skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also have a way to beat adblockers that I'm afraid of bringing to light since I only want it tied to my own companies completely non tracking and ethical ads.

Beating ad blockers is not hard. Just serve them from the first party domain. If you’re not tracking users outside of whatever the first party tracks, you don’t need third party cookies either.

As a former ad tech guy though... I think the biggest hurdle you will run into is precisely the lack of tracking. It’s both problematic for privacy but also crucial for measuring ROI.
I think I was also "correcting a conclusion"? A fuel system exploding and a rocket motor exploding are 2 failures that look somewhat similar from the outside, but in reality have nothing in common other than that they rely on one another. We are both arguing pedantics
> Protection from other companies selling our work

I'm not against these sorts of licenses. But we should all be aware that companies like this (and Mongo, Elastic, etc) are a step away from the OSI model of "open source". Which is more about many orgs collaborating on a shared solution so we don't need a vendor, rather than what this is - a vendor opening up code and allowing contributions.
The other problem is in order to figure out which ads are relevant to your interests, advertisers have to collect, store, and analyze tons and tons of data about you. Personally, I'd rather see ads that are not relevant to me.
If they were free, then efficiency in the storage would become a non-issue.
Exactly my point. I'm not apologizing for the software. I have severe doubt that software is anywhere close to making safe and appropriate decisions in the context of real world driving with open ended conditions about the makeup of the road, full range of obstacles and edge case conditions, weather, lighting, etc.

The scariest thing is that it's so fucking familiar, this idea of technologists solving a range of simple cases and assuming the solution extrapolates to success in the real world. We cannot get into these cars if that kind of software development feels anything like everyday software development, where random web site bugs can be tolerated.
Yes I have!

I am gradually switching to Asciidoctor because it solved all the pain points I cited (and more)

> Table of contents

That's simply
:toc:

> Images

Doing better is easy, plain HTML is better than Markdown.

For example:

image::sunset.jpg[]

or
[link=https://www.flickr.com/photos/javh/5448336655]
image::sunset.jpg[Sunset,300,200]
or
Click image:icons/play.png[Play, title="Play"] to get the party started.

https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#images

> Tables

See https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#tables
Could you elaborate on how the BSL is "bad for the community"?
> I bet they added it because the system kept randomly thinking something serious was going to happen for a few milliseconds when everything was going fine.

Smoothing bugs out via temporal integration. The oldest trick in the book.
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Unlike most companies, Amazon can easily track ad display or click to purchase. While they still can't establish causality (you might have bought it even without the ad), it's still fairly easy for them to calculate if the ads are worth it.
There is a selection bias in these studies as well -- that you are focusing on large, already established brands that have good brand recall and people who had intent to purchase there anyways.

For smaller companies that are just starting out, it's relatively impossible to have prior intent when people don't know who you are or what you offer. There are a number of companies who started with nothing and grew their business via online ads and this seems like a giant blind spot in the article as well as the studies that you mentioned.
Are you sure you're not confusing people abusing party drugs with people meditating while under psychedelics?
We are.

Everytime we shut up in meetings when dumb sleezy managers come up with dumb ideas.

Everytime we implement those ideas. And let someone else sell them and use them.

Everytime when we pretend that our jobs are just a paycheck.

So yeh if we don't throw them under the buss no one will.

#underthebuss
What school bus? Did I say school bus?

It was simply a bus. Specifically it was the hourly bus from the nearest large town (where my new school was) to the village I grew up in.
I'll admit that the announcement gave me hope and made me feel positively about AirBnB - I'm sure it was carefully crafted to do just that. But I'm glad I came across your comment because it gave me the cold splash of realism to balance out their PR blast.
I would guess this means that the Yubikey is enrolled with Windows via Windows software, but your finger is enrolled on the key by the key itself.
Replying to your root comment but also addressing some points in subcomments.

Generally (and perhaps ideally), I like the idea of more visibility/transparency into what algorithms (and human moderators) do.

But I think it's worth noting that, pragmatically, there are at least a few minefields here...

- Providing full transparency into what gets flagged as spam is going to make it a lot easier for spammers to model, evade, and notice changes in the spam-identification code and practices.

- Perhaps you were imagining this being temporary, but the operational feasibility of keeping all of this spam in-platform ultimately depends on signal/noise ratio, scale, profitability, and time horizons. It's one thing to bear the burden of storing 1% of your plaintext post volume for one year--it's quite another to store 20 or 30% of your video upload volume in perpetuity.

