skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the point. The biggest advantage of YC is not money; its the human network. I have 0% interest in their money and 100% interest in their network.

We have been turned down more than couple of times and I am not shameless enough to apply again.

But if I had better chances of being accepted, I would even though my current ARR is 20x of their funding amount.
So, let's say you've got a product catalog in some SQL database. Your business processes update inventory and availability and leadtime and such in that database.

But you really like the lucene natural language search functionality, so you copy your database into a lucene database for searching. But hey, elasticsearch takes care of a bunch of tedious problems, so instead of using raw lucene, you use elasticsearch...

So, you've got a PHP web application that queries this cache of the catalog stored in elasticsearch; what's your legal liability?
Do you use it for server side game logic too?

It's not as ambitious as an MMO, but I like to use MUDs to learn new languages. I've been (slowly) working on one to learn Elixir and I'm actually finding the concurrency model somewhat difficult to use for the MUD - especially the single world that every player connects to.

I ended up writing my own kind of software transactional memory library to help me out: https://github.com/stevbov/stm_agent

But altogether my design feels fairly un-Elixir-like. It seems like the language would shine more in a problem space with more process isolation. When it comes to the game world, pretty much any process could potentially depend upon any other process. Especially once you get into scripting NPCs.
Did Sci-Hub Twitter account shared copyrighted material actually?
Each one of those are very distinctive, and even eastern Iowa is more like Wisconsin than the rest of the state. You ask any of those people to say a word like "cow" with a vowel and you get different and notable accents. I recall meeting a woman recently who had been born and raised in Seattle, but her parents came from Wisconsin - I knew, because I could clearly hear their accent in her speech.
I for sure didn't misunderstand the article itself, it says multiple times that everyone using it should be concerned. It seems like the article isn't very good though.
Honestly, every relevant FOSS project should adopt a similar license to prevent exploitation from corporations.
This only makes sense if your underlying assumption is that the less violent are reproducing more offspring now. Your reference study merely shows that the phenotypical traits have a strong correlation with the behavior traits (in at least foxes). This selection requires offspring but its seems the parent is referencing a hormonal change due to social behavior.

I agree with the premise, that social and environmental norms can influence hormones, but the fox study is a different phenomenon altogether.
thanks for the feedback:

- pricing: yes, seems like a recurring comments, but I want to make the leap between tier friendly, like Digital Ocean droplet for instance.

- the option to buy the source code is what makes this appealing compared to Firebase, where if you reach scale you have the option of paying 10k which is not huge if you're making 85k in MRR to get peace of mind and have full control.
Read up on estrogen mimics:
https://www.uwec.edu/academics/college-arts-sciences/departm...

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

I think low level chemical exposure to many of these chemicals is largely to blame.
This is the crux of the problem.

If you're purely processing internal logs on an internal service, you're probably good.

If you're exposing an API or a UI to paying customers which calls Elastic search to run a query, then it's maybe not great.

Everything needs to be caveated with "maybe" or "possibly", because nobody knows how it'd go in court.
As I understand it, the challenge is syncing when changing from standalone to integrated modes. The challenge is such that most home PV can’t operate standalone.

https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/synchronizing-small-scal...
Hacker
My question would be where to learn hacking?
This seems like someone with a ideological bone to pick. You don't need to opensource your software that uses their products.

They link this article of their's at the bottom:

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2019/06/07/the-problem-...

This tells you everything about their stance:

"If these companies actually cared about the projects, they would have invested the resources to build stronger communities around them. They would have reached out to Amazon, encouraged them to contribute back to the projects, and helped them to do so."

They're very pro AWS.
I agree here, he could have just as easily mailed them cash. Pretty much the same result.
Also not a lawyer, but I find the language in the license pretty interesting and ambiguous choice of words.

> [...] where obtaining access to the Elastic Software or the features and functions of the Elastic Software is a primary reason or substantial motivation for users of the SaaS Offering to access and/or use the SaaS Offering

It seems like you can still offer Kibana to end customers, but I wonder where the cutoff line for "substantial motivation" ends.
Areading314 3 minutes ago | unvote [–]

This is an alarmist headline. The SSPL license to which they are switching only requires your code to be open sourced if you are providing Elasticsearch itself as a service. This change is directed at cloud providers who take open source software and then provide them as a service for payment without contributing to the project. If you are using Elasticsearch on your backend to build search-enabled products or websites, then this does not apply to you.

