skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An observation from a paper I ran across:

> An ECB publication states that bitcoin’s theoretical roots are in Austrian economics[11]. Bitcoin corresponds with Austrian economic ideas in that bitcoin was intended to provide a monetary alternative that is beyond the reach of governments to regulate. Bitcoin has correspondence with libertarian ideas, which have some relationship with Austrian ideas. In the USA, my experience is that bitcoin proponents appear to have obtained their theory from science-fiction, radical libertarian popular literature, anti- government/anti-tax activism, and often from nothing that is apparent except their own thoughts.

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.2048.pdf

* https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2048
How is this different from Hy?

https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/
Agreed, next time learn what using non copyleft licenses mean in practice.
Same job. I did once a week in the office but now remote only.

Lived in a row house (full house to ourselves) on a downtown city block.

large ranch on a big property

about 10 years ago

moved to send kids to school of choice

naked hot tubbing (aka privacy), quiet and nature

everyone knows everyone and is related to everyone (but us).

chose the location for proximity to school for our kids. chose the property because it had the facilities/buildings we wanted

WARNING:

Small town politics is "a thing". If you can accept that the guy who runs the local diner is the brother of the mayor and she is also sisters with the head of the school board and married to the public works guy and cousin to the zoning guy and they all are children of the editor of the local paper and you can accept that this one extended family will control all aspects of governance, then you will be fine. It was kind of a rude shock to us and a PITA to fix things after my wife had a fight with the zoning guy before realizing the network ramifications. If you have asperations for your kids, make sure they align with the social reality of community. We have a community of friends where it is expected that the kids will go to college but the "town over" from us had one kid in the entire graduating class who went on to higher ed.

BAD:

It cost us 20k to run cable to our ranch. Restaurants are sparse (if there actually are any at all) and will likely close by 8pm or sooner (9pm if it has a bar). In the city we rarely ate out before 9pm. Our kids complain about how far it is to get to an actual friend's house. Be prepared to do a lot of driving. Forget about uber, grubhub and whatnot. The gig economy is that one guy who bartends at the burger joint and the bowling ally.

GOOD:

We were able to purchased our ranch outright from the proceeds of the sale of our city house that we had only managed to payoff 50%. When we lived in the city, we did not know even the person who lived next door to us. Now I know basically know everyone for miles around and they know us. You can't swing a stick without hitting a trail head, fishing hole, park, or sports field. People might be slow to accept you but once they do you will feel like family. I coach several competitive youth sports programs and people call me "coach" when I am in town. All my kids have great friends. My home office looks out over our ranch from a high point and we are surrounded by state protected land on 3 sides.
Seems like running separate wires for each of those networks would be a huge pain.
I like the way the Functional Programming HOWTO in the Python docs (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html#small-functi...) puts it:

Fredrik Lundh once suggested the following set of rules for refactoring uses of lambda:

1. Write a lambda function.
2. Write a comment explaining what the heck that lambda does.
3. Study the comment for a while, and think of a name that captures the essence of the comment.
4. Convert the lambda to a def statement, using that name.
5. Remove the comment.
Lots of EV manufacturers are investigating the "skateboard" model where you drop a chassis on a unified battery platform.

VW has invested monumental amounts in this but I imagine will keep it all locked down to the VAG family. Perhaps they're open to licensing opportunities. Canoo ($GOEV) on the other hand is in the news for their skateboard platform being adopted by Hyundai/Kia and potentially being the base of the new Apple car.

In theory DMC could build upon a Canoo skateboard, or license another EV startups skateboard.
I don’t think VC-backed startups do that. They open source code because open source materially benefits adoption and mindshare, which grows the potential market for services, and that’s how they end up with big valuations selling premium services on top of their open source core.

Of course, sometimes they get mad that this also enables other people to sell premium services on top of the open source core, and sometimes those other people can make more money because they are major incumbents that integrate other offerrings. But that doesn’t mean the startup would have been better or grown faster or sold more of its own services if it hadn’t been open source.

It also doesn’t mean closing-up negates that competition: once the value of the product is proven, the major incumbents also have had proven for them the potential value of funding a fork with its own dedicated team, which can reap the community reach benefits of open source and compete with the relative upstarts now-proprietary offering.
What is windows terminal? cmd?
I feel it like he needed the attention on him back (does anyone remember Pussy Riot anymore?) as we started to forget who he was. I wonder how many people will have to survive the most toxic gas - Novichok, - when regular people die daily from very benign poisoning in minutes? Is it because these political figures get special medical treatments unlike the regular folk or it's just all a cheap play?
Surely there is a Russian cloud provider?

