skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two point he made that I've often wondered about.

1) why wasn't AGPL used for GPLv3?

2) why should companies be able to keep proprietary version from being distributed?

The second one I can see being possible by having employees agree not to exercise their GPL redistribution rights as a condition of employment. Still it seems like a large group of companies could all agree to that kind of thing to effectively take a GPLed work private.

But yeah why have AGPL as a separate thing?
How does one opt out of most of this without becoming a pariah? I like the donut channel since it’s voluntary and small scale, but I would be burnt to a crisp by day two of the unconference.
Or Donald Becker who wrote most of the early Linux Ethernet drivers:

http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/documentation/network/
It's approximately the same technique.

Outdoor 3D reconstruction is actually easier, because outdoors you have highly varied and detailed scenes, which enables dense feature matching and accurate dense depth map calculations. Also, you probably have decent GPS priors* and a preplanned flight path, which makes localization of each RGB image pretty easy.

* This is a big advantage that usually can't be replicated indoors. GPS is more accurate outside, and the significantly larger flight path means that GPS' main issue, low precision, isn't as much of a barrier.
Great class this year! We're excited as we've seen the next stage of cyber as "resilient operations" and adopting more software processes for years now. Thanks for sharing. https://hartfordinsurtechhub.com/hartford-insurtech-hub-anno...
I'll check out the paper, but at a glance, "a few well-defined verbs" seems to just mean you've introduced a set of standard storage interfaces, right? If so, calling this REST, to the extent which that word means anything at all, seems a bit of a stretch.
Not personally but I'll check it out!
You lease colocated servers at more competitive rates (power and bandwidth included), or buy them and install them in leased racks, or build your own datacenters. Cloud providers charge a lot in return for not requiring this kind of commitment; they have to amortize datacenters and support staff with a lot of spare capacity.
Sounds more extraordinary than it is. It basically means “you read it the obvious way.”
One guy I knew pronounced it "squeal". I rather liked that.
Congrats on pivoting this to open.

As an Intercom customer ( perhaps paying too much ), it would be very helpful to see a basic feature comparison table and ideally an in-progress roadmap so that I may assess the opportunity costs for a possible migration. And if not a matrix, at least a simple list of top-level features, which I could not find in the docs.

For me, "Alternative", is a very loaded word that comes with an expectation of comparing the current scope of features offered by the aforementioned paid apps.

Best of luck!
Stress on the plastic structure, which usually isn’t exposed even with the cover off.

Get a car seat from a moderate or severe accident, and cut it in half; you’ll be able to see the damage from the forces involved.
The us government particularly the Us military has been responsible for quite a significant amount of scientific breakthrough, either through their ability to coordinate human resources and material resources towards a particular end point or their large possession of the later.

Sadly or Happily capitalism in particular venture capital investments in startups has largely surpassed them regarding the material resources part of the equation in recent times but they still suck significantly at the human coordination aspect of things.
I believe, as did my single mother, that women going to work hurt families also. She said before she died, women "shot themselves in the foot and made it much harder on single incomes to support a family. Women always had a choice to work. Now they don't."

Maybe you have something wrong. Maybe it wasn't more rewarding to go to work. People on their death beds don't say I wish I'd gone to work more. No. They say they wish they'd spent more time with family.
“Squirrel”.
I've had a positive example of using J for a prototype which wasn't algorithmically clear initially. So I had to twist and turn some parts to figure out what actually is possible and simultaneously good enough.

Interesting that developing a POC in J took about 40 minutes and then rewriting it into C# took 3 hours, even though with C# it was clear what's needed. J can be surprisingly efficient for research work.
It's also literally like exploring entirely new words.
They are certainly trying to compete with Docker, but are doing so by implementing a (subjectively) superior architecture. The community is winning here.
“this dude” appears to be Carl Hewitt, creator of the actor model
I like that the stated travel time is the actual amount of time out of your day

You show up in the middle of one city and wind up in the middle of another city

Big contrast from airports.

But Amtrak is too expensive and slow compared to other developed nations high speed trains, especially in Northeast corridor. Everything I said earlier applies to Japan, and western Europe.
I used to work on the Digital Archives at the Library of Congress.

It's not that they're exceptionally better at it. In fact, the Library has warehouses of materials that they still haven't cataloged, let alone organized or (better) digitized. Their primary focus has been the "sexy" projects like spool recordings, wax cylinders, etc that make for cool stories and mitigate decay (aka destruction) over modern material.

The big problem is that of collection. While in theory, anything that is a registered copyright in the US should be on file, most people don't take the time to register, let alone send off a copy.

