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You seem to be speaking with the authority of a WMF insider. If so, can you speak to the concerns Wikipedians have raised about the endowment responsibility?

Currently, there is nothing preventing WMF from drawing down the endowment arbitrarily, effectively making it a checking account, not an endowment.

This is less a complaint about fundraising (we get it, nonprofits need money) but accountability. Its one thing to ask for donations. Its another to use loaded language (ironically in violation of the Wikipedia Manual of Style) that implies the site will go dead in a year unless you contribute money to the dark pool of cash with almost no oversight.

"We should make spending transparent, publish a detailed account of what the money is being spent on and answer any reasonable questions asking for more details. We should limit spending increases to no more than inflation plus some percentage (adjusted for any increases in page views), build up our endowment, and structure the endowment so that the WMF cannot legally dip into the principal when times get bad."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

Maybe a bit of a truism, but it is a popular quote for a reason

I agree, and I feel the article implicitly focuses on workplace discussions. But it is good to make it explicit -- if you do this with your friends, you may "win" in the short term but you won't have many friends in the long term.

A good moment is in the offer/counter-offer phase. If you're talking numbers, when the person across the table says, "We'd like to offer you $x to join our team", don't instantly reply, but sit and mull it over.

(If this is happening over email, turn a few seconds into an hour or so. Similar practice.)

If you immediately say "no" it could give the impression you aren't interested or even considering them.

By giving a few seconds of silence, it telegraphs, "I'm interested in this job. I'm considering this carefully."

Then, give a counter-offer*. After your initial silence, you can say something like, "That is an interesting offer. I really like $Company, and I want to work here. Could we (don't use I/you, use "we") consider $x+n? I think that reflects my skills and experience well."

And don't say anything else, wait for the other party to break silence. Don't elaborate on your skills, no "What I mean is..." -- they've seen your resume, your code challenge, etc.

It is hard to do, but it can be very effective. Just make sure you keep a polite but firm stance. If they won't move on base pay, move to looking at signing bonuses, equity, etc.

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* You almost always should do this, by the way. If you are at the point where a job offer is extended, any place worth working at is not going to instantly rescind the offer because you had the audacity to ask. Its letting the sunk cost fallacy work in your favor.

Another one for the "OurIncredibleJourney" tumblr[0]. I liked the format of this service better than the ThreadReaderApp competition, but this one required pinging a bot to get a thread, whereas ThreadReaderApp can just parse a thread directly from the URL.

It looks like this was mostly a move from Twitter to reduce competition to their new Twitter Blue product.

[0]:https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Operation Warp Speed is, to me, an indication of the power of government "intertia". Trump changed a lot of things, and while an uncomfortable amount of the U.S. government seems to run on "tradition" that isn't actually law, after 4 years of unchecked assault it was only at the very end that it really got crazy.

Warp speed is the work of career guys. Not even Fauchi -- he was important, but these ideas are put together, presented, and executed by the unknown 9-to-5ers.

It might be more of an annoyance for the basic "I got a link to a file and I just want to download it" use case, but I use rclone's mega backend: https://rclone.org/mega/

Seems sadly outdated. Several of the linked userscripts are superseded (Github Dark is now a site native) or no longer published.

Completely off-topic, but in the face of all this corporatism, I still love the fact that the period at the end of the sentence, "Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort." is a link to http://hooli.xyz

My first thought: Maybe include a link to the ddvault post in the template?

On second thought... maybe not. I could see it quickly becoming a battering ram that just annoys OSS devs. Ultimately, this isn't something users can't improve, it has to be the maintainer. Nagging OSS maintainers is how we wind up with incidents like left-pad. In the most extreme of circumstances, if a maintainer is hiding issues behind the stale bot, it could be interpreted as abandonment and a fork should be made.

Its interesting. My oldest sibling is turning 30 this year and they are very concerned about climate change and the world their kids may someday inherit.

Meanwhile a friend younger than me is trying to have her first kid.

The fear is there but not evenly distributed. I personally am a bit of an antinatalist, at least to the degree that I feel its irresponsible to be having new kids while an overloaded foster care system still has children in need of parents.

What about Bretton Woods? That existed until the Nixon administration.

The modern economic concept of tying wealth directly to economic output was a huge step.

What it stepped towards can be considered anything from utopia to irrecoverable disaster. Some people closer to the latter end of the scale consider economic limiters like deflationary currency (bitcoin et. al) and gold/silver standards as a good thing.

Who is right? I don't know if any individual human can, in the space of a single lifetime, really have the breadth of experience and insight to choose the right option.

I meant the node itself was state of the art. The application reliability is important, but in practice will be balanced against cost of goods -- just like how consumer PCs use non-ECC memory and try to handle it in software (or just decide occasional crashes are acceptable), there would likely be additional failure compensation added in other areas to adjust for otherwise cheaper parts on a smaller process node.

And if you think a car company wouldn't use a less-reliable part because of safety concerns, look at the Pinto: Ford knew it had a tendency to, erm, explode, but calculated paying off lawsuits would be cheaper than fixing the problem. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost%E2%80%93benefi...

