skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting recently... Every Monday, I have one morning call and one afternoon call scheduled with a pal — eight calls / pals per month. I don't even try to do deep work on Mondays — I just do small clerical tasks and other ad hoc calls. I go into the rest of the work week socially sated, and disconnect for a few days of deep work (ideally). I explained when proposing these recurring calls that I'm trying this to get a handle on my anxiety (which random interrupting calls don't help). Not for everyone, but I'm excited about it.
is sonos supported?
The Unexpected Foresight of the Waldo Moment (2018)
I would love
to live in a world
where we do away
with the term "employee".

Where people were just
part of a team.

Where your boss didn't
have to be concerned with
which doctor you went to.

Where you could work for $5
an hour for a cause you believed
in, and not have to worry about
making ends meet.

Some day we need to #RefactorAmerica.
Elastic’s SaaS offering is incredibly expensive vs AWS Elasticsearch
How do we get that feeling again? Where is the newness today? I miss that feeling so much.
> paid services go to @paid.mydomain.tld, social logins go to @social.mydomain.tld etc

Any specific reason to do this over the usual way (paypal@mydomain.tld, twitter@mydomain.tld)? How are you benefitting from the extra hierarchy?
You're partially right, and creating additional supply (especially with restaurants) was one of the main challenges. We tried bringing chain restaurants like McDonalds to table to start to address this. The latest version was a concept of ghost kitchens (restaurants with excess production capacity that was under utilized for in-person dining, with more flexibility on cuisine choices). Super interesting topic as well.

There is another supply issue with door-to-door vaccine delivery which is the courier distribution. Amazon Flex works because its fairly low barrier to spin up vans and delivery drivers. With vaccines you get into compliance/regulatory challenges as well as refrigeration etc. Some of these regulations would likely need to be intentionally loosened to enable a greater volume of delivery drivers and vans to hit the road.
The Case for Cash App as a Super App $SQ
It is not OSS if it does that, because you limit what the software can be used for.

It becomes just source-available software.

Being open-source to get a user base and then change the license isn't that great, they should have started as proprietary and that'd have been fine.
Brand recognition should help. I also trust the original developers to build a better product than Amazon will on their fork.
The audacity of these AWS folks patronizing elastic about open source despite AWS making millions of dollars off of their open source project just reeks of entitlement. Glad I am never going to use AWS.
I would bet on AWS in this case as they will also likely have the support of anyone who wants to make a hosted service of those products. It will be interesting to see if eventually AWS starts making new APIs that diverge from the Elastic or if they chose to keep the product maintenance mode.
I must have misread something, thanks for the correction
You've gotten the standard responses already: Join a social club. Play a sport. Go to meetups. These responses are not wrong, per se, but they're one step divorced from the deceptively simple looking actual process of making new friends, which is this:

Find people to talk to, and talk to them often. The ones who you like talking to and like talking to you will end up your friends.

That's all there is to it, but like you already know it's harder than it looks, because the problem is finding like-minded people to talk to, and that's why you're getting a bunch of advice about hobbies. Turns out that people who like certain hobbies tend to enjoy talking about them with other people who enjoy those hobbies. It's a proxy for an easy conversation.

Those who find it harder to have conversations with strangers will find it harder to make friends, so try to teach yourself that skill, because at some point it's all down to being a numbers game.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, America doesn't have any meaningful left-wing politics of any kind. There's not a single left politician elected to any federal office anywhere in the nation, for example.

Hollywood (the industry funded by the US Military to put pro-military-industrial-state advertisements into movies) is not "left leaning" in any meaningful way. "News Media" all lean either slight-right (MSNBC, NPR) to hard-right (Fox News, NYT, WSJ). Silicon Valley is primarily driven by right-leaning "libertarian" conservative types (at both big corps and small startups). Democrats are largely all conservative (in that, Democrats of 2021 mostly all hold identical views to what Republicans used to hold in the year 1998)

We do have a few centrist politicians and groups (Bernie Sanders / AOC+Squad, etc), and a few centrist movements (rights for LGBTQ+, or "Defund the Police", for example, is largely politically-centrist initiatives).

But I'm not aware of even a single left-leaning politician in any federal elected office. For example, no elected federal politician is advocating for the nationalization of all private corporations, or elimination of all for-profit entities, or for a complete cap on individual wealth, or for giving Hawaii back to the aboriginal Hawaiians, or anything like that, that could be considered a full-left position. (But meanwhile, on the right, there is a meaningful ultra-far-right political movement arguing that we should ignore replace democratically-elected officials with dicatorships, for example. And that group has elected members sitting in the House + Senate today)
Bezos is executing better than the original SAAS vendors that FOSS community editions. You want to compete with buff Jeff then make sure you support Azure/GCP too and can price below Bezos' margin above raw EC2 - usually means you have to get creative with spot instances and avoiding cross data center network.
That's not the point though, the point is that Bitcoin is not comparable to the entire financial system, rather it's comparable to raw cash. Just like it's pretty infeasible for everyone to always use cash all the time, it would be pretty infeasible for everyone to always use Bitcoin-on-the-blockchain to buy a cup of coffee.

