skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The industry is stagnated for exactly the reasons brought up: we don't know how to squeeze out the last mile problem because NNs are EFFING HARD and research is very math heavy: e.g., it cannot be hacked by a Zuck-type into a half-assed product overnight, it needs to be carefully researched for years. This makes programmers sad, because by nature we love to brute force trial-and error our code, and homey don't play that game with machine learning.

Uh what? You can literally finetune a Fast.ai model overnight to be borderline SOTA on whatever problem you have data for. 0 Math involved, isn't that exactly a hacker's wet dream?
"open source" appears 19 times, but they very very carefully weasel-word their way away from saying they are still open source. but wow how close they come, how much it seems to imply they still are going to be open source. some examples:

> SSPL is a source-available license created by MongoDB to embody the principles of open source while providing protection against public cloud providers offering open source products as a service without contributing back.

forgive me for not immediately seeing that this is an "open source inspired" license, not open source.

> As previously mentioned, over the last three years, the market has evolved and the community has come to appreciate that open source companies need to better protect their software in order to maintain a high level of investment and innovation.

...by no longer releasing open source software

> As previously mentioned, over the last three years, the market has evolved and the community has come to appreciate that open source companies need to better protect their software in order to maintain a high level of investment and innovation.

again, "we value the same principles as open source... but we're not going to be open source any more" obfuscation.

your doubt is unbecoming, bevacqua.
We already have this. It's called WBTC and TBTC. Turns out it's way easier to port Bitcoin to Ethereum than to rebuild Ethereum on Bitcoin.
Keep an eye on the helicopter colors. Are the unmarked helicopters circling the area black? Probably World Government.

We had a drug task force mass arrest staged a few years back. I swear the DEA and other agencies did everything they could to kick up the paranoia. It was unreal how they checked all the 'conspiracy nut' boxes in one operation.

They cut the internet and cell phones in the area. Real nice since we had an online class going. They drove around in black SUVs and, just so stupid, had black helicopters flying overhead. I guess they did arrest some people, but I question that too. I'm sure someone was super pleased with themselves.
What’s the hourly?
>they are not afraid of neoliberalism, which is the defacto economic position of both the left and the right, but of "communism." Biden is a "communist," or "godless," or "anti-American." What do these statements actually mean?

Compare:

>Fascism is strongly opposed to the individualism found in classical liberalism. Fascists accuse liberalism of de-spiritualizing human beings and transforming them into materialistic beings whose highest ideal is moneymaking.[261] In particular, fascism opposes liberalism for its materialism, rationalism, individualism and utilitarianism.[262] Fascists believe that the liberal emphasis on individual freedom produces national divisiveness.[261] Mussolini criticized classical liberalism for its individualistic nature, writing: "Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; ... It is opposed to classical Liberalism ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual."[263] However, Fascists and Nazis support a type of hierarchical individualism in the form of Social Darwinism because they believe it promotes "superior individuals" and weeds out "the weak".[264] They also accuse both Marxism and democracy, with their emphasis on equality, of destroying individuality in favor of the "dead weight" of the masses.[265]

...

Fascists saw contemporary politics as a life or death struggle of their nations against Marxism, and they believed that liberalism weakened their nations in this struggle and left them defenseless.[268] While the socialist left was seen by the fascists as their main enemy, liberals were seen as the enemy's accomplices, "incompetent guardians of the nation against the class warfare waged by the socialists."[268]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology#Liberalis...

I think an issue we're seeing is American schools don't really teach anything about the Fascists outside of the context of WW2 itself and the Holocaust, and it means regular people don't recognize it in the Republican's rhetoric.
Sounds like a market solution, does it not?

To be clear, what I mean is that they are demonstrably not "the law." This is a market problem and this was the market solution.
The article itself mentions one driving factor (Chromebooks) and fails to mention another (iPad). Microsoft seems to want to meet those "computer as appliance" users where they are (in education, in families, in secondary/tertiary devices all around modern homes).

Microsoft seems caught between a rock and a hard place in branding this "appliance OS" effort. They want to piggyback on top of Windows technically (the NT kernel is still a good foundation, the capabilities-based sandbox of the UWP platform is modern enough to drive a good "appliance OS", etc), and they seem to want to piggyback on overall familiarity with Windows in the design experience ("it's just Windows but lighter, see here's a Start button with Windows logo") as a potential competitive advantage.

