skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider yourself happy Torvalds didn't think this way. Or Guido.

By all means, fork the software and start providing a business around it then. What you don't get to do, anymore, is provide a business around the output of others moving forward.

A truly open source clone may spring up out of this. I strongly suspect it won't, because there are very few people contributing to this project who aren't employees. The ones that aren't employees are making changes to support the instance they use to support their real business. I personally fall into this bucket. I raise issues, participate in betas, and try to fix bugs where possible precisely because I use the software. I have no intention of packaging it up and selling it elsewhere.
your front page marketing still says "Sentry provides open-source and hosted error monitoring"

https://sentry.io/welcome/
also about Iger's Disney https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...
Amazon won't pay dividends for a while. A country lasts centuries.

Secondly, that's why I was also thinking of a variant where employees get shares, too.
Thanks but I'm looking for non local renewable energies, geothermal and water dams are great but they will not save the world.
I've seen green up arrows (to mean the same thing) plenty in the west suburbs of Chicago.
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I wonder how much under-the-radar advertising happens here.

Good karma user: meaningful context to the thread "But now I just use $product"

Immediate response: "Yeah $product is amazing - but here's something related and a different to the gist"

The whole thing is an aside but it's in context and make sense in the flow. That kind of advertising is massively more effective than a google/facebrick ad.
From the Wikipedia article you shared:

> In common usage, PINs are used in [...] internet transactions or to log into a restricted website.

EDIT: Also, the IRS uses PINs online[1]:

> Your IP PIN will be displayed to you online once we verify your identity. A new IP PIN is generated for each filing season and can be retrieved starting in mid-January of each year by logging into the account you create.

They even allow you to enter it on paper[2]:

> Paper Return: [...] Enter your IP PIN(s) as applicable in the boxes marked "Identity Protection PIN" in signature area of the return.

EDIT 2: There are also many employee time-clocks that use PINs to authenticate the employees, like this one[3]. You can connect to them through the network to export some nifty reports that includes everyone's PIN, like this one[4].

I'm sure use of PINs is also common with ERPs and POS systems (to authenticate a cashier supervisor authorizing some action), and those are also networked.

EDIT 3: On the Microsoft link you provided, they're talking specifically about the PINs in Windows 10. I wouldn't take that page as talking about all PINs in general.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/get-an-identi...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/frequently-as...

[3] https://www.alliedtime.com/Compumatic-XLS-21-Badge-Time-Cloc...

[4] https://www.alliedtime.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/pdfs/com...
Don't maintain the cluster. Have someone else run it for you. Unless you want K8s cluster to be the only thing you do.

The advantage of K8s is that it abstracts so much away from you, that you should (in theory) be able to take the same YAML config file from AWS EKS to GCP GKE to Azure AKS...and it runs the same everywhere. Things like loadbalancering and HTTP ingress rules that normally would manual configs on each platform - become part of the K8s config.
But this restricts corporations from selling this as a service. Similiar to how some open source liceases require you to provide any modifications if you choose to reuse and modify.

They are still open source because the source is open.

Not every open source lic is like MIT where you can do whatever you want.
AMD bringing the competition forces Intel to up their game and bolster R&D—they may come with some beast chips as a result.

Such is the way things work, scales tip one way then the next.

What about NVIDIA??

Also isn’t Amazon working on their own chips?
Delivery drivers make traffic conditions dangerous by forcing cyclists out into the road at every block and limiting visibility curbside.
GraphQL can support arbitrary numbers of fields and arbitrary nesting of relationships. You can do this:

{
hero {
name
friends {
name
friends {
name
}
}
}
}

But some clients might only need this:

{
hero {
name
}
}

This is a small example, but it's pretty clear that "always including all fields and nested relationships in every REST API response" is not a viable solution.

(GraphQL examples based on the schema used in the official documentation: https://graphql.org/learn/queries/)
I wouldn't consider those 16 hours on Facebook working as much as being at work.
When I go to Portland, my friends bug me to get some voodoo doughnuts. Its a common thing in Seattle to portland trips to pick some up for people.
right. what was the moral lesson of this story? that I should flip coins for profit or that the FAANGs are prone to hiring millennials who don't share the same shame as my generation in discussing their financials so openly?
Challenges involved in implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift
A very easy way to break this argument is to not look at huge known companies like eBay and Amazon, but brand new companies 1-2 years old that have grown almost entirely by online ads. Eventually word of mouth kicks in, but there are plenty of smart operators that built their entire brand and revenue off of ads.

Works best in online direct to consumer brands.
I rent dedicated servers at Hetzner.

No cloud machines, no hosted cloud services for production beyond DNS.

