skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I was excited by that one too, but no mentions of the price and seems like the Wifi chip alone on there can reach 15$... and there's more than that on that board. Knowing Arduino, this will be a 30$+ board.
Social media is absolutely seeding these behaviors by leaving content discovery to engagement algorithms that push individuals further down a specific ideology without considering any ethical factors.

For example, I consider myself a centrist and yet whenever I log into YouTube account all I see are far right recommendations. I don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account, but I remember they behaved the same with their content discovery.

Read this study which goes further into the debate.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-00950-y
Only if we can rock the old modems. I know there were some BBS....

....just went down the rabbit hole.

There is lots of bbs stuff out there. Here is one such example: https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs
Yeah, thanks for adding details. SMT on Skylake and later is quirky, people don't appreciate that the CPU replicates some things, partitions others, and fights over some. The static partitioning in particular means that if you try to disable HT by taking all of the odd core numbers offline[+] you just wasted half of your L1 cache and iTLB entries.

+: I know this sounds like an obviously-wrong approach to the problem, but I came across it at a large, well-known, public company.
The contract is the standard Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy to which it refers.

As mentioned above, they don’t have to give you 30 days before suspending for violating the AUP.
I've been selling Windows and Mac software online since 2005, so I remember them well. Tucows and similar sites were quite an important part of selling software online as an Indie back then. But they became less and less relevant as search engines improved. Eventually most of the download sites just became automatically generated online garbage heaps, trying to trick you into downloading things you didn't want, adding dodgy brower toolbar extensions and pushing fake awards ( https://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-award... ). In some ways it is good that download sites are less relevant, but we have just swapped one lot of gatekeepers for another (mostly Google and Apple).
The same old three old problems with instant communications: bandwidth, bandwidth and bandwidth.
I know. I am merely asking why the state owns a museum and not a cinema or strip club.

I find that some draw an arbitrary distinction between “art” and “entertainment” with endless semantics debates of what constitutes “art”, but typically fueled by “whatever the party that decides it feels is sufficiently associated with the intellectual elite rather than the bourgeois common man.”.

I find this distinction to be bereft of merit and yet another example of trying to create a line between the rich and the poor.

If the poor man showed an interest in Rembrandt, it would be called entertainment; if the rich man were more fond of 50 Cent, it would be called art.
During my last few trips to Safeway and Whole Foods I estimated about 50-75% of shoppers were delivery app drivers. I know the SF experience isn't typical, but it was still mind boggling.

Resistance to it doesn't have to be snobbish either. The entire grocery business model today is designed for people shopping for themselves. Stores occupy the largest and most expensive retail spaces in the center of the neighborhood. There are wide aisles, fancy decor and complex layouts to showcase products and keep people inside. I love going to the grocery store without a list or any agenda and coming out with a new interesting dinner option, buying loaves of bread on impulse because they just came out of the oven and smell great, talking to the butcher about fresh cuts of meat, getting a recommendation for a new wine or cheese to try out. Like myself I imagine grocery shopping is as much a hobby as bare necessity for others as well.

If delivery becomes a norm then none of this will exist anymore (at least at an affordable price). Grocery stores will just be large warehouses outside the city optimized for serving pre-decided orders as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Dems pushed the use of the USPS as a general voting system. Terrible idea.

The USPS was not designed this way.

Dems knew they could leverage their population dense cities to win this using USPS.

To say that one side is clean and the other is corrupt is clearly incorrect. They both cheat. They both cheat a lot. The dems just cheated better this time.
Yes, that's worth noting. The $200k is the list/retail, which nobody would pay for a purchase of this size.
It happens temporarily all the time of course such that there are plenty of talented people underpaid at a given time but long term most will not be. I along with friends went through bouts of shitty jobs, but it is rare to stay that way. Hiring from the pool of low rate workers is not a suitable standard practice at a place that isn’t a shithole.. as we see here with Intel.
At long enough distance you might even want to aim higher than the target.
$200/hour rate is median for developers with in demand skills. Many companies will gladly pay this and higher rates to fill positions with qualified candidates.

Software engineering and development field is extremely difficult. There are many opportunities in this field, because there are so few candidates that can do the work. HN is self selected group of people with experience in the field. But they are actually very few in number.

The average worker does not have in demand skills in tech sector.
For my friends and I it was a social event at the same time each week and all our partners knew we would be unavailable (with the obvious exceptions like illness, partners included). I used to meet another friend every other Tuesday afterwork too for a beer. My partner used to schedule meeting her friends at the same time so we were both out of the house. Often we met at a scheduled time and went home together. I liked the efficiency of it all.
> Electric motors don't need a transmission. Adding a stick shift is just adding complexity for no benefit.

