skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's even worse is that IAM and Trusted Advisor will tell you what stupid things you have done. At no point does their article give guidance in turning that on. Because it compromises their sales pitch.

Also if you push AWS keys into github (this does happen from time to time at the best organisation), github will nuke the rev. And even if you did it successfully there should be no damn keys which are usable because anything human issued should be via SSO and windowed or have MFA required set up. Everything else should be assume role based.
If a stellerator or tokamak type fusion generator ever broke even, could it also be used for waste disposal?
As far as I know this works very differently between Common Law and Continental Law, no? Common Law seems to be much more reliant on courts' decisions...
Read the donation page and see if you feel the same way:

https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Landi...

We ask you, humbly, to help.

We'll get straight to the point: Today we ask you to defend Wikipedia's independence.

We're a non-profit that depends on donations to stay online and thriving, but 98% of our readers don't give; they simply look the other way. If everyone who reads Wikipedia gave just a little, we could keep Wikipedia thriving for years to come. The price of a cup of coffee is all we ask.

...

We know that most people will ignore this message. But if Wikipedia is useful to you, please consider making a donation of or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia.
Easy. Google is a spyware company, and Android is a spyware operating system. Outside of things like LineageOS or GrapheneOS I’d rather not have a phone than support Google or Android.
TFA:

"That means that around 2% of waste is traded"

"Most of the plastic that enters the oceans from land comes from rivers in Asia.1 More than 80% of it."
So, the culture wasn't a good fit for you. That's fair.

But "hel×4a creepy"? That feels like it's, just, you know, your opinion man.
Another solution is to use an ad-blocker such as ublock Origin with the following custom rules:

wikipedia.org##.cn-fundraising
wikipedia.org##.frb
GP probably meant young people deciding to go into physics after reading these articles. I'm a physicist and many of us were massively influenced by the pop-sci books we read as kids before we knew better. You don't get specific research directions from NYT but you do get educated in what kind of ideas will get media attention, and that is as bad as the hypothetical big troubles you allude to.
If recent history is taken into account, the goal of anything in this space is, or will ultimately turn out to be, engagement. “Social” platforms today are unhealthy places as is. Do you really think another layer of abstraction away from a common reality will turn out to “bridge human, emotional connections where none could before”? I’m curious: what exactly are you referring to?

I do see potential applications in fields like 3D-enhanced medical imaging, as highly specialized tools for professionals. But not as a general tool or device.

Long-term, I find it more likely that people who can escape into a convincing, curated reality, will do so with increasing frequency and in turn stop caring about their surroundings. Because we’re human primates and not responsible enough to deal with complex change like this yet.
>YouTube.com

Never clicking
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I'm fine with pursuing other projects, it gets weird when they end up spending huge amounts of their money by giving grants to other organizations. I'd have no problem donating knowing they use it to fund projects, but knowing that they pretty much redonate much of it makes it feel pointless.
Didn't many people predict exactly this? Go back to Alex Jones videos from 2010 and apologize.
The wait calculation doesn't really apply to this project. The whole basis of it is that new technology can't speed up probes you have already launched. This isn't true for these probes as improvements in technology can be used to increase the speed of the probes that have already been launched. It also assumes that the bulk of the investment is in the hardware that's launched. With this project, the expensive stuff stays on the ground, the probes are cheap.
How I Made My First PR to Apache Arrow
Apparently medical conferences are the biggest days of the year for the sex industry, although IIRC it was actually cardiologists who held the top spot.
The privatisation of spaceflight is opening up a new era, and will lead to an increasing pace of innovation in the space (get it), but this is why there should always be a place for publicly funded space projects, à la NASA.

We all progress when there are entities out there who can take on the big, long term projects that don't have an ROI measured in quarters.
I found Wikimedia's financial statement for 2020[1], in case anyone interested in details.

They have over 500 employees[2]. Not sure why they need so many, considering average salary is $100k/yr.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

[2]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/#prod...
Bingo. You're leaving because you're not being treated fairly. That was the breach of trust.
Right, but the reason it was kept in a hidden field was that it would then go to the server on form submission and the server would persist it across requests, if I recall correctly – haven't done ASP.NET in more than a decade.

Either way, that was a form of hydration itself I suppose, the server would send this state value to the client and the client would hydrate its view to match the state.
> Until it became clear to me that they'd allowed antisemitic, anti-Israeli politics to warp their articles about things like the Holocaust, the 6-day war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

This claim would really benefit from some examples.
> If Apple wanted to snoop on you, they have every tool available.

This is missing the point. The complaint is not that iOS is communicating with Apple services but rather that this communication is not occurring over the user's VPN.

> I assume that everyone who uses an iPhone is logged into iCloud?

