skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Type-safe utility library for creating nested Immutable Records
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745680/
Still like the idea but it is more complex to do it right and keep it right.

Would only do this with a good team and a real problem where this would be useful.

Rdbm goes very far
In order to maintain a standard framework we decided to piggyback the restriction (on creating managed services by cloud providers) on any existing OSS license.

And that was a bad decision and it needs to be reverted. What you're doing is dishonest, point blank.

If you don't want to write a new license from scratch, take one of the ones off this list, and fork it and make a "Redis Non-Commercial License" or whatever you want to call it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software#Rest...
AGPL doesn't require releasing internal changes unless the changed code is served (like in SaaS) externally. Organizations are free to internally modify, run, and distribute changes to AGPL code as long as the modified code is made available on the internal network.
That's correct. The controllers use full PID loops for each axis.
Came here to say the same re: nirvana. Maybe keep moderate expectations, but yeah it did open something up for me.

I think the truth is somewhere between "programming nirvana" and "no more null pointers and undefined functions".
It actually works pretty nicely. Most of our apps are small and focused, and we nest apps within each other heavily.

It's fairly common for example to see an app introduce some models, Python APIs to work with them, and business logic, and then to have a sub-app for the web API and bits relating to that, and a sub-app for the admin interfaces (we don't use the Django admin).

Example:

- orders

- refunds

- shipping

- royal_mail

- click_and_collect

- fraud

- fraud_blacklists

- returns

This means that working on our Click and Collect integration, one only needs to hold in their head the current app, and maybe some APIs provided by the apps above it. It's relatively uncommon to import across apps on different branches of the tree, and when we do that's typically only to top-level apps containing the most core models, or for very explicit public APIs provided to the whole site (which might be re-exported from an __init__.py up the tree anyway).

I find it a pretty nice codebase to work on. We're hiring too https://www.thread.com/jobs/software-engineer
GPL does not allow the addition of this clause, anyone who did so would be in violation of the GPL. For license that would allow it, it's not fair to say License+CommonCrap - not to the license, and not to the users.
Having never been to a black hat conference, I’m surprised that such people would be so easily open to attack. Surely no one gives out their real email address or phone details at these events? I hope they don’t take critical hardware with them full of secrets to be happily liberated by someone more enthusiastic. They wouldn’t have “interesting” conversations in taxi/ubers, would they?

Maybe there are less black hats at these conferences than the numbers suggest.
>still a democracy and they are ultimately just reflecting the views of the public

Seems more like a reflection of the views of corporations than the public
This comment thread shows the death of expertise. She's an expert that everyone here views as being your co-equal.
Can you at least change the name, to something that's not CC? It's going to be confused with Creative Commons otherwise.
Why are record companies dumping their Spotify stock?
Kerala also has significantly higher literacy rates than the rest of India. It seems like a state that is overall an outlier, so I suspect there are far too many confounding factors to confidently determine whether the diet is the root cause of a higher life expectancy.
I don't know about PyPy.js specifically, but most systems like this provide a virtual filesystem that maps back to things like indexedDB and localstorage which are browser APIs.

There is no way that pypy.js is able to access local files on your machine outside of the browser sandbox.
Bizarre and ultimately bad essay. The author seems to want to convince us that she knows more about Szilard than she will ever tell. She calls Szilard "Leo" while referring to everyone else by surname. She's dismissive of Szilard and his legacy without ever giving evidence the man was less than a genius. She twice mentions Szilard's insistence on designing his own radiotherapy, but fails to mention that this saved not only his own life, but became standard and saved countless lives subsequently (including that of my maternal grandfather).
Think about contentious issues like abortion, politics, vim vs emacs and the comments that could arise

"Those other people should die in a fire"

"But you should shoot them too, just in case"

These might be funny, light-hearted, sarcastic, and quality in some topics and angry, mean, toxic in others.

I'm sure it is being worked on but I don't see it happening anytime soon. It seems like it would require to much training and that the biases of the trained data would still produce incorrect outcomes.
Yep, that was a subset of my point. Maybe I wasn't totally clear.
It's useful information about industrial machine vision cams, since I don't have any experience with them.

You are right about custom cameras - in fact, I have some camera modules for experimenting with surveillance, night vision and machine learning, and some of their datasheets mention registers that, when set, output Bayer format images. Machine learning in surveillance is still a rather under-serviced market, but it's potentially a rich source of raw image datasets.

Raw format training and inference definitely work. The obstacle is only data availability.
> It feels instinctively wrong to tie prison time to pay - it should be tied to rehabilitation.

