skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It uses several techniques for this, of which the most notable is that it takes advantage of the priority queues provided by modern switches.

I'd understand if they said routers, but switches? Do L2 switches have any notion of priority and if yes how does it work?
And yet people don't consider AD to be an dangerous legacy technology on it's own.

The enterprise world have a huge problem with it's addiction to legacy Microsoft technology that Microsoft is both aware of but also unable to fully address as their modern stuff just aren't all that competitive without the legacy compatibility. And the "domain controllers" it's at the very core of this problem.

In the unix ecosystem most of the old vulnerable legacy(which was never as bad as windowsNT) is actually dying out but for some reason most of the traditional wintel ecosystem seems to be partying like it's still 1999.
Nice ninja edit there, your post previously claimed "about 90% goes to pushing woke politics". As you can see below, enumerated in excruciating detail in the annual reports if you'd like to dig in, the biggest component of Wikimedia's expenditure is simply paying the engineers that keep the site running and roll out improvements like the new UI, visual editing, etc. The actual hosting bill (servers, bandwidth, etc) is only a tiny fraction of that cost.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/where-your-money-goe...
After reading some of the comments in the arbitration process discussed on this page (see: “Administrator desysopped after RfA comment, arb case in progress”) I would find it hard for anyone to argue, with a straight face, that the most active members of the community do not lean towards a common political ideology.

Whether that influences the quality of the articles, particularly new ones, I cannot say; I was banned as an admin and editor years ago and have zero desire to return. (Although I am wondering if I might enjoy working on some of the non-English wikis, having seen that their communities seem far less internally combatative.)
> It's not like they need to know your real name to give you targeted ads.

They don't need your real name, but it helps. If Google knows to who you are everytime you sign into your Google account, that's easier than just relying on IP address to target those ads.
> Supports progressive decoding. AVIF crucially does _not_ have this.

How important is this in the modern world? Like, GIF, PNG, (progressive) JPG all support this, yet i dont think i have ever noticed this in practise in modern times unless artificially rate limiting my connection. It seems more like a relic from the time of dial up internet.
For some reason I find it really hard to look at. Everything has the same weight (in terms of color, if that makes sense), and I need some things to stand out, not just have a different color.
Previous HN discussion about Wikimedia squandering money, all of two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33174533
> There were roughly 30GW of net capacity in nuclear added in 1985.

Didn't know we are living in 1985.

> Compare to around 500GWh/yr of already existing battery production

1. Are these batteries all used in grid energy storage, or are you taking the full output including things like batteries for remotes?

2. How many of those batteries are actually scalable solutions, deployed, and working. It's kinda funny how my opponents continuously try to steer away the conversation away from this.

3. Compare that to "nuclear power plants generate about a tenth of the world's electricity" which amounts to about 2 653 344 GWh [1]

> The nuclear industry was briefly almost at the current a scale of renewable + storage production.

Storage solutions are not even remotely near nuclear. Without storage renewables have to be significantly overprovisioned to be used reliably.

To repeat again.

It's funny how you pulled the conversation entirely away from discussing tech that often is strictly theoretical, and most of which hasn't been proven to work at scale on the level of even one nuclear plant to... «but what about nuclear».

> Your "at scale" is a tiny fraction of the scale that would be needed, and at that larger, true scale,

Which of the tech listed here has this "true scale": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387011 ?

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Edit: don't bother. This discussion isn't in good faith, and being willingly derailed into discussing everything and anything other then the original statements I replied to.

I'm not going to engage in this conversation further.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
I don't think you realise why this is so hard.

The basic reason is that software at every level expects TCP/IP. And you can't drop in a translation layer because it will require at least the same amount of overhead as "real" TCP/IP.

It is not a local problem, it is a global problem that affects basically every single piece of non-trivial software in existence.

Even if you construct your datacenter with the new protocol you will run into problems that you can't run anything in it. Want Python? Sorry, have to rewrite it. And every Python library. And every Python application. Then you need to deal with problems that people who can run their scripts on their machines can't run them in datacenter. And so on.

The reason nobody wants to do this is that they would be investing huge amount of money to solve a problem for everybody else. Because the only way to make TCP/IP replacement work is to make it completely free and available to everybody.

There are much better ways to allocate your funds and precious top level engineers that let them distance themselves from competition temporarily.
I like 6502 family, in old time I built on a Sym-1 with a home made 16ko dynamic RAM, a real time monitor to pilot four analog MOOG synthesizers.

