skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the second post, we discussed how there is actually quite a bit of overlap between SaaS and Open Core and to draw a distinction, we would assume the Open Core software is primarily being delivered on-premises for comparison purposes.

Hmm, that might be convenient for your analysis, but it seems an unsafe assumption and artificial categorization to me. I think an increasing number of "open core" efforts, possibly most of them, are trying to monetize the non-open-source portions via SaaS. In fact, as we saw in the Amazon/ElasticSearch fight, one of the main motivations for not using a FLOSS license for some or all of your software is to prevent SaaS competitors from using the software you are producing.

I tried to look at your list of companies analyzed categorized "Open Core" to see how many of them offer a SaaS, but I realized that for these companies I was unfamiliar with it was hard to figure that out quickly from their web pages. Let alone then figure out if they were primarily delivering as SaaS if they offered an on-premises option (as even Github does). But that would seem to be neccessary to validate your assumptions.
It should just be an address, the scam would be to try convince you to send money there.
I believe their main problem has not been funding, but rather a clash of very strong-willed individualistic people in the party, people who all desire to be The Man/Woman In Charge, above all.

That tends to create a lot of internal friction, which became very obvious as the election results rolled in, and they all started backtalking each other and pointing fingers.

Maybe it's obvious, but LA is a political party I intensely disagree with. In my perspective, if they want to stand a chance in the next election, they need to do some serious restructuring, otherwise the internal friction will end them.
He has several mixed up metaphors.

Another one is "the term “corporate governance” is as foreign as that thing that came out of Sigourney Weaver’s stomach." The alien came out of Executive Officer Kane's stomach (John Hurt).
I addressed what you said, you just blindly re-iterated your point without any engagement with mine at all.

To spell it out even more clearly, what if "the universe" is larger than the observable universe? In that case, it would still be reasonable to ask where did the observable universe come from? For instance, if we are a simulation, you would place the simulator in "the universe", which as a definition is a fine place to put such a simulator. But it means that questions about our observable universe would then be fair game.

You're trying to shut down thought by simply redefining terms, but even by your own definitions, it doesn't work. It's not a sophisticated or well-thought out position, it's just "I give up entirely, and so should everybody else" dressed up in pretty clothes that are trying to look cool. You're welcome to give up in that way, most people do by default after all, but you've got no grounds to insist that others also give up.
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Please explain this to me: What was the main difference between Hitler and Stalin? Far right, far left, seems to me it doesn't matter at all when you're talking about mass killings.

The US went pretty far left during the 1940s. Allied with Stalin. What is unsaid in the history books is how vile that all looked, a true deal with the devil, and it's not as though Stalin was the "lesser of two evils." He was actually worse! I have read many books and watched many documentaries and I still can't get my head around how quickly and easily the US fell into "war socialism" and how repugnant that was--rationing, people getting arrested for hoarding food or gasoline. And all tied up with a nice propagandist bow called "the war effort."

See, I think left/right is a false dichotomy. There are actually just those who cherish individual freedom and those who do not. Right now, everywhere, the world is run by those who do not. That means it is only a matter of time and pressure until we see more mass killing. Because, overall, statism is anti-human. It's like an artificial intelligence that relies on humans to act. Those who say that Satan rules the world aren't entirely wrong.
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>My question was "what does blockchain bring to the table compared to a regular database?".

You cannot compare blockchain with a regular database. A blockchain is more like an append-only store, or a WORM drive where each "file" or "record" is digitally authenticated and signed/hashed in a way to make undetectable modifications extremely difficult and/or expensive.
I don't think we agree on the definition of "plane" :)
Hedge funds and intelligence agencies are fingerprinting all groups within our society by monitoring the responses of various target audiences to engineered stimuli. This comes in the form of observing the response to selective dissemination of content with a known effect on observers (you). A few years ago we heard about some outrage nobody did anything about when it became clear Facebook was manipulating reader emotional depression by showing some groups engineered posts. This has become a higher dimensional problem since then. It is no longer just "Facebook is making some groups of people sad." Now these orgs are reinforcing complex concepts in our minds subconsciously. One that comes to mind is a motif you will see in advertisements once you are more aware of it: strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male. The whole point is to exploit fracture points in society and shift the overton window. Being able to establish behavioral patterns triggered by engineered information dissemination helps them control groups of people for their own benefit. It's a psychological intelligence operation on an unprecedented scale. Hedge funds stay ahead of new trends to invest in to maximize ROI. Intelligence agencies similarly identify threats to their power structures and steer the minds of the consumers of social media to further their agenda and steer the beliefs of any group in a controlled direction.
Roatan, Honduras. With daily cruise ships in port, there's a steady influx of English speakers. Its cheap to live there, too.
Periodic reminder: "Operators, where are your MANRS?"

https://www.manrs.org/
I get their point, but to be fair the pixel density of the MSI model isn't comparable at all. I'd take that 5k display in a 27" format though.
Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18694006
Do you have data for that?

