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Stop commenting on every HN post, thanks

So..why not use XML?

Schemas, interesting. I wonder where we’ve seen that before..

This harkens me back to the era of random publicity “multimedia” CD-ROMs. I remember being /thrilled/ that I got a free CD-ROM from Toyota!

Before websites were really a thing, having your own multimedia CD-ROM to give out was some kind of status symbol!

In 2017, Tumblr had ~400 employees. If each employee had a modest $50k retention bonus, that’s at least an additional $20M. So I’m not sure the total cost for the purchase as $3M- maybe that was just for the corporate assets.

I may have spoken too generally here. By “people” I meant e.g. engineers at Google, Facebook, Reddit, news outlets, that kind of thing. I see it a bit like a security disclosure.

Another argument the author may not have considered is that by prematurely releasing his implementation, he may be making it more (not less!) likely that future discoveries are hidden away from the public.

It seems OpenAI wanted to release this project in phases, allowing people time to adjust to its nature. If in the future an even more disruptive project is created (by OpenAI or others), if the creator feels they cannot release it in their own perception of what a “safe” way is, they may simply avoid publishing and instead privately communicate with companies and powerful individuals. Which I don’t think is the outcome the author wants. So I hope he reconsiders here.

Yeah, that makes sense. But it’s still wrong!

I don’t get it- the title is totally incorrect. He hasn’t written a third of what’s on Wikipedia.

That makes a lot more sense, thanks.

But it isn’t a clock because it doesn’t tell us how much time has passed. PoW allows for the creation of an ordering. I’m not sure these metaphors are helpful.

While I understand your frustration, shutting down a service — especially if you have no money to spend a lot of time on the shutdown — is always hard. It looks like these folks have provided an export option and a reasonable shutdown window, which is worth commending.

And if you find the vertical back angle more natural, you should try high bar squatting. With high bar you will also benefit from having your heels slightly raised with a plate under your heel or weightlifting shoes.

Statements like the above are one of the reason we don’t see voting system reform in the US. Every time someone discusses reform, people make over-the-top claims like the above (“almost as bad a plurality voting.”)

To the reader: approval / score voting has its own problems, such as not satisfying the majority criterion (a bigger deal than monotonicity) and encouraging strategic voting, among other problems.

Snowden worked at the NSA and took a bunch of stuff. These leaks are from that time period. This isn't crazy.

Edit: His "it's time" tweet happened less than 48 hours after the first TheShadowBrokers account (reddit) was created, prior to activity. Those accounts were dormant until the drop.

It's also possible the timestamps on the files match up to Snowden's leaks because the NSA stopped using that server / etc.

But the "it's time" tweet seems to imply Snowden may have known this was coming. It could also be a conincidence, of course.

Unless this leak was part of that very protection arrangement, or part of some larger play. It's possible Snowden had all this stuff and the timing works out (right?). And let's not forget the mysterious "it's time" tweets from Snowden a few weeks ago.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted here. Isn't this a plausible explanation until we have more evidence?

It's not just competent management: the WMF is a weird beast. Most savvy managers haven't worked in at nonprofit before, much less a nearly 100% transparent, community-driven nonprofit. Processes are very different, and I think this is what tripped up Lila.

The crux of it is that she just lost the faith of senior staff. The cause of that probably can't be known by outsiders. But the issue blew up in the wider community when the grant was posted.

Some background here:

http://mollywhite.net/wikimedia-timeline/

The above conflates a lot of highly unrelated events, but it's a cool visualization.

But the reality is that she lost the support of senior staff, and wasn't able to regain it. It's impossible to recover from something like that, so it's a good sign she stepped down.

This stuck out to me as well. Her Wikipedia page reads like a vanity article.