skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tangent, but I find it pretty interesting that there was really no alternative to fiat value for the Seleucid bronze coins. The problem is that Greek money terms were fixed: 6 obols to the drachm; 20 drachms to the stater.

But the Seleucids minted obols in bronze, drachms in silver, and staters in gold. The value of each metal is set by market forces -- they move independently of each other. For silver, this wasn't really an issue -- it was the reference currency, so a rise in the value of silver just meant that the price of everything fell. One drachm of silver stayed one drachm of silver.

But a change in the value of bronze caused problems. A bronze obol was always notionally worth one sixth of a silver drachm. But if the value of bronze had risen since the obol was minted, the coin might be worth more for its material than for its face value.

The only real solution is the one that was implemented; bronze coins contained much less bronze than their face value called for. At most one metal in a multimetallic coin system can be valued by weight.
I think it does say something about the future of the open source model though.

Namely, that if you have a company that offers something like a database as a service, search as a service or some other API, and plan to support it's development by offering your own managed service - DO NOT OPEN SOURCE IT WITH PERMISSIVE LICENCES, AMAZON WILL UNDERCUT YOU. AND THEY WILL ALWAYS DO IT CHEAPER BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE TO FUND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.

Take an example what Amazon did with Mongo - First they launch a closed-source competitor (totally fine) but then they also take Mongo's source and rebadge it as their own fully-managed DocumentDB (Mongo 1.6 but with closed source additions). It's having your cake and eating it too. There's nothing legally wrong with this, but I do think this is market abuse (because they can only do this because of AWS market penetration) just to make the worlds richest man richer.
Going from the frankly insane pricing for managed ES on AWS (we tried it, were happy with the service and massively disappointed in the pprice, now manage our own on AWS), Amazon makes enough money from the SaaS to fund it.
Yeah. This is how prejudice works. It doesn't matter what you do, if you're X you'll be (pre)judged as an X and nothing short of an immaculate behaviour will prevent people from just pointing at some past mistakes or self-serving behaviours to undo all positive actions you may have done
Arguably, all there ever was was a giant advertising behemoth and everything else is window-dressing to disguise that fact and recruit talent.
> avoid saying any of the Things You Can't Say

Ha ha, we should be so lucky. No, you also have to Say the Things You Must Say, or you're suspect.

Good luck!
ive had this discussion with a couple of my friends- what exactly are the innovations in those three fields that put them so far ahead? do they make more efficient cells? their cars dont have anything particularly novel as far as i know, just well designed and made, as well as marketed. what is the software that tesla makes that is so good?
From my personal experience this is 100% true.

If you have time to write blog posts, you're obviously not serious enough about your research. That's the general sentiment.
Looking forward to some real world impact of Deepmind in material discovery and biology even more.
> People who use this paradox to try to suppress speech that isn't directly connected to violence

In your quote from Popper, he doesn't tie the suppression specifically to violence, does he?

"they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument" isn't a violence related criteria; merely "they insist on arguing in bad faith". Or "they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive" which is basically predicting the "FAKE NEWS" crowd; again, not specifically violence related.

("and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols" is, I think, an extra clause rather than a conjunction to the rational argument clause.)
Not sure where you get the idea that being a blank slate means you can't have cultural competence, awareness of race, etc.

Some people sure are eager to project onto Scott's words the wrong ways they're sure he's thinking.
I think a good example company to answer this question would be: What happened to RethinkDB? They shuttered. How has development changed for that project? Is it still alive and healthy?

That would be a single data point to start with, at least.
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The only way to make it work is asking more countries to join. They should plan this together.
It is propagandistic to call that "conservatism". It's commonly called, "tribalism".

And yes, healthy politics is conducted on the basis that human societies are tribal. Democracy is just the "accounting system" for competing tribal concerns.

Universalism, "classical liberalism", etc. is an occasional side effect of "healthy tribalism". It cannot be a political goal, because there are genuine contradictions in the preferences of various groups -- and they cannot be all jointly-realised.

Faux-universalism fails to acknowledge this an ends up preferencing the "natural" distribution of resources, ie., that arising from the most powerful groups (taking, competing) with the weaksest.
There’s a bit more community contribution that just “code”. I have never contributed code to elasticsearch, but I have co-founded the Berlin ES meetup, before elastic, the company, even was a thing. The group was for some time one of the largest around. For a while, I was one of the most active posters in their IRC channel, helping other users with whatever issues they’d have using ES. I signed no CLA, I received no money nor do I want any. But I contributed my time in the understanding that we’re all working on something that benefits both ourselves and the wider community. That implicit understanding is now gone.
I read José Saramago and at times felt his writing similar to Vonnegut. Perhaps you’ll like it. Blindness is a good first read.
This reminds me of the "selective enforcement" that is so often brought up when talking about racism in the USA.

