skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avoiding overheat conditions is something the vehicle engineering needs to deal with. Teslas solve this problem with liquid cooling and the motor controllers use temperature sensors in the motor core to determine if the currents are too great for the cooling. So really, no issue. I expect the Tesla Semi will handle heavy loads at low speeds just fine. As for clutch dumping, I'll take electronic stability and traction control over the smell of burning clutch any day. Plus, the traction delivery is better in an EV; much less rotating mass means more rapid response and a better grip on the road.
Sure. Don't know if I'd say that's the point, either, but it's definitely a lot closer to the essential spirit of the whole thing.
I read the abstract, but it went over my head. What did the researchers discover and why is it significant? What new questions were raised?
AWS didn't undercut anyone. They offered their customers exactly what they wanted. Many of these software vendors have delayed offering their own cloud-hosted versions, often years after AWS, even when these vendors should be better equipped at running them.

Elastic is also infamous for data loss and still has consensus problems so maybe proper priorities are the real problem.
> If the typical user would use a trust-based institution, then what is the advantage to the end user over the traditional banking model?

In theory, it's two-fold:

1) That you have the option to use the same money in that account in a trust-less way. In the USD/cash world, the only way to do this is to withdraw money from my bank, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the recipient. In the crypto world, you might still use a Visa card or a centralized money transfer product to transact day-to-day, but if you want to (just as an example) donate to an adult entertainer on OnlyFans/PornHub (blacklisted by the major CC networks), you can do that off the same crypto wallet via the blockchain. Another (perhaps more topical) example: there are a handful of companies that are effectively persona non grata to the tech world, like Parler and Gab, effectively cut off from PayPal/Visa/MC/etc. If you want to transact with them digitally, the crypto model allows you to do that without mailing briefcases of cash.

2) The underlying currency is deflationary and immune to the whims of a state-run central bank. This is only valuable to you if you're worried about hyperinflation and the money printer.

> Put differently, if there were a cryptocurrency whose price did not fluctuate, how would you convince me to use it?

If the above reasons aren't important to you, the other point I think is that crypto doesn't need 100% adoption to be successful. It's another currency option for those that don't trust the USD or JPY or EUR, and a fully realized crypto/fintech ecosystem affords one the ability to live their entire life off of one of these cryptocurrencies while still interoperating with fiat currencies via exchanges like Coinbase. ~1.5% of the world uses JPY day-to-day, and that’s a perfectly viable currency.
How do you handle code that you want to keep in place commented out, because it might be needed later for debugging/etc?
It is, relative to the scale AWS ES is apparently built to support.

> Amazon Elasticsearch Service lets you store up to 3 PB of data in a single cluster, enabling you to run large log analytics workloads via a single Kibana interface.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/
This is silly. Sanders is left. AOC is left. Many are left-leaning.

No one advocates a monarchy either, but that doesn't mean no one is "right-leaning".
> 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.

Maybe. I can no longer tick the "does it use an approved open source license" compliance checkbox any more. Sadly, for me, there's now a very strong incentive to move forward with an Apache2.0 licensed Amazon fork instead of the Elastic one.
> If I needed to submit a patch I'm not gonna care about the project being "truly" open source vs just source-available.

Really? Everyone's cares are different, but I don't like contributing my time and programming output for free to proprietary software, for it's owner to make money off my work.

I don't mind contributing to open source, where anyone can make money off of it with no special privileges to some. It feels like contributing to a commons.

But contributing to proprietary software without getting compensated feels like getting taken advantage of to me.
I suspect the Free Software foundation would strongly disagree.

Copyleft licenses such as AGPL are open source licenses, because they preserve user freedom.

The SSPL is not an open source license (and likely not even Copyleft) because it restricts user freedom that have usually been guaranteed by FLOSS.

https://opensource.org/node/1099

Open source isn’t about guaranteeing a for-profit company a business model. “Leeching” is irrelevant (and also just Elastic marketing propaganda).

User freedom is the whole point.
Big tech is actually still
mostly in the suburbs. By big tech we mean Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix, etc... It is only the newer generation of companies that are HQ’d in SF. The older generation employs far more workers and are still a lot bigger.

Facebook’s HQ is Menlo Park (suburb). Google’s is in Mountain View (suburb). Apple’s is in Cupertino (suburb). Netflix’s is in Los Gatos (suburb).

The only big city downtown is actually SF. I would characterize San Jose as a giant suburb. All the other so called cities are really suburbs. Oakland has a small downtown but is across the Bay and has virtually no tech scene.

Particular kinds of tech tend to cluster together typically due to a founding company. South Bay is where hardware companies cluster. Enterprise software tends to cluster around Oracle in the mid Peninsula area. New software companies now cluster mostly around SF. I think the people who found new companies want access to the existing labor pool so they found the companies close to similar existing companies.

