skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you actually be interested in reading about Wikimedia finances though? Wikimedia is a non-profit and posts all of their financial data publicly [1], why not go read it there?

What's interesting is that you somehow know that the author is someone who hates wikipedia, yet you refuse to read his article(s). How did you arrive at the conclusion that the author is someone who is heavily biased against Wikimedia and shouldn't be trusted? Are you just memetically repeating something others have said on the internet about the author, or did you read other articles/claims from this author and independently arrive at your conclusion?

If the latter, how could you have not researched Wikimedia finances even a little to validate claims the author makes? In which case, you would have something substantive to communicate to others on the internet to be aware of about the claims of the author, instead of the anti-intellectual ad hominem approach you took here.

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/
I'll concede that point, I've never worked with any metal IKEA furniture.
It's not binary in many dimensions.

Race is a far less salient variable affecting speech, in the US, than income or education.

Many of the US's most fearless speakers, often relying on our legal protections or cultural appreciation, especially with respect to criticizing the powerful, have been from categories of people that are otherwise economically disadvantaged.

And, their practice of free speech, aided by the underlying high value from the culture & legal system, has helped to correct those other inequities.
> My friends would rather play video games on discord than go and play cards in person.

I hear that. I was born in '88, and although I played plenty of video games growing up, I remember playing a ton of card games with friends and family as a kid. After college, I pretty much stopped playing video games entirely and did all of my socializing in person. 10 years later COVID happened, and facing the prospect of being locked in my house indefinitely, I decided to get my very first gaming computer. It's honestly been a wonderful distraction from the stress of life, but a part of me feels dirty about playing video games so frequently. Although COVID is effectively over and everything is open again, I still find myself preferring the comfort and convenience of Discord + games over doing things physically in the world.
The name may (or may not) be a pun on:

"The medieval Welsh form of Latin "Britanni" was "Brython".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic
TrainingPeaks was nice when I was training for a specific cycling event. But it’s a little too expensive for me to pay for the premium version year-round. Does anyone have any alternative suggestions for planning/tracking workouts by TSS?

Zwift makes indoor cycling tolerable for me in the winter months.
I am not so much upset about the decision to remove SMS support, but about the reasons they give. It smells like a really lame excuse.

But whatever. I only send and receive SMS very rarely these days, so I installed Silence on my phone. It's still annoying, though. Having one app for SMS and encrypted messaging was very convenient.
He made hundreds of millions of dollars spreading his lies. He shouldn't profit from that, and should be forced to give all the revenue to the families he effected with his lies.

You shouldn't be able to profit off of others misery like that, get caught out, and then go whoopsy and pay a small percentage of all the money you made off of it. That just encourages you and others to do it again.
Signal is another walled garden, where you have no say in their decisions and simply must obey or leave. Consider Matrix if you want to have the freedom.
My advice to you would to be just to do stupid shit you think you probably wouldn’t like. Seriously.

We as people in modern society have spent our whole life around the idea that we need to have fun and enjoy everything, if not directly than indirectly.

I made some friends by hitting up some people I went to high school with like 6 years after graduation. They love offroading. So we now take turns taking out the big jeep and mudding. Once a month we bring a bunch of alcohol and have one person be the DD and drive around a bunch of drunk people in the thick mud, rough terrain, and underbrush.

Is that my idea of fun? Hell no. But because I’m doing something with people that I can get along with, I can enjoy aspects of it. And that led me to be ingrained in part of “their group”, so I have a small community.

Break out of your shell in ways that you think are dumb or weird, and try and make it fun despite the “weirdness”. You might find that it helps you feel community!
I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this.

Running especially is useful for me too in this respect and I feel like you’re right about the root of the problems being how easy it is to avoid being bored.

I also wonder if deep thinking encourages us to live too much of a worry-driven internal life, and we avoid boredom for fear of overthinking.

Perhaps I should go for a run.
This is so well written. I like lightcone analogy (even though you didn't mention it).
… do you think this somehow strengthens your position? On top of being unfair and condescending, you just gave everyone another reason you should not have the time to watch enough streaming services to warrant spending the time to administer all the subscriptions in the manner suggested.

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume other parents reading your comment don’t sympathize with your position. At least this one doesn’t.
Jones made money from lying, but remains free of government interference. Nobody’s killing him or even putting him in jail. That’s the very definition of free speech.

But free speech doesn’t mean speech without consequences. He’s being sued by the victims of what he said. It’s not the government doing this, it’s the people he hurt, and that’s the definition of “justice”.
> That just leaves most users unprotected.

