skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hypothesis is that ASD is severely underdiagnosed in those presenting female, and most often diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. Hence most late-transitioning women have a diagnosis from when their practitioner thought they were male.
Their endowment has been growing for years, and that has earned them quite a lot of criticism. Now they aim to shrink it somewhat, by supporting archives (which Wikipedia articles often depend on). Perhaps they simply don't know how to efficiently spend your donations!
Better by what metric?

Quality of life for the worker? Financial returns for the company?
Update on Bambu Labs' Cloud Downtime (3D Printer Company)
That's why I said "if you could". I know it's not valid HTML. For some reason, style tags are only allowed inside the <head/>. My point was that I find it strange that HTML in general has this limit and that script tags are allowed in the <body/> as well.
Why? Have you been burned before?
Yes, and that is what most satellites due to estimate fuel. But any errors in that measurement can accumulate. See my other response on this thread for more details.
> I just thought my money went to maintaining Wikipedia.

Wikipedia, it's purpose and intent is...

"to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language,' that's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal." - Jimmy Wales, 2008

The grants work to serve that goal. Of ensuring that everyone has access to that information and can use it.

So, my question is simple, if they didn't send the money to these organizations, but instead, used it instead to improve only, let's say, the machines it's hosted on, but you and whatever country you were in couldn't access it, would you still give them money? Wikipedia still exists for everyone else, but you and your fellow countrymen can't access it.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective
One can always use Home and End in that case.
Nah, your comment is idiocy and you know it.
Of course, there is rebar in 3D printed constructions. They also use proprietary concrete/cement.
US economic crash has been forecasted perennially all the way up to 2007, none of them turned out true, until...

It's difficult to predict a dramatic crash, but it's much easier to detect an economy not doing well.
FTA:

> As of December 31, 2021, the Endowment held $105.4 million. There is currently $99.33 million in the investment account and $6.07 million in cash. An additional $8 million raised in December will be transferred to the Endowment in January 2022.

Damn. Regardless of their questionable politically-motivated donations, I feel like they're being disingenuous when they plaster the "PLEASE DON'T IGNORE THIS" donation banners all over Wikipedia. Seems like they have tons and tons of cash.
> You'd need a branch after every math

A predictable branch is basically free. In your case such a branch is almost never taken.
Both you and the person you are defending use the British "our" spelling of words. Considering you just made your account, I bet you are the same person or know each other.
At least in the US, those sort of places don't really exist, or if they do the pricing is outrageous (like $1000+/night).

Suite/extended stay hotels with full kitchens are fairly common here, too.
One way to view it is dealing with childhood trauma is necessary but not sufficient to fixing interpersonal issues. The problem is there are at least three opportunities for common errors of reasoning.

if you have unresolved childhood trauma (people forget this is conditional) then resolving it is one of (not all) the requirements for fixing chronic interpersonal issues you may have (not everyone does).

If someones make all those mistakes at once, you get they tell you to heal your childhood trauma to fix your relationship disasters and it's like "My childhood was fine. And I had one argument with one person. I'm just gonna go talk to him about it..."
The schools that cost exactly what the voucher is worth and are bare bones are the public schools. Now they have to compete.
How would that happen? I'm not familiar with the peculiarities of nonprofit law.
I swap the N and M keycaps on my keyboard because I think they should be in alphabetical order. It turns out that the labels on the keys have absolutely no bearing on which scancodes they produce!
Close…Atlas of the Heart

Along with a bunch of other more medical reading
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

- C.S. Lewis
Weight carries many penalties. If anything it should cost more but doesn't.

More weight costs more energy overhead to move whatever your actual payload is, so although electric motors may be more efficient than gas, it's still true that with batteries you have to accelerate and decelerate a lot more mass in addition to the payload (merely yourself many times). That is overhead. Regenerative braking and collecting energy on the downhill make enough difference that they are worth doing, but still don't come close to erasing what it cost to get going or go up the hill.

Weight increases road wear. A lot.

Weight is harder to stop or steer in an emergency. EVs are highly computerized and so they have excellent traction control which hides this problem in normal conditions, especially when comparing any EV to any older car with only basic or even no traction control. But put two vehicles with the same traction control including the fine conrol afforded by the electric motors, in the same situation, but one merely weighs more, and the heavier one will do worse. And "emergency situation" is really all day every day driving multiplied by millions.

Weight increases tire wear. So much so that now tire rubber in the environment is a thing.

