skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, driving a Model T feels like riding a train to me. I like to feel the hoofbeats of the horses. Maybe it's just because that's what I grew up with.
> everything that is going on with open source licensing..

when visiting Taiwan and then Hong Kong in the late 1990's, a local said "there are no software companies here" .. everything with money had a hardware sale associated, software was just pirated as much as possible, end of story.. no one would pay for software if they did not have to.. It may be a "western" thing to have companies and people that can live from writing only software
This feels like a bit of an odd position to me, as it looks like this would legitimately be a computer not controlled by a hostile entity, to the same degree that most desktops or laptops running Linux would be.

What are your outstanding concerns about control?
don't believe the hype. the numbers coming into silicon valley still dwarf the numbers going out, even if the number of those going out is starting to increase slightly
> A great book that still stands the test of time.

Agree. I think one of the reasons is that Brunner doesn't actually precisely describe the technology except in terms like 'the home phone service was tied into the net'. This makes it very easy to superimpose our modern perceptions onto a book that is now 45 years old. It's almost less jarring than the mid-80s cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer with its no-mobile-phones and line-printers-in-space-stations.
How would you prefer free software be funded? :-P
Does anyone other than Microsoft have any stake in GitHub anymore?
I've only used it a few times, but I pronounce it along the lines of "kayden-live"
Yeah, well, that was fun while it lasted.
Where did you get that statistic?
Parent didn't say "open source the drivers", but "support open source" - by making drivers that work with the standard linux mechanisms.
Last year Elastic opened up the source code of their commercial X-Pack offering: https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open. This means that these components (security, alerting, etc.) are now available in the GitHub repository, but they are covered by the proprietary Elastic license instead of the Apache 2.0 license like the rest of the software. Some of the proprietary parts can be used for free, some need a paid commercial subscription. None of them are true open source (free as in freedom), though.

However, this is also when Elastic started muddying the waters (to quote the AWS blog post).
Most of the new features across the Elastic stack that were added in the past couple of months (Index Lifecycle Management, APM UI, Infrastructure and Logs UI, Kibana multi-tenancy, Kibana Canvas) are not added to the Apache 2.0 codebase but are only available in the free-but-not-open version. These features can be used for free with the Basic subscription (no registration needed) but only under the terms of the Elastic license.

And this Elastic license is where AWS feels the pain. It clearly prohibits SaaS offerings:

> You agree not to: [..] use Elastic Software Object Code for providing time-sharing services, any software-as-a-service, service bureau services or as part of an application services provider or other service offering (collectively, "SaaS Offering") [..]

(from https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/6.6/licenses/E...)

The license is very similar to moves that MongoDB and Redis made recently. Only Elastic is just now doubling down on adding new (and highly demanded) features to their proprietary offering.
It used to actually a BSD rig with a CLI/admin interface on top.
You can charge an EV with 1kW (i.e. 110V x 10A) - that's how I charge my Tesla daily.

Given that this is in the UK, they probably have 220V and 13A delivered to each outlet - that's 2.8kW.
How about fcitx?
Crowdfunding+Platform+Republic+is+Now+Two+Years+Old
They are an example of managing content without overlapping windows. i3, Sway and Xmonad all have good support for them.
Please don't cross into snark or personal swipes. Your comment would be just fine without the bits at the beginning and end.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you follow a particular tutorial for that? I'm an Ubuntu noob (okay, a Linux noob entirely who happens to be running Ubuntu) and I couldn't figure out what to do with a giant .sh file that complained I wasn't running RedHat.
EEVBlog did a teardown of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNbK7kCcKA
Bad computer graphics from the '90s / early 2000s textbooks is an aesthetic all its own
Android Studio 3.5 Canary 7 available
We are still very early stages here, but we really like the Anonize system (https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/681.pdf)
Cash, apparently. I like how Wilson Sonsini advised F5 in the purchase while firm heir Peter Sonsini invested in Nginx corp. Good times for old money in the Valley.
> "(b) anyone with a stake can't vote in decisions that may conflict with the mission:"

Will never work in practice
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"F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities." from https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-acquires-n... what do we know of F5 history in open source?
Agile vs. Waterfall: Choosing the Right Methodology
>Only available on x64 Windows and captures tracing info only for 64-bit processes

Does that include Wow64[0]?