So basically AWS needs to start coughing up money
This thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10932968 gets a lot scarier now. My response then was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10933325

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: We Set a ‘Dangerous’ Precedent by Banning Trump
Clarity Smart Contract Language
Some related news in the release notes:

"This release is dedicated to the memory of Ken Thomases, who passed away just before Christmas at the age of 51. Ken was an incredibly brilliant developer, and the mastermind behind the macOS support in Wine. We all miss his skills, his patience, and his dark sense of humor."
Journalism’s Gates keepers

Columbia Journalism Review
https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-fu...
A useful article
Epic Games Expands Fortnite Legal Dispute with Apple to the UK
The Bitcoin Core (BTC) market is pushed forward only by fraud (Tether) and lies (censorship of BitcoinTalk and r/Bitcoin).

The Bitcoin Core project was hijacked and socially engineered away from the lead developers many years ago by Adam Back's Blockstream. Today it is a Ponzi scheme designed to push people onto their "second layer" solutions to "solve" the problems they themselves introduced.
But are they wearing masks?
I'm not sure if HNers worry about this because actual health risks or because of some male pride, maybe Im ignoring health risks caused by low testosterone, but I feel is quite the opposite, women are generally healthier and live longer.

If anything, low T will make you bald less, there are many unhealthy habits of the modern life, sedentarism and obesity, that have real negative impacts, its odd to me why we would specifically care about this
And Elasticsearch isn't even exploites very good by AWS. It always feels clunky to add it to a serverless architecture.

Would be cool if they would create their own solution with on-demand pricing.
You're right, I clarified in my edit that the article is misleading.
Any statement made by the leader of an acquired business unit should be read like a letter burning in a bonfire - they may mean it at the time, but they have no real power to make it true in the future.
I pretty sure if you ask people who grew up before the internet age you'd still find plenty of masturbation going on. To quote a famous scientist - life, uh, finds a way.
Engineers get paid well in SV because they are in demand, have lots of employment opportunities, and therefore are more difficult to retain.
I eat this stuff up as a constantly lonely person, not in the "I wish I had a boyfriend" sense, in the "theres nobody to talk to, ever" sense. Like you get up, you work, you consume entertainment, maybe you go on HN or Reddit or Twitter or whatever and you throw words out that other people filter through like junk food, maybe you even go so far to join a fan community for something for a week or two and talk about it a bit and then... move on, because none of this is building a meaningful relationship with another human being at all. Its just consumptive, but even trying to be creative nobody has the time or interest to see whatever "ideas you have". Everyone is stuck in their own silos of consumption at this point and it leaves a lot of us just stuck on an isolated island by themselves.

It doesn't hurt that from this position almost anyone you would find to interact with is in some way predatory. Like anyone who didn't fail at socializing has their closed off peer group they spend their time with by now. The doors closed and all that is left is this perpetual limbo of fluctuating between distracting from the sadness and being overwhelmed by it. In the same way corporate social media, entertainment, and trying to bond with others over that or the total inability to form creative bonds with others to actually make stuff are all vacuous and unfulfilling. In the same vein paying someone to keep you company ultimately cannot fill that missing piece in a person that wants others to just want them to be there for themselves. You can't commodify that.

So uh, I can highly relate to what the Japanese are going through with how even more regimented and structured their society is pressed upon them as being. Its stifling enough in the US culture of hyper-consumerism. It seems like a stifling nightmare over there. Welcome to the NHK is a great anime on this subject if anyone is interested in getting into a, to be fair romanticized, version of these kinds of experiences. It touches well on the psychological hole you get yourself in though.

Its kind of absurdist to think about, how capitalism is trying to respond to the endemic loneliness that if you really get into it can kind of be attributed to the way modern life is commodified and made competitive and consumptive. People are lonely because nobody has the time, patience, or desire left to be communal. At least not comprehensively for those of us on the social fringes. But there is no community because it isn't economically efficient to capital for one to exist. It gets eaten away to be replaced with more consumption for more profit and its leaving growing segments of society hollow husks. So you end up with rent a girlfriends and companionship bars instead of actual friends.
The main thread on this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657. It was off the front page for a while because of the flamewar detector but I've turned that off (false positive).

I've merged most of the comments thither. The ones that only make sense in the current article's context should probably stay here.
It is also clear that sperm counts have declined very significantly in the past decades. Some estimates put it at nearly 60% in Western men. But similar reports can be found for China https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67707-x.pdf
and Africa. http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?hs17052
Mortars or fireworks? That said, I agree that there were certainly protests that consistently became violent at night time for the span of at least weeks, maybe months.
TFA explains why Elasticsearch switching to SSPL is indeed a cause for concern. Money quotes:

> Basically, it’s a hostile proprietary license masquerading in open source clothing. By using an SSPL project in your code, you are agreeing that if you provide an online service using that code then you will release not only that code but also the code for every supporting piece of software, all under the SSPL.