What Bitcoin allows you to do is build a financial system comprised of products that look like Venmo, credit cards, banks, etc on top of a currency system that's 1) censorship resistant (unlike ACH), and 2) independent of central bank monetary policy (unlike most fiat currencies).

The degree to which you care about (2) is obviously based on your political leanings, but (1) basically turns paper-money in-person transactions into something that can happen between strangers over the Internet unencumbered. Most crypto bulls hope that the vast majority of people use instant bank-driven payments, just based on the blockchain at the lowest layer, rather than USD-over-ACH.

And to be clear, I'm not really a crypto bull and I don't really have a horse in the race. But this is the steel-man argument for crypto.
>>> "This means that Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source software."

So any license which AWS cannot make good use of is not a valid OSS license? What a pirate logic here.

EDIT: I think I made a mistake here. SSPL is really a weird license here, not really friendly.
Better quality is a better answer. AWS charges a big premium for Elasticsearch and I don't think they'd drop their prices to try to squeeze Elastic - for one, it would be unlikely to even work - but even so it's always best to differentiate on being the better quality/"value" than the lowest cost.

Having used AWS Elasticsearch, it has a lot of deep problems with it in its current state so Elastic can compete on value just fine.

In other news, I think the Elastic licensing change beyond being ethically a dick move (legally it's their right), is just horrible business strategy. I said on this site several days ago that Amazon was just going to make an Apache 2.0 fork and keep chugging along, and that's exactly what we're seeing.
Not really, they often are simply in tune and in agreement with the currently established group-think.
App Code is probably the only thing worth checking out. Swift isn't a useful language outside of the Apple ecosystem and interface builders come and go, usually go (design in Figma/Adobe products, implement in Code rather than UI wysiwyg)
Unless the go all in on something like neuromorphic or quantum
LowKey web app tweaks images to thwart facial recognition systems
MSA Scalability with Apache Kafka
It is a straw man that people use to try to try to make systemd seem like a solution, the only issue is that the problem never actually existed, just like people who try to argue that "x is dying or not attracting enough new users" in order to try to present a change they want to make as some how "solving" the problem of users leaving (e.g. "we should switch development to github"). When you look at the numbers and look at the existing systems, the stories are a complete fabrication to try to prop up a fallacious argument or process, tool, or project that is usually worse than what is really out there, not what its proponents claim is out there.
I don't do anything with my online accounts; for assets I rely on beneficiary information and my will, and I expect that the online accounts will just die off (as CCs close, etc).

I've always wondered if I should do more. What are the downsides of relying only on wills and beneficiaries? What might I be missing with this super basic estate planning?
They couldn't compete with practically free (Amazon hosting their software as a service), and allegedly Amazon weren't commiting anything back into their repo.

Elastic appeared to make their money through hosting their own instances and selling professional licenses, which Amazon was in direct competition with.
My condolences to your family Matt.

> Toward that end, bringing more computer science and computer scientists into medicine is one of my goals

Besides donating to the appropriate organizations, do you have suggestions for if/how software engineers can contribute to this cause? Are there open source projects in need of contributors or notable organizations that one could work for? Perhaps even a way for technical folks with biology backgrounds to get in touch with and help non-technical families navigate all the jargon?
You'd hope that the only way to better performance was HW specialisation, but there are SO MANY algorithmic improvements still to be made. Just the other day I found a case someone had rolled their own priority queue with a sorted array instead of a heap. In a fairly popular open source library too.

There's still loads of performance to be gained just by being better programmers.
they don't need a clutch because they can't stall. but, like ICEs, they cannot make peak power at 0 RPM. unless the vehicle is already traction limited (quite possible), it could accelerate faster with a shorter first gear. my guess is in reality it's usually cheaper to just overbuild the motors than to add lower gears to hit your desired 0-60 time, but this isn't a law of nature.
Offtopic but you seem to know a lot. I’ve been wondering do Tesla’s just have one regenerative braking force when you let off the gas?

Doesn’t this leave a lot on the table?

Wouldn’t you get more energy by having say gentle braking regen and harder braking regen?
Elastic are alleging that Amazon abused the Elasticsearch trademark and stole code from the proprietary (not open-source) part of their product.

> I took a personal loan to register the Elasticsearch trademark in 2011 believing in this norm in the open source ecosystem. Seeing the trademark so blatantly misused was especially painful to me. Our efforts to resolve the problem with Amazon failed, forcing us to file a lawsuit. NOT OK.