A few years ago I bought a LSI-11 and a PDP-11 CPU (because of the ROM) on ebay. As I lacked the motivation to build myself a Qbus I bought a VaxStation 3100 which worked for one month and failed afterward.

Yet another old computer in my house!
I had to get an arterial blood gas draw done earlier this year. Despite having an ultrasound which would make it easy to find the right spot in my wrist, the resident decided to “learn” on me by digging her large needle into my wrist and fishing around. After she failed her 5th or 6th attempt and my dilaudid couldn’t help me forget what was happening, the tech decided to “show” her how to do it and repeated the same experiment while tears rolled down my face. Finally the ICU NP brought in the ultrasound and got it done in one shot. Long story to say — we have lots of technology, but using it appropriately is the key!
Homa over EVPN-VXLAN, across multiple data centers - what could possibly go wrong? See [1] (4)

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925
You would spend a lot of time and effort doing very simple things by today's standards. There was also a lot less information, especially if you didn't have an Internet connection.

But it was also fun and worth doing.

Personally I wasn't working yet, 30 years ago, so that was just my own side-projects when I had a chance.
That is missing the point.
The point is that Wikipedia baits people by begging for help to keep the site up.
Then, the raised money is funneled through different layers of charities (each obviously taking a cut) to then end up in a vague, totally unclear cause.

"many people can't access or contribute to Wikipedia because of racism" is not a thing you can pay money to fix. These are not server costs, where you can present the donor a bill for where his money went.

Who received the money ultimately? What happened because of that money? What could have been avoided because of that money?

Can you answer these questions? Would you donate to any organization which did not tell you these answers? Certainly I will not.
Yeah I used to donate semi regularly but not anymore. The EFF is just about the only org I still trust.
Easiest way is to not place any cookies and not keep any logs.
You don't have to show a cookie warning if you don't place any cookies and you're not processing any user data if you don't keep logs.
Proper naming of variables/functions is important, but would only tell a part of the story. In the example you'd loose the context why that port might be already in use.

Using comments instead of commit messages is of course always possible, but if you'd note all relevant information you'd otherwise put into comment messages in comments, you might end up with more comments than actual code, which IMO hinders readability significantly. Take the Linux kernel for example. git commit messages there are very informative and often pretty long. Putting this information into comments would make the code pretty hard to read. Also sometimes there isn't a clear place where you'd put such a comment at, as it only makes sense when looking at multiple changes in different locations (= a git commit) at once.

I believe having the explanation why certain aspects of the code are as they are in the metadata in form of the git commit messages with an occasional comment in the code for important information is a good compromise between readability/verbosity of the code and having all relevant context available.
The former home of Louis Rossman, not surprised :)
I think you are underestimating advances is modern car design and the use of high tensile steel for key structural areas..

His Subaru was designed in the 90s, this video below highlights the advances:

https://youtu.be/ePYO0-Ig0VU?t=14
I think there is the underlying notion that among any set of possible paths, it is always possible to find for each path a quantity for which a particular path is optimal.

That seems a bit trivial to state, but reasoning on the space of those quantities is more flexible. It doesn't mind the non-linearity between parameters and resulting paths as much.

So when you are trying to find the laws of physics, reasoning on that higher level space of quantities-that-will-get-minimized seems to simplify things.
> It came out in a weird time for technology and Nintendo always uses slightly older hardware.

Not always. The N64, for example, tried to be cutting edge.
"Only someone with the raw talent and vision of Elon can make twitter profitable" has effectively said by many here.

That twitter is already profitable either means a) the current team are on the same giga-genius level as Elon or b) people are talking absolute nonsense.

Twitter might be better able to survive the pinch - or would have before being lumped with a massive pile of debt. They have 2 costs; servers and staff and one revenue stream; advertising. Simple model and easy to balance the two sides of the equation.

Before the Musk buyout they paid $51mil to service the small amount of debt they had, post the takeover they will be paying ~$1bil to service the debts he has added to their balance sheet.
Yeah but the PS5 gets horrible battery life and I need an IKEA furniture bag to transport it.
> Wiki Education Foundation Executive Director Frank Schulenburg: "there have been serious concerns expressed about the ROI and ethics of funding grantees not doing any work that has a direct measurable impact on Wikimedia projects"

I think this is the best criticism as it avoids going into politics and addresses the practical issue.

From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund:

> Many of the barriers that prevent people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge are rooted in systems of racial oppression.

I don't think there would be a scandal if the money would have been used for the fund stated purpose: to help access and contribution to Wikipedia.