That isn't true. Having low gears gives you more torque with less current at slow speeds. Most EVs take the philosophy of "it's easier to just use a more powerful motor than deal with a transmission". But that doesn't mean that a transmission wouldn't be helpful (especially if you want good performance out of a more modest motor, or with fewer batteries that can't produce as much current).
I remember Pussy Riot, actually.

As we have seen in England, it is possible to be poisoned with Novichok and survive, depending always on the level of exposure.
<i>For anything that isn't a car you're gonna want gears for the same reason electric drills have gears. Think of it like low range.</i>

Not with modern motor controls. For the last 20 years or so, most new locomotives have used 3-phase AC servo drive motors. It's striking to see one exerting enormous torque to get a train started, yet the Diesel engine generating the power is barely above idle.
Also, no wheel spin. All the wheels can be synchronized electrically. This almost doubles the useful traction.

Early Teslas had a two-speed transmission. It was a flop. The shock loads on gear shifting were too large and the transmissions wore out rapidly. Tesla had to replace all of them. The big advance was liquid-cooled motors. Finally a way to get rid of the excess heat fast enough that you could use full power at zero speed if desired.
> It is absolutely possible that something legal can still be ethically unacceptable.

I didn't say that wasn't the case.

I specifically made this claim:

It is not just legal for Amazon to do this, but it is also ethical. They are contributing value, not just to their paying customers but to the whole FOSS community. That's a moral good under my framework. You may have a different ethical framework; that's fine.
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Disclaimer: current AWS employer. My job is not related to ES or Lambda.
What I understand is that Elastic is upset AWS used the name for it's service promotion, stole propertiary code and alleged business partnership with Elastic.

So Elastic felt loosing due to AWS using is assets, so changed the licence to compensate.

Now AWS announces it cuts ties with Elastic by forking Elastic. So what AWS seems to announce is that it will continue to earn from Elastic , still will be using the name and further more it will openly compete with Elastic?

It is an extremely aggressive move, take all and destroy, or am I missing on something?
Wonder why they don't partner with Uber/Lyft so the logistics are always there, on demand... since the radius of delivery is always near, I can't see it being that pricier then having to have a shopper and driver.

But also, hmm, delivery is so hard here.
I read the first paragraph and just though jesus AWS are dicks. They literally frame it like they're doing this for the betterment of everyone when in reality they're being cheap. It is legal, but it is immoral just like lots of things Amazon does. That's why they are coming down on AWS.
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Are you sure it's not just familiarity with old tools? Systemd works pretty hard to put logs in one place (journald) - even ones from service start-ups. And any dbus interaction can be traced by listening to the system bus. Is that a mess compared to the old bunch of separate log files and errors lost if they don't activate their logging interface early enough?
Bank safety deposit box is probably a good option for backup, it's very unlikely that both your home and the bank will burn down at the same time.
with Safari is pretty terrible.
How exactly is what Elastic is doing helping the problem?
> is a cinema ever non profit?

Occasionally. Or at least run in a "only making the bills because they are supported by donations and public funds" fashion similar to many museums and other arts things.
Saying you don't consider ANYTHING from the NY Post to be legitimate is admitting you have personal bias against a news site because they lean one way politically. Why not read the story, see the evidence and decided yourself? If you go to some place like Twitter that you find credible, then you won't ever see this story.

A lot of people are talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story giving them a bad rep, but we now know that he is in fact under investigation for Tax Evasion and it could be in part to emails found on that computer (at least the ones that were published talked about income from sources that were likely not reported). Not saying the case is tied to that laptop since we don't know, but it could be.
> Its arguable that Elastic simply hasn’t come up with an open-source compatible business model, and that’s fine. But its not Amazon’s fault.

I think this is precisely correct, and it's really strange to me that a company developing innovative software would decide to apache license all of their work but I still feel for them. I'm guessing that they wanted to build a thing and make some money off of it while mostly just contributing to moving tech forward and that's a super noble goal... but that noble goal would have been much better served by using a license better tailored to OSS free use for non-commercial purposes and pursuing individual agreements for commercial use.