Whenever I tried to find actual data for this Linq seemed to be slightly slower, but not too much.

Examples:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/14197/is-the-...
https://wheresmykeyboard.com/2015/06/linq-lambda-loop-perfor...
I have the exact opposite experience. Anything that doesn't do double-entry (at least under the hood) is -- eventually -- insufficient for recording the nuances of variation in personal financial needs.
Brits abroad are not commonly stereotyped for their rationality. The USA is basically viewed as a giant theme park.
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That is an interesting opinion.

Can you expound on what you would propose. My experience is that clubs or meetups often don't forge all that close relationships. Another example I could think of which is more positive is co-ops where people lived in a door room type experience with community rules and chore responsibilities (cooking, cleaning, maintenance). But I think many adult American's would think of a co-op as to close to a commune.
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> You cannot compare blockchain with a regular database.

Yes, you can. That it is different, and the resulting difference in utility, is the exact point of such a comparison.
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There is a key premise in this article. That premise is there is some unadulterated Will of the People that democracy is meant to uncover, and the Capitalists are subverting it.

To me the flaws in that premise seem pretty straightfoward - there is no truth that democracy seeks to uncover. Democracy is a highly effective release valve so that if the situation becomes intolerable then the ruling class is changed out. If you want to change the world, you need to convince the ruling class that change is needed, or the people that something else needs to be tried.

The idea that some people have more decision making power than others isn't some subversive perversion of what is good in the world, it is normal. Democracy is fantastic compared to a monarchy - the competition is systems where a lunatic ruler can appoint a horse to government. That is a pretty simple example of why democracy should be preferred.

Capitalism and Democracy are bedfellows because they are both the best systems we know of for filling roles that need to be filled - how to allocate resources and who gets to be in charge respectively. The problem isn't that the wealthy are also powerful, the problem is that the people are as disorganised and fractured in opinion as the politicians who represent them.
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I just want Golang to become a language suitable for my needs; it could be if they added generics (meh) or much better first class macros support (please don't tell me go generate it's not even close).
I love this so much. Reminds me of that old Radiohead remix.

Actually, it’s Friday, let’s post it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20123805
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Happened before him, didn’t it? (Albeit, with a decidedly less philosophical bent)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd
I have uBlock origin and I still occasionally see ads in Facebook feeds.
No, it is truly a different chemical form, as evidenced by the shift in NMR spectrum.

Isomers often have an energy barrier between the two forms which can be overcome under certain conditions. Infamously, thalidomide easily converted between isomers, even if it was prepared chirally, it would convert in-vivo to the teratogenic form, due to a loose alpha hydrogen.

Usually, it's something like a chemical rearrangement, like the alpha hydrogen popping off then another attaching, inverting chirality.

At some point, this barrier can be low enough that it's very sensitive to these rearrangements, even a tiny fraction of acid or base can swing it.
Why did you decide to have so many children?
I think it's rather that it's only reported when traffic ends up redirected to a Chinese (gasp!) entity.
The people who hate this freedom want to tell others what to think.
If you wanted you could copy every slide into a HN comment and then people wouldn't have to read the article. There is not much.
At some point people realized servers are prone to failure. They then started deploying their system redundantly to multiple servers in the data center (AZ) to increase availability. This helped, but created consistency issues. To fix this people started building multi-server software systems, creating dependencies across servers that weakened overall availability.

At some point people realized multi-server systems within one AZ are prone to failure. They then started deploying their system redundantly to multiple AZs within the same region to increase availability. This helped, but created consistency issues. To fix this people started building multi-AZ software systems, creating dependencies across AZs that weakened overall availability.

At some point people realized multi-AZ systems within one region are prone to failure. They then started deploying their system redundantly to multiple regions of the same cloud platform to increase availability. This helped, but created consistency issues. To fix this people started building multi-region software systems, creating dependencies across regions that weakened overall availability.

At some point people realized multi-region systems within one cloud platform are prone to failure. They then started deploying their system redundantly to multiple cloud platforms to increase availability. This helped, but created consistency issues. To fix this people started building multi-cloud software systems, creating dependencies across cloud platforms that weakened overall availability.
> the fact that Satoshi used remailers and PGP does not mean he was someone who cared deeply about privacy

:shrug: I would take it as a strong indicator. Who else other than someone who cares about privacy uses a remailer? I'm not sure I buy the argument, "they were just anonymously registering domains for fun because they liked cryptography."