- I'm having a hard time imagining the proceedings of the court-of-legal-vs-illegal-spam-filters. Without a lot of technical training (or a lot of reliance on expert testimony), the simplest way for an average person to grasp whether a spam filter is biased or not is going to be either looking "back" at what it did/didn't flag, or "testing" it with some sample corpus. In both cases, this process will be fraught with interpretation and sampling bias issues. This may hinge on a judge, panel, or jury being able to see through a bombastic argument that trots out the most respectable {ideology} opinions from the discard pile--they have to realize that nothing in the discard pile can be interpreted without a really good understanding of the input pile. (They'd have to be so good at this that they could spot someone who is trying to score political points and manipulate opinion by intentionally mounting an adversarial campaign that intentionally crafts seemingly innocuous ideological content that also gets flagged as spam).

- Likewise, there's probably no great way to make a litmus-test corpus. Spam looks very different in different contexts. A useful Amazon review or tweet may both look like spam if someone emails or DMs them to you. Even if you can create a set of corpora that cover the bases, they'll probably be useless if they don't evolve, and very vulnerable to political and ideological manipulation if they do.

- If there's a lot of legal fear around getting sued because your spam-filter has a taste for how {ideological subcommunity} likes to phrase its opinions, I'd expect spam filters to accumulate safe-words and rules that cause them to back off of charged topics. It'd only be a matter of time until legit spam/manipulation ops infer the existence of those rules and move to exploit them.
If you want to look at things on that timescale, then the tides aren't renewable either. They're gradually slowing our rotation. Once the earth's rotation has slowed to once per year, we'll no longer be able to extract energy from the tides.

Then again, if you want to look at things on that timescale, there's no such thing as renewables.
> The BSL lets us hit our goals in a clean and low-impact way: it won’t change anyone’s ability to run Sentry at their company, but it will ensure that we are protected from our work being used in an anti-competitive fashion

I don't think this is accurate. It will ensure that Sentry is protected from its work being used in a competitive fashion. While the issues pointed out in the blog post are real, competing isn't "anti-competitive." The intent and the effect here is to reduce competition, not increase it.
Response to ‘reproducibility of research and the misinterpretation of p-values’
You mean if you get a cut on the finger you registered. On this page[1], though, it says it would support "[storing] multiple fingerprints", so that should help in that case.

[1] https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/
These things seem almost certain to me:

* Self-driving cars are not going to be here in less than 5 years

* The tech is improving fast enough that it will end up working, and not being vaporware. Within 20 years, self-driving cars will be more than 50% of the new car sales, and eventually it will become the norm.
Pay attention to what people are not talking about
So, Sentry is no longer Open Source at all, though people might potentially be able to collaborate on three-year-old versions (or, hopefully, use whatever unified fork pops up from the last Open Source release).

That's disappointing. Unfortunately, the more companies use such licenses, the more others see it as "safety in numbers" for them to do the same.
Also throwing in Claude Shannon and John Von Neumann as major contributors to the development of computers.
Smaller parachutes would be larger surface area compared to one large chute also, right? More weight there.
The entrances to most pedestrian zones in Germany used to be guarded by thin metal poles if at all, now nearly all of them have solid concrete blocks, clearly intended as anti-ramming devices.

The term "merkel lego" is politically charged but a decent way to find pictures of the stackable variety.
Can we all just please agree that Tinder for Kids should not exist? Please?
>If I found out one of my salaried employees was moonlighting I'd immediately be looking for evidence that it had the slightest impact on their responsibilities & performance

a predictable response, but it's the wrong one which will surely lose your company plenty of money and valuable employees extremely rapidly while generating a tremendous amount of ill-will from the people in your network. really, it's the attitude that's creating the problematic and unprofitable approach here. aside from being disgustingly invasive and utterly reprehensible from a social perspective, you've also put yourself in a position where you're spending your company's time on something that will never generate it any financial returns, only more costs when the employee discovers your snooping and inevitably ditches you and you need you find a replacement on short notice.

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, which means that by definition it isn't enough to keep them operating at 100% during the hours you expect to be getting 100% of their energy and potential for productive output. in other words, moonlighting employees need a raise because at the salary you're paying them, they know they can't afford to stop looking for more opportunities to work for pay. when you do find a reason to give that employee a raise proactively, you'll increase their output to the level you thought you were purchasing with the initial salary negotiations. you'll also increase their loyalty to the company, and avoid intruding on their private life, which is explicitly, irrevocably, and unimpeachably beyond your purview, consideration, or examination under any conditions whatsoever.

in a nutshell: focus on things you can change, then stay in your lane.
I basically don't manage any servers. Everything runs on AWS Lambda & co (DynamoDB, S3,...)

