skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for another 30-something years...
> it's not affordable for a hobbyist, a student or someone starting out in a low-income country, for example.

These are probably not their target audience then.

> they charge monopoly pricing because they're (currently) able to.

iOS has a 22% market share according to the first result on Google. That's not even remotely close to a monopoly.
How is Amazon supposed to know actual user numbers? That's app specific.
Perhaps we are rich because, in this and a thousand other small decisions, we are not forced to make the economically inefficient decision? Cables are underground where it makes sense (higher density neighborhoods where you have to dig during construction anyway) and above ground where it doesn’t (lower density rural areas).

Every time people are forced to make an inefficient decision, the cost is multiplied a thousand fold over time throughout the economy. Money spent burying cables isn’t available to invest elsewhere; a factory goes unbuilt; it doesn’t produce material wealth; it doesn’t hire a young worker into an entry level job; that worker never has a chance to grow and apply their mind to solve new problems; he doesn’t build a new, better factory or tech company one day.
RxJS: A Better Way to Write Front-End Applications
It's not just about losing job or other penalities, it is also about futility of resistance to corruption. If you are openly against system, you get replaced and your place will be taken by less experienced but more convenient person. Good leader in such situation should play politics and follow common rules in order to retain at least chance to make some decisions on his own and step in when situation is critical.

However, that trait is not unique to Soviet system only. If you look wider, you probably will be able to resemble Volkswagen scandal, Boeing MAX, Fukusima and so on. Boeing case looks clearly as outcome of "just make it fly" decision.
I really don't understand why security concerned people use Google's product in spite of knowing that Google steals everything and compromises user's privacy.
If you post a long statement like this article and the first response from people is "I don't know what they're talking about or referencing" then you know you've written it very badly.
So the classic case of "I chose GPL because everybody chooses GPL because it's the most used licence but I forgot to read what it actually says and I'm upset"
Life finds a way.

— Dr Malcolm, Jurassic Park
>The post mentions that a bridge between open source and proprietary needs to be open source but the add-on itself doesn't?

The post isn't very clear, but they way I interpret it is that the Blender add-ons do have to comply with the GPL.

Furthermore, I don't think that's new. Look at the answer in January 2017 to this question [0] on Blender Stackexchange by Jaroslav Jerryno Novotny:

>Blender also includes the Blender Python API, so every piece of code of the addon that uses some Blender Python API must be also licensed under GNU. This only applies to the addon script files or binaries.

Later on, it's clear that compatibility with closed source programs is restricted to sharing files - that is linking is not allowed:

>But you can do something like commercial render engines do: the export plugin is GNU (uses Blender API) and converts scene data to commercial application (ie. renderer) which is not GNU (doesn't use Blender API) and the licenses differ. This works because the addon is not dependent on the non-GNU application.

[0] https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/72095/license-is...
And then:

- 10 reasons why AWS costs so much. #7 is mind-boggling.

- AWS costs considered harmful
The author straight up admits to scraping the database!

That's clearly a point at which "Hm... I think this is insecure, can I actually pull this?" turns into criminal behavior.
Had that, also for contract work that in itself can be a deal breaker as one case I said I could start a few days later and they gave the contract to somebody else. But then contracting and perm work, you can appreciate and respect that aspect.
On the other side of the spectrum, AWS's extensive cost report metrics via tagging are great for big companies.

I can now show exactly which departments and dev teams are driving all the costs, and on what (CPU, storage, network). In a way that I never could for on-prem stuff.
Cool, Nebulous Ring Around Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
I am glad I shifted to iPhone a year back and was able to convince my wife to shift too last month. Why people who can afford a price of iPhone buy other brand is beyond my understanding. When apps are not even reviewed by anyone on Android then it certainly puts the user at more risk compared to iOS user.
Please please could someone recommend two or three books to get a more in-depth understanding of the history of mortgages, similar to what this (awesome!) video only briefly touched on.
Making Change – Payments, Perspectives and Politics
The more interesting page to me is:
http://libre-riscv.org/3d_gpu/

The other pages are full of ideology and some rather gross (market) fallacies. It all seems designed to feed into governmental circles and keep the subsidies coming (ok with that). On this page they even mention price competition, great! :)
“No visited places”
In the US, it seems to me that the goal is to fine as many violators as possible, so there is less incentive to warn drivers.
Right but if you take CO2 from the Mediterranean, then it will absorb more from the air, which means the oceans will absorb less from the air.
> I honestly agree with most of what this article says and I admire the spirit of open source development and the GPL.

If you don't admire the spirit of free software as well / instead, then you may have missed the point of the article.
Don't get why i am getting downvoted. What in particular can drive such a huge efficiency improvement? like, 100+ L/D ratio? Impossible. 10x more efficient engines (especially as engine is stock one and science of propeller design has been perfected in 100 years)? Clearly impossible.
The utility might be glad to see such customers go away.

