skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole agenda of the guy writing this is to move open source projects to being no longer open source

The situation seems to be much more complex than what you portray (ie "we don't like open source"). Take the SSPL for example - OSI may not recognize it, but as far as I'm concerned it is an open source license. Commons Clause I'm not certain about - is explicitly disallowing sale really inconsistent with open source ideals? I've yet to make my mind up on that one. Then there's the RSAL. That one definitely doesn't seem to be entirely consistent with open source ideals:

> The only restriction is that the application cannot be a database, a caching engine, a stream processing engine, a search engine, an indexing engine or an ML/DL/AI serving engine.
Similar thing just happened to freecodecamp. It’s clear Medium is facing pressure from investors to aggressively monetize and it’s rubbing some of their partners the wrong way.
I have never had a personal Facebook account. I technically have one but I only have it for Tinder and other such places that required a Facebook login. I have hundreds of "friends" but don't know any of them. I never post or read the feed.
"The bags, some of which were split open, contained spoiled fruit and trimmings from pineapples and mangoes. That part of town has a lot of produce wholesalers, and it’s no secret that some of the illegal dumping is done by local merchants and customers."

The City of Los Angeles doesn't have a composting program?
> 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.

I feel like people are always talking past each other. In general what happens is that the policies enacted by Democrats and Republicans are both crap but in different ways, and then both sides argue for their ideal that their party doesn't actually uphold but against the other side's actual results which are in both cases terrible.

So they're both right. Markets are more efficient than governments but we don't want people starving in the streets. The Republicans' policies are terrible in practice and the Democrats' policies are terrible in practice. What now?

I tend to think the answer is a UBI, but the difficulty is in getting it passed. The right-wing objection is obvious; it's the purest incarnation of redistribution of wealth. But we already have such policies and replacing them with an equally-redistributive UBI is probably an easier sell than it is on the left, because it would evaporate their world. Unemployment insurance, disability, social security? Redundant, not required. Minimum wage? Food stamps? Housing subsidies? Same. Progressive income tax? Don't need it, flat tax plus UBI results in negative effective rates for low income people and low effective rates for middle income people.

So "employee benefits"? Bad policy, let's get rid of them all and do a UBI instead. Which is the right policy precisely because it would dismantle a century of accumulated inefficient bureaucracy -- but that very fact makes it hard to enact.

So in the meantime I end up arguing against all of this other stuff, as just more to repeal when we finally get the votes to do it properly, and more institutional inertia that makes it harder to get where we ought to be.

But I sometimes lean on the traditional arguments because, ironically, I'm less tired of those than having the same "does a UBI cause inflation" "not really but if it did that's what we need right now anyway" discussion for the hundredth time.
Someone else on here reads Machine Design?

One of the interesting ideas mentioned is putting some chopped carbon fiber into the plastic to give it more tensile strength and hardness. That's being used in 3D printing now. See the current issue of Machine Design. Finally, decent tensile strength from hobbyist-type FDM 3D printing.[1]

[1] https://ultimaker.com/en/blog/52718-our-complete-solution-3d...
Security is a trade-off in everything. Someone can hack the laptops too, does that mean laptops should be avoided?
Agreed, and it comes back when you stop providing it...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-homelessness-housing/...
>This seems like a good application for a publicly auditable, immutable data store

Blockchain?
Please rephrase your comment without the poorly-considered sarcasm and I will respond to it. Doing so is also likely to help you think through your position more clearly.
Hopefully a moderator pulls (your post) out from under the parent and makes it a top-level reply to the article.

To start with, any policy affecting a population that can move and be moved has to operate at the scope that those people are allowed to move. That means the taxing and funding distribution HAS to be on a national level. It probably also means that per-recipient funding needs to be proportional to the cost of living in a given area. (which SHOULD also be calculated realistically.)

This would at least stop "poor" communities from dumping a national problem on bigger cities that try to be more kind. It would also encourage longer term solutions over broken window / temporary bandaids.

It would also need to be systemic. There are a number of failures in society contributing to the issue.

* Single payer healthcare - everyone's covered.
* Actual mental healthcare (not just asylums)
* Everyone is a worthy being
* New New Deal - A job for all, with meaning and value.
* Identify and correct market failures.

One such market failure is 'housing', where there are jobs, where there is opportunity to build a new and better life, that's where people want to live. However rent-seeking is destroying the ability to build a life, a community, an actual home, family, or future.
This is certainly a factor, but I think HN's main demographic tends to overestimate the effect of college-related issues on the fortunes of the general population, where college graduates are still a minority. I imagine that the most important factor is the lowered rate of home-ownership.
Thank you! It's a really a bummer this isn't hyperlinked in the first few lines of the article.
Mega-Gauss Plasma Jet Creation Using a Ring of Laser Beams
Thanks for reading!

