skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is our first-ever z=2 release. Even though it's only 16 days until 1.27.0, we decided to go ahead and issue it, given the unsoundness. Happy as always to answer questions.
This Is Why You Need to Outsource Research Tasks
One downside to this announcement is that this may become an excuse to stop open-sourcing features to Gitlab CE.

We (Debian) use Gitlab (salsa.debian.org) but we wouldn't switch to the free Gold/Ultimate version because we don't want our infrastructure to run on proprietary software.

It might be that the majority of free software projects accept to use the free subscription and therefore lower the pressure to add new features to Gitlab CE.
You shouldn't.

I did a very deep dive into the terms of service for GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian's Bitbucket, and didn't find a real sensible alternative. All 3 of them really operate in the same manner in terms of ownership and treatment of OSS.

Also, Microsoft bought LinkedIn, another social network (almost 2 years ago to the day), and really hasn't done much with it. In fact, when LinkedIn updated their terms of service under Microsoft, they stated that the would keep a separate ToS that wasn't enforced by Microsoft:

https://userinterfacing.com/if-youre-really-worried-about-th...
Self hosted Ghost. Been running smoothly and I'm happy about it.
With now-ubiquituous surveillance, other data sources could be used to triage “remote viewing” or other weak signals.
You said you felt dirty now, in advance of anything actually happening. Why not wait for some sign that random internet FUD is actually happening?
I've been wondering about the "one man band" publishing outfits based on daily blog posts or newsletters or whatever. Some literally have one person behind them (Stratechery, Timmerman Report, as well as some of the examples on your website) while others have an editorial lead, an editorial assistant, and a small business team (Endpoints). Over the years I've seen founders of earlier blogs and vlogs burn out after nonstop, sustained effort to keep engagement up and churn down. What happens when founder fatigue hits the newsletters, and a mere week-long break won't cut it, and there is no editorial backup like in a traditional newsroom? How have the founders of your earliest paid newsletters handled this?

I also have an observation to share: Having attempted a paid newsletter before on the topic of industrial IoT using other tools (Mailchimp + Chargebee) I found that moving people from free to paid is a huge challenge. The cost to readers has several elements: the subscription cost and the time cost, because when people pay they are also making a commitment to read, which takes time out of their already extremely time-constrained days. What sort of advice do you give to newsletter creators about making this transition and convincing their free readers to sign up for the paid tiers?

Good luck with your experiment.
Nope, just an awesome writer using our tools.
That's not what's being discussed at all. There is no question of ownership, but of voting rights. e.g., Brin and Page own something like 14% of Google stock combined, but control >50% of the votes.

That's the exact setup that Domo is attempting, giving its CEO >90% of votes by virtue of getting 40 votes per share.
Courtland from GitLab here. GitLab hosts the gold plan on GitLab.com, but GitLab Ultimate has comparable features and you can self-host that. Both GitLab Gold and GitLab Ultimate are free for open source maintainers. I could see why you (and other open source maintainers) would also need a private project or two. I'll get that discussion going internally at GitLab.
As someone who has worked at Tesla and a couple startups, there's never been anything in their contracts about other jobs as long as it's not with a competitor.

I encourage everyone to push back against wording that is more restrictive than that. In fact CA (and I believe WA as well), it is unlawful for employers to be more restrictive than that[0]. Employment shouldn't make an employer the owner.

Tesla had no legal leverage whatsoever to ask for a cut.

[0]: https://californiaemploymentlaw.foxrothschild.com/2015/03/ar...
Ok, who's paying?
Simo Ahava is an absolute legend for anything google tag manager / google analytics related. No other site is even remotely close.

https://www.simoahava.com/
It does drain, maybe 2%/hr but I thought that was normal? That's what I expect to get on a Mac. I did have to `echo XHC > /proc/acpi/wakeup` because I would shut the lid, but something on the USB bus kept turning it back on.
By default, both Google and Apple can read the content of messages over their respective push services.