That being said, my point wasn't that Satoshi himself listed privacy as a selling point of Bitcoin, but that the community listed privacy as a selling point (and still often does). The hypocritical part isn't about what Satoshi intended Bitcoin to be -- it's seeing people who have argued that part of Bitcoin's importance is privacy then turn around and say, "except for this guy."
>Today’s incident shows that the Internet has not yet eradicated the problem of BGP route leaks. It also reveals that China Telecom, a major International carrier, has still implemented neither the basic routing safeguards necessary both to prevent the propagation of routing leaks nor the processes and procedures necessary to detect and remediate them in a timely manner when they inevitably occur.

What incentives do they have not to route data from foreign adversaries through their networks? :')
When I was a frosh at CMU (1983) and working in the robotics lab, the lab next door was Marc Raibert's, and when his hopping robot was operating, everyone knew it. That thing was LOUD.

http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/08inductees/raibert...
Anyone gets face time with a politician to discuss their special interest is a de-facto lobbyist.

Sure, "lobbying" can get scummy if you push the graft envelope but for the most part "lobbyists" are just people from special interest groups who have made a career out of arguing their case to the politicians.
In the same vein...

Rich people are only rich because there are poorer people that are economically relevant. We all use dollars to buy food, money gives you the ability to have others do your bidding. It is just a social construct though, a convention.

Once humans are economically obsolete (Sam Altman plans to have OpenAI make super-human investment decisions, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Alpha Zero take an executive seat at Google in the coming years), human money becomes worthless to the industry, and even rich folks will be powerless.
Me and a few other people have been pushing for ethical advertising. It doesn't have to be this way.

We meet monthly to give each other advice and help each other out. It's hard, it can take more time, but it's been a great experience, and I hope that this starts to become the norm over time.

Here's the group:

- Eric Berry with CodeFund (https://codefund.io)

- David Fischer with ReadTheDocs (https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advertising/ethical-ad...)

- Roberto Galoppini with Filezilla (https://filezilla-project.org/ethical_ads.php)

- Harley Hicks (Me) with RoutineHub (https://routinehub.co/ads)
Seems to me that "trust" is the last thing the average joe would associate cryptocurrency with. A database with a public audit trail might be a better idea if you want that, but that certainly doesn't sound as trendy and exciting as "blockchain".
This is a little offtopic, although I suppose there's a tangential link to JSFiddle getting no response from Twitter.. I too have failed in getting a response from JSFiddle..

About 70 days ago, I accidentally posted an anonymous submission to JSFiddle.

There was no excuse for this other than human error. I was working on development and production at the same time and copied a users personally identifiable from an email template that our production env sent out instead of development. The development is all sanitised but the prod contains the user's name, email and an order reference ID and what they ordered.

I submitted a take down request within 10 minutes of submitting at:

https://airtable.com/shrm1ACZfg5PsTaUa

Every day for a week I altered the reason. It's still not been taken down.

I've tried the GDPR route, the copyright route.. I didn't get a single response from them and the page was still being hosted on their site despite many many _MANY_ attempts to have it removed.

Update/Edit: Been contacted by JSFiddle directly and appreciate contact in helping resolve above.
They have raised a significant amount but have been stingy in the stock options grant.
To be fair the alien did come out of her once in Alien 3, and several times in Alien Resurrection (4)
Even in a city like NYC which is a grid in many areas, blocks aren't really standard. Uptown (N/S) Manhattan blocks (about 20 per mile) are shorter than cross-town blocks. Crosstown are about 3x that but vary quite a bit.

300 ft.-600 ft. or 100m-200m (which I'd hardly consider a long distance) is not a bad rule of thumb but it's certainly not a standard.
This is really neat. If you got a large-format X-Y pen plotter, you could get it to play D&D, exploring a large dungeon map, having skirmishes, etc. This would be even better with a flatbed plotter, rather than a rolling one.

I love these devices, though they're expensive to run. We used the large-format HP pen plotters for various large software analysis&design diagrams, and for keeping huge project management charts posted. On the side, I wrote an optimizer that would take an HP-GL file and optimize for pen travel (shorten time spent between pen-up and pen-down positions for various graphics operations) and for pen changes.
Pedantically... She has a dream — opens Aliens, I think — and an alien pokes out of her stomach.
yes, the matrix.org homeserver was compromised. see https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/08/post-mortem-and-remediati... for the details and what we did about it to prevent a repeat performance.

