skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I can reach my audience through Facebook or Instagram, that’s more competition than Facebook properties alone.

I mean, if anything, competition will lower the price per contact with potential voter? What problem it will solve?
Yes, this is likely true - I really need to think about it more, though. I don't know how to do static or runtime analysis, so I can't say much about it
1. All members generate a random value (high entropy).

2. All members submit a hashed value of that random value (the commitment).

3. All commitments are distributed to all members. At this point, no more commitments may be submitted.

4. All members reveal their random values to each other and validate each value against its hash.

5. All values are then used to deterministically calculate the coin flip.

A dishonest member will not receive any values used in the coin flip calculation before step 4. If a member decides to change their random value, the hashed value / commitment will be invalid.
Fantastic to hear you’re still crushing it.
Yeap. But technically, you can use WebM container (a subset of MKV) for AV1. Chrome and Firefox support it. But size is a little bigger and WebM container seems like is not really official for AV1.
> I wonder how the kids at that show are faring now, hearing-wise.

My dad is suffering terribly from tinitus he attributes to a Rolling Stones concert where he was right up next to the speakers. He says the frequency loss lines right up with a howling guitar solo.

I would say they are not faring very well.
The network effect is unaccounted for by current antitrust legislation, which is pathetically outdated.
Wow she must be getting great ROI because apparently she spent less than $100 according to the ad disclosures. More likely an effort to build a story than her genuinely using fb for political advertising (else wouldn’t she throw more money in? I run ads for my business and 100 bucks gets you a handful of likes)
I don't understand why these two performance measures would not track perfectly, since the CPUs should be running a constant number of cycles/second.

x86 isn't RISC and not all operations take the same number of cycles. Also, the code might have different levels of possible parallelism and might impact the pipeline differently.

Comp Sci education for the low level basics is often completely neglected nowadays. This should be freshman year stuff. I'm certainly not an expert, myself, just familiar with the issues. (Know enough to know what you don't know.)
I do agree with the idea that the internet needs more regulation. Yes, it does have it's problems. But I think many solutions are in the making, we just have to move forward. My idea of what made society great is powerful companies being held accountable for their effect on people's lives. I'm willing to endure some drawbacks in order to maintain a better society.
Every once in a while I feel the same way. It's hard to reply to this sentiment, though, because I think there is also a lot of wishful thinking mixed in.

Years ago, standards processes were as much about screwing your competition as it was about cooperation. Take the telephone protocol standards. They are open, but the idea was always to rush an implementation that was different from your competition, push through that implementation in the standards committee and then force your competition to rewrite their code. The early days of web "standards" went that way as well (as I'm sure many people will remember).

However, the other thing to keep in mind is that proprietary solutions designed to force customers into vendor lock-in has always been the dominant situation. In fact, things are dramatically better than they were ages ago.

Things like TCP/IP were not the solutions that the big vendors wanted. They wanted their walled gardens (and worked hard to produce them). Even HTTP and the web only became popular because of NCSA Mosaic, which was proprietary software. It's also interesting to see the list of original licencees [1] The only company that currently exists is Fujitsu. Netscape Navigator was written by many of the same authors as Mosaic and they only decided to open source it in 1998 -- a move that literally shocked the development world. This eventually led to Mozilla.

Back in the day, people "in the know" knew about free software, the FSF, Emacs, Vi/Vim, Posix, etc, etc. The average programmer knew nothing about it, except for being forced to learn vi in university perhaps. These days, you can't swing a cat without hitting someone who is passionate about at least open source, even if they don't necessarily quite understand software freedom.

I don't think we are in a worse position than we used to be. Granted, there are more and more users (billions now) that don't know anything about free and open systems. 30 or 40 years ago, those people were similarly ignorant, but weren't using computers. So when your aunt Martha is hooked up to Facebook, it seems like we've lost (or at least are loosing). But these open platforms and protocols have always been niche and our niche is much bigger than it was before. While you may never be able to chat with your aunt Martha with a free and open system run by people who are more interested in providing a service than somehow extracting money from you, you can chat with a lot more people than you ever could before. I think the key thing to remember is that you've never been able to chat with your aunt Martha using that free and open system.

I think it is perfectly acceptable (and probably even preferable) to turn inward and mostly ignore what's happening in the proprietary world. I think it's probably a good idea, at least for now, to ignore fashion and popularity and instead concentrate on building free and open applications that work the way you want. There are more than enough people around with the same ideals to make it work.

If you build it, they might not come, but if you don't build it, they definitely will not come.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
Well to be fair they explicitly said it wasn't a fork, and that any work they do on it will be pushed upstream. The cynical view, I guess, is that the commits they push will be providing free features that compete with Elastic's paywalled features.
I totally understand, I've got hearing damage and can't hear in a room with multiple conversations ongoing (i.e. a restaurant).

