skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut reaction to this is pretty negative.

It feels instinctively wrong to tie prison time to pay - it should be tied to rehabilitation. And asking someone to risk their lives so they can gamble on reduced prison time just seems... I dunno, isn't that the thing that's usually done by villains in the story books? I mean, maybe I'm naive about it, but I have a fairly strong cultural background telling me that using people's desperation to convince them to do terrible jobs is kind of on the evil side?

Is there additional nuance I'm missing? My first thought is: suppose they were payed a real wage, but independently the prison system had a vending machine where you could exchange wages for reduced prison time. I wouldn't be OK with a system like that.

My objection also wouldn't be about the details. It wouldn't be, "Oh, maybe it'll get abused or someone might threaten a prisoner for money." If I was forced to describe why a system like that felt so wrong, I would probably say something like, "Rehabilitation isn't transactional, and a debt to society isn't something that can be repaid with cash."

So this feels like an abstraction to me that doesn't ultimately change anything about the underlying mechanics being kind of messed up.

If that's not the case, if fighting fires is purely a rehabilitation strategy and the reduced sentence isn't a substitute for money -- then shouldn't we be paying them as well as reducing their prison sentence? If we're not treating freedom as equivalent to wages, then why are they being denied wages?
If I were King (heaven help you all) accidental trangresssions against customers would have octuple damages.
Amazing progress throughout the years. Way to go Team Ghost!
Logical index organization in Cosmos DB
I've used Plivo in the past and was happy with the results. Since you mention Twillio, I'm assuming you're okay with a development platform and are not necessarily looking for a consumer product. Plivo did recently roll out PHLO, which allows building a solution with little or no programming.
Do you consider all A/B tests to be studies one should be compensated for? Not to mention that they are compensating you by sponsoring the content you're viewing, but that should go without saying.

(Focus groups and A/B tests are different, and afaik, Google does compensate for focus groups)
My reading of the comments is not that it must be free but that it must be well designed (legally) and without BS.

Saying it OSS + Something when that Something makes the whole thing not OSS is disingenuous and somewhat fishy at a minimum. It's marketing BS designed to make the whole thing seem better than it is. Engineers tend to dislike marketing BS. If it's no longer OSS then that's fine but be fully honest about it.

When that Something is furthermore legally ambiguous and with many open questions that also a valid complaint. Lawyers are expensive and Engineers overall dislike dealing with them. A license that requires and invites lawyers is naturally not going to go over well.
Hi folks. Kevin from http://fossa.io here. I worked on bringing the Commons Clause to life (https://commonsclause.com/) and led many of the project efforts here.

Happy to answer questions here (or on Twitter @kevinverse).

I wanted to write a blog post to set some context because the real story is a lot less salacious then "Redis just went proprietary", but here's a quick summary:

1/ No, Redis isn't proprietary. It's only some enterprise modules. The Commons Clause is mostly used to temporarily transition enterprise offering counterparts of OSS projects to source-available.

2/ OSS projects are mainly funded by some proprietary offering or service on top of it. Anything to help the ability to monetize this layer is really good, as the fate of the project is directly tied to this revenue stream. A quick reminder, companies like Redis sink 10s of millions into RnD and are usually contributing over 99% of the code to these repos.

3/ OSS-savvy companies aren't dumb. They understand the optics of any licensing announcement and carefully consider what it will mean. Before we react, we should push ourselves to understand what systems are forcing deeply passionate OSS devs to consider more proprietary options.
I suffered from panic attacks throughout my 20's. Recently I went to a cognitive behavioral therapist who guided me through a hyperventilation technique to simulate the physical symptoms of a panic attack. The results are amazing: practicing this technique three or so times a week for a month completely rid me of panic attacks. I recently was feeling stressed about a work trip and "tuned up" the night before by going through a session and had no issues.

The therapist said this cures 99% of patients. The "golden feather" in a CBT therapist's hat.

The technique:

Sitting down, as rapidly as you can, take a deep breath in and blow it out. Do this 40 times. Blow out all your air and hold your breath for as long as you can (1 - 2 minutes for me, stop when you start to get convulsions or you may pass out). During this time observe your tingling hands, light headed feeling, sweaty palms etc. This is a normal result of an excess of oxygen in your body. It cannot hurt you. Now take a deep breath and hold it for 15-20 seconds. Start immediately and repeat two more times for a total of three. Repeat three times a week for a month. If you start to feel panic more often, start your treatment again (this is rarely necessary).

The first time will be the scariest. After that it gets MUCH easier I promise. It may be helpful to see a CBT therapist to talk you through it the first time. It will change your life.

That technique coupled with a mild anti anxiety medication has completely feed me of anxiety and panic.

