SquishyPanda23 (u/SquishyPanda23)

SquishyPanda23 commented on New Year, New CEO signal.org/blog/new-year-... · Posted by u/0xedb

wrycoder · 4 years ago

When the WMF announced the creation of an endowment with the Tides Foundation in January 2016, on Wikipedia’s 15th birthday, its goal was to accumulate $100 million over 10 years, as “a permanent source of funding to ensure Wikipedia thrives for generations to come.”
Just five years later, the endowment passed $90 million, and the $100 million mark, now described as an “initial goal,” will be reached this year.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tides-foundation/

Which partly explains Wikipedia's political stance.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

> Which partly explains Wikipedia's political stance.

I'm curious to hear what you think Wikipedia's political stance is?

SquishyPanda23 commented on How to talk about autism respectfully coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsk... · Posted by u/aberoham

blueflow · 4 years ago

I have distaste for the author speaking on behalf of autistic people. Also i have a distaste of the author listing their "disabilities" in their twitter bio.

Its probably some kind of US identity politics thing. I don't think defining yourself via your diagnoses is socially acceptale where i live.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

If somebody talking about their disability triggers you into such a strong political reaction, then maybe consider the possibility that you have let your own identity politics take too much control over your life.

> Also i have a distaste of the author listing their "disabilities" in their twitter bio.

People generally prefer disabled people not to talk about their disabilities or be public about them. But this sort of openness is incredibly useful. It's the internet and it's almost 2021. Let people talk about what they want to without being the internet police.

SquishyPanda23 commented on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed] github.com/microsoft/grpc... · Posted by u/mkdirp

esrauch · 4 years ago

What you're saying doesn't make any sense. If what you're saying was true you could take any MIT repro, fork it and replace the license with a fully proprietary copyright claim or any other license. You absolutely can't take code and just change the license to anything more permissive without the original copyright holders permission.

It's definitely the case that at a given snapshot of the repository which has copyrighted code owned by someone else the copyright notice has to be there at that same revision.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

The license wasn't changed. But yes, generally you can make changes to MIT code that aren't released under the MIT license.

> It's definitely the case that at a given snapshot of the repository which has copyrighted code owned by someone else the copyright notice has to be there at that same revision.

This isn't in the license. Where is this laid out?

SquishyPanda23 commented on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed] github.com/microsoft/grpc... · Posted by u/mkdirp

osolo · 4 years ago

The attitude in these threads always boggles my mind. When YOU, your teammates or someone else you know makes a mistake, then it’s just a mistake. But when someone at Microsoft makes a mistake it’s because Microsoft is evil and by extension so is the person who offended.

“It’s a big company”, you say. They should have a process! And I’m sad to say, they do/will have a process exactly because of this attitude. Then, everyone wonders why it takes forever to fix that bug they’re furious about or why features are slow to come.

Full disclosure: I work for MS, though have nothing to do with this. It’s a huge company. I know hundreds of people and most of them are upstanding and try to do the right thing.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

I'm just curious, is Microsoft actually in violation of the MIT license here?

All future changes to this repo are copyright Microsoft, so Microsoft's copyright should be in the statement.

Arguably there should be an additional statement indicating that LesnyRumcajs holds copyright to bits of code that Microsoft hasn't changed.

But

(1) exactly which bits have LesnyRumcajs's copyright would have to be verified by examining source control history. Since LesnyRumcajs's copyright statement is visible on any commit where LesnyRumcajs holds copyright, this setup makes actually makes it easy to verify which portions LesnyRumcajs has copyright claims on.

(2) Including LesnyRumcajs's copyright statement in repo history seems to be all that the MIT license requires. The license doesn't forbid there being another more easily accessible copyright notice that doesn't list all copyright holders. It only requires that LesnyRumcajs's statement be included in all copies of the software, which it currently is.

SquishyPanda23 commented on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/ren_engineer

glerk · 4 years ago

> They're a relic of back when people believed in IQ tests were useful selection criteria.

IQ tests are a very reliable proxy for academic performance potential. Is this even in dispute?

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

Yes of course it's in dispute. It's so dominant a dispute in intelligence research that it's hard to imagine anyone being familiar with research on IQ and not knowing that it's in dispute.

IQ tests are maybe ok at doing population-level correlations, but not at predicting the success of any given individual. Tons of things are correlated with intelligence, and IQ has the virtue that it's easy to measure. So it has uses for things like research studies.

But as an actual filter when you care about performance it's not great. Things like high school GPA are easier to measure and more predictive of college success.

SquishyPanda23 commented on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/ren_engineer

throw_m239339 · 4 years ago

> Standardized test scores do very little to predict college success when controlling for other variables. And they're trivial to game.

needs sources, and unbiased ones.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

This is a very well studied field, just do a Google search

SquishyPanda23 commented on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/ren_engineer

zarkov99 · 4 years ago

Yes! Finally the admissions committee can admit exactly who it wants, without any pesky objective criteria to hamper their social justice ideals!

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

It's not sufficient that a metric be objective. The student's astrological sign is objective. But it's not a useful measure of college readiness.

Standardized test scores do very little to predict college success when controlling for other variables. And they're trivial to game.

They're a relic of back when people believed in IQ tests were useful selection criteria. Maybe there will be standardized tests in the future that are more useful, but we don't have those yet.

SquishyPanda23 commented on Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend arnoldgalovics.com/micros... · Posted by u/galovics

KronisLV · 4 years ago

I wonder why no one ever talks about architectures in the middle between those two - modular monoliths.

The point in time where you're splitting your codebase up in modules (or maybe are a proponent of hexagonal architecture and have designed it that way from the beginning), leading to being able to put functionality behind feature flags. That way, you can still run it either as a single instance monolith, or a set of horizontally scaled instances with a few particular feature flags enabled (e.g. multiple web API instances) and maybe some others as vertically scaled monoliths (e.g. scheduled report instance).

I wrote more about that approach on my blog, as one of the first articles, "Moduliths: because we need to scale, but we also cannot afford microservices": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/modulith-because-we-need-to...

In my eyes, the good part is that you can work with one codebase and do refactoring easily across all of it, have better scalability than just a monolith without all of the ops complexity from the outset, while also not having to worry as much about shared code, or perhaps approach the issue gently, by being able to extract code packages at first.

The only serious negatives is that this approach is still more limited than microservices, for example, compilation times in static languages would suffer and depending on how big your project is, there will just be a bit of overhead everywhere, and not every framework supports that approach easily.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

It's usually not obvious where to put the seams ahead of time so you can cut them when you need to split into microservices.

Plus keeping the API boundaries clean costs time and resources, and it's tempting to violate them just to launch this one feature. This extra discipline doesn't have any payoff in the short term, and it has unknown payoff in the long term because you're not sure you drew the boundaries ahead of time anyway.

So I think in practice what happens is you create a monolith and just eat the cost of untangling it when the team gets too big or whatever.

SquishyPanda23 commented on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/lxm

hasdf · 4 years ago

If a hispanic guy being aquitted for defending himself from three white attackers is your best example of white supremacy in action and your reference is from the civil war - maybe take a deep breath and realize the country isn't doing as bad as your peers at facebook claim

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

I'm sorry I've hurt your feelings.

SquishyPanda23 commented on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/lxm

HNTA_1 · 4 years ago

>The US has a long history of letting murderers off the hook when there is a racial component.

Luckily that wasn't the case here so your comment is immaterial, a straw man.

SquishyPanda23 · 4 years ago

I'm sorry I've hurt your feelings.