skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's resource-efficient because it relies on volunteer labour. The people earning the most money from that volunteer labour aren't even the Wikimedia Foundation, but the Big Tech companies who use Wikipedia and Wikidata content to populate Knowledge Graph panels (Google, Microsoft Bing), have their voice assistants read Wikipedia articles in response to questions (Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Assistant), etc.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a partner of all these organisations. Amazon regularly donates a million to the Wikimedia Endowment, there is a little-publicised Google partnership ...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_Wikimedia_Founda...

... the South Asian "Regional Partnerships" Manager moved to Wikimedia from Google:

https://archive.ph/jf3FT

... as did the originator of the Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia projects, and the seed money for Wikidata came from Microsoft founder Paul Allen and Google:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

etc.
But it is. Your negatively charged comment just proved that.
If the change is to increase revenue in any meaningful way, yes I think that will be the outcome. I highly doubt the "sanctity" of the blue check is worth turning down hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly revenue to anyone involved at Twitter. The idea of a verified account is already bastardized into becoming a status symbol rather than an ID verification.
What about running a Virtual Machine and not giving it much ram and CPU to work with?
Model 3 Cd: ~ 0.23 [1]

Tesla Semi Cd: ~ 0.36 [2]

A shipping container measures w x h: 2.438 x 2.591 m
The total height of the truck will be > 3 m so we're talking about 2.438 m x 3 m projected area. That's ~ 7.3 m2

A Tesla S apparently has 0.562 m2 drag area so let's assume 0.6 m2 for the Model 3. [1]

This amounts to a factor of Semi to Model 3 of:

7.3 m2 * 0.36 / (0.6 m2 * 0.23) = 19

So at the same speed the aerodynamic drag of a truck will be almost 20 times that of a Model 3. Yes, a truck typically drives slower and speed goes into calculation of engine power at a power of 3. But the truck would have to go slower than the Model 3 by a factor of 19^(1/3) ~ 2.7 to have roughly the same drag.

If the Model 3 drives at 150 kph and the Semi at 100 kph, the Semi still has more than 5 times the aerodynamic drag.

And you'll have to add friction to that and losses for accelerating the greater mass. (I doubt regenerative braking will scale well with increased vehicle mass)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/345710/tesla-semi-details-on-truc...
Elon Musk running Twitter? It’s like giving a monkey a delicate clock
Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans
/64 is not large--it is only enough to run one network / broadcast domain. It is fine for 90%+ of homes, unless they want to do anything like run a separate guest or IOT network. Hopefully they would be able to obtain larger prefix delegations by simply requesting one with their router.

A /48 for a site allows a decent number of subdivisions along the easily human-readable nibble (16 bit) boundaries. Four characters each can be 0 through f.

A very small portion of addresses have been allocated so far. "According to the IPv6 Global Unicast Address Assignments list from IANA (last updated in Nov 2019), there have been 33 allocations made to the five Regional Internet Registries in total so far. This is equivalent to about 7,396,864 IPv6 /32 subnets which is approximately 0.172% of the total available IPv6 space." https://www.cidr.eu/en/ipv6
/56 is the smallest they're supposed to allocate for customers, but I've read stories about ISPs providing people with /128s on their CPEs...

A /64 can actually cause problems if you're chaining routers together. In IPv4 that'd give you double NAT which is obviously terrible and not recommended, but in IPv6 that's a fine use case that shouldn't cause any trouble as long as you have the ability to create sufficient subnets. With a /64, you're stuck doing weird stuff with DHCPv6 to get the subnets to work regardless.
We also have no evolutionary reason to detect aircraft with radar, but here we are.
I think the reality is that optimizing code is not-fun. Adding features is fun. Writing tests is not-fun. If given the chance, we will find excuses to avoid the not-fun parts of software.

To what is unfortunately a minority, it's the exact opposite. I enjoy optimising existing code more than adding new code.
Timeline means "buy low sell high" for investors. Who cares if the whole thing collapses after your exit?
https://archive.ph/fTkHI
>I went with singlemode fiber. Don't really see the point of multimode. At all. After doing some research I am not sure who it is made for.

They are cheaper and and you don't need the extra range of single mode if you are only wiring your house/apartment.
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It’s the phones. Our attention spans and ability to focus have been destroyed by constant little hits of dopamine.
Last time I was in Amsterdam I couldn’t even speak Dutch to the waiters. Pretty ridiculous. I don’t think that happens in U.K. or US unable to speak English to the waiter of a chain restaurant
Agreed. Not only did perl6 completely fail to deliver (far too much deviation from perl's heart), but it took the air out of the sails of perl5 development for years.
HFT networks are also a lot smaller than hyperscaler datacenters, and designed with more cross-sectional bandwidth. A good chunk of the traffic (trading-related messages) also tends to not use congestion control.