Weight increases the wear on all mechanical parts, most apparent in brakes and engine, but in an EV those are both so much better than an ICE that the effect of weight is masked, but it's still there and actually applies to almost all parts of the vehicle. You don't see it individually but it's there worsening the overall stats on repairs and lifespans. It's like the energy overhead. It's just there making everything work harder, and that costs more of essentially every resource, not just energy but wear & tear, manufacturing, engineering, materials, and performance. "performance" doesn't mean boy racer stuff, I just mean performance of it's job. If a bearing needs to support more weight, it either needs to be made bigger, or made better, or made out of better stuff, or fail sooner, or a bit of all of those. It's a systemwide overhead like with the energy.

"Mere" weight is not free, even though it's on wheels.
It’s probably not this simple. A lot of people commute by public transport (that’s running anyway or running on electric), walk, or bicycle. The world is a big place. Heating/cooling office buildings might be more efficient than everyone doing this to their homes. I don’t know one way or the other, likely neither do you. Making big pronouncements (or deciding huge societal norms like where work) because climate change is probably not a good idea.
Reminds me of my favorite piece of gobbledygook, the Codex Seraphinianus! [0] [1]

Perusing it is a fun way to let your mind untether from the usual symbolicism [sic], coherence, and meaning encountered in daily life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/10/codex-seraphinianus-interview/
I will echo what many seem to be saying.

It is the layman's understanding that donations to Wikipedia are directly for the operations of this obviously great resource.

If they had a separate foundation for data gathering and social justice, or if they said in their pledge drives "5% of your donation will be redistributed to causes for equity in journalism and encyclopedic knowledge" this wouldn't be a story.
My bigger issue with the CGI model is the lack of handling connections as streaming. You can't parse a file while it's still being uploaded, and that can eat up a lot of memory on larger files.

I know startup times can take a toll like establishing db connections, cache checking (like redis), file imports, etc. If you are using something that starts up for every request, then you have to be aware of those kinds of things and design around them.
Those who value the CS degree and the schooling process most are often those who value the whole idea of "schools of thought". The eager student is a blank slate to be influenced by mentors. These influences pass on a culture of knowledge, an ontology of problems and solutions and ways of thinking about them. Also absorbed are implicit boundaries around what is important vs mundane, what is generalist and what are recognized specialties. The school of though is a community where these outcomes are somewhat stereotyped. The students will react similarly to similar questions or debates, not too disparate from their mentors.

Those who value the auto-didact most are often those who value the individual pursuit of curiosity and idiosyncrasy. The eager student hunts down or pillages knowledge wherever they can find it. In the extreme, the auto-didact is self-mentored. Individual interests and unguided exploration of existing literature builds a personalized ontology of problems and solutions and ways of thinking. The distinction of important vs mundate, as well as specialization, is more idiosyncratic. The auto-didact may belong to a school of thought with one member.

The underlying experience is when these groups meet is almost culture shock. It could lead to great collaboration or to a meltdown, depending on the temperaments of the individuals and their willingness to embrace or interact with the "other"...
I've been to places like that in the USA, and yes, Mexico is different, but it takes a decent distance to get that different.

But I'll grant that Mexico is another country, unlike Canada :D
Only 42% of donations are used to maintaining Wikipedia and it's related sites.
Suddenly climate change doesn’t require lifestyle changes when it’s time for the plebeians to get back to the office.
That's a weird use of "normal". The current ecosystems are fundamentally ice age ecosystems. Whether they count as "normal" to you personally isn't really material. They are the only ecosystems we have.

You don't warm the earth rapidly (which at this point we undeniably are) and then magically get back "normal" fern forests and dinosaurs or whatnot. What you get is a mass extinction.
Their financials are public [1]. See page 4 of the document (6th page of the pdf) for their expenditure breakdown.

Some quick highlights: of their >$150M of usable donations, they spent about 57% of it on "salaries," 10% of it on "awards and grants," 4% of it just on processing donations, and a measly 2% on actual hosting costs.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/Wikim...
Noted, thanks! Should I prepare my technical skills more or management/behavioural? I know it varies shop to shop, but still...
The position's title says ".NET Lead with AWS experience".
What strategy to follow when collaborating with devs, keep distance and hierarchy or sam as in a startup would work fine (casual and open)
Rust does tradeoff performance for safety. Example: integer division [1].

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/71sxnfff5
Thanks for giving an actual example of such optimizations. In my personal experience my C++ (and Rust) code was often outperformed by the JVM's optimizations so I've found it hard to relate to the tradeoffs C++ developers assume are obvious to the rest of us.
I had to use Nix in a project of mine and was surprised at how clunky it felt compared to guix. Writing packages meant string concatenations and juggling outputs to the command line.

I prefer guix. Every day of the week.
Saturation. This impacts so many different systems. You can't really model it with simple polynomials, it requires step functions.
Some instances of UB are data-dependent, and some would require solving the halting problem to statically distinguish them from non-UB. What you propose is therefore not generally possible at compile time, and at runtime only with considerable performance impact.
Most things make the environment worse.

