skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if you want to make money from your work, it's a bit of a requirement. Gargon, the author of Mastodon, is making good money from his work on Mastodon. I'll bet folks would make money off Redis if they build a LibrePay or Patreon for it too. Now if you're a random small OSS author trying to become an OSS rockstar, then nobody would contribute.
Wait… the big news here is steam.tv. I heard the rumors but didn't know it was up?!

(it seems to work only for their own event at this time tho.)
> Within InfluxDB, our dividing line is that anything related to high availability or scale out clustering is kept as a closed source commercial product

No, we've discussed this time and time again:

Open Core = crippleware

Articles like this occasionally come out and promote propaganda that masks "crippleware" with nice sounding words.

- Changelog has interviewed me about this https://changelog.com/podcast/236

- Hackernoon has published me on this https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...

I maintain a tremendously popular Open Source project with 8.5K+ stars, and it is extraordinarily hard. (Hint: Imagine Firebase + IPFS had a lovechild, that is what it is. See my HN profile if you are curious.)

I should be the first person agreeing with this - last year was one of the hardest times of my life because of doing Open Source. But this is the moral, harsh, but important:

Financial hardship sucks but does not define the values of Open Source.

The values of Open Source has removed financial hardship for many, and made lives better for the masses.

https://twitter.com/marknadal/status/1008066378295750656

Just like you should not gamble on crypto what you cannot afford to lose... you should not Open Source what you cannot risk.

Open Core = crippleware: Faux companies publicly wearing sheepskin to look like they're developer friendly, but privately are forced to shame you into the fox's den.

Open Source = giving, truly. It has hurt me at times, but those values have brought more win+win to my life and others, far beyond we can count.

So thank you, to all real Open Source developers out there. You are heroes.
That's not true at all, the Earth could be toroidal, which allows for a flat embedding.
Here is the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15785682

Note that it’s flagged.
> We have all the features flash had now (and had it for many years now)

Unfortunately not. We still can't measure text without putting it into the DOM and waiting for update, nor can we have weak references. And SVG is miles behind the performance that Flash's scenegraph had 10 years ago.
I remember them from their acquisition of Labelle's. They really cheaped out on that store and went out of business not long after. Labelle's was all class, and Best was not.

I remember Labelle's for the amazing article in the Grand Forks Herald describing their parking lot as some nightmare creation of a clearly insane civil engineer and a drunk mathematician. To bad the article is before the flood, and they didn't seem to understand the concept of backups.
Why not use a crowd-funded model? For example, development of the Prosemirror editor (which is open-source) is funded that way:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror#/

I suppose this funding-model could work for maintenance work too.
We are playing with regular couriers for the first time! And against a pro team.
Middleware engines yes. But not all AAA games rely on those. And you know what? Most games using Unity for example dont get Linux ports even though it should be relatively straightforward in many cases. So in practice, DirectX is the main renderer used everywhere on PC.
> Also a college grad fresh out of college can not compete with the huge supply of experienced and better Indian/Chinese/Korean engineers.

Yes, my skills are diluted when competing against billions of people, rather than millions.
No, the person that you're responding to is correct.

When someone from British Columbia says "interior" they mean anything past the coast mountain range. This is a semi-arid climate that didn't readily support any of BC's large tree species, namely red cedar, douglas fir, and sitka spruce.

It doesn't matter how many pictures from a century ago that you have of big trees inland, or on the west side of the first mountain range. That's not the interior, and isn't relevant.
I understand the bad things Jones does, like the doxxing and maybe that is sufficient enough to ban him (and reasonable in that case), but he's just an extreme example for the slippery slope for speech and censorship that IS already here (and which takes almost no imagination to predict where it will ultimately go) https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1031544806823141376

Additionally, I would rather US companies try to favor behavior honoring the Constitution generally, even though they don't have to.
Answer to both was yes, even before I got to your last sentence.

That's not a statement that I think either of those things is right. I would and should expect a lot of user and community backlash from actions like those.

But as far as the law is concerned, those things should be legal. Again, because to do otherwise would mean forcing businesses to adopt the government's position on any number of subjects.

And no, I'm not a free-market libertarian. There are lots of things I think businesses should be forced to do under strong regulatory terms. This just doesn't happen to be one of them.
The issue is more just that it's hard to really call him a cultural leader because, at least so far as I can tell, there's nothing especially novel about what he's doing.

E.g. NDT is pretty similar to Bill Nye, but neither are on the level of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, etc. And both are largely derivative of Mr. Wizard and others who had done similar programs before.

Nas on the other hand created one of the most groundbreaking albums of all time. And it provided a completely different look at NYC as compared with Sex and the City, which was released only four year later.
>However, there are frequently hidden motives for these projects. For example, Google puts significant investment into Kubernetes, but it’s also in their financial best interest to do so.