You seem to be reasoning under the assumption that prison exists for rehabilitation. It doesn't. Incarceration serves to punish. And forced labour is an additional punishment.

Therefore substituting prison time with extra work seems a fair trade-off, and one well aligned with the intended goals of the prison system.
Dexia and Belfius are state owned in Belgium since the state bailed them out in 2008. Same for Ethias, an insurance company.
Tiny note: "sew confusion" is a malapropism; "sow confusion" is the canonical expression.
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Say I made a sizable contribution to an OSS project, one that qualified me as an expert. For projects that have this clause, I wouldn't not be able to make money directly with the source that _I wrote_. I would certainly not lend my expertise to a project that put me in this position, and I would guess that others would feel the same. Imagine if the Linux kernel had this clause. All this "commons clause" will do is remove the community from an open source project, and probably kill open source adoption as a result.
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Precedent? This precedent has been set long ago. E.g., Microsoft (for one example) used BSD code in Windows in a proprietary way. There aren't very many prominent cases like this because software is hard to monetize, whether it be open source or proprietary.

I don't see the problem with proprietary forks of open source whose license allows it, and when it's the original creator who pulls it off then I say good for them. When I choose to use BSD or MIT licensing, I do it because a) I don't expect to monetize that code, b) I don't mind if someone else figures out a way to monetize that code -- this is a willful, eyes-wide-open choice on my part. I wouldn't recommend always using any one license; instead I recommend picking a license for each codebase according to whether you want to allow third parties to monetize or whether you want to prevent proprietary forks. There is no one-size-fits all license.
The FSF can explain it better than I can.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
You're mixing up Open Source and Free Software, those two are not the same.
Most scientists agree that the uptick in serious fires in the west is primarily from decades of bad forrest management, not climate change.

Climate change obviously plays a role, but it's not the primary driver.

I think some activist groups and the media are purposefully muddying the water on this issue.

http://mjr.jour.umt.edu/how-journalists-fan-the-flames-of-wi...

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/08/western-washington-smo...
This is a topic where a big chunk of the highest-quality information is available only offline. A recent book has an entire chapter (22 pages) about the history of Brownie cameras:

Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape by
John R. Stilgoe (2014), ISBN 978-0-8139-3515-7.

This has a side question: is there a business model for curated information about what ISN'T online (not even in Google Books)? I want a product that intercepts my Google web searches and tells me "You're wasting your time. Searches for this topic prove satisfactory in only 12% of cases. Consider buying some books or hiring an expert."
If you read the shutdown blog post for RethinkDB, licensing was not among their problems. Instead, they were market positioning, reputation, and developing products suitable for their market in a timely fashion. In other words, business execution.

Believe it or don't, no license, no matter how clever, will allow you to be financially successful if you blow the business execution.

Let's turn this on its head: what was the business plan that RedisLabs re-invented itself under? Was it a good business plan? Is is vulnerability to Amazon/MS that made it fail, or was the plan flawed from the start?
Superb book, perhaps the finest non-fiction book I've had the pleasure of reading. I love the way he is able to create a narrative that goes all the way back to H. G. Wells to find its roots.

Rhodes' follow-up, "Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb", basically continues the story where TMAB left off. The narrative gets a bit more fractured and factual, focused on the question of how to safeguard nuclear weapons and what their political/military/diplomatic purpose is. But it does wrap up the J. Robert Oppenheimer story.

Once one has read these two, I strongly recommend "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" [2] by Bird and Sherwin. Also extremely well written.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb/dp/0684...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-O...
I think about it like this. Good stories have incredible staying power.

Disney movies like Cinderella, and Snow White can always be remade with newer technology because there core story is worth adapting to the new mediums.

World of Warcraft started with some very good lore. I remember enjoying the huge back stories that came in the instruction manuals before the game even became an MMO. So I think it has a chance to hit that 100 year mark.

That doesn't mean it will have a continuous virtual world for the entire 100 years though. But I think through a couple revivals it could make it. I also worry the IP is not really unique enough to guarantee it will be here, but I do think they are working that.
> In order to be in the study, you must do the three steps of this ritual each time you eat.

