skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A couple classes don't say much. Talking with a psychologist for an extended period might work, but that's quite a leap to expect; currently an analysis like that is relevant to almost nobody.

Then we should find out if it is worth it and if so, start doing it ASAP. Children are not something new parents should be experimenting on. Early child development is so important and yet is treated as if it was nothing, we still don't even have a school class focusing on parenting.
Obviously a blockchain cannot magically make people do things they don't otherwise want to do.

But what a blockchain can do is model parts as tokens that can only exist once on the chain, associate data like provenance documents with each token, then model sales as transfers of the token. Finally, it can do all that in a way that you don't have to trust any single entity (though you might have to trust the consensus of a large number of entities; this is better because pressuring many entities to lie is much harder than pressuring one to lie).

Whether this particular blockchain uses that design is a separate question. I agree that if your trust model isn't distributed, a simple database will usually be better.
>I still consider SSPL to be "free software" very much within the ideals that movement, regardless of what the OSI says.

Yeah, I think the issue is that these days there's a lot of open source developers, who zealously believe in open source, but are working for corporations. They have a natural incentive to maximize the usefulness of open source for corporations, whether they explicitly acknowledge that or not. On a social level, I think that's having many effects, one of which is the backlash against SSPL, which is obviously hard for mostly-proprietary corporations to comply with.

Many open source programmers have built a mental model around the notion that the scripts that operate and deploy an application (service) aren't part of the application (service), and therefore don't need to be open source. But that doesn't make any sense from a software-freedom perspective! The fundamental tenets of open source are that users should be able to use, modify, and redistribute the application. If the users don't have access to the scripts that are required to actually deploy a modified version of the service, then it's not meaningfully open source. That's a new perspective, it's true, but I think the old perspective (the scripts to deploy a service don't need to be open sourced) was just wrong, it came from a long period of biased, commercial-centric thinking.
Yeap, and legally enforced age discrimination means we can't actually take many offices.

We can vote for old farts. We just can't be elected.

Double think starts: But that isn't discrimination. Because it is legal. Instead it is called 'age of candidacy'.
Sure, but in this case e.g. GPL vs BSD is only marginally relevant (any modification needs to be GPL in the GPL case) to the particular case of selling OSS software as SaaS since either license lets you package and sell the bare software.
As if it hadn't been losing to the Germans already.
> What's the alternative? Stop discussing things that are still happening and affecting people, because some different people discussed them last year?

Discussing government regulation and taxation may have been discussed by every single human being on the planet at this point(joking). It's absolutely worn out. There are likely fewer topics(especially around HN) that are more overused at this point.

If you seriously have something new and different to add, I am all ears. And I would say that is a good time to bring it up again. But all of the comments I have read in this thread have exactly the same stuff.

One side:
People should be free to decide what to do with their money and the government should stay out of the way because people understand their lives better and governments can be corrupt.

Other side:
Governments should impose restrictions and fees as society as a whole will be effected by certain actions of individuals and governments have a responsibility to look out for the people's best interest.

It's been done to absolute death dude. Its the same points, over and over and over and over again. We all have heard all of this 10,000 times.
The pattern with "the racist+fascist assholes" typically is that the craving for power (and sometimes for brutal violence) comes first, and then ideas are sought in a bid to normalize it. A position of authority, or purposely fanning widespread hate towards some socially marginalized or despised group that few people will bother to counter, are two things that are very often used to get away with all sorts of brutality and inhumane behavior. It's essentially a smaller-scale version of what the Nazis did, and the sort of thing that should actually be decried as such, in the strongest possible terms.
Well, that's just bullshit.

WWII, its dates and events were all in history textbooks in Russla when I was in school (1995-2005) and they are stil there.

We do not teach about The Great Patriotic War instead of the WWII. For TGPW is the greatest part of the WWII, for obvious reasons, that is why it is tought in more deapth and has more hours than other parts combined.
Why did they create SSPL when AGPL already existed?

IMHO all use cases can probably be covered by MIT/BSD, GPL, LGPL, and AGPL. Everything else is license proliferation and adds confusion and problems sharing code between projects.
> Are you saying that choosing a permissive license is like "pissing-in-the-pool"?

Yes, choosing overly permissible licenses (non-GPL OSS ones, in particular) contaminates the market for other software projects operating in that market.
It's really not wildly difficult to discourage smoking by, e.g. putting a tax on it.
Do you want to live in a world with less interoperability all around?
AF447 had two working aoa sensors that never disagreed. It didn’t have an aoa indicator in the cockpit though. You can infer what the aoa is by the vertical airspeed and engine output though. The inputs from left and right stick canceled each other and it power on stalled out of the sky landing belly first. This was pilot error because they had unreliable airspeed indication due to pitot tube icing.