Aren't these users already unprotected? I don't think this is a security concern for most people and turning on by default would frustrate them more. It'd be like shipping Firefox or Chrome with NoScript on my default. Sure, more protection, but it would turn away more people than it would pull in. Better as optional.
Agreed. This is all bullshit lawyer feasting.

Everyone is cool with fundamental erosions of our liberties as long as some fat jackass get what he deserves. They will never realize people like Trump and Jones are used specifically FOR that purpose.

*People downvoting have never heard of Wolfgang Halbig nor do they really care. That doesn't jive with their need to virtue signal.
How can you be confused?

'I'd take a decent "export my chats" option' is a very simple statement. There is no way within Signal to just export a whole conversation to a file.
Seems clear Elon is sending Zelenskyy a message. Pay homage or have your comms cut.
My experience is that new potential employers don't dig that deep in what you did on social media or blogs, most input they gather comes directly from the employee. They want to know what skills you have and what personality you have, mostly by asking questions orally.
> By your logic an unqualified person could attain the CEO job.

That’s kind of less my logic and more my lived experience, unless you count being politically connected as the only qualification for CEO’s.

> How could people at the bottom be more "accountable for customer disgruntlement?”

Have you never seen execs grand schemes fail and make up for their mistakes by firing scapegoats or laying off workers and saddling the rest with more work to make the numbers look good?

> They have less skin in the game than people up the hierarchy.

Do they? In my experience workers typically have their entire income stream at risk while execs get golden parachutes and another executive position at a different company despite failing massively. If skin in the game is just “get higher compensation” then why aren’t the richest people on the planet the most environmentally conscious since they have more “skin in the game” than everyone else?

Edit: fixed typo, sassing -> saddling
Pfizer didn’t know if Covid vaccine stopped transmission before rollout
General purpose robots must not be used to destroy us
Also the jury could reasonably conclude that he made the false statements to enrich himself knowing it would damage others.
Nope, your typical Tesla isn't the rocket you describe. Most are quick, but not that quick. I frequently get challenged by wannabes while commuting. I rarely take the bait, but I've yet to have one live up to the hype.
Finding empathy for the men who get leg-lengthening surgery
I think this is an odd view and one that doesn't generalize very well. On Netflix, for example, the top show profits off of the victims of Jeffrey Dahmer. Families of Dahmer's victims have expressed their displeasure and hurt that their loss is dramatized for entertainment and profit. Likewise, people accused the Kennedy assassination of being fake, 9/11 attacks were an inside job, and so on.

I cannot imagine the loss these parents have experienced. It's certainly a deplorable thing to falsely accuse them of faking that loss. I would support making it illegal and punishable by criminal offense to harass, or encourage the harassment of, the bereaved.

That said, we don't live in a society that protects victims from the cruel speech of others. Except, as it turns out, if the perpetrators of that speech are ideological and political enemies of the government.
https://archive.ph/4xrK2
It's time for a hybrid copper/optical connector. Something that can consistently support both high power and fast data transfers in a cheap cable.
>Self-affirmation might fix it.

...and by 'fix it' they mean, might make the workers more complacent until their jobs can be automated out of existence.

I don't buy the idea that 'robots will take our jobs', but it will damn sure take some jobs, with that portion being higher every decade.
You got me to look into this further. I was seeing if there was a backdoor - and it appears there isn't. https://signal.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/

Given that I don't see why more of us Americans aren't using WhatsApp! :)
Same here. I'm really surprised by the reactions, but I guess it's a locality thing.
Would it be ok if he wasn’t profiting from it?
> Current AI models are not "just sort of repeating and copying from memory". This is just an incorrect characterization of how they work and how they perform.

You say this, but don't explain how. Because this is exactly what they are doing.

> AI skeptics often say things like this

I'm not really an AI skeptic. I think that we're very close to AI being indistinguishable from people. There are clearly problems that need to be solved, but I think the hardest problem was accepting the fact that humans are largely just copying and realizing that would be enough to get you 97% of the way there, especially if you gave a machine far more to copy than a human could consume.

> then backpedal with something like "Well they aren't really repeating what they heard, but their generative model is just a slightly more sophisticated version of repeating what they've heard." But this weaker claim is also true of humans. It's certainly the case that >97% percent of what humans say is "just repeating and copying" in the same sense.

Maybe I'm not expressing myself clearly, but it seems that you're just repeating my comment with a sneer. Agreeing angrily?
We have a system for that. Juries decide.
So their reputation was worth a billion?
Wow.
That’s quite a reputation.
I would say the lack of gatekeepers is a major benefit.

For the music listener, there now exists music as nieche as possible and platforms like Spotify provide access to it. My music tastes have only gotten more obscure since using streaming.