The protocol itself, the implementations, and the rest of the Matrix network was unaffected.
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You are getting money from somewhere, though, and presumably, if you don't make progress on your PhD, that source will eventually dry up. Likewise, once you have finished your PhD.
> online and then get ads for that thing you already bought

Try getting ads for the thing you just sold and needed to copy the specs into an ad.
Yes. The total slowdown you get will depend on how much of the work being done is the actual iteration vs the work inside the loop. If you are doing a long running thing each time you go through the loop, then the overhead of the linq iteration is not so bad

But something like:

var sum = values.Sum(x => x * x);

will take ~10x longer than an for or foreach loop equivalent.

(260ms vs 36ms on 32 million float32s on my machine, measured by benchmarkdotnet)

plus a small allocation
Why do these routing leaks go through China and Russia so often?
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At some point in the future, if it becomes clear that the company is on path for an ipo I could pay for it then.

I will hold off until then.
> The problem is that very few of the other salespeople there understood the products to that degree at all.

I'm finding this with a lot of services - from small appliance stuff, 'brand store' clothing and home furnishing stuff to ... actual houses. My wife researches. Not necessarily huge amounts of time, but she googles stuff before we look at buying. Inevitably, she knows far more than any of the sales people we talk to. Whether it's comparisons against other models, last year's model, materials, warranties, whatever - she always knows more than the staff. Now, in some cases, yes, perhaps the staff 'know' something, and can't 'say' it in public - I get that - I've been there. But this happens far too often for it to be just that.

Even in large commission stuff - housing - we've been looking at housing for a while - she tends to know more - or at least, of course, from my view - stuff that's somewhat more useful. Or, even more basically, stuff that's not on the damn sales sheet.

We looked at a house with a different type of siding than some of the surrounding houses. Sales guy - who's been working in that neighborhood for a while - he's the sales guy engaged by the home builder - didn't know what the difference was, why it was chosen, or what the pros/cons were. 3 minutes on google, and 1 minute in the house, we learn this siding has a big impact on sound/noise reduction. This would be a huge selling point for some people, took about 3 minutes to look up, but... the guy who makes a living at selling didn't know some of these basics (and didn't offer to inquire or find out, either).
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole thing, but I thought that Google wasn't actually blocking or taking down these videos, only refusing to sell advertising on the video on the behalf of the video's creators.
Indeed, the blockchain concept is more exciting and understandable for a lot of people, so in that sense branding their consortium-controlled cryptographically verifiable ledger as a blockchain seems like a good PR decision.
Join an adult spots league or other club. This behavior isn't healthy in the long term.
I've also had the experience that hill climbing (with random restarts) can outperform GA's. In many problems you can fairly easily define a neighborhood concept for moves from the current solution. That tends to be easier than getting a meaningful crossover and mutation working. Then you just can hill climb by making neighborhood moves, with random restarts. Run 1000 random restarts and pick the best one, and you're going to have a really good solution.
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Hardware backdoors is one real thing (the hardware is mostly closed black boxes), and that's a concern on both devices. Cutoff switches, baseband isolation, etc. don't solve everything.

BTW, that's great news about upstreamed kernel and toolchain support. IIUC, an earlier problem with some of those tablets was that there were hundreds of variations, and good luck getting a mainline kernel on any of them, or finding a second tablet if you got the first one booting with all the devices.
> To me the flaws in that premise seem pretty straightfoward - there is no truth that democracy seeks to uncover.

Sure there is. In fact, you are about to illustrate it unwittingly:

> Democracy is a highly effective release valve so that if the situation becomes intolerable then the ruling class is changed out.

The truth democracy seeks to uncover is “is the leadership intolerable”; the corruption of democracy into plutocracy frustrates discovering g that answer as he weighting of political power by wealth biases toward showing the actual ruling class as tolerable irrespective of whether that is the mass feeling, and makes democracy a led effective safety valve.
This isn't an official feature. People run bots to syndicate tweets. Some people use crossposters.
I don't understand how someone could be tech-savvy enough to know about ETH and actually own some, while at the same time falling for such scams.
I think these euphemisms are healthy.
better than posting the entire link. Similar to the @ and # handles.
Europe chooses Barcelona to install MareNostrum 5, a pre-exascale supercompute
Yes - use taskset or isolcpus with other magic to put sshd on its own CPU core, or one core per CPU. Lots of HFT places do that.
What assumptions about DNS and certificate pinning are we making?
Does anyone have any insights what it is like to work as a software developer in RTP? What are the public school systems like in that area?
> though they're expensive to run

The pens are expensive? Or they use some special paper? Or they wear through some component like belts? What's the expensive bit?
Only 3.6 rontgens, not great, not terrible.