skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should hosting a server for someone be any different

Because we are starting to see that infrastructure level of the internet should be more like a public utility if we want to preserve fundamental freedoms. I would hope you would be outraged if T-Mobile listened in on cellular calls and terminated customers who said politically incorrect things even though the customer is using their service and they can do as they please with their customers as long as it isn't discrimination. You would also be outraged if the electric company terminated your power because you were powering a "stop the steal" neon sign in your window. It's time we start treating compute as a utility-like resource just like electricity, water, cellular data, etc.
USA?

"Making a noncommercial mix tape (as in, an analog audiocassette) of copyrighted songs is immune from claims of copyright infringement, thanks to the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, 17 U.S.C. § 1008."
> Absent access to "ordinary people" to recruit to violent causes, the inhabitants of such a "cesspool" will likely bore of their own conversation.

So then there is nothing at all to fear from Parler and all of the efforts to keep it offline are misguided?

> If, as you state, any of them are engaged in illegal provocation to violence, they will be easier to find there, since they lack the shield generated by the noise of "ordinary" conversation.

Even in a garbage fire like Voat, the vast majority of posts aren't illegal. You need the ordinary people there because they're the ones willing to report violence to the police when they see it.

> Besides, nobody is going to "helped" away from violent provocation by interacting with them social media. The only thing that can help such people are real in-person and community interaction, like at church

Something something COVID.
Speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if Intel used a deterministic naming schema for the files (i.e. q4-2020.pdf). Then Intel uploaded the files before close assuming no access.
Looks like night time CCTV quality. Not from the time of the big mob storming Capitol. I still agree they should of released full quality video clip instead of couple of zoomed stills.
What astounds me are the liberals who rightfully call for Navalny's freedom but defend prosecuting Assange and Snowden. Hypocrisy seems to be a consistent feature of politics.
Alphabet to shut down Loon, its internet-beaming balloon project
>All I have are mpd, dbus, pulseaudio, mako which I can easily run from my sway/config

The thing is, you want service management here. Sway is not a service manager and won't handle monitoring of the processes, socket activation, logging, etc.
No, but it should make the platform similar to a public square. Taking a government grant of liability protection should come with obligations to the public.
> We have a number of replicas of the database active at any given time, and we direct some read operations to replica database servers to reduce load on the primary.

No shared storage, no storage efficiency, and RF2 replication with mySQL on top of that... Ouch.

And it's completely unclear why NVMe was necessary in the first place. Are they using more than 5% of its performance? Instead they talk about PCI lanes and whatnot.
Why is Scott Alexander's real name important in this specific case?

I'm not interested in sloppily applied generalities for the common case where people aren't a pseudonymously semi-famous writer. Give me some reasoning on this case.
They're literally describing the chilling effect. It shows a lack of imagination if you think this "free market" is the only way to create valuable software.

PS. In a truly free market, there would be no enforcement of license violations except that which companies could muster themselves, i.e. Elastic would be able to hire mercenaries to loot and pillage AWS' data centres
Why not just install powershell on Linux?
No, it doesn't depend on why. You hear this all the time on message boards; for instance, it's at times been an article of faith around here that reference checks aren't OK, unless they're directed specifically to people candidates provide as references. But that's not how reputation works in reality! In reality, people can share unfavorable information about you for their own reasons and, as long as that information isn't false, there really isn't much you can do about it. Nor should you be able to! You can't coerce random people into not sharing true things about you.

You italicize "blog", like there's some important norm of "blogging" that was violated here, but Alexander wrote that blog for years under his own name, and, as I said upthread, some of his better-known pieces originally bore that name. I get that he had a bad experience when employers came across it, and can totally understand why he'd want to undo the decision to publish his name. But that doesn't mean he can.

God help me if I ever try to, like, run for village trustee where I live, and someone thinks to look my name up on this site. Can I reasonably ask the Chicago Tribune to forget about my real name, and use some different one instead? If not, where's the line between me and Alexander?

Ultimately, I think the NYT made the right decision here: that Alexander simply isn't important enough to publish a profile under these fraught circumstances. But the next person in this situation might not fit that fact pattern; they might actually be important, not just a "blogger", and it'll be important that nobody in the NYT buys into this message board kabuki dance about how we have to cooperate to maintain a psuedonymity anybody who can reach Google can puncture.
> Anything that really matters is just like the same old MS you know.

I have been hearing this kind of thing for years, and I just don't get it.

Microsoft has turned around completely, becoming a huge open-source contributor. They committed all their patents to OIN. They make .NET Core available for MacOS and Linux (including open-source). They are noticeably absent from the congressional hearings of the other huge tech companies who have been bad players.