This allows a service to send push messages to its users without Google being privvy to the content of the messages. I guess it's not ready for P2P use yet (aka encrypting the messages with a key unknown to $Service) but could still be useful for telling a user that "Jane sent you a message" without leaking the fact that John is communicating with Jane.
Good. Sometimes people need to learn hard lessons. It's kind of nice to hear that she spent way too much money in the end. Hopefully her business takes off still but I get really tired of people asking for my advice and totally ignoring it.
>Then they advocate plowing those savings into home ownership, as if that itself isn't a consumerist decision.

I can't say I've seen that very often, usually the advice is to stick every bit of spare cash into Vanguard.
Well said. Some particular examples of things we're looking for in this case, however, include supersymmetry, strong gravity / extra dimensions, and dark matter. All of these theories generally can be contrived one way or another to alter the predictions of the standard Higgs theory.

But we are also looking everywhere we can and trying to do precise measurements because we may find something surprising as well!
This is true of more than just a mountain... it’s a story as old as mankind. See also Moby Dick, Macbeth, Beowulf, etc.

It’s basically the achievement treadmill. Either you realize you eventually have to get off the treadmill or you die trying to make it to the end.
When you deploy Kubernetes "add-ons" like Helm's tillerd or https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/, the active containers of those get deployed to the management node, no?
There's a spectrum between purity and total asshat. Its disingenuous to imply anybody wants them to be perfect. Just not total scumbags maybe?
Unbelivable, why is it so hard to hire web designers?
I think if you had intelligence that the soviets were researching this, and they were [...]

I know essentially nothing about this topic but from what I read due to this post the Soviets were not actually researching this, it was just a translation error.

[...] you would more or less have to also.

If your enemy wastes resources on something that is hopeless you don't counter by also wasting your resources on the same thing.

Its also philosophically suspicious to assume we understand everything about human consciousness today [...]

We may not have a good understanding of human consciousness but we have a pretty good understanding of fundamental physics and human consciousness can not sidestep the laws of physics.

Worse, the uber-skeptic position has been hurt in recent years, not the least of which with the military releasing incredible footage of the very same UFO experiences that have been dismissed by skeptics:

I don't know how such footage changed anything, there have been alleged alien space ship sightings for a long time, some easily explained, some remaining unexplained. What do a couple more examples change? There are no alien space ships roaming Earth's sky.

Also, small nitpick, but a witch hunt was a political move against women, not an honest attempt to find real witches. Societies with witch burnings were overly patriarchal and witch threats existed to keep women in line.

According to Wikipedia that was at best one motivation among several and neither a particularly early nor leading one. Anyway, I only used the term witches to make the comment more catchy, I did not want to imply that what they were looking for was the same or similar to witchcraft witches allegedly made use of.
I still believe in owning your data.

I host my own blog on Gitlab using Jekyll (though I'm hoping to move to my own custom solution on the Elixir language later this year).

Medium is still helpful but I'd rather use that for republishing my work rather than simply letting them own my content outright.
Apple doesn't fully support PWAs. If they embraced it enthusiastically, I think then we'd have a great experience.
Defend democracy with ML, win a trip to Colombia and an interview with the press
This must be the first site I ever visited which gave me a choice to opt out of certain tracking/cookies. Is this something real and working, or rather giving a false-ish sense of security/respect for privacy? Other sites do this?
Leadership is outward facing, attracting followers by sharing a vision, inspiration, goal and working with the team to achieve that goal.

Management is inward facing, paying attention to the people you are responsible for, and knowing the right thing that's needed at the right time.

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Leadership is building the boat, management is making sure the boat gets built, on time, on budget, with the proper permits and inspections, training and safety gear, along with bi-weekly status reports to customers.

Some people confuse one with the other, but to me they're distinct and this is a rough sketch of how I see them as different.
Kudos to Tesla for not only being OK with this guy having a sidegig but also not trying to be a jerk in demanding a cut.

No kudos for Tesla. In California, they're not allowed to demand a cut of employees' side income streams if that income is unrelated to Tesla's business. The CA Dept of Labor punishes such things very heavily.

(This is why Theranos failed to acquire Kent's patent. In California, the IP assignment clause in his contract legally does not extend beyond inventions within the scope of Theranos' business lines if developed independently.)
See, I have a different take on this. I think that the job should be split up, it's a huge problem and a risk to try to wrap up all of these qualifications into one person.

