skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually had a discussion on this subject with Phil Mason aka Thunderfoot who has a Phd in chemistry and is the creator of the video that is critical of this announcement ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3s-xI895zc )

The discussion was about how much work is actually required to condense the water vapor. The fact is that it is thermodynamically possible to MOVE more heat energy (Q) than work (W) applied. The efficiency of heat movement is dependent on temperature gradient but is more than 100% efficient. So as bizarre as this sounds it actually requires effectively zero work to condense water from the air at 100% humidity.
i mean to be fair that's the big problem with most licenses as "not written very well" covers almost all problems with contracts :)

Like the LGPL is confusing because it is not written well in some sense. But that goes to "confusing" instead of "unenforceable".

But yes, better written the problem with this license would just be "They are trying to claim things they know they can't claim" instead of "they are actually claiming things they know they can't claim".

The next question that would pop into my head would then be "At what point does attempting to claim rights to things you know you can't, as a way of scaring people into paying you, cross into unfair and deceptive trade practices"
Well it depends on whether doing things the legally correct way is important or not to you?

For a small team it's unlikely as the cost of enforcement outweighs the benefit. But as you grow the amounts become more significant and there are plenty of impacts of not doing things properly. Here are way this could impact a business:

* The business won't be able to legally carry out business (e.g. sales) in the jurisdiction because there'll be an outstanding court judgement or tax judgement against you.

* The business' auditors or professional company directors may either (a) ask you to keep money on your balance sheet to account for the outstanding judgement, (b) or refuse to sign-off your accounts.

If you refuse to tell them about the outstanding fines/judgement then you will be taken to have lied to them at which point you may be struck off as a company director. It's extremely difficult to find a professional finance professional to work for a business where ethical and reporting standards are not followed because they will risk being censured and losing their livelihood.

* You won't be able to travel to the jurisdiction (if you are a director/owner of the business) as you'll risk being put in jail/civil fine.

* The state in question can use international tax treatments and bring a court case or enforcement against the company within their main jurisdiction. Unlikely for a small company.
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Surely Google's privacy-invading footprint is far wider than Microsoft's, including Analytics etc.
> Or you can just run from a residential connection for effectively free if your service is _that_ small.

Not gonna be possible soon, now that ISPs are starting to hand out private IPs to customers. That's going to keep happening until the world moves to IPv6.
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I don't know why this is attracting so much bitterness.

If anyone is informed about water, it would be great to get a little more context, for example what other solutions like desalinization and other dehumidifiers cost in energy and dollars. (Yes, obviously nothing is going to be as cheap as putting a pipe in a river.)

For example their FAQ says they use less than half the power of their competitors. That seems like a huge advance. And is $.02/liter amazing or just slightly better?
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Remind me of that one time when they went berserk on every tooling vendor using the name « Mongo » in their product name :

RoboMongo,MongoGUI etc... they all received a legal notice to remove the name mongo from their product.

This was probably one of the most evil thing have seen in the open source industry .

Most of those vendors were open source with paid premium features or donation.

After receiving their legal notice most of those vendors deprecated or sold their project to a company feeling betrayed by Mongo.

As a result Mongo Compass became the de facto GUI for MongoDB and is advertise as sold with MongoDB Enterprise.
Yes, but it is deeper. My overall take is that SSPL overreaches based upon the tools that it is using, making it infirm for multiple reasons.

I don't necessarily disagree with the sort of thing they want to do, that definitely fits one kind of business model. But I wouldn't want to go to court the license as presented (and now entered into by some unknown number of people).
Not really free discovery when every search will be about the WordPress editor or Project Gutenberg and a static site generator will be on page 3-4 :/
Is there a regulation to how much pesticides they can spray into foods?

If this is the case then non GMOs sounds more appealing.
I've seen that situation as well. My approach recently has been to build things where running on Lambda is a feature, and not so much an architectural decision. The aws-serverless-express library basically wraps an express (or other similar framework) app to handle interfacing with the lambda, marshaling lambda "event" data into the framework request interface, for example.
https://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/weather/humidity-in-uae-reac...
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Sorry, I just meant: "a more conscientious lawyer could have straightforwardly drafted that contract to avoid some of its major problems". Like, the subtext of the question is, if I was MongoDB, and stipulating that I didn't create unreasonable work conditions like "get it done in a day", should I be pissed at my lawyer?

