skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure we could have done that, but allow me to use a dumb analogy here. I could go to the grocery store and try to buy the entire stock of milk. They would probably refuse to sell them to me, and would be within their rights to do so, even though they didn't put a sign specifically saying I couldn't do that. I could complain that they should just keep more milk in stock, but they won't, because I'm not the customer they want to sell to.

Businesses (in the US) can refuse service to anyone for essentially any reason besides discrimination. Why should hosting a server for someone be any different. Most services are going to put something generic in their TOS to accomplish this, because they can't enumerate or foresee every way that people might do something undesirable.
Just a friendly reminder that DMS is an excellent service as well. Just PGP encrypt a message and it'll get emailed out if you don't click a link on a set period. It is a painfully simple and inexpensive service.

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/help/
I understood the point. My point is that propoganda and it's distribution channels have existed for as long as human speech has. A new distribution channel isn't the problem, it's a society that cannot think for themselves and distinguish between what is real and what is not.

Blaming the platform is scapegoating the real problem.
If there existed a single paper mill company that held 95% of the market, and they decided to refuse selling paper to a news paper, then I would consider that a problem. It might not look like censorship, but the practical effect is very much similar. In theory a news paper could go out and buy land, grow trees, cut them down, and mill them into sawdust, and chemically treat that sawdust in order to turn it into paper, and then finally press it and print it, but the likely outcome is almost deterministic.

Thankfully we do not have that situation. Everything from forestry, wood cutters, sawmills, paper mills, printing presses and distribution is very much decentralized and have a healthy market with plenty of competition. It is so healthy that unless something is actually illegal, no one can stop someone from printing what they want. At most a company can do is create a small inconvenience.

Server hosting is not that healthy but buying your own servers is much easier than producing paper, and the retail side of server hardware is healthy enough that preventing someone from buying servers would not be feasible. AWS does however have a demonstrated market power over companies that is very unhealthy so in my view they sit somewhere between a common carrier style regulated monopoly and a regular large company. If their decision to ban parler would have had minor effect on parler then we would not be having this conversation.
I just tried it and it was in fact terrible.

I made a Music library and added 10 random tracks. Instead of reading the ID3 tags, it labeled the artist for each of them as "Various Artists" because they couldn't find a match using whatever service they use.
GPL wont help if there is CLA.
Elastic marketing did not come up with describing AWS or any of the other big tech companies as leeches. That has been around for a very long time

I am aware FSF would disagree with my position, AGPL is better than SSPL.

As to OSI, I have losts of issue with OSI as an organization, and when they state "But Elastic’s relicensing is not evidence of any failure of the open source licensing model or a gap in open source licenses. " they are simply wrong

There is a clear gap in open source licenses when it comes to dealing with SaaS, the fact they do no see this gap is very telling.

the Free Software community saw this problem and thus the AGPL was born, something like AGPL is needed for open source, but OSI refused to even acknowledge there is a problem let alone look for solutions to it

//And no Free Software is not the same as Open Source Software, they should not be linked as being the same

edit:

>>User freedom is the whole point.

Free Software is about user freedom

Open Source is about Developer Freedom, that has always been the big difference.

Apache, MIT, BSD etc are all licenses that allow devs to take code, use it in commerical products. That is why you see places like GitHub default to these non-copy left licenses.

Free Software is about copy left, GPL and the like. Because it gives USERS freedom
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Elastic say they want to make money of the product they've spent money developing and literally point at the company who basically announced they were using it in partnership with them and turns out isn't and isn't paying their fair share - AWS.

AWS say they want elasticsearch and kibana to be open source. What they really mean is they want to use elasticsearch without paying their fair share.
> 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.

A singer can only serve a large crowd if his voice be amplified by some mechanism, which is no different than electronically magnifying a painting.

For the “authentic” experience, one would have to be closer, which means the serving would be diminished in capacity.

Apart from that, the Dutch government arbitrarily gives out art subsidies for musical performances, invariably performances it arbitrarily deems “artistic” enough, which seems to come down to little more than “whatever style of music it associates with an older, more educated, wealthier audience.”

I find it rather arbitrary that Wibi Soerjadi can cash in his art subsidies, but Anouk cannot.

> 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.

And I would submit that the reasons that society wishes to keep it, is purely because it's associated with rich, educated adults.
This kinda depends whose radar you are trying to stay off of...

If you are planning to be a terrorist, having data in a Five Eyes country is a bad thing, because the CIA can probably get it easily. However, for your garden variety crime, no, the local police department can't easily get the CIA to get information from Australia for them.

