skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the AGPL not a copyleft license? What are the derivative works you're required to distribute as AGPL?
> I got emails that were like that, only it was grad students. Apparently if you have a blog about your field, that can make it harder to get or keep a job in academia. I'm not sure what we think we're gaining by ensuring the smartest and best educated people around aren't able to talk openly about the fields they're experts in, but I hope it's worth it.

This is very concerning, because it lends credence to the general public's idea of an "ivory tower," as well as academia's own idea that it can somehow achieve perfect neutrality through apersonality.
> The thing with antifa (the “anti fascists”) is that their techniques are indistinguishable from fascism: If you say one thing out of line publicly, they hound you for the rest of your life.

I see no evidence of that being true in any substantive way. I’d be surprised if there aren't some people somewhere who fit that description and identify with the antifascist movement, which is a big, diverse, decentralized movement. But I don't see it happening in any significant degree.

> Like deplatforming, the goal is to deprive people of their right to speech.

No, it's to get other people to exercise their right to free speech to not amplify harmful voices.
Google will pull search engine from Australia if forced to pay news publishers
Not if I am a cloud provider.
I fell for one of these offers on the first thing I made that got any traction -- it was a browser extension that solved an issue with a common photo hosting site, and I organically ended up with 25,000+ users, mostly on Chrome.

Eventually the photo hosting service itself solved the problem that my extension was solving, but pretty much everyone who'd installed the extension still had it installed.

At some point, a company offered to buy it from me for a couple thousand dollars -- I was 18, and it seemed like a miracle! They asked me to add some code to the extension, and I assumed their intentions were good. I added their code, which I now realize was some sort of tracking/advertising program...and my extension promptly got taken down by Google.

Quite the learning experience!
> You can let people say whatever they want

Indeed, you can let them say whatever they want. But that doesn't mean that anyone else should or should not. It's not like there aren't companies and service providers willing to host the content.

> refuse to implement their proposals

There are real practical limits to free speech.

A "proposal" that is an incitement to organized violence is of the same kind as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.

That is fundamentally different than a proposal to eliminate the estate tax, provide a universal basic income, or organizing to peacefully protest using civil disobedience.
Being honest, I don't know enough about flightpath to give a good comparison.

Baremetrics however I know very well. They do a great job plugging into Stripe and helping you analyze your revenue, however their forecasting capabilities are extremely limited. They also only look at revenue, not expenses or hiring.
With Finmark, you can just as easily connect your stripe account and get reporting on your historic revenues, however we also are much more robust in forecasting and allowing you to create a true financial model.

The spreadsheet template you linked is definitely one of the better templates out there. A couple months ago there was a great HN thread where Stéphane Nasser reviewed multiple different templates that exist. Our theory however is that spreadsheets, using a template or not, are too burdensome to maintain and easy to mess up. You could download all of your stripe data into a CSV, and create pivot tables to come up with all the same charts that baremetrics offers, but it's easier just to use software. Thats what we want to do for financial modeling In fact, we purposely priced our software lower than baremetrics despite having all the same core functionality plus so much more.
Let's not charge the whole battery via a single point. Real batteries tend to charge groups of cells, or individual cells, separately anyway.

Let's have 4 cables, or maybe 6 cables, charging separate sub-batteries. Since the surface to mass ratio grows as mass decreases, passive cooling becomes more viable. The mass of each cable also becomes manageable. Of course, now you need to have several connectors on the car, likely under a dedicated retractable panel.

Cars aside, I'd apprentice a phone that can charge in 10 minutes, even if it needed to be under a fan during that.
Often these "Well Sourced" rumors end up being off by years. While we all know Apple has a "Project Titan" when or even if there will be an end product is up in the air. The rumor sites can't even get a good estimate on the launch of Apple's AirTag/ location tracker things and there have been traces in the code for much of a year.
I’m sorry to read of Bertrand’s passing. I’ve been following your writing for a while, including your son’s story, and I find nothing short of admirable the lengths that you and your family have gone to ensure that he was loved and cared for.

I had a look at your draft and, as someone working in a related field, I’m really impressed by its exhaustiveness. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
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> For some reason people assume that you get paid more in order to deal with less interesting work or a worse work environment.

> This is completely false.

I wouldn't say it's completely false. For example, I'm guessing many enterprise software developers make more than many CS professors. Said professors are obviously qualified to make CRUD apps but they would rather do research or teach curriculums based on their interests.

> The company values you more, when they make more from what you are able to contribute, on average.

Yes, this is true. But your conclusion does not follow from that:

> Highly paid engineering work environments are strongly correlated with interesting work and with good working conditions.

