skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the end though I highly doubt that's whats going to happen. The most likely outcome is that we just get told to get rid of Grafana and use something else.

Whatever you replace it with will have the same licensing overhead. Again, this makes no sense.

If you said we can’t afford to pay for it, fine. But you explicitly said you don’t think cost is an issue.

Maybe I’m making the wrong inference, but it sounds like you’re afraid your higher ups just don’t want to have any restrictions placed on whatever business need it is that Grafana is filling for you. If I haven’t misunderstood that fear, then I regret to say that any software product other than one you build and maintain yourselves will come with some restrictions or the possibility of future restrictions.

When I say this makes no business sense, that’s what I’m trying to get at: other than (potentially) licensing cost, any Grafana substitute will come with the same issues, plus switching costs. So unless there is a FOSS product that provides a better solution to your problem, by definition switching will be more costly than maintaining status quo.

Or am I missing the point?
This is the classic chicken-egg problem inherent in starting up a new game platform. Why invest in your game's controller experience and compromise the touch experience when billions of players have touch and a negligible amount have controllers?

The only way to bootstrap the ecosystem is to prime the pump with large investments from the platform holder. Pay devs directly to add support. Give hardware to users way below cost.
Probably better support around auth and identity.

They do support things like twitch subscriber-exclusive channels, so I think there's something there. And I don't use discord enough to know the ins-and-outs of how restrictive you can be with auth.

But I imagine you'd want to have SSO and some kind of managed directory, security groups, and all that. I don't know if discord supports that today.
I wasn’t being sarcastic at all, and I don’t see how the other comment was sarcastic. Aerosol a mad cow brain would be the crudest method.
Part of the mismatch between your interests and the others mentioned here is that your interests are long term and flexible and theirs are short and inflexible. They need to pay this months bills, and at the same time, I suspect they see their current lifestyle and job security at risk. Long term climate change isn't where they focus.

This is why all solutions to climate change also have to address shorter term worries if the political tide has any chance of getting buy-in from those with global AND those with local concerns. Problem is, both the voters and our political leaders have ignored BOTH kinds of problems (and at least one perspective) for far too long. Now both interests have become entrenched into dissonant encampments that, stupidly, are unwilling to talk about how we could take steps to address both purposes at the same time.

This sounds a lot like the US's recent social war over unshared political priorities, and I think it is. The 1%, the middle class, and the dispossessed all have different needs and interests that can't be met if we all feel free to overlook the perspective of those who don't share our priorities. Those experiencing local displacement due to the arrival of well-heeled haves aren't wrong. Nor will today's haves be wrong one day should they find their world turned upside down and then express their unhappiness when others show them no pity, which is likely if they live long enough.

The solution, I think, is to not dismiss dispossession. It's to acknowledge it and start an earnest discussion about what can be done about it.
Jen Pahlka – Our Kill It with Fire Moment
Some acquisitions are just to eliminate potential competitors.
That is sexy AF and so, so clean. THANK YOU CITIZEN
I wish there was anything comparably easy to use and of the same quality or even in the vicinity in foss communication platforms.

Mumble isnt easy to use but has great voice and terrible text, matrix and irc are both -- for most non techy people -- hard to use and esentially text only, jitsi is video conferencing, xmpp is mainly not about voice and suffers the same issues as matrix.

I really hate the state of things as I would love to contribute and join some oss communities but they only exist on matrix and I hate using it. Its one of those things i wish i had the know how to start building my self, but webrtc alone seems impenetrable for mumble/discord style audio.
Damn. You’re right...
How was that sarcasm?
Firefox Drops FTP Support
I have a question regarding AGPL, that I couldn't answer by Googling or reading the license.