* 3 machines in separate data centers (equivalent of AWS AZs) for >= 30 EUR/month each. ECC RAM.

* These machines are /very/ reliable. Uptime of > 300 days are common, reboots happen only for the relevant kernel updates.

* Triple-redundancy Postgres synchronous replication with automatic failover (using Stolon), CephFS as distributed file system. I claim this is the only state you need for most businesses at the beginning. Anything that's not state is easy to make redundant.

* Failure of 1 node can be tolerated, failure of 2 nodes means I go read-only.

* Almost all server code is in Haskell. 0 crash bugs in 4 years.

* DNS based failover using multi-A-response Route53 health checks. If a machine stops serving HTTP, it gets removed from DNS within 10 seconds.

* External monitoring: StatusCake that triggers Slack (vibrates my phone), and after short delay PagerDuty if something is down from the perspective of site visitors.

* Internal monitoring: Consul health checks with consul-alerts that monitor every internal service (each of the 3 Postgres, CephFS, web servers) and ping on Slack if one is down. This is to notice when the system falls into 2-redundancy which is not visible to site visitors.

* I regularly test that both forms of monitoring work and send alerts.

* Everything is configured declaratively with NixOS and deployed with NixOps. Config changes and rollbacks deploy within 5 seconds.

* In case of total disaster at Hetzner, the entire production infrastructure can be deployed to AWS within 15 minutes, using the same NixOps setup but with a different backend. All state is backed up regularly into 2 other countries.

* DB, CephFS and web servers are plain processes supervised by systemd. No Docker or other containers, which allows for easier debugging using strace etc. All systemd services are overridden to restart without systemd's default restart limit, to come back reliably after network failures or out-of-memory situations.

* No proprietary software or hosted services that I cannot debug.

* I set up PagerDuty on Android to override any phone silencing. If it triggers at night, I had to wake up. This motivated me to bring the system to zero alerts very quickly. In the beginning it was tough but I think it paid off given that now I get alerts only every couple months at worst.

* I investigate any downtime or surprising behaviour until a reason is found. "Tire kicking" restarts that magically fix things are not accepted. In the beginning that takes time but after a while you end up with very reliable systems without surprises.

Result: Zero observable downtimes in the last years that were not caused by me deploying wrong configurations.

The total cost of this can be around 100 EUR/month, or 400 EUR/month if you want really beefy servers that have all of fast SDDs, large HDDs, and GPUs.

There are a few ways I'd like to improve this setup in the future, but it's enough for the current needs.

I still take my laptop everywhere to be safe, but didn't have to make use of that for a while.
Backwards compatibility is for when software reliant on the OS isn't actively maintained. If it is, developers simply update it and it keeps working. So it depends on what you use in your stack/workflow.
I guess I already do this with "REST" (although I get it's not really called that much if I don't strictly follow 1 resource per request). But I very often just make endpoints that have custom SQL written that touches many tables anyway.
>I would call that working long, not hard

I agree with this. When I first started my current job, overtime hours were utterly ridiculous, over the years I've managed to cut it down to mostly 8 hour days while increasing productivity fairly exponentially. A lot of time was wasted manually doing work pointless i automated as much as possible.I feel I work a lot harder now and get more done in less hours than I did before working 10-11 hour days.
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> I'd be nervous to work for a company where one of the co-founders isn't a marketer.

I'd be nervous if there were a co-founder who is a marketer (unless it's literally a marketing startup).

Take a look at some of the hottest tech companies right now (recent IPO, FAANG, pre-IPO, YC darlings). Would you be really afraid to work for a FAANG, or hot recent IPOed companies like Zoom or PagerDuty, or pre-IPO companies like Stripe or Flexport because of the (co)founders' non-marketing background?
> there are plenty of books I would be interested in which I don't know exist ...

> The problem there is I'm generally only going to be interested in long tail items, ...

Yup. For that problem, did some original applied math based on some advanced pure math prerequisites and wrote the software for the math and for the corresponding Web site -- software appears to run as intended. Need to add some data and do an alpha test.

So, I am regarding your problem as a need for better Internet content (yes, including information about books, etc. not strictly ON the Internet) discovery and recommendation, and I'm regarding those as special cases of a much more general approach to Internet content search.

My work is to give you the content with the meaning -- artistic, utilitarian, political, technical, etc. -- you have in mind. So, I believe I've made progress on the meaning of content; a key here is some of the pure math.

Yes, my techniques should do much better at getting you the meaning YOU (extreme personalization) want than any top 40 style lists.

My view is that Google and Bing do REALLY well on about 1/3rd of the problem; I'm going for the other 2/3rds. Where Google and Bing work well, my work is NOT better. My work should be better in the 2/3rds.