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinProg64/w...
What makes you think AGI is even possible? Most of current 'AI' is pattern recognition/pattern generation. I'm skeptical about the claims of AGI even being possible but I am confident that pattern recognition will be tremendously useful.
It's also why software as a service has become common everywhere. Like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office. It's harder to pirate plus ongoing revenues.
Interacting with the digital world with augmented reality on iOS
New Open Serverless Framework
Very nice. Thankful that this eternal feature request has been given a good ending.
Does anyone know why VGA ”hacks" 320x240x256 and 320x400x256 modes operated planar instead of paged like 320x200x256?

It makes sense for less than 8-bit per pixel colour modes, but now for 256 colours.

Pondering this question after 20 years.
Isn't consciousness a manifestation of intelligence? I don't see how the two can be treated separately. Talking about AGI is talking about something that can achieve a level of intellect which can ask questions about "being", "self", "meaning" and all the rest that separate intelligence from mere calculation. Otherwise, what's the point of this whole endeavor?
Which are thousands...
True, but it's not just the version control that's the important part. It's the infrastructure around it.

Today, when you submit e.g. a homebrew PR, it gets comprehensively tested by CI builds, including rebuilding and testing all reverse dependencies on every supported platform version. The BSD ports changes are backed by poudriere builds of the entire collection, again on multiple versions.

Services like GitHub and GitLab allow one to hook in all sorts of stuff and greatly improve the ease of submission of large- and small-scale changes, as well as making thorough testing and review both possible and accessible. Older projects are stuck with older entrenched tools and infrastructure, and haven't taken advantage to newer ways of doing things which newer projects have been able to adopt wholesale. The Debian tooling and infrastructure is certainly dated, but it's also of extremely high quality and very robust.
>However most projects I'm aware of are using Angular or even React + Material Components to build business apps with lots of data tables and input forms. In my opinion this is a serious drawback, since it increases the project complexity and adds basically zero value to end users, who get a good-looking application which, at best, does the same thing but it's more expensive to write and maintain.

So what (if any) framework do you use for the business-like apps that don't need a rich frontend? I agree that using something like Angular can be bloated, but it does offer some nice "shortcuts" for even the blandest of UIs. Specifically model binding.
How does this address the last revealer problem?
so are pr0n video aggregators
At this rate I would not be surprised if Microsoft Open Source part of the Windows Kernel in future.
I think the issue is that there isn't much and certainly nginx could be viewed as competitor to F5. And with everything else going on it's not difficult to imagine that this acquisition isn't a positive sign.
I grew up with mustangs then corvettes, competitive amateur auto racing.

A Tesla P90D made of all those gasoline cars I used to have feel stupid. I can only imagine what insanity awaits us when electric drivetrains with that power are in actual sports cars rather than large sedans..

unnfffff
It most certainly is not unnecessarily cynical. The point is that money clouds the decision-making process and responsibilities of those involved - which is the whole ethos that OpenAI was founded on.
The Fluctuation of IQ
2019.10 Released. A. Lot. – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
Sway was the reason I chose a Radeon card to my office workstation. Been running Sway from Github since beginning of this year and it is very stable, fast and great experience, supporting my old i3 configuration as-is.

Now I know my next home gaming computer will also have a Radeon card.

P.S. Put a monthly donation for Sway. Really appreciate the work!
Nice work. Stuck on mac at the moment but am excited to try this when I can
You don't have to be affluent. You can be e.g. a freelancer graphic designer making at most 50-60K a year and do that. Or have a small company and do that. Or be a farmer and do that.

But the conclusion seems wrong "It's productivity when there's little value on said productivity." -- the productivity of the affluent has even more value (at least monetarily) than the productivity of some office worker.
Well, it's a personal opinion (and I haven't used Ghidra too much) so:

The UI is a lot 90s/ish and a bit unconfortable to use, but it ships a great decompiler and it can render nice graphs, the quality of the generated listing is good, but inferior compared to IDA's one.

And...Java...
Better and more effective ways using Wikipedia to generate stopword lists
First of all, thank you for taking the time to respond to people criticizing this announcement.

I just feel like you're trying to have the best of both worlds. You want the hypergrowth startup that attracts talent and investors, but you also want the mission statement for people that aren't motivated by money. I suspect trying to maintain this middle ground will be an incredibly damaging factor moving forward, as the people who are purely profit driven will look elsewhere and the people who are truly mission driven will also look elsewhere.

I fully appreciate how challenging these things can be and that making these decisions aren't trivial and obviously you're trying to do something different...but I really think you're taking the wrong step here. But because you will see short term gains from all the extra initial investment you won't realize it for years until it's too late and the culture has permanently shifted.

