skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This move is a text-book commoditization move — providing Elastic’s premium services for free"

I had to laugh at this one. Isn't this what many open source projects have been doing forever? Open Office, Chrome, Apache, etc. I could go on. Many open source applications were designed to compete with a paid/proprietary counterpart.

"It is clear that AWS is using its market power to be anti-competitive"

So offering a free product and adding value to it/offering it to your customers for free is now "anti-competitive"? Isn't this only beneficial to customers? We should want more companies to do this.

This article has some good info on this fight: https://www.datanami.com/2019/03/12/search-war-unfolding-for...

It sounds like Amazon wants to add new features to Elasticsearch, which just so happen to be proprietary features that requires a license from Elasticsearch.

This is always the risk when basing your entire business on an open source project. A much larger company with more resources could build the same features and release them under the same open source license, for free...which is what's going to happen here...and it's actually exactly the spirit of the open source community.

This is why I would never create a business based on open source software and attempt to have a dual licensing model. In the end, the only real way to make money is by having better support (because any big company can come along and eat your lunch)...which is much less scalable and requires many more employees.
From the things I hear about email from people online, I must have really lucked out to be so sheltered from it.

I've worked for a number of companies in my life, and I now work for a relatively large corporation - and email has never been a problem. Since Monday I have received 7 non-automated emails (lots of automated emails, sorted into folders) and only one of them required action on my part.
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Seems to have a hard time being the fifth Beatle.
I couldn't even get a cheap Beatles feel, much a sublime melody.
However, some of the piano pieces are pleasant.
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I am moving place to place season to season. I live in the US and will be traveling internationally and domestically.
This has been my standard work day for ~4 years. I've found people don't complain as long as you get things done.
Nope. Personally I'm not invested in the moon landing enough to actually pay money to see a movie about it regardless.
Seems to me that people tend to get anchored by their high-water marks rather than average... for example I will definitely have 110hr weeks and have the occasional 35hr weeks, my "generic" week is probably 55hrs, but not sure where the true average is (probably closer to the generic week), but the mean of my extremely good weeks and bad weeks is 72.5 hrs...
This will do nothing to improve the security of Wordpress applications. If "pirates" can read your source code, you're already screwed, either your server is very poorly configured, or there's a privilege escalation exploit somewhere and they already have root and can run any process they like. Obfuscating the source code doesn't make it any more secure, at best it's a minor inconvenience.

You can change the name of commonly targeted files like wp-login or wp-config and even leave dummies with the original names in place for script kiddies to waste their time on, but you don't need to. More effective plugins and methods to secure Wordpress exist[0], and the biggest holes are in plugins themselves.

For example:

$url = "https://api.bunkerify.com/1.0/get/" . $lic . "/" . $domain . "/bunker_wp.php";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($json);

if($result->code == 0)
{
eval(base64_decode($result->data));
(...)

[0]https://medium.com/@AmDee_Elyssa/10-wordpress-tips-to-make-y...
How much does this actually matter, though?
One nice think about Dart I've found is that compile times are very fast (faster than Go) and when editing in VSCode the code intelligence is instant and 100% accurate in my experience.

Compare that to Rust where compilation speed is almost as bad as C++, RLS is slower than e.g. Qt Creator's clang lints, and has auto-completions so innaccurate that they are almost worse than nothing.

Buuut.... I wanted to make a deep copy of an object (a map of maps) in Dart, and one of the suggestions on Stackoverflow is to serialise it to JSON and then deserialise it. Eek. In C++ you just do `auto a = b;`. In Rust `let a = b.clone();`. How do they leave out such basic functionality?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26616081/265521
vs. Helm, Synology/QNAP, or a hypothetical Sandstorm box.
My GnuPG signatures are still unverified :( [0,1] [2]

[0] https://gitlab.com/moviuro/moviuro-pkgbuilds/commit/e4918741... # Broken

[1] https://github.com/moviuro/moviuro-PKGBUILDs/commit/e4918741... # OK

[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/58747
How does licensing work here? Do they have the right to "merge" that music into their neuronal weights? Is there a specific license for usage in a neural net?
You choose closed source, recognize that people who won't pay weren't your target market anyway, and accrete the reputation for your product that wins people on the fence over to your paid product/service.
Lard is still good to cook with. Cook bacon and store the grease in jars in the fridge, and it can last for ages. Wonderful for scrambling eggs, and pies crusts made with anything but lard just don't compare.
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Olive oil works ok for most purposes but it is fairly expensive and much fussier to work with given the lower sat. fat content. Though it is very stable when pure, olive oil can go rancid fairly quickly when incorporated into processed foods or baked goods. Lard, margarine and tropical oils have the benefit of being shelf stable even when part of some other baked good (e.g. Oreos).
Also, now that I'm thinking about it, I feel like tree style comment layouts are showing their age as well. I wonder if something like Zulip's layout could work in a more forum-y type of setting.
I think selling time for money, more than anything, is why I don't want to be an employee forever. It's good for learning the ropes and knowing what it's like in the trenches, but ultimately there are only so many hours in the day and the human body evolved to require a good number of hours for self-maintenance.

