proxy at least.
My only gripe with Debian is the "we do support systemd, but not really, but also we don't fully support not using it, so all packages are an eldritch abomination of systemd services loading initscripts loading systemd services loading initscripts" situation that keeps making service debugging harder than it has any right to be.
Yeah, I'm sure they're just hiring people for the shits and gigs.
Flagged for outrage flamebait that wouldn't be acceptable as a comment.
It's ironic that you use Red Cross as an example. An organization that has been proven again and again to be among the worst charity orgs you can donate to, repeatedly spends money on anything else but charity, and often does things that are both antithetical to their stated mission and unethical to boot.
Arch is easy to install (if you are comfortable with Linux, terminal and fucking up your partitions)

0. If you have Windows, a bit tiny work to correctly setup secure boot and UEFI

1. Create partitions manually, carefully. For best results I use seperate disks but windows installer still fucks up.

2. Mount and chroot

3. Install packages

4. Install a network manager

5. Reboot

6. Install a favorite login and desktop manager and if have
any nvidia drivers

7. Reboot to ensure nvidia drivers load (F** you secureboot)

8. Install a nice font (sorry, yes)

9. Audio mostly works out of the box but if not install pulseaudio or something else.

10. Install yay or any AUR helper to install non-official packages in AUR.

11. Occasionally run pacman -Syu to update system to be not left behind a lot. There are no fixed releases like Ubuntu 22.04 or sth.

It looks complex, I know, but it's fun and there are literally every package with almost latest versions in Arch and if not, in AUR which helps a lot.
When you use a meta headset, the cameras on the outside film the environment around you. In order to use for example the gesture recognition feature, you consent for that video to be sent to meta as an AI training input.

Although your boss, today, doesn't get extra information, you are inviting a faceless organisation to collect hugely intrusive data about your home, much as if you install an Alexa or Google home.

How much privacy we sacrifice for convenience and features is a decision we all need to make - and it's a difficult decision because I actually don't care if facebook have photos of my messy desk. But I would care if they got hacked an my credit card got leaked, very practically, or if an employer provided unit fed my HR telemetry about my stress levels or how much of the time I spent pooping. That would not be an acceptable tradeoff and it is possible.
>>when in fact they should be given no platform whatsoever.

See, this is where we disagree.

Let's say that Russia was kicked out of the UN for their recent actions - what's the point of UN then? Just everyone else discussing Russia but without Russia being present? That's a joke then, not a discussion forum.

>> by implying that their collective authoritarian voices should be taken seriously by the democracies

I don't see how you can even come to that conclusion. Look at what's happening recently - yes Russia is being given a voice, Lavrow comes out and says whatever drivel Kremlin told him to say, then literally every other country stood up and said how much they disagree with that statement. The last thing that would come to my mind upon seeing this is that they are "being taken seriously by democracies" - they are a country, so they have a place at the table. Doesn't mean that anyone else automatically agrees or respects what they say.

>> there's no reason whatsoever to allow them to continue to have the pretextual cover of international approval from a body that

I literally don't see where you think that having a seat in the UN gives anyone an "approval" for anything. It's literally just a seat at a discussion table, nothing else nothing more.

>> has accepted a declaration of human rights.

Which is great and all, but again, it's not UN's mission statement to enforce that - it's a forum where countries can agree or disagree on things, it has no executive power. If you would like it to have some, then that's a different discussion altogether.

And when a member state does break the declaration of human rights(or any of the other things that UN has agreed on) - it is discussed, it is brought up, and countries to voice their disapproval or agree on collective action. "UN" as an organisation does not, because that's not why it exists.
"Richest" implies wealth, which is not salary. Someone who makes 90k and owns their own home free and clear, say by inheriting it, is different from someone who has to pay rent on the same salary.
> over concern that Putin could use nuclear weapons.

Hell no. More like over his deal with Putin that Teslas will be the exclusive electrical cars in Russia.
should probably donate to google instead then
I have tried it and it is a pretty cool experience. But I understand the rants, not a matter of age btw. Facebook is for old people for that matter and developing against any META hardware would have to take that into consideration.

But the closed environments are just majorly repellant. I had an older headset (rift s) and suddenly needed to create a facebook account. Should have bought the more expensive Steam version. But I don't see how VR can really reach the masses. You need the extra funds and a decent system and 2D monitor is the more sensible investment.

I will never buy an Occulus device again of course. There were management decisions anyone who really likes technology and wants to dabble with it will very likely and understandably hate with a burning passion. A passion sourced in the love for technology and the ability to share it. And they knew that people would dislike it, just hoped they would comply in switching to their Facebook platform.

