skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fox News has the biggest viewership of a single outlet, and it's right-wing, sure (93+% of viewers self-identify as Republican).

But MSNBC viewers self-identify as Democrat at the rate of 95%, NYT as 91%, NPR at 87%, CNN at 79%.

You need to compare aggregate numbers if you're trying to be fair.

The source for the above is Pew Research Center, Sept 12, 2020, published in this Tweet: https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1304908656543178752
Update, I just discovered they're literally just reskinning this...

https://github.com/AidanNelson/YORB2020
I use Airsonic, can anyone comment as to why I might want to switch to Funkwhale?
> To maximize the value you ...

... have to let Bezos et al. exploit it?

(And that's maybe not as bad a thing as it sounds on the surface. Linux, Apache, PHP, Ruby, HAProxy, Nginx, and probably hundreds of open source projects I can't even start to list don't seem to feel the need to come out swinging like Elastic/Mongo/Redis have. )
Is there any reason IPFS wizards could not implement IPFS or equivalents over WebRTC peer-to-peer, as in-page JavaScript application? Even if this were not the real thing, it would bring it closer to the mainstream more quickly.
I'm not sure how the "AWS is stealing Elasti Cos product" holds up. AWS is willing to dedicate the time and infra to maintaining a copy of the last "freely" available version.

It is surely a significant investment on AWS part and they're even maintaining the Av2 license.

At the end of the day, we have a huge, highly profitable company backing and a better license
If 2000 is part of the previous century, was 2001 actually the true start of the new millennium?
> it is basically saying, "We love this project so much we're going to build it into a different direction and charge people to access our version."

No, you won’t be charged to access their fork on Github. If you want them to host your Elastic or Kibana service you’d have to pay for the service, but that’s not related to access to the Apache licensed source code.
I'm not talking about reading logs. (Which, by the way, is a lot easier to do in a dead system when they're text and not binary. It's hard to mess up cat, grep, and notepad.)

I'm talking about being able to rule out causes because the primary components of the system are independent of each other.
It's the drone boogeyman again. They are cheap because I can buy them in a brick and mortar store. Surely the military can just buy tens of thousands of them.

>It’s basically been decided that we are going to spend silly money keeping a small number of absolutely cutting edge aircraft flying rather than thousands if not tens of thousands of of likely more efficient but less capable possibly drone aircraft.

Well, you're missing the fact that there will be thousands of F-35s on earth (500 already built). Meanwhile there are less drones like MQ-9 Reaper (200 built) which are basically primarily to bully some ground troops than F-35s despite them only costing $40 million a pop. After all they are cheap. Because you see, the brick and mortar store sells them, so they must be cheap even when they are not.

>than thousands if not tens of thousands of of likely more efficient but less capable possibly drone aircraft.

In a war less capability might mean the total loss of all aircraft. You only need a few F-35s and some anti air support on the ground and the drones will be shot down. Yes, you might be able to execute a saturation attack but once you lost your entire fleet how are you going to respond to the counterattack? Oh right, with your own 5th generation fighter that matches the F-35.

Honestly, the biggest benefit of drones is that you can equip your infantry with loitering munitions and thereby reduce the need for conventional CAS provided by a conventional air force. This isn't a stupid lets build ten million drones swarm buzzword bingo to scare some people who barely know anything about the capability of military weapons. That's nonsensical. It's like plastering machine guns everywhere because "cheap". As if militaries only care about stockpiling weapons with no logic behind mission objectives.
My 2018 Mazda has a touchscreen, but 100% of the functionality can be done with physical buttons. It's the best interface for a car center-stack I've used on any car in the past 15 years or so.
Makes sense.

Just like no one should be forced to bake a wedding cake, rent out a car to a <25yo, not refuse a hire based on sex or race, it is also not right for any man to force an equal child of creation to host a website.

Luckily there are federated protocols for social media which can be used by free speech absolutists.
Was at a small startup, SAAS company, handful of large customers. Logs going into ES were north of 1TB/day.
Funny, an MP in my country suggested this some time ago, lend or donate art pieces to the former colonies. Cue the reactions calling her an "unpatriotic traitor".
It's really confusing to call this VR.
By your reasoning Linus Torvalds should be getting a cut of any money made on a linux host.
You may want to add Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980) providing a right to first ammendment speech on private property. Although follow on cases have narrowed the prescedent quite a bit.
I would call this MongoDB'd themselves. Except that also would imply that people are still interested in MongoDB. I think their license move probably just accelerated the decline in interest in their product.
https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1439/...

