skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, it depends on the tradeoffs!

In general, encoding will cost you a whole lot more than decoding. Software encoders need to be really good to ship on the encoding side, and they're not there with AV1 yet.

Decoding, on the other hand, is pretty cheap. Hardware is still better, but it's been a long time since mobile CPUs were in a state that forced you to use a hardware decoder meet typical performance requirements. Bandwidth is so much more limited that using a software decoder to achieve a higher quality at a given bitrate is almost alway worth it.

Depending on the OS, if you watch a lot of video it is not unlikely that you are using a mobile app that uses, say, a software VP9 decoder.
I think they can be compared because they compete for the same type of user, and if that user is doing this as part of their business then dropping $ on a tool that's a 9/10 instead of a 3/10 is going to be worth it.

I want to see kdenlive overtake everything, but it's simply not there and given its progress over the years (I've been following pretty much every open source and closed source screencast oriented video editor for years) I don't see it ever getting there.
And the opposite to that argument is that making an SPA gets you an API "for free". If you want users to be able to write their own code that interacts with your platform, it might be beneficial not to write multiple server-side interfaces and to "eat your own dogfood".
But will anyone else?
I disagree about it being within a factor of 2, at least for this year.

Consider the following:

* In January, the $7500 Federal Tax Credit became a $3750 Tax Credit for Tesla. The $3750 tax credit will be halved again some time this year.

* The price of the M3 has been in flux: the $35,000 car has been released, there were $2000 price drops (in reaction to the tax credit), and other issues.

* The M3 was a preorder vehicle: many people put down $1000 reservations, but its difficult to measure exactly which vehicle they wanted (a lot of them seemed to be waiting for the $35k version). Attributing the sales to preorders vs sales conversions is clearly a difficult problem.

* The M3 availability fluxuated grossly, based on Tesla's ability to produce it. You may be waiting 6+ weeks for a M3 if you ordered in 2018, but only 2 weeks if you ordered more recently. Simple knowledge of the decreasing wait time would spur many to purchase in of itself.

* Consumer Reports, and other major review magazines, released reviews which almost assuredly changed sales numbers.

The sales are just not stable enough on a month-to-month basis to do what you're suggesting.
The same nginx I was using yesterday, I have a license for tomorrow.
According to the public statements, F5 is committing to maintain the current level of resources NGINX has allocated to their open source programs, to keep the same dev team involved, to keep licensing as it currently is, not change any of the repositories on Mercurial and GitHub and to keep the NGINX brand.

Which only means that NGINX will get even better over time.
More worrying than that is the crashing Tesla resale prices: https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/price-trends/Tesla-Model-S-d20...

Normal cars don't decline 20% in resale value in the last year.
Code quality inspection for Clojure using SonarQube
Actually, I admired this technology and service.
I have a cheap home scanner, which can scan and email by pushing one button, and (I think) just attaches a pdf. PDF pretty much is the modern version of the fax.
Others are happy to provide AGPLv3 code as SaaS, look at MongoDB's issues. You can build a ton of tooling around said code to enhance performance, adding features and billing, all while not modifying the core AGPLv3 code and thus avoiding the need to contribute back. This is a scummy business practice, but technically legal.
At this point I think it may be a serious question of how long the Tesla part supply stays around.

Between uncertainty of the company’s future and just not knowing how well they support cars long term it could be an issue.
If we succeed, the return will be exceed the cap by orders of magnitude.

Are there any concrete estimates of the economic return that different levels of AGI would generate? It's not immediately obvious to me that an AGI would be worth more than 10 trillion dollars (which I believe is what would be needed for your claim to be true).

For example, if there really is an "AGI algorithm", then what's to stop your competitors from implementing it too? Trends in ML research have shown that for most advances, there have been several groups working on similar projects independently at the same time, so other groups would likely be able to implement your AGI algorithm pretty easily even if you don't publish the details. And these competitors will drive down the profit you can expect from the AGI algorithm.