Additional question: if you can fix that problem with the contract with a "to the extent possible" predicate, is that really not the default? Like, if a clause can be interpreted as requiring the impossible, even if a straightforward alternate interpretation doesn't, that clause is broken?
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Same fight here, but we're digging in our heels and bothering to convince the internal lawyer that it's not a problem. We'll win, but it takes time we'd rather not have to spend.
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Or in 2050, wondering why in 2018, mercury amalgam (Hg is an established neurotoxin) was still in significant use (except in Norway, Sweden and Denmark) as a dental filler.
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How is performance? My experience with normal VMs has always been that CPU performance is fine but doing anything with a GUI is very annoyingly slow/laggy.
Yes this is common now. For example Monsanto has Roundup Ready GMO crops & Roundup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready

The crops are designed to withstand Roundup, while weeds are not, so farmers can use Roundup to control weeds with crops that would normally be killed by the herbicide.
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* Not to clutter hn but here are my notes for that discussion:

http://www.sfu.ca/~mbahrami/ENSC%20461/Notes/Refrigeration%2...
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Kinetic/watvap.ht... this shows that its quite large amount
Efficiency fridge = 1 / ( Th / Tl - 1)

There is actually way more water in the air than 0.04 grams... i think this is because liters not m^3
for 1m^3 there is 30 grams at 30 degrees and 17.3 at 20 degrees. its at least ~15/10 - > 1.5 grams per Centigrade
Say we do small diff of 4 degrees, 30 to 26. We gain 1.5 * 4 = 6 grams / m^3
To do this we need to cool 1m^3 water at 30 to 20.
Now this is tricky because humidity but
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/heating-humid-air-d_693.h...
h = 1.01 (kJ/kg.oC) t + x [1.84 (kJ/kg.oC) t + 2502 (kJ/kg)]
x is relative weight so its actually small like 0.03 so it changes the result very little
h = 1.06 (kJ/kg.oC) t + x 2502 Kj/kg
partial diff with t gives us 4.24kJ/kg change for cooling the air (sensible)
partial diff with x gives us (0.006kg delta) 2500 - > 15kJ/kg for this 4 degree change for condensation with 6g/m^3 of water
Since the cooling of air that didnt result in water is reclaimable energy lets ignore it
Now efficiency of this heat transfer
1/ (303.15 / 299.15 - 1) = 75x heat transfer efficiency. Does this make sense? we know heat pumps are amazing :)
so per gram its like 15kJ/6g = 2.5kJ/gram -> this is really expected as 2.3MJ/kg from original video!

However this heat (Q) is moved via work (W) at 75x rate
This means to get 1kg (1L really) it only takes 30KJ
So at 15watts (J/sec) -> 2000sec -> 33 min
Perhaps this wont work because the MASSSIVE heat sink required :)

How much air needs to be moved?
we get 6 grams for each meter cubed of air. Not great thats about 166m^3 of air that needs to filter.
https://www.amazon.ca/Ultra-Strong-DC12V-Cooling-200CFM/dp/B...
200CFM -> 5.66 m^3/min 60 min/h = 339 ... this is double what we need.
its about 1.6A 12v = 15 watt... but its more than we need. Half it?
You might like Sins of a Solar Empire. The scale is even larger than SupCom, so a full game can run several hours to complete. You can play on smaller maps as well, but the game shines best with several different solar systems.

It's got large fleets, a decent amount of automation (very little micro needed as I recall), a huge range of scale in terms of the units themselves, strategic zoom every bit as good as SC.

Layer on top of that a research tree, neutral factions (pirates) you can influence, 'hero' units in the form of capital ships that you can level up and customize.

I haven't played since the very first release, so maybe it's gotten overcomplicated since then - but I think it's worth a look
In terms of randomized-observer appreciation per dollar, probably.
Some great general advice for talks is given here if you're interested http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kayvonf/misc/cleartalktips.pdf but doesn't answer any of your submissions questions. Each conference I would imagine has guidelines how to apply to be a speaker or if more than one talk is allowed, or if it must be previously unpresented/new, just email them and ask.

An example of a really good talk is https://youtu.be/5c0BvOlR5gs where Shriram Krishnamurthi explains creating computer science curriculum for highschool students. Notice he moves around the room (if this is possible and not a huge arena), is able to prevent people from hijacking the talk like the one audience guy who rants off topic about early arithmetic curriculum, yet still manages to give an acceptable answer to his question, and promises to hang around afterwards to discuss questions with audience members who have multiple questions as a way to keep the talk moving on topic. The slides are perfectly presented as well moving effortlessly instead of those talks where they pause for each slide.
> They are in Hawaii. An outdoor dehumidifier will work great in a water abundant area.

In fact, isn't there a big, natural dehumidifier in the center of Maui?
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"Interesting thing about misuse, is that it prevents the enforcement of the copyright against even non-parties until the misuse has been dealt with."

Interesting. I've never delved that far into misuse but that makes sense. Is that piece a US specific thing or common in others?

