skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unimaginative to say "we cannot do anything about this so let's do nothing".

Plenty of countries' and cities' policies are successfully curbing rents and landlordism - why are you ignoring empirical evidence to make your point?
That's interesting about Xanthippe and the fancy-fancy horse names. I had recently learned about the etymology of Hippopotamus (water horse) so I was excited to see another use.

As a plug, I'm really into etymologies as well and made EtymologyExplorer for visually navigating roots and descendants https://www.etymologyexplorer.com/
Is putting something like "otherwise objectionable" as a reason to terminate contract legal? Can AWS terminate contract with a website owner who supports, say, gay marriages, because there is someone in Amazon who considers this to be "objectionable"?
Well, I still have an analog (tube) TV, so I guess I'm not with you on that one...
> The List<Object> cannot hold int, double etc. It can only hold the boxed variants

At this point, don't you think you're being more than a little pedantic to the point of having a heterogeneous list?
Yeah, NextCloud is overkill for that. I see it as the back-end of the phones of my family though, calendar/contacts sync, auto picture uploading (which you can view on a map even), sharing files within the family, of-site backups for everyone. I'm just waiting for NextCloud Talk to support federation so I can talk between servers (I say family but it means different families, in my language there is a word for just parents and kids and when you also include more ("gezin" vs "familie"), not sure what to use, but we have multiple domains and servers (all in my basement though ;))
'AND THEY WILL ALWAYS DO IT CHEAPER BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE TO FUND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.'
Well, they DID actually contribute patches as the whole ES project was 'upstream-first', this is mentioned in the post with proofs.

From what I can find online, it looks like DocumentDB is actually a layer on top of the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL offering. This means they created a MongoDB compatible API, but are not offering a hosted mongodb cluster. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870397)
"I wouldn’t want to live in a country where nearly all your taxes get spent on building a palace and enforcing more police and military."

I wouldn't want to have UKOS returned to the owners who got it dirt-cheap during 'privatization' in 90s and taxes on the extraction of natural resources reduced to the pre-Putin level. This one thing -- raising taxes on the wealth generated from selling natural resources -- pays a hundred times for Putin's palace.

As for our military, I'd rather have it strong, why wouldn't you?
But, this is about IP addresses, not domain names...
> Creating a registration and login system is far more work than implementing a basic OAuth flow

If you're using Rails it's just one gem and some bootstrap signup forms. I guess it also depends on the experience and skills of the developer.
The problem here is that Google is a monopoly.

It's like if there were a single supermarket chain and they refused to carry a product. Oh well. Customers don't really like it, but in the grand scheme the supermarket doesn't care.

There are also real issues about value creation and value capture in economies. Some places are good at one and not the other.

Google depends on 'the content of the world' being given to them for free, they'd be nothing without it, by being a 'single point of access' it gives them a lot of power.

So free market arguments apply, but it's still more complicated.
Probably! From my experience I think the main problem is that developers often don't like to work with "legacy" code, where legacy means anything they didn't write themselves. Also,
most developers tend to drastically underestimate the cost of a full rewrite as they don't know all the intricacies of the old system. From the outside most systems seem easy and straightforward, so people think they should be easy to rewrite. During the rewrite people then discover all the little edge cases that the legacy system handled and that they didn't think about.

There are legitimate reasons to rewrite a system in a new language, it's not a a decision that should be taken lightly though. From a business perspective it's also very expensive, as having a team of 5-10 developers rewrite a system that already exists and works can cost millions of dollars, so you should have a really good reason and clear ROI objective when deciding to do this.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, this lacks a lot of granularity. I'd like to be able to only give access to a subset of my vault, not all of it.
I'm of the opinion that my accounts should just disappear with me, apart for some things related to real life like utilities and the likes. Come to think of it, my GitHub account could be worth preserving too but right now I can't think of much else being worth it.
Have you ever done web development with Rust?

I have. Rust is a great language and I really enjoy working with it, but it is far from mature as a web development language.

Go is the correct choice here if those are your only two options.
The server code for Signal is so out of date. The last update publicly was April 2020 and people on their forums say certain features don't even work on it. So clearly whats on production is not whats on git publicly.

It amazes me that they are being given a pass on this inspite of being so "transparent". If you can trust signal then you can trust telegram or whatsapp

Take a look for here
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Plenty of threads about people asking about updates or not being able to run it
https://community.signalusers.org/t/wheres-the-server-source...
https://community.signalusers.org/t/the-server-sources/10622
bookmarked it!
the design of the website needs some polishing though
Haha bravo Amazon, you couldn't have scripted a more perfect response. Well done. Game on etc.

