skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are trusting facebook in any matter, you are misunderstanding something. Whatever they say, they have the keys to decrypt it. It is like trusting the thief to guard your house.

I dislike this "ZuccNet" as the real goal should be abandoning facebook ecosystem but I still think that anything for naive people is better than nothing, so thumbs up.
What good would come of such revenge?

Edit: to expand, if (god forbid) someone did that to my daughter, my instinct would not be to kill them, it would be to find them, talk them, to understand why they did it. And to try somehow to make them truly understand the consequences of what they had done. I don't feel like killing them would achieve any of that.
The FSF gives people permission to modify the GPL as MongoDB did https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

They do not require in that license to modify the GPL license that you keep the original copyright attribution around.

(IANAL - not legal advice, etc etc)
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I've used my lunch to take hot relaxing baths a number of times.
Because dems took total power in the elections and Apple and Google know they are under the antitrust microscope. Its likely indirect bribery in hopes of a returned favor.
Could you elaborate on complexity estimations? Not sure what it means.
> Still in the app stores I see.

That's because this stuff was a tiny fraction of the activity on Facebook (it's HUGE, and still mostly for baby pictures), but a substantial fraction of the content on Parler and Gab (they're tiny, and mostly for the stuff that Facebook and Twitter ban).

A lot of people who object to Parler's treatment want this conceived as a simple binary, but it's more of a matter of degree an proportion.
For me, the most frustrating is the failure mode. With people, not being popular doesn’t mean you won’t meet or date, it means you will have a constant negative experience. You may date a nice girl (boy in my case) but the relationship will be taxing, as in you’ll have to work more for the relationship than the other person.

It is entirely justified and reasonable, but if you didn’t notice the gap, you will end up believing people have a bad character.
This reminds of a somewhat recent instance:

AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

[0] https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050
Fiction.live looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing it. Might want to check out https://twinery.org/ if you haven't already
> AGPL does not restrict how you use the software, rather, it requires that you offer the same freedoms to your users as the original license offered to you. You can sell AGPL'd software.

But doesn't SSPL allow you to offer ElasticSearch-as-a-Service as long as you contribute the source code that makes it work? Many have commented on how that requirement is a no-go for AWS however they are not a priori forbidden by the license from doing so.
Google launches Product Discovery Solutions, AI-powered solutions for retailers
I'm not surprised, having had the exact same debate about MongoDB a couple of years back.

Elastic has iterated over and over, taking years to remove obvious problems with their products, building heavily on the community for input about their needs, but still managing to ignore them for a long time. I still remember searching for anything that's not Kibana since their interface has been dreadful (and probably still is). I remember people turning away from Logstash to Fluentd and others pretty early, but don't know the exact reasons. I remember when pretty important and frankly "core" stuff like authentication and authorization among others moved into Shield and other specialized commercial plugins.

They have leveraged almost a decade of developer good-will to cope with their inherent architectural problems and to fight for introducing "weird open source software" in their respective companies and ultimately give them their street cred of "logging aggregation == ELK". Now, after most of their stack "just works" like people expect it to, they throw it all away, putting people who fought for them in license jeopardy while pointing the finger at Amazon? I don't have any sympathy for this. It's your business, if it fails, nobody is at fault but yourself, especially if you a 14B behemoth. May the exodus begin, it's long overdue.
Apache SkyWalking – application performance monitor tool for distributed systems
It’s also, what functions does Facebook serve beyond organizing violence? Clearly it’s a lot.

You can reasonably discuss banning handguns because they are only used to commit violence. You can’t reasonably discussing the ban of all knives, telling people who ask “how am I supposed to cook?” that they just need to bite their food into little pieces.
Sounds like some serious mental gymnastics to me. And also not provable with any specific metrics.
> Russian-based firm DDoS-Guard said in a statement to The Hill it started servicing Parler on Sunday night. The firm said Parler is not using DDoS-Guard as a hosting site, but did not detail what services it is providing the platform.

I don't know if your statement is true, and since this thread is about "truth", maybe this needs further investigation.
Why Amazon Is Being Sued by Social Media Site Parler
Floating point multiplication and division are generally much safer in terms of precision loss than addition or subtraction, and on the flip side you could easily be more than a penny off with zero operations if the quantities involved were large enough.

Quibbles aside, they're not suggesting doing accounting with floats. E.g., suppose you want to estimate the expected value of an option. You'll have a model that attempts to describe that option's behavior (e.g. Black Scholes), and you want to evaluate that model with a certain set of parameters. The model itself is imperfect, and given the transcendentals involved even if it were flawless there would be a guaranteed loss of precision when attempting to clamp a real option to its predicted expected value. The model is a tool that guides decisions, but nobody really cares if it's off by a little bit because there are a ton of other error sources anyway. 1 in 10^14 is more than good enough.

