skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole reason I would choose an open-source tech against closed source is so that I can go to whoever I want for support and future enhancement, that I'm not dependent on this tiny company for my business continuity. Sometimes that tiny founding company may not be the best to offer the kind of support and enhancements I need.

A real personal example I experienced: at one time, the founding team behind a project I happened to use at work actually told me they didn't want to do the enhancement I was asking for because my particular scale-out needs were too niche and none of their other paying customers need that and they didn't have the engineering bandwidth to build my feature (the opportunity cost for them was too high to abandon building features needed by their other customers).

So I had to solve this scale-out problem by myself - which was painful (we had high opportunity cost too).

In that situation, if my cloud vendor were to say they would solve that problem for me as they would be willing to invest whatever engineering bandwidth required to make it happen, then I would go with them.

Now if that happens a few times, the cloud vendor's service offering will be much superior to the original project founding team's offering.

Over time, the cloud vendor's offering will also be cheaper.

Of course the trick here is to be watchful of being sucked into a lock-in by the cloud vendor. You will have to insist that all of the features they are doing for you are actually open-source and portable to another cloud. Many companies define such requirements as part of their procurement process and audit for it.

As more companies start to push for such guardrail requirements to prevent cloud lock-in, the open-source commercial support model may still have a chance – but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean the project founding company will do well.
> Rebellion is bad

1776?
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> 3. Had a beer at noon once or twice

Those are rookie numbers! It’s not mischief until you’re having that beer at 8AM with your corn flakes.
I’m sorry but this isn’t Reddit, you can’t just claim a platform was specifically built for terrorism because you’re upset.

It has definitely attracted an alt-right crowd, but “specifically built to enable terrorism” is some ridiculous cable-news-level propaganda.

I’d much rather this conversation be about free speech and where lines can be drawn — and it bothers me that platforms can be taken down everywhere because of an unrelated group that happened to use them for something horrible. What about Signal? It’s been getting lots of popularity recently — what if it comes out that the terrorists are on Signal now, and there’s nothing they can do to be moderated because of the encryption. Will Signal be taken down for refusing to add a backdoor?
I don't think it does - I think this is just a grab to see what microsoft caves on.
When telephones were a new technology, say in the 1890s, then yes, they probably would have.
Thanks for your response instead of just downvoting.

> What good would come of such revenge?

One bad person less. And, yes, I'd feel a bit better. Not much maybe. I might even question it in the long run. But think about the alternative. In Germany it is not at all unheard of that murderers (who murdered for sexual desire or greed) get less than ten years of sentencing and are on day parole after a couple of years. How would you feel about that? What "good" comes from that? Do you maybe even wish that person a happy life?

> 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.

You want to ask the guy "Why did you rape and kill my daughter?"? Are you kidding yourself? What would you expect for an answer? Also in this hypothetical situation you'd have to use force to even ask that question. You think you'd get an honest answer? "Sorry, didn't know it's your daughter." "I was just so horny - didn't know what else to do." What would you expect for an answer that even has the slightes potential of being meaningful to your pain?

> to make them truly understand the consequences of what they had done.

People who rape and kill don't tend to be the "understanding" type ... just think about how f'ed up someone has to be to do that.

> I don't feel like killing them would achieve any of that.

How about asking questions, then torturing, then killing. You'd get the cake and eat it, too.
Looks like they dont have the capacity.
Right, but the IRS themselves say that a genuine but misguided belief that what you’re doing is legal is a valid defense against the charge of tax evasion.

The result is that ignorance is a defense, at least for some types of laws.
Umm, Intel laptop chips are SoC with onchip graphics, pci4, wifi, usb4, and thunderbolt4 controller, connectivity direct to many audio codec channels, plus some other functionality for dsp and encryption.
The only time you can expect the `+` operator to do simple addition is when you're working with numeric primitives. If I instantiate two strings and add them with `+`, I'd better understand that I'm calling an overloaded operator -- what else could I possibly think I'd be doing there?

So I really don't agree that operator overloading is misleading -- that's only true if you ignore underlying data types. By this logic, any form of polymorphism is potentially misleading.
>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).

I would love to see a source for this claim.
> Specifically, we request that you remove or disable access to the infringing Project’s repositories referenced herein in accordance with either 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(ii) (DMCA “representative list” provision), 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(1)(A) (DMCA “repeat infringer” provision), and/or GitHub’s Terms of Service, which prohibit use of your facilities for copyright infringement, ...

So such dual-use technologies are now under pressure. This is quite a step towards banning certain mass-dissemination protocols in general. See "inducement rule" [1] in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inducement_rule
We (collectively) said that about Parler.
Clearly delineate facts from opinions. Both are vital in politics, but each must maintain their own space. Restore critical thinking skills.
Eventually, CPUs will have to focus on going wide, i.e. growing number of cores and improving interconnections.
Indeed you were.