The money instead has gone to a political lobby group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Advocacy_Fund
But it's an expensive dead-end for most purposes, esp re the insane mapping. Ok for city robo-taxis. Doesn't solve the real problem to be solved.
As seen in 2022: Hello world example with 350 contributors.

Beat the enterprise Fizbuzz by 25 contribs.
I think the sort of thing that would really help would be the ability to write data retention policies into the flow and have them enforced by the system.

For example, when adding a step that says the user needs to upload Photo ID, requiring the developer to set a retention policy on that, like 30 days, or minimum of 90 days and the time it's used, or retaining until the account is closed. Then automatically deleting after that point.

Being able to also generate a report of all of these policies, simplified down together, would be really handy. If you're updating a privacy policy you probably want to tell your lawyers how you handle data, and having the tool provide a summary of all the policies would be useful.

This only addresses the deletion and retention part. There's more around export and update, as users have the right to correct any data you hold about them if they believe it is incorrect or out of date. That could actually re-trigger the flows too!
“For how long”

It’s 50 years later, half a century, and we’re still burning all that coal.

The single worst form of energy…
Of course JPEG-XL is a good, (maybe?) non-patent-encumbered, open image encoding standard, but with this move from Google, it's no longer a candidate to be a universal one (unless Google reverses their decision when the reference implementation library becomes more mature). AVIF is still a candidate for a universal, good, non-patent-encumbered open image encoding standard.
This is a solid reason to try out the theme.
Thank you for the counterpoint. I think most adults can read other well enough to be able to start and continue conversation. And also pick appropriate time and place. (5 customers behind you? Keep the line moving.)
Yeah I get that I exaggerated my first sentence and thus edited it but it's not that far from the truth.

According to their own site, https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/where-your-money-goe... about 43% goes to the websites. This is less than half. I imagine that most of these salaries are ridicolously high where they could employ cheaper devs and get an actual good representation they chose a SF office with SF employees and give them huge salaries. And since I have learned about this fund and other controversial topics about their employee count etc I question this figure as well. I am not convinced that they have devs for about $50 million per year.

It's fine if you operate a for-profit company but when it's a not for profit organisation the ridicolous spending seems a bit disrespectful to the people that help shape wikipedia to what it is today.
It's not binary. If it weren't for the popular protests in Belarus, Belarus would have probably joined Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Belarus revolution didn't happen (yet), but its men are not dying in Ukraine. Also, this is tangential, but after the war in Ukraine, a significant contingent of Belarussians fighting in Ukraine (for Ukraine) will return to Belarus. Who knows what an armed, war-hardened dissident military faction can do; in contrast, Maidan was won by armed civilians.
See e.g. an earlier report in the same community newspaper:

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

The budget and headcount simply keep growing and growing. At the same time, the Foundation has had eight-figure surpluses for nine of the last ten years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

In the July 2020 – June 2021 financial year, the surplus was close to $90 million (over $50 million increase in Foundation assets, almost $40 million increase in Endowment).

Yet when volunteers complain that software tools need updating and bug-fixing, the Foundation claims there is a lack of resources:

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

One thing they do spend money on is consultants and "community organizers" trying to figure out how to get people in the developing world to write Wikipedia articles in their languages for free – in part so that Big Tech's voice assistants and Knowledge Graph panels can provide answers in Indian and African languages and extend their monopolies to new markets.

Money actually flowing to people in the developing world however has been a really small amount – less than $4 million in 2020:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
> vision which is by far the highest accuracy and babdwidth

They are literally the least accurate of all sensors.

Radar tells you distance and velocity of each object. Lidar tells you size and distance of each object. Ultrasonic tells you distance. Cameras? They tell you nothing!

Everything has to be inferred. Have you tried image recognition algorythms? I can recognise a dog from 6 pixels, the image recognition needs hundreds, and has colossal failures.

We have no grip on the results AI will produce and no grasp on it's spectacular failures.

Driving will have to be solved without AI
Iirc MS-DOS 5 and older was DEBUG.COM.

Many shipped apps in MS-DOS 6 had became .EXE:s.

One limit of a .COM is that it is one segment size (64 kilobytes) max file size.
I find it pretty depressing that Telegram links are banned across Reddit because it makes moderators' jobs easier. There's no nuance just an enormous hammer. That's an example of censorship without sufficient cause.
So you're again gainsaying his explanation, but gainsaying says nothing that helps anyone else make a decision. How are the rest of us who aren't psychic to know he's lying?
Why not go after, e.g., wiki.freifunk.net, www.fefe.de, https://weimarnetz.de/freifunk/vpn/ or a million other noncommercial websites with some of these questions. See how far that goes. This comment is pure nonsense. "Tech" companies, i.e., websites set up to collect personal data for commercial purposes, usually advertising, is a relatively new phenomenon on the internet.
FWIW, here's the comment that led to Athaenara getting desysopped, and it amounts to a direct personal attack on an admin candidate for the sole reason that they're trans: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=prev&oldid=...

