skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we will get to a point where services will run background checks on the companies that come on their platforms to make sure they adhere to their ideological viewpoints. Or blacklists will be created barring certain companies from doing business with a group of companies all at once. Like a reverse boycott kind of thing - I’m sure there is a good term for it.

The capitalistic profit incentive has largely prevented this kind of behavior up until now but with left leaning oligopolies it starts to edge towards a market failure.
I have a friend at Intel who was offered a job at Apple. He's a manufacturing guy (not circuits/CPU, but still HW). He lives in Portland. They wanted him to move to Cupertino, and offered him 15% more than what he currently makes. Taking COL into account that's a demotion.

So I can believe Apple doesn't pay non-SW folks that much.
+1. This model also limits the stock to whatever items are available on store shelves.

I put in an order later in the day, and half the stuff I ordered was unavailable because the store shelves weren't being restocked before closing. I was stunned. I had naively assumed that the food was coming from an Amazon-like warehouse, where they knew exactly what was in stock prior to ordering. A pretty terrible experience overall.

I expect Amazon will at some point leverage Whole Foods to build a proper food warehouse with the experience we've come to expect from Amazon Prime. The big supermarket chains better get their act together quick, before Amazon eats their lunch.
> I can't for the life of me find a job that pays to write a new framework or some piece of interesting software because opensource completely devalues code.

Could you put some more color around this part? I don't understand the argument you're making here. It sounds like you're arguing that there's not market demand for the thing you'd like to be paid to make because it already exists and that the version that exists is open source. How is that any different than if the thing you'd like to make is under a proprietary license but at a price point you are unable to compete with?

Disclosure: My entire career in the software industry has been at companies who pay people to write software that is made available under open source licenses. Whether or not there is demand for a new thing to be created has proven independent of the license on that thing. We create and support software that meets our customer's needs, give them a path to easily extending functionality with hiring a whole development team, and indemnify them from the risk of consuming potentially insecure, unsupported software in critical production environments. Open source is a software development model, not a business model. Providing customer value is a business model, and it's rather independent of the license underneath.
Very cool video! Ocado is hardly a startup though. It’s a pretty big public company now.
Is not even a landmark law... Spain and Germany did it first... My understanding is it didn't work too well for publishers due to the decreased traffic...
Sorry, but what does this comment have to do with the proposed bill and it's impact on being charged for proferring up news articles?
Twitter and Parler are not comparable offerings. The only similarity is being in the vague space of “social media” or “microblogging”.

After that there is a major divergence between the type of content they host, moderation processes, and documented outcomes of moderation (eg: people espousing left-wing views being banned from Parler) that show the real difference between the two products and why one was booted and the other wasn’t.
As a visitor, I happily paid to enjoy a day at the London Science Museum. I could have enjoyed two or three more full days there.
Current Teslas can charge at up to 250kW using 480V DC at 520 amps. Efficiency is somewhere between 90-95%, so that's around 10kW of heat that the car has to dump. The car's cooling system runs through the battery pack, allowing it to pump liquid through the battery, then run it through the radiator to get rid of waste heat. IIRC, Tesla plans to increase charging rates in the future by using liquid cooled charging cables. They also have a Megacharger in the works for their semi truck.

Charging at 600kW doesn't sound easy, but it seems possible with current technology.
Good info, thanks for sharing. I can only be as accurate as the info I was provided. I did read JWZ's post -- I have his blog in my RSS feed and actually saw the post there before I saw it being linked here.

Mr. Lefebvre said "cinnamon-screensaver is written from scratch" in his GitHub post. I assumed good faith[0], and thought that maybe after nearly 30 years, JWZ was just a bit jaded and assumed the worst. I see that JWZ is probably the right one here, and clefebvre mistaken.

But Jamie has a certain "tone" that I would argue is a tad combative. To be fair, its his style, just like Linus Torvalds. But that lead me to see his comments in the context that he responds like this to every bad thing (TM) he feels lead to comment on, and I combined that with the GitHub response to conclude that JWZ was acting as a peanut gallery member here.

And please don't mistake my reasoning for support. In both my earlier comments, I was advocating for exposure of the response, not endorsement. I feel that is quite clear, and this is shooting the messenger.

> I don't wish to be rude to you; but I finally stopped lurking on HN after years and created an account for the purpose of telling you these things. And by years, I mean that my Slashdot ID is in the 500,000s, rather than say the 60-millions.

Welcome to HN, officially! But maybe chill with the cred dropping. Appeal to authority is no basis for an argument.

[0]: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
Straight up, I believe this is the only comment who understands the situation.
AtomVM: Erlang and Elixir on ESP32/STM32/RP Pico/etc.
> Plan having a gaping hole instead?

