skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appeal to a primal urges makes sense, but do you rationally feel differently than you did when murdering the deer?

I have a feeling there are many things that are desirable and pleasurable, but not morally good.
I'll add it to the list! I've been on a middle grade / YA tear lately, and this looks excellent.
What were app dev entry-point positions like in the (good? better?) old days of desktop applications, before the many-headed Hydra that is the Web came and ate everything?
I think jandrese is referring to the fact that even a DC current through a plasma generates loads of RF, for example fluorescent tubes emit THz radiation!
You're still missing my point. The AGPL closed a loophole of GPL software that people did not need to release the source code because they never actually released the software (but made it available through a server). We can agree that the AGPL is the successor in spirit of the GPL because it tries to close such loophole and make the software and derived works be required to be published under the license as the author intended.

The use of cloud services to sidestep the AGPL requirements is the newest loophole to try and avoid the requirements that the software author intended. The SSPL is in that sense, the spiritual successor to the AGPL attempting to close the loophole, just as the AGPL closed the GPL loophole before it.

The problem here is, that we're in unexplored territory. MongoDB is attempting something new and innovative to try and establish what the author of a piece of software expects from the users of that software. Some might argue that the purpose is to extract money, which may or may not be true, but it is beside the point. They should be able to test such licensing and have the market decide whether or not it is acceptable - whether people want stronger copyleft or whether they AGPL is the limit of copyleftness they're willing to accept.

"Derived work" has no concrete definition. It is mostly a case of examining previous legal cases for comparison, and coming to a judgement which takes previous cases and the nuances of the specific situation into account. We have a legal system which handles these cases, so that specific organizations don't become the arbitrary rule makers of society.

In my opinion, if you're making a user interface which merely wraps an existing database, then you're creating a derived work. The technicalities of whether or not you're "making available" the software shouldn't be the deciding factor. The AGPL, in spirit, requires that people release derived works under it, even if the precise legalese allows you to sidestep it.

Work licensed under the SSPL has almost all of the same freedoms AGPL works have, unless you are a cloud provider attempting to wiggle your way around the licensing requirements for derived works, and only then the additional clause steps in.

So they have every right to label it as "open source", because the source code is open, and restrictions on its use are few, or irrelevant to most users. The OSI is not the judge of whether or not they are open source. Everyone is their own judge and can call it what they want.

This movement by the OSI is clearly an attempt to assert control over the term "open source," to prevent Mongo and others using it if it does not fit their definition. IMO, such efforts should be resisted because they prevent licensing innovation. The OSI would become the obstacle to trying new open licensing schemes. They are not an unbiased party like a legal court - they have a vested interest in their current licensing definition and are protectionist in not wanting competing definitions.
> What do you mean here by crude?

I just mean not super well-thought out or expressed. The answer itself is crude.

> I'm sure you've heard about the Chinese eating dogs. If you find that repulsive, ask why it's then ok to eat a pig, which is more intelligent and aware than a dog. ... This is morally inconsistent.

No, it's not. This is something a lot of vegans don't seem to understand.

By declaring something "inconsistent", you are saying pigs and dogs are equivalent.

But they are obviously not the same. Pigs have curly tails and many dogs do not. Dogs are furry. Pigs and dogs have many differences.

So you have an implicit definition of "equivalent" that is really "equivalent for properties that I declare meaningful". You imply, for example, a person's cultural history towards an animal is outside of the properties that are allowed to matter.

But that set of properties is itself a choice. Eating pigs and not dogs isn't universally inconsistent, it's only inconsistent given some set of choices around which aspects of them you care about. When you claim other people are inconsistent, what you really are is oblivious to the fact that they consider some properties of animals important that you choose to ignore.
Congrats, Jonathan!
This is how the cluster-autoscaler works in kubernetes. It sets the desired capacity based on the number of pods needing to be scheduled.

Coupled with a horizontal pod autoscaler (which sets the replica count based on a metric) you get the best of both worlds.
Yes water isn't typically used in datacenters, halon gas can be used for example.
But the noise of the nozzles releasing the gas can actually damage disk drives.
The grandparent post which set the context for this discussion made a specific comparison between pro choice vegans and pro life meat eaters.

Lots of people have an abortion and then later have children. Their motivation is not to avoid damage but to delay becoming a parent for financial reasons.

I think it takes a particularly skilled mental gymnast to have an abortion for financial reasons and then turn around to say we shouldn't eat honey because we're exploiting the bees.