If you work for FB in Menlo Park, you probably don’t want to commute down from SF. You would waste a lot of your time doing so. You also probably prefer to live in a nicer place than a fish tank. So if you can find a nicer place than a fish tank and that is still close to work, then you would jump at it. Even if you prefer fish tank style, most of the fish tanks aren’t actually that nice: 600 sq ft and a view of your neighbor’s balcony. 600 sq ft is kind of small once you get married. Also, $3400 sounds better going to a mortgage than an apartment if housing prices appreciate. You can always sell.
Multiple distros considering removal of Chromium
It's not that they failed to guess the dose, it's likely that the rapid treatment saved his life:

> "a new and improved version of the Novichok agent, which has not been encountered in the world before", was used in Navalny's poisoning. This new type of Novichok is more toxic and dangerous than its previously known variants, but acts more slowly. It had been planned that Navalny would die on board the plane, but he had survived "thanks to a sequence of successful coincidences: the quick reaction of the pilot who made an emergency landing, and the doctors in Omsk, who immediately injected Navalny with atropine". [1]

[1] (German) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/alexej-nawalny-so...
Not exactly a how-to guide, but some good info here: https://www.starterstory.com
Maybe AWS was right, maybe they were wrong. Ditto Parler. All I know is that there is now a mental shift in our orgs where our cloud and infrastructure providers are now considered potential significant hostiles.
In US you're officially drunk for driving purposes only upon reaching 0.08% BAC (i.e. "couple beers" is ok) while in many other countries you are drunk for driving purposes upon any alcohol drinking.
"I find it interesting that people think down voting my comment will intimidate me into changing the analysis."

If you actually offered an analysis that demonstrated your expertise you would have probably gotten upvotes instead of downvotes.
What do you mean by saying that democrats took over the post office? I assume you mean the USPS? The postmaster general was appointed by Trump. The senate until just last week had a Republican majority. Exactly how did the Democrats exercise power to "take over"?
Elastic isn't an open source project after the license change.
> Nobody at that time knew or predicted that SaaS (let alone cloud computing) would be a thing

I'm not old enough or experienced enough with computer history to seriously argue about this, but this statement sets off some alarm bells for me.

My understanding is that extremely early on in computing history, especially early in the Internet era, people were thinking about SaaS. We had shared terminals, Sun was even trying to turn remote VMs into a feasible business model. I am very skeptical of the idea that Open Source developers never considered that someone might want to sell computer hosting or provide API access to a virtual environment.

I mean, doesn't the whole problem with modern Linux security stem from the fact that it's user-specific; that it was designed around this idea that it would be running on a server and accessed by a bunch of different user accounts & terminals? It was personal computers that were the surprise, not shared hosting and remote terminals/APIs.

Am I off base here? This doesn't square with how I understand computing history.
Judge refuses to force Amazon to put Parler back online
This is one of the best implementations I have seen thus far. The fact you can go "outside" reminds me of Second Life and its unfortunate most other ventures didn't capitalize on this.
That's an interesting remark indeed. Though I do see some differences that might explain it. For example, the cinemas and museums differ vastly on the medium they serve. A copy of a painting bears little value.
A singer is unique in its persona for the live ecperience but can serve a large crowd in one sitting, saturating the market. Whereas a painting can only be viewed by a small crowd at any single time, given you want to see the original and not a display. So it will take ages to extract value when based on a reasonable ticket price. This stands in contrast with the prices often paid for high profile pieces, giving reason to subsidized content. Which in general is best served to a non profit.

Or to put it more bluntly, art is an archaic medium of entertainment that has little chance of survival against modern media and society wishes to keep it.
I'm glad that Scott is back (and that Substack will make it easy for him to get paid for his work).

That said, some of the best things about Slate Star Codex were stumbling on the archives, going down a rabbit hole of old LessWrong posts, the links in the blogroll. Substack is much worse than a standard WordPress blog when it comes to that sort of casual reading and creating a permanent home for posts that are timeless. [1]

I'm all for creators being paid for their work, I just hope that SSC doesn't lose anything that made it special with the new platform.

[1] Applied Divinity Studies / Nintil on Substack: https://nintil.com/substack-milquetoast
I agree. But at the same time, some things can be quite common across the universe. For example, evolutionary processes that arise due to competition in an ecosystem lead to certain traits (conservativism, being vigilant all the time, etc.) which could be common across life-forms that have very dissimilar trees of life. For instance, think of how birds, deers, and butterflies react to dangers around them. We as humans can relate better to deers and birds, but not so much to butterflies. Nonetheless, all of us share the same "fear" about surrounding movements and that has influence on our emotions and character.
The Pirate Bay team explicitly mocked them for this.
>This. One of the reasons to live in a major city is regular access to first tier museums.