I hope this helps others :)
Zealots have stolen every commonly used term for open-source software. There's no reason we need to respect the artifice constructed post-facto by groups like the OSI. "Open-source" can and should be used in its common sense. Raymond et al missed a big opportunity to create a more commercial-friendly open-source license by deciding to organize around a philosophy so similar to the one promoted by the FSF.

The insistence that code is not open if the authors try to retain the rights that make it profitable may have cost us access to decades of source code. Things should in fact be exactly the opposite: in order to maintain the exclusive right to resell, software authors should be required to register the source code with the Copyright Office.
Can we just charitably assume that s/he knows that English lacks a gender-neutral second-person pronoun and picked one out of he or she (like those baby books that alternate between gendered pronouns) to finish what s/he said so s/he didn't have to use the thought-interrupting construct "s/he"?
Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
At one point it looks like they'd even jacked it up to $79/month minimum, and the $29/month basic plan was added since then [1]. I guess that didn't sell well.

I have no experience with squarespace (just hear about them in podcasts), but I know they have pretty nice templates, they host blogs, stores (digital and physical), podcasts, and probably more, priced at $12 or $18/month.

From a cursory glance through Ghost's site I'm not seeing what value they bring to the table that makes it worth more. Reeeeaaaallly good blog, I guess?

[1] https://forum.ghost.org/t/300-increase-in-ghost-pro-packages...
Personally, I'd apply a completely different property/rule on them. If they're open to the public, and they're used for debate/dissemination of data to willing individuals, then they are not allowed to restrict any speech that doesn't violate any existing laws.

That still leaves plenty of room for the removal/censorship of violent videos, copyright-violating videos, and content with outright calls to violence. Honestly, I've seen a ridiculous amount of the above three examples on all platforms to come to the conclusion that it's both impossible to police such content properly, and that the attempts at classifying content with political speech under the same umbrella is just silencing/censorship rather than it just being a matter of consistency.
Oof, commenting is the only thing tempting me to use WordPress on some of my websites over Jekyll.
An automatic guidance system in a fixed-wing aircraft is given a route with waypoints, and autonomously navigates between them. It needs to know things about horizons, Great Circles, collision-avoiding altitude change plans, least-time routing, reachability of nearby airports given available fuel weight, etc. There's no real way to implement this with anything less than a CPU with a full (realtime) OS and a software stack on it, full of complex pre-baked databases, with multiple inter-related components from different vendors in the mix. It's frail. Of course it needs a backup.

The kind of system I'm talking about here, on the other hand, is essentially a physical model of the three available controls and how they interact to move the aircraft (and thus predict how the aircraft will be moved); combined with actuator-sensors, accelerometers, and gyroscopes to read off how the aircraft is being affected by those controls (and thus correct the prediction)—enabling you to translate linear movement of a flight-stick to linear movement of the helicopter. It's a dynamic torque model feeding a control system, with a user-supplied reference point. You can make an ASIC that does that and put it through fuzz-testing for literally every potential input combination it'll ever receive.

Yes, said ASIC might physically fail (even after you've done an extensive burn-in test)—but, given the tolerances we have in making ruggedized solid-state electronics these days, vs. the tolerances we have in making mechanical systems, it'd be the least likely part in the control chain to fail.
Not to say that I think modern pop is anything special, but how do these three categories of measurements correlate? How do you compare something like Dr. Dre's 2001 to Led Zeppelin 3 with only these measurements? I would imagine that 2001 would rank lower on these metrics, but I don't think anyone would describe it as "worse".
I am not a conservative, but I have a lot of conservative friends so I feel comfortable saying this.

The "right" will usually admit that there are incentive issues in the system, but there is no philosophical issue with incarceration. They would also say that prisoners should work to pay their own way, because it isn't fair to tax payers to shoulder the burden when tax payers didn't do the crime (this is why they love Sheriff Joe Arpaio). In general they are very supportive of "law and order" and police/military/etc in general. Of course there will be conservatives that don't feel this way, but many do.
I read some of the article and I don’t think the findings make statements about the existence of conspiracy theories, but rather attribute individuals who attribute conspiracy to a number of things to a cognitive bias.

Individual conspiracy theories have sometimes panned out to be real but that doesn’t mean one who leans towards conspiracism to explain things is right.
it's almost as if this is, on a highly sped up time frame, a process similar to that which yields stable traditions in different regionall forms of artistic representation, but without the kind of natural propagation boundaries that would normally contain the spread of a tradition to within a narrow geographical and cultural region.

We, by which I mean the Western world as influenced by pop music in the era of widespread mass communication, are settling on a common collective cultural music motif, and this cannot help but be a bit of a race to the complexity floor in order for it to be sufficiently widespread and stabilized.
I'm a former homemaker. Overall, I've had a better life in many ways than many women. I am often hated on by other women, probably because of that.