Kids are the worst.

Even the environment seems to have a negative effect on itself once the ball starts rolling.
No it wouldn't. The hormesis hypothesis proposes that the body's repair mechanism from a low dose of radiation yields benefits that outweigh the damage of the radiation. Eventually those internal repair mechanisms are overwhelmed, leading to a positive second derivative.

There is no specific evidence for hormesis (i.e. evidence lacking good alternative explanations) nor are there reasonable proposed mechanisms by which this would happen. But we should be clear about what it says.
Trailer for recent kons-9 Common Lisp 3D graphics features [video]
Been working on particles and sprites recently. Decided to make another tongue in cheek trailer.
Well, if you donate to a charity that is supposed to do X, and along the way said charity tells the whole world that "by the way, out of every 100 dollars that you donate to us, we'll give 5, maybe 10 dollars, to causes that you absolutely can't stand", you'll only continue donating to this charity if you are a self hating imbecile.
FWIW the current set of donations seems at least mostly aligned with Wikipedia's mission. The only thing I'm suspicious about[0] is "Data for Black Lives", which sounds like AI snake oil.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180695
I don't really care since I immediately switch to the subscriptions tab as soon as I open the app, and my bookmark on my desktop browser is set to subscriptions too.

Just another anti-user annoyance, like having to click 3 different menus to hand-pick a specific video quality on the app and having it not stored as your preference. Thankfully it's all fixed by Revanced.

By the way, a bug that I found a few minutes ago on YT for TV: if you're watching a video with subs on (manual subs, not autogenerated) and an ad rolls in, it switch to automatic subtitles for the ad, and then doesn't switch back when the ad is over.
It's part of the Wikipedia mission. It hasn't been kept secret. It's been well-known for a long time. [1]

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective
Some taxis use apps which give all the same benefits plus any local regulations in place.
> You just have to indicate it may exist, which is desirable. When you get user by user id from the db, there may be no such user, or there could be a db connection issue. The function should indicate that and compiler should check that you're handling it, not pretend nothing can ever go wrong. (which is effectively the case when you're hiding the unhappy path with exceptions)

You don't pretend nothing can go wrong. Somewhere up the call stack, you're handling the exception. If nowhere else, whatever webserver lib will send 500 if you didn't catch something.

To give a concrete example with my daily work, we use C++ without exceptions for high-level code for some reason. Because practically every func we write returns an error, the result looks like this:

RETURN_IF_ERROR(DoThis());
ASSIGN_OR_RETURN(const foo, DoThat());
RETURN_IF_ERROR(DoThis());
RETURN_IF_ERROR(DoThis());

in every func down the entire call stack. And it was worse before we finally overrode the people opposed to macros:

absl::Status status = DoThis();
if (!status.ok()) {
return status;
}
absl::StatusOr<Val> val = DoThat();
if (!val.ok()) {
return val.status();
}
...

What's the value in putting this macro on every single line, to remind me that everything can fail? I know it can fail. This is like Bart Simpson with the chalkboard. Functional programming languages could have exceptions too if they wanted. It's just syntactical sugar around errors.
People forget how terrible the experience was prior to these companies, and when the industry changes, they point to incumbents forced to innovate as a way to say the tech companies were unnecessary.

Taxis is the low hanging fruit, non-hotellike rentals is another, cable TV/DVD rentals is a third.

However, I have no explanation for NFTs.
Disco Elysium has a tragic recent history worthy of a post of its own
Well, I was with you until that last sentence.
I once led a project that had an android app years ago. Someone on the team brought in guava for a small number of helper utilities. This made our apk exceed the method limit which required some partitioning (forget the details) that increased the time to push the app from like 15 seconds (which was still way too long) to a minute (which I found unbearable).

One day I ripped out guava, handwrote the parts we were using and got our apk size safely within the method count limit. The project still failed horribly though but for other reasons :)
You must not have heard how, apparently, most Americans do not turn off (or down) the heat / A/C when they're not home. It's pretty crazy yet is a real thing!
Your demo for a hypothetical telecom company attempted to diagnose my chest pain.
In a special twist he was arrested for his children's works and not for his avant-garde writings.
Why do people try to make everything about red versus blue?

Are you saying all red states are 100% fiber covered meccas? Sounds like your area is good but so was the block half a mile over in irvine. Congrats on living half a block over?

The point about internet companies having more lobbying power is odd as internet companies should want more connectivity not bad DSL.

And the OC is traditionally a Republican stronghold in CA and only recently changed. The city of Irvine has switched back and forth between dysfunctional politicians from both parties.