This is 100% on Facebook and to 0% on grumpy users. Not being grumpy is pretty naive in my opinion.
Author of the post, could you clarify?
It's less about race and more about means. From each according to his ability.

Someone living comfortably in Western Europe can afford to stick to his principles. He has the extra money and energy to give a damn. He can cut meat, drive less, fly less, consume less.

It's silly for someone who enjoys air conditioning and two international trips a year, to tell people in developing countries to do their bit. It costs far less to do ours.

This is not a paternalistic view of people in developing countries, it's a critical look at our own inaction.
Updated my weather forecasting Totoro to use the Portuguese weather service
Yes, with garbage, ripped leaves, contraband stashed(people afraid and backing out), people hiding in bushes, bombs in the trees, and so on.

I guess it could be in some inaccessible way, greenery 20 feet up, or behind baracades with alarms.

But humanity is humanity, and part of airport security is probably the above.

(Also, according to a movie I watched, the next pandemic will come from plants, so we will have to kill them all, you see...)
What a time to be alive: Canonical is putting so many different ads into Ubuntu that people confuse them when they're telling you it's nothing to worry about.
I'm happy spending all day with sunglasses on. Before too long, this'll not be much different an experience.

Already Lenovo and others have pretty lightweight glasses that provide a basic (1080p or similar) screen, the Quest Pro looks like a definite step forward from prior VR headsets, Magic Leap and HoloLens are on their second iterations, micro-OLEDs are coming, Apple is working on something, etc…

If you see the direction travel then I'd think you may at least admit that your Rift S experience (which is long in the tooth even prior to the Quest Pro announcement) is no useful guide to what the VR/AR future people are excited about will actualy be like.
So. Marketing?
I'm not sure I quite agree with this assessment, but thanks.
> I truly pay no attention to gender or ethnicity

What are your thoughts on implicit bias?
The criticism that too much goes to fundraisers is meaningless without an explanation of how much would be optimal. If spending an additional $1m on fundraising meant an additional $1.1m in donations, then that's $100k more for Wikipedia that wouldn't have been there before.

If huge profit-making companies like Disney, Coca-Cola and McDonald's spend so much on marketing and sales, then it must be profitable. Similarly, there's no reason that fundraising spend wouldn't be financially advantageous to a non-profit.

If you support Wikipedia enough to donate, then it makes sense to want them to raise as much as they can. In which case you should enthusiastically support them running like a business-savvy organization.
Google has a copy of Wikipedia. Is it critical for them to have future updates?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you didn't verify, even slightly, anything that tweet-thread author said.

Either that, or like the author, you agree with their claim that grant money going to journalists who are people of color is 'furthering the inescapable American culture war.'

Jeez, how dare those black people engage in journalism that isn't about white culture. They're declaring war on American (white) culture!" /s
How do you know? If you've run the numbers from their financial statements, I'm keen to see your analysis.
Not GP, but I looked into that option. The problem to me seems that most popular apps depend on Google Play Services in some way. So your options are (a) use microG (which seems pretty janky), or (b) install the real Play Services, which puts you back at square one.
Which they never do anyway, so that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
We announced the name of the author. The script went something like "We're going to ask you to read this piece, written by J. Smith.".

During debriefing, we would tell the subjects what we were actually looking for (perceptions based on gender) and most reported not remembering/caring about the gender of the author, but nonetheless the results were clear that there was a gender bias, regardless of whether they reported remembering or caring about the gender of the author.
Daniel may have produced some fantastic code over a holiday, maybe even thought about things outside of the code itself, like deployment, etc, and it proves that an MVP can be made quickly if you’re using someone else’s answers as a starting point.

But only a clickbait title, a non-technical PR team, or a clueless pointy-haired manager would call hackathon code, feature or function or whatever, let alone a full-blown “clone app,” production-worthy.

(It still happens way more often than you might think.)
It's also near the deadline for annual income tax management.
> it could have been illegal to talk about

Wut? In Denmark we have a law specifically stating that not only are employees free to talk about their salary, it is also particularly illegal to fire them for doing so. A contractual clause disallowing this would in itself be illegal.
I would argue a lot of the HN crowd is exactly the type to be first adopters of tech, VR in particular since it really is different from anything else and the technical know-how is super helpful in getting things to run (HN users would probably not be intimidated).

But a lot of HN users are old enough to remember Meta's (Facebook) catastrophic privacy issues and know better than to let Meta into a huge portion of our life such as work infrastructure.
Every time I see a request for donations from Wikipedia I ignore it an just assume Philip Cross will cover the shortfall.
Article 12 states: “Men and women of marriageable age have the right to marry and to found a family, according to the national laws governing the exercise of this right.”

