skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair so did the person who rejected their article

> Comment: github, medium, app stores are not sources. Not seeing any indication of notabilty, just an ad [Slywriter]

I think Sylwriter reached the right conclusion but for the wrong reasons. I also think it would have been polite to write a more substantive message considering the amount of work that clearly went into the draft.

Edit: I read the article more careful and I now think Sylwriter was wrong and didn't read the article carefully.

The article cites to articles published in NDTV Gadgets 360, itsfoss, MUO, Fossbytes, TWN Plugged, RestorePrivacy, and Cointelegraph. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia policy enough to say whether in this context these sources count. However, Sylwriter should obviously have addressed them. They're not "GitHub, medium", they're secondary sources in publications that are okay by the standards of software reviews and poor by the standards of something like the New York Times.
Port numbers are not an IP concept. "IP session"?
So, the flagship of the article is the wikipedia entry for "Clarice Phelps", notably for "her work on a team that discovered a new periodic-table element at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory". The article (heavily) implies that Clarice Phleps not having a wikipedia entry is her "not having her dues" because she’s a woman.

However, if we look at the authors of the original article, there is no mention of her : https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Synthesis-of-a-new-ele.... Of the 30 authors of the article, only two have a wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Oganessian and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Hamilton).
Dude just because you didn’t go to school doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to have legal opinions in a public forum.
It doubt that, because it requires 12.5 % more bits to be stored, with corresponding increase in cost.

ECC also doesn’t fully protect against Rowhammer, in particular if errors remain unreported: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18508692
Maybe it’s low effort but it’s actually the first thing that came to my mind when reading the headline, and it’s the same for lots of people. It’s natural that this comment comes a lot and it represents what people here think. Google brought it on itself.

This is a reason I’ll never use a new Google product ever again. I’m still stuck with Gmail and Android TV for now but that’s about it, and I’m working on that too. I slowly switch my accounts to a custom domain email, and plan on switching to Plex because they decided to start showing ads on the TV I paid $2000 for.
More like ... we have lots of evidence that handing a small handful of essentially random people a large and disproportionate concentration of humanity's entire wealth tends to make them:

* act above the law

* use their wealth to attack and generally bully others to get their way

* exert disproportionate influence (relative to their actual insight or utility of their actions) on people's lives, government, and society as a whole

* choose other winners and losers in the market (this is not inherently good or bad, but when bad it is disproportionately bad)

* decide what things the rest of humanity should pay more or less attention to

* consume exorbitantly in the face of still-existent human poverty, disease, security, environmental concerns, and so on

and most directly

* decide how and to whom that wealth will be distributed long after they've "earned" it, thus continuing a cycle of haves and have nots

And so based on that evidence, all things being equal, having less concentration of wealth and more equity is better for society as a whole. (See: Friedman, Piketty, Smith, Keynes, George, et al)

Whatever argument you may have about this billionaire or that billionaire, hopefully it's easy to understand why we as a society should be exceptionally wary of the negative impacts of encouraging overly concentrated wealth versus the positive benefits of encouraging risktaking and entrepreneurial reward.
I can't get a wiki page about my father (https://eddhayes.com/) and he's got 60+ monuments across the globe. Was rejected a decade ago or so for not being noteworthy. Fair enough.
No-one wants to be skinny fat, they want to be fit.

People obsess about the idea that you can't "outrun your diet" but neglect the fact that a sedentary person is at all sorts of risk regardless of their diet.
All my workstations at home use ECC Reg RAM purchased online from ebay/alibaba. Most of them are from vendors selling "decommissioned" server parts. There are several good incentives to do that -

such second hand server parts are cheaper than normal consumer grade parts
you get extra protection & performance

256GB (32GB x 8) Samsung DDR4-2933 ECC Reg RAM for USD $550, it is pretty hard to say no to that.
Anyone remember "SuperStop"? Loved that. NoScript does ok, but animated GIF's are still a pain.
I agree it’s twisted to think we can solve racism without addressing our history.
It's somewhat ironic that Wade has received many honors for her activism -- but not for her science -- which involves promoting the science of other women.
Old enough to remember when the US did almost the same thing in the war with Vietnam. The draft (forced conscription) ended in 1973 but could come back if the government decides it needs more soldiers. The practice the article describes was called "pressing" or impressment back when the British Royal Navy did it.

Not defending what Russia does, just pointing out that Russian did not invent forcing young men into military service.

EDIT: I don't like forced military service regardless of how the state goes about it, whether they grab people off the street or use a lottery. And even lotteries can have bias and loopholes. Some people got out of the Vietnam draft because of money, family connections, or bone spurs. And then it doesn't always work out fairly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Am...

