skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, in this case, Amazon's business is not about extending ElasticSearch with proprietary features. It's about hosting the OSS product.

Had ElasticSearch been under a copyleft license, the only difference would be that Elastic would've been unable to simply move away from the copyleft license.
Stablecoins through history – Michigan Bank Commissioners report, 1839
It's a failing of many licenses where if the binary isn't modified then the rest of the software doesn't need to be similarly licensed. This goes against the spirit and intent of these licenses. Simply wrapping a OSS product in proprietary service layers is antithetical to the spirit of the open source license and not in the best interests of the community.
The Colmi P8 is the same hardware and looks that the PineTime. There is an arduino firmware for it!

https://github.com/Jac-eko/p8-smartwatch-hacking
If curious see also

2017 - same title different article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14888360
I'm thankful for their OpenZFS tuning doc which they developed as part of this server migration: https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases

The one thing that I get hung up on when it comes to RAID and SSDs is the wear pattern vs. HDDs. Take for example this quote from the README.md:

We use RAID-1+0, in order to achieve the best possible performance without being vulnerable to a single-drive failure.

Failure on SSDs is predictable and usually expressed with Terabytes Written (TBW). Failure on spinning disk HDDs is comparatively random. In my mind, it makes sense to mirror SSD-based vdevs only for performance reasons and not for data integrity. The reason is that the mirrors are expected to fail after the same amount of TBW, and thus the availability/redundancy guarantee of mirroring is relatively unreliable.

Maybe someone with more experience in this area can change my mind, but if it were up to me, I would have configured the mirror drives as spares, and relied on a local HDD-based zpool for quick backup/restore capability. I imagine that would be a better solution, although it probably wouldn't have fit into tryingq's ideal 2U space.
>Their admissions policy is the same now (pay what you wish, but you must pay something) as it was back in the 1970s, but they don't really make that clear any more.

I believe that's only true for New York state residents now. Others have to pay. [1] Basically, I guess more and more people stopped paying.

[1] https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2018/updated-...
I don't think people hate the touchbar per se, but the fact that they replaced a genuine row of keys to fit it in.

If it had been in addition to a normal keyboard layout it would have been far, far better - in my opinion, speaking as a PC Streamdeck user.
They shared it, in their court filing on 12 January:

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...

“In mid-November 2020, AWS received reports that Parler was hosting content threatening violence, in breach of the agreement. Executive 2 Decl. ¶ 4. On November 17, 2020, seeking to better understand Parler’s approach to content moderation, AWS provided Parler two representative examples, asked whether “this type of content ... violate[s] [Parler’s] policies,” and asked for “more detailed information on [Parler’s] policies and processes for handling and mitigating” such content. Id. & Ex. D. Two days later, Parler responded that it had referred one of the examples to its “regular contact for investigation.” Id. Ex. D.
Over the next seven weeks, AWS reported more than 100 additional representative pieces of content advocating violence to Parler’s Chief Policy Officer, including...”

And some emails, from the Exhibits:

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...
Slight clarification - they are replacing their delivery employees with contractors...
I've heard a variation of that were the professor is at a bar with a couple of visiting professors. He tells them, in this town pretty much everyone is smart and he proves it by asking the waitress. (The rest of the joke is the same.)
Yes, I'm questioning it as a goal.

I don't know what fraction of patients project their abusive boyfriend onto their therapist. That honestly sounds like an account of Freudian psychotherapy from 100 years ago.

If I was to seek therapy for myself, I would actively seek a therapist who looked and sounded likely to help me. I would hope to have a conversation with them about their background, their experiences, and their familiarity with my culture. If I come from, say, India, I would want the therapist to understand my relationship with my parents, instead of medicalizing it.

And if I did walk into a therapist's office and find it barren and grey, and the therapist completely and utterly avoidant of any personal topics... Well, that would remind me of getting polygraphed at the NSA Friendship Annex just outside the BWI airport, by a cold and hostile interviewer. That's not a fun experience.
"in Soviet America, newspaper's discussions get leaked to you!"

Laughed out loud at that... Now wishing I had been reading this all along.
You're still missing the point. The lowest number of electors a state can have is three. Mathematically, this biases the EC in favor of low population states.

The same approach (all states having two senators) biases the Senate in favor of low population states.

This appears to have been intentional on the part of the founders, but that doesn't make it right.

[ EDIT: s/two/three/ ]
Everyday people jump in and defend them because sometimes the big company is doing the right thing? Like some of us have been around since 25-30 years ago when the OSI was created and Linux was taking off. We have had these arguments for decades.

There seems to be a generational knowledge gap where people of a certain age think there large actors are permanent and evil. That’s plainly untrue. Often the scrappy upstart is being unethical.
> I personally know at least two people who do not have to work because of the amount of money they made from bitcoin (they were very early adopters).