Absolutely. Having grown up in NYC and spending a lot of time in Central Park as a child, my brother and I would often go to the Metropolitan Museum on rainy days.

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.

As 9/10 year old kids by ourselves, we didn't have much money, so we'd pay a nickel or a quarter and go and wander around the museum. It was (and still is) glorious!

Having those experiences as a child was amazing, and I heartily recommend visiting museums to everyone.

I've been to the Rijksmuseum too, and it's pretty amazing. In Amsterdam, I do like the Van Gogh Museum more, but that's more personal preference than anything else. The Rijksmuseum has a much more extensive collection too.

That they're putting this stuff online is wonderful, but there's no substitute for actually being there.

These days, I always give the recommended donation (I think it's $25 for non-members), but
> Its arguable that Elastic simply hasn’t come up with an open-source compatible business model, and that’s fine. But its not Amazon’s fault.

Elastic has indeed found a profitable business model: they have their own cloud (cloud.elastic.co). But for it to be profitable they need to cover the costs of both developing the Elastic stack, and running a SaaS. AWS only has to cover the cost of running a SaaS (since they are getting the stack for free) which gives them a HUGE cost-wise advantage.

To counter this advantage Elastic is asking them to partner with them like other cloud providers do (Microsoft, Google, Alibaba etc) but AWS has refused to do that.

Isn't it then fair for Elastic to restrict AWS from using their software?
It's hard for me to see why we are doggedly ignoring the existence of WSL in an effort to manufacture a controversy.

We've got a square peg, and an operating system that has both a round hole and a square hole. There is nothing nefarious about choosing not to use the round hole.
> I generally oppose Apache, MIT and other non-copy left license exactly because it allows Amazon and other large companies is leech off the work for their own commercial offers while giving nothing back

Like Elastic "leached" of Lucene? Elastics whole business model depends on Lucene being under the Apache license. If Lucene followed your suggestion (funny enough, Lucene used LGPL very early in its history) Elastic wouldn't exist at all.
The world will therefore...what? Respond as forcefully as it has to the murder of quite a few journalists? Respond as forcefully as it has to the invasion of the Ukraine?

I hope that Navalny will be freed, but the world's response so far is not encouraging.
This is a pretty important point. That AWS can make something a big business does not mean a small startup could have done the same without AWS.
>To buy Parler's contract claim, you'd have to believe that Amazon's lawyers are so stupid that they set out a TOS for the world's largest hosting provider that didn't give AWS the right to boot customers, which is something AWS --- really, every hosting provider --- has to do all the time.

They haven't released the actual contract itself but from what Parler said in their lawsuit, they had a clause in their contract that if AWS wanted to terminate their contract with cause, AWS would have to give Parler 30 days notice to cure the contract breach or get booted. AWS did not do this instead giving them 24 hours.

Edit:

Reading AWS terms does appear to give them the right to terminate. not ashamed to be proven wrong.

https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/
Noticed this is discussed in depth on the NPR article submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25863999
Does anyone know if the file storage can be used to sync files? Some kind of improvised Dropbox. Say a script on my computer would sync a few GB over webdav, in order to access them on my phone.
Idea and driving force to make this product reality was Kevin Poulsen, Aaron Swartz did most of the code on the MVP, and James Dolan did most of the security/documentation/evangelism work.

Aaron and James are no longer with us.

Source: I was there to help out a small bit at the start with white-boarding security architecture ideas from the start, etc.
The issue is, I think, that acting in such a manner is supposed to cost you in community good will. The potential for bad PR can force you to act in a more ethical manner, but there's a big separation between the people with the checkbooks and the folks who are aware of the issues here. The courts are there for extraordinary circumstances but it's generally better for all parties to settle a dispute without litigation and AWS could just shovel some money in the direction of elastisearch.
> Not being able to reap what you sow is a problem with open source. I don’t doubt we are seeing less great software being shared in the open because of it. If we want more useful software shared as open source we should fix this. The Amazon problem doesn’t help. I’m with Elastic.

Simply put, this is a naive and entitled attitude. And here's my proof of that: Elastic is a success story. They gave away software for free and turned it into a $15B business. And yet there's still people like you being apologists for their outright lies and intentionally misleading statements. I find it so incredibly absurd.

Elastic is tricking you into thinking that they are not an absurdly successful business. That's not true.

Oh, and one last time: This license change doesn't even protect their business, so it's totally pointless. It's just a business blunder. The SSPL will not make a difference to Amazon because they're not going to use the SSPL version of the code. It's so simple.
PyPy is definitely used behind the scenes in many places. IMHO you don't often hear about it because if you're ready to take the performance hit that comes with python you're probably not trying to squeeze the best out of it all the time.

