skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, this is not the state government of California, but a division of the University of California (the California Digital Library) working with the Internet Archive and Code for Science & Society.
Thanks for your thoughts. A coop or union model might make sense, no? When you become a member you get one vote (one vote per person).

To get specific, I mean "open source" as in "I can go read the source and contribute bug fixes." Forks could be treated as derivatives, like remixes or covers of music. The originator of the IP would share in the revenue of any fork.

I think ultimately where I would like to see this is Google, Apple, etc, paying for the software they use in the form of one big lump royalty fee based on a percentage of their gross revenue. That would entitle them to use any software with the license, no questions asked.
And significantly more opaque. I’d say the title went from a B to a B- due to the moderation action.
I use Grab all the time but only motorbikes and can't imagine these drivers carrying snacks around. I don't have stats but I'm pretty sure that at least here (Vietnam), the overwhelming majority of Grab users go for bikes.
"Russia (fascist dictatorship, long totalitarian history) for example doesn't have that sort of extreme economic slack". When did you born? 2016?
The neutron diffusion simulation seems simplistic and probably reflects the limitations of the time. Can one imagine what John Von Neumann would do given access a modern supercomputer?
Vue.js is the only OSS success story on Patreon that I'm aware of.

https://www.patreon.com/evanyou/
Pretty sure it was the “climbing Mt Everest” part that cost a life, not their stupid marketing copy.
That was a fascinating distraction. :)
Probably everybody that utilize tracking in their business model...
The problem is that product and dev are different people. Product managers don’t understand their product as well as the devs do. devs should manage the product definition and work with feature requesters at a very high level, where the details are the choices of the devs (or senior devs acting as product managers.)
It would help to have more specifics about who & what you're talking about, I'm not sure what you mean when you say they can't do that.

But, I worked in a very well known Hollywood film studio that had mandatory 10 hour work days with an 8 hour core window, not including crunch times. They factored overtime pay into the schedule. This meant that all employees were being paid some 1.5 time, that double-time would hit sooner than you'd think, but also be a lower rate than what you might expect. It was all documented and reported on my tax forms, and within the bounds of California law AFAIK.
Any link for the Europeans? The page just asks to agree and then doesn't redirect anywhere.
No references. The fundamental idea is based on the Equation of Matter suggested in 1958 by Werner Heisenberg. Anything else is new. This theory solves the problems, Heisenberg introduced with his equation by eleminating the coupling constant l (dim psi = -1/2 hence not observable instead of -3/2) and adding the point split on the right side of the equation which is a consequence of the differential operator on the left side (dx is equivalent to the point split). The rest naturally follows from this fundamental equation.
> (at last, the Google privacy team has its own messaging app!)

A nice jab at themselves. Glad they have a sense of humor.
Absolutely, but many people use this news coverage to then make decisions. Statistically, this is crazy.

Like Rosling, the point is that we need to understand why the media covers things the way it does.
Everything SIMD that relies on any flavor of SSE or AVX will need to be ported to NEON (or its variable width new thing I forgot the name). Also, many ARM SoCs have asymmetric cores - a couple i7-like ones and a couple Atom-like ones. If I see 8 cores and start 8 threads that need to sync up at the end, my process will be perceived to run at Atom speeds. At the same time, if I wake up my big powerful core to listen to me typing on a terminal, my battery will suffer - unless I have something that's "hard", I should use the small, less hungry cores.

Software will need to take individual core speed in consideration when scheduling threads if it wants to achieve best possible power consumption at a certain performance level. Today, our software assumes all cores are equal. I'm not even sure these asymmetric cores have the same SIMD widths, for instance.
> I don't actually consider GPL to be fully open-source

I held the same opinion for a long time, I'm more on the fence now. It's an unpopular claim, but I don't think it's an unreasonable claim.
Off-topic, but their GDPR popup just redirects me to the same popup.
I couldn't let this one pass.
Musk also had that Twitter gaff about the "D." I don't know what to make of it but it sure is weird and not particularly confidence-inspiring.
> pushing the humanity forward, or alleviating a social problem for some group of people

Isn't this what humans like to strive for? Making an impact, being remembered after death, thus living forever. That's one of the things a family (with kids) helps you get over, you know, the whole "living on through your kids" thing. If they don't end up as homeless drug addicts, it probably kinda works.