Let's say that Postgres server is licensed under AGPL, and I modify it to my needs. I have a closed source web application, that is publicly accessible, and uses Postgres for storing data.

a) Do I need to publish source code of my version of Postgres?

b) Does my application (which relies on Postgres, and my patches) need to also be under AGPL, and be available in source code form to all my users/visitors?
> - No included audio/video calls. You have to link them manually and use a third-party stack, such as Jitsi

To be explicit, no group audio/video. I run my own Matrix server for my partner and I and it uses webRTC based audio out of the box for 1:1 calls which we use every day, and sometimes video. No Jitsi enabled in my config. (I only share this so other readers can gauge if Matrix can meet their needs.)
Also, matter it doesn´t, too.
Not OP, but after trying Svelte it's hard for me to go back to anything else.
The M1 feels like magic in this power/thermal envelope.

It’s almost as fast as a top of the line desktop CPU in many tasks, but it accomplishes this in the envelope of a power efficient laptop.

I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do with the larger MacBook Pro models.
'discord professional' seems like pretty low hanging fruit and an obvious upgrade over slack + zoom
LaTeX support!
Courts have already said you can

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
Isn't that where the regular iPad and iPad Air come in? I know a couple of graphic designers that could get by with the regular, consumer iPads but the Pro is far more ideal for them.
Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now
Seems I can't link to the incident (gets marked as a deadlink), but here it is: https://status.auth0.com/incidents/zvjzyc7912g5?u=3qykby4vypfp
If they're that bad, what keeps the stock price propped up and the morale high?
Or hook up webmentions with something like https://brid.gy/
Obvious snark aside, this isn't really saying anything profound or unexpected. Money solves certain problems. Relaxing things like observing nature solve other problems. The click-bait framing of the information is absurd (and intentionally so), but nothing controversial is being said here. I'm sure people DO enjoy nature, once their basic needs are met and they have a bit of financial security.
Typing a letter and deleting it still counts as a modified file for me with VSCode, unless there's some platform-specific behavior or setting I'm missing. (I tested on Linux.)
if only that works bring back target display mode.

such a waste that it can’t be used as an external display.
I'm out of the loop. How did apple "close their walled garden for free podcasts recently"?
There's no shortage of mission critical PHP backends, so I suspect that's the same for other popular dynamically typed languages.

That is, where "mission critical" means "critical to some particular business". Not guiding rockets or critical medical use, etc.
At the very least, they could license and proxy content to a European third party who is willing to take responsibility for GDPR compliance; they could easily find takers.
Good luck. Privacy is an illusion. If you use your address for any sort of billing (utilities, cell phone, whatever) or government / public service (license, voter, real estate records) it is going to be sold, and resold...
It is one big die, so they have to deal with routing around bad cores. On the positive side the wire density to the neighbors is a lot higher than you could get with chiplets.
I once knew a guy who was paid $1500 US dollars per day working for the government as a contractor. He was an SAP Developer.

For the first 6 weeks of his contract with the government, he didn't have a computer at his desk. So he sat there reading manuals and stuff.

I don't think the government will ever want to reform the system of "contractors should be employees". The government too benefits from contractors. Bigly.
I think that's the point. I am unlikely to try to juggle many podcast apps. If I can only get your content in Apple or Spotify, I am less likely to listen or subscribe.

Forcing a listener into an ecosystem may severely limit audience size. But if popular enough, it may work just fine for some creators, such as Stern, Rogan, etc.
$29 for the AirTag. Another $29 for the case...?
It’s actually a lot worse than that. For properties over $1 million CAD, you are required to put down a 20% deposit. I came across an article not long ago that it would take the average household 30+ years to save the necessary down payment. I earn six figures and I’m single. I can’t afford to buy any time soon.
In a sense, we'd be suing ourselves over this incident, but at the same time the precedent would serve to discipline other school districts into erasing personal information stored in computer readable form before it can be stolen.
After my trip through Burns, Oregon where I got some of those comments at the grocery store I went to John Day, Oregon. I mainly went to see the fossil beds national monument but I also stopped at this small museum which was a Chinese run store and apothecary in the late 1800's and early 1900's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Wah_Chung_%26_Co._Museum

The tour guide mentioned how welcoming the people were to their Chinese immigrants. She went on to say that when the Aryan Nation tried to set up their headquarters there the people organized to tell them to go away. Unfortunately they keep trying to come back. This story is from last year.