I intend to announce an alpha test here on HN ASAP. Will look forward to the HN reactions.

At least initially, my site won't be very comprehensive. I intend to concentrate initially on fine arts, finance, nature, and a few more.

Yes, my Web site will be free to users and ad supported with my unique (methods and data) and hopefully especially effective ad targeting.

Yes, my work stands to be relatively good on user privacy: There are no logins; I make no use of HTTP cookies; and search results for a user have nothing to do with any history about the user; e.g., any two users doing the same search at the same time (before I update the data, say, say once a week) will get the same results.

Maybe someone will like it!!
It is definitely not legal to setup hidden cameras anywhere that would be private inside your Airbnb.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/108/s1301/text

Also, Airbnb asks you if there are any cameras in any place on your property and it is a violation to have cameras even on your front porch without acknowledging them.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is definitely not legal. It also happens in hotels on occasion and not always with the managements knowledge.
The review isn't visible to anyone until the period expires. It's not just hidden from the specific host account.
Great Resources for Learning Database and Distributed System
Downloaded. This one fails like most do. Sigh...
Awesome explanation, thank you
Introduction to Probability at an advanced level (2018) [pdf]
That's practically asking for fraud.

There are 6M listings. How much would it cost them to do the right thing and have them even cursorily inspected? Inspectors would of course have to pose as customers. Damn these sharing startups are tight fisted
Systemd needs official documentation on best practices
I don't have any torx screws. I think the whole thing is glued together.
And it sounds like the person you’re responding to is countering this very premise.

“They don't want their ad dollars to be spent paying publishers for content that's controversial because it makes them look bad.”
We've been developing a GraphQL api for the past few years and I really really really like using GraphQL. From a developer experience perspective, it's so much easier to work with than traditional REST based API's. I could add more but I'm pressed for time and I simply wanted to leave my +1 comment for GraphQL. Happy to answer follow up questions (if any).
> Yes I'm generally happy when I get new stuff for free, but I don't expect that to always happen.

Sure. But when a product is advertised as open source, I expect it to be true.
I'm really confused at the vitriol in the comments, does this license not become a true OSS license after the change period? IANAL but that seems to be the case to me. It's so confusing what part of this is frustrating? I think keeping a 36 month buffer of features to maintain an a commercially viable edge to fund work on a project is extremely reasonable. It seems like a really good and virtuous model.

Patents and Copyrights are more than an order of magnitude more temporally restrictive. This is great stuff, I hope it proves to be commercially viable and sees broader adoption.
> but to have a bubble with the assumption it will burst, you need to show that advertisers can achieve a better return by doing something else.

To burst a bubble, you don't have to show them something that works better, you just have to convince them to stop drastically overpaying for what they've been buying.
> Would something like Intel or MOS technology get vc money today?

Yes, because when they were founded, it was already established that you could make money making semiconductors.

The more concerning question is whether the invention of the transistor could be funded today. Historically, it was not funded by VC money, but out of the financial surplus of a big monopoly (AT&T). Are today's big, wealthy corporations doing as much of that sort of long-term research?
...yet?

At least this doesn't seem to be that hard of a line to draw in terms of competency before allowing on public roads
That is not possible. They were lying to you. You can't see the other's review until you post your review or the review window expires. You can never change your review once posted (though you can comment on a review someone else left).
>then it is no longer free; you don't get both.

You drew a line in the sand, do not presume that someone else will draw the line in the same place. For example, some people draw the line at GPL. I, personally, greatly prefer a BSL license to a fully proprietary license. That means, from me, they do get both.
I know, same with a relationship, especially serious ones, like a wife or husband. Even families, my god, the commitment and drain is so immense that they must drag everyone down, each dependent like a separate side hustle. Employers should monitor employees and sniff out potential relationships and nip them in the bud before they begin. /s
Low-current 32-bit controllers run on harvested energy – Embedded.com
> It's the same in online marketing, you often target people who are searching for say a pair of shoes.

FYI - you're not clearly delineating between capturing intent, prospecting, and branding. Worse, your using intent capture as a catch-all for all advertising. That's not how it works.

> Pizzerias do not attract more customers by giving coupons to people already planning to order a quattro stagioni five minutes from now."

The alternative is that the Pizzeria does zero promotion and those who are interested in "ordering a quattro stagioni five minutes from now" end up going to somewhere that does.