Why are you jumping to an us vs them red blue scenario in every situation?
It is straightforward to get a body-shop consulting business to mid-7-figures.

In an acquisition of that business, you're going to get a very low multiple on your forward revenue. That's because, in general, you can't plug a body-shop consultancy into a bigger sales machine and amplify the profits; sales and delivery in those businesses are delicately balanced, and while they can be scaled, they can't be abruptly scaled by an acquirer.†

If you can bootstrap a product business, none of that caveat applies. You should bootstrap if you can!

† (but if your consultancy is throwing up 7 figure profits, you might not care about its sale value; just run the company for 10 years and bank the profits).
Every species tries to maximize its use of available resources. Humans are the only ones that even think about the consequences (emphasis on think, actually doing something is more rare).

I think we will continue to live as we do until we cannot. Then there will be a natural correction. It will probably be ugly for a while, then we will adapt. This is the history of the planet.
Fixing the TPM: Hardware Security Modules Done Right
If I was misled about where my donation was spent, I suspect I am being misled about what this "Knowledge Equity" fund is doing.

Trust broken. I'm out forever.
For the US to halt emissions there would be policy in place to make sure emissions made somewhere else get appropriately priced, hence the effects of emissions reductions in the developed world impact everywhere else.
I don't understand how people make that point in 2023 still

China is the world's factory, 20% of the US imports come from there, of course your own country doesn't pollute much when you gutted half of your industries and relocated them in foreign countries.

edit: don't forget per capita greenhouse emissions too, in that case Americans emit twice as much as Chinese https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
I think someone could say they are cold and ask for more blankets, and the owner could say they don't have any more blankets
I agree with you more than you think.

"if the standards people started defining every possible instance of UB as a fatal error or as an implementation defined behavior,"

We can wish for that, but it does not and never will.

Writing C or C++, first and foremost, means writing code against the standard and we have to deal with what the standard says.

Of course we are free to give up on the standard and target a particular implementation of C or C++ in a particular compiler. If you also like to to call that writing C or C++ I would not argue with you. It is still a very different thing because you give up the primary advantage of C and C++ that you can compile basically everywhere. My point now is that if you give that up it makes no sense to stick with C or C++ in the first place and in this day and age.
Only 42% of donations go to Wikipedia and related websites. There is no breakdown for this, and there are likely some vanity projects that are not needed (they mention data analytics)
Why would they make bricks out of seaweed if they thought the house would collapse?
If they keep this up, they're going to find their funding dry up.
I'm on a reservation right now buying weed. White Earth in Minnesota. Great place
A lot of those Americans have pets. Many of those pets (i.e. a husky) need climate control 24/7.
Yes, but after mass extinction, stuff won't just stop.

Eventually, things will evolve to forests or the equivalent. You'll be unlikely to have the same kinds of dinosaurs as before, but as the old saying goes, nature like carcination. There will probably be new variants of crabs.
This is exactly what I’m talking about. You are assuming I am inexperienced and have no idea what I’m talking about because I have a different view to you.

For what it’s worth, I’ve spent years working with the innards of various JS engines, managed deployments of JavaScriptCore inside iOS apps (fun fact: no JIT) and using QuickJS in low resource environments (no JIT there either). There’s an interesting conversation to be had around optimising your code for JIT, given the different environments we’ve both worked in. But your ego won’t allow it to take place. A shame for all concerned but in my years of development I’ve met plenty like you and I’m well aware that I’m not about to change your mind so I’ll just leave it there.
Glass will block most UV light, so maybe the melanoma is from the cosmic rays? Not sure if sunscreen helps with that.
> It appears the author is a Go advocate

A bit of an understatement. The author is the current Golang project lead and a member since it’s inception
Sure, but the question was specifically looking for the "minimum effort" solution. I almost brought up thiserror but that just makes things more complicated. If you're writing a Rust application and just want to propagate errors, anyhow is currently the most popular way to do that.
> The only things that improved with Uber were price and coverage

Okay, but price and coverage are very, very important?
What is meant are side effects as defined by the C abstract machine. It has no concept of CPU speed, temperature, etc.
You're quoting from a footnote. The footnotes are not part of the normative text, so how you choose to interpret it is irrelevant.

The actual definition of undefined behavior given by § 3.4.3 is: "behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data, for which this International Standard imposes no requirements."

Since no requirement is imposed, compilers can do as they want.
Lots of variables - where I live there are no traffic jams and I commute by bike. For suburbanites calculating the tradeoff between traffic and heating/cooling individual residences is pretty complex.

Similar to what I call the "farmer's market illusion": industrially grown produce may well be better for the planet.