In my case, it was operating a stump grinder that did it. I was so eager to operate this cool power equipment that I didn't take a few minutes to get hearing protection. Big, big mistake.

Please take care of your hearing.
People no longer receive daily, or even weekly, deliveries of newspapers. They no longer crowd around the living room radio, and increasingly avoid the television, which increasingly has neither a cable connection nor rabbit ears.

Like it or not, the world has changed.
Forgive my ignorance, what's "T-bills" ?
You can always turn off Bluetooth via software to save on battery if that's what you mean.
I've wondered about something similar.

The original roadster was based on the elise (similar to exige), and it was heavier.

I think the highest performance models now have the largest batteries mostly due to marketing. basically "If you want the performance, pay for more battery than you need".

Why not have a 35kwh car, a supercapacitor as a buffer and have it weigh significantly less for better performance? (at the expense of range)
> With a tiling window manager, every window you open has cognitive overload.

I've been using a tiling window manager (XMonad) for ~3 years now; this is definitely true for the first few days (or weeks/months) until you adjust. After that, there is less overhead as you become more familiar with how the window manager behaves.

But this is also true for stacking window managers.

> With a stacking window manager, the cognitive overhead of opening a window is much less.

I think the level of cognitive overhead involved comes down (in the case of tiling window mangers) to what window rules you have, what kind of bindings you have set up to navigate between windows, etc., and how comfortable you are with those rules and bindings; the less comfortable you are, the greater your cognitive load will be when trying to use them.

Again, this is also true for stacking window managers.

> Every new window on the stack doesn't affect the others you were using.

Unless it "steals" focus and blocks the window you were working on. But that's expected behavior in a stacking window manager, so it's not much of a disruption. And it's one a user will certainly be aware of when opening a new window.

And this can (and usually is) be true for tiling window managers as well.

> I see a lot of people that respond to you by appealing to some objective superiority of tiling window managers, but there's advantages and disadvantages to both.

Right. There are pros and cons to each and really, but most people just don't really care that much about what window manager they're using.

I do want to add that one of the biggest pros to a tiling window manager (and a few stacking WMs) is the amount of customization available; if you're using a WM like XMonad, i3, Sway, bspwm, herbstluftwm, etc., you can configure the WM to do basically anything (including behave like a stacking WM), while many stacking WMs are fairly limited in how much customization they can have.

But that makes the assumption you're interested in customizing, which not everyone is.
Does Facebook claim to be a content-agnostic middleman? I know we accuse them of it, but they pulled some GOP / Trump ads for being sensational, that hardly sounds like a dispassionate middleman.
Should Comcast let me send/post advertisements for a competing ISP using my Comcast Internet service?
You can pick a different one, but if they're all spying on you, tracking you, and advertising to you, it's not really going to make a difference.

Also, splitting up Facebook alone isn't going to stop data sharing between its various parts, nor is it going to address tracking or advertising at all.
Hard disagree. I believe what constitutes good writing is not teaching, but sharing. In printed word we can all be equals, that's the magic.
If my phone call talking trash about my phone carrier is to a reporter getting ready to publish an expose... now we’re apples to apples. Better?
18 months ago I was in a shop that used F5 and it was a nightmare. Some of the best network admins I've ever worked with and they couldn't nail down why the load balancer did the things it did, when it did them. It was bad enough that the config had more exceptions than rules just so that we could try to eliminate anomalies.

I hope NGINX doesn't suffer too much under this new ownership.
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Ford is promising to produce a hybrid F150 that would upend your green calculus entirely.
This should be renamed: Employee at major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM registry.
It’s different because Facebook has massive power to influence the National conversation by choosing which content to block or not block. Your local neighborhood store does not have such power, ergo, it’s reasonable to treat Facebook differently from the way we might treat a store.
The ones I've seen doing linux dev from within macos these days are using docker.
Of course they do, but it looks bad politically.

There are a lot of things that it is perfectly legal to do, which you probably don't want to. Especially if you are a public company.
Can we reproduce the result of STOA AutoML paper?
That's ultimately it isn't it. I think Hooks are great and I've been using them and would use them for everything. I'm also a Dev manager, and understanding those gotcha's it isn't even about not knowing which would be an obstacle for less experienced developers, but how easily you repeatedly accidentally fall into them.

It's hard. I feel like they are 90% right, but unless you are not only a very competent developer but also insanely careful you will make many mistakes.