There was also the lack of compatibility with existing packages, a big issue in the past, but nowdays it's pretty rare.

You can often just run your program into both and measure if using pypy makes sense for your task. Frequently the free speedup is very welcome, especially for long or repeating jobs.

Even when used opportunistically like this PyPy is still tremendously useful.
There is some good stuff here but also some sloppiness.

1) Having everyone generate the bindings means there will be many copies of each type, causing type errors. This only works if Windows is always a private dependency, a concept which isn't even fully implemented, and that is a bad assumption. Public dependencies are the logical default.

2) Putting the proc macro and non-autogenerated parts in the same create is cute but a sloppy conflation of concerns and bad for cross compilation. There is a underlying https://crates.io/crates/windows_macros thankfully, but that should be the only way to get the macro.
Indeed. And it's not like an accident, I'd say it's totally part of the original intention of these open source licenses that anyone in the world has an equal right to profit off the software, nobody monopolizes that. That was part of the intent of open source licenses such as apache, consciously designed.
That is how I felt about the imdb forums and also ftp.cdrom.com. I was huge into Doom and Quake in the mid-late 90s and I used to get a ton of files from ftp.cdrom.com.

All the WAD hosting went to places like doomworld and one day they announced it was shutting down and I realized I hadn't been on it in 5+ years.
No one is going to point out that for today, January 21, the Wikipedia main page [0] says the following?

"1981 – The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car of the DMC DeLorean (example pictured)."

40 years to the day, what a coincidence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Corretto is not a fork, but a distribution.
> The decent thing to do (for all managed Open Source products that you didn't create yourself), would have been to offer a cut to the original team.

Who are the members of the original team? Are we not going to give a cut to all the other contributors to the project throughout the years? How much should each contributor get? Are we measuring by lines of code touched?
> The team had no way to foresee the shift to the managed services model; of AWS taking popular Open Source products, repackaging it and undercutting the original authors.

First release of elastic was Feb 2010. AWS launched in March, 2006. The folks at 10gen used the AGPL for MongoDB since Feb, 2009. Yeah nobody could've seen this coming.
I don't see how that disagrees with what I wrote.
It's the individual users who create the posts, but it's the social media companies using software to select posts to display to others. 'Sow' means to spread or disperse seeds, or when used figuratively, to spread around or propagate something in general. Automated recommendation systems seem to fit the word. They're not creating these seeds, but they sure are sowing them far and wide.

(Sewing is what you do with a needle and thread.)
Did they put readable files on their site too early?

What are the odds someone just guessed an unlinked url?
Gaming: Resident Evil- Village Comes May 7, PS5-Exclusive Demo Launches Today
> 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.

What is the basis for saying that? From what I understand, the U.S. military is investing very heavily in unmanned aerial vehicles, including having F-35's control large numbers of them.
They might as well make the leap and let us feed the car trash, recycle it into energy and we'd go back to the future in a heartbeat.
California has more electors than Vermont.
it's very risky to not diversify your stock portfolio.
Ominous. AWS is going to pay premium to acquire services of those core Elasticsearch developers, aren't they?

The blog post also signals an intention to make sure there's parity in terms of API surface with mainline Elasticsearch.

Also, AWS' decision to create a committee is something Elastic.co could have done... Alas, this is where we are. Would be interesting to see which of these forks take off. The developer community is likely to rally behind F/OSS. I can also see a lot of IaaS/PaaS upstarts like RailwayApp [0] prefer OpenDistro.

I'm half-expecting AWS to announce a managed Solr service and prompt an exodus to it with lower pricing and free data migration.

[0] https://railway.app/changelog/2021-01-15
Apple’s first VR headset reportedly includes a fabric design, a fan
Forgive me, which part of [1] even mentioned Profits, Revenue, Business Models, CopyLeft ?

And which part of the same article ever said Elastic are not OK with Amazon providing a Services using their Open Source Software? Which they are legally allowed to do so with Apache 2.0? They even mentioned and I quote:

"We collaborate with cloud service providers, including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Tencent, Clever Cloud, and others. We have shown we can find a way to do it."

What they are not happy with was the TradeMark. Amazon usage of that Trademark to mislead customers and this isn't some recent things either. It has been going on for 5 years. ( And yes the court should be used to settle that. )

So majority of HN; including its previous threads with 1000+ comments, is basically making allegation that Elastic is making the changes because of their Business Model. Until that can be proved, allegations remain merely assertions.

But right now it is being stated as Facts. And it is now being spin into ethical debate.

And I was under the impression, should Amazon be forced to fork it, which they did as announced, would have to use a different name. Instead they choose to use ElasticSearch again.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS