skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered if anyone would pull me up on this :D

I was of course careful to say had, and obviously this rested on the fact that lollipop was so universally shit for the ui.

Also, of you think about a ui getting faster, a fixed 200 percentage increase peer iteration, means the absolute speed increase gets relatively smaller as they approach zero.
The protocol is interesting.

But given how often the Alibaba cloud fails in production, I won't hold my breath.
This seems like a superior alternative than allowing cloud providers the ability to generate revenue with your product that you receive no portion of. If you're already substantially "losing", there is no harm in doubling down. RedisLabs has nothing to lose by doing this other than people moving to another solution that someone else will need to expend resources and time to develop.

Monetization shouldn't be a four letter word. People need to pay their rent and eat.
"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact!" -- Homer Simpson, "Homerpalooza"
I'm pretty sure that Google never did.

Disclaimer: I work for Google and have had coworkers without degrees.
The revenue component is still different. In the first case, they are saving the cost of purchasing equivalent software. In the second, they are earning money. It's a subtle but important difference.
The current through a capacitor is I = ωC, where ω is in radians per second (ie, 2𝜋 60 Hz).

I think 220 kV is the RMS voltage, so you get RMS current from the formula above. Peak voltage would be √2 * 220 kV.

Indeed, both the capacitor and the arc are in series, so actual current and power is somewhat less. As the arc grows longer, there should be an optimum length where you get 1/√2 of the maximum power.
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I had the pleasure of watching something like this a couple of weeks ago on I90 in southern Minnesota. I came upon what looked like a helicopter entangled in the transmission lines, but after slowing down and opening the window, it was obvious the pilot was skillfully hovering there on purpose. It was impressive to see!
I'm guessing she's a well-known practitioner in this field. Why would one be involved in such a thing, given it's so problematic? The whole thing seems super-confusing and half-baked.
Markets for prostitution are banned. But that's not my point: my point is that at multiple steps along the way, Larkin and Lacey were told what they could do to mitigate the harm their site was causing to children, and they refused to do it.

For the nth time, I'm receptive to the harm reduction argument for sites like Backpage. They just need to be run by people who won't try to profit from child prostitution.

Supporters of Backpage can talk tough on message boards in advance of the trial, but those guys are going to lose in court, and lose bad. It's a nightmare indictment. This notion that they're going to prevail at trial seems like it depends on the idea that the jury is going to nullify for two middle aged men who knowingly profited from child sex trafficking. It's not going to happen.
now if we can make hiring questions based on e.g. engineering or user experience and not "did you study CS?" or "can you remember algos?", maybe we can get somewhere towards building interesting and diverse teams instead of the usual overengineered codebase and underdeveloped everything else (processes, UX, accessibility, customer interactions, monitoring/metrics).
Why not go all the way and make it “open internet”? Literally googling stuff takes up a substantial portion of any software engineer’s day. I would seriously doubt anyone who says otherwise.
Thank you for posting this! I'll be checking this out.
I like how the scope of this project is only about setting up an IPsec server automatically on a Linux box.

Algo and Streisand have too much features, making them unwieldy.
Good grief. This comment is its own rebuttal.
Great explanation, thanks
> This is one workaround.

And a poor, misleading one. While solutions exist.

> It works.

That's to be seen. While actual solutions already work.

A solution would be a proprietary license. Neutering the Apache 2 license while still calling it Apache 2 does a poor job of both properly licensing it or clearly advising potential users what their rights would be. In fact, calling it 'Apache 2 with modifications' is about as correct and honest as calling a dead man a 'human with injuries'.
Then you’d have two problems. There’s more wind up there than on the ground. The lineman would get blown around. Imagine a yo-yo tied to a drone hovering above the top of a tall tree. Now try to hold the yo-yo perfectly on a leaf.
Redis core is almost exclusively written by Salvatore. Redis Labs itself was just a consultancy that monetized this work and eventually hired him on full-time many years later.

So if this license had existed from the beginning, Redis Labs wouldn't exist. See the problem?
Basically full stack web developer, probably a lot of these issues are particularly bad in this field
Neither has Apple, so I don't know what this story is going on about.
The FCK DRM initiative
Wow, apparently that comment was taken from some kind of boilerplate. Who comes up with this stuff?

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/1051157755250
> whatever problem it is that the Commons Clause is intended to address

I'm pretty sure that problem is that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others have hosted Redis solutions, and even if they do contribute some code, they are undoubtedly making significant profit off of Redis, of which RedisLabs sees little if any. And since these companies have an oligopoly on cloud hosting, it is very difficult for RedisLabs to compete with these hosted solutions directly.

I know that Elastic has had similar issues.