So the study is selecting for people that have good self control already?
That's irrelevant. Nobody is going to read your FAQ. You intentionally created something that tries to muddy the lines between Open Source and Non Open Source. It's dishonest, and deceitful.
I got the impression from Richard Rhode's books that Szilard, for all his ability and achievements, was a pretty pretentious 'know it all' with a (possibly justified) powerful sense of his own importance. This article kind of hints at this nature as well. I think it's largely this that has prevented his name being perhaps as widely known as Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi etc when one thinks of the Manhattan Project, as those who retell these events often appeared not to like the man particularly much. Fermi of course chose never to work with Szilard ever again.
Hmm... maybe that explains why I like coconut oil so much! Seems like it's always the unhealthy stuff that tastes so good. I highly recommend you make your popcorn with a little high quality coconut oil and a little salt; positively orgasmic.
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There's this mystique around Black Hat but it's a 20,000 person security trade show. I imagine the vast bulk of attendees register with their work email and phone number just like they do for every other conference they attend.
> Another way to look at it is for every day you don't work you have to spend a day in jail.

No. This is false.

When you land in prison, the duration of your sentence is fixed. You can't increase it, except by committing additional crimes while behind bars. But you can mitigate it by working as a volunteer.
Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?
There is a large domestic disinformation machine in the US. The disinformation media has for decades used identity politics to get Americans to vote for policies that benefit the 0.01%. Nowhere is this clearer than with climate change.

In my experience, many of those in the disinformation bubble have no idea that climate change denial benefits oil and gas companies and is heavily funded by them.

If you’re interested in disinformation and how it affects climate change policy, the book and movie Merchants of Doubt is really great- it explains some of the strategies used.
Syonyk aka Russell Graves has an interesting post summarizing the issue: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/08/wildfires-in-western-uni...

(he's not an expert, so take it with a grain of salt)
Verizon = a Scorpion....
https://endofthegame.net/2012/06/18/the-scorpion-and-the-tur...
I've done something similar as an experiment a few years back but I've used Meta Classes which define themselves, to support a schema-less model backed by MongoDB. It felt like a more flexible and correct approach at the time. In the end after my experiment ended, I've scrapped it decided to wait for PostgreSql 9.4 to be released with the BJSON field support. Then JSONField was my new friend.
Black Hat is a large, highly corporate conference.

You may be thinking of DEFCON?
I got a chill up my spine when I read this but fortunately it looks like this is the default on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (at least).
The claim made in the article is regarding saturated fats, not cholesterol, as dietary cholesterol is not obtained from plant sources like coconut oil. Plants do produce phytosterols, which compete with cholesterol for absorption & may lower serum cholesterol.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15166807
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793103/
Its not just about corporations. If the sinners are a dozen of "them", the solutions are easy. If you have good standard of living in a middle/lower income country or if you are not homeless in a developed country, You Sir! are responsible for a lot, than you are willing to accept.
Its pretty cool actually, called Just Enough Administration, and its well supported.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/jea/overview
I agree that from what most scientists are saying, that sounds like the availability of fuel; but could climate change be responsible for the unusually hot and dry conditions?
Here's another one: Talkyard — different from Discourse and Mozilla Talk, in that it looks more like Hacker News and Disqus: threaded comments, best first, Like votes.

It's free and open source, beta software (more risky than those two others), I'm developing it. There's SaaS hosting (no ads, no tracking — costs money instead) for people who don't want to install on their own server.

Demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments,
read about it: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments

\\\*

Curious about how you have in mind that built-in commenting will look & work. Disqus, Talk and Discourse are all fairly different from each other, right, and I'm a bit wondering which approach you'll take. B.t.w. looks interesting with SSO & full community integration.
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Detecting Fraud Using the Mathematics Behind Benford’s Law
Thank you, I hope the imposter that took over my brain pats me on the back.
The problem, as you pointed out, is that it has nothing to do with thinking and everything to do with hating.

You could give conservatives great environmental solutions for free, and they'd still reject them, because they know liberals would like it. They hate wind power, hate solar power, and it's got nothing to do with economics. Yet they like nuclear power. Why? Hippies don't like it.

And I don't think the politicians are close to blameless. They've cultivated this for 25 years. They're not just reflecting the will of the people, they're shaping it.
That's sort of crossing the line between refusing to work and doing deliberate sabotage.

Especially if the help articles are on an internal network.
Is Google responsible for racism people send in emails to each other?

Is AT&T responsible for racism people send over group text messages?

As much as I dislike FB, you can't just say everything people talk about on a given platform is the PLATFORM's fault. How about it's the NAZI's fault?

Facebook probably has more content moderators than any other company on the planet, at this point.
I don't think it's about censorship so much as it's thinking ahead and realizing how huge of a threat this clause could be towards free software. The author is (IMO, rightly) concerned about this and wants to limit how much damage is caused by it.
What "heaps of evidence"? What data? None where linked, just assumed.
As it stands 'Common Clause' is a poison pill for every business. It won't get past any legal department.
1. I'll copy&paste this to test it!

