skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're completely ignoring the hit to both the brand and experience that something like that would cause. There's a big reason why iOS users tend to spend more money on the platform than Android users do on the Google platform and a huge part of that is the trust built by Apple with their users.

You can go into the Google Play store (which most people would think was the "official" and "safe" method of getting apps) and still get malware and/or a virus on your Android phone. Now imagine that Google offered both an official Play store and an alternative open Play store. Which do you think the majority of users would use and have a positive opinion of?
> Investments in development and infrastructure are a good mechanism for long-term economic growth

That of course depends on the infrastructure situation in question. Japan vaporized trillions of dollars on infrastructure and it did absolutely nothing of consequence to boost their growth. Infrastructure wasn't their problem as it turned out, so each follow-on dollar they plowed into additional unnecessary infrastructure spending produced declining rates of return. China is guilty of plenty of that so far.

The US is the least trade dependent major economy. It would benefit from shifting some imports to increased domestic production, such as in the steel and aluminum industries. It's better to pay slightly higher prices if necessary and to produce domestic investment with quality blue collar jobs. That's not a universal of course, there's little benefit to the US trying to manufacture $20 toasters or $3 playing decks of cards or $1 shoe laces by hand.

It's ideal for the US to consume less and produce more. European nations boost savings rates with very high VAT taxes. Tariffs are another means to accomplish the exact same end, except it's even better because it bolsters domestic production at the same time that it reduces consumption by raising the cost of consumption.

So not only is there an extreme lobsided imbalance between the benefit in US / China trade due to the trade deficit there, the US would benefit from fewer goods pouring in from China in all scenarios because of the gains in domestic manufacturing (even if they're modest) + domestic investment, and lowered consumption. Less capital flows overseas, more stays home.

There's always the scenario that comes up of: what if China cuts off something that isn't easily replaced such as smart phone manufacturing, or similar. Other countries can easily pick up the slack, such as Vietnam which is a booming electronics manufacturer (and makes a lot of smart phones now).

On the flip side, China can't operate at all without US tech. They'd have to turn to stealing it. The rest of the world would largely proceed to banish those then-illegal Chinese products accordingly (particularly Europe, Latin America, Japan, AU/NZ, Mexico, Canada, etc).
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> Take a few weeks off mull over what you want, write it down, put it in an envelope and open that envelope in 3mths, if it’s still what you want then go for it.

I'm going to do this. Thank you. I have a leisure trip planned soon for 2 weeks (first time ever taking >1 week off at a time). I will do it then.
Unrelated but I've done a good amount of nonprofit work and everytime I've had to ask for food donations chickfila has given food free of charge.
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Carbon fiber is an extremely environmentally unfriendly product, it’s production alone takes on average 20 times more energy than steel, it cannot be recycled (or effectively repaired for that matter) and it and it’s bonding materials are toxic.

Carbon fiber is one of the first things we need to replace in car manufacturing if we want to scale hybrid and EVs manufacturing by orders of magnitude.
If you think it's not a far scretch, my guess is you have not been close enough to and tried to help someone with actual schizophrenia. My guess can be wrong, of course.

People are in contact with other people who both love and eat animals (though usually not the same animals). Further, where I live (though probably in a lot of places), vegetarians are a minority, so most people are in contact with meat-eating people, including meat-eating pet owners, and see them as normal people. By comparing them to shizophrenics, you feed the viewpoint that mental problems are not real and that people can just work them out if they really want to, which is not helpful at all to those dealing with mental health problems.

It seems animal rights is a cause you care about, which I can understand. Mental health is a cause I care about, and I kindly suggest that you can continue to make your arguments without stretching the definition of any mental illness for that purpose.

EDIT: removed double 'seems' and accidental 'using'
I think the idea is great, but doesn't it have the same potential problem as making apps involving Twitter's API?
Michael Cohen paid a tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign
Did the products do the same thing, or was the new product something entirely different that didn't have any market fit?

In other words, what's the lesson here? Speed at all costs because you quickly figure out if the product is wanted? Or speed at all costs because bugs just don't matter?
Agreed... any time you are transfering money from your account to someone else's, there's a strong chance you are getting the raw end of the deal unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Indeed they do... that's their core business.
Well said, and the easiest metric you could look at w/r/t cost-of-living is the average income : house price ratio. What was once withing reach for most educated workers is now often a fantasy for the rich. Unfortunately it is also what the lion's share of paychecks is often spent on.
The App Store tax is irrelevant compared to the lack of flexibility around things like paid upgrades.
Yeah for sure. That's kind of the idea with event sourcing in general, but I think with elixir/otp, it's easy to see how event-sourcing is only a persistence mechanism. Usually how I think about it is Event Sourcing (or gen server using a db as a recovery mechanism) "moves" the source of truth from a db into the process that owns the data.
The problem is less the fee than the lack of value being provided to developers and consumers, e.g. improved app discovery, more flexible business models for app monetization. If app stores unbundled their 30% fee into separate fees for services provided to developers, there would be internal competition among services to win developer adoption.