Then again, if it was launched with such stringent requirements would so many contributors have helped them develop into such a usable product?
It is not so much about having a team of bodyguards 24/7 with you, but about having a security team in the back office that will oversee all the details of your schedule so that you just are not in a scenario where this is possible. (Eg no appearance at predictable place and time etc )
> AWS charges a big premium for Elasticsearch and I don't think they'd drop their prices to try to squeeze Elastic

Your margin is my opportunity. (c)

Though AWS still growing too fast atm so they value quantity of services over quality. But once they have capacity they can squeeze out of business almost anyone.
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You can still accomplish this with the cygwin packages xorg-server and xinit. You can then export DISPLAY=:0 in your bash shell and have working OpenGL, e.g. glxgears assuming you have the necessary packages available in your "remote" session/WSL. Here's a GitHub gist I use for this: https://gist.github.com/andrewmackrodt/b53943185bbbd804ef4b0...
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> This is no longer required. A few teams stuck with the five speed, but most have dropped to three or four speeds.

Even in the 2nd season there were teams with 2 gears and since the gen 2 car most are on one now:

https://www.electronicspecifier.com/news/analysis/latest-gen...
> people who like open source (generally left-wing people doing stuff for betterment of society)

Do you really think that liking open source is in any way correlated with politics?[1] I'd like to read a source on that one, because it's certainly not been my experience. Maybe we've contributed to different projects and/or read different people.

But even that aside, you think that everyone who likes open source is condemning amazon and on elastic's side? That is even more suspect. Just as an example, the creator of sourcehut has been criticizing elastic all week, and all of his posts—at least one of them explicitly saying that Amazon is definitely allowed to do what it's doing—have reached the front page here. And he's someone whose "liking open source" credentials are good enough, I think.

[1]: I'm not even going to get into other implication, that wanting to improve society is also in any way related to any given political leaning.
> Yes, open source contributors doesn't expect something back but they can only hope that others at least pay it forward.

If they want to ensure others "pay it forward" (also release their source code), they should be contributing to copyleft projects instead.

The AGPL would ensure users of elasticsearch, whether hosted by elastic or AWS, have access to the source code of the software they're using.
I would prefer that companies stop abusing their communities by leveraging them and then discarding them when they have enough power to do so.

OSS was never about source availability - that’s just a form of cheap escrow and has fairly limited value. Open source is about user freedom to do whatever they want with the software - guaranteed freedoms.

This isn’t about “purity”, it’s about using a label on the tin that says “FREEDOM INSIDE” and then peeling the label off and telling a subset of users to pay up or give away any software code you’ve ever used to touch my software. We used to call that a “bait and switch” to be polite , though really it’s more like a shakedown.
Somebody put that in an early electric performance car. You actually had to shift, and got audio effects, but it was just software emulating gears. It was laughed at in the automotive press.
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> I don't think responding in less than five minutes was unreasonable.

This only further highlights how unnecessary the original low value reply was. Instead of responding with something of substance that took five additional minutes to write, you told us your qualifications instead of your views.

> I also think this entire thread will be worth revisiting upon appeal.

I don't really see why. None of the reasons you got downvoted have anything to do with this specific case (low effort comments, arguments to authority, complaining about the response to the forementioned, and then arguments that are poorly explored/rely on erroneous facts).

Even if Parler ultimately won via an entirely new theory of US law as you have argued, it wouldn't change that your comments here today could have been better and would have been received better if they were.
My condolences too.

> Besides donating to the appropriate organizations, do you have suggestions for if/how software engineers can contribute to this cause?

There's a massive amount of stuff that CS people can do. For example, many protein features (signal peptides, GPI anchors, transmembrane domains, glycosylation sites, phosphorylation sites, E/R retention signals, etc.) can be modeled as formal languages or as probabilistic formal languages. Literally, that's what they are, amino acid codes.

In order to help people with rare diseases, it is very important to identify which variant is knocking off one of those features. In most cases, that's the cause. For example, haemophilia (which is the archetypal rare disease) arises due to a mutation that abolishes a signal peptide in either Factor VIII or Factor IX. Furthermore, it has to be done as quickly and as automatically as possible. Otherwise, it doesn't scale.

Most research funding agencies are sadly quite uninterested in rare diseases.
I'm not sure I understand Amazon's game theory on this one. Anything they contribute to their Apache License branch can be used by Elastic, but not vice versa.

This means Elastic can continue to differentiate from Amazon without worry. Amazon however can keep the code they've not contributed back internally, but they could always do that.

Perhaps this is simply an image move they don't plan to actually enhance or maintain the fork?

Also Elastic moving from Apache to (essentially) GPL is not making it closed source. Just as Amazon was within their rights to maintain an internal fork, so is Elastic to move to a GPL model. Demonizing either over business decisions is dumb.
There's a lot of room between 130 (SAE NET) hp and "five hunnert horsepower" The DMC-12 is roughly as fast as a Prius. I can appreciate the complaints in that department.