Coincidentally, that's exactly how a Ponzi Scheme works.
"The DMC-12 is a hotbox in the summer"

Some of that could be the R134A conversion. You would typically want things like a larger condenser to get equivalent cooling to the R12 it came with, but that's not always feasible.
The difference is that with a union not even the manager can fire them if he notices that they are lazy
Either on your keyring or in your fire safe. As I mentioned, if you lose it, you can get the lock drilled at the bank with sufficient ID. All trust waterfalls to meatspace trust providers, just like if you lose your Yubikey AWS support will reset your hardware 2FA with sufficient evidence you are you.
Or are they just getting in to be the ones selling the axes during the gold rush?
@jaas I wonder how many servers you have and in particular how a failure of a system would play out in your situation.

The latter is always interesting to me, building things is easy. Building rock solid reliable things is seriously hard work and often difficult.

Would make a great blog post....
Plasma 5.21 Beta – We did a thing. A pretty one
If Jack can teach himself how to program competently, you’ve just made a great argument for him to stop fucking around being an EE and switch to a software job where he can make a ton more money.

Just because an arbitrary person can learn how to do X, it doesn’t change the fact that there is a huge shortage of people who can competently X. The price paid for software development is a product of supply and demand, not how “special” software developers are.
> Open source should be about optimisation.

Sure it's nice when you can motivate it like that but I feel that the long tail of open source projects doesn't fit your description but are projects driven by a few enthusiasts.
I agree. What Amazon is doing is clearly legal , but it also clearly violates cultural norms about fairness. I don't know much about the Elasticsearch team or company, but from a 50k ft view it seems like Amazon could and should throw them a couple mil, at least out of pity.
What guarantees to you that governments add money based on economic analysis?, but most important, what makes you think that decisions made are aligned with your values?

Venezuela is the living proof of a government that makes decisions with the only objective of keeping power, WHATEVER IT TAKES, even if it means to the reduce quality of live to a 10% in less than a decade.

So bitcoin, and many cryptocurrencies, are at least neutral in monetary emission. Yes, it's not based on economic analysis, therefore is sub-optimal, but equally predictable by every actor, full transparent, no possibility of inside information or conflicts of interest.
What makes the Deloreans so appealing?

From what I’m told, it wasn’t very well made and on top of that it was underpowered.

So I get the iconic aspect from movie lore. And I get the founder was very... idiosyncratic —and an underdog and ultimately spiraled into making very unfortunate choices.

But other than that, what’s the appeal?
Other people have chosen to license their own work with the license of their choice. The license is being complied with by AWS in fact and in spirit.

If you don't agree with the spirit of the Apache license terms, that's fine. You can draft an Apache-for-everyone-except-AWS license and lobby for its use by others.
It's fine to make an objection to what you feel is an accurate claim, but going straight to "lies" and "scammy company" is way too aggressive for a case like this. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They include:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Open Source makes the most sense when your position is “I made this because it solved a problem I had and am giving it away so that it might solve problems for you.”

We might actually be better off with Amazon as the steward because they don’t need to make money on the software itself.
This is easily fixed - the title doesn't need "VR" in it and in fact reads better without it, so I just took it out.

(Submitted title was 'Show HN: Pluto in-browser VR spatial video chat'.)
Indeed they do, https://github.com/concurrencykit/ck

Go back to your js library and maybe one day you'll get to write some Wasm.
Hold on, they lean Democrat, not "Left." I know it sounds pedantic, even subjective, but it's very important to point out that the Democrats are pro-business, not particularly pro union, they are pro Wall Street, and they generally are pro Defense spending and engaged in wars abroad in every term going back thirty years. The fact that they talk about race and gender could arguably make them "culturally left" which very much makes them feel left-wing, even radical to some. A European, or almost anyone else in the world would call them centrists or center-right.

Silicon Valley is right-wing on economics and defense of monopoly, and left when you talk about race and gender equity in the board room.

You can see echoes of this on HN where many people support restrictions of speech if they come from a private platform ("laissez-faire" approach to private property), but still call for a shut down of hate speech and a correction of "misinformation".

The Democrats' cultural mores center around postmodernist principles of "language makes reality" "there are power imbalances" "the power imbalances intersect around race and gender" and finally "correcting how we talk about these topics will help the marginalized." ... But, we're reminded, Twitter and AWS and Facebook are private property, and you should read and follow the TOS ("laissez-faire").
It is an ideal, not a reality.