That said, while my trust has somewhat eroded (also because you wouldn't release details of your model recently), I still wish you luck in your mission.
I use a subtle (~20%) transparency on inactive windows for that (though with XMonad, not Sway). It helps distinguish windows, lets me see which window is active without having to look for the border, and wastes less space compared to either borders or gaps.
Wow. Huge exit for them. Didn’t see this coming.
Product designers and managers might disagree.
There's a lot of difference between a gluing robot and the tasks that Devops advocates to automate.

Spending a few hours on setting up an automated build on a SaaS CI server will start bringing benefits immediately and pay off very quickly. Not only quantitative (next deployments will take less human time) but also qualitative (less chance of errors/bugs/mistakes, easier to do them more frequently etc).

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/
>I find it amazing that people don't realize that the organic food industry also has deep pockets.

I'm not in favor of organic food either. Almost everything with opponents and proponents is a false dichotomy marketed to suckers.
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Yes, thank you. I didn’t know it, but that’s what I was trying to say.

Is Telsa’s battery tech and production advantage a big enough differentor to enable them to lay waste to all the other large auto producers?

I don’t believe so. It’s hard to imagine a future where Tesla is the only car manufacturer.
> Looking even farther out, at this point does it make sense for any startup looking to create infrastructure software to open source it?

Of course it still does, just not under permissive licenses. Hopefully the industry will converge on Kyle Mitchell's license for this, instead of everyone coming up with their own licenses:
https://github.com/kemitchell/api-copyleft-license
Office rents are lower in SF than in Palo Alto.
I made something that sounds similar to the kinds of ideas you're throwing out: https://aytwit.com/thoughter

You can read the basic protocol here: https://aytwit.com/about#technical_details__thoughter_gist

It would be cool to see something like that in Keybase. Feel free to steal the idea. :)
I think it had something to do with the 64K segment limit in real mode x86...?
I think that’s the perfect opportunity to let people in the enterprise world you have a solution for their problem. I wouldn’t expect any software targetted so specifically at enterprise to be free, and reaching the IT department of big companies to sell them your solution is a real pita.

So, good job.
Strategy was uttered in 1995 by someone who left Microsoft in 2000. It is 2019, and this phrase is not "new" to anyone. Please stop doing this.
What we're now describing is more or less the power and torque curve as you rightly mentioned. My worry here is that we're kind of categorizing all internal combustion engines as having the same kind of power/torque curves when in fact a lot of internal combustion engines are very different from each other.

Some engines are capable of delivering 100% of torque the second (within a couple 100ms) of hitting the throttle. To name a couple:

1. The Mercedes M278 twin-turbo V8 makes 700NM of torque between 1,800 and 3,500RPM. In other words, 700NM of torque is available from little above idle.

2. BMW B58 single-scroll turbo i6 makes 500NM between 1,600 and 4,500RPM.

Other turbo charged engines, such as those in supercars, have different kind of turbos turned for a more linear torque and power curve to better replicate their N/A predecessors, such as the McLaren M838TE which makes 620NM between 5,500 and 6,500RPM.

Lots of different engines out there with all kinds of different characteristics and power/torque curves.
I think a lot of would be opposed to special lobotomized humans where they didn't realize they were slaves. It really gets into hairy philosophy once we start reaching AGI
No. The FAA has regulations. Other countries trust that they are properly applied as part of the certification process by the FAA, and so they don’t make Boeing do much certification work for each country they’re going to sell to. If the FAA is seen as being lax in enforcement of its own regs in a material way, other countries can’t just outsource the certification oversight work to the FAA because they can’t be trusted.
> See ZFS

ZFS is still problematic, specifically because of the GPL-incompatible license. Various distros have found ways around that (or are deliberately ignoring those issues at their own peril), but it's still very much "a real problem", and it took years (if not decades) to get to the point where ZFS on Linux is actually as viable an option as it is today.
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Looking for someone to help create technical documentation for our product. The product uses a combination of GUI and code snippets in a DSL, so the documentation will have to span from the low-level concepts up through the high-level design patterns. The audience is more sophisticated than a random internet user, but less sophisticated than a software engineer. Familiarity with functional programming would be a plus, but no specific programming language is required to make this work.