That is to say, I'm far more sympathetic to an argument from a vegan who also happens to be pro life, as that seems to me like the more consistent position: pro human and pro animal life.
Likewise. Discussions like these are interesting and a nice break from technology and politics.
Intellicode[0] is an extension that adds AI-powered IntelliSense to Visual Studio. I have used it for the last couple months and it works pretty well.

[0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/
Well in the UK I have as a amateur investor taken advantage of arbitrage in the last few years. One on a big trust Witan that had gone out to a much bigger discount than normal due to a stock overhang caused by a forced sale. The other was Electra private equity which was on a huge discount.
There are survey companies out there paying people to offer their opinions on various stuff.

Google gets this for free.

Yes, you can see Google users aren't customers, they are more like unaware/unpaid workers, providing free tuning service to Google's always hungry data analytic engine.
...just like we anthropomorphise other humans. Sure, I believe animals are e.g. not capable of being terrorised by death threats, but I have just as much reason of believing many of them of being able to suffer pain just like humans can. Do you have reasons not to believe that?
I had a class with Adams while at Williams (multivariable Calculus, never got to take his Knot Theory class). He was a great teacher, and excellent about teaching students why they should care.
I would guess that there are 3rd party companies who's business is to match cookie values behind the scenes to email / phone / address / demo data and re-sell it, or sell access to the aggregate db.

Hopefully a federal privacy law will clarify if this is legal at all.
I get that it's empowering, as a hobby I spend a lot of time on it! But much like building a ship in a bottle, mastering the unicycle, or running your own enterprise-grade server rack at home, I can't justify such a painstaking and intricate craft with proportional utility.

Platforms like wordpress, squarespace, and wix all make a killing by providing a 'good enough' experience with a WYSIWYG interface, and I think that's empowering a large set of people who neither want nor need to learn CSS syntax.

(I do suppose understanding the basics of the DOM is helpful for any internet user, but you don't even need to publish anything for that info to be valuable!)
I have, it's not pretty either:
https://github.com/nraynaud/webgcode/blob/gh-pages/interpola...
How much are they paying in PON networks? Users are even paying the bills for their ONTs' power usage themselves.

Data caps are without any question fleecing. Not a need driven idea.
This microtrenching would be amazing if it could make its hands into people wanting to make open municipal networks, if it could actually work.
right? DRBC trial by fire, I guess (pardon the pun).
Just so you know - that "throwaway" account has a longer history here than your named anonymous account and has a lot of higher "karmas" than you. Just need to point out.
It's not just "-ment". You invite someone with an invitation, but the verb is being used as the noun these days. In many contexts "package" is shortened to "pack", like "gift pack" or "bonus pack".
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ControlPoint- is a new level of interaction with interfaces
> What are these living standards?

I'm not going to document them here in any significant detail.

Just requiring things like no drugs, including alcohol, or junk food including sweets / sodas / baked goods / ice cream be kept in the home where conveniently accessible already eliminates the vast majority of Americans in my experience.

If I were to exhaustively write down the common disparities WRT my standards this would turn into a short novel.

I'm no longer in the Bay area. Most of my relationship experience happened prior to living the Bay area, back in the midwest. You're right about the Bay area being awful for finding a girlfriend, it's all dudes on the market. My Bay area experiences were more in the cohabitating context, splitting rent with randoms.

If I wanted a family it would be a very frustrating situation, and I would probably go to a different country honestly.

But I don't, so now I just watch in disbelief as most the friends I grew up with destroy themselves in unhealthy marriages where they can't even go on a kayak trip because it'd leave their partner alone. Or can't abstain from eating cake every other day because it'd offend their partner to reject something they made. Nope.
How's the sovereign debt crisis coming along? We're what, 3 years late at this point?
If you believe the market is 100% efficient, then it follows it always has been this way. Do you really think the market is equally efficient as it was a 100 years ago? If not, then it follows that market efficiency is a gradient, and gets more efficient over time. I do not believe the market will ever hit 100% perfect efficiency. There is room for improvement and room for longer term alpha.

Another argument against EMH is to assume it is true. Market wages for quants and hedge fund employees would reflect their true value. But wages for quants are a lot higher than the cost of using a random number generator. If all trading success can be attributed to luck or chance, it would make no economic sense to hire expensive quants, hence EMH being true leads to a contradiction.

I do believe in a no free lunch theorem for market pricing. Averaged over all traders and all stocks and all strategies, there is no perfect approach that beats the market consistently. But that is of little practical value (in inference and search the no free lunch holds, but we can still use prior information to limit search ranges, focus on the profitable markets, and use approaches that worked on similar problems).
> We have already lost many of the entry points that we had. We don’t have the forums of parents teaching each other HTML and CSS, in order to make a family album. Those people now use Facebook, or perhaps run a blog on wordpress.com or SquareSpace with a standard template.