The relation goes right to threat and solution scopes. In this case, someone working from an incomplete definition may well also work within an incomplete set of greater assumptions.

There is what it could mean, what we take it to mean, and what it does mean.

Where those overlap or not could have a significant impact on behavior.
Torrents were great threat in past years, but now in world with streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime,Hulu and all others torrent is not a serious threat.
So,that's a baseless argument, Its like don't sell knives they can be used to murder.
Torrents are also useful for many others purposes, like distribution of big opensource software, downloading files with unreliable connection and slow speed, to distribute things [kind of]anonymously peer-peer etc.
Yes, and we can simplify even more -- we have a case from 80 years ago where the greatest atrocity in history was committed by a population that got duped by an anti-semitic demagogue.

To all those bandying about "free speech" without ever tackling any of the nuances of reality, I'd love to hear -- if push came to shove, would you have argued platforms should be giving megaphones to even Hitler? If not, you acknowledge there's a line, so let's define it.
Elastic explicitly addresses the question of open source in their FAQ:

https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#does-this-mean-...

Mongo has tried to get the OSI to approve it, but ultimately withdraw the license. The precise semantics of how much or how little the license diverges from the requirements of open source is an interesting topic for another time. For one, no other license, copyleft or otherwise, extends your obligations to software which is not actually a derivative work, which if nothing else requires a novel interpretation of the OSD. For now, though, I'd rather focus on the conclusion: this license does not qualify as open source, and that betrays those who choose to use or contribute to Elastic on the basis of its open source nature. They didn't get on board with the project in order to see how a dubious new license would hold up under scrutiny. This change was made for dubiously-justified commercial reasons on the false presumption that Elastic has the sole right to exploit Elasticsearch (and Kibana) for profit, software that they have shared ownership over (including in terms of copyright) with the broader community. They were allowed to do this, by the letter of the law, but it is fucked up regardless.
Lots of comments here to the effect of "novelists don't need full-featured rich styling*, it's all just plain text!" It's true for _many_ novels.

But it's not true for _all_ novels! House of Leaves (Danielewski) and S. (Abrams/Dorst) are full-fledged multimedia novels. Many fantasy novels use maps; Crying of Lot 49 uses at least 1 image, in situ. And I would love to see an edition of Pale Fire (Nabokov) that interposes annotations between the "original formatting" of the poem!

"The novel" isn't really a well-defined concept...there are many interpretations of the basic concept! The high % of novels that are "just text" is descriptive, not prescriptive.

* Use whatever definition of "rich text" you like, I don't care
Ben missed an important part of the geopolitical difference between TSMC and Intel: Taiwan is much more invested in TSMC's success than America is in Intel's.

Taiwan's share of the semiconductor industry is 66% and TSMC is the leader of that industry. Semiconductors helps keep Taiwan from China's encroachment because it buys them protection from allies like the US and Europe, whose economies heavily rely on them.

To Taiwan, semiconductor leadership is an existential question. To America, semiconductors are just business.

This means Taiwan is also likely to do more politically to keep TSMC competitive, much like Korea with Samsung.
Oh I'll add, Seed is heavily influenced by Heroku. It's a little like Heroku but for Serverless.
It's certainly been interesting to see this narrative be manufactured and adopted within a very short amount of time and now accepted as truth widely.
> but I just found ScyllaDB and RedisLabs there, so it must be working for some.

No, it doesn't work for RedisLabs. Amazon offers managed Redis called AWS EC Redis and recently someone I knew decided to move their entire Redis (multiple) clusters from RedisLabs to AWS EC. RedisLabs lost hundred of thousand dollars.
At least "folks" is a real word.

"Folx" is unquestionably the result of the language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folx/
> how would powershell extract the MAC from ifconfig output?

It could go identically crazy as in bash, as it has its own grep (sls), can use grep itself etc.

> (ipconfig /all | sls Physical) -replace ".+: "
00-FF-84-14-66-D7
00-FF-B7-06-19-0F
00-15-5D-00-1F-3C
...
Github needs to go on the offensive and begin to take action against fraudulent DMCA notices, including justification to seek damages for these claims.
Ars online IT roundtable tomorrow: What’s the future of the data center?
Seems that it is something that MPA have gone after for some time they tried to shut down the website late last year.

https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-lawyers-are-trying-to-shut-down...
I have not read the opinion you refer to, but Elastic themselves admit "it is not an OSI approved license and is not considered open source".[0]

> but it's a bad license because it's too vague

That has historically[1] been a reason for the free & open source communities to reject licenses; nobody wants cavernous uncertainties about what you can and cannot do under a license's terms.