> It’s not a stretch to interpret the wording of the license as requiring users of the SSPL’d software therefore to release the code for everything straight down to the bare metal. There are those who will point to the FAQ for the SSPL and claim that the license isn’t interpreted in that way because the FAQ says so. Unfortunately, when you agree to a license you are agreeing to the text of that license document and not to a FAQ. If the text of that license document is ambiguous, then so are your rights and responsibilities under that license... This ambiguity puts your organisation at risk.

See also: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts...
The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
straight from the quoted article:

> For a typical consumer, alarm over soy products is likely unnecessary
Re "alarmist headline": the comment was originally posted in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25781695, but it's a good subthread so I moved it over when merging the threads.
Positivity is a hallmark and recruitment tool of start-up culture. Even with its toxic excesses, I'm not sure many tech pioneers would exist without it.
Slight correction: the description for Get The Unix Timestamp references time instead of date.
I do not know what you mean. I don't know what to tell you other than the following: Nearly every "Can't We Just ...?" is old. It's kind of irritating in a way, because people behave as if their thoughts on FTL (or overunity motors to break conservation of energy, or whatever) are new and unconsidered, but they end up being just about ancient and well-worn, and it's the equivalent of some bright spark saying, "Hey, why don't we just merge the Windows and Linux kernels? Should be easy!" or "Can't you just make it know what I want?" with reference to some program.

To be sure there are nuts working in their garages on various projects, but in the scientific community, nobody is holding their breath on these fantastic breakthroughs.
Oh boy are you in for a treat

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theo...
I think his principled stance that his contributions to an open source project have to include holocaust jokes is not very compelling or principled.
It's the one ID everyone had (eventually) and should only have 1 of for their whole life which means it's perfect as a lazy way to keep just one record for every customer that'll never change.
I know the argument here has been towards being able to buy or not a specific platform (AR-15), but I would like to address this:

> So yes, you can buy some specific models of semiautomatic rifles (for hunting), but you can't buy military grade semiautomatic rifles

The semi-automatic rifles that you can buy in Portugal include the Remington 700 and the Thompson Performance Center T/C. Both can come chambered in .308 Win or 6.5 Creedmoor. Those cartridges have an immense stopping power and are significantly more powerful than the usual .223/5.56 you see in the AR-15 platform. Looking at hunting stores from Portugal, you can easily see those two rifles with 5 or 10 round magazines, same limits as the AR-15 in California.

The Remington 700 has been widely used by the military all over the world, including the US. The M24 sniper rifle is the Remington 700, but with a heavier barrel (in order to use .300 Win which the US Marine Corps preferred).

So, why is in your opinion the AR-15 platform "military grade", and the hunting rifles available in Portugal not? Knowing that both platforms have been used by the military in combat situations, and knowing the hunting platforms usually have much more powerful cartridges?
And glove box release.

Of course, there are buttons on the steering wheel and the stalks.

Edit: Model S, I don't know about others.
> I don't think drunken bar fights was ever socially acceptable anywhere but the lowest of social strata.

Not how it fits in the discussion, but I'd put duelling in the same category, and this was clearly acceptable among elites when it was acceptable overall
They would no longer be FOSS if they did that.
Only un-leveraged wealth should be measured. Meaning Musk and Bezos probably don't even make the top 10.
I still have difficulty knowing what it is.

I'd called this: a SaaS backend API and infrastructure.

It would be a great companion to a Netlify application. Since they have hosting and function as a service. I think it would be the best fit for the current state.
> We think gates is humble, kind, normal because that’s the image he wants to portray.

Maybe... however, the narrative that people never change and that any apparent changes are but a thin veneer on an unchanging person rubs me the wrong way.

I like to think I can change - that I can iron out my personality flaws and become a better person (more patient, kind, open-minded, charitable, etc.) over the decades. So why shouldn't I extend that benefit of the doubt to other people too? I assume a lot of people have an innate desire to change and improve as well since lots of people are religious, and the core message of a lot of religions is just that - that you can repent of your past mistakes, change, and become better.
Yea I read that as if E/K is used to power your backend analytics for your dev team we're OK but using for client facing reports, a key feature of your application, is blocked.
> limited ability to take full advantage of some of its unique features in many cases. The runtime and the included OTP library/paradigm has some really cool features with its approach to processes and concurrency with the actor model, and features like hot code reload. But IMO the industry and popular best practices have evolved in a different direction that make these things less compelling.

Think about it this way. You already reap a lot of benefits by just handling requests with Phoenix. Pre-emptively scheduled light-weight processes that does not have to run GC in most cases is already a huge win. Don't you think?