It doesn't prevent an app-level outage (corrupted data in the database, bad architecture,...) but at least I don't have to worry about servers going down anymore.

As for the rest, unit & extensive integration tests along with continuous integration and linting. Oh, and a typed language. Moving from Javascript to Typescript was a blessing. But I still miss Swift.
Dubious, but it's a valuable resource for the organizations that investigate such movements.

Also: their family members probably know.
Fb leak reveals plan to kill competition and portray it as tighter data privacy
Kind of depressing to think about: They hired a safety driver, then engineered the system so the safety driver was not capable of preventing the accident. Just paying a human to sit in the seat and watch the car kill a pedestrian. Even if it's not the driver's fault, they're probably going to feel guilt about their involvement forever. I sure would. All because some engineers cut corners!
>Most of the poor have no wealth in the first place.

Plenty of the poor actively destroy value, see the sanitation nightmares that are homeless encampments in the Seattle area. And the rest of the poor don't produce life sustaining value. Wealth transfers in the US are exclusively from the middle class and wealthy to the poor. To say otherwise is simple demagoguery.
Do you know any city that have a majority of it's energy that come from renewable?

Montreal runs on hydro
Offtopic: Really love how clean and readable the website is! Great work!
> But, you like accessing content for free, correct?

I'm really not sure about that anymore.

I pay for The Athletic, I was hesitant at first but now I really enjoy getting access to top quality sports articles with no ads and a nice clean experience.

I pay for Google Play Music (for however long that lasts) and I'm really happy I can just listen to music without needing to hear more fucking ads in my life.

I support a few Youtube channels on Patreon because the advertising money on Youtube isn't enough for them to cover their bills. At this point there's a good number of channels I would rather pitch a few dollars at each month than have to sit through ads (which are adblocked anyway, whoops) and have their content threatened by what Youtube determines advertisers care about.

I pay for Netflix and never have to watch ads (so far) while watching TV. Whenever I watch live TV it drives me crazy how many breaks they take to show me the same stupid commercials over and over again for stuff I will never buy.

You see it with online sports packages that don't have the rights to show TV feeds online -- so when it's time for commercials, it just switches over to a silent image saying "Commercial Break in Progress". I pay $20 a month for DAZN and I'm not sure how much longer I can stand watching the awful commercials that keep getting shown at every break.

I donate a small amount every once in a while to Wikimedia and in return we all get access to a free encyclopedia that stays eternally relevant without advertising.

We can live in a world where we pay for content and be happy. We can live in a world without advertising. It's really not that bad paying a little to get a much better experience.
If the least lazy person earns some marginal amount more than the second least lazy person, the Gini coefficient isn't zero.

And if the laziest [or unluckiest] person is reliant to some degree on receiving byproducts of the less lazy people's output, then they might be better off in absolute terms from that non-zero Gini coefficient incentivising the less lazy people to work harder.

[the magnitude of the amount likely matters in real world situations too. The answer to whether you'd consider working as hard as people in your company who are less lazy than you probably depends on whether you're being offered an extra dollar or extra million dollars to do so]
Creating open source software is a choice. No one is required to do it. That choice has both benefits and potential negative consequences if your goal is to commercialize.

The benefits include things like volunteer labor, more alpha testers, and community goodwill. The negative is that you have less control over how your software is used.

I don't have an answer to how we can stop AWS from reselling open source software. I do know that redefining open source is not the way to handle it though.
But that video is of a 2500 kg "truck", so it really is a PKW (it's under 3500kg). Something weighing 7200kg is definitely a lorry.
From the comment in the article it sounds like they are trying to offload the cost/ effort of verifying listings to their customers as well:

"But he said the process would involve asking users whether the information in certain listings turned out to be accurate"

So when he says AirBNB is going to verify every listing, he doesn't actually mean they are paying people to do it...
My school bus had this pole attached to the front bumper area of the bus. It swung out when it stops. This forces kids to walk at least 8 feet (or however wide a bus us) in front of it before crossing.
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Please defend these claims:

> Peter Piot who admits he wrote out the African researcher.

> Peter Piot who admits to racism.
They haven't started a debate. The debate of "should we be open or not" has been going on for as long as Open Source has existed. And we've had licenses that attempt to sound open without being open for a long time as well, under names like "shared source".
Take a look at the message board shroomery.org to see a large group's (more than n=39) attitude toward meditation and psychedelics. Whether at a party or on the cushion, people are chasing after experiences, which don't last or are as beneficial as developing qualities.
Reposts, particularly of other-than-breaking news items, are fairly common.