It may be the case that the utility is providing service in areas it would not choose to serve today, given the fire risk.
I wonder if this was also stolen from Samsung. Samsung was actively working on this in parallel to their folding displays. If both of these key technologies have been stolen from their R&D Department that would be a cause for major concern.
I totally agree with the general idea. Especially the mouse.

However, since I’ve bought my 27” 4k monitor I pretty much stopped using extra ones. Unless I have to for something very specific, like debugging an app which output to multiple monitors.
Americans consume an alarming amount of microplastics
Why not agree to play once or twice a week? For example, every Monday night, you two jump on for a few hours and play and catch up?

Also, what do you mean you got nothing done? You bonded with your brother. That seems pretty valuable to me!
I just bought an ebike last week. I ended up looking at bikes that were "ugly" (no attempt to hide what it is), cheap ($1250-$1500), and fast (class 3, up to 28 mph):

https://www.aventon.com/products/aventon-pace-500-complete-b...

https://ride1up.com/product/city/

https://www.juicedbikes.com/products/crosscurrent-s

Out of those I went with the Aventon, which had a local bike shop selling and supporting it.

50-mile impressions: it's fun; being a cross between a motorcycle and a bike is the fastest way I know to get around Boston at rush hour; it feels safer than biking, because I can almost always go the speed of car traffic and take the whole lane without getting passed; 28mph is handy, even in rush hour city traffic.

It's interesting knowing that these things can be made much more beautifully -- it's still such a young industry that there's lots of room to figure out new standards that will improve things for everyone. It will be neat to see them evolve.
Any AWS metric that doesnt have the network costs is useless. If anyone wants a dedicated unmetered server up to 20gbps i'd recommend datapacket.com.
iMessage is no more tied to a phone number than WhatsApp
Why? People want to donate. Would be silly not to take their money and use it to improve the project even more. I would argue that donations is a key part of this style of FOSS business model.
I'd agree with wifi and cell phones being introduced in a slower way actually.

We don't need a 100 years though, since there is only one thing to check: if it affects us directly. We don't have the same cascading effect potential, nor nearly the same number of possible interactions.

And we already know that cell phones affect us by the way: the new generation already present an attention and focus deficit because of the constant solicitation of the cell phone. Privacy is being denied more and more. We've created huge amount of electronic wastes.

So yeah, I wish we had took a little more time instead of jumping full throttle into it. Or at least follow the effects and react.

But we are not a very reasonable specie.
AWS or not, investors invest for the sole purpose of spending money with the hope of finding a unicorn. If an investor just wants to sit on their money, they can do that without giving it to a company.
Cholesterol / lipid science is a mess. First it was LDL-C that was bad, then that doesn’t actually correlate, then it’s LDL-P, oh wait, then it’s LDL size, and then it’s ApoB that’s going to “clog your arteries”. Once you dive into the “hard” science like pathology of atherosclerosis, you’ll find that the lipid hypothesis makes no sense.

We have drugs (PKCS9 inhibitors: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1615664, bile acid sequesterants, CETP Inhibitors: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1609581) that can lower LDL to 10-20mg/dL — the later even increased HDL. No impact on cardiovascular mortality. The studies all use composite endpoints.

What might cause Atherosclerosis?

- Bacteria

- Bacterial lipid byproducts

- Endothelial damage from toxins (lead, mecury, etc)

- Endothelial glycation from high blood sugar (Diabetics have a lot of CVD)

- Bad genetics resulting in excess hemodynamic stress at coronary branch points (fun fact: CVD only develops in a few specific spots)

- Autoimmune conditions (higher rates of CVD in this population)

What most of these things have in common is they trigger the activation of the immune system.
I suspect not so much I forgot to read then "I hope nobody is gonna use parts of license I don't like, oh shit" e.g. wanting it both ways.
> Eye-contact in video chats. That's the biggest difference between video chat and face-to-face conversations

This issue is pretty far down the list IMHO. Above it are fixing the obligatory 5 minutes of "Can you hear me? I can't hear you" before the actual conversation starts.

Face-to-face conversations also lack "Please mute your mic when you're not talking because the background noise is annoying". "Did you forget you're muted?". "Can you repeat that, I can't understand you". "The video/sound is cutting out". "Where's this echo coming from?". "Please say something on your end". "What's that noise?". "Please use a headset next time". "Sorry, the call dropped out". "Let me call you again, maybe this will fix the issue". etc. etc.

Video chat is one of the great unsolved problems of computing. Yes, camera location is there as well - especially on Dell laptops that for some reason have it looking up from below into your chin. But that is really one of the lesser issues as far as my experience goes.
I wonder what would be his reaction when seeing my friend asking me to borrow my Huawei to take pictures instead of using his iPhone XR because of the camera quality.