The Library & National Archives aren't "better" at it.. it's that it's their primary purpose so the fact that they do it puts it above most other groups.
Above all allude to good ideas that need to be formalized, designed, implemented, and deployed.
The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum (2016)
Brain on Crafting
Too true. I self taught German to a low C2 in 2 years or so as a native English speaker. I got to a very high level of grammar in a matter of months, but since vocabulary took far longer to acquire, I was left having most conversations sound like “I would have ___ if only I had known ____ was ____ing ____.
> yet we still rightly consider roads as being worth it.

You correctly point out a double standard, but perhaps it’s worth a bit of thought before choosing which way we want to resolve the double standard.
Even if you get funding for new media (why the BBC recording over things), someone has to be believe that material is important because reusing media is still cheaper and they'll use that budget elsewhere.

* Former Library of Congress contractor here
Pimp out your Mac terminal with Moter- the 'motion picture terminal'
For a while in secondary school I was learning three languages at once - French, German and Irish (Gaelic). I'm Irish, native English speaker, in case it wasn't obvious.

In general I think it helped to learn them in parallel rather than in sequence. It made it easier to pick up the more fundamental grammatical/linguistic things.

I wouldn't do it outside of full time education though. It was a lot of work.
No. The government shouldn’t subsidize services used primarily by well-off people.
That's a good question, but you also have to take into account that passengers also pay transit fares, which can sometimes cost as much as a car. I expect that mass transit would still be significantly cheaper for most people though, if there was a proper mass transit network in place.
just take the science out of it, carseat for a kid does nothing more than to rise them to suitable seatbelt height or makes the seatbelt usable for really young kids.

Isofix does not have to have a leg etc could be just bars holding the seat at place, thats its only benefit it keeps the object attached to isofix in place in case of a accident. It will not fly around the car as it is attached to it thus provides more safety.

At the end if the crash is huge then newtons laws apply a bigger mass will just run everything over, does not matter if it is secured or not you just can't beat a bigger mass.
> If you need help with English grammar while working through this textbook, we recommend, for example, English Grammar for Students of German

I find this surprisingly specific. A help book on the source language specific to the target language... What part of English grammar is only important to students of German but not students of Dutch or Polish?

I'm a French native speaker trying to improve my Spanish at the moment. Should I brush up on French shenanigans (yes even native speakers make mistakes and need reference material) from a Romance language point of view?
So if I want to write an OSS library that can't be used for monetary gain, what license do I release it under? AGPLv3?

EDIT: Actually, I misspoke, since monetary gain isn't the problem. I should have said "used against user freedom", but that's much less well-defined. I want a license that is as "open" as possible, for whatever definition of "open".
> “Our biggest challenge is I go testify in Congress and all we talk about is French toast on dining cars or food,” he says. “We aren't talking about the really big infrastructure issues and transportation congestion issues that all the people in this country want a solution for.”

This is infuriating.
Any reason pulumi, per the twitter thread, doesn't meet your needs?
They shouldn’t!

I’m not advocating “everyone for themselves.” But I don’t see why the national government needs to subsidize a service that overwhelmingly benefits just a single region. It’s not like Medicare or social security that can be used by anyone. Trains only go to a well defined set of places. We could have an interstate compact approach instead, like we do for things like WMATA.
> SPK confirmed it had earned less than 5,000 euro, total, from marketing the Nefertiti scan, or any other scan for that matter.

This is a fundamental issue in NGO's

They are there, in theory for humankind. But they are staffed by humans who are there to justify their wage.

This is not a small thing, NGO's spend their days re inventing a broken wheel because no one will share.
> Or it could simply be that human intelligence is not capable of finding the solution. In the same way a dog is never going to understand calculus, maybe you need an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000 to solve physics.

In philosophy, this is called cognitive closure. It’s possible that we humans are hitting some “edge” just like, in your example, you mentioned that a dog may never grasp calculus. To my knowledge, I’m not sure if there’s a way to scientifically test this.
Objects as originally conceived in Simula left out concurrency, i.e., region of mutual exclusion of an Actor.

See the following: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418003
I go from DC to Boston weekly and couldn't disagree more. The NE Regional or Acela add, all things considered, anywhere from a 4x - 8x time multiplier over air travel, and is about double the cost on average.

Even when I was going DC > NYC years back it was barely worth the trouble, and still more than flying, only benefit being you land right in the middle of NYC and don't have the nightmare transit from NYC area airports.
How so and why? Are kinetic projectiles expected to be superceded by something different within 5 years?
OK why should I subsidize the Federal court system? I don't use it.

I also don't have kids so let's get rid of all the schools.
Doesn't scaling network interfaces down to be used in local processes present all the same problems as scaling procedure interfaces up? You still have to be aware of which objects are remote and which are local.
Silicon Valley's Youth Problem: profile of Meraki and tech's two cultures (2014)
Copenhagen is closer to Zurich than Chicago is to NYC. Even Paris/Berlin is closer than Chicago/NYC.