Elastic is a 15 billion dollar MONSTER of a publicly traded company doing hundred+ million revenue per quarter. By market cap they'd be a ~top-20 biggest company overall and contender if not title-holder for the biggest tech company in the UK, Australia, and most other non-US countries. They are not some plucky feel-good startup fighting the good fight against nasty/unfair big-corps that are drinking their milkshake.

That multi-billion dollar corporation does not own ElasticSearch 7.10 any more than Amazon does. Elastic have taken 7.10 and released it under a new license that prevents others from doing stuff with it. That's allowed. You could do that too. It's allowed. And some plucky startup in a garage (or say, Google, or MS, or Amazon) could decide they'll make changes to 7.10 and release it open source. All fine. All allowed.

If your argument is that AWS is a form of mono/duo/oligo-poly and there are antitrust matters at play due to distorted market power being used illegally to crush a competitor... great make that argument.

Most of the other arguments boil down to variations on an anti-capitalist theme.
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I think scp can do stuff like this, I remember occasionally hitting it when wanting to move a file between two servers that can't talk to each other, expecting it would use my bandwidth/route for the transfer.
Ah the the massive advertising cash cow supported by journalists paid poverty wages.

Before craigslist and property listing companies like right move, local newspapers had 30-40% margins

(source a senior press officer I worked on a project with)
> Hi, I work in academia and disagree with the author’s take.

There is a logical fallacy, and I don't recall its name, but it refers to rejecting an argument only because it does not confirm one's personal experience

> a few minutes of browsing scitwitter to debunk the idea that scientists don’t talk about their field online (even unprofessionally)

Perhaps these scientists' work is uncontroversial, or they are protected, or you are right and Scott is wrong. Spend some time with Slate Star Codex and the new blog, and you might become aware of counter examples which you would not become aware of by browsing Twitter
I think it is due to arcing. With AC an arc will extinguish itself itself when the voltage goes through 0, but for DC no such thing occurs and an long arc can damage the relay contacts.
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I agree and find that caveat baffling. "The ability to search a store of information for user-supplied input" is fairly clearly elasticsearch functionality, but it seems that is allowed? They have to be more specific on what this means.
Even if we take out the whole morals aspect of it all, because capitalism, I think this this is really right. Yes on: amazon is free to do whatever the license allows. But no on: if that wee the point of the licensing, it'd be encoded in the license.

I think the point of OSS - and there are various flavors so this isn't some unitary point, but more like a general direction - is the insight that copyright isn't actually a good model for software development. OSS licenses are a hack to sidestep fundementally misdesigned legal structures while staying within them. But because OSS uses licenses to create a more open development model, it's restricted in what it can do; it's "just" an EULA essentially.

Ideally, we'd fix this in the law, not via tricky licenses, but we don't live in a world where that ideal is anywhere even close to a serious enough problem to be addressed - at least, that's my take on "the point of the [OSS] licensing".

The various flavors of OSS try additionally to either use various other approaches to encourage a more open model in a closed world, or conversely don't bother since it's a hopeless endeavor, or vary exactly how open they want things to be; but the general gist is that the license is a hack; it's a design limitation, not by design.
> Most rewrites fails because the team rewriting is not the team that did the initial development.

Looking at https://github.com/owncloud/core/graphs/contributors, most of the initial core contributors contribute now to Nextcloud instead.

I am interested in seeing how the rewrite affects end-users. Currently, it seems to be mainly focused on File Sync and I don't see things such as calendar or contacts management. (they totally could appear in the future though)

I'd assume that limiting the scope of components, makes a rewrite also easier. Nextcloud for example has a ton of hooks that allow you to write apps to customize the behaviour (want users to sign the ToS before downloading a share? Should be doable etc.). When you leave these out, implementing new things just got a whole lot easier :)
(so I guess I am envious on the fact that they got rid of a ton of backwards compatible APIs to maintain :-) )

Disclaimer: Contributed to ownCloud for a few years, then to Nextcloud.
There’s definitely multiple ways to make money as an institution and yeah this is a possibility as well.
And in hindsight it doesn't seem a terribly good example.

Gecko was a technical success.

On the non-technical side, it isn't at all clear that Netscape-the-company came out worse than it would have done if it had tried to stick with the buggy Netscape 4 rendering engine.
My understanding is that news corporations have been rendered penniless by Craigslist eating their rather lucrative classifieds business.
This is one of those statements that seem very obvious in hindsight! Is this common knowledge? I'm hearing this argument so precisely for the first time.
It's one of the (dirty?) pleasures in the work-life, isn't it?
I still treasure getting to the stage in my life when I could afford to stop saying what my salary expectation was outside of "fair in relation to the market and my experience".

Recruiter H/R: "We need to hear your salary requirements to move forward with this position".

me: "I would like to hear your offer".