It's almost painful to watch these competing problems fight each other ("it's just Windows, but it isn't" is a terribly subtle and confusing marketing message, and they keep learning that the hard way and trying to fix the "but it isn't" rather than the "it's just Windows"). Microsoft probably just needs to rip the bandaid off, take a play from Apple (or Xbox), and call it "Surface OS 10" or something.
We could put a heat map of political affiliation, education, and income to see if maybe a correlation. Not too difficult to find out.
I think you misunderstood the article. Only businesses like AWS that exploit FOSS to repackage it for profit should be concerned by this license.

If you use it internally to store and analyze metrics/logs/whatever, than you're fine as you where before.

Edit: The problem is the article itself that does a very bad job in explaining the problem. I think it's better to read directly from elastic: https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change

The "Why change" section explains it pretty well.
Welcome to Night Vale is a fiction podcast in the form of a radio show from a remote small town in which all sorts of strange things happen — aliens, vast conspiracies, mad cultists, supernatural beings, etc etc. Straddles the line between dryly funny and legitimately creepy. It's worth a listen if you enjoy that kind of thing.
Lots of salty kids in here trying to justify spending 6 years as an anonymous hyperparameter tuning drone in the Stanford AI Lab.
> my 40 foot sea view apartment is in a 50 floor apartment building

So the buildings would double as a tsunami wall? Interesting, though kind of self-defeating.
Given Breitbart's reputation, the publication date, and the title:

This is at-least one source of coal (and other fossil fuels) being politicized this election cycle.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/29/joe-biden-no-c...
The Elastic blog post announcing the change never says exactly those words, but it repeatedly talks about being an "open source company" with an "open source product" -- despite the fact that Elasticsearch is now available under a choice of two different licenses, neither of which is "open source" under any reasonable definition.

(The other option, the Elastic License, allows you to use the product in either source or binary form, but you may not make derivative works or compile your own binaries except for testing.)
I don't think you'll find a lot of lawyers who specialize in speech and 230 that agree with this interpretation either, and it would have extremely wide-ranging consequences for the entire Internet that the fiercest advocates of this position would not like at all.
I'll agree, but I really do think being a successful politician is probably heavily correlated to being prone to corruption/other immoral acts. The type of people who are attracted to and capable of succeeding at political are necessarily immoral. Those with morals generally lose elections and aren't able to raise money.
Also, why is SSPL not open source? As far as I can tell, it mostly just seems like the APGL, but taken to 11. I can definitely appreciate why it's a problematic license, but I don't think "not open source" is its problem.
I think this is a very fair analysis. Kaczynski definitely put his finger on something fundamental about the impact of technology on society. Among his fans are left-wing anarcho-primitivists as well as right wing eco-fascists and while they have fundamentally different views of tribalism and identity there's a lot of overlap between them, and it's not unknown to see people in one group drift into the other.

Kaczynski has also continued to write while in prison and his work is thought-provoking notwithstanding the paradoxes involved (eg how technology has facilitated the spread of his anti-technological ideas). His views don't fit neatly into any political category.
thanks for the feedback:

- grammar: thanks, I'm not a native English that's correct, I'll try harder.

- pricing: My thought is that offering only 3 tier would be way too big of a leap from tier to tier.

- Firebase: I do have a fully disconected and local development server that helps during building phase. It's free, but I can see your point.

- vendo lock-in: My main objective is exactly that, to have an easy way to self-host and even get the source code once a product reach scale. Something that not much BaaS offer.
Prism is the tool. But I assume that the paradigm is surveilling/fighting small groups not large mobs going slowly insane. But this is just a bedroom idea.
I think these are relevant from the Elastic blog post:

- no impact on the overwhelming majority of our user community

- no impact on our cloud customers or self-managed software customers

Also, this helped calm my nerves: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
> I think that what should be sought is another "Section 231" that makes banning users from platforms must go through the justice system, just like if you wanted to ban someone from the town square.

These platforms aren't remotely the town square. The comparison has been made to them being the shopping mall, and I think it's apt.

> Unilateral and permanent banning just creates more problems

Creating government red tape when swift action is needed to remove users who violate the rights of others or harm others is not the answer. The latitude service providers are given to remove objectionable content enables the internet to work quite well. From what I've seen, the biggest complaints of censorship are defending the indefensible, and for support of that claim I direct your attention to the evidence Amazon gathered in response to Parler's lawsuit.

> This gives platforms a scapegoat, "the government won't let me", but still allows the platform to do things like not list "bad" people in the "discover" feed and make better mute/ignore features

If a shop that you're forced to allow in your shopping mall is doing money laundering and arms trafficking, I don't think the answer is 'just remove them from your mall's map while you file a lawsuit against them'.
Heck....I just used Tcl/Expect to automate 1000s of transactions in one of our legacy systems. I tried a number of expect implementations (python, go, java), but found them all lacking or overly complicated compared to the original Expect.