> We have seen that this trademark issue drives confusion with users thinking Amazon Elasticsearch Service is actually a service provided jointly with Elastic, with our blessing and collaboration. This is just not true. NOT OK.

> When the service launched, imagine our surprise when the Amazon CTO tweeted that the service was released in collaboration with us. It was not. And over the years, we have heard repeatedly that this confusion persists. NOT OK.

> When Amazon announced their Open Distro for Elasticsearch fork, they used code that we believe was copied by a third party from our commercial code and provided it as part of the Open Distro project. We believe this further divided our community and drove additional confusion.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS
AWS is doing a terrible job with their es version. and es has aquired endgame and giving endgame away for 'free' with you purchase of es licensing, and the es stack run by es is getting a lot more attention and development that AWS version
> Facebook and Twitter don't own their data centers. If the DCs responded to the same pressure about hosting illegal content, the social media giants would disappear too.

Not true, they do have own data centers.
Fortunately showering doesn't appear to be common in the profession
One of the advantages of using bent stainless rather than pressed & painted steel is that it can be done efficiently and cheaply in low volumes. A modern paint shop costs about a half billion; the forms & presses for pressing steel are also quite expensive.

750,000 preorders means that these low-volume production advantages are mostly moot, but perhaps Tesla will still take advantage of this to create some low volume variants.

Which is the only way you're going to see variants -- the unibody design of the Cybertruck means that coach-builders can't use a cutaway base.
> I feel like if some religious nut has to make a gay wedding cake

You know, in Masterpiece Cakeshop, people treating them as religious nuts was a factor in why they didn’t have to do that.
I smell fish. Keller is for those companies that hire him as Steve Jobs was for Apple. I can't think of a single person that is better at righting a CPU company's technical direction. I would even bet a lot on money on that he have been asked by Intel.
What exactly is wrong? And did you switch to something else?
They want to fork because $$, fine. But they could at least stop pretending to be saint of OSS. They're bragging of raising 9 PRs of total 41000 in elastic repo.

They are brave regardless. Elastic is not only database engine but whole ecosystem. Drivers, tooling, existing code, data pipelines, documentation and tutorials. Long terms keeping with elastic will be challenging to say at least.
As a result of capital being dumped into vaccines, Moderna and others already have formulas for a universal flu vaccine. I read also that mRNA can be delivered by pill. DARPA has a plan to solve future pandemics in 60 days usi g a combination of those and other technologies. We have the technology, pending regulatory success, to Amazon Prime people vaccine pills via drone that address all flus, covid or many other things. Pretty amazing.
My thoughts exactly ... They are creating and storing text. Only thing I can think is that they don't actually need the storage, but just want the lowest possible latency by having a large number of drives.
> My point is that Packinghan, viewed in combination with Marsh, provides an interesting lens for issues concerning potentially monopolistic behavior. IF data storage and/or social media can be viewed as critical digital infrastructure, an argument can and will likely be made that the services are tantamount to a digital company owned town. We'll see! Either way it's very interesting and highly relevant to the industry.

Seems like the core of your argument is that private companies could be subject to constitutional protections if they got too big enough/powerful.

Even ignoring that you've essentially invented a new interpretation of US law/ignored all existing precedent, the fact that AWS (32% market share) isn't a monopoly by either common definition or as defined by federal law completely undercuts even such a novel legal theory.

So you're on the outskirts of both law and basic facts here.
I disagree. This is an extremely important feature. If something happens to me, I wouldn't want my family to have to jump through insane hoops to get access to my accounts for a bit of extra theoretical security. At this point something traumatic has already happened to them and this would just be another emotion burden. This could be for financial reasons, or say if I were missing, to communicate with my friends.

Let people who don't need it and don't want it turn it off, but for me I'd definitely have it on.
It could if you let it! So don't let it. :) I spent a lot of time finding my domain and eventually found one that makes people chuckle when they read it, it's lightly funny and innocuous. I work in the tech industry, many (many) people have their own domains - it's not as uncommon as you'd think depending on which circles of friends. It's very common to see a domain based on their last (family) name and several family members share it, I see that a lot and have seen it for 2 decades.
A quick search shows average US software engineer's salary is $92,046 / yr. Divide that by 251 working days and 8 hours to arrive at $45/h.
In it's entire history, I'm not sure Fastmail has ever had an issue the scale or level of complete failure of https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/gmail-is-a-little-broken-r...
But AMD isn't the right comparator:

Q1 2021 Revenue Guidance

Intel $17.5bn - 12% YOY

TSMC $13bn + 20% YOY
Understandable, because a lot of people open source their code under a permissive license because it’s a cool thing to do, not because they understand what truly open sourcing their code means.
There is nothing wrong with what Amazon is doing ethically. They're creating value for their customers, and releasing open source software while doing so. Indeed it's Elastic who tried to get all the positives of open source with none of the negatives (as evidenced by them making Elasticsearch/Kibana no longer open source)

BTW, not that it's super relevant but the narrative that Amazon is driving Elastic bankrupt is farcical. Elastic pulls in $500MM in revenue and is valued at $15B+. Elastic's doing fine.