Airspeed is a critical system while aoa is not. (Unless aoa is tied to mcas like in the max jets)
That's the wrong analogy. The correct one is: would you rather be one poor person living amongst 1000 wealthy people, or one rich person living amongst 1000 poor ones?

And if 1000 is not a big enough number to make you think twice, then make it 10,000. Or 100,000. (The number of homeless in the U.S. is considerably larger than that BTW.)
>These days saying "Union invaded Poland" in public gets you killed in Russia.

Can you please stop with this bullshit, really? We even have this is school textbooks: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jSNt06CW1HQlM5ekpUWDVfdUU...
And still only 3% of Music on the iPod was bought from the music store according to Steve Jobs himself - 4 years after the store came online. That didn’t make much of a difference.

https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos...
I think "hackers" should just ask for money for their work before you are allowed to use it, just like they did years ago - how to do this was already a problem solved even in the 90s. Sure you wont get brownie points with those indoctrinated by the GNU propaganda, but at least you'll be able to get food from the supermarket. And besides, cults are only nice at the beginning when there are parties, later they start to suck when sacrifices enter in the picture.
Or just skip the GIF and create an MP4 file? No need to try and shoehorn GIF into what MP4 can do perfectly well.
I stumbled on that second link awhile ago when I was curious about the best SD card for Raspberrys. There's a newer post now: https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-storage-benchmarks-2...

At first I thought the recommendation to use an SSD with a Raspberry was crazy, but the benchmarks do indeed show an improvement. And, as that article points out, since the SSD's performance isn't important (hitting the USB 2.0 limit) you can grab the cheapest, decent SSD which ... comes in at just $20!

Though I still like SD cards for the form factor. There's the newer A1 class SD cards with better minimum IOPS, which I'd be totally fine with. But reliability is still such a big issue with SD cards. I had one die a few days ago; always annoying.
Network effects are crucial to social networks like Twitter. But why should that apply to Uber? The network effect on Twitter etc. comes from the fact that each additional user increases value for existing users. But Uber is a two-sided market, and while each additional driver benefits existing riders they are also additional competition for existing drivers.
The percentage is very misleading because you can have a negative net worth. The average could be $1, in which case you get a 500% increase by giving everyone $5.

That doesn't discount the article entirely, but I wish people would stop using misleading statistics for completely valid points. It really ruins your argument.
Ans: That overused word from early 90's business speak; Synergy.
In the sense that an infinitesimal region of spacetime is a "perfect" reference frame, sure. But for the scales we're talking about, the equivalence principle gives a very strong approximation of the situation. Remember, we are extremely small!

(Some people don't even believe the Earth is round. They think that their local tangent space is all there is too it! That's how small we are.)

The equivalence principle is the opening from special to general relativity, I don't think ajconway was confusing the two at all!
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.”
As far as I know GPL complies with the open source definition. You can run the software for any purpose, including selling commercial services.

Source available licenses would be appropriate if you want to restrict use. (For example by Amazon.)
Excellent point. Anything to misconstrue a common definition in the name of marketing buzz.
There's a famous project that did something similar to this. It's WURFL. The creator behind the project got offended when a big co (Google I assume, not sure) who forked his project and never paid him anything at all. I believe it was under a different, very permissive license. When he found out this happened, he immediately, deleted repos of the code copies of the old license and published a new "commercial" license screwing companies who depended on his database. Luckily, someone cloned the project on Github, but he took it also down with a DMCA.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/01/wurfl-and-database-copyrigh...

I really hate people who don't understand what open source really means and get offended when someone uses their work in a way that doesn't violate the license, but doesn't give back.
This article is ... long.

I'm inclined to agree with some of these other comments in the thread, that the innovation of app-ifying taxi services is indeed extremely valuable. I suspect most of us that detract from the success of Uber are really more concerned, among other things, about the political means by which they gained their marketshare. The "ask for forgiveness not permission" philosophy and their willingness to ignore existing regulations is, I think, bad form - and the article rightly calls out that they did kind of hijack a techno-libertarian mindset to moralize what they were doing.

Still, is it easier for me to safely get home after a happy-hour with some friends? Sure. Am I able to more easily and reliably move about major cities - especially ones without major public transit infrastructure - absolutely. My gripe with Uber today is mostly that they appear to treat their employees like crap, if they consider them "employees" at all. I don't too much care how much they are worth, as I'm not an investor and don't plan to be one.

As an aside, this magazine has some ... interesting content. A sampling:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/the-new-shame-of-...

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/chinas-city-clust...