I'm curious what better solutions you would have suggested would be. Clearly such solutions are not widely known among companies that produce open source software. https://opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.php has a couple of paragraphs on how to monetize open source projects , but maybe OSI should publish more detailed strategies, as well as case studies of what has worked for different kinds of products, and what hasn't worked.

I don't love the Commons Clause, but I do understand the prbolem it is trying to solve. Maybe, (hopefully) all this backlash will lead to a better solution for RedisLabs and similar companies.

One last note: Perfect can be the enemy of good. Apache with Commons Clause might not be as good as the Apache 2 license, but it's still better than completely proprietary with no access to source. Perhaps the Commons Clause will be used (as it seems to be with Redis) for open-core style business models, where the core is under a more open OSI-approved license, but enterprise add-ons are licensed with the Commons Clause (or perhaps dual licensed) rather than the usual propriatary only license.
> ...the reason they have multiple completely redundant systems is precisely because things do fail all the time.

To be sure, it's not because they fail all the time, but to probabilistically address the risk that if Murphy does come knocking, consequences won't be immediately catastrophic.
Nice to know. Although I don’t think this increases my chances much of getting hired. I failed my Facebook interview pretty miserably.
You might mean well, but I find your second point to be inappropriate. I don't think a qualified medical professional would arrive at those mental health outcomes solely based on a short post about Linux + ARM laptops. The lack of focus you perceived seems pretty standard for the "hey, I want to do this, but I'm not sure how!" state.
Lol. I've known plenty of well-educated engineers who couldn't spell worth a damn.
Marketing a 50 mbps plan as 200 kbps just because it cannot "handle 50 mbps all the time" does nothing useful except make pedantic power users happy. It's not actually useful to the consumer. From an engineering point of view, consumer workloads are almost always bursty, with a race to idle, so it makes sense to engineer systems to optimize for such workloads. And the most honest way to market them is by reference to typical behavior under typical workloads. For example, it's a lot more honest for Apple to sell me a Macbook Pro as having "up to 10 hours of battery life" and a "up to 3.5 GHz processor" than one that has 2 hours of battery life and has a 2 GHz processor (under sustained load). Indeed, doing it the way pedants want is actively misleading to consumers because it obscures what they can expect under typical usage. (In the case of laptops, it obscures the massive gains in typical battery life that have resulted from modern processors being much more efficient at idle, even if not so much at load.)

Likewise, if you can deliver 50 mbps most of the time for the workloads your users will typically see (sucking down a 5MB page then idling for 30-60 seconds), that's the most honest way to market it.
On mac others might want to:

# filename - wherever you pasted the base64 string
FILE=<filename> && base64 -D $FILE.txt >> $FILE.png && open $FILE.png
Yep, this rings true for many women whose careers I’ve been able to watch. Can’t say I have it figured out, but my instinct agrees with yours.

Is it that men won’t allow women in the circle due to pride? Or perhaps the only place men give women any kind of full power is within romantic relationships? Or maybe men don’t trust women to help them save face and even nurture them after a power struggle is lost (I think men sort of do this for each other)? I have no idea, but I want to see some brainstorming on it from smart people!
keep trying, especially other companies
Thanks. Url changed from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop..., which points to this.
Science only disproves.
This is the first thing I googled after I saw this update.
Alternate title: pop music responds to consumer preferences for louder music with less jarring timbre and pitch transitions
I used to be a big Wine user back when I believed in the potential for a commodity Linux desktop for normal people. These days I can’t for the life of me figure out why someone would want to run games on Wine instead of dual booting to Windows when it’s game time.
Question : isn't the prohibition of consulting, too close to definition of non-compete that it is effectively nullified in states like California ?

Yes, I know this is just for one particular software - but this could have been made for an "algorithm" as well, which has already been tested in courts.
Let me try to make hexane360's point more explicitly:

Imagine a hypothetical universe where all Haskell books are equally good, but some are more popular than others (maybe they have well known authors, or catchy titles, or are available for free online, or something). In particular, imagine Haskell Book Number 7 (HB#7 for short) gets 99% "market share".

Then if someone says "most people who gave up on Haskell used this book", you should not conclude that it reflects badly on the book. It's just a consequence of the book being popular, so it's the one people tend to try to use, so it's "the one that didn't work for them".

If you want to learn whether the book is better or worse than average, you need to split people into two groups: one group used this book, the other group used some other book, and compare which group does better. (Ideally, you should assign people to a group based on a coin flip, but even just looking at what happens "naturally" without your interference is better than nothing.)