The EHCR has found the use of “men and women,” along with the “historical context” in which the clause was adopted, to mean that Article 12 applies to marriage as traditionally understood: between one man and one woman.
That's problematic unfortunately, because one may need a program that is distributed via snaps.

Interestingly, snap has a service that self-heals, so that if one tried to hack it, it will overwrite the changes. That's... quite malwarish, I'd say, and very unusual in the Unix world.

Regarding hacking it: it's necessary because once snapd is installed, the ubuntu upgrader will sync on every update, so snap is not a service that can be just disabled.
Ask HN: Best programming books in the last couple of years?
Have a personal budget to spend mainly on programming books and was wondering what are some of the better ones recently? Question is deliberately open ended with no particular focus on specific domains, nevertheless a small summary why a given book is great value would be appreciated.
Your question actually suggests that you are smarter than me, but anyway: the surface tension of an ideal fluid is indeed zero.

Real fluids are just approximations of the ideal. :) Their fundamental flaw is not being truly continuous, but rather consisting of sticky molecules. Surface tension is caused by the imbalance of forces acting on molecules not surrounded by other molecules on all sides:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension
Spending on adversiting is wasteful and socially destructive. It's deception to donors to not tell them that only 10% of their donation goes toward the mission, and 90% is wasted that could be directed elsewhere.
In high school and college, you become a senior after just 3 years of experience.
I would be up for a points based system like you said.

I had a really difficult childhood; fatherless, impoverished schools, welfare, surrounded by crime (heroin addiction, prostitution, violence), I was quiet and bookish so I got abuse from all angles.

I had food most days and a home made of bricks so I had it better than most.

But if you're going to assume my life is easier because I have a certain skin tone I'm going to be annoyed, because my life was decidedly not easy in the early stages and I only got my "leg up" by being willing to throw myself into extremely uncomfortable situations.
At least you can get few plus years out of "last year's" flagship Android phone.
> Doing a screen recording with mic audio is a huge pain in the ass

I didn't have any problem with this. But your case may be what they're solving by moving from Pulseaudio to Pipewire (see Ubuntu Kinetic 22.10).
I will die on the hill that PalmOS was primarily a marketing failure. They were always primarily thought of basic personal organizer devices, but the Palm Tungsten and Zire lines (Starting around 2003) had very strong multimedia and gaming functionality.
It's a tad confusing. I believe you're totally correct, this is how those headers should behave.

> The headers are defined at the http level and with caching layers in between, the endpoint is free to return the current feed - with both new and seen entries.

A lot of feeds behave this way. Especially if it's just a static blog

> Are there many servers optimising that to a shorter feed?

I've come across a fair few that behave with the semantics I described
Eh, Facebook Dating [1] had as good a network as you can have, but still seemed to have flopped after release!

Or are you referring to Software Engineers trying to solve problems they don't understand ?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/dating
Yes, b/c we want wikipedia to become google dependent, just like firefox's mozilla?
Debian for servers that need to run unattended for years, Arch for everything else.
Easiest solution is pay 101% of the tax out equally to everyone in the area. The neoliberal hatred of anyone poor having anything will trumpnany public support.
> this is simply not true. Hiring must be all about merit,

Assessing merit is something we still suck at.

Implicit bias nearly always plays a part.
But NASA floundered about without even a launch capability for over a decade until private sector not measuring ROI in quarters with a long term vision to reach mars came along.

Literally your example is the inverse of what has occurred. SpaceX sparked this current era, NASA in fact piggybacked on it, now that the cost of launch is lower NASAs fiddling around the edges is somewhat useful. But everyone is waiting around for SpaceX to solve the hard problems (cheap tonnage to orbit, and multi-planetary landing systems)… because NASA didn’t.

(Admittedly NASA funds are funding a lot of SpaceX)
> Equity: For those with less than one year at Brex, we’re waiving the equity cliff. For those with options, we’re offering to extend the exercise period to seven years.

I wonder how they could have arrived at "seven." Why not go with the max allowable of ten? This seems a bit miserly in an otherwise pretty decent package.
Consider using The FreeDesktop.org Trash specification. It's just two screenfuls long, and would let the tool integrate with Gnome/Kde trash.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/trash-spec/trashspec-...
>Looks like urging people not to donate is in fact a right wing attack on Wikpedia

That's muddying the waters. If Wikipedia has deceptive donation drives, then who reports it should be completely irrelevant.
Note the top comment on the article is someone complaining about political activists highjacking editorial positions.

That's a very good reason to not contribute.