I've taken a job at a university two years ago. Pay is much lower than before. Haven't felt anywhere close to overworked or burnt out ever since, even though I've stayed until late at night occasionally when we fucked something up by deploying without any proper testing again, because hey, it's such a tiny change. I'm not doing frontier science or anything, we're just working on a custom netbooted Linux distro that also runs windows vms via qemu-kvm, for teaching environments. A lot of what we do could be dismissed as NiH-syndrome or creating solutions to problems that have already been solved by big companies, but as long as someone is paying for it I'm good with this job. Because there pop up a lot of problems or requirements that are just interesting to solve by yourself, actually not just for fun but for actual use cases. Nothing game changing for humanity, not for millions of people, but for some. And I will interact with them directly, and sometimes they tell you that they like the system you helped develop. That, and the fact that you're not in competition with your coworkers or another team or anything really makes for a great work atmosphere that I'm currently really enjoying. I don't know how long I can/want to stay, but for now I can say it greatly improved my overall happiness.
I think another way is to train readers to understand the issues, and over decades, change the incentives faced by media. Or for us to push back on the incentives that social networks set for media outlets.

I wrote a media literacy guide for engineers in this vein:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer
Would you mind elaborating on what you had in mind?

It's a good idea. There should be an easy way for a small team to capture the value that their open source project creates. There are a variety of crowdfunding platforms like Patreon that are doing something similar. CodeMill and Bountysource are paying developers directly for adding features.
It's worth mentioning the reasoning behind the project: It's a fork of Gogs. It was created because the community didn't like that Gogs was structured to be owned under 1 person (who was often slow to accept PRs, disappeared occasionally for short periods of time...)
I'm cobbling together a language that is stock standard C with classes. Just classes, nothing more. I'm calling it C+.
All the major clouds offer repos, Google Cloud has free private ones with decent limits: https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/
Yeah, I hate hatchbacks and bean looking EVs. IDK why those are the only ones being made.
Didn't know about that one, thanks! This further increases my appreciation of Fedora. Between this and the COPR hosting, you can really do some serious development for Fedora without paying a dime for hosting or distribution. That's awesome.
do NOT write your own shop. you're putting your friend in a shit situation when 1 year from now, you're too busy and she needs to find a contractor to add a feature on top of your custom framework, when if you did the right thing in the first place and built it with Shopify, she could find someone super easily
Remember that AOL was able to buy Time Warner with inflated stock. If you have inflated currency (I.e. stock), why not use it to buy some real assets?
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Update: working now! There were app updates and server-side changes. One of those must have fixed it.

Recommended for support.
I meant Tesla in general. You can get a slick S used for about 40-50k.
A foot cannon is a joke term for something which makes it easy to "shoot yourself in the foot". In other words a tool which is easy to use incorrectly.
Avoids GPL libraries when developing, yes. Avoid Linux, no.
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There's some huge roadblocks ahead. First -- joints need to be ground. That's a physical, subtractive process that I see no way of getting around.

Second, have you ever seen 3D printed glass under a microscope? It's full of voids and the surface is awful (at least the last piece I saw). For high temp usage, this will not work. This is also a very specific kind of glass -- borosilicate mostly, with some pure quartz work as well, and it's going to have very different properties than even garden variety soda lime.

In short -- maybe 50 years. But, lacking the demand, I doubt we get there at all.
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I am still a bit amazed that we haven't had a major lawsuit that heavily fines/restricts most of Tesla's behavior at this point. They seem to think a car that they've sold is still theirs, and that they can do these sorts of things. Another big one is using the Autopilot sensors to collect data to send back to Tesla even if you don't buy or use Autopilot, or their refusal to "activate" a salvaged vehicle that you legally have a title for if they don't like how it was repaired or who serviced it.

Cars are a significant property which, unlike a lot of other items, even comes with a proper title of ownership, it's hard to imagine any of Tesla's behavior regarding the car's data, activation practices, etc. would hold up in a court of law.

Given that most people who can afford Teslas can afford lawyers, I'm kinda surprised nobody's gone for the payday.
Apache committers are almost all employed to work on the projects, a patronage model. Nothing wrong with the patronage model as long as you realize you work at the behest of the King. Mozart and Bach, for instance, spent much of their life searching for jobs and/or patrons to support their musical efforts.
Lenovo Thinkpad 580, never been happier.
Might be a legacy hangover from having been enrolled in the developer beta scheme with that same device. I just enrolled my spare iPhone 6 into the public beta program and can only get iOS 11.4.1 beta, no iOS 12 beta in sight sadly.
I'm running Windows but you can get it preloaded with Ubuntu
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That assumes the company has a future, which if they're selling off divisions as part of bankruptcy is far from a sure thing.
>the uni doesn't reward people that aren't on the tenure track.