In large web company datacenters, RDMA and RoCE have had a much "rockier" path forward.
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The OP mispoke. It wasn't the moon that collided with earth, but another planet around mar's size. As a result of the collision the the core of that planet combined with the earth and the crust and parts of the mantle were ejected and coalesced into the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis
> The implementation is open source and not owned by a for-profit company that could decide to kill it off in the future.

That's the same for almost all languages though? Which major languages aren't open source or are owned by a company?
NYC is seeing more fires caused by e-bike batteries
sure, swap out owners for "board of directors" and business for "charity" — it's still true
That's the next step.

You'll have a completely custom replaceable band of plastic on the four thin sides, that is discarded upon any authorized repairs.
I don’t like Jack Welch but you need to consider that policy in context.

GE was a weird company with a professional management class that were sort of like military officers. They were lifers and would travel around the country to run factories or whatever. You lived in your little GE town, and the location and size of your house was based in your corporate stature. You may be a plant manager building turbines in upstate ny, and then be promoted to some new role making washing machines in Kentucky.

The problem, like the military, it that it creates an insular and sort of incestuous culture that is hard to control centrally. It was similar to IBM in some ways. Alot of the “genius” of Jack Welch was reverse engineered as some visionary nonsense but was really about killing the old GE hierarchy.
> It doesn't surprise me that a site that taunts people about reposting the Christchurch shooter's livestream should have trouble getting service. The fact I'm writing this from a throwaway shows the reality of the harrassment some people I know have suffered from this group.

This is extremely disingenuous. The request to take the video down came attached with a request to give them all the IPs of people from NZ, when the people in NZ were being liable for jailing by simply having the video in their possesion[0], i quote:

>While he said that those who spread the video in New Zealand risked arrest and imprisonment, he warned all New Zealanders that even innocent possession of the video was a crime.
“If you have a record of it, you must delete it,” he said. “If you see it, you should report it. Possessing or distributing it is illegal and only supports a criminal agenda.”

The response to new zealand was great and deserved, and i'll cheer for it the same way i'd cheer for someone denying a request from saudi arabia or china or whatever other more authoritarian government trying to take shit down across borders

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20201111221018/https://www.nytime...
Most of the time a service charge is included anyways
Yeah a friend of mine has the same issue. Said he got a notification his account was suspended and when he tried to appeal the decision he just gets an error.

His profile comes up with 'User not found' when I checked it. Very strange.
Yes. Some looney tunes like myself keep backups of Bitcoin on disk (HDD and CD/DVD, the latter being impervious to EMP) with the software/hardware to run them in Faraday cages. Assuming I can find a viable power source post idiot mode, it would most definitely survive. Worst case scenario it may be incomplete, but that'd be expected as consensus would have to be rebuilt anyways.
The Return of Lula in Brazil
This resembles the colour theme of NEdit on Irix as I remember it from the mid nineties. Hmm, I got nostalgic saying this. Now I'm going to hunt the exact replica of that theme.
I'm using perl as glue tool for a lot of my projects. I could write it in python, but then it would turn into a big hairy monster, and I rather want to keep my tools as tools.
But why now? It seems like that would have happened sooner.
I am one of the suspended account. Yesterday was election day in Brazil, but I didn't manifested any political positions. Imagine how hard was for Brazilians to think about why this has happened.
I've had quite good luck with CL in the past, and FB Marketplace more recently. I feel much better being able to physically see the device before I pay for it.

That way you can verify that It's been properly reset, and that the description/picture are accurate.
https://archive.ph/7Q7en
I beg to differ.

What has to be 'unlearned' is that Engineers think they have a clear vision of what they need to do ... but in reality they don't.

This largely has to do with 'unknown unknowns', particularly in requirements.

It's actually a much harder concept to learn/unlearn - because we are trained to design towards specs, towards a kind of perfection, to solve problems in which the conditions are contrived.

Almost nothing in the academic world prepares people for having to build something whereupon the objectives are a bit fuzzy - especially when said objectives are not presented as fuzzy.

It almost requires the 'experience of failure' to grasp that most things that can be incrementally built - should be.

The process of building something, is actually a process of 'discovery'.

I think that the only time 'prepping far ahead' becomes useful, is when Engineers are building on very foundational, learned knowledge derived from a relevant situation, in which case they are actually acting in an iterative fashion, leveraging knowledge from the previous 'situation' - but even then, I would not consider that for optimization, rather, just keeping a lid on arbitrary complexity.