That Russia has to resort to 18th century press gangs to fill out their army says more about that state's inability to organize a more fair system, and failure to attract volunteers to the military in the first place.
10th Oct: If BJP's Amit Malviya Reports Your Post, Instagram Will Take it Down – No Questions Asked
https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck

11th Oct: 'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Belies 'Fabricated' Charge Against The Wire
https://thewire.in/tech/meta-xcheck-internal-email-watchlist

15th Oct: Meta Said Damaging Internal Email is ‘Fake’, URL 'Not in Use', Here's Evidence They're Wrong
https://thewire.in/tech/meta-andy-stone-email-xcheck

Basically, ruling party in India is exploiting XCheck program to curb any dissent.
Journaling won't help as the errors are in memory 1st - then replicated to the disk.

It feels like arguing in bad faith. How did you arrive to the point XFS is non-journaling to begin with?
I think Wikipedia's current standard in this area is fine.

But I also think Wikipedia has historically mixed up discussion of notability and verifiability standards in a way that has been unhelpful to both.
Yeah, I was talking about CPUs precisely. On my APU, unfortunately, there's no ECC support even if I shove a module in.

PS: and being a pre-ryzen AMD user, I don't know much about new CPUs too :))
I don't know if they were making a JS joke but I have legitimately had newer programmers tell me that Java is an interpreted language because it compiles to a bytecode language which is interpreted by the JVM. Inversely I've had people argue that JS and Python are compiled languages because their interpreters convert statements into bytecode before executing them. When someone starts trying to argue those points I find its best to just give them a thumbs up and leave the conversation.
In a world where engineers just keep piling on cloud toys and oh hey microservices to solve very common problems, pretending that database and HTTP roundtrips are basically free, your choice of framework and language should not even matter. This is what's wrong with this industry.
With AMD that limitation is somewhat lifted with normal consumer CPUs and quite a few motherboards having support. Unfortunately the RAM itself has very poor availability. Very few manufacturers offer it and it tends to stick to the standard speeds without any of the overclocked-from-factory parts available with ECC. That last bit is strange because ECC is reportedly very good as a validation tool for overclocking builds so it seems like the RGB-lighted market could end up valuing it as a high-end feature too. One of the RAM manufacturers should rebrand ECC to "Extreme Clocking Capacity" and start selling it as a feature to differentiate their RAM from the competition.
The problem is not just the price, but also that you need a “server” CPU and/or mainboard/chipset, which comes with additional trade-offs. Intel has been artificially restricting ECC support to its server product lines.
I would recommend a slight verbiage change from "owners" to "decision makers" - depending on the industry and such, of course. I often end up gatekeeping on behalf of the owners of the business(es) I work for because they are far too busy/uninterested in random people trying to sell (legitimately useful) products and services, simply because the owners aren't necessarily the ones who would be the best point of contact for demos and the like.

If you're trying to sell us a new software platform, you want to talk to our IT and Finance decision makers. If you're trying to sell us magazine/trade journal subscriptions, you want to talk to our Supply Chain/Marketing/Safety decision makers. If you're trying to sell us a physical product you'll want to talk to our Procurement/Operations/Production decision makers. And so on.

The owners of any given business might need to be involved later on, but they are rarely the best people to talk to up front if you're trying to sell something.
It's 3-5 orders difference in the volume (and most of the time people buy high capacity modules) and ECC errors makes very obvious the need of replacing the module, while unregistered errors on non-ECC modules are just other 'something gone wrong' type and couldn't be diagnosed easily.

Also, onr of the primary markets for ECC UDIMMs are server/pro-workstation, thia alone.adds at least 10%
Congress got $101M donations from ISPs: here's how much your lawmaker got (2017)
He was an heterosexual male, he thought the brush hairs felt like female pubic hair. Despite that, he was a cool guy in other contexts.
> if the Chinese system were less “malignant”

China is a country with so much racial, linguistic, and geographical diversity that it would likely break up if it were less draconian. Historically this has occurred repeatedly. This is likely to happen anyway sometime over the next few decades given the geopolitical and demographic headwinds and in a much more devastating manner than it otherwise would, but it shouldn’t be surprising that the CCP won’t lie down and accept it.
How do you know they'd want it if you haven't already be talking to them face to face? A friend and I used to do this when we were getting started in web design. We thought "surely all these restaurants and cafes would want better websites to attract more customers". Turns out actually nobody cares, they don't even care about serving quality food or coffee a lot of the time, many don't even see the value proposition of having a bike rack. The owners are often lazy entitled assholes even if they're not responding to a cold call, unless they're immigrants. The only successes were face to face, when you're already a customer or regular patron, and they do express they actually need something done. Square is the most successful startup I'm aware of with small businesses like this.
Per my understanding, honey is really good at not spoiling until you dilute it.
When people say that I imagine them thinking about a web forum with 200 monthly visitors.
It's the other way around now. The 12th gen "Core" desktop parts all support ECC in the i5/i7/i9 SKUs.
He doesn’t work there anymore[0]

Also, nobody likes a tattle tale.