A hole which didn't exist in this way 10 years ago. But well you could have seen it coming tbh.

> all the while acting as if their license does not violate one of the core values on Open Source Definition

So you are saying if you do open source you must be fine with being exploited?

If so then why do GPL and similar exist, which are normally considered as Open Source?

It's just that the landscape changed and with this the problems around it changed.

While in the past bundling it into non free programs (+some committed aspects) was seen as a problem and as such GPL was created today the problem are similar but instead of distributing that bundles they are provided as managed services.

In this context the Server Side Public License is as much in line with the core values of Open Source as GPL is.

It's just that Amazon cares to some degree more about free software being free as in not costing them then they care about it being freely inspectable and modifiable. But cost free-ness was never a core value of Open Source, just a side effect.
How exactly does a country get off making a law about what the businesses in another country are able to do over the internet? I’m sure there are countries that would like to get rid of free speech and prosecute homosexuality or speaking against a state religion perhaps? Why should we ignore them while listening to Australia’s ridiculous demands for linking to sites available via public DNS?
But wouldn't that law apply to other search engines as well?

From what I could gather from the article it's a really stupid ill-thought out law and damages the whole internet in Australia for the benefit of few news companies.
This is called a "capital strike" and it is an attack on national sovereignty. A mere dictatorially run company can tell an entire democracy what to do?
That is in fact exactly the trap door of open source -- you are QUITE WELCOME to switch to a non-opensource model once you've reaped the benefits, but guess what, anyone else is also QUITE WELCOME to make a still-open-source fork at the point you do that.

This isn't an accident, it's in fact the whole point of open source that people can make open source forks when the original authors decide to no longer do open source.

I don't think there's much 'amicable' about it though in this case at the moment.
They call themselves "rationalists". "Rationalizers" might be more accurate.
It's dynamically compiled to machine code - it's not 'interpreted' as you are probably thinking of it.

For example there is also a Truffle implementation of C running on the JVM that runs some benchmarks faster than native C (due to runtime optimisations being better than static optimisations.)
Wow, really nice to see it broken down like that. What if there was some inductive solution with a giant plate (or plates) that would center itself under the car?
From the text of the bill "(1) For the purposes of this Part, a service makes content available if:... 21 (b) a link to the content is provided on the service..."

This is pay for linking. It means anyone linking to a content provider is putting themselves at financial risk. Even if Google withdraws from Oz, whoever becomes the "Baidu" of Australia will essentially be faced with the same issue: They would have built their user base because user search engine demand is driven by content on the internet, one of the main purposes of a search engine is to provide links to that content, and this law exposes any search that links to content to claims on their revenue.

Of course, small sites need not worry, we hope, unless people can use the law to launch frivolous lawsuits and nuisance claims, but whoever would replace Google (even DDG) would face the same claims from news providers.

The reality is, the news business has been disrupted by the internet. They used to face competition only from a few local or regional competitors, but now the internet puts them into competition with all news providers around the world at the touch of a button. There's no going back to the way things were.

In much the same way that music and tv got disrupted by Spotify and Netflix's models, the publishing world needs new business model, and trying to siphon off search engines I don't think is sustainable. They need a Spotify for News. And by that, I mean, content publicly discoverable, but paywalled behind a subscription service, that needs to be super low overhead.

A number of distributed mechanisms have been tried, by both Google, and others, at micropayments, but it seems to me that micropayment systems have largely failed for some reason.
Illinois poised to become first state to end wealth-based pre-trial detention
I don't know that I'd go so far as to say Tesla is screwed, but certainly massively over valued. I am baffled at how valuations seem to think all other manufacturers are just going to shrink away without any fight. I agree with the increasingly zealous misuse of downvoting; I had an account on another device which had every single comment downvoted; presumably I said something someone didn't like, but with no associated comment who knows.
Would above mean Google stop serving ads in Australia? Clearly it's still in Google interest to serve them from afar but there must be some legalities about that. Previously Adwords for Australia was "run" and billed from Singapore for the tax benefits and they were pressured to end this.

And a plethora of marketing businesses will go batshit on the government if they force Adwords out of Australia. Adwords is a huge part of the industry. We're going to see this sector struggle for a while if they need to re-adjust.
Cloudberry: Hunt for an Elusive Fruit (video)
> ddevault 9 months ago [–]

> I recommend using a tiling window manager - they allow you to organize windows logically, rather than spatially.

> I have also written some plugins for using Vim (text editing) and Weechat (IRC chat) with speech synthesis:

> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/lib/vim/vim...

> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/.weechat/py...