2. uh ok I'll paste it into an editor and remove the added indentation and then copy&paste that to test it

3. ... ok. I'll look at the code and reformat every single line and copy&paste that

the oldest complaint abides
It's not just politicians; the citizenry does not really care and many are openly hostile to the idea of taking firm steps to reduce emissions since that has an economic cost and they view the economic cost as a bigger threat than whatever impact emissions have on the environment.
Found it interesting the VIM started off as VI Imitation, before becoming VI Improved.

I think the article really meant "A look at VI", since it was about VI, despite starting with "Vim creator Bill Joy told Linux Magazine." Given that Bill Joy created VI, not VIM, and the article goes on to discuss VI primarily.
This is the main reason I'm more than skeptical of our ability to even limit the effects of climate change in a foreseeable future, I'll admit it's a cynical view, but even if tomorrow every world leaders agreed that climate is indeed our top priority it'd still be a challenge to tackle it. Instead of that we have endless debates, as if we had time for partisanship, and short-sighted "patching" solutions.

I've been told repetitively that I'm wrong to "believe" in climate change, I hope I am, at that point: being wrong is our only way for salvation.
My advice for Haskell("monad") beginners would be to try to re-implement the("a") State monad by yourself without using any libraries. It helped me understand that monads are nothing more than just function composition.
The plus sign suggests an additional right, as a dual license would offer, instead, it removes rights from the Apache license. I don't think that's an accident because judging from the website, this seems to be a very serious attempt to put a positive spin on "look but don't touch" style proprietary licensing schemes. Fuck this.
A majority of Americans simply are not prosperous.

Having nice things, TV, mobile phones and other similar items reflects the overall product of industry. Those are technically luxuries.

All good, and welcome, but wealth, security needed for happiness us a different thing.

Wealth, in the basic human sense, is all about time and how much of it is availiable for people to assign purpose, rather than have that purpose mandated somehow by others or genuine need.

Happy people use that time in ways that they find rewarding, a core part of happiness.

In a macro sense, we as a nation are prosporous.

In a micro sense, people do not see that prosperity as basic wealth, and it manifests as their personal cost and risk exposure not matched to their income.

This costs them time, and limits on scope of desirable purpose on what portion of "free" time they have.

Having lots of money, that requires vast amounts of time to obtain and or service, is not wealth in the simoke human sense. Sans this basic wealth, happiness is much harder to achieve. Some people get happiness out of work. Most do not, and it ranges from the work being mundane to varied desire to work.

Secure people, not having to dedicate large amounts of time to meet basic needs, can be happy much easier, despite a lack of luxuries in their lives.

TL;DR: Reduce overall personal cost and risk exposure, and the time needed to do that, and happiness metrics will improve.

People need to be people. When they can't be who they are, do qhat they will do, they simply will not be happy no matter the luxuries they may find availiable to them.
Sounds like corporatism to me. Change the rules so nobody else can follow you.
Pure passion for engineering

When I was in the military I received experiences that don't often happen which made me respect and appreciate various technology and the people who engineered it. This was the origin of what gave rise to my passion in engineering that otherwise would of never unfolded. My opinion, if you want to uncover your true passions in life go experience the world for it is. Although I would suggest something different other than joining the military ;) Cheers ~ S
German unions, much like Japanese unions, take the good of the country into their wage negotiations. US unions engage in strike after strike, even if they are well paid. The end game for Detroit was written in the union halls, 75-80% of all UAW jobs were lost to imports (and automation) from the 1960's onwards.
This makes GNU/Linux a more appealing and viable gaming platform than Mac OS, since it now has the opportunity to capture so many of the existing Windows games.
Best to check the source, license unchanged: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/COPYING

Thank you Salvatore for Redis, it has benefited so many projects.
Seems a severe case of "we tried really hard to obfuscate our words with marketing bullshit speak and then it backfired and we got a shitstorm instead, because noone understoond what we were really trying to say".
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Does this article violate HN terms or something? It got flagged in less than an hour and most comments are downvoted.
research scientist in a robotics company.
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There’s nothing that makes the location history issue only ‘technically true’. It is simply true.

If you present a switch saying don’t record location history, and still record the history, you are not respecting the switch.

Saying “That switch is just to turn off tracking the location history for the end user to use. We’re still going to track them for our own purposes.” is fine, but it’s a lie to say that the switch turns off location history. The switch should make it clear that all it’s doing is turning off the user facing version and that Google is going to keep tracking you whether you like it or not.

That would be honest, but presumably people wouldn’t like it if they knew, so Google wasn’t truthful about it.

The reporting is true, and Google deserves the consternation they are getting for misleading users.