And yet we hear that they're "the same old MS". I get that no company is perfect, but in all honesty, what could Microsoft do that would change your perspective on them? And do you hold other companies (FAANG) do the same standard?
Section 230 is a valuable grant of liability protection, and thus morally obligates platforms to act as a public forum. At the very least, moderation decisions should be written down and reviewable by a third party. The law should be reformed to reflect that.
Things You Can't Say change over time though, so you can't keep archives either.
Disappointing to see Kodah discounting all the open source contributors to ES. Please read this before you support folks like Kodah and Elastic hijacking ES.

In short - this feeling that Elastic owns Elasticsearch (other than maybe trademark) is totally false. Many people
contributed and adopted BASED on a real open source license.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/19/Elasticsearch-does-not-be...
Interesting. Why not buy the company then?
I agree with you, but Bitcoin is popular precisely because it’s a speculative tool. A cryptocurrency with more agreeable qualities for a currency couldn’t be a get rich quick scheme, so there is no demand for it.
On Windows Docker runs in a VM.
http://archive.is/ISeJC
I see you are unfamiliar with Balaji Srinivasan. He's the former CTO of Coinbase, someone who is currently notorious for being in a spat with the media. Is it amusing for him to suggest Scott Siskind should commit war crimes against the journalists Siskind was feuding with?
Really amazing work. If you will build simple editor to drag and drop these components, I will pay for this.
This is just begging the question, I think! Transference being real requires the idea that the caregiver is a blank slate onto which projection occurs.
That's nice if your within hearing of the subtle lock sounds
It's not so much that it's a container, but rather it's Linux. The host OS isn't Linux.
Yes, there's no requirement analysis whatsoever.

Let's buy the biggest servers we can. Because PCI lanes.
> if you push too far there won't be a union any more, because a portion of those states will walk away from a union

As the lopsidedness of representation grows ever more pronounced, it increases the probability that federal law and policy will diverge significantly from the views of the majority of the nation. This will likely increase disenchantment with the federal government even further, which is just as great a danger to the union. Surely you agree that this situation isn't ideal either, even if the Constitution says it's supposed to be like that?
This one sounds named appropriately.
Unless it's not clear yet, the biggest benefactors of OSS have become the 3 largest cloud vendors owned by 3 of the largest tech mega corps, namely:

- AWS
- Azure
- GCP

The multi-billion dollar infrastructure and network lock-in cloud vendors enjoy ensures there will only be these 3 cloud platforms (in the western world) that will enjoy most of the value derived from OSS, who are collecting rents on the backs of ISV's who developed the OSS products, because of which they're also going to be most invested in keeping the OSS status quo where they're able to repackage the resources & efforts others have invested into developing their OSS products and reap a majority of the profits by offering it as a managed hosted service on their platform, since relatively no customer using the cloud is going to want to use an external service if there's also the same managed service being offered by the cloud vendor.

The fantasy that OSS allows equal competition is no longer a reality, ISV's cannot compete with a cloud vendor who uses their own investments against them in addition to their anti-competitive monopoly lock-in of already having Customers running on their cloud platform.

Elastic's move to SSPL is effectively "OSS + free for everyone with the exception of exploitation by a major cloud vendor", since without it we're heading towards a mono culture future where all hosted OSS software is going to be funded and resourced by the billions major cloud vendors have reaped in collecting all the rent for hosting others OSS investments, that AWS gives nothing back in exchange for.

SSPL is effectively being used a tool to force AWS to do the ethical thing and reach an agreement with Elastic to distribute a portion of their profits from using their trademarks and hosting their Software they've invested a decade in building. AWS has instead chosen the path to maintain their own fork to avoid sharing any profits with Elastic as they're obviously currently making so much from hosting Elastic's products that it's in their financial best interest to start hiring dev resources to maintain their own fork then sharing profits with Elastic to fund its continued development.

Will be interesting to see how this strategy turns out, AWS may have already become to big to compete against who will be able to out resource, out fund & take over any ISV's OSS product, but it's clear the longer Elastic waits, the harder it would be to protect their own investments being used against them.
Maybe I just come from a different part of the Internet than you do --- the parts I came from involved a little bit more X.25 --- but where I came from, "doxxing" people was a sport, not a transgression. I think this norm really does come from 2000s-era message boards.
Old southern joke:

An oil man had a pump on the fritz and needed someone to fix it, fast. He sought the advice of the best expert he could find, and luckily when the expert listened to the problem he said, "let me spend a day with it and see what I can do."