> And I have a script for Sway (a tiling window manager) which also gives you audible cues:

> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/swaytal...

> All of this is somewhat incomplete, but it's a good starting point if you want to get used to them and work on improvements while you're still sighted. Good luck, and let me know if I can be of service.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22919180

> I have a different philosophy and approach to using computers than most, and that affects my views on accessibility. Stapling a screenreader onto a graphical application, for example, to me seems like the wrong approach. Text-based applications are much more accessible, and these are my bread and butter. To this end, my work on accessibility involves making more information available as text, organized logically rather than spatially, and making it easier to access and manipulate that information with vision impairments (and other sorts of impairments, too).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22919726

“$#@! people who are actively developing Free accessibility tech” does not make you a good person
I enjoy cycling through art as wallpaper on my monitor.

There are a couple wallpaper apps for the Roku of great pictures, but they are just a few dozen images which just get really old after a while and I go back to the clock screensaver.

The same with the Comcast cable box.

A screensaver with 10,000 pictures of great art, randomly selected and displayed, would be wonderful.
If open source weren't a thing, software development would be much bigger pain than it is now. If something goes wrong in the code you're using, you can look into the source and at the very least implement a hack if you can't change the base. All that goes out the window with open source if you throw it away.

Also, software developers would be much more rare since the cost of learning would've been much higher.
Yah, Amazon changed the vibe of the place. It's gotten a lot more visually distracting with the visible blue prime stuff everywhere and all the loud reminders for prime rewards and other marketing peppered around the store. Different physical presence too with the Prime Now bagging/staging areas, and the Amazon lockers too.
The other day some people on HN were upset that what happened at the Capitol is being made such a big deal of when the Pennsylvania Avenue demonstration in May "only" got national headlines...

Maybe those people will slowly start to understand why we're seeing more serious charges than when demonstrators were attacked before they could even reach a fence, let alone a government building.
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If you want to do business, collect money, or have offices or employees in a sovereign country, you have to follow their laws. If you don't like it, you can leave. It's that straightforward.
As someone who supports gay rights, women's rights and freedom of speech I always find it funny how I am suddenly alt-right because of the freedom of speech part of my approach towards life.

I consider myself a centrist because I find that there is a very pernicious and unacceptable part of the left fermenting in the last decade or so.
Just noticed this in the Dell cart...

"42% off list price: use code SERVER42"

Doesn't make the price reasonable exactly, but it's kind of funny.
He actually decided to drop his pseudonymity a few months back, but it took time to get himself in a position where he could do that responsibly.
Then how do you explain how it literally worked just fine until Amazon came along?
Why can’t Google just not index news sites but provide other services?

Perhaps their lawyers have a problem with the principle or some ambiguity around it, maybe concerned that search engines could end up retrospectively being found to owe significant money to sites they didn't anticipate, perhaps very many sites they didn't anticipate?

I'm hardly a fan of the way big tech firms, Google included, sometimes act, and I do think freeloading based on others' content is a real problem that needs addressing. However, from the legal wording I've seen quoted so far this potential law appears to require a site like Google to pay up merely for linking to content hosted elsewhere, the most basic element of the WWW. If a news site doesn't want people linking to it, maybe the WWW isn't the medium it should use to publish its material?
No difference to EU dictating GDPR laws.
Union proponents are not arguing that they're forced to work for non-union employers, though.
Ignoring that Linus himself isn't particularly software freedom-y (I think he, entirely and provably correctly in my view, firmly believes in open source as a way to achieve good software, but the freedom angle isn't as important as for someone like Stallman), Linux being GPL is arguably the reason why it dominates - any changes worth talking about to Linux get propagated publicly and openly, as opposed to if it were under a permissive licence.
Stallman will break all sorts of records for being “the most annoyingly correct forecaster of computer trends with the less affable personality ever”.
> However, none of the company’s employees are listed as based in Belize, and DDoS-Guard makes no mention of the Latin American region in its map of global operations.

This is the first time I have seen Belize referred to as a Latin American country; although I just checked its demographics and a little more than half of its population speaks Spanish.
Twitter or most other social media platforms do not have a problem with conservatives (or "the opposite political party" as you put it). Was deplatforming anyone but blatant white supremacists even a conversation before 2017?

Most mainstream conservatives operate accounts on Twitter without an issue and a fair amount of libertarian and conservative-identifying individuals have used Twitter for years without being banned for their views. Framing this as a problem with political viewpoints doesn't do much besides serve a false narrative.

If you read Twitter's rationale for banning Donald Trump it didn't have much to do with his viewpoint. It had everything to do with implying and promoting violent acts. Putting deplatforming in terms of "censorship of political views" is a seductive argument but it falls apart when you recognize the content of those viewpoints have less to do with a matter of policy opinion and more to do with an unhinged ideology based around waging civil war against your opponents.
> American software engineers should form a special interest group.