Both are great phones but there's more to the world than Apple and some people don't seem to realize.
I’d add to this, numbers every SaaS sales person should know with the resources used by their services, or roughly what the marginal cost of a new customer is.

Most SaaS services have very high markup, but get a few bits of infra wrong, over promise on a few things, and use expensive AWS services, and suddenly you’re selling $500 a month of AWS services for $99 a month. This is an easy mistake to make, I’ve seen it happen with these figures, and it only takes a few wrong assumptions across the engineering and sales teams.
Not only are they leaving it unlocked, they are handing the keys to anyone who downloads the app.
Would Thanos Have Had a Different Endgame If He Had an Economics Teacher?
A mortgage secures a contract to collateral.
IMO it doesn’t matter whether an algorithm is “serious” or not, it depends solely on how people treat it.

In this story, ROT13 is taken seriously, so it is a serious algorithm. And the creation of such a good version does have it’s value, no matter how useful ROT13 is.
Why is that though?

Does someone like Trello have a discord-to-POTS bridge?
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Ok, the link to naked people would be a step too far. But in some countries there is a discussion about showing models that are too thin. When we ban those, then it is only a small step to ban all imagery of people (and humanoid characters).
I try to say libre software rather than Free Software, and I wish the FSF would back the libre term fully.

When RMS is giving a speech, he has an opportunity to expound on what's now wordplay about "free software", to a captive audience that's perhaps already receptive or prepared to listen.

But low-level grassroots advocacy opportunities often happen in contexts in which people are talking for some other purpose, and if you only say "free software", and they don't already know what you mean, you're actually working against your goal. People who don't know what "free software" means naturally assume you mean software for which they don't pay money. If you instead say "libre software", it's not misleading, and if they don't know, and they care, they can ask you about it, or look it up.

(I suspect it would've been better to fully embrace the "libre" term before an office suite was branded that. Now we have a new potential source of confusion, such as "Yes, I already tried Libre, but liked Office better". But I still usually feel more effective saying "libre software" than "free software". And, in practice, I end up saying "open source" perhaps the majority of the time, even when I'm thinking libre specifically, because "open source" is more established than "libre", perhaps because the FSF keeps saying "free".)
Paraphrasing from another comment, you know that the post is unclear when you have to explain it in the comments section.
Rot13 is not Caesar's cipher. Rot13 is in the family of rotational ciphers, but it's a more modern concept designed around a 26-letter alphabet (so that running it twice produces the plaintext again)
I also hate using it but it is a requirement to live here. Once I had a one hour software update problem and the feeling of dread was overwhelming.
A mortgage actually secures a contract to collateral.
> but what is the alternative? every university employing their own tests would mean that students now have to prepare for multiple tests based on where they apply.

Not necessarily. In many EU countries that I am familiar with, there is
a standardised, country-wide test which all universities use as their main
admission method and which is managed by an entity independent of high schools.
Note that this is different from continuous testing throughout the duration of
the program. Still, some universities administer their own admission tests in
addition because you can't force the university to use only a single scoring
method (well, you can't, but it's not necessarily a good idea).

Even so, each university solely administering their own admission tests is how
it used to work in the past and it worked rather well, despite being a bit more
cumbersome. In the end, if you had real knowledge, it didn't matter that you
had to take a few different tests.

> a job interview system? lot's of bias and unfairness in that too.

This does not matter. It just means each business is responsible for its own
hires and the only one suffering from a bad hiring process is the business
itself. If certain employee qualities lead to an objectively better work
performance (and there are surely such qualities), the process will very
quickly correct itself to detect those qualities.

It's hard to tell without more context, but it sounds to me like you're
conflating criteria based on grades (which are continuously accumulated
throughout your schooling years) and admission/certification tests which are
only administered once, at the moment you are trying to attain some
certificate. My position is that the former is a bad thing, but the latter is
necessary and closer to testing the thing that matters: your final abilities.
Then the article should maybe add this to the list of how plugin developers are supposed to fund their operations to support Blender.
Taking Twitter Seriously?
CU First Semester Teaching End of Semester Thoughts
Those numbers hide important truths underneath. Cheap housing in China does not meet health and safety standards available in the US, so Chinese are "paying" more in the form of risk. Likewise with food - not sure I agree with your statistic at all, as food can be incredibly cheap in China, but not safe. Developed countries are incredibly rich, if you take into account what is available in terms of basic public services and quality. You may not be able to afford restaurant food in Iceland, for example, but you can be confident that you wont be robbed.
Some people are willing to accept a small amount of risk to be able to do what they want with their device without being restricted to what the manufacturer says is OK.
Agreed. Consider that we don't even know if one-way functions exist, and all public-key cryptography depends on the assumption that they do. Maybe some classical attack will break all the commonly used systems before a big enough quantum computer is built.
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I don't get why this argument is used so often as if it was valid. Setting up a banking account and many other things require a secure side channel anyway - physical presence :)
Waf (https://waf.io) provides a Pythonic way of much more quickly doing nothing.
Yeah a couple of related problems in fact: You are a professor and working on cold quantum gases, synthetic quantum systems, ... and can semi-plausibly claim that this has applications to quantum computing: Problem solved, you will get a whole bunch of funding. You found a bunch of linear algebra algebra algorithms and they use unitary matrices: Problem solved, founding secured.

