skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would need software to support governance by the volunteers who actually maintain it, rather than what exists now.

These "benevolent dictatorships" all devolve into regular dictatorships after the benevolent dictator leaves (or finds a new partner who promises to make them rich), and the ivy MBAs show up with top tier salary expectations and a vision for what to do with the brand that has little or no relationship with what the brand became successful doing.

It's of course a collective action problem. The reason that wikipedia can be plundered for cash (such a precious thing, so much management risk) is the same reason Elsevier and others can collect billions on the backs of unpaid researchers and reviewers.
https://archive.ph/wNNQC
For anyone interested, read on the Peripatetic School, and the practice of walking and talking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school

I have always loved the idea of a College course being taught while strolling the campus (for certain subjects).

I once wrote a work of philosophy that was written on foot and edited while sitting.
This would be a disaster and is the worst possible outcome - you don't end up with a new, better wikipedia. You end up with two crappier versions of wikipedia.
> Wikimedia's donations are used to fund some nefarious things, since their endowment is run by the Tides Foundation

> Tides Foundation is an American public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive causes and policy initiatives in areas such as the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights and human rights.

> Among the most unbelievable “projects” of the Tides Center is something called the Institute for Global Communications (www.igc.org). IGC is a clearinghouse for Leftist propagandists of all stripes, including living-wage advocates, anti-war protesters, slave-reparations hucksters, and a wide variety of extreme environmentalists.

When do we get to the nefarious part?
Keeping your legend straight is a fundamental part of good tradecraft...
Would sending your their location have been enough? Because that seems to be an option in addition to the 911 call.
CEO is part of the company.
This makes sense because people will chase something that recently made money but at that point the easy money has already been made.

It's not the same investment at super expensive prices.
It's been my main desktop for 2+ years and on my home server since Fedora 28 or 29. I also have it on a Surface Go 3 and Lenovo W541 laptop.

It's great.
They [obviously must] have the a-OK to play this role from at least US (Monroe Doctrine) and UK (Commonwealth).
Thanks so much! I'd love to once I can find more time :)
1. That's not what is happening here. There's no intention to use this to make science better.

2. Even if it was, some people are assumed to be "biased" based on silly things like the color of their skin or what gender they are. The bias-checking process is biased.
I remember the time I worked on a project with React Native and they broke a bunch of very useful tools by depending on an alpha of React in a release of RN. Stayed screwed up for a good long while. There were some issues posted on GH that were understandably like "bro, WT actual F?" and the maintainers were all "LOL we're with Facebook, trust us, it's fine".

And that was the day I decided RN was kinda bad.
Andor is one of the better shows I've seen - ever. Their Star Wars offerings in general have been very well put together.
Here's the page of The Tides Foundation, in case anyone is curious: https://www.tides.org/

Here's the Wikipedia page on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation

(which some might claim is biased, because of connections to the foundation)

Here's a page that contains some more information about controversies, as well as some numbers on grant recipients: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tides-foundation/

(which others might claim is also biased, because of Capital Research Center)

As a European, I don't really have a horse in this race, but the whole foundation doesn't strike me as one that's too extremist, but maybe that's because I'm also left leaning by US standards, or haven't read into it too deeply. That whole "dark money" thing is perhaps the most objectionable aspect, otherwise it seems like a mostly progressive social justice movement.

Either way, I suggest people familiarize themselves with the foundation themselves and come to their own conclusions. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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This is my favorite issue at the moment.

It's something that is completely unintuitive because MS wants you to use as much async as possible, provides an async API but is not fixing the damn issue for years. Most senior devs will not know about this, use the methods and probably won't even notice it in most production scenarios. At least not until it's hits them like a ton of bricks.

Another favorite .NET tidbit of mine is the existence of Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading. If you use a lot of async code with UI you will eventually run into deadlocks. MS noticed that, too, and wrote this library for Visual Studio (hence the name) to work around that and then released it to the public.

Or:

enumerable.Single(predicate) // slow
enumerable.Where(predicate).Single() // faster

Also fun (but understandable why they don't fix it) BUT with VS2019 they included a new "code fix"/analyzer that very annoyingly tells you to convert the latter into the former for "code readability", making you code slower.

Don't get me wrong, I like .NET a lot but it has quite a few footguns.
Why do humans need advertising to understand the value of things?