[0] https://uk.linkedin.com/in/krishna-sundarram-17a76954
Yes, let's let doctors give out unapproved drugs whenever they want so they can finally properly profit by making their own premium drug brands. Really smart ideas, i totally agree.

My previous astonishment was clearly misplaced, these doctors know best after all.
Are you deliberately misunderstanding this?

The article says people below the notability thresholds get deleted. How are you not understanding that? Nobody is setting a lower standard for women. You are making that up in your own head.

And obviously it's not about people randomly coming across articles of women researchers on Wikipedia. It's more like, oh my professor has her own page on Wikipedia, I didn't realize she was so respected. Can you understand that there's a complete difference between people visiting 1000's of pages and noticing some lower bar for women (unrealistic) vs discovering professors you know are notable enough to have pages (realistic)? "Hmmm" indeed.
At $internship I developed a network router with something like 32 or 64 MiB of RAM. Basically configuring iptables, some routes, QoS, etc.. with a bunch of bash scripts, systemd units and custom drivers.

You do not need a lot of RAM for such applications. When running, the system was using 24 MiB of RAM. So, plenty left!

Edit: I am currently playing with NanoPi Neo that has 128 MiB of RAM and I never ran out of for small applications.
Not entirely just like Ebola virus disease, considering it would still be an airborne virus and consequently be even more difficult to contain.

I don't find that the outcomes from the latest 3 years of people being supposedly cautious inspire much confidence in the effectiveness of it, and I don't really see that changing (soon enough) even if the lethality spikes dramatically. Especially if the symptoms in the early phases were to stay relatively inconspicuous in a large fraction of cases.
Staying “Default Investable”
No more books, no more blog posts and nothing teaches as you speak to a few customers first.

Go and meet 20 customers and learn what they do and how you can solve them.

Then come back and read whatever you want to read now and it will everything makes sense.
Shadow IT happens when the user isn’t getting what they need. I wrote software in excel at one job that did the priority planning for incoming inspection, because we didn’t have anything we could use to do that other than SAP and I wasn’t going to engage with that system due to effort required.
Don’t you think it’s at least equally frustrating to invest time in using and relying on a product that Google will kill whenever it feels like it?

Talk to your management about it or switch company, don’t whine about it to the users. These comments are a symptom, not the disease.
2018: https://firewalltimes.com/google-data-breach-timeline/
OK this is just annoying and borderline spamming Wikipedia. She is creating new wiki pages for people with their primary qualification being a woman/minority group in academia [0]. Again and again from history we learn fundamentalism doesn't work yet here we are showing its ugly head even in sciences, not only she's getting away with it she's even being praised for this. Wikipedia has very clear notability guidelines [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jesswade...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academic...
Depending on how the rejection was given, you can use it to recalibrate your methods or presentation. Avoid "sour grapes" mentality.
While I think that is true, do we have much choice in this case?

The computing world is full of more and less featured products.
You need system software to make it work right. You want to configure your system to halt as soon as possible after uncorrectable errors. You also need to prominently log correctable errors. How you achieve this is going to vary by hardware platform and operating system.
I'm sure Slywriter knew the difference, and probably meant "... are not sources that establish notability". You're right though, a more polite and detailed message would have been more appropriate. It is difficult to do that in every case, considering the sheer volume of drafts and the low number of reviewers.
How? Sell!

Jokes apart: selling, like many other things, is mostly about a lot of practice. Some theory might help, but in the end, you will learn only by doing lots of mistakes.

I suggest you try to create a safe, friendly opportunity to sell something, and exercise (e.g. try to sell biscuits to your neighbors)
Strong disagree, the barrier to entry should be higher. That's why GitHub Pages is a signal of quality, at least the author knows what GitHub is. As cost approaches zero (time/effort/money) spam approaches infinity. Then you need gmail-level spam filtering and you end up with centralization.
There are a lot of details that don't seem to get covered in secondary sources that a snapshot of a primary source would be better for anyways.

If I'm writing an article about you from scratch then I'd want to look for sources, to see if you're notable - etc. But if I was updating an existing article and just trying to find a source for your address it would seem easier to take it from your website than wait for a third party to write about it. At some point ideological purity gets in the way of practicality. And there's no need, you could easily tag first-party data so it could be audited and replaced.
What I hate about Medium, is that have created multiple other websites using the pay model all hiding ready remind you how many free articles you have left.
Since we’re here on HN,

Did YC alum learn any sales skills from the accelerator program? If so, was it direct or indirect ?
How do you get all these different jobs? I’d just hear: you don’t have enough experience in framework/language X.
They're doing that because they're out of touch, PHP is not the same as it was 15 years ago.
> All these customs are being lost and young people don't want to know about it

I don't understand why this knowledge isn't being written down.
These posts are all thoroughly reviewed by comms and legal teams. In onboarding, it’s thoroughly communicated that you need to go through the proper channels to publicly publish anything with technical details.
It’s explained later on but I could be clearer.

