skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people get confused about that. There are hundreds (probably more) of paid software that offers it's source code up. You can use it to learn from or make improvements if you want but must pay if you want to actually use it.

One example is I was recently messing around with Space Engineers code. Keen software gives opens it up but doesn't mean you can just download the code and get the game for free
GPU prices are ridiculous. You can often purchase an equally performing PC, with a GeForce GPU, for the cost of just 1-2 months of cloud rent. Also many of them bundle VGPUs with large amount of CPU and RAM, as far as I remember only Google allows custom specs, both MS and Amazon don't have custom machines for users who only need GPUs.
I'm not sure how to interpret your reply in the context of what the parent is saying. Of course if it's not common to use the term then people will find it odd, out of place or maybe even pretentious. If some influential people manage to push it, eventually it'll be accepted.

If our industry as a whole managed to utter words like "cloud computing", "webscale" or "full stack" with a straight face I really think "libre software" shouldn't be that out of reach.
Just for everyone's clarity, you can use Cloudflare with AWS just fine.

A previous site I built (https://hearthstonejson.com/) is pushing on the order of 100TB / month in images and JSON data, with 96% cached requests and 99.9% cloudflare-cached bandwidth. Almost nothing comes out of S3 itself.

Cloudfront is the ridiculously-priced offering IMO. I don't really understand why people use it.
Atmospheric nitrogen is very common. Nitrogen that is in a form that's usable by plants is not so common.

Many plants in the Fabaceae family, of which clover is a member, fix nitrogen, not hydrogen. I think that's what you probably meant.
These sorts of completely out-of-left-field’s-left-field beliefs absolutely fascinate me, I’m not being disingenuous here.

Are you part of a proper subculture that engages with this? If so, where do you all hang out, what do you read?
There is also a lot of bedrock.
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Try WAF. It was created about twelve years ago as a fork of SCons because the author was dissatisfied with its performance problems. WAF is in my opinion a very capable build and configuration system but the main drawback is its small community. The person developing WAF isn't keen on "marketing" it.
It's a phone, web browser, e-mail client, you can send and receive texts, use it for reminders, calendar, to play music, to stream music.

Quite a lot really.
I’d genuinely like to see this challenged in court.

IANAL but I don’t think it is enforceable. It’s the whole “You used our interface” question similar to the Google v Oracle debacle all over again.

In my mind it’s the same issue as selling 3rd party printer ink, or aftermarket car parts. The manufacturer should have no say.
This is a little dirty, but couldn't they comply with the letter of the GPL and release the code, but none of the build/install scripts?

Then only the most motivated users could get it for "free"?
Hmm...I see. Thank you for the help!
How expensive are we talking? $1,000 per mile? $10,000 per mile?
There are certainly places where underground power lines are feasible in the US but not in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. If you saw where the lines in question span you'd be in awe of the terrain.
It's nice a high profile project such as Blender speaks about freedom to push back against the "source available" movement.

I've always wondered why niche specific software such as Blender doesn't have a ton of industry backing. Any medium sized graphics shop could have a full developer on the payroll for a fraction of the repeated licensing costs of proprietary solutions, that is, someone who works full time on Blender and whom you can directly approach, in-house, for features and fixes.

And it wouldn't even interfere with their competitive edge, since the software isn't their business. They don't have to care about the GPL as long as the software does what they want.

I think it has something to do with appealing to an employee's vanity, where getting a very expensive software package "for free" to do your job makes one feel appreciated.
> Legislation could lead to alternative sources becoming better at meeting people's demands i.e. becoming cheaper, reliable etc.

So the argument here is we can legislate scientific progress?

That's ridiculous
I'm starting to think build systems should be built like LLVM with separate front-ends and back-ends.

Imagine if CMake were separated into a front-end and back-end. You could use a super nice Scons-esque pythonic front-end instead of CMake's crappy proprietary language and still have all the benefits of CMake!
> Bandwidth is insanely expensive on all clouds.

OVH Public Cloud[1] offers unmetered bandwidth (250-500 Mbps) in all regions, apart from Asia-Pacific.

Hetzner Cloud[2] offers 20 TB (1 Gbps) for each cloud instance, but has locations only in Europe.

Both of them offer dedicated servers with up to 1-3 Gbps unmetered bandwidth that could be used as exit nodes.

[1] https://www.ovh.com/world/public-cloud/instances/prices/

[2] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
It’s a vastly complex problem. What servers were impacted? For what percentage of the overall outage was each server impacted? During that time, was the server offline or simply slower than usual?