In this case it's quite interesting, because here we have a Russian company facing interference over a political issue of the USA, who, in the process of creating the internet, put themselves in a bit of a privileged position in regards to IP addresses. Aren't there still a bunch of Class-A networks in use over there?

So while it's true that DDoS-Guard seems to be getting the consequences of their actions, it still makes me wonder if wouldn't have gotten away with it, had they been an American company with the right political alignment, even if someone would have pointed out their fraudulent behaviour.
I wish there was a healthcare.org style effort for unfucking the websites used for vaccine sign-ups. Just getting to see the list of appointments on the website many counties are using takes a ton of effort, and people who read/type/mouse slower are at a huge disadvantage. I think once the majority of seniors are vaccinated and the process is opened up to younger people, the remaining seniors will have an even harder time getting vaccinated
Anything beyond CRISPR & mRNA to look out for ? Was expecting cures for baldness, artifical tooth and a lot of other things by 2020. Have not heard of a step change but may be i am not aware.
"Pizza-box-sized" was a placeholder. The Starlink antenna ("Dishy") has a diameter of 59cm https://i.imgur.com/ULwOGxs.jpg
I am very new to this community, and you can immediately notice the high quality of opinions, ideas and good discussions.
Is Brain doing great? From a few things people have said, it sounded like Brain was struggling so Google bought Deep Mind instead. All of the really cutting edge AI stuff has come out of Deep Mind, not Brain.
I guess the idea is that it is hard for the patient to constantly internalise the fact that the therapist is talking to him as a professional and not as a private person. The patient shouldn't have to be constantly considering this distinction.

Therefore, it's easier for the patient not to know the therapist-as-a-person.
Glancing at the specs range 1,850 km, top speed: 482 km/h

I don't think there are aircraft of any kind doing anything like that for $100k

Something like a TBM 910 has comparable specs as a light aircraft and cost something like $4m.
amazon is eating open source, it's messed up.
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That doesen't seem like some fundamental restriction, but rather a compromise we're always willing to make. 30ms is not noticeable, so we don't try to lower it and sacrifice something else.

Even the super slow ones like on kindle, are _choices_ that have been made in favor of something else. a second to turn a page on a book isn't unbearable
I would also add Apple's health organization as an exception, for example they're rumored to have non-invasive glucose monitoring in the works for Apple Watch.
Does+Apple+Cider+Vinegar+Help+You+Lose+Weight+Fast?+|+Health+Lines
RMS once said: the GPL doesn't restrict how you USE the software.

If it restricts who can use the software or what they can do with it I believe it isn't classified as free software.

The AGPL is slightly different than GPL. It confers more responsibilities on cloud providers, so that the users of the software (as a service) have the right to the source and any modifications.
Vaccines may bring freedom at home but usher in Fortress Britain
Cisco releases patches for four sets of critical-severity security holes
I'm volunteering at a super exciting non-profit where we are adding autonomous aerial vehicles to the arsenal of tools needed to fight the wildfires in CA.

If anyone wants to help in any way, please contact me by emailing my handle here at gmail.
Car reviewers love to complain about how a CVT lets the engine rev up to high RPMs and just stay there the whole time you're accelerating. Which is of course the entire point, but some people apparently prefer that their car spend lots of time at suboptimal RPMs, probably so that they don't have to break the habit of flooring it unnecessarily.
And it's not even an ability they wield themselves - it happens by association. So you can't just go and ask 'pg, would you please not look directly at Scott - it's the journalists noticing, "hey, he has celebrities in his fanbase", and using this as an argument why he himself is of public interest.

Essentially second-order paparazzism.
Android Ported to RISC-V
Not necessarily, the law is written so that it can be targeted against only specific search engines.
Hot take, and I like it but there are only 25 million of us.
I don't. Posted maybe two times on instagram.
Thinking about making my own page for it, but not sure if it would make sense or if Id have the will to maintain it. Other friends in the scene also use instagram, with one even getting his main income via instagram sales of his pieces.
It's a private-public partnership between a government authority and Philips. The government likely has a stake in the license.
Among Us devs explain why things are “taking so long”
> Good thing Linux users are dragging Windows back to, checks notes, 1978.

Indeed, there are some non-millennial shenanigans here.
> If I were a PC OEM, designing your own custom silicon around the ARM core might be tempting, if it allows you to better differentiate your product.