I agree that it still has room to grow and maybe even produce positive returns. It's just that if I ask myself whether this has the best chance of making money of anything else I could be working on, I feel like it's probably not.

Good point about integrating with food delivery services. I applied to be an Instacart affiliate a few months ago but they declined my application and then I forgot about it, but I should revisit that. I suspect they rejected me because Is It Keto isn't very "browseable" since it requires the user to type in the food they want, but it would be easy for me to throw together some "browse by category" pages to show that I've got lots of content.

I haven't shut the door on it entirely. I would love to keep growing it in the background, so I'm keeping an eye on revenue. If it reaches ~$500/month or so, I think it gives me room to hire back my writer and continue to grow the site.
Because of the Joe Pesci observation?

Everyone that can scrambles to take their "commission" from every project they're able to block.

I call it the Joe Pesci observation because of a quote from, I think, the movie Goodfellas.

"Your business burned down and you have no income?" "Fuck you, pay me!"
Although this is a minor digression, I always felt that it was very interesting to contrast the overwhelming amount of airtime on the legacy media devoted to throwing fuel on the fire of "Russian interference in the 2016 election" with the scant concern for Alphabet's working relationship with the Clinton Campaign. I know I'm not the only person concerned with the disproportionate influence that companies like Google, Twitter, etc have on modern political discourse. Isn't it frightening that the assistance of such companies can be bought with the promise of regulatory lenience? Even if someone didn't agree with the previous statement, isn't it still of significant concern that the companies controlling the flow of information are participants in partisan politics?
The standard model is not the be all and end all of physics , so the quarks may not be fundamental. It's therefore not meaningless to say e.g. invented (The quark model is a model that works but it is a model)
What's with all the dumping? Is it hard to get rid of trash in LA, or have people just stopped caring?
In other news, 5 year olds define themselves in terms of how much they love their mommies.
thank absyah! we are indeed small. Happy to have you in the community
> And you’re expected to be readily available outside of work hours anyway

Really? I'd never agree to that. It's definitely not universal, certainly not tolerated in France for example I'm sure.
Observation of thermal Hawking radiation in an analogue black hole
They're not - but you've still got to think about these second order effects.

Politicians wouldn't implement this because for every less well off individual they push closer to poverty, that's one less vote.
An object's relative speed to itself is always 0 (by definition) and so the passage of time is always constant for every object. As you can guess by the name of the theory there is also no "universal clock" or "0 speed" in the universe to compare against, it's only possible to measure speed and the flow of time relatively between objects.

For these reasons "time slows down for you when you move at relativistic speeds" is really a bad way to think of it (and not how the math of the theory actually works). It's much more proper to say things in the form "To <observer a> it appeared as if the clock of <observer b> was <sped up|slowed down>". E.g.:

To the traveler it appeared as if the clock of Alpha Centauri was sped up.
To Alpha Centauri it appeared as if the clock of the traveler was slowed down.
Laser-induced graphene triboelectric nanogenerators
>?The natural reflex in the US is to scream "Democrat" or "Republican" as the supposed root cause of every problem.

This is just rooting for your favorite team...

I can attest to this. Long time ago, I lived in Minneapolis for a while and thought the place got worked over by liberals. Now I live in small town Wisconsin, and we got bent over by conservatives so bad that we're a regular feature in the national news and the butt of late night comedy jokes.

I was foolish when I was younger, and thought the liberal-conservative thing made a difference in politicians. It doesn't. You can get reamed by either one. In fact, you're most likely to get reamed when you're thinking in terms of the liberal-conservative dichotomy.

At least, that's been my experience. Your mileage may vary I guess.
which goes in line with “we don’t assume you’re stupid”
The photo background looks much more like a company selling desks put a computer dummy on a desk, like many furniture places do. So even worse clickbait(?)
You can't really blame him for being taught an alternative history. Another victim of soviet propaganda. I don't know what they've been telling people in Czechoslovakia before 1989, but in the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries the Soviets were touted as liberating heroes, even after they invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Yes; that is what I'm saying: power is the real issue, not lack of legal framework/remedy (and in most cases, private contracts are specifically the purpose contract law; "I intended it to be privately handled" would not be a winning argument. "I have the Soviet army over that hill" might be though).
3 Ways Fundamental Particles Travel at (Nearly) the Speed of Light
It sounds like in normal flight you could cope without it, not easily enough that you'd trust an entire fleet without it, but enough that in the rare case of a detected AoA sensor failure, you could land the thing in a controllable way.
I have predicted that this post will be flagged. It was.
Would you mind elaborating on that? I am interested in a super-copyleft license for my next project and thought that AGPL was the "best" option out there. In what ways can it be bypassed?
> I wouldn't compare that era with the current one

When it comes to housing stock these past gov policies and local private+public development grants can have a long term impact on any city well beyond any decade.