And the part that even Google can’t know, even if they somehow can assemble all of the above: did it matter? Not all servers are created equal.

Small wonder they’re letting customers drive their own reimbursement process.
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It will need to move. On anything bigger than a phone, the video chat may be in an off-center window. And i guess multi-window group chats are a problem too.

A great solution for a very limited problem.
It might be ready for a revival. Bazel is halfway there.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/version_control_and_build_systems.ht...
Yes! Thank you. I had the same thought, and then, "Well, no one else is paranoid enough to have this complaint."
> Apple’s policy is in no way unique

Nonsense. Sending location data back to Google is opt in. Apple doesn't even let you opt out. It's amazing how many people Apple has fooled with their marketing.

Your own examples are for apps that send the same data on iOS and are subject to the same OS permissions on Android and iOS.
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Or weekly/frequent religious community gatherings.

People who aren't familiar with that might not appreciate the community aspect.

For example, for some flavor of American Catholics, much of a normal Sunday can be blown (as far as the kids are concerned) by dressing up in Sunday best clothes, attending the big folk music mass, the chatter as people spill out of the church and maybe also talk with the priest out back after the procession out, followed by hours of "coffee and donuts" socializing in the parish's school cafeteria or meeting hall.

I'm not that kind of religious, but that's one way to find and maintain friendships, as well as sense of community and mutual support.
Most of them aren't necessarily trying for realistic physics simulations (they're games, not simulations).
Regarding their stance towards Trump and corporations, I don't think that's too surprising - the US left wing is right wing by international standards.
Have you ever attended top tier AI/CV/graphics conf? You should go once
Play, not work, brings us fully to life (2013)
How often does anyone care in the first place?
> going back to "derived objects" in ClearCase aka wink-ins.

Now that's a VCS I have not heard mentioned in a long time. I shudder to think some entrenched legacy project is still stuck on ClearCase.
This is old and not in California, so it's probably an underestimate, but $2 million per mile to put power lines underground.

https://www.elp.com/articles/powergrid_international/print/v...
It’s risk management - it’s better to pay a bit more for a packaged product and accept it’s drawbacks than hire a developer who may or may never deliver.
Those problems are solvable, the solutions are here.

And there are even more problems with consumer telepresence:

http://hellarddesign.blogspot.com/2013/07/why-living-room-vi...

But i feel that they too are solvable, if you care enough(like when you want to keep in touch with you senior parents).
I think saying “a major reason” is fair and accurate, but I agree that the it seems people are, in general, much more concerned about the ethics of industrial farming as it relates to animal cruelty, as well as beef being such a large contributor to co2.
Plus, the search bar isn't just limited to Google, it respects the default search engine selection.
This is a relevant video to some of the stuff you said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKa6d6j9_8
In my opinion the main issue with OSGi class loading is that the spec couples three separate concerns:

peer class loading (as opposed to hierarchical)

dependency resolution

dependency specification and module (bundle) packaging

This makes OSGi an all or nothing solution: to use OSGi class loading you are forced to package your code in a specific way - which in turn makes it difficult to reuse existing libraries.

Lack of peer class loading has been a long standing pain point in Java - and in my opinion one of the main obstacles for really interesting use cases - especially related to mobile code ( see Jini ).
Let's say you want to bury a line 30 miles long. The upper end of your estimate is $90M. If the line services 50k customers, that's an average cost of $1,800 per customer. Charge an extra $50 on people's monthly bills for a period of 36 months, and your underground line is paid for.
It's a mix of OA 117M and 345M at the moment. I haven't observed too much in the way of overfitting yet, so there should still be benefits to going up another 4.4x in model size to 1.5B. My guess is that at 1.5B, it'll start being more important to improve the poetry corpus, since you can already start to see problems with it - the Alexander Pope brokenness and the occasional prose generation of footnotes/commentary are definitely undesirable, and I suspect there would be less 'run on' effect in samples if the original corpus actually properly marked '
' for each poem...
> We actually can measure the biological age. There are clinical biomarkers for that. It is not commonly done. The best one, epigenetic signature, is yet to be clinically approved or widely available.

What is the precision and accuracy of the best biomarker? ie. if I gave you the necessary sample, how close can you get to the correct age and what are the error bars?
I think I could. Few or none of the new samples even manage to maintain coherency in a sample, and you can see all sorts of garbage prose being generated.
Actual paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5091759
So the days of putting electrical tape over webcams are over? The black hats of the world rejoice.