Back to our non-hypothetical universe: LYAH does not have 99% market share, but it's pretty popular. I heard of it, and I've never looked for a book on Haskell. So to some extent the same logic applies.
Loudness yes, but increased loudness that necessitates compression, where the compression is the negative is what is being talked about here.
> ~40% of americans explicitly believe in young earth creationism ...... God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years"

Those two are not the same thing! That's the entire topic of this thread!

> young earth creationism is definitely a mainstream view nationally in the US

Your data does not back up that sentence.

> are biblical literalists (generally associated with young earth beliefs)

Again, not necessarily.
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
They don't consistently make the HN front page, or even come close. Looks like 4 out of 30 articles in the last 8 months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=firstround.com
Will appreciate some specific examples.

Disclaimer: Not Alibaba employee
No, I have yet to be contacted (or my lawyer, either).

I don't know the machinations involved with mortgages, but it seems to me like I'd like that to have been the case.
> I may be missunderstanding your point, please forgive me if I'm missrepresenting your intention. But I think what you are saying is if God did something that appeared to have occured without God that would be a lie.

No. That's not what I am stating at all.

Dinosaur bones are in the ground. Modern science has discovered Uranium-dating (allowing us to date the stars themselves!), Carbon Dating (which is only accurate for a few tens of thousands of years, but is sufficient for us to figure out most of Human history), as well as other forms of dating.

Based on the evidence we have gathered from God's Earth, Dinosaurs used to roam the Earth roughly 300 million years ago.

Based on the evidence we have gathered: the Uranium in the ground and the theoretical distribution of Uranium, the Sun itself was formed roughly 4-billion years ago.

Both of these give reason to believe that the solar system is roughly, 4 billion years old. And the earth itself is older than 300-million years (the rough age of the dinosaur bones we have discovered).

And based on the Carbon-14 we find in various artifacts around the world, we know that Humans are at least 10,000 years old, older than the age that Young Earth Creationists think we are (7000 years old... with Eden happening somewhere around year 5000 BC).

A Young Earth Creationist believes that God planted those Dinosaur bones, planted the Uranium, and planted the Carbon14 in the ground to trick archeologists, paleontologists, geologists, and physicists.

While my opinion, is that the all-loving God would rather have us humans discover science without mucking us up.

Surely God, at very least, would want us to trust that His creation is at least somewhat consistent?
If you do ever find yourself in that kind of situation (powerline draped over vehicle or similar), solution one, the way to go, is "don't exit the vehicle".

That being unavoidable (vehicle on fire, etc.), don't walk away from the vehicle, jump, two feet at a time, and keep jumping that way, until you're a good distance away. This avoids you ending in a situation where you have that step voltage between the voltage rings.
It’s all a matter of practice.

(I say this without ever passing one)
Because they don't want to use Windows, period.
Notice that the actual scientific article [1] doesn't make any considerations about quality.

It only takes objective measures and observes that they've been following the same patterns (probability distributions) over the last 50 years, just with variations on the distributions' parameters. Furthermore, they observe that the parameter changes over time are always to lower-variance versions for these distributions.

Finally, they argue that you could take a generic pop song from 50 years ago, modify it according to the current changes in parameters (adjust the harmonic progressions to the currently fashionable ones, change the instrumentation, and increase the average loudness) and it should sound like a modern generic pop song.

More importantly, they make no claims whatsoever regarding the quality of individual songs. In fact, they never study nor reflect on individual songs.

The original article's TLDR is: Music from the last 50-60 years has been using the same basic principles, and variance in timbre, pitch and loudness is decreasing over time between the mass of pop songs.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00521
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I'd actually argue the company that doesn't have to purchase / build it themselves is reaping more benefit, since for many startups, this distinction can be existential.
My point was simply that if doing nothing was men’s natural state, we wouldn’t have progressed to the point where Protestantism (or advertising) was even a thing.

What’s a non-anal family? Most families are non-anal if you consider how human reproduction works by I’m not sure that’s what you’re talking about :P
Back in the mid 1800's a mine started polluting a drinking river somewhere above Denver. Suit was brought, and the mine said "yeah we are responsible but it would be too burdensome to not pollute the river". Plantiffs lost. Legal intricacies aside, always seemed like a failure of the system to me, that they could do so with such impunity.
Can confirm; my wife has worked the past five years in the foreclosure department at Suntrust Mortgage and every case she told me about took months to resolve. Finding the “true” owner of the loan routinely involved tracing the sale through 7+ other investors, each time faxing back and forth tons of documents, resulting in reams of paperwork for lawyers and courts to sift through. It’s quite a mess :/
Windows costs money.
The web form to apply used to require it (2008, if I remember correctly).