And finally, of course some things are reasonable. You probably are not going to build a high performance codec in Python.
This is partially wrong. Perl compiles the program to its own internal representation in one go, which is then run in a VM. It also uses reference counting, it does not have a GC.

It is true it doesn't have a JIT, though.
It wasn't so much that as bad project management.

In 2000-ish, they announced Perl 6 with great fanfare. People started working on something called "Parrot" which was supposed to be awesome in every way. Quickly it came out that Larry Wall was going to do a serious redesign of the language. It wouldn't just be Perl 5 on a VM, but have a significantly different syntax.

A lot of people then became very reticent to start new big projects. Because Perl 5 was evidently about to be dead, and Perl 6 was some new incompatible thing, so why spend all this effort on writing code now that'll probably need rewriting later? Python suddenly became more interesting.

It turned out that project management was lacking. Perl 6 attracted lots of theorists and fans of experimentation and few people interested in getting out something usable in a timely manner. Multiple VMs and varieties came and went. It took until 2015 until something was released. By then, Perl was already moribund.

It quickly became even more clear than Perl 6 and Perl 5 were different things entirely. Perl 6 didn't share the architecture of the Perl 5 interpreter, so XS wasn't a thing, and XS was a huge part of many prominent modules which meant that a lot of the Perl 5 CPAN modules would be a lot of work to port. The fact that Perl 6 was presenting itself as the successor while Perl 5 still existed and was being worked on didn't help.

In the end Perl 6 was renamed to Raku to make this more explicit -- it's not Perl 5's direct successor, but a new language built from a similar philosophy but otherwise an entirely new creation. But I think by then it was already too late, it'd have been better to do the renaming way before 2015.

The 15 year long development cycle also didn't help -- it created all sorts of confusion and uncertainty about the future. Meanwhile, the upcoming Perl 6 project just wasn't suitable for almost anything other than working on the interpreter itself, and that excluded a lot of Perl programmers who were used to writing in Perl, and not working with the actual guts of the interpreter.
The Wikimedia Endowment contains over $100 million of donations. Find me one Form 990 for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
That can't be true though.

OP knows they are pushing woke policies, so that information is out there.
> Just like you don't own anything digital

True. But blockchain tech changes absolutely nothing about that in the realm of games and media, having a flag in a decentralized database does not protect me from a (game) server owner banning me, a drm system choosing to ignore said flag, or shutting down the whole game and refusing distribution. In these situation only piracy would help, and we don't need snakeoil for that.

In the end there will be a centralized entity with the power to deny my access.

Neither do cryptocurrencies change anything about this in the realms of finance as long as their complete existence builds on top of banks and exchanges, which it very much does.

Cryptocurrencies are not an alternative, they are an addon at best.
Well yeah compare to Python - Python has multiple alternative implementations, an active academic and industrial research community coming up with new ways to improve performance and add tooling, including revolutionary work such as meta-tracing, has new GC work, has a couple of JITs depending on what tradeoffs you want, new explorations into specialising interpretation.

Perl doesn't seem to have anyone making this kind of effort? You're stuck with the tech from decades ago.
Stupidity Is Part of Human Nature: we must scrap the myth of perfect rationality
> I furthermore, consider the "hate EVs" because of emissions standards for diesel vehicles to be completely irrational.

It's easy to waive your hands and call it irrational when it has never happened to you. If you want to experience the potential consequences for yourself, I dare you to drive from NY to LA (~2800 miles), while never exceeding 35 Miles Per Hour. Not once. Never. Enjoy the trip - you'll be almost entirely on backroads the whole way.

That is the potential consequence (taken to an extreme) that Diesel truck owners live with, every day, because of emissions. Irrational? I'd say completely rational - it's ridiculous to have that sword hanging over your head, that a sensor will just blow and you're stuck. If it happens to you, you want to rip the arms off any politician in the area.

Edit: As for the New York Times article, imagine if you are a business owner, delivering a product a few states away, or even just a few hundred miles. My dad, if it was not illegal, would have immediately went and did exactly as that article described, because that would guarantee that can't happen, which is important because he can't afford for that to happen. This isn't because my dad is heartless towards the environment - he'd pay $25 or $50 for a day-long emissions exemption (donated to, say, CO2 capture) to the 35MPH limit so he could rest assured that he has a quick way out if something goes wrong and he won't be trapped in the middle of nowhere.
If you run something very performance hungry at the same time, the M1 will slow down considerably. Two things that constantly maxes out my M1 is either compiling the whole Rust compiler / toolchain (which is like 30min of heavy load) or rendering something complex in blender (with the Cycles renderer) which easily taxes the M1 for hours.
(a) You're making assumptions based on rule of thumb, I'm talking about real world usage: your points make sense in theory but don't necessarily reflect reality

(b) I'm talking about a narrow & specific case. PB may outperform JSON in most cases but I'm very specifically referring to browsers where JSON is native (& highly optimised) whereas PB is provided by a selection of open source libraries written in javascript. So that domain heavily favours JSON perf-wise.
Is this stuff like MRI and CAT machines, or more like medical billing systems?
> This is partially wrong.