The path to sustainable growth is through automation, increasing your market rates/prices/value, and owning capital (money and assets that generate more money/assets).

You can see this analogy play out on an international scale during the Cold War. The Soviet Union reached its peak during the 1970s, where it could not find any more resources (whether labor or raw materials) to use. "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work" is a famous Soviet joke. The U.S., by contrast, invented new blue oceans of productivity (e.g. computers) and increased GDP and GDP per capita. It played out in foreign policy; the U.S. invested in and traded with Western Europe to make it more productive; the Soviet Union cannibalized Eastern Europe for parts. The result was that the U.S. won the Cold War and the Soviet Union died.

At no scale does throwing more resources at a problem change the nature of the game. Devising more efficient ways to use the resources you have changes the game.
>Music is really complex and leans heavily on both emotions and creativity, which aren't even on the radar for AI.

I definitely think creativity is on the radar for AI, see: AlphaGo. Everything we think is based on emotions is ultimately learnable.
Besides the thing that provides nearly all of Google's income...
> people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise.

I always kept quiet about this, but I've felt that way for a long time about anything that comes from Google and especially Facebook. Should I not feel a little icky about using React.js?
Sign into your google store account on another device with a web browser, it gives you full information about what apps you have installed, how long you have used them, and even the ability to install apps remotely (!).
Back when 4MB was a whole universe
Not first-hand, but I found this fascinating:

https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...
I'm not sure about open core. Why should we contribute to an open core project? What if I want to add a feature that is locked away in the enterprise version? I can't fork for one feature and they won't add it to the main product.
Thanks, the existing issues are already addressing this request, so hopefully they'll be resolved :)
Agreed on the point of the experiment, but I can only influence my own behavior :)

You'll notice that I'm only deleting the score node, and leaving the number of comments, post age, and author intact. Those add considerable value to my HN browsing, and allow me to avoid visiting the comment section or clicking a link that I'll gain marginal (or negative) value from.

In fact, I've always thought of HN (and other link aggregators) as a hub for discussion more than a collection of interesting links - the links themselves are often biased and it's important to learn about multiple sides of the topic lest the bias rubs off on me.

I figured I'd share to lower the bar for those who wanted to see the effects for themselves - anecdotally, it hasn't changed much for me since the points themselves are less important than the way they affect the algorithm. I generally don't post/comment, and rarely vote, so I'm not really concerned about my karma total. Maybe I'm not the target market for this experiment?
I recently had this realization experience with large TVs at Bestbuy. I went to purchase a 65" tv after Christmas hoping to score a great deal. I tried haggling with a few 'important looking' staffers, and they basically said 'ok let me know which one you want, and we will grab it for you.' No give on price. I asked if they had a certain tv in stock, and the young man walked to the back of house area, and I peaked inside. Huge shelves totally full of TVs. I had the 'Tesla Short' thought process of, oh wow, they have a ton of TVs to unload. Moreover, I thought I should be able to strike a deep discount.

When the rep returned, I asked if they were backed up with TVs, to which he replied, "no, this is pretty typical, we will move most of those in a week." I gave up my haggle (after an hour of grilling the sales guys on difference and tv trends and crap). they didnt budge. While I was waiting in line to pay and get someone to load my tv into my car, I watched TV after TV roll out the front door.

A huge stockpile of vehicle inventory could mean a major sales collapse. It could also mean $45mm ready to flow into the Tesla bank account in the next week. The stockpile information by itself doesn't tell you much beyond that there are loads of cars sitting at the dock.

EDIT: I mean, just look at the staggering number of vehicles at Hyundai's Georgia Plant (MOBIS). They even have cars parked in the grass! Tesla's Fremont plant doesn't really have finished product storage at this scale.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/MOBIS+Alabama,+LLC+-+Georg...
I was skimming.
Thanks! It could be what I've been looking for!
Ask HN: What do people use for managing a software project at the beginning?
Its easy to reason about tickets/issues/stories for something that's established. Maybe in JIRA, Basecamp etc... what about the very beginning? Do you create JIRA tickets? straight to Github issues? TextEdit/Excel? Curious how other teams get started.
As everyone on HN, looking forward to being able to use the vlang compiler (sorry, you're going to have a hard time making anyone use V as the language name, for sad search engine reasons ;)
> Surely Amazon could afford to figure out a financial arrangement to continue using Elasticsearch, and surely that arrangement would benefit anybody using Elasticsearch in the long term.

