skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bands also look poorly-suited for interfacing with the standard lockups used for artificial insemination and preg-checking.
A few months ago, I moved all my old photos from Drive to a local media server. I had to manually call an API endpoint [1] to remove several hundred thousand files from trash—it took 30 hrs to finish its batch job.

[1] https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/reference/files/e...
Their methodology of allowing the herd to function independently and then focusing data collection on health issues and consistency is the right idea here. You want to measure time spent caring for the herd against time spent perform actions to continue to collect milk from the herd. It's a balance, but if you can get more efficient human time spent caring for the herd (good health sensors!) then you're always going to see a happier cow.
I had never heard of murals showing blonde men being sacrificed and the significance of boats made from planks in Maya murals would not have been apparent to me. Fascinating stuff. The more you learn, the more you wish you could know.

Also, for a while there was another potential Viking site in the Americas at Heavener, Oklahoma. Formerly a state park, now a city park, there is a runestone and others have been found within a few tens of miles of Heavener.

Once thought to be possible evidence of Viking excursions into Oklahoma, the Heavener Runestone may in fact be a marker laid out by one of the members of the Rene Robert Cavelier De La Salle expedition's attempt to reach French settlements northeast of Texas in 1687.

This website has a horrible, no good, very bad layout and is difficult to read but it weaves a very interesting historical tale that explains the Heavener Runestone and others found nearby in Oklahoma.

[Heavener Runestone - Heavener Oklahoma](http://heavener-runestone.com/)

If you have a while and enjoy some archaeological and historical intrigue this is the place to get your fix today.

I visited the site using Firefox with Https Everywhere and microblock Origin and other than the lack of https the site is largely free of objectionable things. It could use a serious rebuild though as the story woven is compelling when the evidence is presented and so thoroughly researched.

Makes more sense than Vikings.
Easy food off corpses is my thought. Humans are very soft and tender if they aren't swinging at you.

I've seen several media instances of crows eating the dead.
Like this? https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-11-13
Possibly inversely correlated.

Tribes that expressed humanity to creatures outside of homo sapiens were frequently wiped out by tribes that couldn't even manage to express humanity to other tribes of homo sapiens.

The victors sit on a throne of skulls, wondering why they are so lonely.

Aggression is a gene that selects for itself. But if it's too successful, then the next time some external selective pressure comes from outside, that 'loneliness' may become an existential threat, wiping out the local gene pool entirely. Just like a virus.
I’m not much of a fan of AWS, but when Amazon takes a “free as in speech AND beer” product and turns it into SaaS, that’s pretty much the expected outcome since (a) the license allows it and (b) companies exist to make money. Why would Amazon spend more than necessary to create this service? It’s not that they’re intrinsically evil for doing this; it’s literally how the rules are written. If you want to change that world, you need to change the rules.

So I think this direction for complex, expensive to create “open” backend software is inevitable, and that dogmatic appeals to some formal and restrictive definition of openness are philosophically naive.

Arguments that Timescale is not open remind me again of the paradox of tolerance [0]. This basically says that a tolerant society must not tolerate intolerance. This is because a tolerant society is vulnerable to intolerance; a tolerant society, by definition, fails when it allows intolerance.

Similarly, I am quite comfortable to consider software “open” if I can download it, build it, and use it in my products; even if it is closed in some specific dimension that is required for it to exist. It’s a shame in theory that I can’t create a little TSaaS without Timescale’s approval, but it’s not a right that most people care about, and I prefer that to a world in which the Timescale product itself doesn’t exist.

Ultimately, it’s an argument between dogmatic openness and pragmatic openness. I’m decidedly in the pragmatic camp on this one. And FWIW, my recollection is that OSI itself was created in order to extend and formalise the definition of “open” to include pragmatically open licenses beyond the GPL. (I could be wrong here, it was a long time ago and I was not involved, but I seem to remember discussions on slashdot and technocrat)

In any case, I think that any academic discussion of the definition of “open” needs to take into account the paradox that perhaps, by requiring dogmatic adherence to the definition of “open”, we cause the world to be more closed. Which is, I think, not what we want.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

edited to clarify.
> Saying "our software is free for anyone to do anything they want with, except Amazon to profit from" may not be free in letter, but I certainly see it free in spirit.

Some people feel just as strongly about imposing field-of-use restrictions to exclude military entities as you do about excluding "trillion dollar companies". Others feel strongly about excluding all commerical usage.

But "Open Source" means no field-of-use restrictions — so although any of you are free to craft your own licenses excluding X, Y, or Z, you don't get to call those licenses "Open Source".

> I fear we're letting perfect be the enemy of the good here, and letting the FOSS ecosystem wither and lose incalculable value by letting trillion-dollar corporations exploit the hard work of people for free.