Market-based developer feedback would improve the services being offered by app stores. Google/Apple made a feature change and developer revenue from that feature dropped by 25%? Time to revisit the decision. At the moment, developers pay the same fee independently of the quality of the “product” they are purchasing.
Rap Music and the Internet
Could you define what is not deterministic about containerized computing?

Examples of things we are controlling are timers for food, cameras that can recognize and track food items, drying machines that will automatically trigger and fry fries.
It's basically the same. Cloud providers will pay nothing and contribute nothing.
That doesn't mean the local cable company will put in $100k of poles and coax to your restaurant.

Also, McDonald's corporate owns all their real estate, franchisees, too.
I think the same goes for peer reviews. If I have negative feedback for one of my colleagues, I'd rather share it with them personally instead of going through a system where it ends up in their HR file, and thus might affect their future career at the company.
>In a recent post, we shared about how we do bare metal clustering for Kubernetes on-the-fly at the Edge in our restaurants. One of the most common (and best) questions we got was “but why?”. In the post we will answer that question. [emphasis mine]

Luckily there's a whole article on that topic. I try to avoid "Did you read the article?" comments, but the first three sentences in the article tell you that this is the question they're answering.
UBI will make us a huge proportion of people serfs unless it is accompanied by wealth transfer. It is at best a temporary (on the order of 100-200 years) solution.
Because depending on the version of GPL (Linux is GPLv2) Some restrictions might not work with whatever you're doing. GPLv3 specifically has turned off many for various reasons.
It looks like now that we've had our basic needs met, our desires are for human contact, and not just stuff. Along comes Baumol's cost disease and makes things involving physically present people (like traditional education) much more expensive than things that don't (like chinese smartphones).

Unfortunately without a change of economic system it doesn't seem like this trend will change course.
I thought that Crimea might be brought up. In lieu of a full strategic assessment, which others are better qualified to deliver, I’ll spare you a longer response in favor of some quick points:

1. Unlike with Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan is not connected to China by land. Amphibious invasions are by default incredibly hard to pull off. China’s blue water fleet might not be up to the task yet. At least, not without sustaining a large amount of casualties over a period of time, which could lead to negative public opinion back at home and sapping the war effort- a non-military, political dimension as I mentioned.

2. Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan’s political system is much more stable. The sort of widely-disputed election that led to the Euromaidan protests and the conflict does not seem to take place in Taiwan. The post-1949 waishengren are not analogous to the Donbass separatists; the PLAN can’t just sneak arms to them and expect them to rise up against the Taiwanese government. Like South Korea, Taiwan has a democracy that is prone to activism and demonstration, but is fundamentally viewed as legitimate.

3. Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan is more economically developed country. Among the many effects of that anything that affects it will have a larger affect on world markets than what happened to Ukraine. Of course, China is also much more tightly integrated into the global economy than Russia is, so it’s anyone’s guess as to if anyone will bother to sanction a militarily aggressive China.

4. Regardless of the current administration’s ambivalence towards its allies, the U.S. has had long-standing defensive commitments to protect Taiwan. The U.S. Seventh Fleet is right there.

I’m not saying that China couldn’t wage an aggressive war against Taiwan, nor that they couldn’t win. I’m just saying that it’s a much more complicated situation- indeed, an unprecedented situation- that all us armchair speculators and latter-day Tom Clancy’s cannot foresee.
That's extremely untenable from a sovereignty and foreign policy standpoint. Most countries do not like it when huge fractions of economic segments or asset classes are owned by foreign interests, and will usually start obstructing efforts through law / regulation / straight-up theft.
It’s more about network outages than latency specifically... although in several remote locations latency is permanently low due to slow providers.
Aren't most edge computing reffered to as fog-computing? Or is it just in academia
Would just like to say Chick-fil-A should publish more like this. They are absolutely knocking it out of the park with tech. My wife and I are friends with a few operators (they don't have "owners"). I recall them, several years back, trying to get me to quit consulting to come work with them and open more stores. "Food service, ugghhh, no offense" I said. A friend whipped out her phone and showed me their really great in-house app that showed detailed analytics for her store (everything you could imagine) and tools for for doing purchasing and much more we didn't have time to get into. This is circa 2010 if I recall. For reference the iPhone SDK dropped in late 2007 and these folks were already way onboard with mobile. I was impressed.
Well, sha512 with different initialisation vectors. Even OpenSSL doesn't support sha512_256 yet, but it's coming in the next major release.
I really doubt firms are "happy" to trade 30% of their sales for access to the iOS marketplace. They put up with it because it is literally the only way to reach ~50% of the US app marketplace.

