skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the restriction is on offering a competing product with Sentry's codebase. This seems fine. I'll still submit bug reports or even contribute fixes here. My current employer isn't a cloud provider or an exception handling as a service company, but we still might want to run Sentry in-house. Previously, we might have contributed fixes/features in the interest of spreading our own maintenance burden. This still seems possible and I don't see a reason to not contribute back for my use case.
This isn't a sustainable open source model though as the code is not open source.
It depends on the service I think. I've had ECS errors that took AWS support days to figure out (turns out some permission quota thing was overriding some ECS thing).

All in all, I think maybe I might have to find some other batch processing system.
Sort of. It uses Win32's windowing and input/message loop primitives for top-level windows but within a window's content all the layout, controls and rendering are WPF-bespoke. This is different from Windows Forms which wraps Win32 controls. It's also different from UWP/WinUI which can use Win32 windowing primitives, but doesn't necessarily depend on them. This is all using Win32 to refer specifically to the UI side of things, but if we use "Win32" to refer to the entire set of flat C-style Windows APIs then all these frameworks are heavily dependent on Win32
Just to be clear, the laws on crossing the street as a pedestrian differ by district.
> the correct response here is to re-evaluate how much you're paying the employees that are moonlighting because it clearly isn't enough to keep them appeased,

Might be true for some people, but it's not the primary motivation for freelancers. Usually it's the highly-skilled, highly-paid people who are in a position to pick up freelance work, not your lowest-paid workers at the bottom of the hierarchy. They do it not because they need the money, but because it's there for the taking and they get to work on something interesting while they do it.

With a salaried dayjob, your effective hourly rate goes down with each additional hour you work. With a freelance job, your effective income goes up with each additional hour worked.

Someone who has both types of job at the same time has an incentive to minimize their input to their dayjob so they can maximize the incremental income from their freelancing work. Sure, theoretically a perfect employee could keep their dayjob perfectly isolated from freelancing work, but in practice people with an hourly side hustle can't resist the temptation to sandbag at work.

The whole crux of the argument for shorter workdays and shorter workweeks is that people only have so many productive hours each week. Past the point of diminishing returns, their work quality and productivity drop. If someone is working 40 hour weeks, commuting, and also freelancing for another 10-30 hours per week, which job gets their best hours? Which job gets their least productive hours?

In my experience, side-hustle freelancers always let their dayjob work output slip, whether they expect to or not. This is why you need to watch employees very closely as soon as you get wind that they're freelancing.
Completely boring thermal storage schemes give you 40-70% round trip energy return. As long as you can sell the stored power for 1.5 to 2.5 times more than you paid for it then it's economically feasible.

Problem with the technology is a) not viable in the current market. b) It's a mind numbingly boring idea. c) There is no 'disruption' potential here. All the companies that can build this at scale are huge established multi-nationals like General Electric.
You don't need a CS degree, but it'll be better for all concerned if you can do most of what a good CS graduate can do.

I'm reminded of this famous blog posting:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
Does anyone know what CRDT/OT library the VSCODE LiveShare extension uses?
I hope people can see that this is intimately related to the issue of inequality. They are essentially the same issue. Wealth redistribution is about allowing people the freedom to do locally valued work.
The experience described is well out of the ordinary. So I'd disagree here.
There's a lot of variables that I suspect makes "the one true energy source" a silly argument. (The joke is that nuclear fission power was going to be "too cheap to meter.")

I suspect that solar will become dirt-cheap for anyone who has enough roof space in full sunlight that it's essentially free energy. However, this doesn't account for people who live in apartment buildings, or activities that need to consume a HUGE amount of energy.

Case in point: the cost of getting electricity from point A to point B is a big part of many of our bills. "Free" solar and wind power still needs a well-maintained electric grid.
I guess it seems clever, but also it seems like it wouldn't make any sense. I mean an obvious comparison would be some of the things on this list http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

but how does it even work - what things on that list have actually remained unchanged? Is a chicken in medieval times really the same as chicken today, and that's just in the last 800 years, not in the last 5000.

And in what direction do you compare? I suppose the price going up shows the growth of the economy, but what does the price going down show. Let's take aluminum, that price would have gone down a lot since medieval times, because it has been very much changed by increase of technical abilities. So we must not look at that because it is no longer like the aluminum of medieval times, but if you can not look at and measure stuff like that how can you actually measure the growth of the economy where value creation takes place.

I would need to see some arguments on how this works to even begin to get past the sounds clever but also sounds wrong stage of thinking.
> images convey a lot of information very quickly, and can be visually "skipped" in a way text cannot.

