skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem with first order logic is that it is too powerful.

There is a direct trade-off between the expressiveness of your representation and your ability to reason about it.
It's slow and usually wrong. By the time it has a suggestion I am usually down a function.
Seriously. Shutting down a security product without warning is just reckless...
>where a large portion of the population dedicates their waking hours to maintaining the world's amassed information,

And they're doing a terrible job. Look at how fast link-rot makes websites useless. Look at how fast interactive websites built not even 10 years ago using modern technologies at the time (flash) are becoming impossible to run, especially if they depended on a server-side component returning data from a server that no longer exists.

It's already extremely difficult to get data off of a 50 year-old computer. Based on evidence so far, once the people die off that actually used them, it doesn't look good for retrieving information from them in the future if other hard drives are found.

Yet we can easily look at a picture developed 100 years ago and understand it without any special technology. Same with books printed 200 years ago.

The "information age" is only about generating and disseminating information as quickly as possible. Very little care is given to preserving for any extended period of time.
What prevents the manufacturer from rebranding themselves and listing their products again on Amazon? I really hope Amazon takes some proactive steps here, otherwise, people would lose trust in Amazon products and ratings.
While this should be upsetting, and I'm sure it was to the people who were affected, I'm actually happy to see it. I'm of the mindset that this will have an overall positive effect on the state of the Web. Why? Because users and devs both need to remember that companies are not friends, and contracts are only as enforceable as the courts will allow.

Imagine if Google decided that tomorrow at 6AM PT they were pulling the plug on YouTube embedding, or GMail / GDrive integrations. The court's going to say, "They put in the contract that they can change the terms of service at any time, and they're not liable for outages or lack of service. And you signed it. Sucks for you."

Then again, I'm just anti-corp in general and this gives me better reason to avoid Twitter.
Notepad++ is windows only. gedit is a bit too dumb with no support for most syntax highlighters.
There are stuff that flow doesn't even handle such as inline destructure with types. Imagine how complicated it gets at the engine level of parsing the syntax.
> Services like YouTube portray themselves as platforms, not media companies.

Is the implication there that "platform" means there's no rules? Because that's clearly not the case on any platform, and if there are rules, I'm not sure what specific difference you're trying to call out. I suspect it's something to to with freedom of choice or money, but I'm not exactly sure how to reply without knowing where you're going with that.

> Individualised, private requirements and restrictions for channels goes against all of that.

Just because we've only heard of one or a few cases, doesn't mean it's individualized. It could very well be that if oyu hit some threshold of content serving costs they require it be paid for in some manner.

If I wanted to upload every public domain movie I could fine and then heavily promote them, but refused all monetization by Youtube, should they be forced to allow that? Should they be demonized for disallowing what to their eyes is likely me clearly abusing their system?

> If YouTube wants to require large channels to enable monetisation, it should advertise this policy, and give reasonable notice; not suddenly disabling a channel.

If that's what you want, you want a contract. If you want a contract, you generally pay for the luxury. If you're running a business, or a professional organization of some sort, or even if you just want assurance things won't change on your, you get a contract.

Blender had to deal with a day of figuring out new hosting and changing some webpage links, and all they got in exchange was a few years of free very high quality hosting up to that point. Certainly, they got the short end of the stick, right?

> Note that all of this is moot, because apparently Blender being disabled is an error

Like I said, contracts. Whether it's an error or not, now Blender truly knows how important the video hosting is or is not to them, and whether it's worth switching still, or at a a minimum setting up a secondary video host they can switch to very quickly if needed, but costs very little or nothing until used.
[I removed from here an argument that this was public information, without mentioning the names again.]
I feel like there must be more to this story. Maybe they immediately saw security problems, or legal issues. Not saying it's going to exonerate Twitter (maybe the truth is even worse than it sounds), but this is such an obvious PR mess that I can't see them doing it for no reason.
Why do you want that?
I can vouch for Pete Hunt based on what he's done for React. There's gotta be more to the story.
Well-designed APIs can be self-documenting to a significant extent with the right choice of names (and things they name, as well). But it takes as much if not more effort to do this right, as it does to write quality docs.
You don't have to post their names or attack them publicly in order not to do business with them.

Please stop now.
That depends on how the contracts are written and whether Smyte continue as a company on its own or just as a software product of Twitter.
I did not know this. Useful, thanks.
> Maybe good AI requires a combination of symbolic approaches for the knowledge representation, deep parsing for NLP and semantics/discourse models, and machine learning for pattern recognition tasks of any kind.

I totally agree.
If they aren't virologists, maybe they should leave this kind of research to those that are? The headline says "Researchers Find Herpes Viruses" ...but they didn't (or cannot?) find them? Then, umm...why does it say that?
> Both were honest and up front, but trying to play up the fact that "we live to work" played about as well as a piano falling off a crane onto Wiley Coyote.