There's a problem there, though (that Apple doesn't have): a random PC OEM doesn't control the OS. So that means they have to beg Microsoft to add support for their custom architecture, which MS may not want to do, and instead say "we're standardizing on what Qualcomm does, so do that or get bent".
UPMEM

They're etching a small CPU in each block of 4GB of RAM. This means a vast compute power at low electrical power. An Intel CPU spends 650 pJ transporting data from RAM, and then 3 pJ doing an addition. Data IO bandwidth and latency are most of the latency.

Programming paradigms with map-like processing are already structured to take advantage of it. Say you hava a Big Data Spark job. Chunk your partitions to be 2GB input, 2GB output; and your mapPartitions operation would be almost free.

I don't know how far they are in the deployment/market aspect though. But if I could invest in them, I would.

https://www.upmem.com/
Both wouldn't exist without countless hours of paid/unpaid FOSS contributors (Lucene, Netty, Docker, Linux, OpenJdk).
I hate those innovations at Apple, because if I want to help my relatives with their health and buy the watch, I also must buy the Apple phone and put them into the inescapable walled garden.
Google says goodbye to giant internet balloons idea
If and when this happens it will be interesting to see how this develops for the user, what will they start to use.
> expensive wine-and-dine

Just want to call out that the multi-million dollar salespeople I know wine and dine their spouses and friends far more lavishly than their clients. The people being sold to, similarly, aren’t alien to fine dining. For two people who enjoy that (versus a baseball game), it can be a genuine way to bond far from bribery. Gifts, on the other hand, yes.
Unlike an airplane, the baloon flies much higher. I don't think you can see it with your bare eyes from the ground. Perhaps if you look really hard.

Regarding the satellites, i hope the Starlink satellites will also be not visible to the naked eye once they reach their final orbit now that they have the sunshade.

On the other hand, these technologies provide a huge benefit to the people on the ground.

If you want to complain about Loon you should also complain about regular airplanes, helicopters, zeppelins, weather balloons and balloons in general.
Thanks a lot. I was planning to add Github's OAuth today.
So why is it that the iPhone example looks much better than every webcam in exactly the same lighting conditions?
> Totally open source works fine, it's when you try to mix open source with a controlling entity and a business model.

Trite as it may sound, open source isn't a business model. For a profitable business, you need something unique, a moat that competitors can't cross easily. Open source can certainly be part of that model, for example by increasing the value of your core assets. Or as Joel Spolsky wrote many years ago, commodify your complement.

Google, say, releases a lot of OSS. Guess what they're not releasing? The data they have hoovered up of practically every internet user, that they sell to their customers (companies that buy advertising, not the users). "Data is the new gold". They release tensorflow under a permissive license, not the data they're training and running their DL models on. They release Android for free, as that lowers the cost of phones and drives more users into the Google online empire, giving them ever more data. Again, "data is the new gold", "commodify your complement".

(Not picking on google here to say that they are good or evil, just an example of how you can build a spectacularly good business while also releasing a lot of OSS)

Or for all those VC-funded corps popping up trying to build OSS databases and seeing it doesn't work out (Mongo, Elastic, etc.), build a database, not a database engine. Data is the new gold, software, particularly OSS, is a commodity.
I use OBS Studio's output as virtual camera - and among the inputs I use cheap old Android tablets with DroidCam OBS over IP on Wi-Fi... They cost less than a USB webcam and deliver much better image quality.

Also, lighting. A couple of 5500 Kelvin Led lights on a clip mount, with good color rendition won't dent the budget but they will make even cheap webcams perform much better - color, frame rate, aperture. A softbox is wonderful but I don't have space for that, so I aim the light at the white wall - good enough substitute !
Fixed by fixing the length for now.
I am excited about Project Vesta [1], which looks to me like one of the most feasible solutions to large-scale carbon capture.

[1] https://www.projectvesta.org
He didn't quit his career, but he had to quit his job. Fortunately, he's at the stage where he can start his own practice (a somewhat experimental, no less). But if this situation happened just a few years earlier, it would most likely have destroyed his career prospects completely.
Ask HN: What happen after Product-Market Fit?
Hi HNers,

I am the founder of LiNote and we have reached Product-Market Fit. Up to that point, everytime I felt lost about the next step for my company, I found some valuable resources online from smart folks who have been there before. The ones from YC often being the most insightful.

Now than we reached PMF, resources are almost non-existent.
I found two good books ("the great ceo within" and "high growth handbook"), 1 post "after PMF", and that's it.

So I am asking if some of you had the same issue, if you known some useful links or if you had to rely on other "resources" like maybe mentors, founder groups, etc. ?
I presume the tech was first developed in tandem for street lighting, and then carried over to household lighting because the government said so.