>"How do you get from a couple scratches on a piece of paper, to something you actually go use in a lab that you trust and is not going to blow acid in your face?"

Engineering. That's how. Instead, the academic community seems to want to rely on rockstar glaziers the same way a startup relies on one or two developers to handle everything from design to implementation to release.

Have the student sit down with someone who can draw proper technical drawings and specs. Then hand those proper technical drawings off to a glazier. Then give the finished glass to a QA person who will verify it against the specs.
Are you actually e-40?
I'd say it depends on what you're selling but most people should use Shopify and plug into Amazon for better distribution.

Truth of the matter is if you're spending time building the store, you won't be spending enough time building the products or marketing them.

source: I help large(and small) companies strategize and manage roughly $25m/year of eCommerce sales.
One year on: What happened to ElectronConf2017?
In light of GitHub's acquisition, its a good time to look back at one of their bigger non-events from 2017.

June 2017, GitHub announced ElectronConf2017 devoted to one of the most controversial pieces of tech today. People love Electron because it makes it easy to develop cross-platform apps, and hate it because it does this by giving each app a full browser instance to do it. Personally, I'd be glad for experts in Electron to speak on how to build quality Electron apps (for example: VS Code) because if people are going to build using Electron as a user I'd like to see it done well.

The talks at ElectronConf2017, the first conference entirely devoted to Electron, used a blind review process for talks which due to the gender representation skew in tech led to an all male line up of speakers.
This drew the ire of people on twitter. After many scathing tweets which got the attention of then VP of Social Impact Nicole Sanchez the conference was not only postponed, but publicly postponed before the presenters were told.

Fast forward to today: ElectronConf2017 was effectively cancelled due to outrage because certain people were unhappy with the lineup of speakers.

Why is this important?

Firstly, because speakers were robbed of the chance to present because people didn't like their gender. But from a broader perspective, like it or not Electron is here to stay. We have no way of knowing what improvements could have been made to the Electron framework as an outcome of that conference. There may have been an opportunity for the community to talk about improvements to auto-updating Electron apps, sandboxing the browser backend to reduce the disk and memory footprint, and who knows what other improvements to be made.

Because of the outrage of angry individuals, people were denied the opportunity the speak, and technology that is a huge part of the developer landscape has been impacted.

Will there be an ElectronConf 2018? Probably not.
Not just HN, either. The audience for business "news" absolutely loves this shit. It's really depressing to work in business journalism (my previous job) and see what gets the most traffic.
none for me on the 2018 model. Pretty much love it. I did have the older one 2 models ago, which did have the whine, but I bought it at a discount because of that.
Can I host a copy of the Linux kernel on ultimate/gold?

If not, then any person can make a fork of an OSS project and charge 1 cent and it is now a "commercial" project and can no longer be hosted on ultimate/gold. It is not defined and Gitlab can use this ambiguity to at any moment start seeking rent...
Full disclosure: I posted about this when it happened - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868
Don't just compare cores and ghz, look at cpu benchmarks and also power consumption.
When apple nearly went bankrupt? So much so that jobs was able to reverse aquire it with what was basically a startup?
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The problem, according to the article, is that there are few opportunities for apprenticeship. There is demand for experienced professionals but very few job offers for young glassblowers.
Can't read this, GDPR walled...
The sacred experience is utterly derailed when you involve a synthetic compound.
Just because something is useful doesn't mean it is finding all of the useful results.
> "They're your nodes, you paid for them" seems like a reasonable position to take here.

If that were a reasonable position, you'd think AWS RDS and Google Cloud SQL would give you superuser access to your database instances to do things like installing Postgres extensions.

It seems a lot of people are happy to pay for instances they can't even SSH into. :/
To expand on this, Gitlab is currently hosted on Azure (Hello Microsoft) with current (now expedited) plans on shifting over to the Google Cloud Platform.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando...
> I think answers here will be skewed, since people who work on trivial programming tasks often don't visit websites like this.

This is a big assumption you're making, and given the answers, it would appear that assumption was incorrect from what I've read so far?