This, in a nutshell, is the driving force behind the EU's antitrust investigation of Android.
[Project] Distributed Gradient Descent for Pytorch
The Lebron James school is great for the kids who get to attend. I am sure of that.

But, I find it interesting that so many overlook it’s dependence on a celebrity savior and shortcomings of addressing the charter school contentions contributing to the disparities in so many thousands of disctricts nationwide.

We need to repeatable dignified education systems.
In case anyone missed the reference in the title: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg

Great show ‘IT Crowd’, do recommend.
OpenBCI: Open Source Brain Computer Interfaces
I totally buy both of those claims (and thanks for the sources!), but I don’t see how that necessarily affects this study. The human bias is (unsurprisingly) toward under-reporting consumption in both studies you cite. People aren’t randomly inaccurate, they are consistently underestimating. The self control study showed a decrease in reported consumption, so it doesn’t matter if people under-report food intake or portion sizes, what matters is the numbers went down anyway, right? The bias is present before, during, and after the self control study.
This is why I think we need a new way of identifying market abuse because you can make anyone a/not a monopoly based on what definition you use.

IOS device software distribution -> apple has a monopoly

High end phones -> apple probably has a monopoly

Total revenue of phones sold -> apple probably has a monopoly

Number of phones (in use?) by OS -> android has a monopoly

Number of computers by OS -> nobody has a monopoly http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
preloaded with windows... next
The Register is known for having a tongue-in-cheek reporting style. It's definitely not for everyone.
I dunno - I much prefer the Microsoft app store on Windows for simple applications that I don't need to customise much. It's quicker than finding the right exe and keeping it up to date myself.
rigged IMO
The point isn't that black entertainers can't contribute substantially in other areas.

The point is that black people are not associated with achieving fame through primarily academic routes. This reinforces the perception that black people can be famous...as long as they are society's entertainers first and foremost.
https://thinkprogress.org/sorry-marco-rubio-chick-fil-still-...
Some Amazon 1 star reviews: "great product, delayed by the post."

Ratings generally have become nonsensical. Between paid reviews, influencer reviews, bot-generated reviews, one-dimensional reviews that confuse multi-dimensional experiences, friends-and-family reviews, bucket reviews where you can't tell which product of a range is being reviewed (Amazon...), and hostile fake reviews, reviews have become all-but useless.

FWIW I had to pick a removals company recently, and I crossed one company off my shortlist when I found they used a suspect ratings company for their review listings. It's possible they were fine, but any company that pays to hide or remove bad reviews may easily not be.

I'm not sure if it's even possible to create a reliable independent review system. It might seems like a trivial problem, but given all the issues it's actually incredibly hard to get it right.
Allowing the exploitation of foreign workers like that is bad for your country too. I'm Canadian, but some of our big companies use a similar strategy. Imagine being the foreign worker. You know you're being taken advantage of, many locals dislike you, the benefit is temporary, and it's endorsed by the government. It's a smart deal in terms of personal gain, but you're not stupid so you know you're being taken advantage of. That kind of treatment sows resentment and that's not good for the way people perceive your country.

Consider an alternative where companies hire foreigners for their superior skills. Those people will be respected because of their talent. People value being respected and, combined with an option to immigrate (if they want it), it's possible to build good will around the world. Instead of people teaching their children "America took advantage of me, but I benefited enough to make it worth it for our family", it can be be "America gave me a great opportunity."

People know when they're being cheated and if kids grow up watching their parents get cheated by a form of government endorsed exploitation they'll respect your country less and be more susceptible to propaganda and radicalization. IMO, exploiting foreign workers is bad foreign policy and has a negative effect on the long term reputation of a country.

Shame on all the companies that do this. It's bad for the foreigners, it's bad for the locals, and, worst of all, it's bad for future generations that grow up resenting each other based on nationality.

Every time you see an article like this, make sure people understand that foreigners aren't taking our jobs. We're all being mistreated and exploited by the same greedy companies.
Thanks for answering. Is Eventual Consistency a necessary property of a CQRS/Event Sourcing architecture?
Fry's brick and mortar stores might be the closest thing. There's one that has a flying saucer crashed into it.
Thanks for the clarification. My experience has been that every time I use the machines, they then retake the fingerprints and retina at the officer anyway. (This is possibly because I'm a green card holder.)

They also seem to have a wide range in staffing levels, and adjust what is "open" based on that.

You are right about the efficiency. Quite simply none of the people involved at that level have any incentive to improve it. It won't improve their pay and promotions, and the less efficient the bigger an empire can be built by managers.
Show HN: InstabotJS, an Instagram shitposting automation tool
Hi Hacker News,

I built a cli based Instagram automation tool for crossposting content from Reddit and submitting it as OC on Instagram. It works by parsing the Reddit API for fresh image content from target subreddits, and then it uses Puppeteer to simulate DOM traversal and post that content on Instagram from your user account. It also automates tasks such as following and refollowing users.