In all seriousness. I am very careful about webcams. I would never own a screen with such a hidden cam. And the emergence of this tech is a little unsettling as it defeats an effective and very practical security measure.
It's not a good thing, but no worse than having developers depend on Docker without a basic understanding of the underlying OS.
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It's more likely that the SFX industry has their training done on proprietary software, and shops that don't use the industry standard ones like Maya would have trouble hiring. Plus the after market plugins tend to be commercial in nature and won't want to sell with a GPL licence.
PG&E says they spend about $800,000 per mile to run an overhead line, and about $5M per mile to convert overhead line to underground.

http://www.pgecurrents.com/2017/10/31/facts-about-undergroun...
You're pointing to the US privacy policy. That support website does not support China.

https://support.apple.com/HT202303/localeselector

This is different from the (nonexistent) Chinese privacy policy.

https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/24/apple-to-m...
Not that it disproves you, but the only reference I could find in the online version is "vers libre", meaning "free verse", of course. I don't have a paper version to check, and I'm not a native speaker, so I'll have to trust you on this one :)
I never uttered "full stack" with a straight face. Actually, in the last interview I had with a CEO where he asked if I was a "full stack developer" I just laughed.
You’re going to persuade millions of people to install a browser extension so they can pay for content? You have the incentives backwards...
5 billion users? That's substantially more than Facebook .. was that an error?
I’m a provider.

Yes, it does. And they have a perfect opportunity. With the amount of student debt they have, they have to work. It is a perfect exploit. Plus, the license is on the individual, not the health care entity. They can just get another provider.
I was an early adopter of CMake (although nowadays I mostly either use plain Makefiles or use languages that have a reasonable build-system integrated) and while at the time it did feel much more approachable than the autotools I remember being baffled by how utterly terrible the syntax was. It's ugly, noisy, redundant, quirky and didn't share any obvious similarity with an existing mainstream language. I wonder how much that cost them in terms of adoption.

At least autotools and m4 have the excuse of all that historical baggage and very broad portability.
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But the above comment suggests a varied diet "leaning" towards plant-based foods, not a plant-based diet. That's the standard recommendation for a healthy diet from pretty much every public health body, currently.
Fair point. For what it’s worth I’m British (but expat in the States).
No, you generally assume that GMO are unsafe. And people would like to know, why? Any particular reason except the fear of the unknown?
They weren't meant to be and never claimed to be. You aren't going to replicate a beef patty without a ton of fat.
> As his main concerns were architecture and the church, he looked homeless.

Career goals. I feel like I'm already halfway there.
By European standard I would say it's more towards the center, if you're taking about the Dems. Certainly not "left" but surely not "right".
Does it though? Given how much they charge, does it really depend on exploiting those folks? Are they really being exploited given how high their salaries are?

Like, just for patient safety, I agree, these folks should not be working the ridiculous hours they work, but would they really agree to that if it meant a salary decrease?
You don't mine nitrogen, you mine phosphorus.
> may also be treated or at least ameliorated through the microbiome.

I know that doctors wanted to try out stool transplants quite a few years ago to see if it would improve crohns. Maybe there are studies like that for Bechterew as well.
Wow, they invented the slogan. Sun alumni seem awfully thin-skinned about not getting credit for every little thing they did, which is why it's pretty unforgivable to deny DEC credit for anything more than "some work on hardware". I was working on DECnet-based remote file access software in 1989. It wasn't new, but NFSv2 was. DEC already had real clusters doing real work before Sun did. Within the company there was already a globe-spanning LAT network. I had friends at Apollo who were also way ahead of Sun wrt distributed computing. AT&T's RFS was at least contemporary with NFS, as were Netware and Vines. Sun was definitely a player in that space and made some seminal contributions, but to say they were the first even to think about it is unmitigated BS.
Given that Firefox has now also moved to using WebExtensions, the Chromium forks could just rely on http://addons.mozilla.org as their “store.”
German "ß" works neither (which could at least be substitued with "ss").
Guardian's annual contribution starts at €0.96 per week [1]. Greedy? If anything, that's too cheap.

[1] https://support.theguardian.com/eu/contribute
Most apps wouldn’t be subtle about it. They would say that you must have location on to receive discounts.