If you need to automate old terminal apps, you really can't do any better at the moment.
Mhh fair enough, guess I'm just a fan of ideals in science.
I suspect that the argument of "You should violate your personal principles because I want you to (just this once for me, and then you can go back to not violating them)" coming from an anonymous account on an internet message board is too flimsy to consider.
Exactly this. People assume I own a private island somewhere because I've been at my publicly-traded company for 20yrs and have the accumulated wealth from all that stock growth.

But when the stock first grew, we all sold b/c it was worth a lot back then. Then it grew again and we sold more. And again and again.

The only people still holding original stock were those who didn't need it (e.g. already wealthy), and were willing to gamble on continued growth, because they could afford to watch the stock drop in value and not miss it.
This is a common trope and is true for some journeymen/business owners, but does not necessarily apply to the majority of plumbers and tradespeople in general. The guy that Whoops-O-Rooter sends to your house to snake your drains or fix a leak is not likely to be in a high income bracket.
Tech coalition working to create digital Covid-19 vaccination passport
There would be a whole ecosystem of scavengers, the human type, looking for valuable trash. It's amazing what cheap think of yesteryear is worth quite a bit today because of materials changes, or longevity, or nostalgia, etc.
Moving bitcoins to Stacks is easy, since Stacks reads the Bitcoin chain. But how do you move them from Stacks back to the Bitcoin main chain? Since Bitcoin clients aren't aware of Stacks, it's difficult to see how that would work without trusting someone to issue the correct transaction.

I looked over the Stacks site and didn't see a clear answer to this question.
> It can remain on version 7.10, but then it will no longer receive future updates

Does this mean anyone using version 7.10 or lower is not bound by SSPL license and Apache2 still applies?
> However, places where it isn't stagnating are things like vibration and anomaly detection. This is a case where https://github.com/YumaKoizumi/ToyADMOS-dataset really shines because it adds something that didn't exist before, and it doesn't have to be 100% perfect: anything is better than nothing.

This is a link to a dataset, unless I'm missing something it's not about anomaly detection. I looked into this area a few years ago and always try to keep my eye open for breakthroughs... care to share any other links?
It’s important to understand that gates and his people have put in a _lot_ of work to reform his image in the last 20 years.

We think gates is humble, kind, normal because that’s the image he wants to portray.

I agree his philanthropy goes a little further than typical billionaire reputation laundering, but he still has a limit. For example, he said he’d vote for trump if the dem candidate supported a wealth tax.
They are a public company (private in the sense I know you mean it) and should be treated as such.

They are a public company that publishes certain opinions by allowing individuals who are willing to espouse those opinions access, while not allowing others.

They are a public company that blocks other opinions from being heard (on other platforms) in association with other technology giants, by removing the ability for other private or public corps any access to meaningful internet services unless they do not stay in the opinion lanes the giants are comfortable with.

They are a public company that is using their position and status to shape public discourse in the United States, and they should absolutely be treated as such. Here's hoping.
But filibuster procedure can be removed by a simple majority.
Quants don't care about floating point precision in research. It's just applied stats
Just because cloud services make it basically impossible to get resources for your project doesn't mean you're allowed to actually do something about it. Apparently.
Yes.

Source: someone who just declared Dropbox critical despite having invested an ungodly amount of time into first an old PC with ubuntu and nextcloud and now my NAS box which I love dearly but is a complete dumpster fire even though I'm tech-literate enough to engage with the enormous number of low-level decisions it regularly throws at me.

It gets new security vulnerabilities every damn week so you can't just turn on the public-facing web services. If you still want those -- and if you want it to replace cloud services, you do -- you'll need to configure the VPN, which is an enormous hassle on both client and server. Also, sometimes there's an update and it just stops working until you pay attention to it. Ditto for network shares, but I think the problem there is in Android / iOS network filesystem implementations. It often Just Doesn't Work, and then I try dropbox and it Just Works. Even when the NAS network share does work, managing permissions is a nightmare, even for simple setups, ditto storage, ditto the VM that theoretically runs nextcloud but in practice gets taken down by an update on a regular basis.

For my next NAS I'm going to try Synology, but they depend on many of the same open source projects that I've seen Just Not Working on the QNAP side, so I'm not terribly hopeful.

Nextcloud devices look promising in the long run but the market hasn't shaken out yet so you're either going to have to invest tons of time in research or you're going to have to do trial and error. In both cases you'll have to make up for deficiencies.

https://nextcloud.com/devices/
ssh client, but not ssh server? or am I mistaken?
While working in France a couple of decades ago, I found that I got better service if I botched the accent and stuck to basic language (which I was ok at) than if I tried to match accent, use l'argot and sound native (which is my tendency) and screwed up language.