The reality is that in many heterosexual relationships, her job mostly relieves him of traditional male responsibilities. In most cases, even if he's currently unemployed, she comes home and cooks and cleans.

Trying to make the transition to a real career post divorce has been very long and hard and feels mostly fruitless. I appear to be the highest ranked woman on HN. I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard (under a different handle). No, that in no way seems to open doors for me of a sort that lead to better income.

I've accomplished many things that are pretty unique. I get zero credit for it. I get nothing but pissed all over for even trying to state what my accomplishments are.

I know there are a lot of factors, such as the fact that I'm medically handicapped. But so was Stephen Hawking. He had public recognition and a real career.

I can't seem to find a solution and I'm tired. I just want out of this prison.

I'm tired of this shit. And I'm very much at a point where I feel the crux of the issue is my gender and it will simply never be fixed because of that and I very much resent it.

Money grows out of power. Not the other way around. Women mostly don't have real power. That fact seems unyielding.
After working for and dealing with government at various levels, nothing amazes me anymore. They are layered with contradictions, perverse incentives, and sometimes corruption.
Yep. When I started I thought I didn’t have much to say. Turns out I have ALOT. Helps me work through things and start the day out right.
If sex work was legal and regulated it would generate a decent amount of tax revenue and cut down tremendously on human trafficking.
Simpler: the "Please hold" message from the other end begins producing touch-tone sounds making your phone ring, when you answer, you're still on hold, and you decide that Holdmaster is useless.
I'm American, hence the GDPR doesn't apply. I also believe they have no obligation to delete my account.
Farther down the page it talks about T2 Unlimited pricing, which is the same thing here. It does look like it needs to be updated to include details for T3 as well, however.

I'll submit some feedback to the documentation team about getting that updated.

(Disclosure: Not posting in an official capacity)
Louder is not really worse when it comes to music. In fact, try turning up whatever you're listening to right now--it'll actually sound better!

The loudness wars (mass application of massive compression that reduces dynamic range) are the music equivalent of adding salt to savory foods. People like it better even though it's technically "worse".
Looking at 1yr reserved fully upfront pricing, the price cuts were ~9% across the board (except 10% for micro and 7% for nano).

This seems like a big improvement for nano, micro, and small which now have 2 vCPUs and the same credits and memory as before.

However, the larger instances are stuck with the same vCPUs and memory, but less than half the CPU credits!
The tradeoff is that many folks in SF who would eat at places like this are fairly inelastic (if not completely ignorant) to pricing of meals. So while your costs are high here, you have a population that can order an $X dollar bowl of mac and cheese without thinking twice. Places like that are few and far between in the US.
> But if we define "false advertising" to exclude most U.S. advertising, I think it excludes Verizon's data plans as well.

I guess this is the confusion. My point is not that Verizon is doing something unusual and should be singled out for it. My point is that Verizon's behavior here is emblematic of how this country treats advertisers in general, and an "unlimited" plan with limits is just particularly obvious example of how we let companies lie to us.
I'm only in it for the money.

I'm good at my job and I enjoy it for the most part, but I'm only doing it because I get paid well.
It'd sure be great if people didn't make that assumption, but the HN guidelines ask you to make the strongest-possible interpretations of comments when responding, as doing otherwise leads to unnecessary, off-topic flamewars.

Other commenters use different pronouns when describing hypothetical scenarios, and that's great, but it also sometimes triggers flamewars from a different direction.

Best to just avoid playing that game altogether.
A simple trick to get rid of Wasps. Get a brown paper bag (like the ones you get at McDonalds), fill it with air, seal it, and stick in our you wall. The wasp thinks it is another wasp nest and go somewhere else. Works like a charm
Prediction: Facebook will be selling access to individual's trustworthiness score to employers and lawyer firms before the end of the year.
Well, this is simple. You want somebody invested and passionate about the project.

Have you ever noticed, you can move mountains if you are genuinely interested in something? That it is difficult to focus and too easy to procrastinate if you don't want to do something or find something boring?

Corporations are good at solving large problems because they can throw funds and money at the problems. They can absorb the damage caused by people who are barely productive.

When you are startup you can't do that. But the advantage you have is that you are looking for one person at this point in time and you can be picky and wait until you find the one. Bad hire at this point in time can frequently spell disaster for your budding enterprise.

I don't want to say that it is totally impossible to find somebody who might not be interested about your idea but will still do good job. But it is unlikely and then remember, you are not only looking for your first engineer but also your first manager, possibly CTO, etc.

Look at stories of successful startups -- in most cases first hires seem to have been critical and mostly seem to be passionate people who then established themselves close to the top of new organization.
This article talks about cognitive bias, not dumbness or enlightenment:

“which was partly independent from religion, politics, age, education, agency detection, analytical thinking and perception of randomness.”