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The electrostatic chuck is a common way to hold silicon wafers in chip fab machines.

https://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN03-27-98/chuck_story.html
Not that solid. "POTS" lines only really exist at the last mile to customers, otherwise its all digital/VoIP. Plenty of places faxing will fail do to "line quality" issues. Fax only continues to work at all because the infrastructure takes great pains to keep them working.
You are wrong. Yes individuals are not always completely rational, but in the long run the rational action usually prevails. It's more like an evolutionary attractor.
8 days ago also, 81 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299393

After the last time I watched a video of the Nomadlist guy, Pieter Levels, talking about it and he said

>I've woken up so many times at 4:00 a.m. to just
check if my website down and I have to do all this stuff and then I'm awake for three hours because the server crashed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0&feature=youtu.be...

So maybe just PHP on Linode has some drawbacks
Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid strike that wiped them out
When contemplating beautiful mathematical inspired digital artistry, it is hard to ignore Jos Leys's exciting pages [0].

[0] http://www.josleys.com
Serious question: what does it actually do in non-corp speak, though?
I share the sentiment with you. Majority of the 'research' from OpenAI has been scaling up the known algorithms and almost all the models have been built on top of research from outside of OpenAI. My assessment is that OpenAI is currently not the leader in the field but they want to get there by attracting talent through PR and money, which IMHO is a fine strategy.
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The desktop number 5 with cmus, alsamixer and a terminal music visualizer with gaps and transparency for eye candy.

Not everything needs to have a real use case!
Do you know what your business would cost in PaaS monthly, in comparison to the $80 + labor it currently costs?
Hard to find, but it's here: https://write.as/guidelines

From what I've read it sounds like they're not free speech absolutists, but they're pretty liberal about what is allowed.
> I started asking myself questions like — "Even if the projects I'm doing succeeded beyond my wildest expectations, how would it affect people?

If you only derive meaning from end results programming is probably not for you. It's a craft that requires you to enjoy the process as much if not more than the end result.

But if you want to get philosophical then the other thing about functional information, just like any technology is that you usually cannot predict the complete effect on society. If you create useful things that are at least not intentionally malicious or dangerous, then you will likely be doing a net good.

...The magnitude of this good can never accurately be predicted, however a decent heuristic is how _general_ it is - e.g if you are making something as contextually contrived as a shopping app to try and "help people keep track of what they need to buy", your net good is going to be pretty fucking low, and I know focusing on the smartphone app bubble tends to result in mindless crap like this - so if you were doing that, then fair enough I'd quit too... On the other hand - go make some contribution to a fundamentally new piece of code solving a _real_ problem and the possibilities are much greater.
JavaScript Frameworks, Performance Comparison Against Vanilla
> but there has to be some cut-off time and it would be perfectly possible to control the voter's ability to make last moment corrections

There is. In the Estionial election it is something like the day before election day. But even if there wasn’t if you need to spend the time and effort to coerce your agent for anything longer then few hours, buying enough votes to sway any election is going to be unfeasible.
If their code is proprietary, no one can use it. Even if they accidentally uploaded it to a public site.
Democrats Want Any Infrastructure Bill to Address Climate Change
Abused the DMCA also.

SMH.
Plenty of money for (what I understand) essentially a service company.
You might think that the way Tesla treats employees, like this incident and the general impression that they are being driven into burnout, has some consequences. And I think that’s exactly what we’re seeing with the generally tumultuous news that we see on Tesla lately. Heck, there’s another HN front page entry just today, about Tesla’s sudden reversal to close all stores.

It’s probably not the only factor, but I would be surprised if it is not at least a factor.
OSS developers should just work for free, and live in destitution. Obviously. ;)
As many as 63 million people — nearly a fifth of the United States — from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency.

I'd say that "exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade" is pretty far from "20% of Americans don't have clean tap water". If anything, I'd rather say it's impressive that 80% of Americans haven't been exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once in a decade!
It may be an impression of mine, but it seems that such articles proposing a return to the simplicity are appearing more often here. I've just commented on another one questioning the nowadays richer front-ends.

This article here resonated to me as well.

We are currently running a fairly busy web app on a single Linux cloud-based VM instance, occasionally rising new instances during higher loads, and a deployment pipeline based on small python and shell scripts. Maybe rudimentary for some current standards, but it's been working sufficiently well.
I understand that. But your reply seemed to minimize what I was saying in a way that read to me as dismissive. Not saying you meant to, but this stuff is stuff I take pretty seriously--and I was in a meeting so I had time to kill. ;)

And OBS is in my standard kit. It's just fine as an NDI satellite. But also, for what you describe, there's a $60 1080p vMix package...and it's got most of the bells and whistles I described, too. Automation and control are easy to overlook until you don't have them!