If the trick really is the huge datasets/compute (which your recent results seem to suggest), then it may turn out that the power needed to run an AGI costs more than the potential return that the AGI can generate.
How is this DMCA abuse? A copyright owner is requesting that a site that has safe harbor protection remove an unauthorized copyrighted work. The employee that originally created the unauthorized package may no longer work for the bank, unable to be identified, or doesn't have the credentials anymore.
What's your point? People are moving to Oakland, and it's a lot easier to commute from Oakland to SF than from Oakland to Palo Alto or Menlo.
Support, certifications, and subscriptions all seem to work fine for a number of companies.

I don't think there is a future in open source enterprise software where trade secrets are hidden from the public.
Unequal air: Pollution from whites disproportionately affects blacks, Hispanics
And the software "switches" fail too: I had wifi on my iphone 4 disabled after an update. Who knows why.
download sysinternals tools, one of which is "handle" for quickly finding open files.

Yeah, it should come with the OS, but that's Windows for you.
Comparing Lucene to Elasticsearch is very apples to oranges, in my opinion. It's like if MySQL did something people didn't like and the answer was "Discover InnoDB".

Sure, Lucene might be all you need, if all you need is some basic freetext search on a small set of data that fits on a single machine.

Though maybe you misspoke and meant to say "Discover Solr"...
The box on the proprietary cable reports back via a mobile phone network, and I get a bill each month.
I'm curious if this will be available on the Linux subsystem for windows?

Anyone have an insider build to test?
https://caddyserver.com/products/licenses

i would end up paying twice as much for caddy as i do for server
I'll play the historical context card here. At the time the poem was written, that language perfectly evoked the image the author was going for.
To be clear, no Elasticsearch code or features that were OSS were closed. As new Elasticsearch features are developed, some of them are now released as OSS and others are released with a commercial license.
You'd think it's like, some proprietary trading algorithm, but in reality it's probably their own implementation of left-pad.
TypeScript introduction part III – generics and stuff
Hopefully if it declines we can have a MariaDB type fork take it's place.
I now want to make it my goal for every line of code I write to be singable as a shanty.
> The tip from Sean Gouthro, the former head of Tesla's global security operations center and investigations, was filed on January 24 and corroborates a tip filed in August from Karl Hansen ... Hansen's tip claimed that Tesla did not disclose to shareholders the theft of raw materials and the unauthorized surveillance and hacking of employee cellphones and computers.

This is not a tip about Tesla watching what its employees are doing on its own equipment and data networks.
For improved context, read the HN thread around that announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16487440
>you can't work at a job that is completely meaningless to you

You absolutely can, and millions of people do every day.
Their acquisition of Intrinsity (designers of the Apple A4 SoC) may have been even more of a steal, with estimates placing the price somewhere in the $50-150M range.
It is still terrible and irresponsible to make corporate decisions at this scale and just whiplash back and forth. There are thousands of people employed by this company who have felt dread and uncertainty because of these decisions. They should have to upend their lives because Elon Musk chooses to zig one day and zag the next.
Double entendre on processors.
I would not be worried unless F5 have stated they are going to change licensing. Haproxy have a commercial version of their software, including appliances. Several other open source projects have commercially supported versions.

NGinx has had a commercial version of their code for a long time. Now it will be under new management. I could see the branding for the commercial version of nginx change.
Perfectly said.

In the 80s and 90s, the "center" of SV was Mountain View and surrounding cities, with the VCs mostly in Menlo/Palo Also.