There is probably some correlation between interesting work for the engineer on the one hand and profitable work for the employer on the other, but it's not nearly as strong as you make it seem.
Just this week I was trying to find an animated Windows 98 startup screen replacement I used of a borg cube.. couldn't quite find the exact one but found a few linked on tucows and FTP archives of tucows :)
I've always been bearish on self driving tech ever being adequate, but you bring up a point I haven't heard before, how many people actually want their car to drive itself? I mean I love radar cruise in a traffic jam, but having to drive my car actually is not a problem.
I have an MSEE working as an engineer on a cutting edge physics project making the salaried equivalent of... $31/hr.

HN is great, but it really is not an accurate sample of real world wages.
I lived in NYC for 11 years and the only things I miss are my friends and Fresh Direct.
Likely because ardy42 isn't a fan of them and the word would otherwise have positive connotations.

In general, the quotes in this context signal an ideological opposition.
Realistically, wide area coverage dictates elevated antennas (towers or the equivalent) and a nontrivial amount of power. The point of Loon would have been to be able to restore some mobile capacity without ground logistics. Apparently that use case isn’t enough to close the business case.
Because electricity is ubiquitous. It’s literally everywhere. Some states have mandated apartment complexes accompanied EV owners, and with the Biden administration, I expect federal standards in short order.

It’s a policy problem, not a technology problem. Tesla has deployed an enormous fast charging network on their own dime, so it’s reasonable more can be done faster with government support (including mandating and funding EV chargers for apartment dwellers).

No one wants to charge their EV from a Honda generator at their apartment complex. If you’re a Tesla owner in an apartment with no apartment parking EV charger access, you pop over to a Supercharger once a week (which, while suboptimal, is equivalent to gas stations until EV chargers are more widely available).
The internet/web was founded on permission-less, innovation, permissiveness, and openness. People were invited to share content, to aggregate, to link, and relink. 99% of the people reading this now, who learned to code on the Web, learned by copying other people's code snippets, and not paying them a dime. Scraping content isn't a bug, it's a feature. View Source is a the primary feature of published Web content. Content scraping with transformation, is fair use, and a feature.

IMHO, if you publish something on the web, and you don't have a paywall, and you don't block in robots.txt, and you don't have a LICENSE that covers use, people are free to link to your content. Otherwise, why even participate in the web when you don't want to be part of it (the linking).

If people start charging for links, you may as well pack up the open web.

If there was an federated free search engine, like bitcoin-like for search, these news publishers would still be in trouble, and they'd have no one go after, which suggests the problem is fundamentally, something with their business model.
Isn't that essentially what mac Docker Desktop does?
You took that quote out of context. "...creating snowcats when he purchased the Logan Machine Company" I'm aware of his automotive history. Just wanted to provide a different perspective of what other things he was doing around the same time.
Drivers license photos exist for the purposes of identification. If theyre not good enough for facial recognotion software then that software is a joke.
The "have their cake" is enjoying widescale adoption of a liberal open source license. The "eat it too" is thereafter making that license restrictive to shut down competition.
FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: U.S. Military GPS Tests
WinGet isn't publicly available yet.
Why not? It sounds like it would only require replacing ~10 parcels with higher density housing on average within a 500m circle. That seems highly achievable, especially in San Francisco where density is abysmal!
Is that an idealistic statement, or a practical one?

Yes an electricity supply is available everywhere most people would want. Practical charging facilities, however, are not.

I frequently find myself in situations where I can get petrol very easily but cannot practically plug in anywhere. With a range extender I could run a very efficient little engine and reduce my emissions today.
I fail to see how either of these cases you cite are the slightest bit relevant to Parler v AWS.

Judge Rothstein stated it quite plainly in today's order: "It is important to note what this case is not about. Parler is not asserting a violation of any First Amendment rights." (Page 2, lines 4-5)
I think the NYT is obliged to withhold the name of anyone they specifically interviewed, if that person wishes them to.

I literally see this in other newspapers all the time. The NYT is not some magic unicorn.
Space-Time-Topology-Prime Metric Governs the Universe, Not Space-Time
SPACE-TIME-TOPOLOGY-PRIME METRIC GOVERNS THE UNIVERSE NOT SPACE-TIME
Somebody showHN'd pop.com a few weeks back and it had a similar vibe.
Elon Musk to offer $100M prize for 'best' carbon capture tech
> Most qanoners dont really believe it

Not only that, for many of them it's just fun - in exactly the same way that some people find supermarket tabloids entertaining. The audience for these conspiracies is quite similar (probably overlaps) with the audience of the National Enquirer.
Is there anyway to just download the highest quality versions of all the art? I would love to just get a dump of all the art and put it on a photo display on my wall...
Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
Not an American, but

> NPR is right-leaning

Yes.