I built this out of a desire to practice using Puppeteer and conducting end to end tests. I'm really happy with the result of this project because it not only works as intended, but it also happens to be a very effective stress reliever to be able to post memes with the stroke of a cli command!

Check it out on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/instabotjs

and on Github: https://github.com/fermidirak/instabotjs

Currently the project is licensed under WTFPL so feel free to go wild with it :)

Stack and important Technologies Used used:
Node, Typescript, Puppeteer, CommanderJS, InquirerJS, Axios, Sharp

I hope somebody finds this project educational, or at the very least entertaining.

Cheers! -Dirak
To avoid having to implement the whole logic for any event you'd want to revert, you can have a "cancel" event that points to another event.

You'd read the cancel events first and simply skip the events they point to.
$30k sounds significantly higher than my experience, do you have any background on that? Even for a small company, we paid $5-10k to process applications and sponsor a green card IIRC.

Cisco would also have the scale to significantly cut attorney costs.
So many cute puns ^____^

Do you guys have any thoughts about this other interesting article?

https://thinkprogress.org/sorry-marco-rubio-chick-fil-still-...

Exciting to see where those dollars you saved are headed!
Quite unfortunately, your Machiavellian hiring manager is simply the hiring manager, from what I heard about companies like Infosys.

It's hard to imagine this not being abused. Even in academia, where the H1B - green card process is pretty much a railroad. I've seen a department drag out the green card process over the span of years - out of fears that the professor in question might just jump ship and ditch the rat nest as soon as they get the green card (that was my best understanding of the situation).

Good point, and too nuanced for the article, alas.
Maintaining (fixing and updating) legacy code and be every bit as challenging and rewarding as building from scratch. You can learn a lot of skills that will also help you when you are building new code. Code reading and the art and discipline of minimal change while improving clarity are always useful if applied to legacy code or new code.

Look into various books and articles on refactoring. Don't change things open-loop, write tests if you can, manually run and verify too.
Tested on Brython (with Firefox) - http://www.brython.info/tests/editor.html?lang=en

Iteration 0 took -0.9660000801086426s
Iteration 1 took -0.9519999027252197s
Iteration 2 took -0.9499998092651367s

It is about 10 times slower with Chrome on my computer.
Post author here. I'm surprised at the number of comments in this thread that say it's about the messaging or the Commons Clause license. They've cleared up the confusion about what is still BSD (almost all of it) and that it's just some enterprise modules that are commons clause. If the Commons Clause license is confusing or ambiguous to you, simply treat it as a commercial license. Functionally that would be equivalent. Saying that the Commons Clause it the source of everyone's outrage is disingenuous. Would you really be less outraged if they were simply commercial licenses?

I used to think this way about OSS before I actually had to run and maintain a significant project. Add to that trying to build a business and those two together have formed my current view. In my ideal world, everything would be permissively licensed, but that doesn't match with reality. And every major open source maintainer I've ever talked to has acknowledged that tradeoffs are made. Either in the form of what is open, how it's licensed, or how the project is funded.
If only they'd be so reasonable about my family existing, amirite XD
Proof of concept real-time wireless quadcopter control using eye movement:

Imperceptible electrooculography graphene sensor system for human–robot interface

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41699-018-0064-4
why? just replace it with (gento|arch|...)
The previous explanation of declining fertility rates is a real effect which should not be ignored. Since the 1970s, increases to payroll taxes and decreases to taxes on property and capital gains have increased the tax burden on younger working families relative to older families and inflated the cost of housing. This has prevented American families to afford having as many children as early in life, and caused native fertility rates to decline below the population replacement rate.

An expanding economy which is increasing in specialization requires additional workers to fill these specialized niches. If native fertility rates are declining, then immigrants are likely to fill these roles.
A European agenda for the collaborative economy (pdf)
Competitive advantage for an airport? Airports are chosen based on geographical location, not service. Most people live near one major international airport. There isn't some large market of with airports springing up all of the time, they are dictated by regulatory barriers and are natural monopolies.

Passport control doesn't benefit travelers, it hinders them. It benefits the security of the nation, which is precisely the purpose of the general tax fund.
FYI, it was a smaller company doing this in the first place. Facebook didn't change what the app was fundamentally doing after they acquired the company.
I cannot agree more. Funding must play a part in the sustainability of open source.

I recommend the Lemonade Stand document by Nadia Eghbal (https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand) as well as the Sustain Report from the Sustain Summit last year (https://sustainoss.org)
I just googled and found plenty of threads stretching back months. It seems to have to do with Archive.is returning wrong IP addresses to Cloudflare's DNS queries. They are apparently telling folks to use Google DNS but the configuration of which IP address to return is entirely in their hands. I'm still quite confused by the situation, to be honest.
Steam’s 30% is also too high.