No economic value is lost. Timescale is free to publish their own software offings with their own licensing; those offerings merely exist outside the Open Source ecosystem.

Open Source is plenty successful. It does not need to destroy itself in order to encompass all things.

Besides, "letting trillion-dollar corporations exploit the hard work of people for free" is what Open Source has always done. Everybody gets to use it for free — trillion dollar corporations, governments, religious organizations, activists, convicts... everybody!
Did the milking machines clean the teats before beginning the milking, too?
The latency is the only “situational use case” to care about. This has been mitigated more and more. The rest is just gatekeeping gamers imagining what a larger group of wallets would care about and being strong. Chronic problem in that community. Isnt the biggest protest amongst enthusiast gamers based around at what point they will pay the company anyway? Hard to take any stance there seriously when there is zero power over what happens, companies dont get cancelled, 2% of their audience just doesnt preorder the thing they were going to buy anyway, amazing.

Hiccups and artifacts are largely solved and where they aren't, the market tolerates it just fine.

There has been a whole decade of this stuff. The arguments are literally from last decade and they weren’t issues even with the inferior infrastructure then.

I dont think any of these services have proven themselves as a profitable endeavor on their own yet, but as far as advertising or a competitive ecosystem for a larger brand, theyve done really well.
The nationwide fibre in NZ means that latency from Auckland to anywhere with fibre is very low. Cloud gaming could arrive in NZ just as soon as Azure does!
As a developer and a user, I do prioritize Android.

People don't buy luxury jeans because they are better jeans than Levi's. People buy luxury jeans because of marketing. The same applies here. Consider how many people in the HN comments say they like iPhone because of privacy even though it is so clearly worse for privacy (can't install an app on your device without telling Apple, can't get your GPS location without telling Apple, etc.).
This is the classic struggle between structured and unstructured data. As difficult as the task of creating AI that can make sense of unstructured data and pages is, that task is still more tractable than getting millions of people around the world to sufficiently coordinate on a common standard.
"Just never drop columns or tables, those require a human anyway, unless they're tiny."

In a lot of common multi-tenant designs you could have thousands of schemas. You can't have a human doing this. Additionally, the hard part of schema versioning is really the data migration and rollback steps which you failed to mention.
> Even 14% worldwide is significant enough for me to ask for regulation

Lmao.
I haven't used office products unless obligated too in ~6 years. cloud based options, even terrible cloud based options like quip are an order of magnitude better than word. It's faster to open the documents I care about, easier to share, easier to collaborate, and just plain faster.

The word docs I still use end up having 3 dozen copies in my downloads folder from different versions sent via email. It's a nightmare.

If it requires a $6/mo subscription for the cloud based equivalent of a $100 consumer software package, I'd gladly pay it.
It's a pretty big feature, relatively speaking, to have a brain that can implement if(){} else{}, rather than simply if(){}
> What law separates "lawful" from "unlawful" censorship?

The law of the jungle?
Problems with service discovery and thundering herd problems according to a slack. Not sure what triggered the issue though.
Sounds like you've come up with a cool personal project.
Would our physical abilities not play a role in our ability to "rule" the world? We're relatively large animals, blessed with arms, finger, thumbs and a remarkable degree of physical dexterity. These physical abilities collectively enable us to physically manipulate the world.

Or in other words, if dolphins had arms and thumbs (or generally any physical attributes that allows them to manipulate their environment as humans do), would it crazy to suggest that they could dominate the seas, as humans dominate land?
Generating diagrams from Markdown files using the Mermaid JS library. They have a CLI but it's NPM based so you basically have to pick your poison as to what you'll be configuring. In my case Chrome made more sense.
Can you heal a shattered leg all by yourself with no one around? I guarantee you’ll lay on the ground until nightfall and probably be eaten by coyotes (since you’re a human, they /might/ leave you alone).

If you have someone with you, maybe they can carry you. Crows can’t carry other crows. If they wanted to fix the other crow, they’d have to do it where the crow fell. It would still get eaten by coyotes. They can’t protect the downed bird, so it will still be eaten. Ergo, why bother trying to heal the bone?
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What would you consider the bare minimum act to be judged at human-level intelligence?

Remember, for most of the history of our evolutionary ancestors, we were hunter-gatherers that used extremely crude tools. Not really better than crows. Discoveries happened a whole lot slower back then, like the eons between making fire and starting agricultural towns. Given a few millennia, crows may be making their own fires to cook.
That's fair, I didn't look closely enough at the specific terms to make sure it conformed to my view of "open-source". I specifically disagreed with the parent comment and others, which declare that "it's not open source unless [Amazon is free to profit from the software]".
Trump is president now, why then, is he continuing the practice?
I think I'm generally on your side of the debate, but are we really talking about authoritarian control of public discourse here? I thought we were talking about Facebook, a private corporation, deciding whether they want to allow their platform to be used to spread false and potentially harmful information.