No, I'm not.
The average Joe thinks the banking sector just runs checking accounts and credit cards…they have no clue how the rails of modern finance actually work.

This is how you end up with people comparing the energy usage of Bitcoin with that of the top 10 banks, as if they are remotely comparable.
Much better press than his disaster case study of bad if not outright total-shit management of the Dallas Mavericks regarding employees misconduct and enabling it.

Dude has zero good will with me anymore, and this is a nice start on a better direction.
I see they’ve joined to club of snake oil renderings for VR… they’re trying to sell some hardware to a company that will pay them to build software they don’t need - classic enterprise grift
Can you elaborate on how you will be better or in what ways you are already better ?
Doesn't seem out of place to me.
Give that junior a promotion.
Right? I find the "I don't like GNOME, so no one should" attitude extremely patronising.
No doubt they have had to scale significantly.

… But have they had to scale to a degree commensurate with the amount of money they are spending? Absolutely not. The "Wikipedia has cancer" article makes that point handily.
Wikipedia isn't a human in desperate plight. That's kind of the point I'm making.
What are your grounds for dismissing the well-supported conclusion of the article?

Are their data faulty? Incomplete beyond what they themselves show?
Great article. Got some nice tips I might implement soon. For projects as small as mine usually are reducing bundle sizes never makes it to the top of the Todo list. I can see how in larger one it would be a big deal.
I agree with the other replies.

Also, last year, the then-Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher was on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. (The wife of the WMF’s PR consultant, the Clinton Foundation’s Craig Minassian, works on the show as a producer.)

In the interview, Noah put it to Maher that the downside of being a non-profit is that “you often struggle to have enough money to keep Wikipedia up and running. So, two parts. One, is that true and how does it affect you, and then, two, why would you make this thing if it’s not going to make you money?”

Maher’s cheerful answer made no reference to the WMF’s vast money reserves, but emphasised that Wikipedia’s lack of ads was responsible for the site being so trusted today.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...

If you are in the US, you can view the interview clip here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdn1s9Sjfo&t=270s

If you're in the UK or Europe, use a VPN (Opera e.g. has got one built in).
Did we read the same article? Isn't the article basically saying that even if rich countries completely stopped exporting waste, it wouldn't make _that_ much of a difference? i.e

> If rich countries banned the export of plastic waste to these countries, we might reduce plastic pollution a bit: perhaps up to 5%.

> But, an end to trade won’t stop plastic pollution. Only a small fraction of the world’s plastic waste is traded – under 2%. And most – two-thirds of it – ends up in richer countries, where it’s very unlikely to end up in the ocean.
I don't really believe these claims of "Wokepedia", because no-one making these claims has presented actual evidence.

I'm sure you have some though, otherwise commenting as you did would mean you'd be as guilty of "not keeping your politics in your pants" as you accuse Wikipedia of being.
I am actually from Spain and I agree; my point though is that you normally would want to negotiate and work for companies based on value, not on your cost. That has many implications and it's not for everyone ofc, but it's generally true IMHO [article pending...].

Put it the other way; if you know a company is paying 60k/employee (at your level/role ofc), and they offer you 40k "based on your previous salary", wouldn't you also laugh on their face?
>In the videos they discuss issues in science like objectivity (they're against it) and bias (they're in favour).

Its a shame so much money is being funneled to these groups since that's exactly the opposite goal of most donators to Wikipedia.
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And it can become a bit of a scam where if you’re a “paying member” of the BBB you can “respond” to complaints and they disappear.
The platform that an organization uses is a critical piece of the design of an organization. If a bank gets hacked because they’re running Windows 95, would don’t turn around and absolve them of liability.

And if an organization uses an anonymous, immutable platform that makes it vulnerable to manipulation and theft, well then they deserve every bit of criticism.
Because of the double O?
Students needing additional tutoring is normal, but it's also a signal that the educators need to reevaluate why students aren't meeting expectations from the existing curriculum. How many broken curriculum have been perpetuated because the top performing students had to spend hours after class filling in the gaps on their own dime?

Wouldn't a better invested (not just money, but also socially) public school system support students so they don't need to seek outside tutoring like what you're describing?

And I do believe homeschooling should be prohibited. Once again, a better invested (money, socially) public school system would solve whatever problem parents think they're addressing by way of homeschooling.
Yup, this would only work if some central authority had exclusive control to activate/deactivate the warheads.
No. Chucking trash into it would immediately disrupt its operation.
It makes more sense if you read https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
You might be confused, we're talking about Wikipedia not the Red Cross.

Wikipedia doesn't help starving children in any way.
Huh?

"Most of the world’s waste is handled domestically and most of the waste that enters the oceans stems from these countries."