Of course, there are people who got in without having to go through the front door like that.
If it's under 5 calories there is a margin of error rule that allows you to label it as zero. So just get the serving size small enough and it's calorie free!
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The Open Source ecosystem rests on top of the OSI definition of "Open Source". Those with an interest in preserving the meaning of "Open Source" are broad, numerous and diverse; those with an interest in subverting it to confuse "open source" with "source available" are few, and destructive.
Valve needs to partner with Google and launch a Chromebook/Steam Machine hybrid. It's in the interest of both companies to kill Windows. Google is already adding support for native Linux programs to Chrome OS, they could make a Chrome/Android hybrid that pulls all of the weight of the Android ecosystem and adds to that the weight of Steam. It would be a success and could seriously hurt Microsoft.
FYI, the biggest button on the page "Watch Video" returns an error; "Sorry, This video does not exist."

Although there's 300,000 users stated, my first thought was that it was an unfinished demo...
You could just virtualize it, dual-booting isn’t even needed. Then create private NAT and only whitelist certain ports and traffic. Hardware assisted virtualization is actually faster in certain cases and workloads than native these days.
An RDS T2 is not an EC2 T2. Just named similar.
I see your logic and it makes sense. My point was more that if we posit DDT in breast milk caused autism, we'd expect to see a difference in rates of breast vs bottle fed kids, which we don't. So I'm skeptical of it being a big player, but I'll admit I haven't looked into this area deeply.
In my view, pop music goes way beyond the conventional idea of a "song" (melody plus lyrics). Rhythm is vital, especially if you consider the development of American music over the past 140 years or so. Relatively simplistic tunes were turned into instrumental hits by iconic recordings. "Hooks" and "drops" are important elements of pop hits.

Being somewhat of an old timer, I continue to be amazed by how the very idea of what constitutes a pop hit changes over time. As a kid, I could never have anticipated hip hop.
> There's a reason why modern large aircraft typically have three redundant ADIRUs...

That has more to do with aggregate risk management predominantly driven by predicted MTBF, failure mode analysis, and safety criticality levels.
It's just a lawyer who is conversant with issues surrounding software under open source licenses.
I've had a colleague with that mindset too. I didn't join his next venture. I'm glad I didn't.
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As long as there's a corrections officer union you'll have the exact same lobbying.

Most of these policies were enacted during the 1960's-1990's crime wave as a response to it, and not as some sort of special-interest conspiracy. It turns out that unintended consequences are a lot more common than sinister special interest conspiracies.
> Over the last decade have increasingly abused this idea basically making the spec a land mine of UB and then claiming that UB allows them to do whatever they want, even when the programmer intent is obvious.

That is not an accurate or fair assessment.

However signed integer overflow being undefined behavior is a bit over the top given modern hardware. I'd like to see the C standard adopt a policy of wrapping for signed overflow, then either add new operators or functions for trapping behavior.

Most reasonable hardware has the instructions to trap or branch if add/sub/mul/div overflows or underflows so the checks are very cheap. Unlike the early days, in this day if C made it part of the standard processor manufacturers would simply stop selling CPUs without those features. Same goes for two's-compliment integer representations. They already did the same for 8-bit char/byte; other sizes are no longer supported.
Even if we accept that it being in the Constitution makes it right, it is permitting slavery as a punishment and not as an expedient.
I've made some contributions to Django over the years. Some code, a decent amount of documentation, and I like to think I've been useful in bureaucratic roles (I was the release manager for a while, I sit on the security team and technical board, I serve on the board of its sponsoring nonprofit, etc.). Along the way, I've picked up pretty extensive knowledge of Django, inside and out. And I've certainly made money as a result of that!

But I can't imagine sitting down one day thinking "you know, nobody else should be allowed to do what I did". It's a big world with a lot of potential clients and employers out there. There's room for anyone who wants to get good with Django to put that knowledge to use to make a living, and I don't see any justification for trying to stop them.

If this were the standard sort of "we trademarked the name, and you can't use it as the name of your product" that a lot of larger open-source projects do (including Django, FWIW), I'd be more sympathetic. But trying to forbid people offering consulting or hosted "I set it it up for you" type services? That's a massive grab of other people's knowledge and labor, and I can't support it even a little tiny bit.
Ah, that's good.

I have a degree in an unrelated field and it's nice to know there isn't a true cap to self-taught development.

Still, going back to school for CS is on my "someday" list.
If you don't want to use it (many reasons), virtualizing or dualbooting doesn't really make a difference.
Lyrics for popular music were always shallow. It's no worse today.
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I made a comment elsewhere that I'd be interested in hearing your response to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17816221
Does scientific computing happen in notebooks? I'd think they mean Supercomputers, not experiments running in the browser.