skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe not the writing, but the spirit of the permissive FOSS licenses is not to end up being swapped into a non-FOSS alternative...

Well, you can argue the spirit all day, but in practice, permissive licenses mean what they mean. Once a version is released with that license it stays that way, but subsequent versions can have a new license.

Basically, you do keep the fruits of your labor - you get Elasticsearch 7.10 and all previous versions. But you have no right to Elasticsearch 7.11.

Note: In practice I agree it's a dick move to go to a more restrictive license, and I strongly disagree with Elastic's decision to do so. It's just a greedy move that won't even make them more money in the long run because it will cripple the momentum ES has.
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At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application.

While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals.

More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accountable for (a) engaging in the system and (b) keeping the bulk of your activity on your most valuable goals.

There are certainly systems that you can implement on top of the existing applications but they leave it up to your discipline to run the system which - at least for people like me - isn't the best way. I need someone or something to force me to do this high value work: sometimes that's a boss, an admin, or coach who force me to say what my big work is and whether I am sticking to it. In the absence of that, I want the software to do it.

In retrospect it will seem silly that busy executives running multi-billion dollar enterprises are at best using the same tools that others use to, pun intended, "Remember The Milk."

If someone knows of systems that claim to help with the above, let me know. Otherwise, if you think you'll want to use something like this let me know as well.

At the very least I am building this for myself and a couple of like-minded folks. If this doesn't bring in a dollar of direct revenue, it will anyway be a win by helping us to be more focused in our high leverage work. But I am willing to open this up wider so if there's interest here, let me know and I'll let you in on the beta whenever that comes around.
Depression, lethargy, other mood issues are common for low testosterone. I’ve been thinking of getting tested myself
I agree that:

* each country has their own history and trajectory, including China, its neighbors (Japan, Taiwan, etc.), or others.

* China has much to gain from changing the world order.

But, I speculate that:

* a transition of power from a US dominated world order to a bipolar (or China dominated) world order would be chaotic and likely non-peacful, given the history of the bipolar world order of the Cold War with lots of proxy wars.

* hence the world has much to lose from such a transition of power: this is essentially the one-party stability argument of CCP applied to the world, because the world institution inherently lacks the peaceful transition of power that democratic countries have—the result will be more chaotic, and likely violent, than what US is having now.

I agree with your objections to cargo cult and magical thinking, and thus I support public discourse sans government censorship or unreasonable moderation, to find out why things are the way they are.

I love the discussion we are having now.
I'm not sure that I can't follow them all :(
Thanks! I think online content is the obvious place to start for this, but in the long run I think the concept could be applicable to identifying all kinds of things where quality can be hidden by the deluge of information:

- high quality scientific papers, instead of relying on the existing journal gatekeepers. Once again hopefully moving the incentive needle towards quality over volume

- emerging threats or risks that may not be obvious until it’s too late. Eg asbestos, the effect of social media on adolescent development, leaded petrol

- promising pre-investment startups

- Frankly, anything that currently uses crowdsourced rating - restaurants, accomodation, bands, services businesses etc etc
Postwhisper: Simple Post Sharing
- not working on, but, studying to be working on a zig backend/runtime for idris 2.

- coding integrations with and smart contracts for a defi/cefi business.
Trying to make a new GUI toolkit for embedded and desktop
https://sixtyfps.io/
https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps/
> It's actually easier to just get a change merged upstream rather than to manage a whole fork, unless the upstream is really hard to get patches merged with.

The thing is "really hard to get patches merged" is a fuzzy barrier. There are many, many example of what most would consider reasonably maintainers where companies just don't contribute back. Even in breach of GPL.
Was this with the original audio option enabled?
There is a large amount of circumstantial evidence that the plasticizers used to replace BPA, which lowers testosterone in men, also lower testosterone, and are simply less well studied.

Combined with the increased use of bottled water, takeout in plastic containers, tupperware, and other food-related uses, and the new prevalence of microplastics in our environment, it's easy to imagine this has a global effect on men's testosterone levels.
Trying to analyze my own daily journal (I've been doing a journal entry daily for almost 8+ years now).

I ran into a lot of issues with gems being out of date in ruby so I gave up on Sinatra and migrating to learning Flask so I can use the extensive python ecosystem for things like this.

I was gonna build things like this but a bit more agnostic:

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-mine-a-diary-textblob-an...
https://covid.observer is written fully in Raku.
can we partner? effintone.com
Indeed, I think it's possible that the majority of people with degrees, have jobs that are not identical to their college major.

Certainly, most of us with unemployable majors. ;-)

Another phenomenon is employers applying the "engineer" title to any technical worker, such as designers, programmers, technicians, and so forth.