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/houellebecqs-unfi...
Why the Apple Credit Card May Never Be Profitable
Fantastic article! I would add that it is quite impossible to hold the contents of an entire book in your head at once. I rely heavily on Trello and OneNote for mental organization of topics.

It's also critical to form a topic pipeline as you go about writing. Unfailingly, writers will come across articles or blog posts that contain something new they'd like to include in their text. Efficiently taking raw content, boiling it down into its essence, and composing that concept into a book section is important for keeping your book content fresh and relevant.
This seems like a good application for a publicly auditable, immutable data store. Artist can birth a hash of the work into store along with their metadata. Post production steps would build on that record, creating a derivative work with new metadata. Labels, ditto. Distribution contracts go on top of that. When it finally gets a performance, that could be a transaction on top of that. Anyone can follow a performance back to its creators.
Maybe rehashing those points often enough will get your lazy ass inspired to get up and actually do something about it. Or you can continue to be lazy and disingenuous, your choice, after all.
There was no “idealism” behind the creation of Mongo, ElasticSearch, or Redis. They were all trying to profit and used open source as marketing.
Which was not an option to upper management because that would cause training for the event of disengagement and a new type rating.
> I and everyone I have an influence on, are refusing to buy Chinese goods, that's the limit of my power (which is fuck all honestly).

What device did you type this message on? Odds are very high it was assembled in China with a significant portion, if not majority, of Chinese-made components, and the company that sold it to you either has a significant presence in the Chinese market, or wishes it did.

I understand the concern here, but for better or worse, China is where pretty much anything that uses transistors is made, and it's just not practical to boycott everything that passes through there.

(Not to mention that it's not really fair to punish Chinese business-owners for the actions of their government when they have even less accountability over it than we do over ours. Is it fair for people of other countries to not buy from American companies because of our government's absurd incarceration rates?)
Twitter is a free product that has global network effects and they deliver a digital good which has near zero marginal costs.

Uber, on the other hand, delivers physical services to consumers that cost money and they do not have economies of scale or other innovations (e.g. self-driving vehicles) which would help them lower price.
A benchmark for me would be a game that can handle a MMOPG like eve-online.
What with certain tactics in game valid - like griefing, spies etc. An AI can handle that would be not only impressive, but learn a set of skills that many would feel uncomfortable about being within the realms of AI.

After all, humans cheat, would we want that allowed by an AI. Equally an AI could stumble upon an exploit in a game and not realise it is an expliot - ie item duplication.

But this opens up a whole new aspect of gaming that AI has yet to touch that I'm aware of.

Though I feel we are still a way of from having computers with a moral-coprocessor, and still very much early days with AI. But that is certainly something that is within our lifetimes.
Metal injection molding is the hot technology in consumer durables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_injection_molding
At first, for many years actually, neither Uber nor Lyft offered an upfront quote. The other feature, to press a button on your phone and book a cab to your location instantly, existed in a taxi hailing app that I used in Los Angeles around 2010, which I think was called "MyTaxi". I'll admit it wasn't as reliable as getting an Uber or Lyft now is, but it was still 2010.

Funny enough, before the upfront fares on Uber/Lyft, I did see drivers try to pull that "shortcut" move! In either case you just have to be firm and have them stick to your route.

Uber and Lyft opened up some supply and juiced everything by subsidizing rides with cheap VC money. You can call that innovation if you'd like to.
Hopefully, this is illegal in two-party consent states (for audio recordings)... but I bet that they will get those laws repealed.
Well, that entry did not exist in history books of USSR back then, and chances are low it is included now.
If we play the guessing game I'd assume they'd like to make more money, and doing what it's been suggested on this thread is most likely not going to provide any benefit for Slack but more like the opposite.

To make my point clear, I don't believe the current app is so terrible (performance-wise) that's making Slack lose any significant amount of users/revenue.

On the other hand, adding new features to the (cross-platform) app, fixing bugs, etc in a timely fashion will help the business. I'd also include polishing here but rewriting the whole application from scratch for different OS is, IMHO, not worth it.
I have been thinking abou this for a long time. Thanks for putting it out there. It seemed that int the domestic crop of people, the US lags behind some/most places in the maturity department.
> Common threads between suicides have been cited, including pressures of the job.

Most important is probably access to means and methods - easy access to guns.
Well, there were mass arrests of hundreds of people at a time. Accusations of spying and subterfuge happening to the leaders.

COINTELPRO happened with virtually no one being punished. Not understanding that it has and will happen again is to not learn from history.
Beyond that, if you're travelling you can do the same but in a place where previously you couldn't even speak the same language as your driver and you would almost certainly get scammed in what you paid.