The idea is that you can discuss your issues without filtering them through what your perception of the therapist is.

e.g. If you know that your therapist is a Christian mother of three, you might hold back on how your mother in law is pressuring you to have more children for religious reasons and you think its bullshit. The issue the therapist wants to deal with is your relationship with the in-laws, not whether she agrees on a moral basis with the in-laws.

Therapists need to have a very hard line between personal and professional for their own reasons as well. It is not a business where you want to be mixing different parts of your life.

For these reasons it is a reasonable effort to try and remove as much of yourself as possible from the counselling relationship.

It's not that the therapist doesn't exist in context, its that who the therapist is shouldn't influence the way you present to the therapist.
"representative democracy" does not require the structure of the US senate, nor state districting policies, nor the electoral college.

There are many other representative democracies that do not have any of these "features".

Also, I thought a reply ago, you stated that the left was winning, not losing.
"Oh no ! Anyway..." cit.
This is a really nice write-up on using FreeBSD as a destop:

https://www.unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-wi...

https://www.unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-wi...

https://www.unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-wi...
General Notes on Supplements
Trove: A marketplace for high quality image data
Spent 3 years on a fast attack sub and can attest that though difficult and frustrating at times, life on a sub is indeed interesting.

One of my favorite tools onboard was our sound speed profiling software. While it was often wildly inaccurate compared to what we were "seeing" in sonar in real-time, it was fascinating trying to predict what we would and would not hear.

We definitely picked up MODUs (Mobile Offshore Drilling Units) form thousands of km away.

Also, there are many older submarines still out at sea, and many of them don't use sound dampening tech (i.e. rubber grommets) on their noisy gear (pumps). Pretty loud too.
I think maybe the ZeroMQ rust crate as a case study is something that is non-trivial: https://github.com/erickt/rust-zmq
Yes, it's possible to take an existing Apache 2.0 codebase, release some new Apache 2.0 code, build a $15B business, and then stop offering your code under Apache 2.0. Great! Shareholder value! That's literally what you set out to do! How could it have possibly failed?

What I'm actually saying is that when people think that outcome is a bad thing, their beef is with our particular breed of capitalism. When they say "This good outcome could have been so much better, had there been regulations on breaking up large companies so they can't bully small ones," then what they're saying is that they're objecting to the free market as it exists in our particular breed of capitalism. And when they say, as others say, "This good outcome could have been so much better if it weren't for the dictators at the OSI micromanaging the term 'open source'," then what they're actually saying is they're objecting to companies freely choosing to believe what the OSI says, because the OSI has no power. If you think that something was short of the mark here, that something was our breed of capitalism.

I'm agreeing with you. Capitalism did not fail. It did what everyone expected it to do. If you're happy with the outcome, great! I'm not telling anyone they ought to be unhappy with the outcome. But if you are unhappy with the outcome, I'm telling you why.
Facebook and Twitter also have their own data centers, so it's not like AWS had to chose between Facebook, Parler or Twitter.
The buggy whip community invested in buggy whip manufacturing too.

Sometimes step changes happen, and things are just different afterwards.

I see two related "changes in the world" here that are contributing to this current drama.''

1) the rise of SaaS and globally centralised cloud hosting.

2) the emergence of companies solely (or mostly) built on paying salaries to developers writing an open source software project. (Elastic/Mongo/Redis being the primary examples).

As I see it, the 30 year old "Open Source" principles didn't see these coming any more than the buggy whip industry saw the Model T coming.

Personally, I'd really like to see those three companies (and others/new entrants) come up with a workable new model for software licenses for some kind of "freely usable software" ("free" in the generic "no obligations" sense, not the GPL/Stallman "freedom" sense) written by salaried devs at for-profit companies. I think the world would be a better place with more software closer to the Stallman end of the license spectrum than the Oracle end. I don't think that's necessarily a given. It might well be true that in general, a for profit company cannot make enough money out of writing software and giving it away to keep teams of full time developers paid.
No, I presciently scrolled through the essay to find this particular passage, so I could copy-paste it here, and didn't read any of the essay leading up to this passage or anything after that point. My reaction is an unmitigated hot take that I have taken zero time to consider.

Is that the theory you were trying to validate with your question?
I think the part that you’re missing is that understanding programming language syntax and some algos/datastructures is just a tiny piece of what makes software engineering. Having those skills + the ability to convert them into useful software is what is rare/difficult.
ftp.cdrom.com was the fastest slackware mirror for me for all of my teen years.

this reminds me of poking around on my ISP's shell server to find warez drops other people had put there.

... now I can smell magic: the gathering cards for some reason.
I don't expect stickshift EVs to be common either, but still I think it's surprising that no one has made a non-luxury-car EV that isn't direct drive.