The US's major cities are not close to each other, with the exception of the North-East Corridor, and the distances involved are far larger than most corresponding distances in Europe--you have to be talking about trips between Spain and very deep into Russia to start to compare against the NYC/LA pairing.
There's a link in the footer.
You can do this yourself crudely from any airplane window. Before you get too high, take two pictures of the same target (building or mountain) within 1 or 2 seconds (try both, so 2 pairs of photos, because it depends on your altitude). Then open the 2 pictures in an app where they are overlaid and you can switch between them quickly (I use irfanview on Windows--still after all these years). Each eye will pick up elements of the corresponding right and left photo, giving an approximation of 3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggle_stereoscopy

If you got 2 good pictures (good subject at the right altitude and separation) you could put them into a stereoscopic program and create a nice stereogram (either red-blue colored or side-by-side, depending on your preferred viewing device).

What the software in the article does is compute all the parallax from multiple images to give essentially a 3D scan of the landscape. It has been theoretically possible for a long time, maybe this is one of the first to do it successfully in practice.
You are talking about form-filling? Like UIPath?
Well, I guess a few that aren't covered in your post would be:

1. Being a good programmer is a lot less important than knowing what to build and how to sell it to people. Too many startups end up focusing too much on the coding side to show off on Reddit/Hacker News/whatever.

2. HTML/CSS/JavaScript being tolerant of errors is a good thing, and made them more accessible to learners. Also, a good product/system should be like that, not fail catastrophically on the slighest mishap.

3. CSS isn't poorly designed, nor too awkward to use for styling. It's just not a programming language, and works very differently.

4. Most small companies can get away with a normal shared hosting account (or a small VPS), and don't need either cloud hosting or dedicated servers.

5. Social login systems are a bad idea. You don't want your site to rely on Facebook/Google/Twitter/GitHub/whatever else

6. Similarly, you don't want other aspects of your site to rely on third party services either. Host your own comments, etc. Large companies aren't your friends.

7. 90% of web/app design is based on following trends rather than usability/what the users want.

8. Self driving cars are a bad idea, as are 'car sharing' setups. Again, you should try and keep as much control over your life as possible.

9. Technical solutions to social problems will be needed, since getting people to cooperate is like herding cats.
It sounds like you want a noncommercial license, which is a perfectly fine license to want, but not one traditionally honored as open. Consider https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/
That's because you are randomizing your user agent, not because of the doubleclick ban. (source: had some problem, solved it by emitting a consistent but fake user agent to youtube. It sniffs UA, against all recommendations and common sense)
I still haven't got to trying it. I'm a bit suspicious, because it look like a SaaS kind of thing, while I was looking just for an open source tool to write some code that will spit out bunch of `yaml` files to feed to `kubectl`.
Roads would still be built and planned by governments. But privately owned. See Highway 407 in Toronto, which was "sold" (100 year lease) to generate revenue.
omg I love you. I probably wont switch til you have a hosted version where I can pay you, sorry. Maybe you can launch one on heroku for me as a beta user and I'll pay you?
https://deepl.com seems to be better at this. I've long been looking for differences, dreading that Google (with its superior amount of money, larger dataset, and perhaps also a larger talent pool) would outperform it on something. It has always been on par so far, often giving word-for-word the same translation. When trying the author's example, however, Deepl actually does it correctly (also outperforming Microsoft Translate, which I threw in for good measure): the manually-translated french turns into correct English. (Not speaking French, I can't judge the french translation it makes.)

Now I'm reading this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559633 and this made me curious again:

> However, in German, there is no expectation at all that the subject must come first (although it often does). These two German sentences share the same meaning: "Der Hund hat den Ball." and "Den Ball hat der Hund."

It totally trips up Google (Den ball hat der Hund -> "the ball has the dog") but Deepl has this sort of silliness for breakfast (Den ball hat der Hund -> "the dog has the ball").

Of course, this is not negating the point of the article: translating is interpreting (or "art", as the author puts it), so deepl still can't be as good as a human. But for edge cases, deepl does seem to be better, at least in these two examples. In real-world cases that I tried so far, as mentioned, I've found it to be 100% equivalent so far (n=20 or so).
Isn't Terraform declarative infrastructure as code?
You show me a clinical environment, outside maybe Intermountain or Atria, where physicians enter accurate and complete and timely data, then I will show you a ... well, I don't know. But I believe this "vision" is prohibited by clinicians that simply don't bother entering in data that aren't relevant to an encounter-billing thingie. (In the US).

Please tell me that I am wrong. I used to be a lot more optomistic about HCIT than I seem to be right now...
Here's a blocklist for all these super annoying chat widgets: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye/master/...

