skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely <3 CodeSandbox. I’ve been using CodeSandbox for the past six months or so and it’s been a game changer for two things: (1) onsite frontend interviews - no more waiting for npm installs or worrying about node compatibility and (2) quick create-react-app prototypes - and if I get far enough, I simply download the source and continue to work locally.
> They definitely can produce so much oil. Venezuela produces around 2 million barrels / day and are ranked no1 by proven oil reserve

One thing I find interesting is that Venezuela might have the number 1 oil reserves, and that's repeated over and over. Their oil is garbage (extremely heavy) and requires the importation of dilutants paid for by foreign currency, as well as equipment and specialized engineers that are paid for by foreign currency as well. If the prices of oil are too low, it doesn't matter how much oil is under the land they're sitting on. It's going to stay there until kingdom come.
> This is one workaround. It works.

A bit early to tell I'd say. Always hard to know who doesn't use something because of these things. But I think everyone can agree that this wouldn't have worked from the start; needed to build up a dependence on the software and interfaces before springing this. Feels a bit bait-and-switch every time someone's software gets commercially popular so they feel the need to change tack. Almost makes me wish it didn't become popular and widely distributed so the developers don't get this urge to do the switch. Then again, I'm always happy to see people get rich when they work hard on stuff.
> Because leaders who don't steal are mocked by the populace - true story

Strange as it may sound, I can corroborate this. The darndest things truly do happen to happen.
It doesn't. But when you must the chain of trust you can end up in situations where two different entities claim you open them money. Or you could pay off your loan and discover you still don't have a clear title.

If the chain of trust is violated then all breasts are off. There is no harm in ensuring that you are the one who benefits as opposed to being hosed if that happens.

What do you do when it's literally not possible to determine who owns your debt. That can be an enormous risk for you to take on though no fault of your own. A perfectly valid legal remedy for a court is to force the entities who messed up their record keeping to open the mistake interest of you.
Dropbox dropping Linux support for non-ext4 and networked filesystems
KopyFest: O Evento para quem quer mais dinheiro no Marketing Digital
I need some real fake doors
The Undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business
3D NAND Flash Wars Begin
s/interesting/distressing/

I have no high hopes that good comes of what China does there.
Surely this kind of resale of enterprise proprietary software modules is already prohibited by their enterprise licensing scheme. If it's open source, this is precisely what open source is meant to do. It's supposed to be a means to an end to enable new functionality - the fact that it's being sold doesn't matter. The key is that we all gain that ability. If they want to compete in that space with their open source product then they should run a hosting outfit - not try to rent seek from people adding value by actually running their code in production.
New detention location for really splitting up families.
Can you give me one such example?
Compressed audio works better in environments with a lot of ambient noise such as cars. Since this is where most people listen to (and discover) the majority of their music artists are adjusting to their audience.
What efforts has your organization made to prevent software companies from selling "Hosted [open source project] as a Service (with a proprietary twist)" offerings while not contributing back to the OSS core project's development?

Edit: Or rather, incentivized contributions, or disincentivized a lack of contribution
Sway: Next generation i3
> My working conjecture is that it is some people that cannot tolerate the ambiguity of many events being essentially random, chaotic, or stochastic.

A lot of people aren't willing to seriously entertain complexity and so rely paranoid thought processes. There's a good chunk of scientific evidence to think that this is driven by basic brain structures. You sometimes see this reported in the US as the difference between "liberal and conservative brains" [1] but this really distracts from the underlying issue. What's interesting is the growing evidence that this sort of paranoid thinking is encouraged by social media and the internet [2]. What you get are models where the intense paranoia of a few can be technologically amplified and virally overtake whole populations. Paranoia and fear is highly contagious and it seems the internet, rather than reducing such thinking by providing plentiful information, helps it spread.

[1] eg https://www.businessinsider.com/psychological-differences-be..., https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-ref...
The issue isn’t what the hardware can do, but rather that the C spec leaves it undefined. 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 said in modern clang and gcc you can (and should) use the overflow builtins which are all essentially:

Bool __builtin_[operation]_overflow(type a, type b, type* out)

Returning true if the operation overflowed. These produce “ideal” code, e.g

if(overflowoperation(x,y,&out)) ...

Produces the platform branch on overflow instructions.
E-Books may be half the cost of retail books, but there are lots of used books out there at much less than half. Or, free books to read from your local library.

Obviously this doesn't applies to all new books, but if you're willing to read older books, there's a lot to read for relatively little cost.
Weird thing is it just a few months ago that AWS contributed what I would consider a pretty significant feature to Redis - encryption in transit:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/open-sourcing-encryp...

While it’s not merged yet, antirez at the time seemed pretty onboard with the approach. ( first Point in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943289 ). The delay in merging seems understandable based on the comments and discussion on the PR.