It is also a good buzzword prefix: Just prepend Quantum to any word and immediately get funding (See the recently 1 Billion Euro funded EU quantum initiative).

In this respect it has similar applications as Neuro-something: A great way to get funding for a few years. (See Human Brain Project)
What Went Wrong at J.Crew
For the life of me I really don’t understand why the regulators haven’t clamped down on statins. Sure, it lowers your cholesterol, but unless if you’re in a very specific population it doesn’t move your all cause mortality risk one iota. All while costing the patient money and causing some pretty nasty side effects too.
How is me allegedly not admiring something related to missing "the" point of the article?
Without looking up the specific California laws, a typical way such obligations were implemented was to require regulatory approval for discontinuing existing lines. So it’s not symmetric for new versus existing lines.
For certain apps, bandwidth cost is stupid expensive on AWS.

For example I've been following the development of an online manga reading site (mangadex.org) that is now pushing over 1PB/month of images. If they had built it on aws, even at the lowest rate of $0.02/GB with cloudfront/S3, it would be $20,000 per month. But they ended up paying nothing by using cloudflare who gave them unmetered bandwidth.

(well, until they got throttled earlier this year but they got out of that by upgrading to a measly $200/month plan)
Do all the players have the same skill set?

Interesting to see how things like faster players change optimal play
I think the referenced forum discussions are [0][1] for anyone else trying to find them?

[0] https://blenderartists.org/t/introducing-blender-depot-brows...

[1] https://blenderartists.org/t/yet-another-discussion-about-th...
I still prefer 3rot13.
Any particular instances come to mind?
Chatting can be difficult for men. As a man, we tend to not make points about chatting about our feelings or life. But, when our goal is video games / bowling / watching a football game / whatever else with downtime, well, the feelings or life conversations aren't our focus then. Loophole! (not to mention sometimes serious conversations can cause awkward silences. Everyone has the activity to turn back to.)
Can do that with a front hub motor as well, a very valid option
free and gratis difference but English has two versions of free ie free and gratis..Libre is gratis
I considered this position some years ago, but concluded in the time it takes to explain that libre is a word from another language that means 'free in the sense of speech, not beer', I could just say I'm using the word free in the sense of speech, not beer.

These days I don't think the problem is the use of the ostensibly ambiguous word 'free', so much as that people (generic) don't really value freedom (or privacy) as much as we would like them to.
The data that's available isn't the school, it's student data! The school left the students "cars unlocked" and no one holds them accountable. They just say that people shouldn't steal cars.
Last time I’d read into it, statins didn’t move mortality numbers for most members of the population.

Edit: they do decrease your risk of a heart attack a bit, but the increased incidence of cancer and diabetes actually eliminates the benefit for most users. The only people who showed any measurable reduction in mortality were non-elderly patients with a history of cardiovascular disease.

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-evidence-continues-to-mo...
When you say free software, you have to clarify, 'free as in freedom, not as in beer', libre doesn't have that double meaning.
It's much harder to eat out, apart from specialised places. And those are much more common in large cities than small towns. This makes social meetings harder as a result.
Trump to hit China with new tariffs if Xi meeting doesn’t go well
Let’s Save Maker Faire
I disagree with the idea that a plant based diet is healthier than one that includes meat.
> "because statins have such a powerful effect on cholesterol"

They may lower cholesterol some amount, but in many populations this has almost 0 impact on morality. Watch out for those relative risk ratios.
Are you sure? It's the opposite in latin.
> There is a catalog of varieties allowed for sale, all others are banned.

Is this for the US or EU? And it's the first I heard of this, do you have a source? I recall there was some awful EU seed initiative that imposed a heavy regulatory burden on all seeds, effectively making sure only those with large capital backing them could be marketed. But then some exemptions were made for 'small' sellers or somesuch, and the media promptly forgot all about it..
There's an interesting video, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=iV18Xx5EkaE
To give the FSF some credit, they would have to go through a ton of hoops and PR changing their name to the LSF if they got behind the idea 100%. :)

Not that you are wrong. The "free as in freedom, not as in beer" trope has just gotten too tiresome. It's a losing battle. The only solution is taking control of the language, and Libre helps to achieve this.

Going forward I will give some thought to always using this term when appropriate.
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