Recruiter / HR: "We won't be able to consider your candidacy without your salary expectations"

Me: "Then, despite my interest in this outstanding company, and the high value I believe I can contribute to it, I will be forced to go with the employers that make a salary offer first".

Best fuck I ever had.
I can understand if people hold the opinion google shouldn't have to pay for that and that market preasure for news organizations is the organizations problem and not that of google.

I have a hard time following the idea that google should use its dominant market position to force others into submission. This sounds distinctively worse than convincing a democratically elected government that you need protection (e.g., because the market is failing to some degree and your industry is important for the country in some form).
This wouldn't be a good result for consumers either.

Google is not an underdog screwed by some corrupt government and is just too honest and noble to bribe the law away or invest in any form of lobbying.
To remove some of the nonsense I've seen spread around.

It's not blackmail, Google merely stated that if they are unable to make revenue above the cost of implementing these new laws they will be forced to withdraw from Australia.

You cannot on the left hand say "You must do X (Paying news sites for linking to them)" but also in the right hand say "You cannot do Y (Removing news sites from linking)", that effectively makes this a tax that is passed directly to news company coffers.

They are also not willing to allow third parties to control the content and release timing of updates to their search algorithm, which seems reasonable.
I use Snakemake and this sounds like it does the same? I think Snakemake is pretty popular? At least among bioinformaticians.
> The police literally stood aside for the MAGA seditionists, but opened fire on peaceful BLM protestors due to the threat of a pink umbrella. Yes, this is very true, but likely not in the way you mean to suggest.

That seems to be exactly what I meant to suggest with it.

Whom do you think the police agrees with?

Suddenly violence is given more leeway by it.

> And racist speech is protected and has been protected by the American Supreme Court on multiple occasions (National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie). Racist violence is not protected and nor is BLM violence.

Speech is simply earlier ruled “violence” by the courts whenever it be speech the court doesn't agree with.
Sounds like a great way to birth a competitor with a real chance of getting market share
Anyone did (or willing to do) research on how to become eligible for Google cash? I think you can't put particular names in legislation (ie: Pay xx euros for xx clicks for Le Figaro); and I also don't think Google is going to pay up any site who shows up on his News result.

So how is the eligibility being determined and what is the process to get the money?
A filtered view: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=true...
Fairness (ethics, moral judgement, justice) is inherently a different layer of our civilization than license (law, contracts). I'd say fairness is more important than any and all licenses ever.

Also, I think through history every law was made in the name of making law more just, bringing the legal system closer to an ideal of justice.

We also know that simply throwing out law and bringing back case by case judgments (eg. what kings and lords of old did) just gets us further from that ideal, hence we work on our laws and licenses. But that doesn't mean we should forget that they are imperfect and sometimes they need updating.
I work as a Senior Software Engineer for big international corporation in the 2nd world country and $45/hour would be life-changing for me and most of the people I know.
After Alex had to retire Le Cam is what I vouch for. Amazing race.

That said did any of the participants reported hitting container yet? AFAIK all of their autopilots are equiped deep learning AI infrared cameras for this very reason.
TensorFlow and Theano are quite popular, and they're all about expressing differentiable computations in a "dataflow"-based framework. It might be a simple case of needing to write some support code to make OP's desired use cases more straightforward when using these frwmeworks.
You seem to be missing the point.

Reductio ad absurdum is a rhetorical tool, not a logical fallacy. It's goal is to show that your argument is absurd, because the absurd statement follows from the argument you are making.
> "Google is listing those sites giving them the opportunity to be seen by lots of people [..]"

Ah, yes. Just like when we don't want to pay people for their work. "But it will give you visibility and attract customers (for your free content anyway)".
Thank you. I managed to get it working... still I'm not sure about things like ruby-rubocop ... I can install it remotely, but not inside a remote docker container (where my ruby runs)... Any tips?
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We at Type Studio (https://typestudio.co) have been using Finmark for a few weeks now and I have to say, I have never seen such a simple and clear financial plan tool.

The interface is super clean and the charts are in a nice design. It really helps us to stay ahead of all our important metrics and makes it so much easier to report them to our investors.

Great job! Keep on rocking.
There is a process for newsrooms to get into Google News, so I assume they'll use that vetting to determine if a site should be paid or not. Which means that for news that Google links to that does not come from News, but from Search, they will likely not pay for it.
I'd argue that their attempted rewrite of Firefox in Rust also caused them to actually fall behind in terms of features and speed, which is reflected in the diminishing market share of Firefox. Technologically Rust is an awesome language and a boon to secure software development, I'm just not sure it was such a great idea for Mozilla to put so much energy into this, which could've gone into improving their main product instead.
Are they monopolistic in this case? It would be one thing if they influenced what you see, for example by removing some commercial newspapers. If they actually completely pull out with search business, we can use any other competitor. Pulling out business due to rules you don't like is the most opposite of monopolistic I can think of in this case.
Lets say you have three numbers, a, b, c, and you want to add them together to get the total. Then later, "c" changes, and you'd like to re-compute the total. One option would be to re-run the full sum, a + b + c, which would be fine. However, that repeats the "a + b" calculation.