So leaves me wondering what’s changed. Obviously antirez != redislabs and their focus is on the OSS side of redis, but the announcement seems to suggest that none of the cloud providers contribute back which isn’t the case?
Organizations are filled with people that support its power structure even when the people in power do things that are counter to the organization's goals or mission.

The needle will probably only be moved by organizations that support diversity and are able to out-perform others.
Advocating for shorter prison sentences is not the same thing as wanting to change the philosophical underpinning of the justice system to rehabilitation instead of retribution. I think a lot of people are confusing the two.

I do think some of the sentencing in the US is too high. But also that people deserve punishment for their crimes.
Why would a dual "non commercial" and "commercial" license not solve the problem this is claiming to address. Many OSS projects do this now. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be compensated for one's work, but without saying how, what are those who adopt the software expected to do?

Let's say the Apache Foundation adopts this for all of its projects. Now what?
I think your edit hits the nail on the head, as we’ve clearly had different experiences.

I should clarify that a lot of the hard problems at early stage cos are around creating something that is not only new, but is also a viable business, with minimal resources and huge time pressure. Whether the technical side is hard or not is another question entirely.

Anyways, thanks for the comment — in addition to providing a good counterpoint, it’s a good reminder for me that my experience is neither universal nor even necessarily the general case. YMMV.
This is changing rapidly the last decade or so, especially in the telecom industry. There's quite a few companies getting into trouble for misleading advertising recently.
Or the causation can go in the other direction, with people that feel better tending to be more likely to exercise.
A tiny minority of people who don't understand, or don't accept, the OSI Definition, is not evidence that it isn't the defacto definition. It really doesn't matter how much red-faced foot-stomping and fist-table-smashing people indulge in, it doesn't change the simple fact that the OSI Definition is the standard definition of what it means to be "Open Source". If you're not willing to accept that, that's fine, but realize that that ship sailed 20+ years ago.

As battles go, I'd ask if this is really the hill you want to die on.
R for analysis of air pollution data
The first round writer didn't make up the watermelons. That was a tradition Gusto had since one of their first hires.
See Passengers scene where the gravity system breaks.
Along the same lines: https://github.com/geophile/osh

Osh (Object shell) is a command-line utility for running sequences of operations connected by a pipe-like construct. Objects are piped, not strings. Included in the sequence of operations may be remote sequences of command, which run on all nodes of a cluster. For example, if you have configured a cluster named foo, then you can get the pid and commandline of every node of your cluster like this:

osh @foo [ ps ^ f 'p: (p.pid, p.commandline)' ] $

- osh: Invokes the interpreter

- @foo [ ... ]: Run the bracketed commands on every node of cluster foo.

- ps: The osh ps command, which yields a stream of Process objects.

- ^: The osh pipe symbol

- f: Function application. The function in this case takes a Process p, and returns a tuple containing the process's pid and command line.

- $: Print the contents of the input stream, one per line.

This is a python tool, so the stuff piped between operations are python objects.
Hey, I emailed you.
>With enough ice sitting at the surface -- within the top few millimeters -- water would possibly be accessible as a resource for future expeditions to explore and even stay on the Moon, and potentially easier to access than the water detected beneath the Moon's surface.

>Learning more about this ice, how it got there, and how it interacts with the larger lunar environment will be a key mission focus for NASA and commercial partners, as we endeavor to return to and explore our closest neighbor, the Moon.

What will be necessary to sort out how much water ice is "available?" Wondering about colony feasibility
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. If God did this it would then violate His holyness.

I think I can follow the argument but it seems to me to be contradicted by this: "Prov 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter."

Also Jesus's first miracle was to convert water into wine. If he did this would there not be evidence of fermented grape juice in the wine. Would this not also make Him a liar (by your reasoning)?. If there was no evidence of fermented grapes would it still be wine and if it's not wine wouldn't that miracle be a lie?

I'm not trying to be argumentative here, just wanting to explore your reasoning.
LLVM Execution and Interpretation
Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
63 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17810503
What happens in the case that everyone needs to burst to the full performance of each thread they're paying for (56 3)? I imagine they'd price that as if you utilized 100% but give you degraded performance*

There's no reason to assume that. The hypervisor can track how much time each VM actually executed and subtract credits appropriately. AWS pricing is generally high enough that they don't need to use undocumented gotchas.

I would say it's more like shared hosting with full AWS API and ecosystem compatibility. Shared hosting for people who can SSH is Digital Ocean.
> Now I'm wondering if the pilots hold hovering competitions, in the same way people in the military frequently do target practice.