In the last 10 years, as companies have decided to increasingly be based out of SF, the radius of SV is expanding, and a lot of that expansion is to the north + east: Richmond, Concord, Walnut Creek, San Rafael, Mill Valley - making SF the center of the action.
No, npm only says you give them a license to allow them to serve the package to users; other than that, you're free to license it however you want.
I hate how there's no official way to run your own private NPM registry. So you have to either pay NPM or resort to third party solutions like verdaccio. It's such an obvious money grab by the NPM devs.
Does the fact that the bank distributed the material in the first place change the situation?
I really recommend services like Bonsai and MeasuredSearch (I know there's others, but haven't used them). They have a lot of tooling and provide a lot of great support. In fact, the support and attention to your account is probably the biggest differentiator they have to AWS tooling.
As an interesting aside, the Tesla Model 3 is a reviewed product on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tesla-2018-3/dp/B076H6WHPP
and its httpd
I work for a start-up with offices in Sunnyvale, California. Our staff is mature people who have done this before and want the best place to establish an office and work.

None of us would dream of living or working in San Francisco. We all live and work in and around Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Santa Clara, etc.

For a mostly-hype startup staffed by kids fresh from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, I suppose the flashier the offices the better and that may mean the "excitement" of San Francisco. We're in a concrete tilt-up close to everything we need.
Every legal/financial genius in the replies: "Just invoice them for your time and lawyer fees!"

Yeah, it doesn't work that way.
Depends. Quite often people think they _have_ to do as they are told, where you can quite often come back with an alternative.
Somehow I didn't know of the I-Pace. Between the I-Pace and a Model 3 Performance though, I'd probably go for the Tesla. $10k less, faster, quicker, and longer range.
the short version is "magic".

The long version is, "varying degrees of horror"
Oh. I've known about TILE64 back when Tilera created it (I spoke to their VP of something or other on the phone once, I worked in telecoms at the time and we were interested in seeing if their hardware would help accelerate something we worked on. We never went forward with it though), I hadn't realised Mellanox owned it now. Looking at wikipedia, Tilera was bought by EZChip, which was bought by Mellanox.
In what world is NGINX worth so much less than WhatsApp, Snapchat, and some other sites of dubious value?

The world of economists has no idea how to value technology beyond narrow ad-based business models.
This is more common than we think. At RedLock[1], we found several docker images which aren't supposed to be public.

[1] https://redlock.io/blog/docker-repo-public-access
I don't see how either how (a) where it occurs in the article body or (b) what flavours of politics are vivid to you, and which, in David Foster Wallace's memorable phrase, taste like the inside of your own mouth, would be relevant to whether this aricle constitutes unbiased scientific discourse on the matter at hand. I don't mean to be rude.
The one thing I see kind of missing is a math background or at least a project proving that that is in your skillset (recommendations sounds like it could fit this). There are a lot of people with a similar background to you and normally those are in "business intelligence/analytics" or "data engineering" where they are mostly writing sql queries and interacting with dashboards/OLAP cubes or setting up those dashboards/cubes.

That's perfectly fine but it's not what traditionally is referred to as data science. I'm actually quite annoyed at what has been happening to the term data science lately - it's supposed to be some stats-heavy/applied-AI role but a lot of companies hiring "data scientists" are really just hiring SQL jockeys.

Personally I've done both data science and data infrastructure and I like infrastructure a lot more anyway. And it sounds like you are somewhat qualified for that with some of your pipeline work (although big data experience is also important). A LOT of data science departments have no idea what type of business value they are supposed to be adding, are doing shitty boring work with glorified titles, or are improperly integrated with the company at large (bad productionizing processes, poor data infrastructure). There's always going to be a need for data infrastructure but the "data science" hype is going to fade once all the shitty data departments cut the fat.
> There is demand sufficient to keep them going

Is there? The Model 3 went from selling 18,000 cars in December to only 6,000 in Jan/Feb. Where is this demand?
This. I get more than enough juice out of an Ubitricity socket for an overnight charge.