As you say it would not have too much practical effect since it's curable trivially. You'd get a few hours of unrestricted mongo use, maybe, but I bet the official order would post-date the blog post fixing it :)
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My gynecologist is on this street. Flushing is a dark place.

I grew up here. Some dark things that go on here on a regular basis:

Exploitation of immigrants. Don't pay them at all and threaten to call ICE. A famous Korean restaurant Kum Gang San was forced to pay millions in a lawsuit for exploiting their foreign staff. They made their employees pick cabbage at a local farm on the weekend to make kimchi... https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/nyregion/judge-tells-kore...

Abuse from landlords. I have friends who grew up in small apartments with multiple families. One family to a room.

Corruption in the police. I don't think her brother is crazy. It's a real thing. My favorite restaurant also served as one of those Hollywood trope Chinese gambling dens. My dad got beaten by a pipe by some drunk whackos in a parking lot trying to break up a fight and ended up in the ER. When we went to the police station, the restaurant had deliberately erased the video footage. The officers couldn't help us, it ended there.

The dark prep school industry that preys on poor families kids whose only chance at escaping poverty (or making their parents suffering worth it) is standardized testing. Multimillion dollar industry.

Accountants who do shady tax things and should be arrested and jailed. Thanks for ruining my parents retirements and those of all the other immigrants who don't know better but trusted you.

This illegal birthing place where a woman tried to murder new parents and their newborns not too long ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/nyregion/queens-stabbing-...

Not to mention all the foreign investment in Flushing right now...

Rampant exploitation but that's why Flushing has some of the best and cheapest Asian food in New York City. :(

If you saw Abacus, the documentary about the Asian Bank and felt sympathy for them, I heard they built their wealth as slum lords.
I was going to say, I have a dehumidifier in my basement that I empty a gallon of water out of/day during the summer in Pennsylvania. I can't believe this kind of shit wins the xprize.
For people defending this, you're being naive. It's way too easy to argue that the value of any app resides mostly in the data it collects. That data is stored in MongoDB, therefore the value of the app "primarily derives from the Program."

Of course their sales people are saying "No. We won't use it that way." Sales people gonna sell.

I'm sure the people currently running MongoDB would not do that. What happens when they get acquired by, say, Oracle? Or some other company that absolutely would do that?

The bottom line that you have to assume from a legal point of view is that any part of an agreement that can be abused, will be abused. This not only can be and will be, but it will be really easy.

If they are doing this to prevent people from competing with their own service--which they absolutely are--then they need to rewrite it and make that explicit. This is way too squishy for anyone with an ounce of brains to use in a commercial product.
I assume you're referring to https://www.faforever.com/ because just googling for FAF doesn't give you anything useful.
That's not gaming it, it's a feature. GDPR isn't designed to stop companies contacting you, it's designed to ensure companies have to think through what they're doing and have process for handling objections and problems. You have to do a "balancing check" to document your reasoning for why your legitimate interest is sufficient for what you're proposing to do.
Hi, this is Gokhan from WebGazer Team. Thanks for the comment, we are aware of the availability of cheaper services. As a matter of fact, some of them are the reason we started WebGazer.

Alerting is a basic thing and it is done kind of OK by some others. But true analytics is hard to get, we are still working on providing better reports. As an obvious plus, we provide status pages we produce by the monitoring data collected. This is for not making you depend on another service just for a status page.

Also, we are looking for ways to make WebGazer a complete monitoring and analytics platform. Plans still aren't very clear but server monitoring or client-side analytics are some things we have in mind.
It would be really interesting to then display this on the screen of smart refrigerators. Maybe you could even flag food that is above a certain brightness as spoiled.
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I don't have a book reference, but this talk by Tobias Capwell is my source: https://youtu.be/COAIQPsgZWY?t=2311
IMHO serverless is amazing if you clearly understand the bottlenecks and still see real benefits from it. Otherwise, you may exchange one problem for another (probably even worse).
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> high pesticide tolerance so farms can pump in pesticides

(I'm sort of in biotech.) This is one way to look at it. But I'm pretty sure one of the mechanisms that allow the plants to survive being covered in certain pesticides also allows them to effectively decontaminate / degrade the pesticide.

A plant engineered to express an enzyme capable of degrading organophosphates [0] could allow for both the plant to be protected from exposure to the toxin & even after harvesting still express low levels of the enzyme which should clean the plant.

That's the idea at least... From experience, it's not nearly that simple. E.g., the degradation products are also somewhat toxic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryldialkylphosphatase
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Yepp, throw that thing in an x-ray machine.
> It is -extremely- rare, even at the higher levels of pay, to get a lawyer, who actually knows the specifics of your case.