Edit: Unless you're just suggesting that people should do a little numerical analysis and be cognizant of the total error in a model?
"The very fast charge allows us to downsize the battery without incurring range anxiety," said Wang.

This seems to be Apple's approach with Lithium Titanate. The user has to think a lot less about charge time (5 min), and loss of performance from temperature. If Apple can't match the range numbers, then they will attack "experience."
Ask HN: What are the best tools to aid working memory?
Given that short term memory/ working memory of any individual is limited, and that programming places a lot of demand for working memory (remembering different variables/ functions/ api and how they interact). What are some tools/tricks that everyone uses to help expand working memory?
Would anyone consider licenses the specifically exclude certain companies?
Agree.

Government acquisitions regulation for tech itself is also a good example.(for COTs products, contracting dev/integration, consulting, research, etc). Gov't acquisition law has become so complex, yet has one single constraint in mind with every update:

Protect and enable small and disadvantaged businesses.

It's not perfect, in many new ways inefficient, but seems to do its job.

But what is the constraint we need when it comes to propagating information? It's not as objectively clear as the acquisition case.
I find my work life to be mostly better, but feel stress from the social isolation and, especially, the political upheaval and US public health disaster. That, and worrying about loved ones who can’t wfh.
See also VentureBeat article about this:

Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/google-launches-suite-of-...
Bootstrap v4.6.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25835256
It really doesn't, but ok.

Facebook has a huge moderation team. Just because some things get through that cause damage doesn't put it in the same category as a platform specifically built to enable terrorism.
My high school assigned it. Thinking back now, I'm sure this was a mistake: most of the themes Gatsby deals with are way ahead of high-schoolers and just won't resonate with anyone under thirty.
At what content share threshold should an app be taken off of the App Stores for hosting objectionable content?
> I think it'll be a good thing when people stop worrying about process node technology and start worrying about performance and power usage.

I think it's more that people attribute too much significance to process node technology when trying to understand why performance & power are what they are.

For single-core performance the gains from a node shrink are in the low teen percentage increases. Power improvements at the same performance are a bit better, but still not as drastic as people tend to treat it as.

10-20 years ago just having a better process node was a massive deal. These days it's overwhelmingly CPU design & architecture that dictate things like single-core performance. We've been "stuck" at the 3-5ghz range for something like half a decade now and TSMC has worse performance here than Intel's existing 14nm. Still hasn't been a single TSMC 7nm or 5nm part that hits that magical 5ghz mark reliably enough for marketing, for example. And that's all process node performance is - clock speed. M1 only runs at 3.2ghz - you could build that on Intel's 32nm without any issues. Power consumption would be a lot worse, but you could have had "M1-like" single-core performance way back in 2011 if you had a time machine to take back all the single-core CPU design lessons & improvements, that is.
The goal of similar questions (also, my favourites: have you ever been training child soldiers, or have you been involved in a violent overthrow of a legal government) is to make any discrepancy a separate immigration offense - making it a jurisdiction of Immigration Court, with expedited process whilst you have limited rights and deportation at the end.
Jason from Elastic here.

>To give the story a bit more context, I always felt that Elastic built on Lucene without giving much back.

I would love to understand why you have this perspective? Investing in and contributing to Lucene is a core part of the Elasticsearch team. We contribute more to Lucene than any other organization, some of our employees are amongst the top committers, and several of our employees are members of the Lucene PMC. We give back to and [celebrate][0] Lucene openly. We love Lucene.

Disclaimer: I am an engineer on the Elasticsearch team; I welcome any and all feedback.

[0]: https://www.elastic.co/celebrating-lucene
perfectly fine shitty radio

Hah! What a great bit of word-smithing there. I love it. Yes, that's a good description of the Baofeng radios. They're crap, but they're fine crap. Cheap, but workable as a beginner radio. I bought mine right when I got my Technician license, and it's served well for dipping my toes in the water a little. But I'll be buying a higher quality radio soon, if all goes according to plan.
The point is that it have zero real-world hardware support.

Yeah you can buy playstation controllers and hack them, but that is not realistic. (to quote the state of the art on the links you posted)

Would write graphical interface code if a color monitor and a mouse required the end user to solder stuff and compile kernel drivers? While every game already had those two things but tied down to the facebook app? ..that's how insane VR is today (and for the foreseeable future)
A lot of discussion around Docker in general is rehashing stuff that lxc did a long time ago, so this fits the mold.
"Of all the images I have seen of the attempted coup, I have only seen baofeng radios."

I actually didn't see any HTs used by poll workers, but yes, Baofengs are garbage.
Can a private water company decide that people in orange shirts should not get water? Same here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25835408.
> Censorship won't solve it. Never has in history. Never will.