So depending on your threat model, this may or may not be a big deal.
I want to use gnuplot more, but I generally find myself spending too much time messing with the plot styles to get something I sort of like.

Can anyone point to some pretty styles they've come across?

Here is one I used a while ago: Pretty Plots with Gnuplot [0]

[0]: https://edg.uchicago.edu/tutorials/pretty_plots_with_gnuplot...
Fully agree.
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.

You get paid more when the company values you more.

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

Highly paid engineering work environments are strongly correlated with interesting work and with good working conditions.
> "I think there's probably some sort of understanding between them and Apple which allows them to do their thing as long as they don't publish too much publicly."

You know the macOS kernel for M1 hardware is open source, right? This stuff isn't exactly a proprietary secret.
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The same type of right wing nonsense they are going after now. This type of stuff was all over Reddit/FB/Twitter back then. (Remember all the nutty Obama conspiracy theories?) Surely advertisers back then didn't want to appear next to that content anymore than they want to now.
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There's a TV prog in the UK that finds treasures in the archives of museums. There have been some impressive discoveries.
Very recently as well. It's nice to see some rapid progress, certainly coming together. Good to hear the Ethernet is working on the M1 Mac Mini. Do you happen to know what device it is?
Elastic tried to use open source as marketing and then cripple the open source version by making things like access control and encryption only available in their non-open source version. That's of course completely within their rights, but you can't complain if AWS recognises these things as important to their customers and adds them to their version. It's nice of AWS to open source that, they wouldn't even have to do that according to the license.
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For the uninitiated, what sort of content is Slate Star Codex known for?

I see he kind of addresses it in his initial post. That description seemed pretty broad and open ended though.
I suppose my point and probably the point of the other commenter above is that social media companies utilizing content recommendation systems are not merely distribution channels, by virtue of recommending content. Those recommendations go beyond distribution.

And to be clear, I am blaming corporations for creating these platforms, not blaming the platforms themselves.
> I really wish AWS would rename their fork. Call it something else, and just call it compatible with Elasticsearch v(FORKED_VERSION). Their continued trying to associate it to ES is causing most of the issues, and after this situation I don't think the name is a valuable as it used to be. AWS have the resources to do a nice clean re-branding as well.

Have you seen the names and logos for AWS services. They can't brand crap. Amazon can barely Brand anything? They got where they got via customer service not via branding. And now they're so big it doesn't matter what they do, it's got Amazon on it and we're all buying off of them anyways.
>but that does not mean the conclusion is wrong.

nor does it make it right either.

It does however show how consistently rather knowledgeable people in one domain confidently make bad faith arguments about how bitcoin is bad with bad logic.
I have a feeling your team spent more time making your website look pretty than deeply understand your market, end user and the GTM motion

Not that its bad, but it'll likely kill your startup if you dont fix that. Friendly unsolicited advice! all the best
Yeah, that's fair. Maybe I should rephrase to say it's a point. I could see someone arguing that forking is just a component of the deeper philosophical attitude about how people can use and distribute and modify code in general.

Forking is the/a point in the sense that I can't think of a version of Open Source that is still Open Source but that doesn't allow forking -- that allowing for forking is a deliberate choice, not an accidental one.
A lot of banks have been phasing this product out, but if your bank supports it, I highly recommend it. Usually, they’ll even allow you access with a drilling fee if you’ve lost the key but can show multiple forms of ID. Whether this is good or bad depends on your threat model.
And yet, in the ancient times when I had a Facebook and Instagram profile for my photography hobby[1], I would wake up every day to new removed images for showing "too much skin."

[1] Nude art photography, with private parts covered with white stripes or simply not being shown at all.
this is the correct take. AWS and Elastic are both acting out of self interest with varying levels of gains for the customer in each.
I understand that this is not what you meant, but AWS ES service has a different API than the one in the official Elastic documentation already - mainly that it’s a smaller subset of it. What may seem like a good decision for “aaS” product in general, is a real pain with ES specifically, because of how delicate it is for tuning.
I'd say working for Sun is on that list at least.
Mods: Probably should merge this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865062, which was both first and links to a much better explanation of what happened.
Classic "externalize costs" (have community build and evangelize for you) then "privatize gains" (now that we're here, we're changing the deal).
If you don't possess power to read minds, then you shouldn't say things like "I find it interesting that people think..."

Is that how you talk to the judge in court?
I meant in terms of opportunity costs. Spending hundreds of billions on F-35’s is money they can’t spend on something else.
It's literally the obvious move that anyone who has been paying attention predicted. I predicted this myself days ago, and trust me it didn't require any genius.