As far as I know. Apps can’t tell the difference between the user denied location access and the users location can’t be determined right now. There are iOS devices that don’t have GPS chips - some iPads and the iPod Touch. If the user isn’t near a mapped WiFi hotspot, they won’t have anyway of finding a location.
> The dark side of this is, what if it's not economical at all to service these outlying customers?

PG&E is a regulated regional monopoly with a universal service mandate within it's service area that has huge piles of money to throw at political fights to stop having public power retailers take over some of it's service areas, so it can just suck up the cost of dealing with uneconomical rural customers as the cost of the privilege of being allowed to own profitable urban and suburban customers it is willing to fight for.
Plaid doesn’t let you transfer any money through their API, just read data. If Plaid gets compromised and your username and pass get leaked and used then most (all?) will detect the location change and confirm via SMS.
Wait a second.

Shouldn’t it be possible for someone to sell a Blender add-on but it keep it closed source and non-GPL?

That’s just writing code for an API. As we all know from Google vs Oracle case it would be disastrous if API’s could be copyrighted. GPL is “just” a copyright license.

I’m not sure how Blender add-ons work though.
Going viral on the internet for an embarrassing situation .. if that ever happens I will finally realize my dream of becoming a hermit in the wilderness
I would be interested to know where you got data on that topic.
Tangent Animation is trying to change this! They use almost 100% Blender, have some developers and contribute back to the community. See "Next-Gen" on Netflix for their latest movie.

Disclaimer: Worked for them as a Blender developer on Next-Gen
During a speech in July 2018, Trump himself said: “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” Another line from Nineteen Eighty-Four went viral—a real one this time: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

That's all right, but when dealing with the information the party was distributing, wouldn't "don't trust your eyes and ears" be the correct advice? You may see pictures of Eastasian troops marching whom we've always been at war with. You may hear the news anchor talk about the events of the day. You shouldn't believe either.

You may hear Nayirah testify about the terrible things that are done by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwaiti hospitals. You may see those satellite pictures, presented by Powell and explained by your newspaper of choice, clearly showing Saddam's WMD factories.

It's not wise to believe what you hear or see, especially when you hear and see things filtered through the lenses and microphones of other people, digitally altered for maximum effect.
Yeah the analogy I use is "Feel free to use my garage and tools any time you like, just don't take my stuff and sell it"

Unclear about "don't use my tools for monetery gain"
Health care is the US is broken; I recently hurt myself, the diagnosis alone (xray, CT and doctor apt) was over $4,000 out of pocket, with good insurance that my CEO sent a email last year telling me was the reason we won't get raises.. that damn health insurance cost. I had a cousin talking about retirement, the only thing preventing them is... health insurance
I had never heard that animal corpses were used in a large scale industrial farming fertilizer so I just looked through the most common soil fertilizers, at least in the U.S. I don't believe a single one of them uses animal corpses.

It seems that the common types of fertilizer[1] are:

- anhydrous ammonia (Nitrogen pulled from the air[2])

- urea ammonium nitrate (Nitrogen pulled from natural gas and plants[3])

- granular urea (Nitrogen pulled from natural gas and plants[3])

- ammonium nitrate (Nitrogen from mixing ammonia [5] and and synthesized nitric acid [4])

- diammonium phosphate (Nitrogen from ammonia and phosphoric acid [6])

You may be correct that small farmers use animal corpses, and you may be correct that using artificial nitrogen is bad for the soil, but 97-99% of the plant foods grown in the U.S. appear to use non-animal based fertilizers. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about the science of this.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explosion-ammonia/fac...

[2] http://www.greenvalleychemical.com/Green_Valley_Chemical/Anh...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea#Production

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate#Production

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_production

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diammonium_phosphate
And a good one imo.

Actually, exactly this is a side project of mine, running at https://egghead.space ;)

However, as my side projects tend to go, it's not very polished - or finished even. I still think it's a good idea though and hope I will finish it some day...
>I am genuinely curious why in a rich country like the USA, wires aren't dug down.

Because if we catered to every "we're a rich country, why don't we" request across every subject we'd have a government financial situation akin to that of the USSR circa 1988.

Not to mention the fact that burying power lines across rural areas would be exorbitantly expensive. It's one thing to bury power lines in New Jersey. It's another to bury all the power lines in Wisconsin. For what it's worth, the power lines are generally buried in the more dense and rich (must be both, not just one) cites.
It does use electron.

"At that time, I was new to develop apps on top of Electron and ReactJS. As Inkdrop grew, I have learned a lot of good practices from it. I found that it can be improved much better in terms of implementation."