For wannabe celebrities, they get to have their quanta of fame and everyone uninterested can just ignore that.

For musicians, they are no longer forced into contracts that force them to give up control entirely. They get to keep a far larger share of the revenue from what they create.

No matter how much RIAA and MPAA are struggling to keep middlemen relevant, the world is slowly marching towards getting rid of middlemen in publishing music, video and literature.
I think my "10,000s of gs" was maybe a slight underestimate. A light-gas gun [1] can accelerate a projectile to velocities of several km/s over a distance on the order of a meter, giving an acceleration on the order of 1,000,000 g by a quick calculation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun
The pragmatic people solve their problems by asking for help and part of that involves stumbling upon questions they have answers for.
As others have said you should not be oncall 24x7.

- Oncall should be restored among several people so you are only oncall some of the time.

- The level of callouts should be low even when you are on duty

- if you spent all night on a call you should get some time off in compensation. Even if it is just coming to work late the next day.

The above should be the minimum. Plenty of people will argue for more.
What kind of technical analysis would you be looking for? Reading the post, it seems like their analysis came down to (1) fundamental values, i.e. not including insecure communications within an app when they've built their brand around being secure, and (2) UX confusion resulting in additional SMS costs and/or inadvertent data leakage. The former is a straightforward question of product strategy. Are you looking for e.g. some numbers from their UX research? This doesn't seem to ultimately be a decision about underlying technology.
Given that the union will insist on gaining something during collective bargaining negotiations - completely regardless of whatever personal concessions an employer has made during the fiscal year - an employer has zero incentive to just give away anything for free to a unioned employee.

That's the deal you made when you joined a union. If you did not understand that deal, then I'm not sure what to say. Being in a union isn't some automatic path to employment nirvana or something...

In fact, there could even be a doorway to a lawsuit against the employer for treating a specific employee differently than all the other unionized employees. Unions make things... difficult, despite whatever nostalgic views some may carry towards them.
I don't think that's what's happening. In your example with the generator expression, you're calling each lambda as you iterate through the generator, which due to the lazy evaluation of the generator means that the value of the single i variable shared across all each lambda is still only the latest value reached.

If you instead fully evaluate the generator expression before calling any of the functions (for example, by passing it to the list constructor), you get the same behavior as the list comprehension case:

>>> [f() for f in list(lambda: i for i in range(0, 10))]
[9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9]
The cellular version of the Apple Watch can perform a limited set of tasks -- like making phone calls, sending/receiving text messages, and playing music -- without a phone present. It still requires a phone for full functionality, and for setup.
I'm less certain. It looks like this mostly hinges on the bankruptcy filings, which weren't going great for Jones (as, of course, they should not, as they seem pretty bogus).
Juries are not mind readers. At best you can get to roughly what a rational person would have thought given said data, Alex Jones is not rational. It is literally unknowable.
>unless you actually meant the $130K Tesla Model S Plaid

Rounding error to $100k. Yes I'm referring to the Plaid. People have taken those cars and gutted the interiors on them, and demolished drag races.

> spending 15 minutes preconditioning your battery before you can launch is also kind of ridiculous by ICE car standards.

It's far from rare to see people setting up an array of box fans, and bags of ice around their engines to cool it off between passes. Many high high powered cars won't even have full size radiators.
Having kids during COVID has been super rough. All the talk about putting down your phone, looking away from the news, etc. doesn’t feel like a sufficient solution to me since, as a parent, my life went by in 5 to 10 minute snippets as I dealt with random issues from work, life, kids, and various crises that popped up inevitably. Taking what time I could get either laying down, or reading something on the Internet was pretty much all I got for a while.

I don’t know about you, but for me it is very slowly starting to lift. My kids are at school (sometimes), and I’m able to focus on things a little bit longer than I used to be able to. Maybe it’s just returning back to a non-chaotic rhythm that will get us out of this burnout.
Despite my strong belief that he be strongly punished for his lies, I agree with you. It's so over the top that it discredits the whole process for me.
A cable that can carry 1.21GW is only about the diameter of your finger.
Steam’s revamped mobile app is available for everyone on Android and iPhone
Right. The greater good argument isn't particularly comforting when you're the sacrificial lamb.
And yet I'm reasonably confident he'll exercise some legal maneuver to avoid paying even 1% of it, and will continue to live out the rest of his life in comfort.
This is more than the amount that people that lied about WDM's in the middle East were ever fined with. Consider they killed millions. Please know that I am not siding with Jones but this is ludicrous.
Lauren Maffeo just released a book on data governance
I am with you on above average salary. I can still easily pay for food, gas and electricity. But I see, that a list of things I can’t afford anymore is getting longer. A weekend in nice hotel for families just got out of reach. Vacation during local school holidays is slowly getting too expensive. New shiny car is simply too risky in current economic situation. I don’t want to imagine trying to survive as a teacher, police officer or a nurse.
The two best things I did for my mental health was leave Facebook (years ago) and stop watching the news. Hacker News is my news source (along with Ars Technica), I don't look at anything more political or world-eventy than these two sources, and I am selective about links even here. I can't even stomach NPR anymore.