You can import this into uBlock origin so you never have to see these things again.
Most of the reasons why code is hard to understand will be on a fairly small scale. It is possible to yank that out and replace it, while honoring and respecting any underlying chaotic organization that may have occurred despite the crap quality of the code. (As the article says, this sort of chaotic adaptation requires flexibility and crap code only inhibits that.)

That's pretty much what I've done in this last calendar year, taken two messy systems chaotically (in this article's sense) interfaced with the rest of the company, and upgraded them. I gave them new, hopefully-non-crap code, certainly better documented code, documentation on the system structure, better operational deployment, massive upgrades to security, general speed improvements, and in one case, a fundamental architectural change at the most foundational level even though the surface that the users interacted with hardly appeared to change.

And yet... despite all that, I would not say I "rewrote them from scratch", because I did not simply start with a blank sheet of paper and start scribbling what I think the ideal solution would be. I took the underlying adaptations, respected them, assumed that they likely had a reason even if I didn't know what they were, and built systems that largely dropped into place on top of the old ones rather than being totally foreign bodies that cause cascading requirements for other systems to also be significantly rewritten.

If, in the future, those other systems do get rewritten, I even have some paths prepared (but not yet written) in the code for true architectural upgrades to occur in the future. But in the meantime, I have improved systems that work now.

It's a much better approach to replacing a system that denying the chaotic adaptations. Even "crap code" can be mined for them, and they are not generally the crappiness itself.
Turing disproved this. If the universe is mathematical, we can understand it.
For Startups, Cash Is King (Again)
> Some good news for you then: the US no longer needs a navy to ensure a steady stream of oil. The combination of the US and Canada has been producing all the oil the combination needs for a year or 2 now.

There's more to it than that.

first, oil is a commodity product traded around the world, so, say, if Indonesian (offshore) oilfields go offline, china will simply buy from the saudis, which will drive up the price of Saudi oil and encourage US producers to export instead. Now rising price encourages local production, but most of it can't be switched on and off in a instant.

And in fact they already both import and export; for example tar sands "oil" from Canada is removed with a shovel, not a pipe. Refining it is very expensive (and energy demanding) so only gets mined when the price of oil is high enough to justify it. Currently the US exports about as much oil as it imports.

Lots of great stats on this topic from the Energy Information Administration (though some of the important statistics stopped being collected last year, alas). Here is the petroleum import & export page: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
I didn't realize parent meant email the site admins. Thanks!
I assert that the mental model held by the programmer, reducing complexity and making effective toolbox choices, is a significant benefit, too.
Yeah, it's nice to see a website that loads instantly, is accessible for those with disabilities, doesn't require executing code, and who's design is based around content rather then the other way. The amateur radio community is generally pretty good at this.
> I find this surprisingly specific. A help book on the source language specific to the target language... What part of English grammar is only important to students of German but not students of Dutch or Polish?

Quite a lot, since even though English is a very strange Germanic language it is at its core in many ways still Germanic, so it has a large overlap with German that it does not at all share with Slavic languages like Polish. It also shares a lot with Danish (which I find to often sit somewhere in the middle between English and German) and I presume Dutch as well. So yes, that book might very well be helpful in learning Dutch too, it is just a way smaller niche.

Source: I could be considered a native speaker of both German and Polish.
Your numbers are orders of magnitude too low. $75B is just national highways. There are millions of miles of road, and even the cheapest local road is like $4k/mi. Interstates are about $28k, and everything else is in the middle.

Amtrak is a speck on the federal budget. It’s a worthwhile investment if only to keep the rights of way open for the future
Show HN: Experimental Directory and File Creator
GPS is more accurate because the location of the satellites is known to a high degree. If you knew the location of the WiFi access points to the same degree you could get pretty similar accuracy indoors. Apple indoor mapping gets 5-10m with dedicated staff walking the space & inputting their position on a mobile map (wide open spaces is where the biggest challenge is). If more APs adopt WiFi RTT then that's actually going to give you much more GPS-like behavior indoors.
Agreed, the GPS priors are very helpful -- the ability to specify prior known positions/orientations of photos, to some known error tolerances, is one of the power features in Agisoft Metashape Pro, which I wish was available in more photogrammetry software. Being able to know the actual nearby photos a priori and avoid the costly O(N^2) pairwise comparison is a great benefit.

Some research I did a few months ago was about trying to find ways to effectively bring in that advantage of outdoor photogrammetry into indoor environments, by piggybacking onto AR HMDs with built-in SLAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldrGpGrOaZc
The floppy drive could read/write high density 1.76MB disks. I know, I had one. You're right that the Paula chip wasn't upgraded to handle double the data rate from the drive. The solution instead was that the disk span at half the speed.