I'm pretty sure you'd get banned here on HN for saying that as well.
Can't confirm or deny this videos, and will not lecture brazilians about their own country. In any case I assume that the probability of brazilians being served fake news in the next weeks is really high. I would expect a lot of false flag actions trying to snare the gullible and push them to do illegal things to support Bolsonaro. You would greatly benefit of an equivalent to "maldito bulo" (https://maldita.es) for Portuguese speaking countries.

Time to remain very sceptical to the mass media, keep cold and care for yourself. I hope all will be okay.
Yes, it's not necessary to colonise planets. But you will still want to colonise around stars: they have plenty of free energy.

(In addition you can also colonise between stars, of course.)
Run a Tor Snowflake proxy (with a daily report) to avoid digital regimes
Your surname is "Shilpakar"! What are the odds of that? :)
I'm not a big Twitter user but am often bombarded with right wing content on other sites like Reddit and Youtube no matter how often I try to tell the site/train the algorithm that it's not content I'm interested in seeing whatsoever, the idea that conservatives are being silenced when I (a left wing Brit) am constantly seeing their content is frankly ridiculous
>However, this Regulation applies to controllers or processors which provide the means for processing personal data for such personal or household activities.
But hosting a website means processing personal data. This very much reads to me like the user is exempt. But the moment I am hosting a blog, I am providing a service which processes personal data.

I fail to see how I would be exempt.
And even if, at what point am I not? If I am taking donations? If I have a comment section? If I have accounts?
Yikes. I'd be a lot better Go player if it was just a matter of seeing the board.
You think this ego-driven manchild will better the platform, when he managed to drive himself into a stupid-ass overpriced buy, firing many of the existing talent and simultaneously driving Tesla shares down?

Oh, and don’t forget his very questionable “morals” starting with pro-Russian fiddlings to one of his first tweets post-acquisition spreading fake news.
Ourtserhout's paper perhaps comes from his vision for RAMCloud as well ... in which he bet on network latency going ultra low over time that accessing memory on another machine was fast enough to enable whole new categories of applications to emerge.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2806887
> We still lack any way to communicate up and down the stack of an entire transaction, for example for debugging purposes. We should have a way to forward every single layer of the stack across each hop, and return back each layer of the stack, so that we can programmatically determine the exact causes of network issues, automatically diagnose them, and inform the user how to solve them. But right now, you need a human being to jump onto the user's computer and fire up an assortment of random tools in mystical combinations and use human intuition to divine what's going on, like a god damn Networking Gandalf. And we've been doing it this way for 40+ years.

This violates the principle of encapsulation that the entire field of networking is based on, not to mention an massive security hole.
Strongly disagree; this is a really useful tool, even for experienced phlebotomists.

They recently got one of these at a clinic someone very close to me attends regularly. Even skilled nurses can struggle to find usable veins when treating folks who’ve had many needles put in over the years; in those cases using this saves a great deal of time and pain for everyone involved.
You can't just leave that there without some sort of reference. Cursory searches haven't revealed anything. I now must try this cheesecake.
https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633

That is the twitter thread that started the uproar, all the info you'll need is in there.
What about the right to sell any product you want?
Proton now offers U2F/FIDO2 support
For reference, here's the comment that was deemed sufficient grounds to be desysopped.

> # '''Oppose.''' I think the domination of Wikipedia's woman niche, for lack of a better term, by males masquerading as females as opposed to welcoming actual, genuine, real women who were born and have always been female, is highly toxic. Go ahead, "cancel" me, I don't care. – [[User:Athaenara|Athaenara]] [[User talk:Athaenara| ]] 00:44, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
4 people is enough to review source that was written by thousands of engineers at twitter? thats not even enough for architecture review
Around one-in-five U.S. adults (23%) say they use Twitter. The share of Americans who use the platform has remained consistent over the past several years and is similar to the share who use Snapchat (25%) and WhatsApp (23%). But a much larger share of U.S. adults use YouTube (81%), Facebook (69%) and Instagram (40%).

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/05/10-facts-ab...

Considering all the attention the acquisition received I was surprised to read that more people don't use Twitter. The idea that what gets posted on Twitter automatically becomes what the average Joe talks about is probably overstated.
What about the right to produce sell any product you want to?