I wouldn't dare call 2900lbs fat though.
Your comparing apples and oranges - when you take a salary you take a lower hourly wage to eliminate volume risk, works in the spot market get compensated for taking the volume risk
We are a representative democracy for a reason. It was designed that way.

You can't change the rules of the game because you're losing.

The United States was designed as a representative democracy on purpose by the forefathers. That is fact.
"monopolistic behavior" is behavior that leverages a company's dominant position in the market to hurt its competition.

The contrary is the case here. If anything, AWS is helping its competition by giving them Parler's users.
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AGPL wouldn't help against AWS making money off hosted version of your software.
> One of the biggest drawbacks is that you can’t brace your hand against anything whilst typing – think how much easier it is to type on a smartphone with your thumbs versus trying to stab at a virtual keyboard on a large tablet with just your index finger

This is a common problem for large touch screens, that I've experienced for instance in Tesla's massive displays too. the way around it: always rest part of your hand against something stable, ie in the tesla wrap your pinky around the display and then use your thumb or index finger. For me it increased accuracy from 80% to 99%. This doesn't work if you need to touch the center of the screen, all other parts work great.
You can find this in non-union companies too. I worked at SAP (SuccessFactors) for seven years and had to interface with many people that were incompetent and lazy, yet protected from termination because of company politics.
On the other hand, a lot of people (myself included) have no intention of ever being in Amazon's large scale hosting business, and actively avoid building my software on GPL/AGPL where there are more permissive (but still "standard" like Apache/MIT) license choices available.

(I _do_ totally understand the principle of strongly viral licenses, I think the GPL is an amazing thing. The chardonnay socialist in me wishes the whole world would use it. Pragmatically, at work I feel obliged to point out the responsibilities of using GPLed dependancies. From a profit-focussed business decision, it's often better avoided. I agree what Amazon does with Mongo/Redis/Elastic et al. qualifies as "leeching", maybe I'm only fooling myself that my work's projects are somehow better...)
Me and the wiff visited the Rijks in late 2019. There is rather more than two paintings to see and the ship models were quite fun. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We spent a good five hours there and will return some day.
> but they can make much more money writing software and not giving it away

Hey guess what. It's possible to take an Apache 2.0 codebase, let's say Lucene, and then build more Apache 2.0 code on top of it, give it away entirely for free, and still build a $15B business. And you think capitalism has failed here?

Absolute nonsense.
I think this is where society comes into play - Ideally I'd like to see the company expend a large amount of that value into wages with only a proportion of that going to developers and the rest being eaten off as taxes that can be put toward social programs to help the less well off.
> Open source is no longer just about the freedom of choice but now a marketing and commercial strategy for big tech.

It always was, that's how Elastic got to IPO.

> Just keep that in mind if you ever want to build something of value in the open.

Or just keep in mind that "it's open source, but it's MY open source" isn't a valid business plan.
Elastic.co has a lot of proprietary add-ons in their cloud and subscription tiers, for example machine learning, application tracing, endpoint security, threat detection, in addition to enhancements to the core software, like fine-grained access control. This is where much of their development and marketing effort goes, and is what differentiates them from others offering ES-as-a-service.

Unfortunately for them a lot of users don't need any of that, and are just fine with the formerly-OSS core.
> Jobs for the sake of bragging about how many people are employed is just as useless.

Not at all. Giving unemployed people useless jobs and paying them for it is great for the economy, and has been successfully used as a form of economic stimulus several times in the past. You are giving money to people who need it the most and will spend it in the local community and keeping them busy/out of trouble at the same time. Plus they have some skills for their resume when the job market improves.
Thank you for pointing this out. I used to run elasticsearch on a project and these pay walled features were a large source of frustration to the point that eventually I recommended moving it to the AWS service because we were already paying amazon anyway and in a large organization it is a huge pain to contract another vendor.
I'm not sure this is true.

Sometimes he says things that are, well, nonsense (e.g. a lot of his anti-GMO posturing), and other times he's right on the money (e.g. criticizing Black-Scholes long before the '08 crisis). In all cases, he insults his detractors as "bullshitters" when it is only warranted for some.
AWS launched RDS with MySQL 4 months before the first version of ElasticSearch. Yea in that case it was Oracle, but I think it was clear what the direction was. And it was definitely clear in 2014 with Aurora and Redshift. They could have changed their license in 2015, but they didn’t. Why?