Some images can be skipped. I installed an adblocker on this browser today because of an advertisement that could not. An obnoxious facial expression on both sides of the article can't be ignored; the subroutines running in a brain to detect faces and eye contact seem to be pretty highly prioritized. That's why those stupid youtube thumbnails are so effective.
> Showing legal how to use Github so they can confirm the age of the software you're using, then convincing them Github is a reputable party will likely result in an unpleasant conversation at best.

A conversation made far less pleasant by the ability to feed arbitrary dates into a Git repo's commit history: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

I'm sure there's a way to find the actual time a push happened; hopefully it doesn't involve subpoenaing GitHub (or Microsoft, I guess) for logs.
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Again: fingerprints are absolutely unsuitable as 'passwords'. They are at most, usernames. Because they cant be changed regularly, are left around for people to find (on the yubikey device itself!), are readily connected to you as a person, have terrible entropy (a few bits).
"Open source" has a definition, and they are removing their project from that open source definition. Even their own blog post acknowledges that they are no longer open source.
This is the sort of calculus that's prevented White Castle from expanding westward for so long. They just last week opened their first family-owned location west of the Mississippi, in Scottsdale, and they claimed they were only comfortable doing that because the two franchised locations in Vegas had forced their supply chain hand enough that they would be able to piggy back off of that.
Goodness, how many sockpuppets do you have?
Ok, sure. You obviously don't have a family.
Correct. And the reality is, this is a reaction to a hypothetical threat (though certainly an obnoxious threat) -- name one company Amazon launching a hosted version of their open source code has killed?

I believe the current number is ZERO.
This is a very disappointing development. I was hoping to implement Sentry for a side project I have been working on, now I will have to find an alternative or use an old version, as I refuse to rely on closed-source software.
I built Cabin as an alternative to Sentry.

https://cabinjs.com

Less bloat, no vendor lock-in, works with any logger.
> In war, lack of preparation means death of your men at minimum, and the collapse of your nation at worst.

This is the fallacy that keeps people locked in over preparing. The way past it is to identify less risky goals that are still aligned with that particular objective. So in war your objective is to learn the enemy's weaknesses. So you could try trading with them, to survey their defenses. Imagine the Vikings at Lindisfarne, they are not going to go in blind. They first build a trading relationship, selling fish, and as friends they can see how strong the Abbey is, how many monasterial guards there are, or when the collection trays are the most full etc. Very little risk right? Similarly with sales, where your risk is your reputation. Say, you can't afford to jeopardize it with your one big connection because you spent a decade building the relationship. Well then you go in asking for advice on your idea, something low risk, instead of trying to make a yes-no sale.
So, the government benefited from the creation of the housing bubble in its own debt instruments, the same debt instruments that would go into the hands of the people who were being swindled by the banks that were the original cause of the bubble.
Similarly, try to convince people that competition is inherently unfair, and that it shouldn’t exist. They will either become apathetic or invest their effort into trying to undermine competition itself, making it far easier on everybody else who’s focused on competing.
I've read several articles and discussions about the topic, but I'm still a little fuzzy on where biometrics fit in the context of authentication: username, password, just another factor? What is the role of the fingerprint in the case of this key?
> Linux system doesn't need to arrange to read a PIN from the user

Is that a problem now?
> Digital direct response advertising allows very accurate ROI calculations

How many ads are direct response? How many are simply clicked because they are just above the same website's entry in search results (i.e. users were already heading to that site, the ad was just there as google tax)? How many legitimate clicks on an ad that did not led to sale are discarded by google as "invalid clicks" (my adsense report has 20% invalid clicks) ? It's kind of shocking that the internet's most lucrative market does not answer those
This only applies if the advertiser could be better expected to get most of the business from those searches.

If someone searches "nike shoes" they might well get them on someone else's site. Whereas someone in the pizzeria is already buying at the pizzeria.

I agree it's important to measure, but I think your concern is overblown for most companies and most non-branded searches. Assuming those companies are measuring.
Question of trust is always hard. I believe that our heart is at the right place and I think many people interacted with us over the years probably got a pretty good picture of how we work.
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Would it kill AirBnB to do random (or even algorithmically-determined) audits?

Auditor signs up for a night in your house. Let's say your listing has fake pictures or fake amenities. Or you try to bait and switch the auditor by having them stay in some crappy other property because the main listing "is having plumbing problems".

Bam, audit failed, your account is frozen, your listings are removed, and you are banned from using AirBnB pending investigation.
> Showing legal how to use Github so they can confirm the age of the software you're using, then convincing them Github is a reputable party will likely result in an unpleasant conversation at best.