As long as you consider the Trump ban "censorship", it appears that it did, in fact, improve matters at least once. To wit: the article you're responding to.

Before the internet, it was infinitely more difficult to reach an audience. People weren't "banned" or "censored" or "canceled". They just were not published nor broadcast. If you insisted, you could maybe ditto a few hundred copies of your 'zine[0]. You can still do so today.

And yet, democracy thrived. It was the time people came up the idea of history "bending towards justice". Something that seems laughably naive today.

> Open, honest, fair discussions are what's going to squash them and organically strip membership."

That statement is just obviously disproven by very recent history and current reality. QAnon isn't caused by some media failure to prove that George Soros isn't actually harvesting children's brains. It's mass psychosis not connected to reality. To use a non-Trump example: Holocaust denial isn't caused by a lack of relevant information.

[0]: Those hand-driven duplicators are where the term. "crank" originated, which shows their spiritual connection to today's chaos.
The new SSPL license requires them to open source a lot more, including user interfaces, backup mechanisms, and anything else necessary to offer the service
An accusation today can ruin a person, more so than ever before.
Golang proposal: io/ioutil move Discard, NopCloser, ReadAll to io
I'm sure public support for removing Facebook from app stores wouldn't be too different than Parler. If we are principled people, and FB is failing to moderate, then any reasonable person who supported Parler's removal would support Facebook's. What would be different between the two decisions is the sheer magnitude of money on the line, in the case of Facebook's removal -- in capital markets, in employment, etc.
Sure, I'm saying that would be a fairer comparison - getting output from something that has no defined interface.

So why not compare apples to apples, how would powershell extract the MAC from ifconfig output? If that's more flexible or powerful than bash with standard UNIX tools, then that might be impressive!
> This just means their CTO was sloppy, Amazon legal department would have never allowed that tweet.

But the tweet is still up: https://twitter.com/Werner/status/649738362086027265 (archive: https://archive.is/0py42)

Pretty sure legal has reviewed it like a 100 times by now: AWS' taking no prisoners here.
And some immigration lawyers can perhaps successfully argue that it was due to sincere change of heart - no intent at the time of answering the question. /s
It's probably also rooted in the fact that the owner/CEO of facebook is much richer and better connected.
"a platform specifically built to enable terrorism" this is hyperbole. We shouldnt have 2 companies arbitrarily determining what the thresholds are for a service/app to exist.
Actually, for me it's turning out to be the opposite. Since I got used to working from home I feel like this is the perfect work environment for me. And I do not have a dedicated room for it. I work usually in my sleeping room. I have no children though.

I love how I can enforce no distractions by putting on my ANCs. No obnoxious colleagues who pathologically crave attention. No forcing of smiles and laughter when somebody tells a joke that isn't funny but obviously a subtle attempt to gauge power dynamics. I just put a smily in the chat if I feel like it and that's it. Every now and then I do 10 minutes of breathing exercises. I can talk while thinking - which is an important tool I never could use since university.

After work I switch to my personal laptop and just ignore my work phone. Done.

I can say with certainty I have never feeled so productive and relaxed at work.
Tell us more about the prank! I like your style, although am running out of lavish takeouts near us... we've already tried them all.
Times in my life that I have seen someone racing to their car while the alarm is going off to chase off the supposed thieves:

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Sorry, what do you mean « being a jerk »?

I know I’m sounding naive, but if it’s something you decided to change and were able to, maybe it could be interesting.
Co-founder here - Open Design is the result of 5 years of building tools around proprietary design file formats like Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, or XD.

We’ve built a developer toolkit to programmatically read, change, and display design data called Open Design. The key idea behind it is to give developers access to design data outside the interface of design tools so they could build and automate workflows at scale. We enable you to convert any number of design files, regardless of their file format, to one unified and easily readable JSON-based format Octopus.

Using the Octopus format, you’ll get unified access to all design data like layer styles, text content, colors, or layout coordinates. With this data, you can easily replace manual tasks in your Design Process and Design Ops with automations like: switching styles at scale, connecting design data with code, generating localized design versions, auto-updating image assets in code, converting design formats, and more.

You can check out the documentation through the link above.

Please AMA, I’d love to hear your thoughts or questions.
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Well, adding this condition:

> Outside of the more technically inclined...

Makes it hard to definitively answer your question:

> Does anyone who is a long-form (novel) writer actually use Markdown?

I am aware of published authors who've used Ulysses, a Markdown-based multi-document editor for the Mac, for writing novels.[1] Semi-famously, mystery author David Hewson is a huge Ulysses fan, and wrote his own book about his process. I don't get the impression Hewson is super technically inclined the way, say, Matt Gemmell -- a software engineer turned novelist who's also a huge Ulysses fan -- clearly is. Some of the appeal for non-nerds is, I think, part of what grognards like George R.R. Martin and Robert Sawyer argue gives WordStar for DOS a big appeal: it's just you and your text with very little else to distract you. I've personally found that a bit overstated (most word processors have some kind of "draft mode" that, while perhaps not as minimal as just You And Your Plain Text, gets the job done), but it's clearly a thing, and I admit I enjoy writing in Ulysses more than I would expect.