Which bit was wrong? It has a basic bytecode VM - isn't that the 90s era interpreter tech I was talking about?

> It also uses reference counting, it does not have a GC.

Reference counting is GC.
Rights come with responsibilities, which are not set in stone. As we learn about the impacts of a certain activity our moral expectations evolve. And so we change the conditions that are required to assert that right.
Yesterdays post about interest rates and expected returns seems related from an aggregate and opposite side of the market:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394486
It’s been quite a while since I re read it in full, but all up it was a couple pages and I definitely tried to make the effort to claim it wasn’t a “mix” which I would normally think of as something on the scale between capitalism and communism representing the ends of the scale, and that the hypothetical “government” structure was in fact “both” simultaneously and now I’ve had more time to try and remember it, I remember it was sort of a fake wiki entry or mockumentary style article, right now I want to call it “mocumentatation” but I’m not sure if that’s an establishment term of one I’m accidentally coining right now for mock non-fiction style documentation about topics.

Wish I still had it, since my summary here really doesn’t do as good a job facetiously arguing that something could be both fully communist and capitalist at the same time.
I really hate the "X Considered harmful" type of articles, like by who? Inevitably they try to fake a larger consensus where one does not exist.

Just be hones and say "I think X is a bad idea"...
Going to speak for my organization only, but I know exactly why we have become less productive. And it isn't even a bad thing. It's security. We played loose and fast and took risks. We got lucky (as far as I know) and it never bit us, but it certainly bit adjacent organizations and mandates started coming down from higher up to no longer play fast and loose and to prioritize security.

There is inherently a tradeoff here. Don't trust and verify takes longer than trust and don't verify.
My understanding is that Internet is largely still hand tuned thing. It operates automatically, but failures in BGP and peering would cause it to break up and if the admins doing exactly that are dead... Well, good luck setting it back up without secondary channels.
SIGSTOP/SIGCONT in a loop?
I don't think anyone (sensible) thinks 'if someone only writes 30 lines of code per quarter, they should be immediately fired'. I think the point is more that if you have someone who's only written 30 lines of code, it's worth taking a look to see what they've been doing instead.

For sure there may be a thousand good reasons for it, but as a quick heuristic for 'who is worth having a quick check to see if we're getting the value out of them that we're paying them for?', I don't think it's irrational.
>males masquerading as females

Trans people are not masquerading as another gender.
> people who turn their nose up at "old" tech like Perl

The problem with Perl isn't that it's old. It's bad in ways that other old languages aren't. Consider all the people who like C but not Perl, even though C is older.
i think that's right. perl is ridiculously easy to learn, it just hasn't been as popular in the stack overflow era.

also, i think there's a lot of very old and rotted code out there now that is probably very confusing to try to learn from.
Interesting, not sure I agree but i think you're onto something.

I have been frustrated by framework walkthroughs that fail to explain the expected prior knowledge. Recently I've been using Laravel, and something as simple as "You need to include the following 'use' statements" would have saved me tens of minutes several times over by now. They just launch into code, with no context. I fear they know that if they make the content long, no one will read it.

I'm left frustrated by the experience and I suspect long term anyone that cannot be bothered learning half a page of content isnt going to make anything long lasting anyway.
You'll know it when you see it.

My gosh man the things I tried to do as a young Eng. myself - some of the tedious things I did to avoid copying strings or this or that! It's hard to see how such things add to 'complexity' in a way that slows down the project.

'Keep it Idiomatic' is a great way to keep things moving and as things become problematic, they can be tweaked.

Obviously in some cases that's not going to work.
This is actually contrary to Econ theory and empirical data. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394486

The trend is towards less immigration and thus lower demand for goods/services and lower supply of labor.
It so much amazes me. Our camera hardware supports HDR. RAW image formats support HDR. Our display devices support HDR. Videos support HDR. Smartphones can now record in HDR.

All the hardware is there ready for the future. Yet due to software limitations we're still cutting off all the HDR data when saving our precious memories as JPEG. All whites become #fffff. The color of paper. The color of Word's document background color.

The gamut of color has expanded and we need image standards to expand with it.
Thanks again for the article! I did learn a lot from it, and I really appreciate your time answering my questions