It was a helluva realization about psychology.
Where's the vilification?
I consider myself a classic liberal, not a leftist most people on the left assume I am a conservative, most on the right assume I am a leftist because of my belief in social liberties. I bring this up, because I am generally the hey, hey, hey lets give this guy, the benefit of doubt voice, but I have to agree with you on this one, there is not much to read between the line on, with what this guy is saying. We don't even really have to use polito-speak words like dog whistle to make it look like that is what he is saying. He is saying it very clear and his meaning is very clear this guy is/was a white supremacist's.
Impact on others isn't a function of how painful the sacrifice is to you, it's a function of how much value you provide to them.
Yes. A typical SoC is assembled using thousands of lines of TCL to drive the various EDA tools that are involved in the design process.
They are dangerously vague. Is AWS at concern or the log as a service providers? Are you willing to take that risk?
Please, don't forget, Bitcoin Core (BTC) was hijacked years ago by corporate interests and purposefully crippled with high fees.

From day one Bitcoin was designed to have low or no fees, it is only because Blockstream was able to wrestle control of the GitHub repo and stop the block size increase arbitrarily that high fees exists.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) long ago took over the "Bitcoin" project as designed by Satoshi Nakamoto and described in his White Paper. Bitcoin Core (BTC) is a broken system designed to enrich developers of "Second Layer" solutions like this.

BTC has failed completely as Peer-to-Peer Digital Cash and today is push only by charlatans and scammers.
It's not a non-event, it's just invisible. A divestiture plan is erosion instead of a mud slide.

The swing in the stock price every day is fueled by supply and demand. The stock goes up 20c because the only person selling it wants a little more than the last sale price. It goes down 20c when someone wants to sell at the last price but the only people willing to pay that much already bought their shares. And that's not even including what happens to stop and limit orders that trigger automatically when the stock swings just a little bit farther than people anticipated. Just a small shift changes the slope of the price trend, which may cause people to shift demand away from that stock.

These days, when I'm mostly hands-off with my portfolio, more of my orders expire than actually trigger. Sometimes only just missing having done so.

It's part of the magic thinking about the stock market. We don't often discuss it in this sort of thread, but we definitely do when people are talking about HFT and AI for stock purchases and sales. Your orders don't happen in a vacuum, and they can affect future orders.
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> Turns out it's way easier to port Bitcoin to Ethereum than to rebuild Ethereum on Bitcoin.

Technically that might be the case but in the real world you have network effects, inertia, and all kinds of other reason why it might be desirable to go in the other direction.

The ease has to be examined from the perspective of the system as a whole and not just the one component.
That's probably because only 5% of the world had access to the internet at the time.
The way I understand it, AWS has been creating derivative products that don't work very well based on ELK. AWS has also not been contributing back to the community anything, while raking in the millions for https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/the-elk-stack/

Many elastic pros recommend not using the AWS version because it doesn't operate properly.

While I am pro OSS I can understand why a company based on OSS would not want to subsidize a much larger AWS who is extracting value, and also, their direct competitor.

When I talked with AWS about an estimate for Managed ELK, and also, an EC2 based ELK, I received estimates > 50M a year. Crazy pricing
>“The whole messaging of this pandemic is you’re stuck at home teleworking, that must be really tough so here are some recipes for sourdough starter, and here’s what you should catch up on Netflix,” Papageorge said. “But what about the people who aren’t teleworking? What are they going to do?”

We've kinda entered this situation where the most vulnerable people are being shamed while the most able are held up as paragons of society. There's a reason that stupid video of celebrities in their mansions singing was so hated.
That's not true. Cafes that cater to lonely straight men or misogynistic businessmen exist worldwide.

Just one example: All the different "café con piernas" cafes in Chile, which are very similar to Japanese maid cafes.
This was him volunteering it, to trusted people behind closed doors. He didn't need to say anything.

He could say yes, he could say no, he could say "I'm not going to discuss my past", but he said bullshit.
This. Nothing wrong with looking at the bright side, but like with everything, there’s a balance. When confiding in Pollyanna friends, you walk away either feeling not understood, or worse, thinking they’re liars, even to themselves.
Man, you have not been major city areas if you think japan is tidy. Sure, compared to the US it maybe is, but a lot of european countries are better. But travel a bit further from the city centres in japan and you’ll start seeing all those illegal trash sites at quiet mountain roads and yards full of old trash.
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In terms of framing as a Western narrative... This is an article in the Mainichi, a major Japanese newspaper. Original Japanese version here: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210111/k00/00m/040/021000c
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I use unlock origin, I didnt eve know there were ads on YouTube.
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