I'd agree with you if your statement was more along the lines of, "people may not know that widget X exists and solves their problem well." But that's wholly different from understanding the value of things.
Then social media came along and put the final nail in its coffin.
It was bothering me quite a bit in the past, but I came to a conclusion that "slacking off" is actually a part of work.
I wouldn't be able to achieve tasks if I was not able to let my mind wander off a bit and while you could say I am technically not working, I am still being constricted by the task I am supposed to complete and subconsciously thinking about it.
For instance, during the working day, often you would see me type something for like half an hour and rest of the day "slacking", but what I type in is well thought through (I hope!) and usually works the first time as intended.
Everyone is also happy with pace of my delivery.

Would I be able to do more tasks during the day if I only spent 30 minutes on typing? No. I tried and it is too taxing and leads to burn out.
When I was younger I would literally be whizzing through tasks, but by the end of the day, I wouldn't even be able to speak properly. Completely brain dead.
It sent me through severe depression and eventually I had to quit the job I had then for my sanity.

Basically if I have a task to do, I bill for it for each working hour (typically 7.5) until it's done.
I just saw this recently in Derek Sivers's (of CD Baby fame) book, read here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpg-CWcHC0
There is. Bad is doing what you want, good is doing what I want.
Ask HN: How to get interaction with the open source community?
We are maintaining an open-source React framework for building CRUD apps.

I list some methods to get interaction with the open source community.

I would like to know if there are other ways to do this.

1. Post updates regularly - Twitter and Linkedin

2. Engage with your community - We offered 7/24 support on Discord

3. Offer valuable content- Published Content on Devto and Hashnode and Blog

4. Be active on other platforms like Reddit and Hackernews

5. Prepare yourself very well for the Product Hunt Launch

6. Keep your project updated

7. Have a clear Roadmap for your project

8. Make it easy to contribute - Encourage contributions from others

9. Be responsive to issues and pull requests

10. Prepare good README and Documentation.
Neither does EA, they just suggest rich people donate sometimes...
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You can read Wikimedia's financial statements here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/#a1-...

I'm completely fine with how they use their money and will continue donating as long as Wikipedia remains a valuable resource for me. I do not care much that Wikimedia is not directly Wikipedia and that they spend more money than Wikipedia would alone.

This feels similar to the Mozilla vs Firefox "why is Mozilla spending money on other things" argument.

I will continue donating to Mozilla, Wikimedia, and the Internet Archive because I think they're all doing important work beyond their core products. I don't have to pick one or the other, I can give to all of them.
macOS had the least malware infections in 2022
Show HN: Substation – Data Pipeline Toolkit Written in Go
This is a recently open sourced project at Brex that I'm leading, you can read more about it in our announcement blog post: https://medium.com/brexeng/announcing-substation-188d049d979...

Here are some highlights:

- Serverless data pipeline toolkit and data transformation package written in Go

- Running in production for over a year, processes billions of events per day

- All in cost for all of our data pipelines is ~$30/TB (storage, compute, encryption)

For anyone who wants to get hands on, you can try it out using the quickstart guide: https://github.com/brexhq/substation#quickstart
I always use January 1st {Birth Year} (easy to remember) but I like this now too. Thanks
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When all the biases one is asked to acknowledge and account for are biases against one specific political movement and its symbols, this is an isolated demand for rigour (https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...) and not necessarily good for science. To adapt your thermometer metaphor, if there were two types of thermometer in circulation, one 10C too high and one 10C too low, would demanding that people constantly remind each other, and where possible correct, for thermometers that output a temperature that is too high (and perhaps labelling any reference to the low-balling ones as dangerous misinformation by people who have a vested interest in high readings) actually improve the quality of scientific output? On the meta-analysis level, the opposite might happen, if the biases used to cancel out on average and now one of them is left standing unopposed.
I love this thread. The question is so unspecific that it's like a version of "To get the right answer you need to post something wrong on the internet".
Highlights...

-Headcount is too high
-Compensation per employee is too high
-Establish an EBIT target margin
-Reduce losses on Other Bets
-Share buybacks should be increased
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Don't take this deal.

Quite frankly government have such a bad history of fucking over landlords that anything that doesn't involve a multi-billion dollar bond being posted outside of the country as security against future changes in law might as well be ignored and fought against.
"Creating discord" hmmm let me think on that
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So far 100% of my inreach use is texting family, I bought it for emergencies but so far (luckily) haven't needed it for that. I'm confident that it will work well enough in that situation that I don't need a PLB.
Why didn’t the other investments pan out?
Partisans playing at mental gymnastics. Both sides are guilty and the people endure reality no matter the narrative.