It's great that the people of John Day are fighting against racism but I got the feeling on my trip that the Aryan Nation would be welcome an hour south in Burns.

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/john-day-to-aryans-w...
Did you know there are applications other than Zoom and Co out there?
their workspace separation and switching works better.
you can also discover workspaces, so there's a bigger sense of community than small islands
They already have, the internet is a mess.

Every website you visit wants more and more of your data. Facebook played a huge role in making this level of data sharing widespread.
Sure and the average person can benefit from a higher resolution camera.
And each one of them will be forked by the major companies that were supposed to pay.
Link: https://status.auth0.com/incidents/zvjzyc7912g5?u=3qykby4vyp...
Has there been an exodus of talent from Github if they are leveling salaries?
Data mining. They've got a huge corpus of information available to them that they haven't monetized yet (as far as I'm aware).

Also, and I don't mean this flippantly - stickers and shit. People want to look different, and selling a sticker or custom emoji pack would bring in money. You see this with Nitro a little, I believe they're experimenting with it
Exactly, the one that still works if I revert some software updates, but still always tries to update itself when connected to the internet.

You know what replaced it?

A white macbook from ~2008, which back then had a remote ! It still works.

The EU law to make breaking hardware with software updates illegal can't come soon enough.
There is a 16GB option, but you may need to configure it on Apple's online store.
Sexy, funny, simple, truthy. Thank you.
To be -perfectly- fair with you, I would not try to run a VM in 2021 on 8GiB of ram. 16GiB is the minimum, my laptops all have 32GiB.

I would agree that the moniker of "pro" for 8GiB is misgiven, there's very little you can do these days with 8GiB of ram- I think they were banking on developers operating within the constraints of the system, we use exorbitant amounts of memory for basic tasks these days, let alone the genuine needs.

Regardless, if you didn't run docker and only ran chrome/zoom/word and -maybe- pycharm OR photoshop, it would probably be fine.
GPL is "toxic" to the companies I work at because using GPL-licensed code would force them to disclose the source of their proprietary software.

There's not much else to it.
Yeah, I had to check their website... it looks like some of the their models have replaceable batteries now, but they certainly didn't start that way (and not all of their products have a replaceable battery today).
FLoC Block – Extension to Remove FLoC API from Chrome
I think they should include macOS in new iPads as a dual boot option and allow users to connect the iPad to a monitor. This is what I do with my MacBook Air and I'm sure many, many iPad users would find this tremendously useful. Ditto for iPhone.
Yeah, FIFO only is constraining. I’m definitely waiting for them to offer LIFO and Highest Cost lots
Is the E2EE applying to the Bluetooth ID's?

I think it's referring to other aspects of the system -- this sentence is specifically referring to location data, not Bluetooth ID's.

In any case, my point remains that obviously Apple has to be internally associating the Bluetooth ID's with owner ID's.
I have a specific annoyance about that: I have an Apple TV HD that I bought second hand that had no remote; it's connected to a monitor so there's no TV remote or HDMI-CEC or anything of the sort; when using AirPods with the Apple TV the only means I have to adjust volume is that iOS App, the universal remote I have for otherwise controlling the Apple TV can't adjust it. Oh well. I'm thinking about buying that new remote and taking one of the other siri remotes I already have and putting it on that one.
I mean, good for them? If they're "just rebranding and selling access for infinite markup" then surely the only people who would pay them are either too lazy or too busy to host it themselves, or too rich to care?

Would you prefer that people/companies that fall into these categories be forced to go through some _other_ reseller (who is just adding their own markup on top of the cloud hosting costs) instead of getting the service directly from their cloud provider of choice?
I don't understand why, with Apple's design chops you'd say they would be able to make a USB-C Magsafe hybrid.