Parler is a Russian company so it should be easy to sign up with local providers.
Contributor efforts are remaining open source. The change in license goes into effect in the 7.11 release. Code contributed under Apache stays that way.

Typically open source projects have only a handful of core developers - with a large majority being pass-by contributors interested in fixing their problems/use case. Characterizing it to sound like all these developers are being slighted is strange.

Not being able to reap what you sow is a problem with open source. I don’t doubt we are seeing less great software being shared in the open because of it. If we want more useful software shared as open source we should fix this. The Amazon problem doesn’t help. I’m with Elastic.
This is an embarrassing anecdote, but I thought I'd share. I started using Elasticsearch because it showed up in the AWS console along with all the other "Elastic" things ("Elastic Compute Cloud") and I figured it was a thing they made themselves. Only later on in the process did I realize that there was a company called Elastic that named it.

Very unfortunate. Probably a lesson about naming your company after a common English word.
not if you buy the right name.

pasc@notpretenious.com

or

pasc@ihelpoldpeoplecrossthestreet.com
I really wish AWS would rename their fork. Call it something else, and just call it compatible with Elasticsearch v(FORKED_VERSION). Their continued trying to associate it to ES is causing most of the issues, and after this situation I don't think the name is a valuable as it used to be. AWS have the resources to do a nice clean re-branding as well.

I am actually quite surprised they haven't just hired a small team of core devs for it and try and out compete Elastic. The groundwork is laid, I could easily see AWS being able to maintain a "Fast Follower" + AWS Optimisation approach and be able to offer a substantial portion of the value for a fraction of the costs. Try and pick up the open source community now while there is concerns around the license.

Additionally at this point the AWS core platform is different enough then GCP / Azure / other clouds. I imagine they could build optimisations for AWS in and be able to save costs on providing the service. (i.e. it might be worth doing some work in FPGAs / ASICs, giving faster performance while only being economical when your the scale of AWS). I kind of am surprised AWS hasn't grown to attempt to have a guiding hand over many of the open source projects that are effectively their vendors. Many projects have a handful of core contributors and a hiring a key person will ensure your able to influence development in a way that assists you (assuming it is neutral to beneficial to the project).

Edit: I should probably say I don't love the idea (morality) of the "Fast Follower" capturing the value of an innovative project and screwing the people involved in making the project successful. However it is how competition works and how many other businesses operate in other industries. Since elastic and AWS can't seem to come to a mutually beneficial agreement, then I would prefer them to sort it out in competition.
Developing CZ, a dialect of C that looks like Python
That's a very good description. Thank you.

(sometimes I feel upvote isn't enough)
My electric drill begs to differ. Well so long as I don't want to let the magic smoke out it does.

Your commuter car can get away with a simple single gear reduction drive system. Electric work vehicles are going to need at least a couple gears for the same reason modern truck transmissions have stupid low 1st gears and 4x4s have low range.
> MS has always been solid with developer tools, documentation, and dev relations.

in my 25 years of using their tooling and reading their documentation, they've never been more than what just qualifies as borderline acceptable

I booted up VS2019 today for the first time in a while (after waiting 90 minutes for it to install) and it still feels like using a Jetbrains IDE from 15 years ago, and it's still worse than what Borland produced in the 90s

... and it's even slower than IntelliJ IDEA, which just seems amazing as IDEA is written in Java
I use Firefox and have for about 15 years now. I still use it, but I no longer have hope. Not since Mozilla rolled over on EME. Mozilla is googles' lapdog, little more. At least the browser still has enough technical merit for me to continue using it, but I fear that won't remain true forever.
If only you could come reasonably close to proving that.

Let's say you were correct. Want to stop it? Regulation is just a wall with holes. The only way to stop it is to reduce the labor force.

If this is actually a plan, it's conception requires that the labor force is going to expand rapidly. In a tighter labor market, companies are much better off locking up labor rather than nickel and diming costs. So any said evil plan is an add-on to opening the gates to immigration, both legal and illegal.
Looking at the picture, that's surprisingly sparse.
230 does not protect against criminal liability: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
I pay for this too and justify it as actually an education/learning SaaS subscription. Youtube has become the way I learn everything. I don't want ads interrupting that learning experience.
Thanks. I really appreciate the link. Especially the reference to duck typing, haha.
Yeah, there are a lot of "popular views" that are complete and utter nonsense
It's just a bunch of State puppets who do the State's bidding in almost all cases.

Each state gets numbers by its population. Great. Forefathers intended it this way. I think that's fair.

It stops a giant mob from overpowering the system. Unless you take over the Post office and use it as a voting system, which dems clearly did here.