> In a very real way, its all ad-hoc expertise.

> A series of one-off's you try, to get a compromise your client can accept.

^^^ substantive comments. Not "ranty". Points. Made in logical order.

You may not like them. But they are there.
Today, no way. Someday? Maybe.
> Do you have an alternative description to work around this "problem"?

I like this approach:

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605002

> the measurement on C/A is strictly before the rotation on B so there is not even the shadow of a problem

Yes, obviously. That is not what I'm talking about.

Consider this variation on the theme: Alice and Bob share N>>1 entangled A-B pairs. Alice prepares N additional C particles, all in a known pure state P, and runs them all through the teleportation protocol. But instead of sending Bob rotation instructions, she sends him only the serial numbers of the particles that do not require Bob to perform a rotation. Bob keeps the particles corresponding to those serial numbers, and destroys the rest. I presume you will agree that Bob now has a collection of approximately N/4 particles in a pure state P. (I do not agree with this, BTW, but I accept it here for the sake of argument.)

Now imagine that Bob simply selects N/4 particles at random without any information from Alice. He has no idea what Alice has done on her end, or indeed if she has done anything at all. There are now three cases:

1. Alice has performed her measurements, and by pure chance Bob has selected the same set of particles that Alice would have told him to select. I presume that in this case you would agree that this set of particles is still in state P. (The odds of this happening are, of course, vanishingly small, but still >0, and this is a thought experiment.)

2. Alice has NOT performed any measurements. Are Bob's particles still in state P?

3. Alice has performed measurements, and Bob's random selection does not match Alice's list of particles that don't require rotation. (This is the overwhelmingly likely scenario, of course.) In this case, Bob's particles are not in state P (because 3/4 of them require a rotation). But are they in some other pure state Q?

The answer to 2 and 3 must be "yes" if you want to avoid FTL (because otherwise Bob could determine whether or not Alice has performed measurements). So the conclusion is: if you randomly select N/4 particles from a mixed population, the resulting particles are all in some pure state. Do you agree with this? If so, were those particles in that same pure state before they were selected?

The conclusion I'm driving towards is that purity of state has nothing to do with the actual physical situation, it's a matter of perspective. Any physical state can appear to be pure if you look at it in the right way, but finding the "right way" to look requires additional information, i.e. information from Alice. Nothing Alice does changes anything about the physical situation on Bob's side. It simply produces the information Bob needs in order to look at his particles in the "right way" to see a particular pure state.
No worries. I dealt with this (with a bunch of fantastic professional legal/hr/finance people) to handle about 40 jurisdictions. I appreciate how NOT fun it is :-)

Oh and I find it so odd that none of the famous "remote first" bloggers/talkers address these operational issues.
The difference is that those projects (apache, nginx) are ASL or MIT licensed.
The European law states that a device should work according to its life expectancy. It'd ridiculous to assume a device you paid several hundred EUR for would only function properly for 24 months (I paid about 600 EUR for a SGS3 back in the days, and got about a year of support; ridiculous and my last Samsung smartphone). It'd also be counterproductive to any e-waste reduction efforts.
Better check those last two again; one is about fictional tech from Star Wars, the other likewise about something from Dune.
> No, because these are not symmetric operations. There is nothing mathematically impossible about bug free software.

To me this is like saying there’s nothing mathematically impossible about a perfect vacuum. There’s always something leaking energy/attack surface.
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> why do people expect the internet to be different?

Wikipedia, Firefox, Linux, and Apache, are all freely available. Each of them is a far more challenging project than a list.
To add to this... it appears that FAF is referenced elsewhere in this thread by mrguyorama and AceJohnny2 while providing more details on it.
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i'm asking what gets you to make the leap to support creatives - everyone "Says" they do it - but the reality is very few actually do. curious what triggers people to support something.

i'm not asking you what products or services i should offer, i'm asking what makes people embrace something enough to actually support it.
I drove some 2-door Volvo that almost sent me into a truck that was next to me in the middle of a turn on a highway. Actually it didn't work in any turns (as in did nothing, most of the time). Terrible thing, especially considering that there was absolutely no clear mark anywhere on the dashboard that it's enabled and I was driving 200 km/h (on autobahn in Germany) when the situation with a truck happened. I also never found out how to disable that thing, thankfully I didn't have to drive on the way home.

I own a Ford Mondeo (the 2008 high end variant) and it would not disengage when marks on the right side disappear, left is enough - but that is a problem because it'll resist if I try to go to the right (if there is a split) and I guess that a very similar accident to the Tesla one could happen but we have no places like that around here so I can't test. I don't use the system.
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