The various building/zoning/etc policies are often long lasting: Prior land use could have been terribly inefficient from some half-failed social housing project, left to arson/deterioration of perfectly good buildings in Harlem in the 80s due to rent control and impossible-to-evict tenants not allowing renovations on the building. Plenty of middle-class & wealthy people keeping (now) expensive apartments under rent-control, reducing new development appropriate for that market and taking stock and taxes/income the area. Prior low-density developed areas can be locked down for decades due to elderly and other single-family homeowners staying for long periods of time. The well-covered complete lack of development of anything in-between a single-family houses and condo/office highrises in most cities also for decades. Etc, etc.

There's plenty of legacy decisions keeping housing expensive and highly inefficient.
At least in regard to easy navigation, I don’t see much that trumps Chrome’s Vimium extension.
This one uses Haskell:

Discrete Mathematics Using a Computer

http://www.x.edu.uy/inet/Springer.pdf

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781846282416
Both this post and my comment are now flagged.
The impossible turn is now possible
Network effects in social media are high and protect Facebook from competition.

Barriers to entry in the taxi industry are lower.
I was a bit unclear - I was thinking of the bit in his essay discussing the image processing done by the retina.
Defect-free assembly of 2-D clusters with over 100 single-atom quantum systems
I want to know why the Boeing flight computer needs pitot tube input at all. Modern ublox GPSes can easily obtain 3D lock on multiple satellite constellations within a minute of booting. Several of these in parallel for redundancy if you are paranoid. Flight controllers on fixed wings don't even need a magnetometer to stabilize. Just GPS path heading. If all else fails, solid state accelerometers are very reliable. Accelerometer only based dead reckoning works great. If all else fails, a single accelerometer should be sufficient to get the plane relatively stable. A barometer can help too, but doesn't seem necessary. These systems can be easily combined with fallback logic to keep the plane in the sky. I just don't understand what is so hard about this for Boeing. I understand airspeed is not the same as ground speed, but this should provide enough information to the flight computer to keep the plane in the air or at least stable.
The topic is not about opinions, it is about facts.

The epistemological difficulties around treatments for wastebasket diagnoses are very real, but it demonstrates a deep, fundamental confusion to conflate those difficulties with problems with the meds themselves. This failure of reasoning is only attractive to the inexperienced, hence my advice.

To understand the problem, consider the medieval diagnosis "ague". Numerous cases respond instantly to antibiotics. Others, viral, do not respond at all. Some can be prevented by variolation, some by refrigeration, some by hygiene, some by purifying drinking water, some with mosquito netting, some by quarantine, some apparently not at all. The only way to predict which will work for a particular outbreak is to know more details about the causative agent. Denigrating antibiotics because they fail to treat malaria is deadly foolishness.

Double-blind trials, where they work, are the cheapest way to obtain reliable information about a medication's effectiveness for a reliably identified illness. Where they do not work (for readily understood reasons) we are obliged to use more expensive, time-consuming, and idiosycratic methods to obtain the same information.

In the case of "depression", as for other similar diagnoses, such methods have been found necessary, and are used. Insistence that the so-called "gold standard" is the only arbiter of truth (because the name?) betrays ignorance of history and medicine that can be remedied only by deeper experience.

One does not always have time to explain all of the above in detail, and must distill the gist. The gist is better than nothing.

Agreeing with the person who outlines her viewpoints, just because she did so most recently, leads you to agree with falsehoods. Truth is not so easily discerned as agreeableness or articulateness, appealing as the idea may be. What matters is the facts, and to how many decimal places.
At least one Vim trick you might not know
Uber's app sucks at routing, so people frequently accuse drivers of malfeasance. https://www.npr.org/2014/09/18/349560787/drivers-passengers-...

Some drivers ARE taking longer routes; you don't pay for it, but Uber does. https://thepointsguy.com/news/why-your-uber-driver-is-purpos...
> None of the proposed licenses significantly curtail the possibility of having internal deployments of software or linking against the software in commercial software.

Actually...

The Fair Source License (Sourcegraph, https://fair.io/) explicitly does restrict those things.

The RSAL (Redis, https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-labs-modules-license-change...) kind of does, but only under some circumstances.

> The only restriction is that the application cannot be a database, a caching engine, a stream processing engine, a search engine, an indexing engine or an ML/DL/AI serving engine.

