skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well this is a first, a dem telling the republicans how they feel.

Could you please point out where the parent claims to be a Democrat? I don't see it anywhere in what they've said, or in the past few days of their comment history.

> Most of the country doesn’t believe this.

I'm not sure about "most", but it's certainly a significant fraction; presumably caused by Trump's refusal to admit defeat.

> Regardless of what you believe, being on the other side nobody on the right will believe you. You stand to benefit most from this.

What do you mean by "other side"? The Democrats? I would again ask where you got the idea that the parent is a Democrat; I don't see it in their posts.

I think you may be mixing up cause and effect. Your claim seems to be that people on the right will not believe what the parent poster says, because the parent poster is a Democrat. However, your response is evidence of the inverse: that people on the right will believe the parent poster is a Democrat, because of what the parent poster says.

This mistake is troubling, since it admits a circular argument: Democrats aren't believed, and those who aren't believed are Democrats. Like all circular arguments, this is self-consistent whilst being completely detached from reality (the content of any claims, evidence, etc. are irrelevant; that self-justifying loop will work for anything).
Sure, if it goes on without end then a society will go extinct. That idea leans heavily on nervous extrapolation. It's like the people who saw a few decades of rapid population growth and imagined apocalyptic fiction like Soylent Green or The Population Bomb in response.

Japan was early to demographic contraction. The UN estimates that its population will shrink to 85 million by the year 2100 if things keep going on like this [1]. That would be about the same as its population in the early 1950s [2]. Is that considered dangerously underpopulated?

I understand the argument that it's risky not having enough healthy young workers to take care of the aged. But an ever-wider population pyramid just delays the problem and makes its absolute magnitude greater.

There are a few ways to theoretically deal with the needs of the old without continual population growth:

- Let them go without. People would die sooner after they become unable to work. A decades-long "retirement" period later in life would be unusual. This was the pre-industrial norm. (Not a good option, but the default!)

- Increase the health span of people so that they can continue to take care of themselves later in life. This could be currently science-fictional projects like Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence or just instilling healthy habits to prevent diabetes, reduce cancer risk, maintain muscle mass and heart health, et cetera [3]. An elder-heavy but otherwise healthy population places fewer demands on younger people than elderly long time smokers, drinkers, or diabetics.

- Deliver medical care and other support services with more machines, less human labor. This is also a bit science fictional but at least takes advantages of existing trends. Environmental alterations can also make it easier for elderly people to continue to perform routine self-care tasks like cooking and bathing.

[1] https://qz.com/1295721/the-japanese-population-is-shrinking-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Vital_st...

[3] I'm not sure if it is more outlandish to hope that medical interventions will prevent debilitation by old age or that people will adopt healthy habits en masse.
Yup. Our largest team is editorial, but the second largest is sales.
> In your view, can any attempt to curtail climate change be justified? I'm genuinely curious and mean no disrespect, should you feel such.

That'a actually a really interesting question. Clearly there are quite a few "finally solutions" I would put entirely off-limits - mass slaughter, compulsory sterilisation or contraceptives. Outlawing meat? Nope.

But I think there's quite a few possibilities between 'lets kill people' at the one end of the spectrum and 'lets change the light bulbs in public street lighting, even if it's a bit harsh' at the other.
from [1]

> Also, the CC0 Public Domain Dedication is GPL-compatible and acceptable for software. For details, see the relevant CC0 FAQ entry.
The cool thing about open source is you can add any feature you want yourself.
I always find articles like this eerie, because it might be nothing...or the start of a major worldwide disease.

The earliest articles about HIV/AIDS[1] and COVID-19[2] both had similar tones to them ("unknown", "similar to", "possibly a new disease", etc.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in-41...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/asia/china-SARS-pne...
I agree with you, people should have the right to decide about their own death.
Sorry about your mother.
I've run into the Netgate folks plenty of times, and so have many others. They are not nice people. Just look over Reddit or their Forums (especially during the AES situation where I was banned for life for a post saying I was unhappy with the decision even though I apologized).

I kept hand waving it away and using pfSense but no more. They do not deserve anybody's business. They are not good partners for the community.

My point, for you, is you did nothing wrong. The blame lays on their side.
Ok fair enough, how about "Peanut Butter Does Not Make Wombats Turing Complete"?

But I get what you are saying, if I were writing a paper it would be along the lines of:

"Response reinforcement in wombats: Failure to obtain logic gate behaviors".
SQLAlchemy also does something similar. It points to relevant SQLAlchemy page for more information about the error.
But it helps you realize there's nothing obvious about reality. We can question everything, even that maybe we're experiencing reality in a time based manner due to a fluke but theres actually no evolution - we're a static map of space time, and us idiots pretend we evolve and change direction.
> Never mind that a KISS setup tends to bring security because of its minimized attack surface

Security is also about depth. You should assume breaches can happen and have another level of defense.