Manual transmissions seem like a pretty mature technology at this point. For any car company that already makes a manual transmission car it would be easy to do. They might change the design a little (maybe 3 speeds instead of 5, and use sturdier gears and different ratios). Clearly you don't need a transmission in an EV, and leaving it out is simpler and less maintenance, but still... if it can be done and it makes for a (in some ways) better or more fun car, then it's a shame no one is doing it yet.

I'm currently working on converting a Mazda RX-8 to electric, keeping the transmission and clutch. It'll be interesting to see what it's like to drive. IIRC, the motor (Netgain Hyper-9 144 volt dual-ended version) has a max RPM of 8000, which is close to the 9000 rpm redline of the rotary it replaces. The motor is a lot less powerful than what you'd find in a typical Tesla (which I attribute mostly to it being designed to run at a lower voltage), but having a gearshift should make up for at least some of the difference.
Please don't cross into personal attack.
You make a good point and I agree with the "start thinking" part. But I think philosophizing about everything without actually being able to give concrete, substantive results is as useless as trying to use mathematics blindly and w/o "thinking".
The paid version of plex has much better tagging. I bought it about 8 years ago $75. Well worth it
Firefox recently added HTTPS-Only Mode setting, basically equivalent to HTTPS Everywhere.
What mongodb did and similar to how AWS responded
+1 on the stores providing the shoppers-- I've used Instacart a few times in Washington DC and I'd say it's more than a little unreliable here. I've had such amusing results as:

- Four bunches of ~7 bananas instead of 4 individual bananas

- A single cherry tomato instead of one pound of cherry tomatoes

- Candied walnuts substituted for fajita seasoning

I'm not overly upset about it, but the main problem is definitely the quantity issue-- several different drivers have purchased absurd quantities that seem like something one would obviously question and double-check. Or that something would be flagged when the price is so far outside the expected price on the app. I would think this would be totally solved by store-provided shoppers though.
Their proposed current hardware costs are a tiny capital outlay. Future current hardware costs are a tiny capital outlay.

They will pay far more for bandwidth than they ever will for hardware.
Ahhh, I’m so, so sorry for your loss. I could never imagine the true pain of losing a child. But, as a father, it must be a hell that you would never wish upon even your worst enemy. My deepest condolences and regrets.

I remember reading Bertrand’s story a few years ago. His struggle reached the UK, along with his many achievements and progress. Not many children of his age have such a global reach, especially for such a profound cause.

R.I.P
There has to be a way for an OSS project / companies to offer licences to managed service providers in a way that gets them supported financially. That would be a massive win for everyone

Something like: okay yes, this is OSS, except if you want to offer it as a managed service, in which case you need to purchase a licence.
Popsci about "nootropics" and QI.
What is the "fair share" payment for ElasticSearch under its Apache license? I'm not a lawyer but it appears to be $0. Meanwhile, how come everyone showing sympathy for Elastic's position doesn't seem to be showing equal sympathy for Apache Lucene? Surely Lucene is deserving of at least as much credit as Elastic.
I’m interested that you say the artist gets more royalties. How does that work?
Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law
Also of note, 2021-01-21 20:21:01 (202-101-21-202-101)

Or 2021-01-21 21:11 (202-101-212-111), etc, etc
Teacher: What does "recursion" mean?

Student: "Aaah, verb, to curse again?"
That it is atrocious because the project is young, and that it might become less atrocious in the future, is no argument that it not be atrocious.

However, my original reply was to this:

> It's a call out to Windows libraries that long predate Rust, and they are implemented in (mostly) C++. They don't provide any of the safety features on any data structure you pass to it. I don't see how it could be anything other than unsafe.

It very much can be, and is often done, it simply isn't (yet )here.
Please stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN. You've been doing it repeatedly, it's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of what they're battling for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Totally unrelated: if you want us to rename your account we can do that for you. It's easiest if you email hn@ycombinator.com. I'm just adding this here because I noticed you mentioned it in your profile.)
Parler had some pretty strict moderation enforcement against progressive views, just not against racism, death threats, and successfully planning violent insurrections against the government.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/filing-amazon-wa...

Filing: Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats

[...] Amazon provided "more than 100 additional representative pieces of content" advocating violence on Parler over the following seven weeks, the company said. Another document in the filing (PDF, also with content warning for racial slurs and threats of violence) lays out dozens of examples of posts Amazon reported to Parler, beginning in mid-December. Those posts call for, among other things: killing a specific transgender person; actively wishing for a race war and the murder of Black and Jewish people; and killing several activists and politicians such as Stacey Abrams, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and former President Barack Obama.

Exhibit D (contains racial slurs, etc):

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...
It was a few days after
Yes, the core of the kernel is, the majority of drivers are not. XNU is a hybrid kernel, not monolithic.
That's the AGPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License