> bernie/AOC are 'centrist'

Yes. Though I would describe Sanders as left-of-centre (apart from her stance on the environment, Ocasio-Cortez is quite the centrist).

> am I correct in your assessment that basically just about only bolshevism counts as 'left'?

No. There is an entire range of actual leftist politics and economics that Americans tend to utterly refuse to engage with in good faith - the Cold War really did a number on that country's collective sense of a political spectrum. Left/right are instead essentially reduced to only being about social issues like abortion or LGBTQ rights, with some lip service paid to the environment.

"Imperialist capitalism, but make the marginal tax rate somewhat higher and appoint more minorities" is not leftism.
Interesting, that explains how he thinks he Streisand Effected himself.
Those posters will try and gaslight you into thinking it was your fault for being “too lenient” during those other protests..
Private sector is part of an economic whole. Something something about Henry Ford giving his workers a wage high enough to buy a car.
but that is a feature of their offering. You are comparing apples to oranges here.
> Australia won't dare set up national firewalls

No... They will just setup a block list and make the ISPs block it. Hell they might even add a levy to the NBN to pay for it.
See also https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96
Heh. I'm probably your competitor. But, yes, I think you are on to something. My email is in my profile. Drop me a line if you would like to exchange ideas.
What does that have to do with the ‘Dubai Lamp’? It's substantially less efficient than a typical LED bulb, and makes no claim about lifetime.
The terrorists who stormed the capitol are nobody's mere "political opponents". They are hateful, violent cowards together with some innocent non-violent people tricked by propaganda, the former of whom hide behind the broader identity of conservative or Republican, precisely so that people can defend them under that umbrella as you have done. You shouldn't be helping them.
Yes, but this simply means that header values are not (Go) strings, they're byte arrays. Many languages represent them this way, with a (fallible) function to get the string value iff the byte array contains valid UTF-8.

The whole "it would be more work" as a justification for not doing things properly is one of the roots of the more general issues with Go I alluded to in my post above.
> But that doesn't mean that anyone else should or should not. It's not like there aren't companies and service providers willing to host the content.

Isn't the service currently down?

> yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

> A "proposal" that is an incitement to organized violence

But then you need not worry about what some website or service is doing because that is illegal and the police can arrest them for it.

Basically, a call to violence isn't information, it's action, like ordering a hit. The prohibited act is really the order, i.e. participation in a conspiracy to commit an act of violence, and the communication is only the evidence of it.

Compare mob boss who says "whack that guy" and goes to jail for it vs. news reporter who reports that mob boss ordered a hit, unintentionally informing a hit man who wasn't aware of the order. News reporter doesn't go to jail for that because their intent was only to communicate information, not enable the act of violence, even though they conveyed the same information and it had the same result.
So who elected Ron Guilmette to a position whre he can police the internet over whats acceptable and what isn't?
Seems like a job you kinda have to be elected or something and be accountable to do, not just one keyboard warrior nuking parts if the web because a small part of them has things he finds objectionable.
What Will Happen to Your Next Home If Builders Get Their Way?
In remote U.P., ham radio helps Michiganders connect amid isolation
They were focusing on hydrogen cells and this slowed them down as the EV market took off.
Can you explain more about how it is undeniable? I understand if we said it’s targeted reporting but I fail to see any evidence of targeted enforcement (as in if any high profile non-DDoS guard company would get the same treatment if someone reported the same issue).
> Safari is the only other real contender with 5x the market share of Firefox (and counting).

And only available on Apple devices.
I don't really want to get into the moral rabbit-hole of who's right and wrong as that's clearly super controversial and subjective.

But I did want to add my personal anecdote to serve as a canary-in-the-mine on what effect the status quo could perceivably have on the proliferation of open source software over the long term:

I think we can all agree on the basic premise that having more open source software is a good thing for society.

For the longest time I dreamed of creating my own open source tools and products and simultaneously monetizing it to create a comfortable life for myself and maybe even eventually turning it into something bigger, and leave my mark on the world.

However, as the years past and events like ElasticSearch v Amazon unfolded, I became more and more disillusioned on the realistic prospects of such an outcome.

Today, I'm in the process of building something that would probably see more success in terms of adoption and do more good in the world if it's released as open source software, but at this point I've basically made up my mind to release it as proprietary software to have a realistic shot of monetizing it to achieve financial independence and eventually build a company around it.

Basically I've weighed the tradeoffs and chose to put my own ability to capture the value of what I created over trying to maximize the value my software could create if open sourced.

This was not a easy decision for me to make, but I suspect I'm not alone in having thought about these tradeoffs and reaching these same conclusions. And as more and more people witness the struggles of companies trying to build viable businesses on top of open source software, more and more people could make the same decision, and thus society would be robbed of all the value that having these pieces of software as open source could have created.

I think the chilling effect these kinds of case studies have on the proliferation of new open source software, and the loss incurred by society as a whole as a result, is at the core of what we should be trying to figure out a solution for, not some philosophical discussion around who's in the right or wrong.

(reposting from a comment in a previous submission that got buried)
You'd need WhatsApp's collaboration for this, which I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the bridge operator doesn't have.

There are two encrypted channels: client<->bridge, and bridge<->WhatsApp. The bridge can read the decrypted text, and the comment I replied to is a lie.
For clarification: I'm detailing what Parler alleged as a fact (see ¶15 of the original Complaint for where Parler alleges this). My point is that if Parler's alleged facts are all true (which is not the same as saying they're all true!), that does not sustain its antitrust claims.
What happened to Mr Dolan?
In the universe where way too many Americans think left vs right wing is whether you support reproductive rights or not.
I don't think it is possible to compare "differential dataflow" with projects like Spark. (don't know about kafka streams)

Spark is a "product" -- it has extensive documentation, supports multiple languages, and generally is production-grade. It is full of "nice-to-haves", like interactive status monitors, helper functions, serialization layers, and so on. It integrates with existing technologies (Hadoop, K8S, HDFS, etc..). It has this "finished product" feel.

"differential dataflow" seems to be a library. It only supports a single language. The documentation is very basic (it was not even clear if there is a way to run this on multiple machines or not). It is very bare-bones -- there are only a few dozens functions, and no resource monitors and interactive shells. It does not seem to integrate with anything. It has "research software" feel -- there are random directories in top-level repo, academic papers, and so on.

(it would probably be more fair to compare "materialize" to Spark...)
So the timer ticks around, completes the electrical circuit (assuming it had working batteries), heats up the 'steel wool', which ignites the 'powder'

Seems like it might have worked.

Steel wool is not a good igniter though. Anarchy Cookbook (Version 2000, not the unrelated original) uses a strand.

Pic -
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/pipe-bombs-ca...
I don't think Tesla would have been possible if Toyota hadn't blasted the way for them. Before Toyota's work people didn't think any kind of EV was practical.
Ask HN: Is there a quick summary of how much tax various corporations pay?
I think it would be insightful to see how much tax various corporations pay versus revenue. Especially when they provide their opinions on public policy and expect action / exemptions / allowances / subsidies.

Anyone have any pointers?
> Nothing about the new ES license would've prevented me from using it for free in the previous places I've used it for free, as far as I can tell.

It would have prevented its use in a previous company i worked at (largely for ideaological not practical concerns).

> Totally "open" open source only works if everyone is a good actor, which was never a realistic assumption, but it took a while for that naivety to cost so much, I guess.

That seems like a silly conclusion. Amazon is being a good actor by all accounts. On top of that Elastic is like a 15 billion dollar company, if that's not working, i need to get going on a business venture that doesnt work.

Anyways what makes you think they would be succesful if they used the license from day 1. Having your cake and eating it too only works if you switch halfway through.
Reasons to Hope in 2021
Ask HN: What would you do with Bitcoins?
I have a stream of bitcoins due to a mining rig I built. Besides holding on to them, or trading them for cash, what would you do with them?
Sorry, I had my Microsoft-colored glasses on. We use WinRT almost exclusively to refer to the new COM-based API surface that “modern” applications use. I see now that I’ve misunderstood you :)

Back when VT parsing was implemented, it was an entirely new output stream parser built into a console that hadn’t been updated in a rather long time. We were careful commensurate with its age, and opt-in made sense. Language runtimes or compatibility layers like Cygwin could handle the decision for all of their hosted applications(1) and everything else would generally continue working properly. Now that we’re working on conhost’s replacement, we get to revisit some of those decisions!

Cases like this are especially acceptable because a user can always fall back to conhost. That escape hatch isn’t one we intend to get rid of.

1) this doesn’t do anything for manual or direct ports, and Cygwin is far from the only provider here. Representative example, etc.
Show HN: Dark Pattern on Mint – unable to delete account
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/i-want-to-delete-my-account-i-made-with-mint-but-am-not-able-to/00/142257

I can confirm I also have this issue. I've been more paranoid about which firms have my data, and after confirming individual login password is correct (via a manager) and resetting it forcefully - it will not allow you to complete the workflow to delete your account. It always resets to "wrong password."

Interesting dark pattern indeed.