pc-centric "client computing group" made 40b revenue last year, over half their 78b total. probably something like 250 million cpus at an average price of $160
AWS was entirely within their rights to do what they did. If Elastic wanted AWS to stop, they just had to re-license their software. Which they have now done. If AWS wants to continue to offer the latest version of ES then they simply have to comply with the new licensing terms. Nobody has done anything wrong or unreasonable, or “forced” anyone to do anything, though it was perhaps not in Elastic’s best interest to have offered ES under the original license.
My father knew a guy who was moving back to the states with his family and they apparently lost everything when their container went overboard.
Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
I've used PostGIS extensively. You don't need PostGIS to serve tiles unless you're deriving the tile data from a relational database and need to convert the tile coordinates to geographic coordinates.
Yes, that's a small amount of data. I've worked at small companies with an order of magnitude more data per day and larger companies with three orders of magnitude more data per day flowing into a text indexing service.
Scott has written an intro post about this on the new blog: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/youre-probably-wonderi...

The about page also has some links to more popular articles on the old blog: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/about
Great memories of using Tucows. It was a dependable source of software.
Have a similar feeling using f-droid now. Look for a useful tool, and find something completely different, that is either useful or fun.
https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

The listed servers are from few years ago so I guess there might be some bigger ones available these days.
There have been reasonable minimum salary requirements for H1Bs for a few years now: https://redbus2us.com/h1b-minimum-wage-or-lca-prevailing-wag...

$45/hr|$90K would be too low nowadays. GP's experience could have been more than a few years ago.
Haha, yes, indeed! The python library is quite easy to use and lets you go beyond what the official application allows (plus, I use it on Linux).

I actually looked at those XKeys ones first, but IIRC they were a little too expensive for what I wanted (yes, the StreamDeck isn't that cheap either, but its easier to use out of the box)

StreamDeck is great for non-streaming tasks. I'm very happy with it.
I'm sure you're right about increasing motor power being cheaper than adding gears, but just thought I'd add that my understanding is that you might then also need to increase battery capacity because the rate at which Li-ion batteries can discharge is another limiting factor. As an example, I think there is a Honda 2 motor hybrid system which can accelerate faster (generate more power on the motor driving the wheels) if using power generated from the petrol engine as well as battery power.
My local WF used to be a nice place to shop before the acquisition. But once Amazon took over, the place turned into an assembly line! It's like you were stepping into a turn-of-the century factory (well, turn of the _last_ century). I just stopped going there.
If you're buying 1 - 2 albums per month, at a price of about $10 per album and with artists/composers on average being paid a flat 20% of album sales[0], then you'd be giving an artist $2-4 USD for that album. If that artist is a smaller artist and is releasing their album relatively independently (very common these days), then their percentage earned can be 50% - 80% instead, leading to you paying the artist more like $5-10 USD for those album(s).

For streaming music, let's say you're listening to the artists music in the USA (meaning your streams are worth the most). Let's also assume an average song length of 4 minutes and an average per-stream payment to the artist of $0.003526648542 dollars since you're in the USA[1]. In this world, if you listen to that artist for 3 hours a day, every day, for all 30 days in a month, then you will listen to 1350 songs from that artist and earn them ~$4.76 with all your listening.

So while it is possible that you could listen to an artist so much on a streaming platform that you give them more than if you buy an album, I wouldn't call it super likely.

[0] - https://www.recordingconnection.com/reference-library/record...

[1] - https://www.igroovemusic.com/blog/wie-viel-erhalte-ich-pro-s...
They probably offered to throw them a couple of million dollars to avoid the hassle and the bad PR, but ElasticSearch is worth a lot more than that.
Disclosure: I work at Amazon on cloud infrastructure, but not on the codebase in question. I helped with parts of the blog post to try to explain some of the nuance about how things are set up with Elasticsearch as an "upstream".

The 9 PRs were only to demonstrate working in the "upstream first" practice, and aren't exhaustive. It also doesn't cover the additional work in the Apache Lucene project that benefits Elasticsearch as well, which is where larger code investments are being made (since that's the right place for them to live, for much of what's being built).
Cockpit user interface tour of one of the smallest private jets, the Phenom 300:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIAO0mnQU7g

I recently watched a few videos of flights in the Cirrus Visionjet, literally the smallest and lowest cost single engine private jet aircraft on the market. Its electronic cockpit looks very straightforward and logical in design.
> charge people to access our version

Aren't they sharing the fork? Sounds more like "we like it but its no longer free to use, so we're making it free. btw you can pay us to host it for you"
I am wondering if there's a way to have some kind of unattended boot process along with an encrypted disk, as long as there's a tpm chip in the host.
Here are some of my favorites that I'd recommend:

The Toxoplasma of Rage: An essay about how more controversial examples tend to get elevated and thinking about why that happens. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...

Meditations On Moloch: An essay about how incentives and coordination problems cause systemic societal issues: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Who By Very Slow Decay: An essay about death in medicine.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup: An essay about tribalism
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

He's a good writer, as other replies mention it came out of lesswrong (see: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences).