The standard disinformation tactics to dispute definitions of things like 'recession' to focus people onto pointless discussions and debates on how to even spuriously define what recession and inflation are when in reality the prices of food, gasoline, hardware, materials, and you name it have skyrocketed. It doesn't matter which team was in office, the simple truth is compared to 2020 this is where we are and until people accept they might need to figure out how to stay invested into politics longer than election seasons and deeper than news broadcasts, this will endure.
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Maybe I am missing the part where is says there is a particular ideological project beyond better science?

You act like bias isn't actually a problem in science, but when I think back to the number of studies recruiting on campus at my Highly Selective Undergrad Institution (TM), and cross reference that with the student population, it's really easy to understand the claims that science is WEIRD[1].

[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/05/weird
Time as a vehicle of conquest of other nations is an interesting perspective.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/

In reality, this process of switching from local time to Railway time or Greenwich Mean Time had already been taking place throughout the 1800s as a result of European colonialism, imperialism and oppression. Colonialism was not just a conquest of land, and therefore space, but also a conquest of time. From South Asia to Africa to Oceania, imperialists assaulted alternative forms of timekeeping. They saw any region without European-style clocks, watches and church bells as a land without time.

“European global expansion in commerce, transport and communication was paralleled by, and premised upon, control over the manner in which societies abroad related to time,” the Australian historian Giordano Nanni wrote in his book, “The Colonization of Time.” “The project to incorporate the globe within a matrix of hours, minutes and seconds demands recognition as one of the most significant manifestations of Europe’s universalizing will.” In short, if the East India Company was the physical embodiment of British colonialism overseas, GMT was the metaphysical embodiment.
Is this sameness driven by aerodynamic constraints? Design has always been such a significant part of automotive development…
I think multiplying by population serves as a way to normalize for link speed. Ten people who use a lot of spectrum are probably bigger customers than ten people who use a tiny sliver of spectrum, and thus constitute a bigger user base.
Or, for the really old folks - "...restored from a paper tapeworm. :p"
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Yes, it had easily surpassed Netscape which was supposed to be the veteran of the era.
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tldr:

- integration is hard

- parts don't always play nice - because that's not their job

- the better-integrated platforms (read: apple) are worse at playing nice with other parts

- open-source communities can tie things together, but any sustained effort requires some driving entity or opportunity, so they are first to fail in a downturn [ok, that's just a hypothesis]

As for how it feels: the sense of productivity/velocity is an unhelpful guide. You can end up polishing a turd, or playing infinite games, or stalling at critical point. If you instead are making something deeply valuable, the technical means are just that.

fwiw, in the complex equation of development, I pick one variable to maximize that's key for my goals, and leave the others stable/conventional -- which happens to avoid integration issues.

Why write? The devil made me do it.
How do you structure your data?
Thank you for the recommendation. How are they keyboards and the general build quality? Like the hinges and other mechanical parts?
The post you are responding to didn't ask who has the "right" to do things. They asked if it is fair or reasonable that there is such a disparity.
link is unresponsive. HN death hug?
Cellphones are placed amazingly well to provide this sort of search. Seeing the post about BeOS and its amazing metadata-driven BFS filesystem yesterday really makes you think what might have been had iOS and Android been more ambitious about filesystems instead of just re-applying the same old conventions from our desktop computers.

You should be able to just text search every phone call you have made on iOS/Android, today, similar to the automated voicemail transcription features already present etc etc.
Why not change the age/gender data every 6 to 12 months to see how they deal with that =)
I still have my BeBox, and boot it up every year in a kind of ritual, just to see that it still works.

It is pretty amazing to see the thing boot .. the blinkenlights .. the hum and whir of the disks .. straight to the desktop just like the day I got it. And then open the dozen videos that stream seamlessly, which is all I do really.

What a world it would have been if JLG had focused on the laptop as the driver of his revolution, as SJ did ..
> but the problem is that it often locks you out of the site completely, which they don't tell you until you've answered.

I see now. Children under 13 are not currently permitted to register on the sites and apps for Disney Parks. For activities on apps and other online offerings, minor children under 13 years old may access some content under the supervision of a parent or guardian within that person's account.

ref: https://plandisney.disney.go.com/question/create-accounts-mi...
> VLIW works _really_ well on a deterministic ISA

that's a very good point.