Would it be possible to improve the efficiency of the total calculation by re-using the pre-computed "a + b" if only "c" changes?

Differential dataflow is one way to do that, but only really applies if you have lots of data with complex calculations. For analytics, maybe the "a + b" calculation would cover your last 5 years of operations, and then when a new day's worth of data comes in, you just compute the changes to the totals, rather than re-computing the analytics for all those years, all without manually having to write distinct "total" and "update" code.
> Google set itself up effectively as a gatekeeper to their content

This isn't a fair characterization. They want their content to be indexed by Google, and furthermore most of those entities have separate distribution channels (television networks, print newspapers, etc.) that Google can't touch. Most people don't want to buy newspapers or watch news channels, but frankly they are absolutely correct, because 99% of that is freaking garbage no better than your average Facebook group.

> Australia

s/Europe/politicians-worldwide/g

My point wasn't about Europe in particular (just observing that this kind of move, for better or for worse, is more popular in the EU). Again, I do agree that we should do something about Google & friends, but this piece of legislation is the classical politician's fallacy: we should do something, this is something, hence this is good.
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Ask HN: Are you adopting HN following shutdown of Right platforms?
With the shutdowns of right wing social media accounts, apps, subreddits and so forth, I'm curious whether HN is seeing increased foot traffic from users who feel like they have lost their voices on such platforms. So my Ask HN is: Would you consider yourself such a 'digital refugee', and are you adopting HN increasingly because of such shutdowns?
Gratz on the launch! Riverside was talked about earlier on HN and they seem to do the same thing. How do you differ? :)
I think that was to be expected. They wouldn't have had a realistic chance of competing with LEO constellations. As long as it was uncertain those would be realized Loon stood a chance. With the current status and speed of Starlink development and deployment it has a high chance of providing regular service in a few years. In my opinion of course.
>white trash

You should apologize for this racist comment
There's a lot, and much of it dates back a month or more. This most recent shot fired by Google about withdrawing from Australia is just the latest in an argument that's been brewing.

Nine months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22917941 :

Facebook, Google to be forced to share
ad revenue with Australian media
(theguardian.com)

Five months ago, https://news..com/item?id=24004754:

Australia to make Google and
Facebook pay for news content
(apnews.com)

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24005109 :

All news or no news for Google,
Facebook under new code in Australia
(mumbrella.com.au)

Google published an Open Letter, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182494 :

Google: Open Letter to Australians
(about.google)

Then 44 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349265 :

Google and Facebook set for showdown
with Australian publishers
(abc.net.au)

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355136 :

Australia: Facebook, Google forced
to pay for news content under new
media laws (sbs.com.au)

Then 33 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472707 :

Google tells Australian Government it is
considering withdrawing “completely”
(theage.com.au)

Nine days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25759014 :

Google blocks Australian news
in 'experiment' (afr.com)

Then 7 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25775985 :

Australia calls out Google for
“experiment” blocking some news
sites (trust.org)
The irony is strong in this case, because Elastic started by making ES into an open core thing and putting every new feature into their business side. (The improvements they made to the basic ES clustering, indexing, sharding, Lucene integration, etc. are very valuable, and I'm not discounting them, but their added value is drastically reduced compared to the features. Just like AWS' added value for businesses is a lot more important than having yet another cool x-pack feature.)

AWS is the bigger fish :|
The point is that this isn't recent, it's been brewing for the better part of a year.
>The problem is that they were going beyond indexing: they were lifting content from the article wholesale and embedding it into search results (without permission).

Yes, but your full quoted text further explains that even just linking the headlines _without_ the snippets was still not in compliance.

We have 30+ years of the world wide web being built on referred url links (no snippets) without monetary payment but now French news organizations want compensation for it. I don't understand that logic. They get extra visibility + traffic clicks from Google but also want to be paid for it?!?

If after a Apple WWDC event, the front page of HN is filled with url links to Apple press releases and announcements, it doesn't mean HN should pay money to Apple Inc to send eyeballs to "apple.com". Linking to other urls (for free) is how the web works.

IMO, removing the embedded snippets should have been enough.
>That the US apparently or supposedly allows taking a car driver's license exam in your private car is.. extremely surprising.

At last here in Indiana, you have to provide your own car to take the driving test in.