The old expert pulls up in an empty pickup with only a hammer and nail in hand, calmly walks over to the pump, places the nail on the side, and taps it. Then, the expert dusts himself off and hands the oil man a slip of paper that reads,

"Total $1,000. Nail $1. Where to place the nail $999"
I think the constitution bans splitting states. I was looking into combining the dakotas and it doesn't seem possible because of that clause.
Biden Violated His Own Mask Mandate on Federal Land Because He Was “Celebrating”
It’s a Giorgetto Giugiaro aesthetics design with Lotus engineering, basically an automotive G4 Cube or NeXT. Except those were superseded by successors from its original manufacturer whereas DeLorean went bankrupt.
> matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported.

Amazon is not Google, they virtually NEVER drop a service.
Not sure I get what you are saying, per article -

> The pending disruption for DDoS-Guard and Parler comes compliments of Ron Guilmette, a researcher who has made it something of a personal mission to de-platform conspiracy theorist and far-right groups.

By finding things someone or a company has done to deplatforming them, it's not deplatforming when they get deplatforming if?

Maybe try reading "The Dictator's Handbook", it might cover what your asking.
My father, sadly for him, read Vonnegut before Douglas Adams, and felt that Hitchhiker's was just trying to emulate him.

I didn't inherit this gene, happily for me, and enjoy all three authors a great deal.

If anyone wants to recommend something else in this vein, please do; I'll probably like it.
Since the unsafe APIs directly interface with memory directly, they can bring the whole Rust application and/or put it in unknown state by messing up memory.

How could they "patch" that with a wrapper?
I think the proposed Alexander article hurt the NYT's reputation among a cohort of potential readers who firmly believe in Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect and have weird ideas about journalism to begin with. I don't think it cost them meaningfully. I am certain that the way Alexander handled the situation more or less ensured that his name would be on the tips of lots of people's tongues --- that's the infamous "Streisand Effect" in action.

I don't so much care about Alexander. I won't use his real name, because there's no upside to it for anyone here or on HN. I do care about the idea of Reddit norms infecting journalism; that sounds horrible, because Reddit is atrocious at journalism.
Perhaps a custom compose function can help with these use cases? This series has a few examples of composing computation in Python that might be useful.

https://github.com/mpkocher/Functional-Programming-Technique...

And there's a general list of resources here.

https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-functional-python
well, you could pack a lot of other expressions into that expression, especially with 3.8/3.9, e.g.

x,y = 1,2

q = list(map(lambda t: (tx := t*x, ty := t*y, tx+ty)[-1], [1, 2, 3]))
I never had an issue with WSL1 until some bizarre bug that cropped up seemingly out of nowhere in which I would blue-screen during some Rust compilation. I didn't have the issue after maybe four or six months of using Rust in WSL1 until suddenly I did. Upgrading to WSL2 fixed the problem.

Publishing Rust crates does require a workaround[0] in WSL2 if it's from a Windows directory. That's annoying but pretty infrequent (for me) and not a difficult workaround.

Except for those two issues, I've not had any problems in either WSL version - certainly nothing that would give me pause to using either one.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8439#issuecomment-...
You're not wrong, but there's also an element of justifiable conservatism. Aviation killed a lot of people before the associated industry and community mostly figured out how to make sure they didn't. Trying something innovative sometimes introduces a safety issue that hadn't even been considered.
The government tried to negotiate with him for something like forty years.

He had no intention of complying or paying any of his bills.
I use Lastpass, but I'm no longer a fan. So I am considering Bitwarden, but was wondering: What does this afford me that the built in Firefox password manager does not? Firefox now provides a method to generate passwords. Is there something else I am missing?
Will other search engines not be subject to the same ridiculous legislation?
Please know that networking in WSL2 is a nightmare if working in a VPN. We are currently staying in WSL1 because the internet wont work in WSL2 under the corporate VPN.
It was designed to be unfair. The small states threw a fit at the constitutional convention so now we're stuck with this bs. Why does representative democracy mean some people are more represented than others? Why can't everyone be equally represented in a representative democracy?
I have that technology. Do plenty useful job in my backyard. We call it 'Tree'. Elon can go head and call it 'Treesla"
I didn't say it was a large effect, I just said it existed. Do you think there were any negative effects to just leaving his pseudonym to stand, like they did for Banksy?

Editing to add:

> I don't so much care about Alexander. I won't use his real name, because there's no upside to it for anyone here or on HN. I do care about the idea of Reddit norms infecting journalism; that sounds horrible, because Reddit is atrocious at journalism.

You can feel free to use his real name, he does so himself in the article we're discussing.

I don't really see how Reddit enters into any of this apart from you just carrying a weird grudge against it. I don't personally care for Reddit culture either, but it doesn't make a ton of sense to me that it should matter in this case.
> What has shifted is that, where before, there was a "code of honor" that companies could use FOSS software and Elastic would benefit from the uptick in adoption via support contracts, community building libs + writing docs, and encouraging "network effects" for them.