From what I can tell, most people don't find their work interesting but work for the money and find interesting things to do outside of work. The exception to this is probably those in leadership or research positions. At least that's what I have seen so far in this thread and also witnessed in my own experience.
>Again, leaving China would not help their users, but it would be a huge blow to their finances today and in the future. Is martyrdom a good play for a business and its stockholders?

It absolutely will. Apple users will know for sure that Apple respects privacy and will not budge under pressure, no matter what. Point is, Apple talks about being all about user's privacy till it hurts their finances. Thus, it talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.

Google famously even walked away from China at one point of time.
the uni doesn't reward people that aren't on the tenure track. In the long term this limits what the Uni can do, but if there is one thing about the Uni it is that it doesn't have enough self-regard to pursue it's own interests.
> Those things scaled just fine for decades of software development.

There is a difference between “were used at scale because there were no known alternatives” and “scaled just fine”, and I think the facts in this case favor the former over the latter.
Ask your government to fix your laws, if there is anything resembling accountability in the EU legislative process.
Hi, what do you mean with dynamic creative optimization?

as for "already available elsewhere", adwords is definitely the most powerful out there, they do offer AdWords scripts which can be used (knowing javascript) to accomplish most of this, you are right.

As for Facebook and others, I don't think this is the case. Googling I found this:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/community/question/?i... and it's for weather (probably the most common trigger), imagine CRM, or Google Analytics Goals. Could you please point me out to some docs on how can I accomplish this nowadays on other platforms?
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>Full-time university glass blowers are considered tops in their field, but few institutions still offer such positions or give young glass blowers the chance to hone their craft.

Seems like they've created the issue themselves.
You can make the same argument with software development. You can get people overseas to do it at cheaper price.
This is what happens in literally every regulated industry: if you can't abide by a countries regulations, you don't make your products available there.
Oh wow! I didn't know it was still ongoing.

Your response was great in spite of my snarky comment. Thanks for making the internet a better place.
I mean, to be fair, I probably wouldn't bang it.
Not being a misogynistic isn’t “moral purity” it’s the minimum standard of decency. And nobody is saying Taibbi hasn’t had notable achievements. I’m saying I have no interest in seeing someone like him do an AMA on HN. And as an audience member, I certainly don’t want my friends knowing I have an account and post to a site that’d let someone like Taibbi do an AMA. He can go be notable somewhere else.
The world of bespoke military hardware is very different from consumer devices or commercial installations. Where off the shelf stuff is used, a lot of work goes into neutralizing the infiltration and exfiltration vectors. It is one of the reasons military computing systems are both so expensive and so behind the cutting edge.
I'm still unclear on the concept of giving a company kudos for not doing something the law will punish them for doing.

It's the equivalent of saying we should all get kudos for not stealing from each other. You've made the act of stealing the baseline for moral judgment rather than the reprehensible exception.
I am - switching to http works.
You believe in owning your own data but aren't self-hosting?
I was using that as a general population. You can be as proud as you want but it doesn't stop the general population from letting these services walk all over us.
Laboratory glassblowers are spectacularly valuable. Unfortunately, the funding for such work is insufficient to maintain a pipeline of trained glassblowers, leading to the now-perpetual shortage of scientific glassblowers.

I don't know what will happen in another generation.
Count me out. A few drivers offer some candy or water, and if I take them up on it I tip for that too. I asked once, he figured he was making 3x on tips over the cost of the refreshments.

I'd rather keep doing it that way.
I want to side with the Whatsapp founders but really what did you expect?
We just started trialling Facebook Workplace. Unfortunately the same is true of that. It’s all about getting you back into Workplace, rather than actually doing your job.
AutoCAD is a dead technology. Architects/Stuctural Engineers/MEP Engineers are moving to BIM platforms (Revit, ArchiCAD, etc)! Product/Automotive/Industrial design and engineering use PLM tools (Catia, SolidWorks, etc). Besides, AutoCAD didn’t/doesn’t need much graphics power at all. AFAIK it never really used OpenGL.
In addition to the “Existential Angst” there is...

Koyaanisqatsi - life out of balance - see also the film
'She don't know what she don't know'. I bet she thought/thinks she was getting a bargain.