Part of it is that businesses evolve towards having caste systems. When this happens, then folks in the lower castes will try to rearrange their job titles to resemble the upper castes, or change jobs.
>trying to stop the electoral process, which amounts to a de-facto coup.

Trump followed the electoral process which allows for legal challenges and never called on anyone to do anything illegal.
I don't think anyone wants another long thread recapitulating the whole debate about Twitter's obligations to to society; they can just read the thousands of HN comments that have been written in the last week about it.

What I will say is, however you hope to resolve this problem, eliminating the 230 protections is probably not the right way to go about it if you want providers like Twitter to be less intrusive, or for alternative venues to be viable at all. I think the only coherent "free speech" strategy that involves attacking 230 is accelerationism; that maybe by blowing up the US commercial Internet we'll somehow all migrate to a completely free blockchain Internet run out of the Azores or something.
Oh sorry, I thought you postulated the birthers and qanon believers were the same people.

Totally plausible but I haven't seen direct evidence. (I also haven't, say, done any analysis of historical tweets from qanon believers for the evidence)

It's ultimately unimportant as they're both part of the same overarching bullshit movement, but something sounding logical doesn't constitute valid evidence.
A dementia care coordination app.

-Alzheimer's caregiving is exhausting even with many times more informal caregivers than persons with dementia.

-It's difficult to track where everything stands, what needs to be done, and how a family member or friend can help.

I'm working on an app that helps families delegate tasks, message, and take notes in a single place with customizable permissions for what is and isn't shared.
I think a more charitable interpretation of Elastic's motives in the re-licensing would be to view them the same as your motives for your side project -- allow free use to anyone except those wanting to offer it as a hosted service. You say that you've licensed your side project with MIT and Apache2 but with an exclusion. In other words, it's neither MIT nor Apache2 and it's unclear how your exclusion would hold up legally (hopefully well!). At Elastic's scale, uncertainty over a license is too risky, so I'm sure they paid their lawyers $$$ to ensure that the SSPL would hold up in the scenarios that were important to them.
For someone who likes moist banana bread, “flax eggs” are the clear winner.
Another thing that I think takes a little getting used to coming from 3rd (or Pathfinder) to 5th is the idea of bounded accuracy:

https://olddungeonmaster.com/2014/08/30/bounded-accuracy/

The TL;DR is that AC/attack bonuses/saving throws/save DCs used to scale a lot more than they do now. The upshot of this change as a DM is that you can plan out encounters differently. Feel like your first-level characters aren't getting enough of a workout? Throw a CR 3 or 4 encounter at them. I ran Curse of Strahd as my very first 5th Edition campaign, and there was an encounter at the end of the early section where I'm like, they already lost one character earlier in the dungeon, this is a straight-up TPK. But they handled it fine, although they used about a day's worth of abilities/spells that recharge with a long rest in a single encounter. That's where I started to get a much better feel for how encounter balance works in 5e.
I encountered a keyboard with a very primitive, single player version of that feature and I was playing interesting tunes in a weekend having repeatedly made zero progress in traditional lessons.

It's so helpful to just get into the flow of playing, then the things that teachers tell you make sense.
There are maybe 150 million Americans who support BLM. Some of these protests were just a few dozen people.

America is a really freaking big place. I forget that until I read something like "500k vaccines per day means we're 2 years away from everyone getting 1 shot".
A collaborative creative writing platform called Storylocks: https://storylocks.com?source=hn

Every story on Storylocks is a serial; chapters are crowdsourced and the top-rated gets inducted into the larger story. I wanted to create a platform that lets creative writers / hobbyists contribute to larger communal & ongoing stories, but without the pressure of having to write an entire novel on their shoulders.
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (‪@brokep‬)
1/10/21, 03:05

"The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.

The most ironic thing is that TPBs enemies include not just the US government but also many European and the Russian one. Compared to gab/parlor which is supported by the current president of the US and probably liked by the Russian one too.

First time tpb got shut down was because a Mexican gang wanted some cash. Took a day to move. Second time was when the USG forced Sweden to send 50 cops and even arrest the lawyer. Took 3 days to get back online, 1.5 days was spent to get drunk and party."
I keep working on PLUMA, a platform for content creators to create sites with themes and such.

On release it will be focused on blogs and podcasts. I'd like to add Gumroad-like functionality a couple of years later (if all goes well).

It's oriented to non tech people: photographers, cooks, writers, travelers, etc, but of course developers will be welcome and will be able to post snippets of code. :)
I'm building https://newsletterss.com a newsletters reader that started as a tool that I wanted to build for my own and I felt like turning it into a side project.
I wonder if this would be a good application for Omniverse
The author said he tried `String(file.availableData, encoding: .utf8)` but the data was too large to fit in memory.