Here is a screenshot of the Tesla app showing the car charging on an Ubitricity plug....
https://imgur.com/a/TykEMSa

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaEhBjt1ls, from Fully Charged. Video features a council official (who own the lights) and Ubitricity CEO.
As a practical matter, the most powerful Porsches and Teslas are both going to be hitting the traction control pretty constantly during hard acceleration from a stop. Their performance changes on racing slicks, I'm sure. A gt2 RS on racing slicks recently did less than ten seconds for the quarter mile with some minimal modifications at a drag strip. (Which is a crazy use for that car, but still)

It's a measure of how amazing the Tesla's performance is that you need something with race car-like specs to compete. On the other hand, that only holds true for about the first quarter mile. It's not going to keep pulling hard until 200mph. The roadster will, perhaps, someday.
While I wouldn't suggest that his code is meant to be read for beauty/inspiration, djb's code is of incredibly high quality.

I would suggest starting with qmail and looking at the (very mainstream) patches that people are running on top of it.

tinydns is also worth a look.
I use F5's at work. The F5's do their job very very well, but are very very touchy. I've always considered nginx to be solid, stable, and low-maintenance. I think the opposite about F5 and am worried about this transition.

1) You can't export and re-import a config. Just doesn't work.

2) For the Virtual Appliance (not a recommended scenario by F5, to be fair) it's temperamental about its host and doesn't like to be migrated or moved, and will stop functioning.

3) Upgrades sometimes corrupt/wipe parts of the config, sometimes not.

4) Reboots sometimes corrupt/wipe parts of the config, and sometimes changes to the config are not actually applied until a reboot, even though there's no warning of this behavior.

5) Latest release notes for 12.x (last version I worked with) has a lengthy page detailing known issues. https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasen...
Why? Why are there so many? Why are most of them critical? Many just shouldn't make it to release.

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It's important to be hopeful. I'd rather land on the side of "nginx makes F5 better" rather than "F5 makes nginx worse".
Plus stories about Tesla being really bad at giving people their money on returns (or even cancelled/upgraded leases) quickly.

I can’t afford to have most of 40k sitting in limbo for a while while Tesla figures something out. Can you?
Is this client side code? Unless this is internal wouldn't it be available when visiting there website?
> the radius of "the bay area"/SV is expanding

The radius of the Bay Area hasn't changed, “Silicon Valley” has just moved to align more with the Bay Area rather than being an overlapping region to the South. All the places you point to as “new expansion” for “the Bay Area” have always been part of the SF Bay Area which SF has always been part of.
Coding Horror just have a discussion on using colocation for Discourse. Seems kind of ok really https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-else...
I would suggest that haproxy (which has a commercial version and appliance) are more of a competitor to F5.

NGinx is first and foremost a web server with excellent controls around caching. Haproxy is a load balancer with some caching as of version 1.9. F5 has always provided a web server in their load balancer via apache, but that is for management of the device itself. It can also serve up static web pages (primarily meant for error and landing pages).
And if it's protected as a "trade secret" and not a copyright (or patent) then you probably can use it without question.
First time I heard of this company. Their website is in the highest order of marketing speak, but actually offering nothing much. Note to self: security services are a nice way to milk governments & corporations.

In any case, I'm glad that Nginx is still available for free and the project will continue to have funding in the future from what looks like a cashed-up company. Besides, if it doesn't work out, it can always be foked. Hooray for open source software!
Montreal. I'm not a therapist yet, and most people get rejected for the doctorate, but I figure worst case I'll have a bachelor's degree in psychology so with my programming experience I could look into AI companies.

Most likely I'll stay in the mental health field though, as I doubt I'll find passion for anything tech again. I mostly lurk on this forum because I'm still a geek at heart :)
Show HN: A new type of company to raise money and give stakeholders a voice
Here's the ever excellent Eric Brandwine explaining what AWS does at L3 wrt VPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E

Here's the super versatile Colm Mac explaining what AWS does at L4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gc2DgBqo9U

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Google has been very open about their network infrastructure, here's a nice summary from 2015: https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/08/pulling-back-curtain-on-go... and not mentioned in that blog... their NetworkLoadBalancer, Maglev: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-shares-sof... (AWS equivalent of which would be HyperPlane: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/networking-scale-2018-l... allegedly based on S3's load balancer).
The Apple II's somewhat exotic "hires" mode didn't even HAVE an indexed palette. Instead you just wrote 1s and 0s for pixels directly to the display memory, and their arrangement on the screen determined their color. This all owing to the fact that the Apple II only had color at all due to some crazy phase-based hacking of the NTSC color standard.