There’s a reason the new Fallout 76 is skipping Steam and will be sold through a Bethesda launcher.
Shameless plug but...

They could be using VeloCloud and many of those internet connectivity problems would go away. Use multiple internet links with cellular along with dynamic multipath packet optimization
> heart disease, cancer, diabetes

Those diseases have a primary cause: obesity.

And a secondary cause: extension of the life expectancy; people who die at 40 from an infection or an accident, cannot die from cancer or a heart attack at 55.

The importance of saturated fats as a factor in the extension or reduction of life expectancy is orders of magnitude lower than the former two.
Not to be confused with higher education leading to a higher income. As we have seen, incomes have not risen with increasing rates of attainment. People today are making almost the exact same amount of money (inflation adjusted) as people were 40 years ago, back when having a higher education was quite rare.

It is true that people who are born successful are successful in what they do, be it the workplace or academia, and as more people seek to attain a post-secondary education the share of those on the most successful end of the spectrum with higher education grows, but that's not particularly useful information to those who were not born successful.

If 100% of the population had higher education, 50% of the population would still be making less than $31k. I live in what the OECD calls the most education nation in the world, where well over half of the population have a higher education, and the median income is still almost exactly what you shared here ($33,600 to be precise).
How to Choose a Stream Processor for Your App?
> But the talk of a 40 year old model not being sustainable is pretty funny.

It’s not the open-source model I called unsustainable, but a particular response to new forms of open-source monetization.

At any rate, the current model - of open-source as a mainstream R&D model, and as the critical infrastructure for the largest businesses in the world, primarily funded by corporate sponsorship and venture capital... that model is definitely not 40 years old.

You could argue that the model originated at the Linux hype of 1999, when Red Hat was the hottest IPO and IBM was spray-painting penguins on the sidewalks of San Francisco... Or you could argue it really started in 2004 when the Google IPO showed how much more scalable and profitable a business can be when you don’t pay software licenses.

In any case, the current model for open-source is really not that old, and it’s too early to tell how sustainable it really is.
Untrue. Chinese restaurants in the SGV are tough.

3 stars in LA crushes 5 stars in other cities in the US.

And yes, I’ve lived 10 years in the Bay Area and the Chinese food pales in comparison.
> afflicted by things like heart disease, diabetes, and different types of cancer.

How many people die from those diseases before 40?
> his team isn't the strongest (they placed 17-18th during this TI)

Oh, is that all :P. Assuming a 2x buffer for players who are good but not competitive, there are maybe 200 humans in the world who are better at DotA. If mastery is 1 in 10,000, these people are masters.
This time, OpenAI is playing a normal game without restrictions. Team Human got thoroughly trashed last time vs OpenAI in a game with hero restrictions.

Go OpenAI! I For One welcome our new robot overlords.
It sends anonymized data of every website on the internet, when you access it, and it also monitors the apps you use (probably because it intercepts their web traffic.) So basically Facebook knows what you do.
>dey turk ur jerbs

This sniffling condescension toward those in our society who have and continue to lose out to corporate interests who have sold out the American worker is vile. When employment and income prospects of citizens are reduced and dimmed at all levels, be it farm workers or IT gods, because corporations are importing foreigners to replace them (whether directly or indirectly) and the government is either complicit in or utterly passive toward the situation, it is entirely reasonable to be angry and feel betrayed. Early labor organizers would have long ago (hell, as recently as the mid-90s) risen up in arms over this. That organized labor utters not a peep tells us very clearly that such movements are dead.
It should be pretty easy to hook up a microcontroller (think Arduino nano) to "press" the power button when the power from the lighter comes on.
It is not rational to hold code to a lower standard than experimental technique.

As for B, that harkens back to the pre-scientific attitudes of medieval alchemy.
Do all VPN companies sell their traffic to others? I think that is now probably assumed to be the case.
They can conduct inspections right at the gate. It’s uncommon, but it happens.

Typically when this happens, the cabin crew announces that the CBP is conducting inspections outside the gate and asks passengers to get their travel documents ready. Outside the gate CBP officers will instruct passengers to form one or more lines and then inspect everybody’s travel documents. Sometimes they only approach certain people and let most passengers walk by.
Look at the poster name.
Sam Altman is a jokester.
Fascinating. I'd say these kind of run the gamut from inspired (the "Tilt Building" cuts a memorable profile with just a single plane) to kitsch ("Inside/Out" would have been lovely as an actual structural expressionist piece, but the brick effect is a big, unnecessary "get it?"). Retail architecture doesn't have to be post-modern to be interesting, but it's a shame so much of it today is so aggressively inoffensive.