Wondering if using memory-mapped data would have helped: `Data(contentsOf:..., options: .alwaysMapped)`?
And you have your personal inroads on the sorting technology to capitalise on that! ;)
I’m building a web service that scales up video using NNs (GANs) https://upscale.app
There’s some sort of an proof-of-concept up and running, currently trying to speed things up, and lower the AWS costs. Let me know if anyone is interested in beta access.
I thought this stuff was discarded because it causes gas. If so, it seems inappropriate to replace other ingredients with it?
That would be true if corporations were just given money. But as I understand it, that's not what NZ did.

The US actually did a fairly smart thing with the initial aid package - corporations got loans that were forgiven if used to pay wages. The problem was that we (the government) didn't do anything to establish whether a company actually needed help with this.

I wonder why that happened ....
Defence Blog's website is under DDoS attack from Russia and Belarus
I think gamifying it is the right way to go- I've thought of this idea, but in another context. I don't understand how the "selling shares" would work though.

I could imagine one mechanism is that you make bets on how popular content will be, and get rewarded if it is popular (number of clicks, comments, etc.) ie popularity handicapping.

What do you do with the rewards of your bets? Maybe allow you to bump stuff to the main page? Promote content? I couldn't imagine paying for this, however.

Alternatively, you could use the mechanism to identify people who are good at identifying interesting content, and having a leaderboard of people who find cool shit. That might be monetizeable.
Super burrito is $13 at La Taqueria but you get an amazing burrito. After tax that’s about $15.
The point is that it's not a genetically determined effect.

Testosterone in your body fluctuates throughout the course of a single day, based on what happens to you in that day.

So at a societal level, we'd expect some general zeitgeist based average to fall out of other factors, potentially.
Yep there are! This is a harder problem to solve but I have plans to handle it down the road.

For now, I’m targeting it at folks who make videos in the “egghead style” [0] - short, tightly-edited code screencasts where there’s very little dead air.

0: https://egghead.io and https://howtoegghead.com
Working on:
- Analytics that actually make sense for blogs
- Likes + Comments that don't steal data (erm, Disqus...)
- An ad platform that isn't competitive

These are all being wrapped up into https://joltblock.com
Have you ever wanted to know the Hex, RGB, and Pantone colors of every NBA team? No? Well too bad because I'm building https://nbacolors.com
what do you mean by "hard-fork" ?
I thought that open distro is "hard-fork" but licence stayed apache

https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/
Pebble and Lego to test ACME with NixOS
They should start with nationalizing the ISPs?
This really seems like an overreaction that is overshadowed by weightier events. Hope they reconsider..
100% true. To be fair, we don't know 1887 testosteroms levels.
Experimenting with 3D animation by creating VJ loop packs. Maya + Redshift is a powerful combo that allows me to follow crazy ideas and still render on my home computer rig.

I'm sharing videos often including the alpha channel embedded (using the HAP codec). Also using a seedbox to distribute the videos so as to overcome hosting fees, which become costly for the amount of data I'm sharing.

https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops
My impression is that the standard version has compression/processing much like standard telephones, where most of the harmonics / overtones are removed. This ends up creating a bass heavy sound.

I would argue that over the past decade, most humans have been exposed to this kind of processing/compression and our "tastes" reflect our overwhelming exposure to this sound. Just look at how headphones are marketed these days, or any sound system for that matter. "How much bass can I get? Will it knock my socks off?"

The second portion of the video clearly has much for detail and clarity in the higher frequencies, and as a result, can sound a bit "tinnier". It doesn't come across to me as quality at which I'd love to listen to music, but it certainly helps convey the nuances of the harmonies in the piano much, much better.
I've had a recurring thought where you supplant upvotes with something like an ELO system.

Basically, my thought is that I know I can follow something like the reddiquette, or the HN rules. I'm certainly not perfect, but I don't downvote when I disagree, and I don't upvote when I agree, and I try to not make unsubstantive comments. Reddit and HN maybe used to follow this when they were very small, but as sites grow the rules always fall to the wayside.

The fix would be that you as the founder, and the X amount of friends that you know and trust, serve as a baseline for the ranking system. If someone downvotes a post that the trusted group upvotes, their influence on the site goes down as a result. Likewise, if someone upvotes the posts that you vote, their influence goes up.