That only increases the attack surface but it's a much better approach for imperfect beings.
Thanks, that's precisely I hoped for.
FAA Announces New Effective Dates for Drone Rules – AVweb
Mission: ImPASTAble 1 – Spaghetti Sucks
How would that help here? They would just exchange one piece immutable data (un-signed in user cookie) with another piece of wrong immutable data (someone else’s session).
Founders of Bankrupt Startup UBiome Indicted in Fraud Case
That's a real big shame. I know he doesn't blame Netgate, but I will. If it wasn't for their poor attitude (par for the course from Netgate), this would not have blown up.
All it took was a president who wasn’t an asset of a foreign super power!
That's a lot of time spent trashing tape, which I never suggested as a solution. The central question remains whether that single huge disk will provide the I/O rates that you need, and it won't. If video sizes increase and frames/second doesn't, then I/O need goes up so you'll need multiple drives even more. That means the sizes we already have, without fundamental shifts in technology, are even more likely to be sufficient. You'll just need more of them. What part of this math is escaping you?
My newsletter (only 100 people) has a 60% open rate, so it can be read.
Lolol!
There's a writer who did a lot of short stories and I had read a couple of them decades ago and thought they were some of the best of all time. Also, they won awards and stuff. I really placed them on a pedestal.

But more recently, I found that a multivolume collection of all the short stories is available, and I started reading them. It was really disillusioning because it wasn't just that the average quality was a lot lower than the famous ones, the cringeworthiness started to extend to my image of the author.

It's possible that over time the later work ended up being uniformly brilliant, but I didn't finish.
Your uncle and aunt are right, it is not for any person to cut their own life short by destroying themselves. It sends out an anti-social message that some amount of suffering or darkness we experience does cause us to consciously choose to annihilate ourselves. It's one thing for an individual to do that and send out this message, but by codifying the act into law, it implicitly further tilts us in the direction that so much suffering should cause us to consciously choose to destroy ourselves.

In aggregate, as a society, we've come to emphasize harm-reduction and a sense of fairness to the point of idolatry. They are valuable in their own right, but alone they will see us cascade into sheer darkness. The values for the sanctity and purity of life, the acceptance of authority outside ourselves, and even the difficult question of ingroup integrity will need to come back into balance.
I mean, the city isn’t the best, but the surrounding area is beautiful, I get to see the Chicago skyline from my living room, from 50 miles away. I walk(ed) my dog on the beach every day, I think I’ve mentioned in another HN post, but those days where it’s quiet, and the lake is still, are some of the most peaceful moments of my life.
> Generally the humor is built around concept of surprising with punchline, but many sitcoms are just repeating same joke in predictable way. Instead of actual humor they are just broadcasting "this bit right here is supposed to be funny" every couple of seconds. The laugh track creates conditioning that triggers good emotions in people. Just find a sitcom video with laughing track removed and see how eerie they become

I've heard this idea a few times, and seen YouTube videos of, for example, segments from Friends with the laughter removed. And it does feel weird without the laughter. But I'm not sure it's correctly diagnosed. Friends (which I'm picking on because that's the example I've seen) was filmed in front of a live audience, and the actors respond to the audience. I think mostly it feels weird without the laughter because you get lots of unnaturally long pauses in the flow of the lines - those pauses are where the actors were leaving space for the audience's laughter. This is completely normal when acting in front of a live audience and doesn't mean that the jokes aren't funny. (Yes, some of the jokes aren't funny - when you have a lot of episodes you'll get some duds)
Souls? What is this religious idiocy even doing here. There s no if, ofc information doesnt continue to evolve coherently after it's thinking processor disappears.

Why would there be an immortal information processor centered around continuing human thoughts ? So we can debate MAGA politics with Cro-Magnons?

"Souls" psch
Disclosure: I work at Sentry.

> My personal term for this sort of "We're OK with little people using the software but we don't want any competition"

Large companies are free to use Sentry. There are Fortune 50 companies running Sentry at scale internally without paying us a cent. That's totally cool.

You're also free to compete with Sentry. You're not free to repackage Sentry for the purposes of competing with us. There are lots of competing error and performance monitoring products out there that do perfectly fine without it.

I should also note that many components of Sentry are distributed with OSI-approved licenses that you are free to use to compete with us. For example, our Symbolication service (https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator) ships with an MIT license, and it's an important part of our business.
Finding data for this is a walk in the park (ha ha).
After reading a few business books I noticed that everyone uses the same case studies (i.e. Toyota) but claims the companies were successful because of the title of the book I happen to be reading.
The point of my post is that in practice these companies donated their effort to an apache project rather than building their own as it provided trust that licenses would not become too unfavorable in the future and adoption cheaper adoption path to traditional data centers.