Yes. Have a read of "Rescue Pilot" by Jerry Grayson. It's a great read. He describes how they used to practise hovering with a single front wheel resting on the top of a particular coastal rock formation. It was a competition in the sense that one crew upped the ante by managing to balance their tail wheel on the rock, so the rest of the crews followed.

[1] https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/rescue-pilot-9781472918840/

Edit: Another link: http://rescuepilot.net/
You know this kind of goes right to the heart of the issue. The cloud providers are packaging up open source software into higher level services that have value... just like FB and twitter and everyone else that provides a service that we couldn't have dreamed up 30 years ago. Back in the 80's when I started in this business there were paywalls around every algorithmic implementation of an idea, and before too long there were patents standing on those paywalls defending them. The very idea of open source (to which I was a late convert, so treat me like a reformed smoker here) is the opposite. It unleashed a torrent of innovation _because_ it treated specific algorithmic implementations of ideas as a common resource. To make money you had to come up with something bigger, something more significant to the world than a new key/value store. It's hard to make money off of infrastructure software because the very philosophical foundation of the open source idea is that infrastructure software should be free, so greater ideas can more easily take flight.
If you want to sell a 200kbps plan with 50Mbps bursts, market it as a 200kpbs plan with 50Mbps bursts, not as a 50Mpbs plan. If you market something as a 50Mbps plan, it should be able to handle 50Mbps all the time.

SLAs should contain details that don't fit in your marketing. They should not say something completely different from what your marketing says.
Why are wireless plans sold by data instead of by bandwidth, like wired plans? Don't sell me 20 GB/mo, rather sell me 1.5 Mbps min capacity with the ability to burst if the network isn't congested. It's the bandwidth which is the constrained resource. Obviously there might sometimes be physical factors that prevent even the minimum.
I tried the same thing and got "Unagi (ウナギ / Freshwater eel / 海鰻)". I think he needs guard against adversarial in his model.
Water is also effective at blocking radiation [0][1], making it especially useful when stored around the spacecraft occupants.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Can-we-use-water-or-ice-as-radiation-s...

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/284275main_Radiation_HS_Mod3.pdf (page 4)
Yeah, this article is a clickbait rewrite that adds nothing of value to Bill's original note. [0]

[0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital
Will these be available for RDS?
The correct thing to do these days is to use compiler builtins, but assuming you can’t (such misery), the correct thing to do for multiplication involves division (because the performance cost of treating multiplication as fixed width 2s complement is so high ;) )

Specifically for

X = a * b

You have to do:

If (b == 0)
X = 0
Else if (MAX(type of X) / b >= a)
X = a * b
Else
Handle overflow error

Oof
You can’t look at the reasons as rational. Prisons are simply justifying their profits poorly.
It depends on a cloud provider
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank would probably top my list.

Some other books that I find deserving of the at least occasional re-read (if not yearly)

The Soul of a New Machine - Kidder

Hackers - Levy

False Memory - Dean Koontz

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell

The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
Are prisoners forced to work? What happens if they physically refuse? End up having to serve more time?
s/realistic/realist, sorry for the typo.
How does this stack up against StackBlitz [1]?

[1] http://stackblitz.com/
> we could call it H2Moon

The real winner is steak from a cow entirely raised on the stuff. H2Moos.
We’ve Gone Too Far – The Misuse of the Minimum Viable Product Concept
Anyone else not super impressed?

Water is important for carbon-based life, but so is a bunch of other stuff like air, carbohydrates, aaaaaaaaaaaaaand also life...or at very least a very serious mix of reactive chemicals...From a causation perspective I gotta go back to the carbohydrate thing:

O-chem vs phys-chem. Find me a planet with a bunch of nitrogen/carbon in addition to ~7pH hydrogen/oxygen and I'll get excited. Promise.
Facebook finds disinformation campaigns run by Iran and Russia
It is something that is marketed very well. From the sample content, It didn't look interesting to me at all.

LYAH may not be the greatest Haskell tutorial. But it makes an easy read. That means, you are not afraid to go back to it again and again, Which is the crucial aspect of learning anything sufficiently complex or new or both..
If you live in US, it is quite likely that you're interacting with people who are under influence of some drug (usually cannabis) on a daily basis, without realizing that.
DEBUNKING DOOMSDAY Blocked from Editing Wikipedia Indefinitely
NSA-records-your-phone-calls is a bit unlike the other entries in your conspiracy list, n'est-ce pas?
The name is kind of implying that it's somehow related to Creative Commons. I assume the latter organization actually has nothing to do with it?
Tuft and Needle to Merge with Serta
DOWNVOTE. I HAVENT EVEN CLICKED ON IT BUT I BET U POSTED THAT ONE.