Elastic is just fundamentally in the wrong here. (I'm not talking about the trademark dispute; that's irrelevant to the licensing changes, frankly)
That's the absolute maximum case though, literally.

"You're not the DoD so of course you're not having issues".

It can't be more than a minuscule fraction of Amazon ES customers that are getting anywhere close to 3PB.
Now I finally what this scene [0] from the HBO show was about. As a European, I never understood!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDjRZ9AfQ8
> Twitter gets away with hosting way worse content

Twitter also hosts lots of content that's way better. Among the highly relevant, when it comes to AWS decision making, AWS evangelists like Jeff Barr and Andy Jassy use Twitter to communicate with customers. AWS itself has a Twitter account for status updates. There's just a ton of stuff on Twitter that is absolutely fine and would be collateral damage were Twitter shut down.

In the realm of taking down providers for copyright violations, the courts recognize a standard of "substantial non-infringing use" as a way to minimize that collateral damage. A provider like YouTube, which had a ton of both legal and illegal content prior to the Google acquisition, was allowed to stay up whereas a provider like Napster was shut down because they found it to be almost entirely copyright violation.

It seems like directly equating Twitter and Parler is a false equivalence. Twitter is a generic platform that some users use for problematic political discussion. Parler is a platform specifically targeted at problematic political discussion. You can't target the problematic stuff and expect the same protection as someone who casts a wider net.
Is that their main market? It’s surely what they’re known for to the general public but I’d have guessed they care more about the Xeon line. But I’d be interested to hear that I’m wrong.
There is no meaningful way for an independent vendor to compete with a Cloud Provider offering the same service. It gets bundled in the initial sales pitch, promoted in their documentation and at events, and gets heavily discounted.

It simply becomes the default - and (if on AWS) nobody will even think of Elastic after a couple of years.
Judging by your use of lower case nazi, are you agreeing to the second definition in merriam-webster's dictionary then?
There is no need to initialize variables with -v. You could just do:

awk '/Time/{printf("%d %s ", ++j, $3)} ...
That's 9 PRs vs, as someone pointed out below, roughly 41000 commits in the project.
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We used to use ES, but after multiple issues with the index getting corrupt for various reasons we decided to actually save money and use Algolia (before their price structure change - now it would be more expensive). Over the last year+ we've had no issues with search or indexing.
Criticizing capitalism doesn't require being stalinists, so please stop with this cliche, it's old and extremely boring by now.
Well this turned a little darker than I originally thought.

I discovered a kid out in Utah on YouTube named Joshua Fluke and his story is very similar to yours, and he often says much of what you say in terms of quality of life, the corporate attitude of most companies, etc.

I've only ever worked for someone else twice in my life (I considered military service to be just that - serving the nation, not so much "working" for the American people, although I suppose one could make that argument), so many of these tales are pretty foreign to me, and since I also have "fuck you" money now, they're made all the stranger to me that anyone would tolerate such behavior. I don't accept the, "I have bills to pay," mantra - to me its more akin to, "Either you respect yourself or you don't."

EDIT: Glad to see you did come to respect yourself in a healthy way.
>Thus because Amazon is a huge company, they view it making profit as fundamentally evil.

It is very unfortunate that this is the modern day main stream view of Open Source and Tech sector in general. Especially in Silicon Valley.

And it is funny because Tech is also the most profit making industry. And they are also earning Top End salary.
Microsoft has been on the 1.0-is-useless, 3.0-is-tolerable track for over thirty years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0
Look at it from other people's point of view.

Argument from authority is one of the weakest forms of argument. If you want to weaken it, you turn it into argument from claimed authority that no evidence was offered for. If you want to weaken it even further, you set that weak argument against a judge's decision and the reasoned analysis of other people who clearly have read the legal briefs and have pointed out specific problems with the arguments made.

This is exactly what you did. Now maybe you are exactly what you say and you are exactly right. However based on your current content, you are indistinguishable from a troll. And that is exactly how people are responding to you.

If you don't want people to treat you as a troll, you need to provide enough actual meat that it is clear that you are not a troll. But until you are willing to do that, you should expect the response that you are getting.

If your expectations are different, then that is your mistake. You should learn how the internet works and adjust your expectations accordingly.