It often takes a few repeats for an item to get traction. There are also numerous perennial favourites which show up every few years.

HN itself has existed since 2007. Memories fade, and new souls appear. xkcd's Ten Thousand applies.
> Dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

--- Jake the Dog [1]

Maybe not exactly on-topic, but ever since I heard this quote it's been my mantra whenever I'm learning something new. For example I took a beginner's hip hop dancing class last night. A younger me would have been very embarrassed at how uncoordinated I was. That embarrassment probably would have kept me from going back to the class. That mantra helps me remember that it's natural to be bad at first, and you simply have to be at peace with the fact that you're going to suck for a while if you're ever going to actually build the skill.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu8YiTeU9XU
That is not renewable, it's just a very large source of non-renewable fuel.
Just to add to the voices that are saying "by not having any". If you can get away with edge, lambda, or heroku ... even if it's in the short term, do.
Yes it actually does mean that is what open source is.
Batteries are not the only means of storing e every. Hydraulic, pneumatic, and flywheel-based systems are all relatively well-known, and I’m sure there’s plenty of research being put into lowering the impact and resource intensivity of batteries (including devices based on carbon dioxide).
We're huge fans of Sentry and have it deeply integrated in our products. The fully open source nature has helped us a ton with these advanced integrations, being able to look at the code to see exactly what is happening instead of relying on docs (which are great as well, not faulting them).

At the same time, I remember seeing a new startup that had completely ripped off Sentry + docs and had just done a find and replace for the company name. I thought I had read about it on HN but I can't find the link. It's clear we need a license that allows software to be developed in the open but prevents this type abuse.

I don't know if this license is the solution. It clearly isn't open source and should not be construed as such (they are very clear about this in the post), but I haven't seen other better proposals either. Armchair criticism is easy, and this seems like a reasonable middle-ground. We'll keep using Sentry and continue to be customers. Outside of their Sentry.io product, they have released and contributed to a ton of other Open Source libraries. As I understand it, that will continue. For me, this passes the sniff test.
Why isn't property tax automatically taken out of a mortgage escrow account?
>> Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy.

That sounds a bit alarmist and is not really a risk if one applies reasonable, responsible ratios to the respective practices.
They appear to be treating this like a digital library. From the Wired article[1]:

> you can click the name of the book and see a two-page preview of the cited work, so long as the citation specifies a page number. You can also borrow a digital copy of the book, so long as no else has checked it out, for two weeks—much the same way you'd borrow a book from your local library.

The two page preview should be defensible as fair use; this is less than what Google's archived books allow you to view, for example.

The legal details of the borrowing process are further documented here[2]:

> We have recently made available a small number of books (currently 61 books) published between 1923 and 1941 under a provision of US Copyright law that was written to permit libraries to copy and lend titles that are no longer subject to commercial exploitation, and selection is currently overseen by lawyers expert in US copyright law.[3]

It sounds like as long as a book in the last twenty years of copyright and is out of print, it might well be fair game for archival and lending. I'm not sure about books more recent than that.

1. https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-wikipedia-more-...

2. https://blog.archive.org/2018/01/24/digital-books-on-archive...

3. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3049158
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AWS is emphatically NOT "taking the code", they have a license for it. If you don't want people to use your work commercially, then don't license it to them to use it commercially. It's pretty simple. Once you tell people what they can and can't use your software for, then it is no longer free; you don't get both.
> But if we move to an “open core” model that better protects our IP, in our eyes, that means we’re no longer an open-source company.

"Open core" products have an open source core. Sentry won't any more.

> Enter The Business Source License (BSL)

This license is NOT open source. Don't call it that. Actual open source advocates like me will keep hectoring you until you stop.
I don’t propose we do that. Open means open.

If you don’t want it to be open, don’t make your code open. (It’s not open by default.) If you do, don’t be surprised or dismayed when someone takes you up on the offer you created.
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Tides depend on the moon’s gravity, not the sub’s (mostly, anyway). Besides, if the sun suddenly blinked out, I think having a few fusion reactors in operation wouldn’t do us much good...
No, I think you're mixing things up, these two are two distinct things: 1) the old "M&M" approach of securing just the perimeter is basically asking for trouble, but 2) doing proper risk assessment and choosing performance over security for one particular setup.
But to make some things clear for those that might be reading and aren't familiar with California politics, Prop 13 is not the result of some politicians voting against the public interest or being populist or our out of touch any of those things, it's the result of direct democracy[1]. "The People" thought this is in their best interest, so they are now going to deal with the consequences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13