In practice if Cloudera decided to they could fork hadoop to create "cloudoop" or otherwise stop submitting patches upstream and hadoop development would considerably slow. Given the nature of software, slow development is often equivalent to reverse development as dependencies fall out of date and the project becomes abandoned.
Sounds a bit like the plot of the movie _12 Monkeys_ (a very good movie).
You asked, "What market is there for big hard drives outside of FAANG [etc.]?"

I answered.

The home prosumer market. And if anyone ever bothered to develop a multi-terabyte solution for "normal people", whereby they could easily have their DVD / Blu-ray / Compact Disc collection converted from disc to a media server, probably a lot more people.

100 TB hard drives will end up in consumer PCs by 2035, I'm certain of it, even if we won't really need it. 8K is just plain stupid for home use, I honestly don't know why its being pushed, since you'd need a 120" screen or more, but I'm sure there'll be new media types beyond 4K... 4K60 FPS for instance, or high-resolution VR movies. I could easily see a world where 4K60 FPS movies take up 200 GB space each, and high-res VR movies are that large or even larger.
We Failed to Set Up a Data Catalog 3 Times
I always found hex codes non-intuitive, but the hue values are easy once you just remember:

0 = red

120 = green

240 = blue

Then you just interpolate as desired, so yellow is 60, orange is 30, red-orange is 15.

And really all you need to remember is red = 0 (lowest energy wavelength) and the three RGB primaries are spread evenly around the 360° color wheel, therefore 0, 120, 240.
This is how I do it, too. I allocate at least an hour to YouTube (in bed, using my iPad), with the not-super-strict rule to look at content that does not stimulate my mind. Videos about games, or restoration of old computers, are okay for bedtime, videos about e.g. DSP are not.

If my mind is really stimulated, this may feel a bit awkward initially, forcing my mind to "calm down and focus on the video", but at the end of the hour it's usually fine.

And then do not start thinking about a related problem again when you shut the iPad off. I made that mistake so many times.
I wrote my own tool for this which allows you to fix up a file based on the last time you changed that file, or on a specific commit. It will then execute an interactive rebase to that point as well as taking care of stashing and then restoring unrelated files.

https://github.com/alblue/scripts/blob/master/git-fixup

I like the idea of having the editor definition return “true” instead of showing it; I’ll have to add that later.
Thank you. I’m sure it’s just a snag, but why not just investigate before sending me anything, if I may not actually owe it, why stress me out saying that I do?
That’s a hn front pager for sure.
a lot of people don't believe in whichever god you are referencing.
Out of curiosity what job did you move to? I'm in almost the exact same boat, extended periods of time working on code lead to an odd mental state.
A viewpoint that often gets left out of these discussions is the intersection of true open source and doing big things. So many orgs and people in these debates fall into the easy trap of assuming the world of potential open source users (and contributors) can be split into two camps: there are small-scale/small-business/hobby/startup projects running on true open source, and then there are Big Internet Things run by Big Money Machines that can afford to pay any price and should, and probably don't care about open principles in the first place and therefore don't mind running a closed-source version of some project.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) doesn't fit these molds: Wikipedia is kind of a Big Thing on the Internet, and yet the WMF is committed to openness and transparency, and part of that commitment is that we only use real open source software. This is increasingly a challenging proposition with the shift towards "Open Core" concepts and specialty not-so-open licensing. The "Open Core" model is especially challenging for the WMF, as it's usually structured along the lines of "The hobbyist version of this product is open source, but if you want the features that are necessary to operate at big global scale, you need to buy licenses and run proprietary extensions or versions." The WMF's principled way of operating relies on there being real open source projects that actually work for doing big things.

I think the Internet (and the world) would be a better place if there were more principled organizations like the WMF which operate with a high degree of technical transparency and openness. If open source licensing models keep going down these darker paths, it's hard to imagine such organizations being very successful. It should not be a given that doing big things in the world implies going proprietary and commercial and running hidden code nobody else can see (or use to replicate your success at other open orgs!).
I use to have a blog. But blogs back then were different. Mine was about short amusing dialogs. I wonder if people would still be interested in reading that kind of stuff now a days. By looking at your directory, they all seem to be about tech, right?
Assuming that you're not a high profile target self-hosting does make it rather unlikely that you'll get pwned in this case.

An attacker can justify allocating a lot of resource to pwn bitwarden.com. If you manage to break into the vaults you're bound to find something juicy, just because of how large the target is.

Or you could decide to pwn me. Figure out where my bitwarden is hosted, what my config looks like, what mistakes I might have made setting it up, then maybe find a way in. Then it's just the start, since the passwords are encrypted on disk, so at best you have access to an encrypted sqlite database. Now you need to find a way to get me to leak my vault key. Maybe I sometimes use the web interface? Maybe not. Who knows.