There's the fundamental assumption here that the entry point outhgt to sit atop cruft that publishes the user's content to the world. That may have been meaningful during the utopian days of HTML/CSS on a pre-weaponized internet. Today, it is a bizarre and counterproductive assumption.

Why isn't the entry point <Ctrl-shift-c> into devTools, for example? There you can view, measure, test, and get feedback on anything in the window. Learn a single command or even single url to make the content editable so that you can type, "Hello world" to yourself. Paste an image from somewhere else on the web. Style it, move it around.

Then when you're done, close the window and it goes away, like it should. Because you don't actually know how to publish anything to the world yet. And it's quite possible you don't want or need to do that yet.

This provides a nice self-test because when you next open an about:blank window you have to do everything again from memory to get your content to display.

Who knows, maybe the entire forum will eventually get fed up that Firefox doesn't yet allow you to set svg shape width/height/x/y/etc. through CSS. What a pain, they'll say. And then they'll all threaten to switch to Chrome en masse to force Firefox to implement the most sensible part of SVG2.

The forum may have other priorities in addition to that. :)
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Except it's a fallacious logic. ISP networks can perfectly handle the load already. There is no "data flood apocalypse" or anything the like. ISP execs said so much explicitly. They point blank admitted, data caps are not driven by technical needs but simply by greed.
Uber and Lyft are hardly Rosa Parks. They mostly use their size to bully around smaller localities that can’t handle the pressure.

Which would never have worked if customers were satisfied with existing solutions.

If they truly believed that taxi regulations were onerous they’d fight them wherever they exist

It can take decades to correct the law if you insist on playing by its own rules, especially given the historical corruption associated with taxi regulation. As Americans, we have a cultural responsibility to resist unjust laws... and at least IMHO, taxi regulations fall squarely into that category.
>Personal satisfaction doesn't matter once you're dead.

Nothing matters to you once your dead. Other peoples' assessment of your life is irrelevant to you.

I would rather live my life happy with my decisions (part of which is helping people because of my own morals) rather than helping a bunch of people in ways that make me miserable.
Visual Basic.

HyperCard.

FileMaker.

dBase.
Personally, I get a lot of gratification seeing customers use the code I produced.

If you don't get gratification from the output of your work as a software developer, why do you continue to do it?
When is torture unnecessary? For example, factory farmed chickens have their beaks cut off (and there are nerves in there - they're not like nails or hair). This allows you to keep more in a small space, because even those the stress causes them to start pecking at each other, they can't damage each other too much. And if you can keep more in a small space, they are cheaper, and we can eat more eggs.

Thus, it benefits us in some way, but we would not suffer greatly if we had fewer/somewhat more expensive eggs. Is it then necessary?
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Tools like Delphi still haven’t been matched for GUI development: I was able to use it as a 6/7 year old to create little programs with buttons that popped up message boxes when clicked. And, if I needed help, I just clicked something on screen, hit F1 and got great documentation.
At the time people were used to constantly increasing access to energy so in their minds we would have almost infinite energy in the future which would make flying cars feasible. However most people living today in the west have never experienced increasing access to energy so a future with abundant energy seems much further off than it did 50 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/m...
I like and use the term "Bootstrapped Business" -> smaller, tight focus on profitability, trying to meet real needs.
It messed up the network-manager/DNS iirc, though this was a while ago as I mentioned. The problem had something to do with the configuration of the Ubuntu package which was kinda fucked up so that didn't help matters, this is pre-16.04 so I'm hoping it got sorted out later on.
Cost and legacy.
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What “markets are efficient” means is really that you can’t make more money on the stock market than average unless you put the same time and brain power to it that hedge fund people do, and even then you can only make about as much money as hedge fund traders do. (Assuming a few things, like that you’re only trading based on public knowledge)

The logic is this: if this were not the case, then some of those very smart hedge fund people were take advantage of this strategy, making that strategy become the average that everyone wants to beat.
are there non liquid fire suppression systems such as pulling all the oxygen out of a room

Yes. One place I worked (not a tech company, but with tons of electronics), when the fire alarms went off we had xx seconds (I don't remember the number) to get out of the building before something called Intergen was vented into the room to somehow suck all of the oxygen out, and if we were still inside we'd be dead.

It must be pretty serious stuff, because we'd have evacuation drills twice a year.
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>If you have scientific studies to show your objective viewpoint on mental illness being merely a product of societal or economic ill

It's common sense, and
there is no objective proof to the contrary.

"Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests"

-Alan Frances

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances

Psychiatry/psychology also admits that social environment has substantial effects on mental illness.