"... around 2% of waste is traded."
sizing all your projects so they neatly fit in 2-week chunks also never works for every dev team I've met. There's always either some slack where the thing took 8 days not 10, or some part of the deliverable gets hacked off into another chunk so it fits.

and, ofc, estimating the time to deliver is impossible, so you end up scheduling a sprint demo that might or might not happen depending on how well the project is going.

Or, as I found, people are perfectly OK with scheduling demos in at short notice and being flexible about their expectations.
Not all work is coding, or can be reduced to text editing and discussions about diffs.
Debatable in Show HN having the implementation language kinda makes sense if you want to find people knowledgeable/interested in said language to contribute.
False dichotomy.

A poor implementation of a generally sensible approach is not justification to embrace a more complex and error-prone approach.
I agree that it feels a bit like Mozilla: An organization that got too much money and tries to figure out what to do with it.

Mozilla ended up wasting an insane amount of money on things other than Firefox.
I did exactly that about a year ago (except it was testing instead of unstable). You need to pass some extra flag to APT because Ubuntu and Debian use different version schemes, so you wouldn't get updates anymore -- might have been '--reinstall', but don't quote me on that.

It worked quite well for me, although there were a few issues (for instance, I didn't get kernel updates anymore, and when I fixed that, the Wifi driver was missing). There are probably still a few issues that went undetected and might cause problems later.

It's certainly possible, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're willing to spend quite some time on it. And don't count on it working at all. (And backup your data. I didn't, and got lucky, but in retrospect, that was irresponsible.)
It looks like you've misread the 'l' as an 'i'?
They're two related but ultimately very different phenomena, they don't necessarily need reconciliation.
> "(" should be: Push next word to X-stack

> ")" should be: pop and execute top of X-stack.

> So "(+ m n)" is equal to "m n +"

I don't get it, what is the X-stack? Also can you elaborate this example in more details?
I'm not dismissing anything - I tend to agree with the findings of the article.

I'm just taking issue with the words choice of that sentence.
> this is necessary in the modern world.

Could you elaborate on that? I really don't want to believe this is true, WMF is clearly being manipulative and a world where being manipulative is necessary sounds...extremely dystopian.
There's not really a "should be" in thermodynamics. All heat engine cycles have upper bounds of theoretical efficiency, and burning gas in a gas turbine to generate electricity to create resistive heat is never ever going to be more efficient than burning that gas at the point you need the heat. It's simply not possible. There's always going to be losses - the exhaust gas will contain energy, there will be mechanical and transmission losses. There is no physical way we can change that.

The best thermal power plants - combined cycle gas turbines - get about 60% efficiency. Most are closer to 45%.

What we can do is either use the excess heat from the gas turbine in district heating (which combined with resistive electrical heat probably approaches the same efficiency as a local gas boiler), or use that electricity to drive a heat pump, which gives a greater than 1x return on heat where you want it. An efficient combined cycle gas turbine driving a heat pump is going to give you more heating than the same gas being burned in a boiler. - 0.5 * 4 = 200% efficient.

You can also get (although they're much less common) gas powered heat pumps (eg propane fridges in RVs). They might have a "primary energy ratio" of 1.5-2, bringing the total system efficiency of a local gas powered heating system back up to pretty close to that of a remote generation + electrical heat pump system. The electrical system has the benefit that you can slot renewables into the mix as well.
I can't speak to every PL venue, but all four places that csrankings.org lists for PL are double-blind these days (PLDI, POPL, ICFP, and OOPSLA).
Charity Navigator is very narrow. They check that paperwork is up to date and that fundraising expenses are low. They don't check for effectiveness or if "program spending" is doing anything.

A low CN rating is bad, but a high CN rating isn't good.
This is excellent, bravo.

I was exploring places to stay on AirBNB in Wales recently and found the process pretty arduous. This immediately addresses most of the issues I had and is well executed. Bookmarked it for future trips!

Something I wish AirBNB had was a way to manually draw a region on the map and to find all properties within that drawn boundary.

Or, instead of drawing a shape, the user could be presented with a map with appropriate boundary lines already drawn (county, state, country) and the user was able to multi-select the different areas they want to search by using a process similar to what the Shape-Builder tool in Adobe Illustrator employs.

Anyway, cool stuff!
They are raising huge amounts of money via marketing which is at best misleading.
Remember when people bought cell phones primarily to make phone calls?

Mark thinks he sees where this is heading, and rather than just letting people play games with his metaverse headsets, trying to gain market share and dominance by legitimately anticipating desire, instead he’s going to drag them towards the future he imagines, kicking and screaming.

The people might be kicking and screaming, too. Wouldn’t you?
Music is about tempo and sync. In fact, nowadays you can throw anything into a modern DAW software and it will instantly sync everything for you.