I'd say the honesty is merely the minimum required level of courtesy and respect. The reaction is understandable, especially considering that, for example, by then JTV was 5 years old. If ops is truly still onerous by that point, then candidates would be right to suspect there's something awry with management.

I do hope that this is something that's being addressed by YC, that some founders have the expectation of their early (and sometimes not so early) employees of having the same loyalty or buy-in as they do. If your entire employee option pool is 10%, it's not reasonable to ask even employee #1 for that.
To your points:

>> - Speed up development time by doing test locally - don't need to commit and wait a build kick it and see whats wrong

Combined with the article linked, it sounds like you're working in an environment where the only machine authorized to interact with AWS, or retain the Terraform statefile, is a Jenkins build server. Might I suggest investigating Terraform Enterprise (despite the name, it's rather affordable, for what you're getting)? TFE integrates with Github (and other VCS) pull requests, allowing a pull request to trigger a `terraform plan`. This gives a pretty good understanding of whether your changes are going to succeed or not, and are pretty quick to run -- I work on some rather large projects, and have never waited more than a few minutes for a plan to complete.

If you're allowed to pull down the statefile, you can also just run `terraform state pull > terraform.tfstate && terraform plan`.

>> - Able to be part of the bigger scheme where you can test your whole "infrastructure" or part of it at least we still limited by localstack.

In my experience, mocking systems like `localstack` are never quite up to the "standard" of the systems they intend to mock (AWS in this case). Of particular note, AWS's APIs, especially for newer products, tend to have lots of "gotchas" that are undocumented or hard to trace back -- things that are extremely unlikely to be covered well in a mocking framework.

If this works well for you, great! Just giving my two cents, as someone who has thought a lot about this and wound up right back at `terraform plan`.
Hell, the crap they've been pulling with the recommendation algorithms and subscriptions that creators have been complaining about also messes with the consumers. I get so much crap I'm not interested in displayed when I open YouTube up compared to a year or two ago, and I've been watching more content than ever so it's not like Google doesn't have a good profile on me. All it takes is watching one video outside my normal fields of interest and my front page is flooded with similar ones I have no interest in watching, it's ridiculous.

Anyway, I already pay for YouTube Premium, if I'm going to give anything extra to content creators beyond the chunk of that Google divides among them I'm not going to do it through the platform that's actively hostile to the people creating the videos I'm watching.
>One can put me in a box. The other one can’t.

Uber put someone in a box in Phoenix recently.
Exactly. There are many successful cases of teachers, where their own kids are sitting in their classes.

According to the CEO logic this should not be allowed and would not work. It does. Are teachers better managers than CEO's? Apparently. But then they should get paid accordingly.
The problem is underemployment, not unemployment. People work but can't get enough money from their work—even when they are working 2-3 jobs to try to support their family.
"I charge a 5 percent commission rate, which is pretty standard"

5 percent of what?
I may have just stumbled in to the middle of this, but why the brouhaha?

Did customers pre-pay for Smyte service and not receive it?
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Ask HN: US sales tax for ecommerce “platforms” (not sellers)
Suppose I am an ecommerce platform - I don’t sell any of my own products, but am merely a conduit for other entities to sell their product to consumers. Am I still responsible for sales tax on B2C sales?

What I’m really selling in this case is the use of my platform/service to the actual B2C sellers on my platform. So my sales tax ought to be based on what said sellers pay me, and what jurisdictions they’re based in.

Is this understanding correct?
I can see you are a True Believer and I'm not going to respond to this comment. Good day to you.
'RM Vogue': Let your clothes earn for you
Honestly, it's been a while since I tried. Perhaps I'll take another stab at it and see how VS Code has improved. Out of curiosity, how wide is the file? Some of the files I open are 250+ field invoices, so each line is easily 1k characters each.
I would nuance that somewhat: if you have a Condition, you pretty much need to work for The Man, or life's gonna be pretty rough.

If you're basically healthy..... you'll probably be fine.
I am confused, I didn't say anything close to "almost everyone gives tiny magnets to toddlers" and that wouldn't even be a relevant factor in this discussion. My point was that most people don't understand how dangerous tiny magnets might be for toddlers.
That's great, until your service scales to the point where it's not possible to simulate prod in test.
I noticed that Amazon seems to have some serious issues with counterfeit product. For them to compete long-term with companies like Walmart and Best Buy they need to do better and this is another example of where sometimes a curated product selection can be better.
That they didn't notice during due diligence?
> I feel like these are frivolous toys

They are not toys.
It's not even the dynamic typing that makes Python easy to pick up. It's readable core language, and a well-documented and reasonably thorough standard library that doesn't ignore things that are useful specifically for teaching people (like turtle graphics - I've yet to see a better way to teach loops, recursion etc than getting someone to draw stars and spirals with a turtle).
Tell me again how the silicon valley system works and works well at what it does.