I imagine one end result of this supply squeeze is that a lot of bespoke or legacy parts will be finally removed from designs that have up until now been "good enough". To cite the most common example, vehicle manufacturers' most common supply pain-point is ICs built on a ~200nm process, which was state of the art between 1996-2000.

I understand it makes sense to move slower for chips embedded in long-life devices, and they need additional validation; however, at some point if lead times are long enough and prices stay high it becomes reasonable to start that extended validation process on newer chips.

This would hopefully mean consumers start seeing infotainment with much better performance in the second half of 2022, and this lines up with industry expectations of when the squeeze will lift.

I have it (played percussion as a kid). I find just relaxing and acknowledging the ringing as if I was meditating, not fighting it and letting it do what it will helps it pass. It will sort of grow really loud like a wave, then as I continue relaxing will fade.

This puts to words the uneasy feeling I've had towards NFTs.

The thought experiment that made this concrete was a sort of reductio ad absurdem:

Let's say for a moment that NFTs win worldwide support and begin to be used as proof of ownership for everything. As part of this movement, the Louvre registers an NFT signature for each item in their collection.

Now, let's say a nefarious actor manages to use social engineering and convince a naive Louvre curator to transfer the NFT ownership of the Mona Lisa.

This bad actor promptly goes to Sotheby's and asks them to list "his" Mona Lisa for sale.

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Of course, the Mona Lisa would not go anywhere. The French government would never allow it. This is an extreme example but can be walked back to less and less valuable items: would this work for an NFT of a house, a car, a computer, etc?

Unless the state decided to universally and with no exceptions enforce ownership of NFTs, they are ultimately worthless.

> The decision from sircmpwn was, at the end, to charge money for the service.

Frankly, I'm shocked the other major free providers (GitHub/Lab) haven't done this by default. GitHub's current default is free for public branches, and a small fee for private.

I could see a flipped setup working: by default a very small fee (1-5 cents per x number of batches) that most companies wouldn't notice, and a path for FOSS projects to apply for credits.

I can't find the direct link, but I remember someone on HN pointing out that because CI tools are turing complete, GitHub actions is the cheapest serverless cloud product in the world right now -- you just need to figure out how to game the system.

I'm sure they've built very sophisticated filtering tools, but imagine someone slips through the cracks and gets a cryptominer working. Get that action registered in enough projects (by, say embedding it in an Actions library or generator tool) and that could be significant.

Yes, plaintext email is awesome! Too bad most major providers hide the option (or straight-up don't have it).

I'll just plug https://useplaintext.email as a great resource. The main recommendations are... opinionated (this site is run by Drew Devault, after all), but the instructions are very useful. I personally use thunderbird.

Further down the article, when talking about the project history, it notes that the company that inspired An0m, Phantom Secure, ostensibly started selling heavily-locked-down BlackBerry phones for this audience.

They quickly found their primary market was, well... crime.

Update: Here's the direct donation link if anyone else wants to chip in. They have just over 20k of the ~33k needed.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EDZSS68C4CHW...

The previous implementation used Wintun (wintun.net) which was developed originally for Wireguard but spun off into its own layer 3 tunneling driver.

And yes, Wintun beats the pants of OpenVPN's TAP driver, but the kernel implementation is even faster yet.

Yep! I have a domain on cloudflare (wg.<mydomain>.tld) that my OpenWRT router automatically updates when my IP changes.

I just point my peers at wg.<mydomain>.tld and i'm set! This effectively costs just the registration fee annually (about $7 on cloudflare currently) but could also be done with a free service like no-ip or similar.

Ah, I found a link. Gracias!

It looks like the post is behind a login, and registration requires an invite code. I wish them luck, though!

In the trial, McDonald's claimed that they served the coffee at that temperature because commuters would buy the coffee, drive to their destination, and then drink it, so the coffee was served in a manner to make sure it wouldn't be cold by then.

However, it came to light that their internal research found most people drink the coffee while driving. The primary reason has been speculated but of course never officially acknowledged as what you suggest.

Excellent advice! This is a similar response to what I tell new investors who think they're smart buying high-dividend stocks right before the payout, then sell after.

The market prices in expected movements!

(P.S. on HN, you can use asterisks around words instead of underscores for italics)

If Discord could implement a "workspace" (or game-space or whatever) similar to slack, that would make me a lot more comfortable joining various servers.

I took the twitter title. Looks like they changed it shortly after upload. @dang feel free to update the title

For the record, I think the title agrees with your observations. It says bitcoin is a scam, and it isn't because of how it is designed, but rather how it is used now.

I found this video interesting for its approachability (my parents would understand it) but also for the final third that considers why Bitcoin or crypto in general would generate such a fervent, cultish following.

Now the source is clearly left-biased (its essentially a channel made to directly counter PragerU) but with that caveat this video saliently put to words a sort of nebulous unease I've had with crypto.