Eno instead put randomness/chaos at play by using tape loops of different length, so they will never (or very hardly) repeat at the same interval again, or, in his own words:

What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable — they are not likely to come back into sync again.

Think of a series of little music boxes with each a different tune and length, you start playing one a time in random order, and the whole epiphany is that you expect chaos and dissonance but instead you still got an organic and nice harmony. And that's the basics of generative music, in the most simple words I can find.
He dumps on the technology constantly in the video. I don't think any PM is happy watching this lol.
Well in various CS fields people preprint on arXiv these days, so it is easy for reviewers to unblind themselves. Sometimes accidentally, because preprint timing and subsequent Twitter advertising coincide so well with conference deadlines...
I don't think ACS is paying for the sex and drugs tho.
If you search on Apple Music (and actually tap “search”, don’t use the autocomplete results), there will be a list of categories on top. Playlist is one of those categories. You need to type out song name and artist when you search, otherwise it will just search for playlists by that name.

Obviously this could be a lot better.
I am a connoisseur of VR from back when you could count the polygons on 3D models. I am definitely an enthusiast, and even got lucky enough to develop some VR applications (mostly for HTC Vive). So I'm definitely all in on VR!

But I'm all out when it comes to Meta and Facebook, who have repeatedly proven they are simply a bad actor. The gross privacy negligence, the disgusting mistreatment of their users and advertisers alike, and being a major factor in today's terrible social issues, Meta is a huge net negative for humanity.

They can hand those out for free, and I will still not take it. I am done feeding them data. I want no part of their ecosystem, even by proxy. It doesn't even matter what the product does - I will not take it from Meta.

I realize some people here work for Meta and it's not personal. But you must encounter this opinion from time to time. I have friends who work at Meta and it's incredible to see how they brace for impact every time they tell someone where they work. I feel bad for them, but Meta earned this notorious reputation with noticeable effort.
also has astonishing influence to get invited to a job interview

i had a friend who changed their name in their CV and got 90% success rate, and was close to 10% before
>Unused RAM is wasted ram,

Sorry but you get that wrong, that's just meant for file buffer and caches etc. NOT actually bloat.
Don't forget that the Snap server is proprietary software, and that Ubuntu's snap server URL is hardcoded into the official snapd code, together with automatic updates, which you cannot disable (except for recompiling the whole thing with auto-updates removed from code).

Ubuntu is moving closer and closer to Microsoft with each passing year.
Attaching JS (hooks) to DOM nodes, making those nodes interactive instead of static elements.
Should have padded the anagrams with a known string of nonsense words. I’m going to have to have a chat with Galileo.
> Then install unattended-upgrades, put admin panels (phpmyadmin, wp-admin) behind basic authentication, don't host things you don't trust (random code written by 'someone on the internet' that has never been tested by anyone), put it in a VLAN if you want to be extra cautious, and you'll be fine.

Also default security measures such as disabling root login via SSH, disable password login via ssh, use fail2ban (also works for wp-admin and the likes!), install/use firewall and only open services which you want to access from the outside.
Established experts have a certain "weight"; if they decide to endorse a fringe or cutting-edge scientific view, that would be in many people's interest to know.

But if that same paper in support of a fringe theory is reviewed under an anonymous name, it might not get published, even if it's perfectly well-argued, simply because "the topic is fringe and not very relevant to our readers" (circular reasoning).

And even if it's not fringe, how we view an author may influence whether their paper passes peer review for perfectly legitimate reasons. If a random scientist is the 100th one to weigh in on any old debate (let's say Penrose-Lucas), it may get dismissed as non-notable. But Penrose giving his updated thoughts would be notable.

There's costs to anonymous peer reviews. Credibility and notability can't be fully detached from the author.
Oh, that's nice. A library providing cross-platform access to system's trash. Surprising none of the Rust-written rm alternatives used this.
If they were running ads that said, "Hey we sort of have the money we need to keep doing this for a while, but you can give us some more money if you want to help", then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Wikipedia's current ads are both misleading and more intrusive than ever.

550 employees is huge, especially for an organization that doesn't even pay those employees to create and edit the content on the site. It's so far away from "on the edge of pauper" that the point you're making—even if true for other, non-Wikimedia realms—is completely irrelevant here.
Of course we fix the parser too, so that ( and ) are always separate. Otherwise too ugly.
Hilarious. I live in Eastern Europe in an ex eastern block country, was born under communism and I can tell you there is not way you can convince me I don't know what I am talking about. Honestly this is a bit insulting lol.
It might be an hypercorrection. memcpy is a safe way to do type punning, but no punning is necessary here as the pointee was originally a double so the cast back and dereference should be perfectly safe.

edit s/pointer/pointee