The Confluent Community License (https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-plat...) only says you can't run it directly as a SaaS offering, which is better but I'm a bit uncertain where the line would be drawn in terms of product functionality.

The Commons Clause (https://commonsclause.com/) explicitly prevents you from selling the software, including hosting, consulting, support, etc. As with the Confluent license it isn't entirely clear where the line is drawn in terms of product functionality.

The SSPL (mongoDB, https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...) is in fact an open source license as far as I'm concerned, but OSI hasn't (won't?) recognize it.
Ok, but that doesn't refute anything I said. The whole point is that it's not a FT job.

Most drivers are work for a few hours a week in addition to their other job/school/etc. It's perfectly valid for people to drive when they need extra income and stop as their situation changes. That's what the flexibility is for.
Housing, and the cost of living at a level to hold onto that house, is Too High

But 99.7% of CA has less expensive housing (mostly far less expensive) housing than the 17 square miles that are SF, so using SF as your metric for statewide policy is silly. If you aren't working or going to school in SF, you don't need to be housed there specifically at public expense. Housing and care dollars go much farther elsewhere.
While I agree with a lot of what you said (Mercedes can just pay for keyword searches on BMW or similar to still target and be effective with cheaper and "old school" methods). But I don't think a lot of the advertisements for already purchased products is wasteful.

See Coke (and what follows is overly simplified).

Everyone already knows who they are and their opinions on them. You might ask "Why does Coke advertise?" and it'd be a good question. Sriracha doesn't and they are a household name, surely Coke has more standing than them. Coke advertises not only to influence you from a young age (getting new generation of coke drinkers) but to ensure that you associate a good feeling with your purchase. This is apparent in car commercials too (especially in America). That BMW commercial isn't to convince people to buy a new BMW, kinda ridiculous when you think about it and the money that you have to spend on a car like that (consider how often you see commercials for high end cars that the general public can't afford). Luxury car makers sure do want you to feel superior about your decision to buy their car though (which there's connection with "my next car will be X so I'm superior).

Compare this to McDonalds, who knows you'll be hungry soon and wants you to visit them for your next meal. These companies have different goals, and of course their advertising will be performed in just as differing ways. Not all advertising is the same. Though I'm not sure this is the best strategy for Amazon when I buy a deck of cards, I don't need 20 more types. But maybe it is effective and that's why they keep doing it.
What I get out of it: tons of people are piling into long dated treasuries to lock in some kind of return or just as a way to get anything back. The buying pressure affects auction bids for the treasuries where the price gets bid down with more demand. People want to have a return for longer periods than a few months because they feel higher interest rates in the lower end won't last anywhere near ten years.

The bond market is large, these are big moves. Rather than try to chase higher yields in places that are prone to bust, investors need to preserve capital firstly, gains come second.

Right now the 2 month treasury is only 1 basis point less yield than the 20 year. Currently my money market savings pays more than the 20 year.

Greenspan said after the rally look out below.
> I've researched all other solutions and they didn't work,

I ran into this the other day. A person was asking about a Y and when pressed about it that person said the other solutions didn't work. I dug back into that person's history and while they did try a canonical solution - the lacked the ability to debug their efforts.

For context, the Y they wanted to do was essentially to rewrite a core framework in Rails because they didn't understand that an object they were using was nil. Their problem was entirely about how they were getting input from a user form and they wanted to rewrite a framework.

When I pointed it out the person never responded, and I saw a similar question posted by that same person a couple of days later.
If the pilots had recieved training, then they could be a backup. So probably whoever did that safety analysis was assuming pilots would know how and when to turn off the system, but the pilots in fact didn't know this system existed at all.
Police uphold the laws which are written by those in power. The powerful in America racist. ACAB
Google Talks: David Brin, “Existence”
NASA: Next Carrington event-like solar storm will cause “trillions” in damage
The simplest example of this is TeX and MetaFont, MetaPost.
The only aim of Knuth was getting people to use them. One was, the other two not so much.

And he has not complained that I know of.
What are your qualifications to distinguish between actual mental illness and intoxication or "acting out"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20062902
To be fair, it's not like this isn't standard industry practice. Airframe evolve and change, with incremental changes typically only affecting limited areas of impact.

OTOH seeking a non aerodynamic solution to a significant stability degrading airframe modification was IMHO a bridge too far. If the pitch stability (not the pitch feel) problems couldn't be dealt with aerodymancally without busting type certification, than perhaps the whole concept was just too much of a stretch for the venerable old 737.

It surprises me, though, that this couldn't have been engineered out with enhancements to the horizontal stabilizer, such as tip fences or a span increase to offset the lift from the engine nacelles.

If it could have, but software was cheaper, then that's even a darker indictment of Boeing's engineering incompetence.