I perhaps am a bit more torn as I have experience with fine grained libraries like Knockout and MobX and I even more so see the benefit of the potential here. I think the idea of it is a better, more clear way to solve problems (from previous experience). But the number of times I've missed [], or forgot to close over state properly even knowing. I usually catch myself but I can only picture the team biting into this.
I would assume several traffic lights compose a string, and not every traffic light has an EV.
I live in a fairly well off part of Los Angeles but the 2 closest Aldis to me are in Inglewood and Compton, which are also not particularly high income cities.
There's a two star Amazon review from a verified purchaser on Nathan Barry's book "Authority" that I think illustrates Mr. Barry's marketing writing prowess well[1].

It reads: "Meh. Nothing new here. Could have been a series of 3-4 blog posts and gotten the same value."

Well, he still got you to buy the book didn't he?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3M5PAZX0YY5IM/re...
I run a company that offers consulting and hosted services around a 100% open core (https://geocode.earth, shameless plug).

As someone who has a very strong desire to continue to be able to make a living while making open source software, I've been thinking long and hard about all the possible paths to take while maintaining open-source software as a job that pays the bills enough to run at least a small business.

Some paths and possible outcomes are:

- Open-core: Make most code pure open source, and then save some good stuff for pure proprietary. The lines are not _too_ blurred here, but this can get annoying. (Elastic's X-Pack was _super_ annoying to deal with back in the 2.x days). Risks: you have to balance crippling the core versus building compelling proprietary features. You have to add additional complexity into both codebases to deal with a clean delineation. Amazon (or other bigco) can re-implement open-source replacements for your proprietary parts.

- Source-available: This in my mind includes any of the recent Redis Labs style licenses. Pros: more convenient from a setup perspective. Cons: Incredible legal risk for your users (compliance is harder). Uncertainty as all these licensees are new and possibly one-offs. Currently, there is a lack of goodwill around these licenses. Amazon can re-implement your entire interface (like with Mongo).

- All open source: Simple, clean, but Amazon can just take all your code and replace you, right?

It's possible to assume that all scenarios end poorly, but I really don't think so.

Take any famous chef. They probably have published a cookbook with recipes for many, if not all of their most popular dishes. People still eat at their restaurants for at least the following reasons:

- They want to experience the dish from the actual chef's establishment. Whether it's to be sure they're getting the real deal or simply for the image aspects of the experience, it's still worth it.

- They know that the chef is always experimenting and pushing new things that aren't _yet_ in a cookbook, and they want to try it.

Bringing this back to software, I am confident Elastic still has a reputation of being able to build a better Elasticsearch hosted service than AWS (in my experience, Elastic's is far superior). I also am confident that Elastic will continue to innovate using their proven experience building search products in the future, and that's a good reason to use their products or software over AWS.

I believe that if you want to make money in open source you should do it by having valuable experience with some particular open source software that others are willing to pay for, not by building legal barriers to others doing the same thing. That's what I plan to do for my business and I believe Elastic can and will do it too.

My hope is that in a few years after all these "clever" attempts to build moats around open source have proven futile, people will go back to good old-fashioned experience leading the way. But maybe I shouldn't hold my breath.
I've got bad hearing in my left ear which I attribute to the pickup I drove when a young man. It was a 1964 Chevy, and the rubber gaskets around the window panes in the doors were totally shot. I had cut holes and installed speakers in the lower portion of the doors.

The speaker in the driver's door caused that window pane to vibrate in my left ear.
Asymptotic Analysis Explained with Pokémon: A Deep Dive into Complexity Analysis
This is why we often call it BSc.
How the Gupta Brothers Hijacked South Africa Using Bribes Instead of Bullets
Worked as a roady for a band in high school. Worked in the holds of ships and in engine rooms and around other very loud equipment as a young adult. Never wore hearing protection nor did anyone ever suggest I wear it. At 58 I now have pretty constant tinitus in both ears. Fortunately it doesn't really bother me much. If you're young and work around loud equipment wear the plugs. And brush your teeth and floss twice a day :).
I would think so, but if the non-compete deal was made as part voluntarily splitting up the company, I could understand the argument that there's no net harm to the consumer.

In my experience in the US, grocery stores have way more competition than stores in most other retail sectors. It's also one of the few retail sectors in the US where regional brands tend to outcompete the national brands. I'm not sure the main cause of that, but I'd be interested to find out.
I don't understand this rationale. So it's Open Source for everyone, but not for Amazon because is Amazon, so fuck Amazon?

You can't have it both ways. That defeats the whole purpose of FOSS.
I would say it's the case in both accounts.

Whereas before installing nvidia proprietary drivers was just a nuisance, now I am looking for alternative GPUs as I use Linux on all my machines.
Going deep in the woods and being able to hear the smallest details all around is more important to me than appearing tough to at a loud concert.
I can't find anywhere where they said it isn't a fork. I searched the article for the word fork to make sure I didn't miss anything. They said it wasn't an internally forked version meaning it isn't a private fork, and they said that their intention wasn't to create a fork.