I think OP's complaint is that it feels like Apple isn't actually maintaining "the centralized software distribution channel." Apple built something that's good enough, and is in some sense holding their users hostage.

Users would like the ability to buy apps. Developers would like to sell to them. But Apple has created a system where both parties MUST go through Apple. I think this is really key. I don't see a reason why the iOS App Store has to be the only place to buy apps other than that Apple makes more money that way.

What incentive is there for Apple to add new App Store features, improve search, etc.? They've built a system where they're the only option. It doesn't take much to see how this is bad for consumers.

Clearly Apple is providing some value through the app store and deserves a cut, but why 30%? If there was some competition Apple may be forced to lower their rate, but as it stands they can charge whatever they like. It's not a market rate, its whatever Apple can squeeze out of developers.
How many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags
Thanks for the info, will explore them!
Do you need to sign a purity pledge?
Don't get me wrong, it is bad... but it also could be worse. Amazon takes 70% of the revenue from my kindle blog subscriptions! I have more subscriptions than some really big publications too. It's nearly criminal, but it's an easy way to monetize a blog so it's better than nothing in a way.
they've kind of a pain in the butt for us... For example, it would be nice for them to have remote admin, more than one NIC, not freak out when the HDMI is not plugged in, etc.
> That's not to say that there aren't ways to monetize open source products, just that doing it as an afterthought isn't one of them.

Says who? You are entitled to your opinion on the matter, but this is a very contested issue and your opinion is just one of many. If you’re going to argue that Redis and Elastic are “doing open-source monetization wrong”, maybe you should back up your claim with arguments.

> If it's a business, it's a business, and you have to treat it that way from day one. Otherwise you will be out-competed, as a business, by others who do.

You seem very knowledgeable about what is and is not a good monetization strategy for open-source. What do you propose as an alternative to what Elastic and Redis are doing?
I'm not following. It's Occam's Razor: what's more likely:
A) We will set a record bull market & recovery duration, or
B) We'll hit a recession soon.
Further, the yield curve is also near an inversion, another common pattern preceding recessions.
Crows? Not that I'd _want_ to eat them.
Startup weekly meeting structure
Hi guys, let's be honest, startups can be quite messy. A lot of moving parts, a lot of ideas, a lot of changes, a lot of everything.

Hence the importance of ensuring everyone within the core team knows what's going on // the direction the company is heading. Needless to say that it's crucial to remain aligned on the mission and to keep the speedboat moving.

At Contento we have 3 formal weekly moments to get together. Monday morning (8AM) we do our all hands team meeting, on Tuesday (8AM) we do our sales and marketing deepdive and on Wednesday (8AM) we do our product/dev deepdive.

I would love to learn a bit more about how you guys are structuring communication moments within your startup?

Thanks for sharing!
Yes, and technically dolphins are whales so maybe the list is more like whales, elephants, and great apes.

The descriptions of the treatment & suffering of orangutans in Borneo reads a lot like historical accounts of invading armies, replete with murder, cruelty, rape, and ripping babes from the arms of mothers.
Niger has unbelievably great music. Recently picked up a copy of "
Etran De L'Aïr - No. 1" (2014) and it's fantastic. "Azna De L'Ader" (late 70's) is a fantastic find as well - super rhythmic acid rock bursting with energy and passion and completely original. These are just a couple artists from that region I'm into lately and this stuff is as fresh to me as when I discovered punk rock in the early 1990's.

Quite a bit different from the things you're suggesting showing that there's a huge range of sound coming from that region and there has been for a long time, however not documented in the West.

Sahel Sounds is an imprint that has been putting out a ton of great stuff for a few years now.
>To accomplish this, we created a new fund with Limited Partners who are exclusively cultural leaders including Sean “Diddy” Combs, Shonda Rhimes, Will and Jada Smith, Quincy Jones, Kevin Durant, Chance the Rapper, Nasir Jones, Charles Phillips, Edith Cooper, John Thompson, Robin Washington, Richelieu Dennis, Shellye Archambeau, and more. The fund was raised by our partner Chris Lyons.