Hell, I can fantasize about one right now: make a specialized Apple USB-C charger cable with a plug a teensy bit smaller than standard USB-C, then magnetize the encasing of the plug. In addition, the furthest left and right side USB-C ports on the MacBook should be magnetic where this encasing would touch the port.
This would make it so that the plug itself is loose in the socket and is purely held in place by the magnetism.

Of course this means that particular cable is only suitable for use in MacBooks as it would slip out of regular USB-C sockets. It should have a clear Magsafe symbol because of that.

In a further iteration, that kind of magsafe-C port could even be added to iPhones and iPads.
Depends - being gainfully employed didn't help Nick Leeson.
Even with E2EE it makes sense that it is still possible to differentiate "registered, known" tags from "unknown" tags. Unknown tags won't reveal any information about who owns them, but they will still transmit on the same frequencies and with the same protocol as your air tags.
Yeah and Typescript's type checker code is one 41k line file because if they split it into multiple files it will be slower.

`tsc` is pretty great to be honest but it feels like the exception.
Depending on investment, greater than 100% growth is not necessarily absurd. The article is about the carbon capturing capability of a single, essentially PoC plant. Carbon Engineering is building a plant that will -- according to their own press release, anyway -- capture up to a megaton of carbon annually (https://carbonengineering.com/our-story/)

Either way, it remains to be seen how effective carbon capture plants will be. A lot depends on investment and proving a business model. Renewables have the upper hand on fossil fuels now, because they solve a proven business problem, cheaper. Carbon capture companies have to prove that there's even a market for their services. Although, some would advocate for a Keynesian approach to building out mass DaC infrastructure funded directly from federal spending.

Changing agricultural practices probably has a better outlook for carbon sequestration at the moment.
Ask HN: Rest&Vest or New Opportunity?
I understand this is going to ruffle some feathers around privilege and what not. I apologize but want to hear your thoughts on opportunity cost and the likes.

I have unvested options worth 400K with my current employer but have potential opportunities with two other Series A startups.

My skills are suited to a small company as opposed to a large company that I am at now. Everything moves slowly in a large company.

However, I am unable to leave and take up the opportunity at these smaller companies since I’ll be walking away from guaranteed RSUs (company I work for is publicly traded).

So, for the next three years should I just rest & vest ?
At my company I mostly “manage” and don’t “do”. I am someone who likes and thrives in “doing”.

I am sure others might have experienced this in the past. How did you think between the two things or about the opportunity cost in general ?

P.S I am not going to pretend that money isn’t important. I am the first one in my family with a Master’s degree and 400K (current value of stock) is lot of freakin money and walking away is hard but I also know that I can probably make that in the course of my career, if I doing what I like doing rather than being a cog in a bigger company.

Thank you for your answers and attacks ! :)
The Apple TV touch remote is frustrating even if you are tech savvy. It is just bad, period.
Ah yes to much time spent on deciding on the correct shade of blue from my sad experience of "web designers"
Yeah, it should go without saying that gamers and people who code are in a different class: hobbyists. I'm one of them, and most of the people on this site are too. We love our periphs. I have a wireless (mech) keyboard and a wireless mouse that both charge via usb-C cables, though it is something I filtered by when I was shopping for them a year or so ago in anticipation of this happening.

I think Apple (correctly) determined that these folks will tolerate whatever they put out, buy adapters to use their beloved special keyboard, etc. And for the ones who won't tolerate it: they're probably not buying Apple hardware anyway.
Using a real remote (Apple remotes don’t count) is so much better. There are some things a smartphone is better for, such as entering in passwords. But for regular usage there’s no comparison.

Besides, if I just wanted to use my smartphone I would simply stick to my chrome cast devices. If I’m gonna be using the phone to control my entertainment center then the chrome cast provides by far the best interface because you have access to the entire app.
The classic American story of condemning a child to a life of incarceration and criminality because a family is too poor to afford to replace an accidentally broken school laptop (and has no other computer)...
It's only hipster sentiment if it is on principle ("this is popular -> I don't want it"). It sounds to me like just an observation in this case ("it so happens that the most popular things are the ones I want least"). The "almost" clarifies this.
Magsafe but no battery ? Am I missing something here?
Is it ironic the only thing I want to use this on is my Apple TV remote?