I'm not completely sure if anything that's core to ElasticSearch is forked. The repos on GitHub are modules not including one that's called "elasticsearch" or "core" or "main" or something like that, but some seem pretty essential.

As for myself, I like to call an alternative distro a fork, and I disagree that their intention isn't to create a fork, based on my idea of a fork. They're free to have their opinion on what constitutes a fork, but I don't think they're an authority on it so I'm gonna stick to my current view of what a fork is...
That wouldn't help. The bank's accusing them of publishing stolen code.
Yeah, they probably censor child porn, and other things, too. Don't you support censorship?
But we can count the moments til a sacrificial lamb pops up, as with Bernie Madoff, or the epipen guy for pharma. Token examples without stopping the potential for their crimes to be repeated by everyone else in practice in the slightest.

We need to uninvent the wheel.
Dataflow is based on oss Apache airflow. I don’t know how well it’s doing in the wild but every IT admin I’ve worked with are super excited to use it.
Back in the early days of Aldi in Australia (early 2000s) I loved the Medion PCs they came out with. They were awesome!
It seems to be suggesting that older Californians need to downsize and live small after they retire and don’t have to enjoy all the decades of working hard to pay mortgages so that the state can gain more taxes?

How is it a subsidy? They are not subsidized as they don’t realize value and if they realize value, it is only after they sell which means that taxes are delivered to the state coffers anyways.

Retired people should ‘move’ away and die someplace else because the taxes are necessary?

Why would anyone want to own property if this becomes the norm? There is no incentive to own property usually bought on mortgages and interest rates.
Yeah, I'm in my 50s and the audiologist describes my hearing loss as "severe to profound," depending on the frequency range. I suspect that much of that was at one particular concert after which my ears rang for three days. I definitely lost a lot that time, but there was a lot of other loud music over the years, too.

My hearing when I was a kid was as good as my mom's. She's a musician and has always protected her hearing. She's in her 80s and has far better hearing than me.

You will never regret taking a bit of extra effort to protect your hearing. It's never too late to start, either.
Usefulness of Cryptocurrencies Demonstrated Again
At the risk of sounding like a shill, I get a lot of amusement out of going to Aldi and seeing them toe the line of trademark infringement (e.g. Green Irish Wizard brand cereal with marshmallows, Fruit Circles cereal with a tropical bird on the box, Mad Apples cider, etc)
- It's Open Source for everyone* -

*except for Amazon.
If you borrow against appreciated asset, the property is considered refinanced which would mean that the property tax would be on the appreciated value of the property. This is why many people don’t refinance because even that would be a burden when one is on fixed income.
Meh, not really. Cookies all the way down.
I think we are seeing cryptocurrencies demonstrate one specific use - an easy means of defrauding others of what is "valuable".
In the U.S., the FDA approves a drug for a particular use. Rituximab would have to undergo a complete set of clinical trials to show its safety and efficacy for MS in particular. Otherwise doctors can only prescribe it off-label, and the system (i.e., liability) is set up to dissuade doctors from prescribing drugs off-label if there exists a drug approved by the FDA for the particular purpose.
I applaud your conviction to put money where your mouth is if you follow through. Best case you’re right and you make a bunch of money. Worst case you’re wrong and you get feedback on your prediction accuracy. But assuming you risk reasonable amounts, you’ll be better off either way.
If the "store" was a newspaper, and it refused to report parliamentary debate on its impartiality...

It's not illegal, but does prove its partiality.
This is an interesting one.

NYT and CNN are running prominent doomsday stories in big headlines.

Fox News has been nearly silent on this one.

My inner conspiracy theorist tells me this isn't a fluke. Left-leaning sources are pouncing on Boeing, while right-side Fox is staying mum.

Is it my imagination? I can't think up a reason why.
Somewhat related but I’ve always been curious about this: Why is music more pleasurable to many of us when played at a level that could damage our hearing? If I listen to my death metal playlists at only half volume I don’t find it nearly as enjoyable, and I’ve never totally understood why.
We don't need new regulations. We need the web to be taken out of the hands of gov. and big corps.

It's interesting how the web started off feeling so very utopian. A naive and benevolent world that was built upon trust - and therefore easily taken over when big corps and gov. moved in. We are now galloping towards some kind of dystopia, where one day we'll be nostalgically watching Black Mirror repeats!

Then you have the Darknet, built on distrust and perceived as somewhat malevolent. It may seems dystopian at first, but as the community becomes broader it may actually evolve into the utopia we hoped the web would be - simply because large entities cannot wrest control of it.