Surely, more competition is actually good for consumers, not bad?
The argument ultimately boiled down to just one person's opinion, nothing more. Adding a bunch of academic references doesn't make the author's opinion any more valid than mine. If you search around you can find just as many opposing references. So what. This isn't like actual science where anything can be verified or disproven.
What if you used whatever diagramming style best fits the domain you're working in, then used one of the following sites to convert the image to ASCII:

jave.de/
aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib

I use asciiflow.com all the time for making quick tables or ncurses mockups to copypasta via messaging.
The legal situation of such music has been recently described as: https://futurism.com/ai-generated-music-legal-clusterfuck
matters a lot more than getting inconsistent rendering and behavior that you have to continually test cross platform when trying to wrap native controls behind a leaky abstraction.
15 years ago I went to MIT for a 1.5-month internship, while still in my high school. Companies still ask about that.

As much as I would like it to be otherwise, signaling (namedropping of famous universities, companies, and people) works a lot. I guess mostly because people prefer to delegate decision making. The backside of that is that unless you finished (or dropped out) from a well-respected univ., you have an uphill battle of proving one's worth.
OSI is asleep at the wheel on this one IMHO
https://sdtimes.com/os/osi-weighs-in-on-open-source-licensin...

I wonder why aren't they standardizing an open source license that prevents hyperscale cloud monetization by someone other than the originators? Don't OSS communities hold the cards here? it's just a change to license.txt, broad OSS adoption and it's a very different type of cloud
(picture nuclear mushroom cloud)
Confit is actually the same, it is about sealing and preserving cooked meat with fat.

I guess this was widespread. In the US it was maybe more prevalent before refrigeration. I remember it being in a documentary about colonial times.
Yup it's very much a tradeoff. Things break down all the time.

> Is it because everyone else think they're better off sharing on the upside created by the Bullshitter, while not being as exposed to the downside?

Some within any group will think this way (and help in propping up and supporting). Some just don't want the job, don't want to deal with more shit, want to work on other things etc etc.

All this creates a space for the bullshitter to exist.

Whether the bullshitter gets there by his own enterprise or someone puts him there, it creates a tension within the group. Good managers try to channel that towards positive outcomes. It's why they get paid what they do.
The UX is a bit poor and there are long standing issues like the S3 console timeout bug and the SWF console not obeying any known law of web design but serious teams don't really use the console, they use tools like Terraform, CloudFront or they roll their own automation.

I use the AWS APIs almost every day but probably log in once a week or so.
For this? Probably survey results. Particularly https://nsduhweb.rti.org/respweb/homepage.cfm.
This recipe results in large amounts of time spent before any results occur (depending on the task you are trying to solve). Classification is an easy task to use this recipe, but when you venture into object detection or pose estimation, data collection, labeling, and setting up training and evaluation infrastructure is much more complex.
How do you infer the direction of causality here? I've noticed that there are days when I am hyper focused and I don't check my email once.

Other days I am not feeling focussed (or tired) and I end up checking email often.
I expect the next major copyright law legal battle will be around the question of whether content generated by some machine learning approach that was trained on copyrighted data is a derivative work or not.
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Also, I did ask for feedback on your suggestion from the community - would be happy to share that with you (even an anonymous email address or something). Hearing from actual adults that could be similar to your hypothetical sperm-progeny might be interesting for you. I'm at rob@higherme.com if you want to get in contact anonymously.
I'm a web developer, but I would like to learn Flutter. However, I haven't found a good resource to get started with. Everything seems to assume that you're a mobile developer already, except for a few very basic tutorials, which only half-assume that.

Does anyone know of something that will take you from zero mobile knowledge to building some simple apps?
Funny, as someone with the useless superpower of knowing an enormous number of TV Show themes, I could hear all sorts of riffs on such themes ranging from Magnum PI to Sesame Street.