Note: One thing Amazon did do that was unethical was claim that they had "collaborated with Elastic" when they announced AWS Elasticsearch long ago. That is indefensible. But there is nothing wrong with them forking.
This is not how Intel sees it. They describe hyperthreading as a single core having two (or more, but usually two) sets of architectural state which basically means registers. It's not two cores, it is one core that can switch between two different instruction pointers. They share almost everything else apart from the APIC.
The short, charitable version:

Elastic's business model is "make + distribute ElasticSearch for free, then offer hosted ES for money." AWS (among others) offers hosted ElasticSearch as well - Elastic feels this isn't fair, variously because: AWS may have violated trademark by calling theirs "Amazon Elasticsearch Service", or because AWS doesn't contribute enough to the open source development of ElasticSearch, or one of a few other grievances. So they're changing their license to one that protects against this sort of "abuse" of the Apache license.

The less charitable version is that since Elastic's business model revolves around selling hosted ElasticSearch and AWS is outcompeting them there, they're switching to an "Open Source, but you're not allowed to do that anymore" license. But because Elastic values the goodwill they get from being "open source," they're trying to convince the world that this is a principled, moral stance instead of a run-of-the-mill self-interested decision to make their business more viable.
> I send about 100GB a day to Amazon ES

This is why you haven't noticed any issues.
why is that? we need the CPU to handle page fault interrupts, in order to populate the RAM. But assuming the page is already in RAM, there's no reason any of the memory accesses actually need to go through the CPU. (hardware can already raise interrupts; if the MMU can raise a page fault indicator, then you might be able to bypass CPU entirely until a new page needs to be loaded)

moreover, if we have support for mmap at the MMU level, we can cut the CPU bottleneck for disk access entirely. the disk controller can already handle DMA, but there's simply no way for things that aren't the CPU to trigger it. DirectStorage is an effort for GPUs to trigger it, but what if we could also trigger it by other means?
Yes that comment really stuck with me. Because in many ways cloud (in current form) wouldn’t exist without OSS licensing in general.
Executive Order Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender or Orientation
The AWS model isn't that they actually do novel development on this software, it's that they grab the code, add a bunch of crufty hacks to it to make it work better in their environment then sell it as a hosted version.

Think of it like the Amazon marketplace equivalent: watch for products doing well, then get the cheapest possible clone made and sell it as Amazon Basic, while harassing the original vendors of these products and promoting their own brand in search results.
Agreed. Also, I emailed them to clarify their privacy policy and a real human wrote me back to reassure me about the few clauses I was unclear on. We live in an age human support is not that common so this felt great
Just because it might be a bad idea to go long Bitcoin doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good idea to short Bitcoin.

As you mention, market timing is always a problem in such trades. A problem more specific to Bitcoin is that the market is not all that liquid, and that it is subject to the whims of some whales. Last of all, I suspect that Bitcoin bets might carry a significantly higher counterparty risk that e.g. shorting TSLA.
I like this attitude. Teslas are boring, in my opinion it is a waste of an expensive car. If you are going to buy a car that is out of the price range of normal people it better be something like the DeLorean.
I am really amazed by his courage. He could've stayed safe in Germany but he decided to go back and face Putin.
Amazon can, and will price you out of the market regardless of what you do. And if your idea is novel enough, they will just make their own version of it (or fork it, like in the original post!).
I wonder what torque looks like at 0 rpm. I thought that was peak?

But If it’s bad maybe a torque converter would be useful?
Is he talking about Bitcoin specifically or cryptocurrency as a whole? If just Bitcoin, yes, I agree that the transactions per second (TPS) is too low for global adoption. But as far as I know, there's no technical reason it has to be that slow for all cryptocurrencies. Ethereum 2.0 is supposed to support 100,000+ TPS according to Vitalik. https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/127796159495847116...
Requires a passcode before allowing biometrics
On top of this, I purchased a `.email` domain. Something about `anything@yourdomain.email` feels clean.
We need to dismantle these tech behemoths so they can't bully smaller companies. This is toxic behavior on Amazon's part, but par for the course for Bezos's company.
The major threads on this so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794987
It looks interesting, but I’m not entirely sold. All the examples are about math functions, which is kind of stupid to implement in Python.

How does this benefit “plumbing”?

My biggest problem with Python is that I either have to write

list(function1(*function2(len(obj.method())))

Or try to avoid all the variables by using classes... which is fine... if it wasn’t for self taking up roughly a third of the word count.