More recently on the mental health front, I've been drawing more. I'm not great at it, but it is relaxing and distracting.

Also ambient or jazz--opinion-free, story-free music.

So I am still feeling burnt out, but it is a slower burn.
He may not pay that amount, but he will spend the rest of his life bankrupt or spending most of his energy avoiding judgement, which is a not unreasonable fate for people who make a living lying, cheating, and stealing.
In addition to it not being binary, it's not reducible to single dimension, where something like your question could be calculated like a formula.

But yes, more free speech – in terms of being able to honestly express your opinions, without the threat of punishment by the state – is better. From any particular state of "absolute" or "near-absolute" free speech, giving some people extra freedom to speak without state punishment is an improvement.

We were talking about the US, as a polity/legal-system. Private forums can and will set their own standards. But the US public-sphere, and what the government can get away with punishing, has for centuries had world-leading free-speech guarantees.
I am of the opinion that if all techies just learned ansible and used postgres, we could take more time off and chill a bit.
Is a billion not enough?
HN doesn't like these kinds of questions.

You're right - it is OK as long as he's not profiting nor has a bullhorn the size of his. Otherwise, Wolfgang Halbig would be in the same kind of shit. He isn't.
The example described is the textbook definition of bias. Given the exact same text, the participants rate it higher if a male name is attached.
It's not just "saying something is a hoax". It's deliberately lying, for years, for his own profit, in a way that caused significant amounts of damage to the people he was lying about. Should that be free from consequences?

No. No, it should not be.

And, since there was profit from the lying, shouldn't the damages be greater than the profit from the lies?

Yes. Yes, it should be.
I think we all do, to some extent, feel the comfort of being instantly accessible to games and the internet (or whatever online community and hobby we have).

Part of the problem is that internet isn’t not a full substitute for in person. It never well be.

This is coming from someone that is chronically online and has more friends that live in different states than in person. It isn’t healthy to be online as much as I am.

Does anyone else remember the days of playing Halo with your 3 friends in your living room? That was way better than “Thursday night warzone” that we have nowadays, and I believe it is in part because of the fact that the couch coop was far closer to a real community (like what humans have had for thousands of years) than something as wildly intangible as being online
Perhaps the ‘natural’ gecko is malformed, and the AI mind is showing us what they ought to look like.
> Why would someone pay for this? Just to stick it to google?

Why do i pay for email? To not use Google. How is "paying for your service" so obscure to you?
These are photos of Latent Space taken with a Autoencoder Decoder camera :p
He kant.
I was also curious and found this youtube [1]:

Summary (found in video at 10:48)

1) separation of subcellular organelle (DNA/RNA)
2) extract solutions in biological fluids from aqueous to organic solvents
3) seperate lipid components
4) pelleting of ribosomes
5) pelleting of macromolecules

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRT_8nFc2Tk
Considering how they used a clip from the trial talking about Jones' crypto "donations" for an ad to get viewers to send more crypto, I'm sure the verdict will be incorporated into future ad breaks as well.
For me, my mental state feels less like burnout, and more like recovering from a traumatic physiological event, like a major surgery. My ability to be creative was suddenly cut off by the social effects of the response to the pandemic. I limped through the interceding years, but when I review work from just before the pandemic, I find that it is more nuanced, better developed, and more meaningful than the work I do at present. My creative powers were weakened, and I have to take a long view on recuperation.
So what are your definitions of those terms, that imply the US "has operated under its current system of government for longer than" the UK?
"There's none so blind as those that just won't see."
Similarly, maybe the HN headline needs to be changed to "reclaims water from ketchup production"?
> How do you prove that the pool manipulation was neutral before and is now favouring blacks, rather than it was disadvantaging blacks and has now moved to a more neutral postion?

Anonymize the applicants. You can determine what a neutral pool is by removing the ability to discriminate between applicants of different race, gender, etc.
That is why a detached but portable WiFi/5G router is for … to block these Apple shenanigans …

While your phone is in Airplane mode and regular (but your router’s) WiFi only network
Maybe their target market us not US that hasn't moved away from sms. I don't know the numbers but this could be an argument for themselves.
Proselytize Ansible for me
See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March...