Overall, IMO it wildly gyrates from the best I have ever heard all the way to the return of Microsoft's thematically lifeless Songsmith without warning...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Songsmith
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
I think if I were less lazy I'd turn them right side out when tossing them in the hamper.
I mean I imagine a large part of the "look and feel" specificities in mac apps are questions of tastes and beauty and conventions rather than core functionality. And this matter, don't get me wrong, just not always at the same level as being able to use the app without waiting x months of more development. Sorry if the term was inadequate or sounded pejorative.
They were dispatched to investigate it after it showed up on radar.
Too long to develop stories, eh? To be honest, that sounds like an encouraging sign, to me. Any news publication that can churn out stories in quantity, is probably not doing much that is data-driven. Collecting good data takes time, cleaning the data takes time (because even good sources have typos, format issues, etc.), analyzing it takes time, writing coherently about it takes time, making good graphics to illustrate it takes time. We may not, as a society, be currently equipped with a business model to support that, but we should.
The four freedoms, or What is free software? on fsf.org, are even less precise than the Open Source Definition. None of those is an effective "test" in any technical sense. Frequently, debates about whether licenses "pass" them turn into debates about what the words of the test mean, rather than what the terms of the license mean.

To give a sense, FSF says "four freedoms", but they actually require at least five. The fifth (number 4) is the right to make and share nonfree work based on free work within organizations, known as "private changes". FSF writing doesn't explain the boundary between running and changing, or why free software licenses can set conditions on changing, but not running, or why AGPL gets to break that rule. They don't explain how anti-Tivo or anti-DRM satisfy the freedoms.

Readable licenses are important because they cut the welds on the hood of software licensing. Devs can read Parity or Prosperity or Charity or Blue Oak and decide for themselves whether it's open or free or public or simply allows them to do what they want to do. They don't have to trust intermediaries, who it turns out apply unexpressed, private views on what the definitions mean as or more often than expertise on what the licenses mean.

As for Parity and strong copyleft generally, consider:

> I make my code available for use in free software, and not for use in proprietary software, in order to encourage other people who write software to make it free as well. I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

Copyright has given authors broader and stronger control of their work in the last three decades. Why haven't FSF copyleft licenses gotten correspondingly stronger?
Except that having a child is an optional activity that you choose to do, whereas going to work is (usually) required. Ideally that work doesn't include periods of extreme overwork, and lucky people are sometimes able to walk away from jobs that do, but many people just have to do it in order to put food on the table.
I always thought Dairy was more prominent in the Nordic countries, not much pig farming goes on there, I thought.
Interesting caveat that people also overestimate leisure time.

I suppose the takeaway may simply be that people are not good at remembering/estimating quantities of time?
no shit.
The long term effects of this remain to be seen.

All our cloud providers are currently in growth mode.

What will happen when they're in 'mature industry with trapped customers mode'?

We know how Oracle handles that situation.
At 2:08 PM PT, the Mendelssohn track was unbelievably good. I'm incredibly impressed.
But isn't that kind of the point, you are repeating negative apparent negative aspects of something when in the movie they make it very clear that the program was about beating the Soviets and I'd say it presents a very positive picture of the US.
Probably the middle: management makes the executive call and deliberately leaves the explaining to the bottom of the pyramid who themselves are largely trained in providing technical responses, not intricate PR spin
You replied a month ago saying that you downgraded the version and the issue was resolved, is that still not working for you?

EDIT: Fixed spelling of replied
100%, I live this all the time! I'm just saying why even bother trying when you know that its not an option...
It's a bigoted statement, but holds no power over white people, and so is not racist. Racism is about the systematic oppression of certain groups. White people are not systematically oppressed in America, unlike black people. It's not great to have bigoted views either way, but it's not a threat to whites the same way as blacks due to America's societal structure. I'm sure that doesn't make you feel better to have someone call you fragile, but it doesn't harm your ability to live your life.
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Makes as much sense as zero-calorie sports drinks. Food shaming has trained people to want things that are of no use to them.
How else would you score? In practice you don't kick the ball at players in football (soccer) or kick/throw it at them in rugby because you might give away possession; but it's a tactic in hardball games like baseball and cricket AIUI.

I've only trained as a referee in one sport and it had a "be a sportsman" element to the rules giving the ref leeway to determine that play is unbecoming of the sport and so give away a foul. But in that sport smashing the ball _at_ players is normal.

Sure, if you're playing with pals, or for a promotional video then you're going to be less combatative.

FWIW the rules don't say you can't knee, pull, or poke (eg in the eye!).

Also, the penalty rule sounds impossible - you have to score "from the centre gate", but being in the centre gate is a foul and gives possession to the opposing team ... ah, no, wait: "Moving through the center gate will result in a foul." ... so it's fine, you just aren't allowed to leave the centre gate [does the foul activate from the time of entry or the time of exit?].
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Well... tough? Elastic has created a business heavily based on the work of others. They made a concious decision to license the code in the way that they did. Now they're moaning that Amazon is eating their lunch when Amazon is doing exactly what thousands of open source projects have done before them (provide a free service to replace a premium service.)

I don't feel sorry for them.
I disagree. It keeps me more engaged.
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