I've run a couple of COSS companies and have a few arrows in the back on this subject. The 'code of honor' is not enough to float even a small company. I don't think it ever was.

Most people simply won't pay if they don't have to. It's not just a matter of money. Buying software in established companies can be a head-exploding hassle--as in 6 months of fighting procurement. Plus those do-a-good-deed contracts have a habit of disappearing as soon as there's a budget crunch or the enlightened manager who pushed it through moves to something else.

I'm not knocking such contracts in any way. They are kind of like crowdfunding for OSS and can be lifesavers. But it's naive to build a company on them.

To have a profitable COSS business you need to sell something sticky that customers need and can't get elsewhere, so there's a real exchange of value.
> for people outside of a metropolitan area

As a Bay Area resident, let me tell you: I have driven all over California and there are Tesla’s meeting me at each spot. You’re in the past with this take.
They already have.

If the people don't want things to be that way, they can pass amendments to change it.
no, not correct
Nederlandse = The Netherlands
> Taking a government grant of liability protection should come with obligations to the public.

Why? That's a serious question.

The reason liability protections exist for information services is because information services can't exist without them. It's not possible for an information service provider to be strictly liable for what their users post while having anything like a reasonable quality of service or cost. Think 10 hour moderation queues to post on Instagram, which costs $15/month, and requires using your driver's license or other photo ID to sign up so they can forward libel suits to you.

Requiring strict liability on the part of information service providers will likely drastically reduce the amount of free speech. Because they're going to aggressively take down/reject anything that has the slightest possibility of them getting sued. They won't suddenly morph into the town square because an unmoderated Internet town square is a filthy, ugly place that repels users and advertisers and hurts the bottom line.
How to Prepare for a Site Reliability Engineer Job Interview?
Oh I know. Paying off student loans or owning a house aren’t in the cards, but the work is stimulating and the colleagues are smart and open minded.
Ha well the use of 'portals' to warp between spaces (eg, burning man!) definitely felt like "entering the underworld". This definitely had a second-life-in-a-browser vibe. I know a few artists that would love to hold virtual gallery tours in a set up like this.

(also, pluto+video made me think of pluto.tv - a live tv app)
The crazy thing is my local Whole Foods always has a noticeable number of what I assume are Amazon Fresh contractors scurrying around buying large carts of groceries to ferry to people. Fair enough, except didn't Amazon's other employees just go to the trouble of loading everything off of trucks and onto the store shelves a couple hours previously? Why not cut out the middle man and load the goods from the trucks or back room into the delivery vans for the last mile? Hilarious to me that the store floor, optimized as it is for everyday grocery shoppers, is also Amazon's best technology for getting goods out of the hands of one set of employees (excuse me-- contractors-- don't want to bring a lawsuit down on anyone) and into another's.
And the current system allows the minority to oppress the majority. I don't see how that is better. What we actually need is ranked choice or proportional representation so that we can have more than 2 parties.
Huh, I guess goog is going to have to go back to relying on ad words.
The Prius has that too. It doesn't need to, but as you say, they wanted it to feel like a regular car.
Reaching flow state with Clojure's REPL
How do you write large programs in dynamically typed languages?
I've written a few medium sizes (500-1000) line programs in languages like bash, python, Ruby, and JavaScript. I use these languages because they lends themselves towards scripting (bash, python) or because I'm forced to (Ruby, JavaScript).

At first things are alright. In small programs I can keep track of types and what should be passed where. When programs grow and I try to refactor (50% of my time programming in Java is spent refactoring to keep my programs clean), or when I try to add a feature after taking a several month break, I find myself completely lost and unable to easily make changes.

So, how do you write maintainable programs in scripting languages?
I thought this was pretty interesting.

The basic problem of lack of tactile feedback is one you can test easily by trying to type on on an iphone vs. an old school blackberry while riding a roller coaster.

When you have something to brace against, it's just a lot easier to be stable. I'm surprised researchers haven't figured out a way to solve this in a better way (maybe it's a haptic screen that can be reconfigured... the way LED keyboards work)

The 20% error rate the pilot describes seems... like a really really big problem.
If you're using a database that's not tightly integrated into your project and distributed with it, I don't believe you'd have to open your project. The API is the boundary:

- your project running on Linux kernel doesn't become GPL

- your project talking to MySQL doesn't become GPL and one talking to mongodb pre-2018 doesn't become AGPL

- your project talking to elasticsearch wouldn't become AGPL

(However AWS search offering... could?)
Escape of SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 variants from neutralization by convalescent plasma
I already mentioned them. I have worked extensively with both trainers and physical therapists.

I really wonder how many people are so quick to give advice on things they have no real world experience dealing with.
Same on reddit.
Better abstractions are the solution, not better programmers.

Actually with better abstractions worse programmers are able to achieve the same thing.