Uber is a better product than what existed before, perhaps it's fair to say it didn't solve any big problem but rather lots of small problems.
Different kind of metadata, I think; the Verge article seems to be talking about the data that goes to PROs[1] and CMOs[2] which is then used to calculate splits and payments based on data from people like Spotify, Apple Music, etc. ("they had missed out on payments for 70 songs, going back at least six years" is stuff I've seen before w.r.t data just not being sent to the PRO/CMOs from a label.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_rights_organisatio...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_rights_management
Depending on where they live more adverse weather. Fire,
flooding, drought, food supply issues.
This is also not that simple. The soldiers were all young boys, 18, 19, 20. They were scared and not prepared. The crowed radicalised in the weeks before the eruption. Misinformation was spread on both sides. The orders given to the young boys were unclear: clean Tiananmen, but no blood. Further, they were very bad equipped: live ammunition. The forces have evaluated later the situation and invested in rubber bullets and other "strike breaking" weapons.

It was just a disaster and a sad moment in history. No winners, only losers.
What a lot of people overlook is when Amazon takes something (DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility) on internally is they are re-inventing the way the database works in such a way it's dubious if the community would benefit. I do think it would have been better to see this go the Postgres route where they could have continued to contribute to the core product but I believe MongoDB saw competition against their MongoDB Cloud product and decided to change the licensing. This neccessitated the need for a hard fork since they were not interested in working together. An AWS Q&A stated they are working on a completely independent code base that is API compatible with MongoDB 3.6, so there is nothing to contribute back to the MongoDB open-source code base.

DocumentDB much like Amazon Aurora has pivoted much of the database internals to depend on the AWS ecosystem. The whole concept of replica-sets on MongoDB are very rigid and inflexible compared to the elegance made possible by EBS and Amazon engineers.

MongoDB replication is measured in seconds meanwhile DocumentDB replication is "usually less than 100 milliseconds". This makes read replicas in DocumentDB more relevant for all kinds of real-time tasks vs MongoDB.
Open-Source is alive, well and functioning as intended. Tens of thousands of Open-Source projects are producing the software that is driving most of today's tech.

To a venture capitalist, Open-Source is a marketing strategy. VCs would like to profit from the popularity of Open-Source by inserting themselves in the cash flow. But the cash flows in Open-Source are periphery. And the periphery is a humble position for a VC.
https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license... "Why did you base the SSPL on GPL v3 instead of AGPL?"
Last time I checked GPL explicitly allows using the code for any purpose ("Freedom 0"). FSF is also clear that it's fine with people making money off free software. The requirement to distribute code together with binaries makes many kinds of business impossible with GPL-d software, but that's a side effect, not the goal as in "Source Available" licenses.
Same but different tyrant-boss but no two way audio.

We didn't have gigabit broadband back then, therefore whenever the boss was on the cameras the internet went slow. Therefore we always knew that if the internet was slow we had to be on best behaviour.

We never told him how we knew when he was watching or let him know that we knew, it was an office wide open secret amongst us though. Funny times.

The off topic highlight was when a young French girl was being interviewed. I happened to be in earshot and I almost fainted. Straight up she was asked about her plans to start a family. They didn't want to hire someone who might cost them maternity pay down the line, hence the opening question that brazenly got straight into the sexism. She took the job.

I too only lasted three months before I quit.
> When he found out this happened, he immediately, deleted repos of the code copies of the old license and published a new "commercial" license screwing companies who depended on his database. Luckily, someone cloned the project on Github, but he took it also down with a DMCA.

I don't understand this. If the old version was licensed permissively what argument does he have to take down a copy of it with DMCA?

And the original companies using it wouldn't care - of course they'd have their own vendored copy internally - they don't need GitHub to keep using it.
> and disable the system

When you do that you now have an aircraft the pilots aren't certified to fly.
Someone clearly didn't read the article.
Everything we do on a daily bases has a chance to increase or decrease the chances of each part of our body of getting it. Even if you do nothing
Unfortunately, there is a real lack of clear thinking about this. I will happily invest in a business that is making losses if the marginal ROI is strong.

The market often gets these situations totally wrong. I hope this will continue but: businesses that are deploying a lot of capital even at very high rates can and often are loss-making. You can't just look at accounting profit, that tells you nothing.

With Uber, there are two issues. First, they invested very heavily internationally (they are basically an EM stock). Second, they don't provide anywhere near enough financial info.

But Lyft gets closer and their marginal ROI is clearly positive. Their fixed costs are garbage, Uber are taking unbelievable risks (reckless, imo) on EMs but the business model is definitely valid (I would say Lyft actually starts to look cheap in the $40-45 range).