[0] https://www.elastic.co/blog/license-change-clarification

[1] See, e.g., why the FSF rejected the original Artistic License. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ArtisticLi...
Can someone help clarify something: the ES license change only affects future releases, right? The previous releases under the previous license are still valid, right?

If so, then my bet is Amazon will begin to treat ES like they do Aurora, namely, they will run their own fork of ES that from this point forward will be a separate code base and will evolve independently but will be "compatible" with anything that would otherwise expect the server to be a normal ES server (like how Aurora is compatible with MYSQL).
I hope GitHub is willing to put a stop to this, seems like a stretch.

Where this thread of logic end? Should python be blocked by DMCA because it is used to compile code that facilitates copyright infringement?
I guess the integration is testing that the software can connect to an s3 bucket with an access key since it's trivial to just make a public bucket?

But if that's the code path that needs testing then it should probably be isolated to an auth library that can be tested by simply authenticating with the secret key alone and not needing to perform a chargeable action.
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Your assertion is false. Please read the whitepaper.

Facebook does not have the key to decrypt messages sent with Secret Conversations. It is generated on-device. You can confirm that using simple reverse engineering tools on, say, the Android APK.

Yes, Facebook could subvert the binary by pushing an update. That is the risk you are accepting.
I never saw the repo, but to play devil's advocate it's possible that there's a unit test or something that downloads copyrighted material. That's what got youtube-dl taken down.
Advanced Deep Recurrent Networks with Keras
If I recall correctly from my uni days, one of the big challenges with further shrinking the physical gates is that the parasitic capacitance on the gates becomes very hard to control, and the power consumption of the chip is directly related to that capacitance. Of course, nothing is so simple and I'm sure Intel can make some chips at very small process sizes, but at the cost of horrible yield.
Yes, actually.

People who actually intend to harm you don't tell you about it, especially not in public. They just do it.

Threats in public are designed to make you feel fear. Even if you know that the threat is empty, it's difficult to just put it out of your mind. As is the case here: Matze is almost certainly in no danger. But there is still a chance, so he hides from it.

In a better world, we'd prosecute everybody making violent threats, and that would be the end of it. In practice, practically none of these threats ever turn into violence, and law enforcement organizations generally ignore them. They'd be overwhelmed if they didn't.

In this world, having the death threats removed does, in fact, make me feel safer -- because the threat itself is the primary harm. It's often possible to remove the threats before I see them, by looking closer at the users who make them. Even if they can't remove it before I see it, leaving it up informs other users that this is allowed.

As I said, I'd much rather have the FBI take death threats seriously. But since they won't, removing them (and preventing users from making more) is better than leaving it there.
I think ML as a field just needs to really mature. A lot of the work feels super hacky, sort of a mix between research, demos, and production.
The same argument was made for Backpage. Only a small percentage of overall transactions were related to prostitution. The founder ended up in jail regardless.
work from home is not a problem, even before pandemic many of us had remote jobs and it was great (at least for me). the real issue here is after pandemic we lost every joy we had like seeing family and friends, going restaurant and cafes, doing sports together and etc. trust me you fix your bunt out even if you work from office.
Agreed that Github needs to push back, but we should also be contacting our legislature so that they are aware of the abuse of law.
They took down youtube-dl first, then torrent tracker, so torrent clients, browsers and ffmpeg are next.
I've been living like this for the last 16 years and longer actually.

You have to listen to yourself.

I came up with this way. Sometimes I work for 3 weeks even and especially weekends. I'm super productive there, then all of a sudden I lose interest. Then I start playing games. Anything that's fun. Until one day I'm bored of that and get back to work.
In both cases I treat it like a game. The work game and the game game.
However especially if income is low, I push myself to work. It's not a game then but a fight against my own will.

I had a bad relationship breakup. She cheated and I was very hurt. She made sure I lose all my friends. All those I cared about anyway.
In that time coding was my way out of hurt and depression.
Focusing every day on progress of one project and seeing it grow.
That one project made me about 150k€ and gave me back the self-esteem she destroyed.

Compared to that COVID19 lockdowns are light fruit cakes.

I go outside and walk at least 45min a day. You can't sit at home all day. You need to go outside.

You at least are employed and in a safe situation earning your income and sure about that. I work and don't know if I'll ever see a single cent from the work I'm doing. The project I finish today may or may not take off in 3 years (earlier if I spend money on advertising)
> Rebellion is bad, but maitaining some remote possibility is good.

There is that little affair from 1765 to 1783 that gets generally good press, though. "Context is for kings" is tinged with irony on that one.

> This case isn't really so bad because there's no prior restraint, no tools being taken away, or new tools for the government.