Wouldn't that be:

> Showing legal how to use [Microsoft] Github so they can confirm the age of the software you're using, then convincing them [Microsoft] Github is a reputable party will likely result in an unpleasant conversation at best.

Seems that 'Microsoft' prefix might get a bit more clout.
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This argument annoys the hell out of me. Renewables gave gone from too exoensive to cheapest over a time short compared to the lifespan of our generating infrastructure. So the installed base is zombie tech, not what would be installed today.
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The issue with inequality comes when someone uses it to consume a sufficiently disproportionate amount of the resources that there is not enough for everyone else.

For example, if a group of billionaires bought up all of the property in New York City that would then mean that there wouldn't be any left for anyone else.
Unless you're trying to build a competing product to Sentry, nothing's changed, from my interpretation.
In other words, materials and how to use materials. How has the worldview of scarcity been updated?
Agreed, while AMD has a lot of market potential, their stock is overvalued given current performance.

I'm rooting for them, and I want to put money on them, but I sold my shares I got for <$10 and I can't imagine getting back in at over $30.
What I'm hoping is that it can be used as a more secure version of the button that the other keys have. That is, if I get this, I wouldn't use the fingerprint without the PIN. I hope I can use both for a single authentication.
We agree that this language isn't correct and are going to publish an update. Thanks for pointing this out.
I feel like I'm asking something you already answered, but just to make sure: this implies, that to frame specifically you I don't need everyone's DNA, I just need a sample of yours, right? And if I understand correctly, DNA evidence is treated with quite a respect in court?

So, if I really can make a sample of "fake DNA" (that will be indistinguishable from the "real" for forensics purposes) for a couple hundreds dollars, I really can frame anyone I know for anything (right now!), because getting a sample of their DNA isn't really that difficult.

It doesn't quite add up in my head, because if it's so simple, why the courts would even consider it hard evidence?
Actually, since uranium in the ocean is at equilibrium, if we take some out then the concentration will go back up as more uranium is dissolved from rocks.

Of course it will run out eventually but so will the sun, in a similar amount of time.
For which this was the HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408178

The service AirBnB offers is rife with problems, as can be gleaned from reading the comments.
That's a real polite way of saying that we can't trust you not to relicense other projects in the future.

Lets be clear here too- I'm using your product right now, and I feel that this is a huge betrayal of trust.
The impression I got from their post was that businesses are just as prone to government influence as non-profits,[1] not that they are all extensions of government willpower. That does not follow unless you assume that all non-profits are also government puppets.

1. I am not saying they were right or not because I just don't know, just my reading of the post.
Buddhism's ban is on drugs that cause heedlessness. It can be argued magic mushrooms do not cause heedlessness, so they are not banned in many circles.

It becomes opinionated as to what causes heedlessness, so there is a divide between groups when it comes to what one is and isn't allowed, so I get you could argue magic mushrooms should not be allowed.

As food for thought, brain scans show mushrooms lights up the brain in a near identical way to jhanic meditation, so it's common to use mushrooms as an advertisement. "One day you can do this with meditation."
A 14-year-old found a potential way to fix those car pillar blind spots
For EC2 you really should be using spot fleets and making sure your architecture can support instances coming and going.
> and at the same time ensure those that don't want or can't compete have their basic needs like food, shelter and medical care satisfied.

What you call competition, others call being useful to your fellow human beings by providing a good or service others find valuable.

I understand why we should provide basic needs for those that can't "compete", but why should we provide for those that simply don't want to? Why should someone have the right to not provide something of value to their fellow humans while still enjoying things of value (food, shelter, medical care) provided by their fellow humans?

If you can contribute and don't contribute, then you shouldn't get any contributions from others.
They aren't new, and more to the point, most server software is not the stuff end users run.
I've noticed an increasing trend in people using phrases such as "it is trivial", "it is obvious", "it is self evident" to defend their arguments. I have yet to encounter a case where it made their argument better.

This might be off topic but it has become a pet peeve because I've even started to encounter it in real life. It is similar to starting a discussion with "if you disagree with me, you are stupid".
That's just some straight up machiavellianism.
Open source ideology is stuck in the 90s when the primary goal was to displace closed source lock-in platforms like Windows, and that ideology has become an unquestionable dogma.

Today the primary goal should be to build an open software ecosystem independent from the SaaS / Cloud behemoths and with a business model that isn't based on surveillance.