If you want an example to look at, see https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rayiner. He is a respected lawyer who often posts opinions that run counter to the average opinion on this site. But when he speaks about the law, people listen. Not because he claims to be a lawyer, but because he speaks in a way that demonstrates his knowledge of the subject.
That whole thing was weird. I guess if you're a creative professional, be it an artist, designer, or cake decorator, there's going to be some degree of soul-selling you'd be expected to do where you make a decent effort on a project where you'd rather not.

But forcing people to make cakes they feel morally icky about sounds like a guaranteed way to get some really ugly, half-assed cakes. Whether we like it or not that they feel that way doesn't seem to matter because an ugly cake that validates me is still an ugly cake.
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The community did that in good faith. What's the incentive for the community to contribute to the project if Vendor XYZ is going to offer the same project with more optimizations?
> Open source is a type of generosity.

Open source should be about optimisation. For example you have some infrastructure code (like LLVM, Linux kernel, etc.) that brings you little competitive advantage but you benefit from distributed maintenance - OSS is a perfect fit. And people using it but not contributing back is not really that big of a deal.

The incentives to upstream exist without licensing requirement - maintaining a fork which when the upstream knows nothing about what you're doing and could break you with every commit is not fun. You also lose on distributed review/support aspect. At the end of the day if someone finds a way to profit and not contribute back - how does that impact you ? Unless they are a direct competitor and you OSS something critical - in which case like people above said - you should rethink your business model.

Also OSS has a bunch of secondary benefits - recruiting, developer mindshare, etc.

I think viewing OSS as a generosity is not sustainable, and the incentives exist even without restrictive licensing.
There is a car exactly like this....in China. It's used for driver training, and I suspect it will start being popular elsewhere. In all of EU if you pass your licence on an automatic(which nearly all electric cars are) you can't drive a manual, you have to pass your licence in a manual car. And that's why that car was created, to allow people to pass their test in a manual vehicle and have a licence that allows driving them, even though the vehicle is electric.

https://jalopnik.com/this-chinese-electric-car-designed-for-...

"The various inputs of clutch and shifter work with software in the car that cause it to behave like a manual, ICE car, with shift points, simulated engine sounds, and it can even “stall” if you let off the clutch too quickly."
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I make my living selling desktop software for Windows and Mac. Yes, there are definitely less of us than there were 15 years ago, when I started. But there are still plenty of niches where desktop apps are as good as or better than web apps. I use C++/Qt to stay away from the horrors of the native Windows and Mac apis and avoid bloat. Code signing isn't a big issue. I don't sell through any app stores. Getting noticed is an issue, but it always has been.
This is a rant, I don't want to explain why, I just want you to hear the product of my wrath.
I cannot understand why people fail to think first about the will to love each other and then about the ability to subsist.
To love someone means to be able to sacrifice oneself for the other, if you are not able to accept the risk of being with someone, in the last istance you are simply not able to love and therefore the intensity of your feelings will always be subdued by this inability.
The only solution is to believe and be or to burn yourself even before starting.
Also, Twitter is a future customer of AWS. They’ve not yet moved.
> I love how immediately obvious it is that the Harrier cockpit lets you see downwards.

That's mostly the camera angle. The F/A-18 and F-35 cockpit shows have the camera positioned about where the pilot's head would be (looking straight ahead through the HUD) whereas the Harrier photo has the camera positioned higher looking down into the cockpit.
> For the uninitiated, what sort of content is Slate Star Codex known for?

IIRC, it's a blog that's very influential in the "rationalist" community, which I think spun out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong. So very long-winded posts on miscellaneous topics.
I actually put together a service that is focused on this issue called Fidelius Vaults (https://www.fideliusvaults.com). If you have a moment to look, I'd be curious to hear your feedback on whether it solves the problem you stated.
That is largely hypothetical and one does not know if Elastic would taken a different form is Lucene would have been under LGPL, nothing in LGPL would have prevented it, and maybe Elastic would have chosen LGPL themselves or even AGPL which I personally would have preferred over SSPL but I understand why they choose SSPL and 100% reject OSI's position that is a non-open license, it is a non free software license, but it is IMO an Open Source license
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I don't think you're forced to act on anything that it finds; it just points you at things that might be removable cruft.
You'd have to look more at the design of PostGIS:

https://postgis.net/
Search WinJS. However, i agree with the sibling comment that this is a maintenance only story.
He does say "is supposed to be". He's describing some kind of ideal to live up to, not the way anything can actually be once you get down to messy reality.
I suppose that's a valid way of looking at it. Either way though, there's no risk of the crew experiencing decompression sickness in a typical military submarine.
Twitter might publish Birdwatch data (their misinfo combatting tool) daily