I don't think a direct democracy would work in the US. I like representative democracies.
I agree; and similarly 10 is 25% more than 8 and 125% of 8.
You could start by forbidding pardons to members of presidential administrations for offenses incurred during their term. You could also make "crimes against humanity" ineligible as well which would forbid the pardons of the Blackwater contractors that massacred Iraqi civilians.
Uhhh, I wrote the subreddit name from memory, sorry for getting it wrong :/

As to the RR, I just recently internalized the last new RR, and you say they are gonna roll out a new one again? Huh I wonder why they change it so often o_O

edit: Hmm, IIUC this seems to be some "Primer Routine", so I assume this to be something new, and given the different name, probably not obsoleting the RR, no?
Intel's financially sensitive stolen by hacker
Today 9 PM will be 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.
I sympathize. But vaccines are only one way to diminish the infection rate. Other options have not been employed to their maximum effect in the US, like distributing (and requiring) better masks, requiring mask wearing at all times when not at home, mandatory quarantine of infected people in encampments (as China and Singapore have done), and legal punishment of those who do not comply.

Employing medical procedures which are probably unsafe is not the only solution left to us.
> "Elastic used its position as an open source maintainer to grow Elasticsearch to be one of the most important pieces of software in the world (nowhere as important as linux or arguably lucene but still in the top echelon), and then once it did that it decided to lie to the community, pull the rug out from under them and switch to proprietary."

Hmmm.... is that what happened or did AWS usurp Elastic's main stream of revenue providing an enterprise cloud platform, and in response they changed their licensing in an attempt to protect the viability of their company while minimizing the impact on contributors to the framework..
As I understand it the only prohibition of use is to offering the software as a cloud-hosted solution of the software itself.

You may disagree with this strategy, but I think you should also explain another way for companies that develop these frameworks to be financially viable. Because I think there is an issue of how people can sustain a business centered around open source.
Because the community decided to use a license that allows it.
You’re legally allowed to call me an asshole to my face, but in a world where we expect civility...

...well, there is no but. The price I pay to live in a free world is that I can’t do anything about anyone else’s bad behaviour. I just have to put up with it because the alternatives are worse. At least I get a free world out of it.

I hope Elastic get something out of the free world in which they exist. Patches from early contributors, I’m guessing. Certainly a brand and adoption they wouldn’t have enjoyed had they remained closed source.

It’s a better world than one where we lack high quality open and free software, even if we have to live alongside the Amazons.
> I worked for a very small hosting company and we had to automatically detect and remove bitcoin miners because they were so common, I can't even imagine what AWS deals with.

Huh? Why shouldn't I be able to mine bitcoins on AWS? What's the point of paying to use people's computers if I can't use them for what I want? I pay AWS because I have money and they have servers and I want to pay them money in exchange for using their servers. So if I put a bitcoin miner on there running 24/7, I might rack up a huge bill, but why should Amazon care as long as I have the cash?

I'm opposed to the idea that server usage should be morally vetted by the server owner. If something illegal is happening, by all means take it down, but "what you are doing is legal, but we disagree with it so bye bye" is a bad precedent, IMO.
Were you an ES contributor who feels betrayed, or are you speaking more hypothetically?

I was just a free ES user, and feel fine with all of this. I don't see a bait and switch, I see a fundamentally changed market compared to 10 years ago where a business model that was perfectly reasonable is now very precarious in the face of the major cloud vendors, and a desperation move to protect their business, not some grand cynical plan.

If I needed to submit a patch I'm not gonna care about the project being "truly" open source vs just source-available.

But the more these "allowed" but kinda-dirty-feeling things happen, the less likely I am to choose a "true" open source license for any projects I may start...
Again

> it’s better than even chance you’re going to be captured and beaten, tortured, or killed on the ground

Is demonstrably false. War is still an extremely unpleasant business, but the term acceptable losses applies even in peacetime.

Every mission training or otherwise is rolling the dice that the aircraft will be lost. Yet, they still send pilots up knowing those risks in preparation for war. Aircraft designs really do involve similar tradeoffs and injured, dead, or captured pilots really are part of the equation.
Okay, lets say page-faults are off the table for some reason. Lets think about what can happen even if everything is in RAM still.

* MMAP is still on the table: different processes can share RAM at different addresses. (Process#1 thinks the data is at memory location 0x90000000, Process#2 thinks the data is at 0x70000000, but in both cases, the data is at physical location 0x42).

* Physical location 0x42 is a far-read on a far-away NUMA node. Which means the CPU#0 now needs to send a message to a CPU#1 very far away to get a copy of that RAM. This message traverses Intel Ultrapath Interconnect or AMD Infinity fabric (proprietary details), but its a remote message that happens nonetheless.