What kind of other things would you put this on?
"they claim license plate numbers as 'basic user information'"

The way that this is worded makes it seem like you think this is incorrect?
Thank you.

Discord works well on Linux, Skype doesn't. None of the new Minecraft games work on Linux.

This is the best thing I have heard today.
Coral is poorly advertised outside it's ecosystem, but should be considered. https://github.com/coralproject/talk

See https://docs.coralproject.net/coral/v5/integrating/cms/ to get an idea of it's use.
MathBot fills that void although in a bit of a hack-y way. Native Latex would indeed be nice
How does this work under the hood? GPS? Cellular?
They could have added more ports, then.
Lots of people in here talking about trying to use to a tablet for productivity, but finding iPad OS a bit lacking. I'd cautiously suggest you check out the Samsung Tab S7(+).

It is likely considered a worse tablet by many, but Samsung Dex [1] actually works quite well and using something like UserLAnd [2] you can have a full Linux environment (without root). I'm still experimenting a bit with the latter, but seeing that Android is still Linux under the hood I'm expecting it to work out in the end. I plan to run code-server [3] on it which would provide a full IDE.

[1]: https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/

[2]: https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd

[3]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server
We still use Oracle DB and will continue for the next 10 years
The core team does release a library. It comes with every install, and that's why we call it "standard".
A Fresh Take on the Browser (2008)
Personally, I wish the desktop client was a bit more lightweight. I understand why they went with Electron, and I don't think they could have afforded their speed of iterated development as a small company otherwise, but I still wish their app was a bit lighter on my laptop. I'm especially disappointed that cordless [1], a very usable third-party terminal-based client for Discord, was banned due to a ToS violation.

Secondly, I wish there was better support for E2E encryption, even just in direct messages. I wouldn't even mind it as a paid feature.
Suicide rates are rising among U.S. nurses
It's a local newspaper, but owned by the third largest newspaper publisher in the US and uses a shared CMS.
Reading the AGPL
I diff'd the technical specs for the old and new ATV 4K! https://gist.github.com/varenc/88f3253764fa7782602de2a812af4...

There are more wording tweaks than actual capability differences. The real changes boil down to:

- New Siri Remote

- Support for 4K HDR content at 60fps vs 30fps

- HDMI 2.1 vs 2.0

- 802.11ax Wi‑Fi 6 vs 802.11ac
https://www.imore.com/apple-temporarily-stops-accepting-podc...

Presumably to start their new subscription service. Pretty typical of mega corps, gather market share for free then change how it works once you have enough lock in.
Fines for these kinds of things don't work. They just get factored in as overhead. Penalties should effect people not budgets. Nobody would be lax with security if administrators went to jail every time there was a data incident on their watch.
Yes, yes, and yes. These are all clean and sexy. Thank you.
I've found that using IWYU Pragmas [1] for codebases you own and IWYU Mappings [2] for third-party libraries __almost__ entirely eliminates weird IWYU suggestions (there are a few annoyingly stupid suggestions from the tool I just ignore).

I've also recently been making libraries I write compatible with users that run IWYU by annotating all public headers with IWYU pragma comments that export symbols/transitive includes correctly, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use...

[2]: https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use...
They were hired with no skills and trained on the job.

Now, 2 years later, they can get a job at any data center. They can work for Google, AWS, Azure, or any data center they wish. On the job training is the sweet bit.
Maybe we’re too focused on the word “home” rather than “real estate”. That lot you built your vacant vacation home on could be someone else’s primary residence lot. As the saying goes, “they aren’t making any more land” so there is at least a theoretical supply constraint within city limits.
Wrong target audience ;)