It could be that one of the most prominent of the FAANGs is actually supporting things like this [0] under the threat of their lower paid warehouse workers unionizing. But also consider that Google is also going after its tech people who were involved in Unionizing and recently investigated an AI ethicsist [1].

I think its clear, most SWE have it (too?) good with amazing salaries and benefits to placate them into indifference or apathy on the matter and go to great lengths to keep them in an infantile servile cocoon/echo-chamber while at work, all while they create these abominations on privacy, free speech and the Human psyche while much of the rest of the World's working class/Industries suffer with under or unemployment altogether, so why risk it?

Especially since so much of the labour is through H1 visas who can control and dictate the terms of their employment with the simple decision to terminate them and leave them out in the cold rather easily.

It's concerning that even Tesla has been so anti-Union if I'm honest, and speaking as someone who has been in the Auto Industry, mainly German, most of it is highly unionized outside of the US.

It was the Big 3's fault for being complacent and relaxed about innovation that made it non-competitive and was highlighted in 2008 financial crises how bad it had gotten.

I'm not in favour of Unions unless as an absolute last resort, as in the case with FAANGs devouring of the Market share and its consolidation of the competition. I personally think having Unions only made the situation in 2008 worse for the Big 3 due to wide spread corruption and incompetence from the executive board, design, and engineering departments: but the core of the problem with US car manufacturers is with having a mediocre product in comparison to the rest of the World, rather than it solely being a union based Industry and thus a sure failure.

That much is clear and had been the case outside of pick up trucks since the 70s as Japan, Germany and now Korea have eaten the US' lunch (marketshare) in total national and international deliveries/sales YoY and DoD.

In the end it didn't stop Ford from still offering union based jobs, declining a bailout and they simply deciding to stop making cars now and focused on their stronger selling trucks, SUV products and some EV stuff, some of which is still in the works. They also had a massive marketing push for their Mustang and GT line up in Motorsports that made it rather successful. Though I think GM had more success with its relaunch of the Charger.

I wouldn't buy any of it myself, but I commend their efforts and still it shows that the 'Unions are the source of all evil' that many Tech based conglomerates push is not true, especially for Mega Corps like Amazon and Google who have severe and outright horrible labour problems.

0: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpkad/amazon-launches-anti-...

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/21/margaret-mitchell-google-inv...
What a cool and straight up website
I don't understand why greengrocers aren't eating Blue Apron's and competitors' lunch. They already have the inventory; put it in a bag with a recipe and drop it off at retail price at a few hundred customers' front doors. No more food spoiling on the stands, faster inventory turnover, good PR.
"Private companies can do what they want"
Indeed, the problem is that Google is incredibly powerful, and one country at a time fighting them doesn't work. Google cuts them off until they back down.

We basically need a large group of countries to agree, at the same time, to make the same demands, to give Google no choice but to comply, or exit the business. (To some degree, the EU is capable of doing this, but enforcement and interpretation of EU directives can be a bit piecemeal.)

It's time for countries to start treating Google more like an enemy foreign power than a mere company, especially if it wants to act on that stage.
> but if (!) you use JVM you are using an interpreter

You're using an interpreter to start with, but then it dynamically compiles machine code to run instead of using the interpreter.

But these terms are very fluid. I'd call HotSpot an interpreter, and a compiler, and both at the same time. It depends how you're looking at it at that moment.
The waitress is a high functioning autistic. She knows calculus, but cannot work out a mishearing of natural language in a noisy environment, and just memorizes the raw phonemes with meaningless word divisons.
Intel's footprint in Santa Clara is comparatively small. They have 21K in the Portland metro area, and 12K in the Phoenix region. They have about 15K in California, split between Folsom and Santa Clara.
Facebook has also shutdown it's attempt to deliver internet with drones. Really makes you question 'innovativeness credentials' of these megacorps outside just creating endless SAAS services - I don't think they are actually capable of innovating in the physical world.
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And/or cost competitive.
Back of the envelope calculation to charge 100KWh battery in 10 minutes is about 750A [1] assuming 100% efficiency at 800V (back of the envelope optimism). Tesla Superchargers are already capable of 800A and Porsche is already using 800V. So it doesn't seem that much crazier than what we're already doing.

[1] 100KWh * 1000(W/Kw) / 800V * 6 (10min/hr) = 750A
> Tobacco causes cancer

To be fair, tobacco isn’t the drug, it’s nicotine, and nicotine does not cause cancer. (But I’m sure you knew that.)