It's interesting as it is a common management consulting case study. As another comment mentions, most bulbs don't even reach their current full lifespan.
It also means government can't encourage or incentivize a unconstitutional action or violation on its behalf, which includes waiving private party liability. (Which is the real, misunderstood issue with Sec 230.) This includes arrangements with no formal or even informal agreement.

Imagine a law waiving criminal and civil liability for lynch mobs, and then government claiming due process isn't violated because it isn't a "government" action, and due process doesn't apply to individuals.
I should have said require it for other diseases not Covid
> Tuvalu uses that domain as a significant source of income (Tuvalu is really really small) it is quite likely those domains are legally bought

Whilst true, it depends on a circular argument that the domain name registrant has a significant business presence in Tuvalu by virtue of paying for the domain, thus being entitled to a regional registration in the country in the first place (you could substitute Tuvalu by Tokelau and a bunch of others which make selling the domain to non-local entities, see it nicely visualized here [0]).

It used to really raise some hackles at ICANN and InterNic back in the day, but nowadays, after the gTLD floodgates have been opened - no one really cares anymore about the old regional rules.

[0] https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nominet-prod/wp-content/u...
Some years ago they also released a bunch of images, a kind person made the effort to put them into a torrent: http://matthewlincoln.net/2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bitt...

It'd be nice if museums could do that work themselves, when they can do the work to make an API. No I won't make an account.
I'd recommend not doing that as it makes the UX on mobile worse and has a bad influence on SEO. Instead, I usually do something like that:

h1::first-line {font-size:2rem;}
h1 {font-size:1.5rem;}

It will show the first line of a heading in a larger and all further lines in a smaller font size. Additionally, you could hyphenate headings.

edit: And fluid typography might be something to look into. Currently, you seem to have a single breakpoint where font size is adapted. That does not work well on larger phones.
The first time my friends took me to see the monarchs a bit south of San Luis Obispo, I spent a minute or two wondering where they were. Then I looked more closely and realized the trees _were_ monarchs. Those weren't leaves - every single branch, surface, etc. was absolutely covered with tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of butterflies. They were much bigger than I expected too.

It was an awe-inspiring experience and if we ever get our act together and they're back, I encourage you to see them.
OT: Wow I somehow feared a Flash animation intro when loading the main site newdelorean.com. Probably due to the old-school feeling of the logo and a progress bar.
Hey! We finally decided to show Welder to HN.

We built Welder for ourselves as we are a small product team that was forced to go remote and wanted to produce content.

We used Zoom, but the quality was.. Well, S*t.

It’s a super easy way to record full quality recordings remotely as each participant is doing local recording which is progressively uploaded to our servers so as soon as the call ends, it’s ready for editing.

We’ve validated the product in 2 weeks by doing LP and running YT ads. Built MVP in 1 month and found out no one used it as we did a mistake by not validating if Electron app is ok for people to download.

Lessons learned, Welder is now browsers based. We decided to stay bootstrap and right now we are trying to find a pivot from a tool that “Allows you to record an interview in HQ remotely” to a tool for a team like us to produce meaningful content with ease from start to end.

I would love to hear your feedback either about the tool or about your content creation process. As we are doing extensive research on the topic of how startups and product teams produce content.

P.S. We have now quite a lot of experience with running online video service in production for some time, so if you have any questions regarding this topic, let us know we will be more than happy to answer.
This comment is really insightful. Thank you for the perspective!

It's an interesting idea to think that "Free Software" creates a sort of "distributed code base". In the sense that "code will be eventually pushed to the main repo when the patch is created". That's an interesting perspective.
> We’re currently at a few billion to put a whole horde of them on Mars I believe.

Uh... don't count your Mars shots before they're hatched. Even getting robot probes to Mars is very very hard. Only about half of Mars missions have been successful. In fact, since the fall of the Soviet Union only one organisation has succeeded in putting working probes on the Martian surface: NASA/JPL.

I don't think it's impossible that SpaceX will get there, but certainly not soon and not for "a few billion". If they succeed at all, it will require drawing on years on investment and expertise by NASA.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/historical-l...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53589767
They don't want or need to be stealthy. But when they don't want to send a message, most recently they seem to use stabbing, shooting, throwing out of high-rise windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
Indirectly answering the question - I've skimmed through the git README, the abstract and all the pictures in the academic paper that it references.

I have no idea what this thing does. Can someone explain in simple terms what it does?

My organisation is currently investigating on installing Spark on the theory that it connects to databases and we need analytics. As far as I can tell it breaks analytics work into parallel workloads.

[0] https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/