EDIT: Oops I partially messed up this description. The MSB in each byte of the display memory did set the "palette" (phase, actually, according to Wikpedia) for each set of 6 pixels. So you could either have blue/orange or green/purple in that set with the exact color depending on whether or not you had one alternating pattern of bits or another.
HN loves to hate Oracle, however CDDL license was created by Sun.
Okay, but you'd think first rule of a CCNA cheater should be "know enough real material to at least fake it through interviews: like 'show run'".
It's 2019 and as an engineer responsible for designing large power plants with the potential to emit large amounts of Carbon over the next 50 years, I'm doing everything in my f*cking power every day to eliminate harmful emissions despite "leadership" (regulators & funders) pushing for higher poluting alternatives that they erroneously believed to be lower cost. We simply can't wait around for these lazy ding-dongs to take action.
Work-life balance: Is it even possible?
I don't see this as a bad thing - it's a lifecycle thing. I absolutely would want someone like the GP to start my data team from day one - there is a lot to build and much to hang together.

When I am up and running I don't want yet another generalist - or rather I will happily take one, I just will put them in a box making pins.

Perhaps the GP will do better at the consulting level - or even some level of productise consulting - and out of the box product
I'm guessing this will upset many devs longing for nginx per default. Personally, I never understood why nginx is so popular with a particular demographic, and have always preferred tried-and-true Apache httpd.
Yes, and I think they should have done so, just look at the responses in this thread. It's just been launched and everybody is afraid of Amazon vendor lock-in. For many techies, just the Amazon name is scary even though this is Apache 2.0 licensed.
So what point are you ultimately spending your energy trying to convince us of... that the human race will necessarily kill itself?
They're running a business. They offer an inordinate amount of service totally free to millions of developers, and they make their actual client open-source for your pleasure. Is your argument they also have to go to the trouble of making their infrastructure easily self-hosted? How would they make the money to pay the lawyers to respond to the very legal threat this tweet is about without revenue?
You don't need social media to learn that climate change is a thing. Just read Wikipedia. Look at the citations. And yet, a sizable portion of the US public believes it's a hoax.
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (Acme)
I'm going to go contrarian and say no. There need to be more.

Before I get ecoterrorists looking up my home address, let me state that the planet's gas balance and biodiversity are unequivocally getting thrown way out of whack by the impact humans have and are having. Given how the plurality of human beings are subsistence farmers who aren't really moving the needle much, beaming them all to a faraway planet just for the "too many people" problem would have almost no positive impact on the planet. We could do bad all by ourselves with less than 1 billion on the planet.

If you therefore treat the impact to nature as a separate problem, then exclusive of that, people are a good thing as far as other people go. There are limited physical resources, but social resources push the balance the other way. Humans need other humans to survive. Scale back America to 30 million people, and think what would happen to our comfort level and technological innovation.

Having less people to justify your own existence through selling your own products or services takes a lot away from you. Imagine losing 9 out of 10 choices at the store.

It's hard to see the benefits other people give you when you're staring at an ocean of them on the 101, or waiting until your group number to board, or waiting for your reservation at the local brasserie. But without them there'd be no 101, no airport, and no local brasserie.

And if you're single, if you thought finding Mr. or Ms. Right was difficult before..
Very US centric!
But a lovely interface.
Bad Release Notes
I'm not sure we need another incentive for large companies to not use best-practices and modern technology.