Jokes aside, any sentence which contains "no tools being taken away" around messages such as this one are is assuming too much about the future - it is entirely within the power of both executive (FCC) and legislative (Congress) to curtail the use of specific tools, including radios. It shows that someone in the agency has thought that this particular case warrants making a public statement, which is an escalation.
This is a political thing above all else. Its indirect bribery to the new party in power. In return, anti-trust cases (they have already been formed internally) will likely be overlooked/a call from the top or new appointments will change the calculus. This is how Washington works.
Which is the reality.

“Freedom of speech”, much like “freedom of religion”, is an empty statement. — no man wants true freedom in either, so one is only free so long as it not thread over the bounds of the law, and it can thus be surmised as “One has the right to commit legal actions.”.

It's entirely different from such matters as “right to a criminal defence attorney when charged with a crime”, which many do feel should be absolute, and that all other laws must bend and give way to accommodate it.

One already has the freedom to do whatever one wish, so long as it not thread over the bounds of the law.
I'm all for that, but I think more radical action is needed in the case of social networks. Should social networking sites funded by advertising be allowed to exist? The business model rewards maximizing "user engagement". However much Facebook might be removing provocative material now (which I am in favor of), the fundamental incentives of their business will push them back to where they were, letting outrage-driven content spread. It's unreasonable to expect a corporation to do otherwise without intervention.
I drew a circle and it said "Potentially NSFW". Neat idea, thanks for sharing.
True, but that's a longer "sales cycle" (election cycles are usually every 2-4 years) if you will. Tactical response vs strategic response.
I thought GitHub said they were going to assume good faith by the repository and allow it to stay up until a ruling has been decided (as well as funding legal costs), rather than immediately taking it down under the hand of the "rightsholder".

Did I misread their previous statement after the youtube-dl fiasco?
Valuation and available Cash are very different.
Well, to quote TFA:

> Essentially, we use a contrived form of Java that avoids all the Java constructs that make things go slow. We only use the constructs that are fast and efficient, and we avoid all the garbage

> The only problem with low latency Java is that most experience Java programmers struggle with the new paradigm. "A lot of people who program in Java are used to working in an environment where latency isn't a criteria," says Lawrey.

So, the best Java developers would be former C/C++ developers. That's hardly a ringing endorsement for the language. Look at LMAX's Disruptor, for example. It's hardly Java since it gets its performance from use of sun.misc.UnSafe.

Java does give you quite good IDEs though. That's about it.
I think you guys are missing the point. The point isn’t “how do we get from markdown to docx” but rather “why doesn’t this tool support the format my publisher expects”. Yes, pandoc is amazing, but the product needs to support exporting to docx for the publisher so that the user of NovelWriter feels supported and empowered to write.

TeaDrunk said it best: it’s now significantly more steps the user shouldn’t have to do.
Brilliant write up. Lots of this topic is so much easier to understand when it’s presented from first principles, without any of the LXC or Docker helpfulness hiding the details.

(If the author is reading, thank you! I’ll likely use this material for the pupils in my computer club.)

Managing an IPv6 stack alongside IPv4 is also very informative. IPv6 is still not widely deployed — SMTP is likely tied to v4 for all eternity — but it’s incredibly useful for managing multiple sites of inventory over the internet. Seeing RFC1918 style 10.x.y.z private addresses and IPAM in use by internal ops and IT in 2021 brings tears to my eyes.

Adding a section on using conntrack to watch the way in which the kernel handles MASQUERADE and DNAT would be illustrative as well.

I really like the diagrams too.
Until you are paying for 10 distinct services, and the music colossi start to create services of their own.

Who you gonna call? Plex+sonarr
It shouldn't, and we can't know what was in the offending files because they've been removed.

> For the avoidance of any doubt, we are also providing you with the attached file tilted “GitHub_code_Nyaa” which shows code hosted on GitHub that provides all of the source code, templates, and utility API tools needed to host a copy of the Nyaa.si Bittorrent site, used to access infringing copies of motion pictures and television shows for which Nyaa.si provides torrent files and magnet links for the infringing content that users are looking for. The identified files and code are preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content to Nyaa.si users in violation of copyright law.

That's the real issue, but again it's hard to discuss since the files have been removed.
> Can someone knowledgeable explain to me how a tracker source code violates DMCA?

> What's next, hard disk manufacturers? Internet providers?

Hard drives are already taxed in France because of piracy (well not exactly, but that's the real reason)
The thing that makes ideas spread is not good/bad or truth/lie, it's whether people find them useful or comforting to believe. The truth has no chance in the "marketplace of ideas" against comforting lies that reinforce people's feelings of superiority and infallibility.
a tracker isn't any more infringing than a client is though.
child porno is still there but I haven't seen so much aggressive measure on what was done by private ... only by public officers and law enforcement