Nothing is actually free. Open source was built on a social contract with certain "gift culture" assumptions. SaaS is violating that social contract by only taking and in a way that ultimately harms the 'freedom' goals of open source, so the social contract must evolve.
I hope you don't ever set foot in any other car either, considering they kill a million people every year. But a million is just a big number, it's not as powerful as 1 obituary.
Sentry, mongodb, et al. all got as big as they did by promising to be open source. Do you think they'd be where they are today had they not been open sourced? I personally do not.
But that's exactly what they're doing.

They're saying you can use it for anything except building a competing product.
What a dickhead.
"Something I know, something I have, something I am". I think "something I am" is difficult to achieve.
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> Why were there no alarms going off at 5.6 seconds when the vehicle was confused!!!??

I wonder if it's because their system is not reliable enough yet; a continuous alarm isn't useful.
It's anti-competitive because it allows larger companies to squeeze smaller players out of the market thereby reducing competition. This kind of anti-competitive behavior shares characteristics with predatory pricing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing).

There is also an argument to be made that such an action by Amazon fits squarely into the "single firm conduct" category of your linked FTC resource.
From zero to manic
I got this:

Thanks for your feedback!

Think what you may, but if there is ever a time to use the phrase that you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet its now. Its being handled correctly, and not displayed honestly.

We will be releasing a statement today or tomorrow regarding the issue. We haven’t said anything due to confidentiality agreements, that other parties violated but anyways. I respect your opinion and decision.

Let me know what I can help with gear-wise in the meantime,
Which is deeply disappointing, and makes me worried that fraudulent hosts will work around the issue by having a co-conspirator book their room to "verify" the listing.
Unfortunately it's a very real boogeyman in the US.

"The U.S. has the highest liability costs
as a percentage of GDP of the countries
surveyed, with liability costs at 2.6
times the average level of the Eurozone
economies"

https://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/uploads/sites/1/ILR_...
There's plenty more who have found benefits from meditation and psychedelics.
It also doesn't mean you're safe to use airbnb. If you're the first person to try a given scam listing you'll get scammed. And then airbnb will de-list it, after the fact. And then the scammer will create a new listing presumably to scam the next person.
Can you cite any AWS products that do that? Providing a paid, hosted version of an open source product isn't selling software, it's selling hosting.
If wind and solar were free then storage via electrolysis and hydrogen (burned in simple or combined cycle turbine power plants) would be cheaper than any thermal baseload source.
I don't follow the use case for this - if the team is "too busy to write tests" they're going to be too busy to update tests when the software changes.
> Cars

I'm far from an enthusiast, but even for me there are cars on the market with engines so weak that I don't like it.

Apart from the engine, there are some nice technological features on modern cars, like parking cameras or even automatic parking.

Then there are hybrid and electrical cars.

> Bottle water

Do you include sparkling water in that? Because they can taste very different.

> Computer monitor

Size. Resolution. Refresh rate. G-sync. Reflective vs matte.
For a more gruesome example of the same effect, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S... .
So you're inverting a word here, poorly. Competitive and anti-competitive are not antonyms, the latter has a more specialized meaning.

The opposite of being anti-competitive is not simply competing, it's competing fairly.

It is pretty clearly free riding to take the creative output of another company, repackage it for money and contribute little or nothing in return.

The world is poorer when this happens because free-riders can freely have business models that "kill the host", that is, don't capture enough value to keep people working on the underlying product.

Perhaps the answer is "well it shouldn't have been an open source product then?" and then we all miss out.

Meanwhile Amazon celebrates turning off all their Oracle databases. Great! And they make a lot of money off the back of Postgres too. But try asking them for the code that bundles Postgres into a reliable managed database offering. Of course they won't share it. That's their IP.
Classics:

https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/00...

https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/d...

Seth Godin is another author well worth reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Seth-Godin/e/B000AP9EH0

And a few others:

https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstr...

https://www.amazon.com/Kellogg-Branding-Marketing-Faculty-Ma...

https://www.amazon.com/Differentiate-Die-Survival-Killer-Com...

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Advertising-Man-David-Ogi...

And, of course:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vaynerchuk

There are no magic pills though. The best thing is to read and learn from a lot of perspectives and then start to navigate the waters you happen to be sailing. No two markets or products are going to be the same. In fact, the same product will require a different based on where it is in the adoption/maturity cycle.
>> I would say, try if it works for you. Everybody's case is really different, there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Looks like you really hit a nerve with that one.

Downvotes are ridiculous sometimes.
That's not being disputed. I'm one of those people. It's not an endeavor to take on willy nilly, hence pointing out risks.