Some lesswrong favorites (mostly Eliezer Yudkowsky):

Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb...

A Fable of Science and Politics: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of...

Pretending to be Wise: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jeyvzALDbjdjjv5RW/pretending...

Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-vali...

The Bottom Line: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom...

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For a fun creative fiction one from Scott: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-dee...

From EY: http://www.hpmor.com/
The head-unit in my Ford Focus (2004-ish?) had an MFD. Parallax was a bit of an issue (which buttons were for which function looked different from passenger and driver seat). I rate it as just "okay." The one place it was clearly better than touchscreen was for selecting the radio-station from a list of "favorites." Each station was always on the same button, so switching was simple.

Note that this was for controlling the audio system only; this predates integrated "infotainment" center stacks.
I think this comment helps me understand why Gig economy was ever a thing in US in the first place.
I don't see how this case will go anywhere on appeal: the facts that are actually alleged in the complaint are simply too thread-bare to support any matter of law that could be appealed, and Parler hasn't claimed anything that would allow your legal theory to apply to this case.
Sigh.. Should we forget about the Sinclair Broadcast Group which is the second largest TV station owner in the country and does crap like: https://youtu.be/UOaayej-130?t=34 ?

Saying 'all media is left leaning' is factually false.
Why wouldn't it be enough? There's a very strong prior (base assumption) that prices in a liquid market (like most housing) are determined by supply and demand.

The FDA has papers about how above 5-7 suppliers for a given drug the price radically drops (eg. the market becomes efficient due to competition), the same thing works for ISPs and other providers, why would it be different for housing?

Also, if the things you mention don't happen, that means there's no need for the rent control, since supply and demand are in balance and prices are stable (or they follow some larger trend, like inflation).
Up and down this thread people are mixing questionable legal ingredients in hopes of finding a recipe that makes sense.
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Using any AWS extension or hosted service that isn't immediately replaceable is a really stupid move.
The Biden Generation's Last Chance
> is a lot easier to do in a dead system when they're text and not binary

The binary format doesn't matter for browsing logs. Replace `cat /your/custom/service/file.log | grep ...` with `journalctl -u service | grep ...` (or just `-a` for everything)

I'd actually argue it's easier not to mess up with journal with simple tools, because you don't have to special-case `service`, `service.1`, `service.2.gz` files.
The industry is big, but sometimes feels small. Ships are mini-cities, so it takes all types of engineers:

-Naval Architect - (Specializes in hull form design and structures.)
-Marine Systems Engineering - (all about the machinery plant design to make the ship move)

ME's and Navarchs work side-by-side.

Here is a list of schools with Navarch and Marine Engineering degrees [1]

Webb and USMMA (i.e. Kings Point) folks are all over the forefront of this industry.

These are the primary degrees. If you search the above two job postings, you will find plenty of companies working in Ship Design. These degrees will give a decent treatment to all of the fields needed to succeed in ship design.

Other specialists we work with:
-Electrical Engineering
-Hydrodynamicists
-RF & Network Engineering (for C4I systems)
-Mechanical Engineer
-Data Science (demand increasing rapidly with the emergence of unmanned shipping)
-Physics (especially thermodynamics) or Math
-Materials Science
-Mechatronics/Robotics
-Logistics/Supply chain
-Reliability Engineering
-Shipyard (Production) Management
-Simulations and Game developers
The list really does go on...

I work with a mechanichal engineer who worked for an elevator design firm before entering our industry and they're one of the best 'marine engineers' I've worked with. Most everyone understands they don't know everything, and new perspectives are the womb of creativity, so people with varied backgrounds are welcomed.

Type of companies to look for:

1.) Defense contractors (e.g. General Dynamics, BAE, Gibbs & Cox, Gen. Atomics, many MANY more)
2.) Private Navarch/Marine Engineering firms
3.) Shipyards (NASSCO, HII, China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, Hyundai Heavy Industries, etc.)
4.) Cruiselines, Ferry lines and other commercial ship owners
5.) Workboat companies, and Offshore (e.g. oil) Industry
6.) Smaller yacht, racing craft, pleasure craft designers/builders.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=schools+with+naval+architect...

P.S. - I'm in dire need of a solid data scientist (big data analytics/sensitivity anaysis, model building), so if someone's interested, send me your contact info.
> 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.

If only we applied this same type of pressure and energy to politicians who enrich themselves at public expense or drawing down from our endless (but very profitable) wars.