Create a product, gather funding.

Attract customers.

Get acquired, founders make bank.

New owners trash the product, stranding customers.

Tell me again how this is good system not for only making money but actually providing value to customers.
(copying comment to your other reply for benefits of thread)

Honestly, it's been a while since I tried. Perhaps I'll take another stab at it and see how VS Code has improved. Out of curiosity, how wide is the file? Some of the files I open are 250+ field invoices, so each line is easily 1k characters each.
> Also, $4.99 feels too steep – many people only give $1-2 on Patreon.

It's a copy of Twitch's subscription model, which is also $4.99 a month per channel and gives similar perks like emoticons.

A lot of content creators migrated to Twitch because a reliable fan-base giving you (a part of) $5/month/person is very attractive in comparison to Youtube's fickle advertising CPM and algorithm which determines who gets which videos in his feed.
And this, boys and girls, is why you never use any service of which you cannot host a fully working copy yourself.
It is in fact a possibility that Smyte's terms were extremely one-sided.
There needs to be a class action suit.

This is BS.
Wrong. Law enforcement and abusive husbands are not the same thing.
pgbouncer or pgpool (of the extensions I searched) do this. Which ones are more of a challenge? I mean I have read on some forum that PGPOOL -II would just shutdown and stop or misbehave. Any such experiences or gotchas with pgbouncer?
He did a great job in Odd Thomas. That movie got too little attention. I say that not even knowing about the book. Interesting enough, one person who watched it with me yawning or nearly falling asleep during most of it was at edge of couch during last scenes. They totally flipped its style on audience.

I'll remember him that way in a movie where he played a great character dedicated to entertaining and protecting the rest. :)
In the end of the day is about COST but we could have more machines doing builds and better ones but still takes more time and effort them being local. Terraform enterprise is not available for me. Since my project just uses Open Source besides AWS.

AWS moves pretty FAST, but I don't know anything better than LocalStack fro AWS mocking.
Where are you getting your data? AT&T market cap is over 200B, _before_ Time Warner merger. Plus this data fails to take into account the infrastructure holdings and government contracts they have, which are enormous.
> software engineers

Is there any timeline on lifting that exclusivity?
Abuse of 1099 independent contractors is pretty much endemic to every large industry and profession in the US, though. The tech sector isn't going to get called out on it before sales, etc. It's just "the way it is", because the IC regs are almost entirely in the employer's favor financially. And since the capitalists have the money, the rest of us are unable to influence the government with the same net effect.
I guess I was just thinking out loud, but then I did read the article and have read many other like it over the last 30+ years.

I can see it must be fun to speculate, but also seemingly profitable for some of these guys too, eh? I wonder how much a "theoretical physicist" gets paid, anyways?
Easy: not everyone finds those businesses “immoral”.

Many find it blends very nicely with their own personal libertarian attitudes. This blending is made even smoother by the nice paychecks these industries offer. e.g. algorithm engineers, quants/mathmaticians, etc. in gambling businesses, site reliability and streaming engineers at adult sites. These are hard technical problems, of the exact same nature as any trading business or netflix. Why wouldn’t an engineer be attracted to them? Not everyone shares the same moral values. And a lot of technically minded folks tend to have some libertarian tendencies.
I'll one-up you with cynicysm: these days, getting acquihired - AKA having "an exit" - is the design goal of startups from day one. The whole point is baiting enough users to use your product that you can look good to some large company, get acquired, close up shop and enjoy your millions. For founders, it's "compress your work years and get rich sooner by working more now". For users, it's pure bait-and-switch though.

This is such a constant thing that right now, I'm very reluctant to use startup-made SaaS for anything that isn't throwaway. The expected lifetime of a service is just extremely low, and the cost of integration (lock-in due to platform idiosyncrasies, and your data being taken hostage) is too high.
I presume it’s their income, or assets under management. Pretty sweet deal if so compared to the 2-and-20 a lot of investment managers make.
Flipping burgers every day for the rest of your life is a sad waste of human potential. We as a society can do better. This robot is one step, other steps are involved like Universal Basic Income or actually paying content creators.
Founder says he was inspired by flipping burgers, when in all reality he got the idea while watching jimmy neutron[1] as a kid...

[1]http://jimmyneutron.wikia.com/wiki/Men_at_Work
" which you cannot host a fully working copy yourself"

Sadly, no.

The majority of services have complex functions often requiring key data and updates, and it's just not possible, let alone feasible to 'self host' most things.

But it's a neat idea ... maybe there's a solution there ...
It can be a possible Quora alternative. Provlem.com is a crowd sourcing consultancy platform for public and private - free or paid consultancy network or QnA community.
You might also want to look into https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis, which provides the benefits of Terraform Enterprise, in an open-source, self-hosted format.
Yeah, but is an "inch" even a thing in dimension #18?