Correction: the uni don't reward tenure track people either these days.

Working 6 years for a $55K salary with a nonzero prospect of getting fired from your field forever afterwards isn't exactly a rewarding experience.
You weren’t exempt since you were getting paid overtime.

Exempt and non exempt status are very clearly defined. One gets paid hourly, the other a salary. If you are on any kind of schedule, you are usually non exempt unless really a manager.
The network effect. I haven't seen it mentioned too much, so it worth thinking about it. The majority of the users won't leave and it's still one of the best places to collaborate with developers.

There's tons of search traffic going to GitHub issues.
I've interacted online with some BSD zealots that were so invested in not using Linux they pretend not to know what systemd is and things like that, in order to signal to the rest of the irc channel how plugged in they are to the BSD community.

Edit: down voted for answering the question asked? Good grief.
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What resources do you use to help non-technical staff learn how to write requirements and specifications documents?
If someone parks their van across the street from my home, sits there writing down everything they see me do, following me to work to do the same, I can’t show you tangible harm. I think most people can agree that it’s reasonable to object to this, no matter what the stalker’s benign stated purpose is.
how do you do inventory management? variants? promotions? etc etc etc
Why is now a good opportunity compared to any other time?
I see. I have iPython 5.1.0. Maybe there was a bug that has been fixed in yours.
So I personally understand that _Tesla wants this_. I just don't agree that Tesla should be allowed to do this. It will be interesting to see what happens when the next European accident happens now that GDPR is in place, since I am pretty sure that they do not have _explicit_ consent for this. _I_ have _definitely_ not given explicit consent for this, and even if it is written into the contract in a vague way, that will not be good enough to stop a GDPR infraction.

And that is something that I support the GDPR for.
Are government-owned news outlets significantly better on this particular issue (of deaths)? What does the BBC, CBC, ABC, Al-Jazeera cover? I'd wager it's substantially similar. You'd have to have orders of magnitude more articles about people dying of heart disease (or whatever) to make up for it, and I don't think eg. the BBC spends its resources that way.
Companies aren't evil, they are just a group of people, and so it stands to reason when the leaders of that group have changed then "the company" has changed too.

Also what exactly is so bad about MS owning Github? The amount of conspiracy theory on HN is incredible.
A more accurate point is not necessarily that Google will keep some more nodes up, but that it can fit small workloads like a Kubernetes master into existing nodes that run other stuff and have bits of spare capacity. Borg's resource estimation is pretty good at squeezing things.

I'm thinking specifically of masters for smaller clusters, where the fixed overhead costs of the control plane are relatively high compared to the node count. On larger clusters, the masters will be beefier, sure, but your customer will be paying for enough nodes to make up for their cost and the fixed overhead is more "diluted".
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is this a joke? Investors were begging to get in Github it's whole history, no surprise it sold for 7.5 billion
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I like my Lenovo P50 with 64GB of RAM -- allows me to run Chrome AND the desktop Slack client at the same time! Oh, and VMWare workstation with four Windows Server VMs plus Visual Studio simultaneously.
Just an example of a certain privileged segment that many CEOs represent being out of touch with normal people.
Buddy, it's an e-book. There's no genuine cost here; the publisher's thrilled to arrange for the publicity.
The fork happened years ago because Gogs was (not entirely sure of current status) managed by a single person who would disappear on the regular, leaving fixes and other things not merged for weeks. So it got forked by people who were contributing to Gogs, and I think that ended up pushing Gogs into more active development. Now the two projects are still very similar but diverged enough to have some important differences like the OAuth support in gitea and such.
Oh I am. I'm proud of him and his boss, who was also on the same team.
Yeah, I can see that. There are about a million random reasons given for having co-founders for early-stage startups, but the only one that's ever made sense to me is to use two people to manage this split. Either co-founders or a single founder w/ the first IC hire.
Thanks for sharing!

I've often pondered that effect before but never knew it had a name.

In my case I was thinking of AWS versus "newer" competitors like Google Cloud Platform and Azure. AWS has a lot of services and usually keeps them running and backwards compatible. Newer companies could avoid making the less successful services and copy or take inspiration from the most successful services.
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I consider myself 'intellectually adventurous'. I don't know how else to describe it. I will very willingly read total bunk and extend to it every hypothetical and grant it the widest margin of "OK, just maybe..." But, when it comes down to discussing it, I like using strong language where called for and absolutes when they can be defended. Reason can get you far. But I've run across the same folks you have, not willing to actually explore ideas at all and clearly looking only to find one excuse to throw something out.