Plenty of smart people suffer from cognitive bias, I’d bet most do to some degree.
Allowing your country's companies to under-pay your population probably has worse effects, even in the short run. Corporations are here to make things better for the populace, not to use the populace as resources to be raided before the corporation moves along to better things. That almost always seems to be left out of the analysis. Without any benefits from a corporation,we're all better off without them, except maybe a few big stockholders and C-level employees. If corporations don't help, they're not even Pareto-efficient.
It's not the only option - it can be disabled, the same as on T2 instances.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-unlim... has documentation on disabling it.

(Disclosure: I work at AWS, not posting in an official capacity)
Part of daily upkeep if it's just for yourself (possibly plus partner/roommate/whatever). I think we're talking about cooking/washing/whatever for a couple hundred people. As a job.
The worst: loud hold music that's interrupted repeatedly as if the call is being answered only to play yet another pre-recorded message about "our other offerings" or "your call is important" ...
I’m confused by your confusion. Glass assumed him and his staff, which is mostly female, would produce more shows that gave more voices to women. They did not. That means they are part of the problem (having listened to the show for over a decade, I’m confident him and his staff do consider it a problem), which is always disturbing to realize.
Admittedly this is a more relaxed definition of social media than I have accepted, but I see your point!

I still use Discord and Github, and the social interaction there doesn't cause the same feeling that Facebook or Twitter do.

However, I might argue a select few of these sites or technologies can still be polarizing or unhealthy, particularly Instagram and Pinterest.
Those are just the official FAA requirements. There are additional requirements for speciality occupations mandated by industry and insurance standards. See e.g.:

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/3zzajl/fire_pilots/
About a year to 6 months ago I decided I wanted to try out the hosted version at ghost.org. It seemed I had already used up my free trial some time ago. So long ago I don't even recall doing it. I emailed support to see if I could get another trial. I was interested in paying for the pro version but wanted to make sure it was actually worth $29.

I NEVER got a response from their support about my request. Just flat out ignored. Haven't been back since...
Aye, sounds like it's a good time to develop another memcached replacement.

Tip: if your memcached replacement doesn't trivially allow the rooting of its server, and if you don't also defiantly leave the exploit in while explaining that "you must be --- this tall --- to use redis without it behaving like a malware installation", and that any dirty normies deserve that fate, then you're already better than redis! :)
Curious about vendors like Red Hat as well. Seems like their umbrella support would conflict. Also curious about companies that might want to bundle Redis in their product
As an open source lawyer, this is definitely not an open source license in any meaningful sense (it meets no definition of open source/free software/DFSG/you name it).

No restrictions on fields of endeavor and no discrimination is a pretty basic tenent that goes back a long long time (the DFSG were published in 1997, there are other things saying the same thing that pre-date it).

I also know this is what other open source lawyers are saying as well (in fact, i haven't seen one who believes it is anything else).

I'm sure you can make up another word other than "proprietary" to call it, but ...

As for questions:
The main commons clause page makes the claim "Initiated by a coalition of top infrastructure software companies to protect their rights"

Care to list them?

Additionally, even ignoring the significant vagueness in the clause, there are plenty of combinations of licenses with which this clause makes literally no sense. It seems there is no guide or policing of these. Truthfully, this all does not feel well thought out. Who actually participated in the drafting?

Here is one that exists in practice:

neo4j is commons clause + AGPLv3

AGPLv3 section 7: If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

...

GPLv3 is identical in this respect, and LGPLv3 is a set of permissions on top of GPLV3 that does not revoke this clause.

This seems to make commons clause incompatible with a lot of software.
The counter is that religion was faked and planted in order to test devotion to truth, no matter the risk to personal consequences.

If you were in charge, what would you test?
I think they could pull it off in a way that would result in few inaccessible backups. The decryption keys could be stored on your iCloud Keychain, so if you lose one iOS device, the backup can be decrypted with another iOS device you own. And maybe the encryption key could itself be derived from your device's passcode in some asymmetric way.
The fact that they started throttling at all during an emergency is criminal. Charges would be filed if this had been any other type of service (mechanics raising rates, gas price gouging, landlines refusing service without additional payment, an intentional 911 outage, etc, etc).

Either we need more regulation, or the county should withdraw Verizon’s right of way. There needs to be severe recourse when public utilities engage in hostage taking.
I just realized that what in dark corners of mobile games we call Whales, NVidia calls "enthusiasts".
Fair enough. Hovering is definitely harder than forward motion, because among other things the tail boom acts as a weathervane during forward motion. But hovering is still easier than standing on a basketball. I've done the former, and I can't imagine even trying to do the latter.