But asking for a "scientific" study of that is silly, because it is impossible to have an indepedent variable or control group -- because it is impossible to separate an individual from societal influences.
AWS employee here. I don't think there is anything fundamental that makes Kubernetes avoid autoscaling issues. Just like with ECS if you don't setup the right horizontal pod autoscaling settings in Kubernetes you can easily end up with under or over scheduling of your Kubernetes pods. Ultimately no matter whether you use ECS or EKS you will need to do some finetuning and testing to make sure your autoscaling setup matches with your real world traffic patterns.

AWS is committed to improving both ECS and EKS. You can see our public roadmap with many in progress improvements for both container orchestration platforms here: https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/projects/1

Feel free to add your own additional suggestions, or vote on existing items to help us prioritize what we should work on faster!
Isn't one of the limiting factors with putting everything on a single silicon wafer is the massive increase in defects the more surface area you use? Otherwise you could build an entire supercomputer on those enormous foot-wide wafers

Edit: Nevermind, fixing that is the point of the article; I should stop skimming these things
Eric Schmidt thought 'Don't Be Evil' was 'the stupidest rule ever' (2013)
If you could build your own hello world WinForms program with some interactions, you had a reasonable chance of getting a junior position if you had some education.

I knew a guy who worked on a pharmacy application that calculated IV drug mixes that was a Visual Basic WinForms app and written with basically no knowledge of re-use or architecture. Kind of like web development where CSS was only applied via id's and so there was a lot of code repetition.
Tao Te Ching (translation comparison)
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if the 3 beams were miniaturized as in surface mount diodes:

these for example

http://www.excelitas.com/Pages/Product/Surface-Mount-Laser.a...

and were carried or fibre coupled in a single "gimble?"
there would not be duplication of moving carriage parts.
a "trinitron like" emitter gun would be possible. moving a mirror as done by the author would also reduce the mass that would move at high speed while scanning across a large display field, it would then be a matter of timing a laser pulse of desired color to the desired position of the mirror set. a look at CRT television/display circuitry would be very inspirational, only in this case the color is emitted rather than stimulated by flouresence of a phosphor target.
It seems you hit a nerve with some users here. I have to say I agree with what you said, it's really simple. If anybody asked "do you wanna contribute to suffering"? If you answer no then basically you should either go ahead and do it or turn a blind eye.
then they realized they could get away without even that modicum of respect to the clients, because, well they run a legal monopoly. Either you only have one option (fiber, or even cable in some markets) or the 3 to 4 offerings have the same "deals" across the board.

I try very hard to be civil on HN, but everyone defending artifical data caps are a bunch of idiots (in the true sense of the greek work: a person that can't live in society and should be voted to be ostracized).
It was always my understanding that eating pufferfish is pretty much 100% a status thing. Earning bragging rights by either having taken the risk, or having dined in a place exclusive enough to have a very distinguished chef preparing the fish. Or, of course, being able to offer one's guests a plate prepared by such a distinguished chef.
Bullish on bitcoin b/c of its highly resilient characteristics. Might not process as many transactions per second and it might pollute more than the average bank, but sure as hell dont need to worry about a natural disaster or freak incident single handedly taking out the entire network.
I think it happens a lot more often than you think, though often it's more directly presented as a particular market being sold to another ISP. However, it really is just an ISP closing up shop in that market and selling off its network/customers to someone else.

Most recently Frontier Communications comes to mind.
There's a nozzle for that :) - http://www.fire-protection.com.au/news/hush-nozzle

From what I understand, using water/dry pipe isn't unheard of. Some prefer it over Halon - https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2014/03/26/we-must-protect-thi... .
Auto-scaling is depending on startup time. If your startup time for a new instance/container is 5 seconds, then you need to predict what your traffic will be in 5 seconds. If your startup time is 10 minutes, then you need to predict your traffic in 10 minutes.

The choice of metric is important, but it needs to be a metric that predicts future traffic if you want to autoscale user facing services. CPU load is not that metric.

The best way to do autoscaling is to build a system that is unique to your business to predict your traffic, and then use AWS's autoscaling as your backup for when you get your prediction wrong.
Visual Basic. You started there and then "graduated" into Petzold-style Win32 programming.

Those days were not better, by the way. Win32 programming was and is horrible.
He links another post he made a year ago about moving from SF to one of the most conservative/religious cities in America[0]. Both were great reads.

[0] https://medium.com/@shl/from-bubble-to-bubble-21d86195e178
This is the same attitude that has gotten us 20MB+ web page sizes.
AFAIU, (there's probably better insight out there)— but governments seem to love XML.