The most annoying are the many who claim to be approaching thins with reason who immediately flee to the worst flaws in thinking there are, ad hominem and arguments from authority. Rather than focus on substantive issues, they point out that those putting forward the ideas don't have the right credentials or similar. Which, if you're just dealing with "am I personally going to accept this idea", that's fine. But it's a pragmatic dodge that is guaranteed to fail quite often. Identity of the speaker can't influence truth of what is spoken, it's that simple.

Then you've got things like the issues you mention, like the expense. So tackle the expense problem! WHY is it expensive? Things are only expensive for a few reasons. Either they require rare materials, extremely precise engineering, or they're being produced for an extremely small destination market. It's not magic. If the things can be made at scale, and they can be made with commodity components, they can be made cheap, end of story. That's just a matter of scale. Whether that scale could ever be achieved is one of those "you have to grant the hypothetical" situations. The slipperiness might be a bigger sticking point. What physical properties lead to stickiness and how do they affect light transmission through a medium? That might be the killer right there, but you have to actually pursue it before you can write something off.

Being intellectually adventurous isn't for everybody. Many people can't take an idea like "maybe it would be best if we ate people" and then just take it apart and determine what the consequences would be and whether they accomplish a desired goal. They just can't bring themselves to do it. Or once they hear about prion diseases, they bail instantly without looking for workarounds. You have to WANT an idea to work to ever have a chance of proving whether its possible. Then you can define the conditions under which it WOULD be possible. And if it's not possible, then you actually know why. Which means you probably know far more about the original problem you were trying to solve and that might generate some great ideas going forward.
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I am guessing it doesn't have Cloudformation support? So I have to spin up instances manually and this is 'generally available' for production use?
Its not cheaper per impact, however you need to buy bigger numbers, millions typically.
So you couldn't be bothered to google for the name? It's not just their Twitter handle; they've published some of the most popular npm packages of all time under it; there's who knows how many millions of users.
A positive aspect of the article is that includes the full cite and not the shortened version.
Yes, GET doesn't make any sense there.
For all the complaints about Microsoft, I've yet to hear what they could do that would be so bad? Change the homepage to actually be useful? Improve the search? Give away free private repos?
Could be refreshing
Those are excellent arguments. That's how I read fiction. Whenever an author I like publishes a book, I buy it.

But that's not how I read journalism. Many years ago, I subscribed to the local paper, The NY Times, and a few magazines. Now I browse forums and Google stuff.

I like many writers. So many that I can't imagine committing $x per week to each of them. As you say, paying per article leads to clickbait. But somehow, I'd like more flexible access to multiple writers.
Archive.org is a very long time investment. Once the original copyright runs out on all that content archive.org is copying today, the copyright holder of the copy you download from archive.org tomorrow, will be copyright archive.org, and that copyright will not expire.
I am definately going to look at this. Now if there were a self host cloud storage (nextcloud) that also did soure repository...
Wouldn't that just make it better?
I've bought the last macbook pro 13 (i7, 16gb) 8 months ago and it was the worst purchase of my life.

It's really bugs on bugs.

I will certainly change for a Chromebook (if announced linux application support is great) or a xps 13 (which I have great feedback from a friend on Ubuntu) soon
Maybe startups should go out and get true debt financing, then they don't have to give up that valuable stock? Oh, wait a minute, they generally can't because they have no real assets to borrow against. No, equity is not debt.
In what may be a case of Baader-Meinhof, I just came across the term "Whiggish" for the first time, reading Steven Weinberg's _To Explain the World_ (pretty good so far). He also has a dig at Kuhn, recounting a time when they met briefly and Kuhn gave a defense of Aristotle that he found incoherent.

I'm no expert in the field of scientific thought, but my sympathies fall with Morris and Weinberg and the like. I agree with Weinberg that Aristotle understood physics worse than many schoolchildren do today. Which is not to say that Aristotle was stupid, but just that your knowledge is a function of the times you live in and the volume of past human thought you've had the privilege to learn from.

There are legitimate social and ethical concerns for everyone to keep in mind with the advancement of scientific knowledge. But this shouldn't be conflated with the idea that we don't understand the natural world better than we used to. We do.
I'm open to having my mind changed, but I've rarely been on projects that ended on time that ended as quickly as they could have.
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I use Microsoft OneNote, I'm not entirely thrilled with it but it works okay and is cross-platform.