After all of that you may realize that all of my passwords are either not super important or require some form of 2FA, therefore wasting your time.

But hey, you can log into my hacker news account!

Security through irrelevancy.
uriparser 0.9.5 released
>"Open source" and "free software" have always been mostly interchangeable and have since their inception not simply meant "source available".

Free software was coined in the 80s. I wasn't there for that.

Open source was coined in the 90s because we didn't want people to think that software which let you see the code was free of charge.

Then when they sold out a bunch of tech bros from SV decided that they knew best and redefined open source to mean whatever made their valuations go to the moon. The plan did work as expected because dot com crash.

The people around the OSI have always been share croppers that have been trying to get paid for other peoples work.
But that's already true of unassisted suicide. With assisted suicide, at least the person will be required to see a practioner (in my version of it, anyway) who might be able to diagnose and treat/address the temporary circumstances.
I thought it was like a pandoras box of slippery slope histories once these things come into being and are accepted. They morph into other cases that don't match the clean and tidy first introduction/nice-first-impression cases but devolve into euthanasia and it's in your best interest to die sort of stuff. Have we seen expansions in euthanasia in countries that wound up adopting it where these initial provisions basically are eroded and replaced with more generous expansive allowances? I thought I read so much at some point somewhere, like Belgium allowing children to be able to request assisted suicide and things like that. Maybe I'm totally off here though.
>otherwise you have a lot of situations where it's not technically OSI "Open Source" but the source is literally open.

Just because the source is available to you doesn't mean it's open source though. There are many companies that have the source code to Windows, but I would never describe Windows as being open source. That where the pedanticism comes in.
John Cochrane: “Climate change poses no measurable risk to the financial system”
Presumably the racks are in cages and visitors aren't able to actually touch them.
NASA, SpaceX Sign Joint Spaceflight Safety Agreement
I wonder, what keeps a project like postgresql "healthy" and true to its open source/free software roots, and what makes redis/elasticsearch/etc go down this new path of "source available" licenses? From 30000 ft, they are all just data management software.

Is it just that Pg is older? Is the code too complex? Do they simply have more diverse group of contributors?

And, how do we keep Pg and other projects 'healthy'?
A mutable object 'env' was shared across threads.
Papers should have a glossary or define terms inline with parentheses: Yet Another Acronym (YAA).

It's annoying to jargonify, paper or not, because it doesn't help reduce the cognitive load of the reader and it makes the paper less accessible.
There is currently no consensus on what constitutes a living thing. Some include viruses, some not. Most do not include prions, but prions do feature many of living things (eg, they evolve, adapt to their environment, replicate, etc).
And if you use a CSS pre-processor or—better yet—CSS custom properties you get your descriptive color anyway:

--text-color: cornsilk;
--background-color: peru;
> Nice! I hope we can eventually filter by multiple tags.

Definitely coming, along with better search/navigation in general.
I email myself when i get an idea. Works for the most part :D
"While the immediate risk has been mitigated, we worked with the maintainer of Unicorn to upstream the change to make new requests allocate their own environment hashes. If Unicorn uses new hashes for each environment, it removes the possibility of one request mistakenly getting a hold of an object that can affect the next request."
>Do we really need a ‘legally clear’ definition of open source and free software?

The FSF has gone to great lengths to give a legally clear definition of free software. Something like the SSPL is not free software because it restricts Amazon's freedom to use the software. Stallman has always had an ideological goal when it came to Free software.
You have two choices: Either a mostly-open, company-backed ElasticSearch, or a community-backed, completely open ElasticSearch with possibly an order of magnitude fewer development resources. Which do you choose?
Tiny Modular Home-built Computer (r/pcmasterrate)
Which seems somewhat questionable. It seems like you’d want someone to fill it out that had a less direct interest in a closed sale. Getting hacked is one thing but getting caught lying on a security evaluation could really harm the company’s ability to secure future enterprise customers.
Yup, this is a huge thing. Get students to use the code, get comfortable with it, then when they write something for their local city or whatever, now that local city is potentially in violation.

It’s kind of like that thing where software vendors give cheap or free licenses to educational users in order to get them hooked and then charge whatever company they might work for an arm and a leg to keep using it.
IoT devices are a distributed Trojan Horse that we didn’t just let through the gates, we actually paid for the privilege as well.
Before Android supported Optional, there were dozens of independent reimplementations of the API. All exactly identical, but all in different namespaces and therefore not compatible.

And the official one obviously couldn't be used.
happy customer here.

I do a simple rsync of my precious but not too sensitive data, daily.

and for the more sensitive stuff, gpg before sending daily as well, the copies will add up but I prefer it that way.

10/10 great business