Ulysses does, it's worth noting, have the capability to compile and export documents to Microsoft Word format. It's not as flexible (or overengineered) as Scrivener's compilation tools, but that's really something you should be saving until you have what you think is the final draft -- Ulysses and Scrivener, and for that matter NovelWriter, are ultimately composition tools, not editing tools. (Once you're in a "dialogue" with your editor sending Word documents with embedded revisions and comments, your manuscript is almost certainly going to stay in Word.)

I've written two novels with Scrivener, but I am slowly moving toward Ulysses for a variety of reasons -- but they are, indeed, technical reasons. I don't find the "detritus of special characters" to be particularly annoying with a well-chosen Ulysses theme; the underlines/asterisks are faded out and the italics and bold are, well, italics and bold, and for fiction that's virtually all I need.
Well I don't have kids, used to commute 3 hours per day, and still burning out. The lockdown was amazing at first, but I really am starting to feel like I'm only thinking about work 24/7, that I'm not being productive, that I can't do anything besides work, etc.
So efficiency is always going to be some A divided by some B. Traditionall with rocket engines it means impulse divided by propellant mass expended. But given that there are both electric thrusters with much higher ISP and electric thrusters with much lower ISP (e.g. resistojets) I'm not seeing any reasonable efficiency metric under which I think the claim is plausible. Even in terms of losses electric thrusters that don't have to ionize their propellant have a pretty big advantage.
I generally agree with your overall thesis here.

There are of course psychopaths, and people with psychosis in all groups, but you simply don’t get mobs or organized groups of such people en masse for fairly obvious reasons.

But when you say this: “They're terrified because they really believe that their favored candidate was illegally robbed of office.”

You leave out that a significant part of the group of non lunatics think that the cause is a cabal of globalist canibalistic pedophiles.

When we talk about not dismissing concerns, it seems comparatively easy not to dismiss concerns about election integrity. It also seems comparatively easy not to dismiss concerns about how trade policy has invested in other nations to the neglect of many everyday Americans (to cite some examples).

What is not so easy not to dismiss is the concern about the conspiracy of cannibalistic pedophiles.

I say this not to say we should dismiss anyone’s concerns, but to elaborate on what the challenge seems to have become.
MSFT was broken apart. The DOJ trial only began after a decade of microsoft abusing their market position and destroying numerous companies.

I'm saying large industry has undue influence over the regulators and so action only comes when companies like Elastic have gone bankrupt.
Right, that’s why I mention that that is the theory. In practice it is not a great deterrent, but it will deter some none the less because it brings attention to something happening.
WTF is even real life. There are hundreds of them. https://www.amazon.com/Chuck-Tingle/e/B00SF2MTYK

One of my favorite titles is "Creamed In The Butt By My Handsome Living Corn"
Just as much as their much-hated Amazon https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-giving-back-a...
America in 20 years if trends don’t change
Legal classification is very often qualitative (see: obscenity laws). Not everything in life can be boiled down to metrics.
> I'm not at all sympathetic to the "we have to crush this viewpoint" camp since they amplified Hillary's claims of a "stolen election" for years.

Clinton never claimed the counting of the votes were rigged, and I know of no serious politician claiming that Clinton should be installed as president because of the claimed Russian meddling, whether they believed it or not.

So, on one hand, we have a candidate who was pretty much dropped like a hot potato by fellow Democrats the moment she lost the election. On the other hand, we have mainstream media giving hundreds of hours of coverage to a president insisting he actually won the election, when all evidence says he didn't. ...And you're saying who is censored?
Never seen so many bleeding aerials!
C, C++, Rust, & Go compile to an abstract machine, instead. It is quite hard these days to get it to do something different between x86, ARM, and Power, except relying on memory model features not guaranteed on the latter two; and on M1 the memory model apes x86's. Given a compatible memory model (which, NB, ARM has not had until M1) compiling for the target is trivial.

The x86 memory model makes it increasingly hard to scale performance to more cores. That has not held up AMD much, mainly because people don't scale things out that don't perform well when they do, and use a GPU when that does better. In principle it has to break at some point, but that has been said for a long time. It is indefinitely hard to port code developed on x86 to a more relaxed memory model, so the overwhelming majority of such codes will never be ported.
Or maybe he's stating the thesis for his post and then backing it with technical detail before writing his conclusion. Have readers become so accustomed to instant gratification that they can't take the time for a thorough analysis with facts and technical detail to back up the author's claim?