You certainly don't have to be 100% buy-in in every single OTP or Beam feature. Really. Actually, it makes sense to do things "the old" way when you feel more confident about them.
These do seem nice! I'd like waterproofing for swimming, but in reality it's not a deal breaker.
I'd note that hormones for women in birth control often come with some pretty heavy side effects that a lot of women aren't effectively prepared for or warned of in the mental health space.

Just adjusting one's hormone profile to hit some level you have in mind is not as easy as you imply.
Google says it’s closing the Fitbit acquisition–uh–without DOJ approval?
Thanks, obvious place to look now that I think about it, I looked at the blog section instead.
The otherday I was setting up Wine on Debian to play Diablo2, it was really painful to get all the 32bits i386 version for each wine dependencies ... Once Wine was installed it worked almost flawlessly, but those i386 libs ...

Is there a way to get Wine as a single binary / docker or something that is easy to install?

Edit: As for why it was really difficult is because of that: https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian ( The WineHQ packages for Debian 10 and later require libfaudio0 as a dependency. Since the distro does not provide it for Debian 10, users of that version can download libfaudio0 packages from the OBS. See https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32192 for details. ) That bloody libfaudio0.
> The biggest advantage of YC is not money; its the human network.

This x100. YC opens the kinds of doors only places like MIT/Stanford/Harvard open. If you can get in, it really is a cheat code.
I found training multiple models on same GPU hit other bottlenecks (mainly memory capacity/bandwidth) fast. I tend to train one model per GPU and just scale the number of computers. Also, if nothing else, we tend to push the models to fit the GPU memory.
Maximizing the Expected Value of a Lottery Ticket: How to Sell and When to Buy
> It was extremely frustrating fighting with people to follow and respect the parent company’s conventions

This post is a tutorial on how not to handle an acquisition! It's generally a bad sign for an acquisition if staff from the parent company say words like that they are "fighting to impose the parent companies culture and conventions"!

It's an acquisition, but companies are made of people, and just because a parent company does something one way doesn't mean that it will fit the company they have acquired.

Take the acquisition of Disney & Pixar. Steve Jobs stated that he wouldn't sign up to the acquisition if it meant that Disney culture would be imposed, because “Disney’s culture [would] destroy Pixar and distraction will kill Pixar's creativity". The whole structure of how the acquisition was planned was to ensure that Pixar maintained creative control and autonomy, and wasn't bulldozed by Disney Corporate.

I've lived through an acquisition too - the real factor to success is to listen and learn from each other, and build a shared way of working. Unless you are buying a failing company, you have to appreciate that they are doing something right and know their own company more than you do. And if it means you use tabs and they use spaces, that's fine.
It seems it has neither the OSI's blessing as an Open Source licence, nor the FSF's blessing as a Free Software licence. Can anyone comment on why not, given that the AGPL has the blessing of both organisations?

edit Here's an informative StackExchange comment. [0] Apparently it's a good deal stricter than the AGPL, and introduces much more legal uncertainty.

[0] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/7523/
I stopped protesting (marching) in the mid 2000s. It didn't seem to be noticed, or in any way effective, less so over time. Then my (school aged) son and I got caught in the middle of a sudden kettling while waiting for the bus.

I determined authorities were only too happy to use violence. Per that John Lennon quote. And once there's any violence, whatever message or intent is immediately lost.

So I turned to activism, lobbying instead. That seems more fruitful.

Independent of everything else, because I do have a lot of opinions, I am delighted by two developments since.

The peaceful women's march was really remarkable. I wish I knew how they avoided or short circuited the backlash.

I'm so heartened that the BLM and adjacent issues went mainstream this time. (I'm less impressed by the bored frat boys LARPing as Antifa in places like Portland. After WTO, I personally intervened to stop such nonsense where I could. Like I said, I have opinions.)

I guess I have one more opinion. I wholeheartedly support people's right to protest, march, speak, whatever. So I have zero problem with Trump supporters doing their thing and think it's fantastic we live in a place that's encouraged. Civil disobedience, rallies, occupy, whatever. I support it all.

But goddammit cut out the violence. Violence only begats more violence.
Computer vision (i.e. deep learning on images / video)
What about it amuses you?
I wonder what will happen to the AWS ElasticSearch offering.
> It's just a change to make sure that those who resell ES as a service share their code.

No, its purpose is clearly to prevent others from reselling ES as a service at all since it's effectively impossible for anyone offering ES as a service to comply with the SSPL, if they were only concerned about others that offer ES as a service sharing their code AGPLv3 would be sufficient.
I didn't realize rust and the jvm solve the same problem.