Facebook is powerful, but it's not an authoritarian state. I'm not sure I see much danger in Facebook weighing in on different kinds of falsehood (i.e., your insight that things can be false in different way). It seems more akin to a journal having standards for what it publishes, or HackerNews hiding or removing egregiously bad comments, than it does to the Chinese government jailing dissidents.
I find it laughable how some people, after decades of lambasting Apple for having a closer system and a walled garden approach, down right berating them for it and saying it’s the wrong move, now have come around to wanting to not only want their products, but have them be fully hackabale. Preposterous.
> and never have to worry about sitting around for hours waiting for updates or downloads

Here's the thing though. Those downloads and updates have a massive efficiency factor. Once you have downloaded your assets, they don't have do be downloaded again to be used.

With these game streaming platforms, it doesn't matter that you have downloaded 100GB in screen frames. They can only be used once and then are discarded. In some cases this is a benefit - on Flight Simulator 2020 the servers only have to send you a fraction of their terrain data. But that's a small part of it.

> stable, smooth gaming-as-a-service experience

Netflix and the like work because you can buffer. Is your connection a bit choppy today? Hit pause and let it buffer a bit, hopefully it will stabilize. But games do not tolerate ANY latency issues. Even things like Steam Link - using only your local network - can struggle if there's too much traffic or interference.

Then there's the business model. I don't want a 'subscription'. If I buy a game today I may be spending $60 upfront(if the game has been out for a while, often much less), but I can play as much as I want.

Do you have fantastic internet connectivity, an under-powered device, and you want to quickly shuffle through different games from an online selection? Ok, this could make sense.

Still, this sounds like a far better deal for corporations, as opposed to consumers.
They created a fire hazard - if anything there had a fault or was miswired, maybe because of a hidden hazard, it could start a fire that could kill countless people.

They stole a Metro-North refrigerator. Just not cool.

Ostensibly they got them for slacking off on company time, which seems like a massive breach of trust for hourly union employees.
Yes, there are. It's the Lloyds Open Form.[1] "No Cure - No Pay". This is the standard deal for salvage operations, and is well over a century old. It's very simple, since it's intended to be executed by someone on a sinking ship. It's sufficient for the captain of a ship in trouble to contact a "salvor" and say they accept the standard Lloyds Open Form. A message "ACCEPT SALVAGE SERVICES ON BASIS LLOYDS STANDARD FORM LOF 90 NO CURE NO PAY ACKNOWLEDGE" is enough.

Contractors’ basic obligation: The Contractors identified in Box 1 hereby agree to use their best endeavours to salve the property specified in Box 2 and to take the property to the places stated in Box 3 or to such other place as may hereafter be agreed. If no place is inserted in Box 3 and in the absence of any subsequent agreement as to the place where the property is to be taken the Contractors shall take the property to a place of safety.

The Contractors’ remuneration and/or special compensation shall be determined by arbitration in London in the manner prescribed by Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration Clauses in force at the date of this agreement.

That's the deal.

You need some agreed way to resolve how much the job is worth for this to work. The Lloyds Open Form is an agreement to do the job and discuss later how much it's worth. That's generally settled by insurance adjusters. It's much like the aftermath of auto accidents.

How much does the salvor get? 15% - 35% of the recovered value, reports Lloyds.[2] Of course, salvors work under tough conditions. They have to have equipment and people ready 24/7 to go somewhere and do something. That's expensive. Some classic worldwide names exited in the past decade. Mammoet and Titan both dropped out.

All this is against accidental losses, not against an adversary. Where there's an opponent, it's a much tougher problem. Marine salvage is vs. the ocean. Whether this model can be made to fit programmed contract problems or ransomware is a big question. One worth pursuing.

[1] https://www.lloyds.com/market-resources/lloyds-agency/salvag...

[2] https://www.tugadvise.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/lloyds-...
If we, through some miraculous circumstance, avoid making ourselves extinct, then maybe there's a small chance the crows won't overthrow us and take over.
If the original were still intact, perhaps chemical analysis of the pigments used could provide information about this. Unfortunately it seems that can't be done since the mural was destroyed decades ago. But maybe fragments of it remain in the area waiting to be found?
Yes getting in and out of a stanchion is a scary experience for the cow and human both! Adding a chunk around the neck that could make entering and exiting more difficult can pose risks for both parties.
> buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-term licenses to enterprises.