You can't actually use the E-L-O system for this, as far as I'm aware, because it's not a zero-sum game. But the basic idea is that you take a known group of good actors and give users voting influence based on how similar they are to the good actors, and if you can't follow the rules (by acting similarly), you basically lose all influence on the site.
Obesity, legal marijuana, & free porn.
Zero "proof".
I'm working on a 3rd person adventure game. Went through a personal crisis in 2018/19 and started to write and paint again. Then one day on a flight to Berlin I managed to outline a story for what I was going through and I've been working on that since that moment.
Aquafaba is amazing. But since we're talking about egg replacers, here's one even more remarkable:

Carbonated water.

No joke. Carbonated water can seamlessly replace egg in almost all things where the egg provides some rising / fluffy texture (not so much binding, like aquafaba does). It won't be stepping in your quiche any time soon, but cookies, brownies, cupcakes, anything with a fluffy inside.

1/4 cup of water equals one egg. Try it, you'll be amazed.

https://iambaker.net/egg-substitutes/
Perhaps it also causes a commensurate increase in androgen receptors.
Interesting concept and I think it’s definitely worth the experiment!

If I understand the premise, what you’re trying to avoid is a hub effect (the rich getting richer) becuase traditionally users see messages already curated (e.g. with highest upvotes) and the idea is to replace that with an incentive for discovering new content.

Unless you have a way to define new content, wont you run into the same problem but now with $ tokens? E.g. one of the most upvoted news from HN is “Steve Jobs has died”. I imagine even on your system users would assume this would raise to the top and would buy a lot of “shares”, so it becomes more of a game of “predicting what will be further upvoted / echo chambered”. Am I missing something?

Again, exciting project nevertheless.
The mass per volume of gasoline is another way to reason about how much petroleum is consumed (~0.75 kg/L or ~6.3 pounds/gallon)
that may have been the original intent but that's not very valuable. we already have electronic forms of cash payment, we don't need bitcoin for that.

The IMMENSE value of bitcoin is that it can't be devalued. This is huge. In a world where nearly every fiat currency is being devalued and debased at a rapid base, there are many who are desperate for a store of value that's stable. no other fiat currency can offer this guarantee.
The problem is that nobody buys AWS ElasticSearch because of quality. They buy it because they already have AWS approved as a vendor and a blank check to spend on it.
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This is another one of those posts where I had, like, two jobs (talking to our users about a way they can set up their Fly apps, and talking about Serf) and it definitely shows, but there was no way I was ever going to take the time to revise this into two documents. You can, if you like, just skim to the "What Serf Is Doing" section if you're interested in how Serf works, which was the fun part of this post to write.

I'm sort of kicking myself for not using Serf a lot more in the past; it's kind of like an inetd for clusters.

(Also: because I am the best, I forgot to set the repo public, which it is now; the links should all work now).
1. I represent the structured documents in the index as just a text file with a special format (think JSON, but designed specifically to be queried with only regex.) This lets me execute those complex regex queries directly against a trigram text index and often have substantial portions of the query (the parts reducable down to trigrams) be indexed.

1. A side-effect of the above: You get to query every character, which can be useful in some contexts such as e.g. searching over config files, code, for grammatical errors in text documents, etc.
I don't want to muddy the water or interfere with your strategy but I would love something like that for non-dementia care where the person cared for can give input.

Either way really I think this is a beautiful idea.
Very cool. I'm trying to do something similar for VR, for live system diagrams- ie parse all the config files for the large company I work for, generate tron-like buildings for the systems by size of compute/memory, and then connect all the dataflows together like pipes. Super hard though!

EDIT: My goal is more for real time dataflow visualization, especially understanding how large systems work, and replaying data in outages to see how cascading failures work.
On reddit, we created a bellwether award. It was basically for the person who was most accurate at upvoting things that got popular and downvoting the things that did not.

The people who won the award the most were the ones that upvoted all the memes and blogspam.

My point of this is not to discourage you, but to warn you that the way you've described your platform, the most "profitable" thing to do is not upvote good content but upvote the content you'll think the most people will upvote. So you'll need to adjust for that.
Me too - jamming at about 15ms lag with Jamulus felt really natural. In fact after months of talking to other people through zoom, just chatting with my friends with low latency, high quality, and without the auto processing/muting that zoom seems to do, was amazing. Conversation just flowed back and forth better!

There’s a bunch of similar bits of software but none of them are super welcoming for the less technically inclined. I guess that the experience is often going to be limited by network performance (specifically jitter and loss on UDP) so it’s a challenging thing to make super slick/consistent. I think that low latency 5G with latency guarantees might help solve it when its widely available though.
Wow I can't believe I'm actually downvoted for this lmao. Eternal september indeed. Guess I'm getting old.