No but srsly this is clearly a status-thing I have a score. Don't be a jurrrk.
Gut Bacteria Enzyme Can Transform a Blood Cell's Type
...I also clicked it so good job.
Not the only cause, no, but their impact can be felt far beyond those 8%, via their intense lobbying for e.g. mandatory minimum sentencing, making life tougher for convicts after they're freed to maximise recidivism, etc
Not really practically but yes in theory? The JVM is host to many languages with different paradigms and it is not like I don't futz around with other stuff. I refuse to write serious code in poorly tooled languages and at this point in my career there are also some areas of exploration I just don't care about (e.g. machine level programming with ASM or C/C++ and web dev with JavaScript).
Why the Rich Fail at Philanthropy
> This mechanism is much the same way Mozilla controls the Firefox trademarks.

That's not the same situation. Firefox is a standalone product; by nature it can't be reasonably sold as a service. And plenty of for-profit Firefox alternatives _do_ exist with different names.

Take MySQL. AWS sells MySQL through Aurora. It's almost certainly the case that they're using MySQL code under the hood along with a bit of secret sauce. I'd have a hard time believing Amazon has made many meaningful contributions back to the MySQL codebase. Even if they removed "MySQL" from the product naming, (is it even, for Serverless Aurora?) they're still making money hand-over-fist selling the functionality of code they didn't write.
Far more disturbing than these for me was the parent's assumption of bad faith on my part... :\
I can vouch for that! It's more the endless faffing about and the distracting interruptions that irk me. In TLS the whimsy never got in the way of the learning.
>Anyone else getting a little tired of the immediate reduction of any conversation around early-stage startup job opportunities to "comp vs FAANG"?

The difference is so big, that I hope it continues to get repeated, until we start seeing a fairer distribution of equity.

>- You will develop a wide breadth of skills you simply can't develop at FAANG, as you will be involved in product meetings, business strategy conversations, and will regularly eat lunch with the CEO. I imagine the reverse of this is true as well, in that there are skills developed at FAANG that are hard to develop as employee <50.

Yes, this is true. Note, however, that this exposure isn't necessarily that transferable, unless you plan to become a founder yourself (which isn't a bad idea).

>- You will get to fast-track your career progression, in that you will be in line for promotions much earlier than in large companies, as opportunities emerge.

Only internally. It won't transfer to long term career progression unless your startup happens to be widely successful.

>- Companies (including FAANG) will look for folks with your skillset (my startup experience was a huge plus in my recent job search).

Nah. Experience in general is a huge plus in today's job market - but non-founder startup experience is no better than any other experience, unless your startup happens to be widely successful.

>- You will work on hard problems, with passionate people; folks aren't punching the clock here. This is fun.

People are passionate and not punching the clock in most places. You certainly do get to work on hard problems at small startups much more though.

>Also, for folks just thinking about comp, I'd like to gently point out that a 40 hour week on work you feel "meh" about is ~35% of your waking life. That's not to say you can't find exciting work at FAANG (I hope I have), but rather that there is more to a job than comp or career progression, and working with passionate folks on hard problems can be incredibly fulfilling.

And your comp today directly determines how much of your waking life down the road you will need to spend on work. Higher comp today means financial independence tomorrow (allowing you to work on whatever the heck you like).

Note: I'm a happy early engineer at a startup that offers competetive comp (based on my personal evaluation - and I'm normally a skeptical person - the expected value of my compensation is clearly higher than what I would get at FAANG), so I'm not agains startups; it's just highly unfortunate that most startup founders are incredibly stingy with equity.
Well if you "volunteer" to work you can get less time. So yes, if you physically refuse then you serve more time.
It's not only about the throughput, it's also about the SLA and sustainable throughput.
Why would I invest, or encourage clients to invest, in a technology that has a support monopoly?
Out of curiosity, is there any reason to get a T3 today? I assume anywhere that it is available you can also get DSL for two orders of magnitude less.
An Effective Altruism Hotel, to help subsidize researchers
JPMorgan Undercuts Discount Brokerages on Trades
Arguably the largest users of Redis—Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—are all among the many sponsors of the Open Source Initiative and each make immense contributions to free and open source software.

Redis Labs is not a sponsor (but is welcome to become one). Despite that, had they come to OSI looking for assistance with this issue we could have helped open discussions between them and their largest users. They did not ask us for help, to the best of my knowledge. Redis Labs' post does not mention what, if any, attempts they made to engage these large users and encourage more contributions before they made the decision to put this software under a proprietary license, and only implies that a lack of contributions was the motivator for the move.
I learned Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics from Landau ;) It's a challenge to be sure. And it's dense. But actually the fact they tell you the ideas but not necessarily every detail sorta forces you to work things out in paper as you read, which I found very fruitful.
Not to mention the cowbell.