And this smallness aspect wouldn't disprove what I originally theorized here anyways...these subatomic particle are fucking small as shit, aren't they?????? lol....sorry
Er, explain how the law enforcement is violating any terms and conditions. Domain fronting is illegal. Mass surveillance is what the NSA does for a living. If it is offensive to prime members, they have found the wrong tree to bark up
Yea that's kind of key. 5% of total income for financial advising seems a bit steep, BUT if they're a high risk of spending it all on hookers and blackjack then maybe it's best for them?

I'd rather see 5% go towards financial education in schools, but hey, then this person would be out of a job.
Doesn't really matter if people earn more money on youtube, they will switch. On Android, not a lot of people are sideloading most prefer the App Store even if they also take a steep cut.
> I'd like to agree with you, but video streaming platforms like YouTube are expensive

Which is part of my point. If you find that nobody else can serve your content for as cheap, maybe that points towards the original host having a point in trying to find a way to pay for it.

> There's also a network effect that's developed on YouTube, and as much as I hate to admit it when I want to search for video content (reviews, how-to's, and a hell of a lot more) the first (and often only) place I search is in fact YouTube.

Well, I think we've had this problem before, and it was mostly solved with search engines. Google already returns Youtube and other hosted video content in searches. The only thing I think we'd really be losing is a more powerful recommendation system, but that's a small price to pay in my eyes.

> I'd love for there to be a proper competitor for YouTube, but truth be told I think it's easier to compete with Facebook.

I don't doubt it's easier to start a Facebook competitor. That said, I think its a lot easier to actually compete with Youtube, at least now that they are actually trying to monetize their platform. Creators have already been playing with other platforms, like Twitch. It only made sense to do so for a lot of people after Youtube started making specific changes and requirements of people that they chafed at. This announcement is both another option for creators, but also comes with it's own set of requirements. The minimum membership fee, for example, is quite a high, and some creators might find it's not the right price point for their audience. I support quite a few people through Patreon (not much in video though), and one of the features of that which I like is the ability to do specific amounts per month, or if the artist sets it up, an amount per item delivered, but with a cap. Some people will find this much more amenable to their needs, which is the market at work.
Part 1 in case anyone missed out on it (like me)

https://medium.com/futuretech-industries/ten-thousand-high-a...
I Also understand this is far from perfect and I appreciate all your comments. I just wish AWS had something like localstack with all endpoints mocked would make everybody life so much better. Not to mention if they could use same(consistent) names for everything i.e API, CLI, BOTO etc...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17370614
Make your own and host that, or risk this. again and again and again.

If this was not a painful enough lesson, the next time will be. :)
I did not know that one - looks pretty nice. Thanks for sharing!
I think financial managers usually charge a percentage of assets managed.
Regardless of what group it is, whats wrong with having a whois guarded (in general) ?
What is your suggestion for a self hosted client fraud platform?
No, it's really not. Fast food workers clean themselves. They tend to notice when they develop gangrene. Machines, not so much. That stray piece of lettuce that got caught in a machine joint for 6 weeks? Hope you enjoy E. Coli.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16723099
The other attributes you name are perhaps deserved, but respectful (AKA fair), is not among them.

Dr Krauthammer made a career of tearing down those on the center or left, often by twisting or manipulating his facts to please a TV audience also renowned for its deep disrespect for opposing opinions and the people who held them.

May you rest in peace Dr Krauthammer. But too, may the ugly casual disrespect for others of unlike minds which powered your rise to fame not be soon forgot.
Hire a few competent engineers and make one
People have been worrying that Google would shut down GrandCentral/Voice for years, though, ever since Google acquired it nearly a decade ago. So far those worries haven't been realized. Google Voice has even received major mobile and browser upgrades last year, with regular updates since then: https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/01/23/google-resurrects-v...

Project Fi shares a lot of the same features Google Voice has: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6159953

So it appears Project Fi doesn't work with Google Voice not because the latter is being abandoned, but because Project Fi is based in part on Google Voice so you can't use both at the same time. Google Fiber home phone service also appears to leverage Google Voice infrastructure: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/29/google-fiber-rolls-...

I would probably suggest porting your Google Voice number to a secondary Google account if you don't want to make your Google Voice number your Project Fi number instead.
Some customers had 3 years left in their contracts. Some customers were huge, like npm.

Everybody got 30mins before lights out. It broke stuff.
Perhaps the default terms were Smyte-friendly, but I can't imagine that some of these big companies (with savvy lawyers) would sign an agreement with a change-of-control provision that would permit this.

There might be a carveout for consequential damages (which would be huge here), but this seems like it will trigger a number of sizable lawsuits against Smyte's new owner.