Our ruling class does an excellent job keeping us fighting against each other so we don't focus on them.
There are NICs that more or less run BPF for exactly those reasons.
Not my experience growing arctic kiwi. Cats don't ever seem to stop to take a look but I could be wrong. I will watch more carefully.
For me, other than the online order filler folks, I've been surprised by how other little change I've noticed. Aside from promoting kindles in locked glass cases and for some reason ice chests, I hadn't noticed a change.
> Although python actually comes with a fair amount of functional data structures out of the box (str, bytes, tuple, frozenset, namedtuple, …) none of them can be “updated” efficiently.

If they can’t be updated efficiently, they are just immutable than particularly functional.
Interesting. This is pretty much parser combinator syntax but restricted to regexes.
DX-wise, I'd just prefer a parser combinator library.

In practice this probably compiles to a regex for performance reasons: a JS parser is probably much slower than hooking JS to a C regex library.

In a faster (compiled) language you don't have this limit, eg. Haskell and Rust have several popular parser combinators libraries.
It's not like the OSI and the FSF haven't got at least a few major differences about "ideals" though.

Pretty sure rms is 100% convinced _both_ sides of this disagreement are morally wrong.
That’s not what they’re saying, they offer virtualization services, not Linux as a service.
That's normal, you only find those things if you look for them. There are lots of profiles with hundreds of thousands of followers full of porn, or football, or welding memes. But you never see them. Yet, there they are.
I think he was looking for something new (that was actually a perfect anagram of Scott Alexander).
It's not. Sure, Amazon is continuing to charge for their existing ES managed services. But they're open sourcing the project behind it. So quite the opposite of what you've said. You can access this open source version of ES free of charge (once it's release on GitHub."

From the article:

"Our forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana will be based on the latest ALv2-licensed codebases, version 7.10. We will publish new GitHub repositories in the next few weeks. In time, both will be included in the existing Open Distro distributions, replacing the ALv2 builds provided by Elastic. We’re in this for the long haul, and will work in a way that fosters healthy and sustainable open source practices—including implementing shared project governance with a community of contributors."
Or just have ubiquitous IOMMUs, which we should do for a million other reasons anyway.
I don't really get how people get this twisted.

ES and other companies have a business that sells a managed version of their product. This is how they sustain developers to continue working on Elastic Search. This model has worked for companies long before cloud providers were a thing. What AWS and others basically did is create identical services, keep all the profits, and exploit gaps in Open Source licensing to this end. From the ES perspective, their FOSS contributions were done in good faith which basically boil down to, "If you can run our product on your own, you get it for free".

AWS knows that if they take too much of ES' market that they won't survive. If they don't survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported.

You can frame this question in terms of ethics, you can frame it in terms of licensing naivety, you can frame it in whatever way you want but Amazon is doing what it always has done: exploiting smaller businesses in its goal to become a conglomerate.

Edit: a lot of people talking about the license forget that there's an entire spirit to open source. The permissiveness of open source was one thought to be "we can all succeed together" and what people get upset about is the fact that this obviously violates that spirit. The businesses set up to back companies like Elastic Search were setup to sustain the project while continuing to empower it's creators to take their vision further. If Amazon takes the pie, that doesn't happen. At best, the creators are now Amazon employees and have to follow their desires. Just because you can exploit a license, doesn't mean you should.
The projects needs to excite you in some way. After work, you should look forward to building your own thing. If you are not, then why do the project?

One day an idea will give you the energy to work on it, you just haven't found it yet.
Don’t these certificates have long RSA keys which are more expensive computationally? Though I guess that doesn’t have to happen on the database server.
For technology abuse (e.g. spamming, botnets, etc), legal reasons (cp, pii dumps, etc), or for not liking the content being hosted?

What happened to Parler is not routine when you exclude all of the cases of blatant abuse of the service.
Anyone who used the term 'debunk' is hella sus.
Users is not just end users. AWS and others are users too and Stallman wants them to have the same freedom to use and modify software as I do. We have the same rights and responsibilities. Even Elastic is a user of the software.

I respect anyone who follows a license, I respect anyone who want to relicense a software and I respect someone who forks a project. I don't see any fault anywhere here.
Breakthrough Allows Inexpensive Electric Vehicle Battery to Charge in 10 Mnts
The essential spirit of "open source" or of "free as in freedom software"?

Because I don't think those two align as closely as many of the arguments here gloss over...
I do hope Scott will some day restore the old website to its original layout rather than the default WordPress template it's had since he pulled it. At least for archival and nostalgic value.

Does anyone know why SubStack doesn't allow more customization of the blogs? I feel like every one is nearly identical in font/layout/"feel".
95% controlled by 2% is surely not that shocking a statistic. It’s not too dissimilar if you look at personal wealth but one person could correspond to many Bitcoin accounts outside that 2%.
At least they are consistent in using the convection in reverse.
Has AWS ElasticSearch service gotten better? Last I used it, and last I've heard, it was horrible
This one comes to mind https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...