> Otherwise I really like the GPU derivative form where N instructions are ready to go and the hardware picks one where the prerequisite memory access has completed, despite that being variable

Hmm, isn't that OOO (out of order) execution? And isn't that something GPUs explicitly don't do? (AFAIUI)
Archived link: https://archive.ph/bXlVV
Funny enough, it’s the Jews that extensively practice eugenics these days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim

> Its objective is to minimize, and eventually eliminate, the incidence of genetic disorders common to Jewish people, such as Tay–Sachs disease.
It would be good if there was some sort of indication of how much more efficient the process is. Is it a 5% improvement or a 50% improvement?
See also https://readyset.io/ for generic SQL support (not just Planetscale)
I heartily recommend EIZO LCDs. They are awesome. Support everything. And you can fine tune everything including clocks from their onboard settings.
Hardly, that trend is reversing IMO.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/2/23434740/weird-cars-gimmi...
That's the first requirement of currency? I feel like you might have made that up. It seems to me that the general character of a currency is that it is a widely-accepted medium of exchange. There are loads of currencies around the world that serve their purpose without being an even slightly good store of value. The Turkish Lira, for example, has lost 90% of its value against the Dollar in 15 years, yet it is still the going currency in that country.

Edit: after reading my comment I realized it might not be clear that bitcoin is astonishingly bad at imitating currency. Almost without exception trading it for goods and services is impossible.
"perdix or tables" those are starkly different options. do you know a lot of people who still dive with tables?
I assume this is a bit of a joke, but query caching at least was not good in 5.5-5.7, so it would often be disabled. I don't know how 8 performs.
The vast, vast, VAST amount of Wiki users just go to the domain name, they give absolutely no cares or thoughts to the fights behind the scene.
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Re 5) you must be careful with the gifts as that may be misconstrued as bribery or a kickback. A card should be fine, but a bottle of Champagne rather won't be.
We looked at it, but it was a little "different" and we didn't want the learning curve, so we went with ScaleGrid instead.

This caching does look cool, perhaps I'll revisit PlanetScale later on my own time.
I thought the same, but everyone I've asked hasn't run into this question. I signed up with my phone number and didn't give them an email, maybe they're getting age from SSO for other users?
> there are no real consequences or accountability for poor performance from any of the participants involved.

See the article.

> We end up with bloated health care organizations that deliver slow and ineffective treatment at a massive cost to society at large.

As opposed to the USA where we pay practically 2x per capita for healthcare compared to socialized nations and get measurably worse health outcomes in aggregate. The US healthcare system is great for people with the means to have genuine access to it, but most people don't and it shows in our metrics.
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Indeed. I don't understand the outrage at wanting to know the age of your customer, especially when:

a) there are laws involved

b) you have a variety of content/products specifically aimed at different ages

I won't speak to gender, that's certainly a different concept, but age doesn't exact ring alarm bells for me here.
More like "to piss" rather than "to pee"
Ancient fish teeth reveal earliest sign of cooking
alternate: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/blob...
Congratulations to sourcehut! Looking forward to the future!
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Why not just have the device occasionally send sha256 sums of chunks to a third party service, like Twitter tweets, where it's clear you can't forge the date of the message? If you need to produce some chunks, the matching hashes provide an independent time stamp showing you didn't just produce the content at any time. This sort of trick is already commonly done to demonstrate prior knowledge of something at a later point in time without having to reveal it just yet (if ever).
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I love it when the objection I'm thinking about while reading an article is directly addressed - in this case I was skeptical of the impact on on-call rotation, and then I got to the "shared oncall" section.
Currently I'm a CS university student, and when i think about my 'career' [assuming i will have one] i think something like you mentioned. Something in user security or complex system/embedded security space. I think the word "reality" does the heavy lifting on what i want and what you described.
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I might just start doing the same. Thanks! :)
that sounds too logical ! :)

seriously though, it's true, i realize, that the idea of refactoring doesn't happen well at government agency scale, does it?
If you are one of these companies, you're the reason I could even get into this space!

The company I ended up working for basically would stick 10-15 potential Junior engineers (majority from bootcamps) in a room for 2 months and give them all 2 identical features to ship. Then access to the dev codebase, docs and the ear of senior engineer.

People would help each other, it was expected. People would go learn parts of the stack come back and teach everyone else (this is how I learned about GraphQL). At the end of the 2 months anyone who couldn't preform was let go, everyone else was placed.

I understand this was a boomtime thing that only works as massive companies, but it makes getting a new person on your team easier if they know the codebase/workflow. For the new engineer it also really helps to get used to how code works in a massive repo when all you've done is tiny self run projects.