This just depresses the hell out of me. This is the list of pre-eminent African Americans they could come up with to lead a Technology initiative. That's right black kids, you should look up to entertainers, business moguls, and basketball players. Those are your only role models. That is the heights to which you are capable of achieving. There's no such thing as black scientists, engineers, or mathematicians; that stuff is for white folk.

It's always the same. Every single "diversity" measure needs to be chaired by a hip-hop producer or a fashion designer. This is why blacks will never be seen as true equals in our society. We are a sideshow to these people, whose place in the world is to shuck and jive for their entertainment and mutual guilt appeasement.
>after a decade of working for free during nights and weekends

Think I spotted the problem.

This whole thing feels like someone martyring themselves for a cause and being recognized as a hero, but then complaining that martyrs are heroes and we should be _supporting_ our heroes and not forcing them to be martyrs. But that was the whole point to begin with and why there was any opportunity for recognition at all.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Such a deep commitment to an evidence-based technology approach to business is super surprising from a company that says its corporate purpose is "To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us..." That sort of dissonance is always so confusing to me.
Anyone know how the migration is intended to work? I'm guessing that git's storage model includes a table of SHA-1 hashes to object files/locations, and it will just need another lookup table... and then what? Maybe a fallback to SHA-1 hash to verify objects in older repos?
Prior to 1978, airline fares that crossed state lines were regulated as a public utility might be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act
I think that's the real problem for many: The naming used here, and the supporting FAQ, appear deceptive to many.

Lots of companies have an "open core" model (where the core is OSS and some modules are proprietary). Many organizations have mechanisms where you can review source code of their proprietary code, subject to certain requirements. When things are made clear, there's no deception.

But naming a license rider "Commons" seems designed to cause confusion. It'll be easily confused with OSS licenses (since a "commons" is the discussed reason for having them) and with the well-known Creative Commons licenses. Saying it's a rider "with" the Apache License 2.0 also makes it appear that that this is the Apache License and endorsed by the Apache Foundation, which it is not. Saying that something is only OSS if you use the standard definition of OSS makes it sound like there's a minor legal nit, but it's a fundamental precept that OSS allows any use (including use by business).

> Redis Labs could take these same actions under a non-deceptive name and the response of the Open Source community would be vastly different.

I think that's right. I'm sure some would be unhappy, but the real problem here is the naming that seems designed to mislead. I'm not sure the information here was actually designed to mislead, but if that wasn't the intent, I think Redis Labs needs to change the names to quell the confusion.

If Redis Labs continues to use these confusing names, I suspect that the Creative Commons Corporation and Apache Foundation will consider going to court to protect their trademarks, since otherwise there's a significant risk of confusion in the marketplace (the reason that trademarks exist). Hopefully Redis Labs will just change to less-confusing names and then the problem will disappear.
Conveniently not mentioning the private map of where you go that Google creates for itself.
The link goes to an entirely different article.
First Large-Scale Quantum Simulation of Topological State of Matter
If I do that, it seems with very high probability that it might turn out to be a time sink and a money sink with no benefit other than +reputation.

Why do you think that?
I don't think it's responsible to write about "open source" software while ignoring the legacy of "free software" which kicked off the entire movement in the first place. The pioneers of "open source" believed in utterly free software and (at least RMS) believe furthermore that cloud solutions (wherein someone else does your computing for you) are anti-free.
>Lastly, we have consulting and support, which I think is a dead end

Given that the only large company that is actually successful with open source as a business model long term (Redhat) follows this model, that shallow statement seems pretty tone-deaf.
That's why I said "self-censorship". Basically, not just criticizing (that's more speech), but to tell the person who disagrees that they need to stop talking.
Is "grevious" in the domain of devils, too?

Begone, you.
The assumption that what currently exists is a meritocracy is part of the problem.
Isn't this what Google pulled with Android? First it was open source. Then there were closed source Play Store Services. Then Google products required the Play Store services. Then third-party Android distributions stopped working. Now you do what Google tells you to do and pay them what they want to be paid to use Android.
I'd argue that what people need is a "meta"-union with gig-specific chapters. Regardless of the type of employment, all people are human beings with needs, desires, and limitations. You could argue that government and political parties are supposed to be just that, but here we are.
Defending Tony Morris isn't really the hill I want to die on, seeing as how I have no experience with the situation and I unfollowed him a long time ago to get away from the negativity myself. I was just repeating what I heard some prominent people mention here and there, but I guess I got a bit too caught up in playing devil's advocate.

Thanks for sharing your unfortunate experience, and I agree that health problems or things like that should not be an excuse to behave poorly. Take care.