Ads, on Google specifically, is a zero sum game with an auction based fee structure which mostly is about capturing potential customers' intent to buy. This is the true "evil" of Google, as you basically are forced to pay a tax on all online intentions to purchase via a search from Google (it's also why Google is so scared of Amazon...hence, Google Shopping)

> and that it's hard to know ROI, because true advertising effects are tiny if you measure them in an experimen

It's impossible to know equivocally why a person makes a purchase, digital, traditional, or otherwise. Theres a lot of research on this topic but until its conclusive, we'll never have a "true" ROI.
Open source never includes the guarantee that there will be future open source releases. If their new license won't work for you, it's as if it just stopped being maintained. Use and/or fork the most recent open source version.
Meters to feet is easy, it's roughly just x3. Yards may not be common (yards are certainly common in sports, and sports are very popular), but three feet to the yard is definitely commonly known. Centimeters might be harder, but in my experience Americans suck at estimating inches too, one American's "half an inch away" is another American's "two inches away." And the average American off the street would be hopeless if asked how many feet are in a mile. They'd actually have a better chance of giving you a kilometer->feet conversion than miles->feet. At least, I certainly would (without looking it up: 1 kilometer = 1000 meters ~= 1000 yards = 3000 feet, +10% fudge, approximately 3300 feet to the kilometer.)

Anyway, my point in all of this is that if a pop-sci publication like Wired uses units like kilometers, it is unlikely that their American readers will be confused. They'll probably walk away from such an article with a casual understanding of the subject that is reasonably close to the casual understanding they'd have if the article used miles instead.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/internet-trends-report-201...

Please review page 22 to see that there has been a significant shift towards digital advertising since 2010.
And remember to make it a short stay because AirBnb is taking 25% commission on the booking. Friends reviews are costing an arm and a leg.
No moral lesson here - I suppose my point is that you rarely get to have such a clear-cut comparison of what would've happened if you took the other path at the fork in the road.

I can see where it comes off as gloating, though. Do you think I should modify this to focus more on the fork aspect? (genuine question)
> Right now there's this trend where companies take the benefits of open source for themselves, then toss aside the open source community when it looks like it might make them a buck

The narrative you're trying to paint is misleading at best:

> It’s important to remember that Sentry “the project” has been developed almost exclusively by employees of Sentry “the company”; millions of dollars have paid the salaries of engineers, designers, and product people to produce the software we know and love today.

They are the primary contributors to their own product and the existing "community" that use in-house versions remains unaffected, they can continue to use modified versions and contribute back features everyone else can benefit from, which I see no reason why they wont continue to do as they can continue enjoying all the benefits of being able to freely use their own hosted versions. But those outside contributions are going to still pale in comparison to the vast majority of contributions that Sentry makes in improving their own product, the most valued contributions Customers are going to make are in the form of feedback, feature requests and detailing how they're using the product.

They're definitely not "toss aside the open source community", their BSL is specifically targeted so that "it won’t change anyone’s ability to run Sentry at their company". You're insinuating the opposite that they're discarding their existing community, when their license is specifically targeted to allow continued free usage by their customers and is only designed to prohibit their competitors from taking of Sentry's investments and using it to compete against them.

This change gives them a more sustainable business model that better protects their investments against competitors reselling their efforts and undermining their business model that's directly used to fund the investments in making a better Sentry product. It's a win for Sentry the product and company and their customers, the only losers from this change are cloud monopolies and Sentry's competitors who are more than welcome to use their own efforts and investments in creating their own competing product.
When a DSP beats a hardware accelerator – Embedded.com
They present it as if it’s ridiculous (and it is) but is it any more ridiculous than the mainstream creation myths that millions and millions of completely sane and rational people believe or claim to believe now?
I think this is great; if I ever start a SaaS business I'll happily follow Sentry's example and use the BSL if I want to develop in the open.

To the open source fundamentalists expressing disdain: why is the ability to commercialize a piece of code such an important part of the OSS ethos to you? Why are proprietary protections, even when the code itself is still freely visible, usable and modifiable, such a step backwards? What about the very real threat of a business 1000x your size just deciding to fork your code and eat your lunch? Are businesses with open source products supposed to just accept that risk in the name of being good OSS citizens? I'd still much rather see a business with source available code, which will still benefit their users and the community at large - would you rather it be OSI approved open source or nothing?
The way I see it, the BSL is similar to the AGPL but weaker.

Running AGPL code on your server without making it all AGPL or GPL (which itself is only possible because of an explicit exception) is discouraged, or at minimum a legal gray area, at least from what I understand.

BSL code on the other hand is totally fine to run on your server, as long as the service you're providing isn't within the specified area.

But since you're not "free" to use that code in any product, it's not considered free software.

Personally, I think at some point the distinction between free and not free is arbitrary at some point, because while it's true that the BSL code can't be freely reused in truly open source project, you also can't reuse AGPL code if you're using the vast majority of open source licenses for your project.