That's pretty much what they did with Sencha/ExtJS, too. Not that it wasn't in dire straits even before the acquisition, though.
It's basically how the music world works too. There's big-budget pop artists that are occasionally good but usually crap. And then there's a ton of smaller artists of all mixtures of talent, but are often amazingly talented, and can be found at your local pub or music venue (or could be pre-covid).
I ran into the same issue. And Dr.s offices have pretty much become churn factories for insurance billing, so I hate the fact that I have to go through them. To get around them, I found that Mexican and Indian pharmacies would send me inhalers. The only issue is that it took so long to get to the US, but it seemed to be as good as the US stuff.
Not harsh at all. I follow Google very closely. At one point literally 5-10 consecutive speeches/ keynotes/ interviews by Pichai over a period of 3 years appeared to be the same charismaless, PR written statements.
It's fine if it's the same thing (in case you want to articulate a particular vision), the problem is it's dull, boring, no vision at all. Pichai is hailed as a great PM for stuff like Chrome etc.

But I don't see what he has brought to the table as the CEO. I feel like Google has a lot of great engineers who've stuck around for 15-20 years, that's their core asset, but they need more direction, vision, strategy. Apple has a solid team of designers and product people who've stuck around for decades. Google needs more product people or more importantly a strong directive from the top (Pichai) to dominate in an area like hardware, AR.

Like one thing which I am especially baffled by is Google's lack of action in the AR space. Meanwhile, Apple's been ramping up small acquistions over the past 3-4 years to assemble solid talent,IP. It's going to take a lot of time for Google to catch up in AR.
I was replying to another commenter, but they deleted their post. I still think my response is legitimate, and I'd like to discuss. I'm including the post and my response to it:

> This might be an unpopular opinion, but the Semantic Web was yet another idea that only could've come from Architecture Astronauts. Neither web developers nor web users wanted or needed it, but the Astronauts just kept pushing forward, with no support whatsoever, until people with actual skin in the game of the future of the Web got fed up and sidelined the W3C in favor of WHATWG/HTML5.

> When the Architecture Astronauts produce a product no one wants/needs at a big megacorp like Microsoft, it's easy to make fun of them, but for whatever reason when it happens in an open-source environment or in academia, people are a lot more likely to lament "Oh, why couldn't they understand?", which has it backwards: it's your job to understand them, and in your arrogance you deliberately didn't do that.

The Semantic Web flew in the face of enterprises like Google. It posited to put all information into a queryable ontology. With a rich and expressive grammar, who needs Google's algorithms to rank anything? All you need to do is ingest and you can weight the edges based on who else consumes them.

Google actually knee-capped the web with the WHATWG's focus on less semantic documents. The platforms with their army of engineers are what did the technology in.

If the Semantic Web had a chance to grow before the giants of tech emerged, we might be looking at a vastly superior internet today.
Nice read! That’s why I respect whitehat hackers, to be tempted by ~10million and then proceed doing the right thing. I wonder if they got a reward/bounty for managing to save all this ETH.
I work as a consultant in the enterprise space, and I've seen a shift in recent years towards Postgres.

I believe this has largely been driven by cloud - developers are now more able to choose the components they want to work with, instead of being told what to work with. There are of course plenty enterprises that are strict here, mandating cloud hosted SQL Server for example, but the general relaxation of constraints has struck me as a very pleasant surprise.

I've yet to come across MySQL being used in a cloud-based system, but I'm seeing Postgres more and more. When I do see MySQL, it's part of on-prem services that are considered "legacy".
I'm been pre-MVP:ing a portable trashcan-like device you can carry on your back, in your hand or even slug across your upper body for just this usecase. Currently I'm seeking investment in a pre-seed round to recruit the UX-specialists, digital marketers and growth hackers to set up the sign-up MVP website to get this into a seed round.

The product is considered to be a sort of cloth receptacle with 1-3 handles or "straps" as we've com to call them, that can be used with almost any human protrusion, but the final product might change. We are also thinking about a zero-strap version that we just call "the unStrap".

Of course it will be cloud-native, k8s-native and almost virtually-sustainable. I have my C-CTO working on the multi-native strategy right now.
I loved eating that stuff as a kid growing up in Germany. Still do, but can't easily find it in Seattle.

It's a very acquired flavor... just like I absolutely cannot get used to the taste of IPAs.
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I don't think this rebuttal holds much water. Humans are capable of doing things that our bodies cannot. We domesticated beasts of burden in order to move heavy objects from one place to another for instance.

But consider very basic advancements. Communication for instance is something humans mastered from the outset. We are able to store and pass down information beyond the instinctual for generations, something no other animal has done. Imagine if humans needed to rediscover mathematics every generation!

There are plenty of examples I could give that would provide crows with an immediate improvement in the quality of life. I think the reason they have not done these things is because they cannot, rather than because they have chosen not to.
It looks like public cloud providers (really mostly AWS) will never ever contribute enough to upstream to support full-time upstream development teams and no one has enough leverage to change that situation. Given that reality, the only solution is what Timescale has come up with.