XCheck is a system that supports tagging specific accounts with tags that exempt that account from certain integrity enforcement. In the post I give an example of a tag that used to exempt accounts from the fake account checkpoint. Applying these tags is usually a manual process and usually carefully vetted.
Ask HN: Sophisticated search engine for children’s books
I sometimes want to write a children's book on some specific (often technical) topic, but it feels silly when there are literal rooms full of different books available at any library. But how do I sort through them by (detailed) topic? Are there any tools?
I do case (a) like this with SPA.
Call to /orders (or any endpoint) will check roles/permissions and runs the proper query. A normal user will get [{name, email}], but a manager will get [{name, email, num_orders}]. A normal user call will not have the COUNT(*) from orders part anyway in SQL query (which is expensive). Only a manager's call will have that part. Most likely number of managers will be less than users, so the users get faster results.
The results are returned to front end and if the {num_orders} column exists, it is rendered. Front end doesnt have to bother with any access control logic.

For the server-side rendered page, what seems to me is you are running same query for normal users and managers, which is fine too, but removing that num_orders column.

Ultimately in both cases, the access control logic happens on the server, and frontend don't have complicated access control logic anyway. My point is, with SPA also we can get the same server-side benefits, atleast in this case. Or am I missing something?
Glad you enjoy them! Thanks for the tips.
yes - Cow does it for me.
You can also RTFM and simply .. learn assembly.
> How many applications that you use on a daily basis work as follows...

Most of them, but then I use the CLI a lot. E.g.:

find <params> | grep <params> | xargs foo <params>

Where "foo" is (of course) a kind of meta-parameter, both a parameter itself and a function/application.

- - - -

How do you mean, ALGOL isn't a general purpose language?
> Off-handedly rejecting PHP, Java, WordPress, Javascript, and other oft-criticized languages and frameworks is a sign of a closed mind; of willing ignorance.

No, we should gatekeep Javascript. It is an annoying trap laid on websites that is sprung just by going there. The profusion of Javascript has made the internet much worse. It used to at least be possible to just turn off Javascript and ignore that whole scene. So we did, it took over the internet, and now we have to either give up or play the annoying selective script blocking game to get 95% of websites to work.

I'm all for not judging others -- Wordpress, Java, PHP, use whatever platform you want, have fun! On your computer.
There was a recent post about a new Ruby server implementation. The author pointed out that for interpreted languages, forking quickly deviates and gains very little benefit from copy-on-write. However! Pre-warming the first instance and then forking afterwards brought the memory savings back down to compiled levels. No real point to my comment except that it was new knowledge to me, and that efficiency of forking really depends on the implementation of what/when you're forking.
Good question! In fact some satellite datasets are tampered with. There's a good example documented here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHrYY3yAGE

The RSS dataset showed no warming for nearly twenty years - a problem, it's not meant to show that. Once the data was released, people with experience with how climatology operates (like Dr Spencer) predicted the data would soon be revised to show warming, somehow. That's exactly what happened. The original data used confidence intervals that widened over time, to reflect degrading instruments and orbits. In the new data the CIs were gone and the new trend line was simply the uppermost value allowed within the CI for each point. Because the CIs were widening, this trick created an appearance of warming where previously there hadn't been any.

Generally, the only way to be sure something isn't being messed with is to review the methodologies. The tampering is public, it's not a secret and they don't hide the fact that they do it, they just don't mention it to the general public and rely on the media to not report what they're doing. It works: awareness of this problem is incredibly low. Still, you can compare the different 'versions' they release over time to see the enormous magnitude of the changes, or you can read the occasional reports that surface in outlets like Nature when really massive revisions occur, and then you can remember that scientists aren't meant to do that. They're meant to add error bars if they have doubts about their data and propagate that uncertainty through to their final graphs and predictions. Climatologists don't do this. Instead they argue that they know temperatures should be going up, so if it isn't, there must be something wrong with the data. Nothing a quick model can't fix.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17700

"An apparent pause in global warming might have been a temporary mirage, according to recent analysis. Global average temperatures have continued to rise throughout the first part of the twenty-first century, researchers report on 5 June in Science. That finding, which contradicts the 2013 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is based on an update of the global temperature records maintained by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The previous version of the NOAA data set had showed less warming during the first decade of the millennium."