* Turns out CPU#1 has modified location 0x42. Now CPU#1 must push the most recent copy out of L1 cache, into L2 cache... then into L3 cache, and then send it back to CPU#0. CPU#0 has to wait until this process is done. If CPU#1 wants to modify the data again (or even read it), it may require messages from CPU#0 (who is now the owner of the data, according to simple MESI models).

Modern computers work very hard to hold the illusion of a singular memory space. Eventually, these details are turned into a consistent memory model and become well-ordered sequential operations. The CPU is a good place for that.

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That's how stuff works _today_. If you wanted to make a new programming model that's incompatible, that's fine. (CUDA does it: GPUs don't have as many virtual-memory features as a CPU. And __shared__ memory has a different model than L1 cache.)

But if you invent a new memory model that does things differently, it means that it won't work for the vast majority of code. Which means you need to bootstrap a new programming environment (much like how CUDA bootstrapped a new community from scratch).
Without the 21st month it is meaningless
I think this is a negative sum outcome. The key metric is customer value and the Apache License had previously struck a balance between commercialization and customer lock-in. The Cloud gorillas (AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba) have disrupted this balance but they too are delivering customer value.

I'm not sure if OSS vendors like Elastic need to modify their business models, Apache needs to address the suboptimal situation, or if the Cloud gorillas need to change their business tactics but something has to give.
I don't know where you read this but it isn't true.

>only requires the inspection at regular intervals, not after every repair.

This is how it is in Scandinavian countries too by EU law (well, in EU member states, I don't know about Norway). It is inspection every 4 years or if it is a vintage car (30+ yro) every 8. You also don't need "approved parts" (what does that even mean?) and I can freely buy parts from the US and Germany and use if I want to and have done so (I have a US-only model motorcycle).

The manufacture have to get all their car types certified by the state, like how NCAP crash-test one of each model, and if it is certified in one EU country it is in all. But if you change the car significantly (like upgrade an old 80's Trans-Am with modern parts) you have to get it certified all over again for that one car as it is now a unique untested car. Possible but extremely expensive. Sure it doesn't give you the freedom to drive some of the homemade monstrosities some drive in the US but it also doesn't block niche cars or vintage cars.
This is about a for profit corporation making more money, not ethics.

If there’s been any breach of ethics, it’s Elastic’s license change in the first place which was completely contrary to the spirit and intent of open source.

Perhaps you don’t agree. That’s fine, but let’s not assume this is consensus and that Elasic, Inc. is all about having the highest of ideals. From my POV, They’re panicked about a business model.
I couldn’t agree more
Think of what Jeffrey Epstein was obtaining from MIT president Rafael Reif in the form of a personally signed thank-you note in exchange for donations to the MIT Media Lab that started back in 2002 with co-founder and accused co-pedophile Marvin Minsky and which continued after his conviction on Florida state child rape charges in 2008 at a time when he was being investigated by the FBI for violations of the Mann Act during "Operation Leap Year."

Epstein's donations to science were a form of "virtue signaling" designed to help him evade prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors.

The guy had never earned as much as an undergraduate degree in pursuit of his two loves in life, namely "science and pussy," as he once put it to a professor whose work he was funding at the time.
> The poor in India sleep on a sidewalk. The poor in the US have a 2 bedroom apartment...

And yet... the USA ranks higher than India in homeless people per capita, and also for street children.

> However I maintain that given money to the rest won't help because they will spend it on things like a nicer apartment.

And an appropriate level of heating, and healthier food, maybe. What's wrong with that?
> speech issues

When your service is providing a platform for speech, what other issues can there be?
This paradigm reminds me a lot of my favourite JS/TS framework at the moment: Cycle.JS https://cycle.js.org/
Indeed. I would have a hard time using something with a custom licence in my company, so there are definite advantages to Apache licencing.
> Literally Emamnuel Macron and Angela Merkel have spoken out about the arbitrary 'banning' of groups and individuals, and because there is an 'imminent consideration over here in the US' doesn't abnegate our broader concerns about arbitrary banning.

This is somewhat amusing to me, as Germany is a country that bans neo-Nazi political parties and makes Holocaust denial a federal crime, whereas both actions are seen as violations of constitutionally-protected free speech in the US.

The concern, I suspect, is more over the scope of power that private broadcast platforms have, to which my retort is to ask what their antitrust regulators have been doing for the past decade.
Thanks for the links! I’ll check them out.
Yes it's impossible they are hearing anything at 40kHz. Either the generated sounds are not really 40kHz, or there is something vibrating or resonating that produces something they can hear.

But the question about running 256 of those simultaneously remains.
But part of a curiosity-based discussion is also trying to satisfy the curiosity of others by providing answers. The most insightful and thought-provoking of those can sometimes be rather “political”, because the things we think about and are curious about are.