skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The response didn't seem marketing heavy at all and directly addressed all of the points...

I see posts like yours all the time - attacking companies who believe in open source but know that the existing situation can and will lead to abuse by huge players in the market. It sounds like they have a very happy medium.

I find posts like this very frustrating because you almost never see the same kind of standards for proprietary software. People get less pushback for closed source than they do for "90% open, with restrictions on the last 10%".

As for AGPL dual license, have you tried selling AGPL software before? Even dual licensed, you've just added a massive roadblock - and it's no better than a custom license anyways, since it implies one.

Not to mention you've completely broken any path from "I'm a free user" to "I'm a paying user" - someone has to decide upfront to pay. Given that this is the most significant "win" for open source software (try before you buy, easy to inspect and get started with) it's kind of ridiculous how often I see it suggested.

Let's say I work for a company willing to pay for software. I have a hackweek where I want to try out TimescaleDB, in a world where it's AGPL or, upon payment, dual licensed. That's now dead in the water - I can't use it, AGPL is banned at every company I've worked at and we're not going to pay for me to try it out for a hackweek project.
"Telling executives that they are 'denying racism exists' when they are actually only denying that it exists at the company is obviously straw manning."

Singer's quote:

“I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,” Singer said. “I don’t believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.”

He wasn't talking about the company, he was talking about society. Unless you think he was saying they "live in" the company ...

Saying he got sacked for questioning it at the company is a spin added later by his apologists.

To the extent that white supremacy is synonymous with racism (which, at least at this point in history, I think is arguable given the fact that we live in a world dominated by the vestiges of the British empire, and that structural inequality is almost entirely against non-white people globally) then people who question the claim of racism are at the very least inadvertently advancing the causes of white supremacy.
Full motion Double High Res video playback on the Apple IIe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHenz0oU-4
It will be interesting to see the impact of this on the broader tech community.
> I'm actually surprised how close Canada's vaccination rate is to the US - 35% vs 45%.

The comparison is deceptive, since most of those 45% of Americans have finished two doses (apparently 32% as of May 4 [1]) while very few of the Canadians have (3% [2]). In other words, we've put a fair bit less than half as many shots in arms per person.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/9609011...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/9609011...
Something like how gradient descent may be able to find a local maximum but unable to find superior global maximums. Or, how if you add one more ad to your website you may increase revenue, but if you keep doing that you will eventually destroy the site's usability, drive off your traffic, and, perhaps irreversibly, crater your revenue.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3

I also saw a US specific article but can't find it off the top of my head.
This post is about the first successful landing of SpaceX's Starship. What does that have anything to do with crypto.
It's not that it's ugly-- it looks fine. It's just that it conveys no information about what it's supposed to represent.
FWIW either the writing or translation seems to get better as 3BP progresses.
"The currently dominant creed" would be ... urr ... white christians.
If you got a snapshot of that corrupted file, I know at least the VLC and Firefox projects would appreciate the bug report, since "freeze + error" is often a short step away from "buffer overflow" — and simply alone the fact that you captured a bytestream under real world circumstances that crashed their players, and have that bytestream for the bug report, is always of maximum interest with such things.
It is well worth archiving. I recently helped typeset and publish (via Amazon) a diary written by one of my ancestors - https://amzn.to/3tmUI3l ($0.99 as that's the lowest price Amazon accepts, but you can read the preview to get the gist)

It is written by a homesteader in 1930s North Dakota, and she just relates bits of her life, her family, and her favorite recipes. Simple, yet it's still a remarkable way to evoke the life of the era, and worth preserving and sharing as you are comfortable.

On a related note, you may want to be sure you take care with the actual physical media you have as well. Time and improper storage can render things unreadable - archival boxes (https://www.archivalmethods.com/ and elsewhere) are made to be neutral/alkaline rather than acidic, and are the sort of things museums use to preserve artifacts.
I'm actually surprised how close Canada's vaccination rate is to the US

That's because you're looking at first doses only. The numbers for fully vaccinated residents are very different -- Canada's policy is explicitly "we don't have enough vaccine to give everyone two doses yet, so we're going to give first doses first and second doses up to 4 months later".
It's a really good start but the pictures don't match the headlines. I see a lot of manually built trusswork in one photo labeled "3d printed". And another one where the entire second story is apparently SIPs.

Just be honest people. Don't turn it into a sales buzzword. You can say that it's partially 3d printed, which is still cool.
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> Apparently there’s no equivalent for less?

That complaint doesn't even make any sense. `less` is a standalone utility; it has nothing to do with the shell.
Please point out where I asserted there are no issues with activist techniques. As far as I can remember, all I've done is point out that you constructed an arbitrary binary specifically to decry the creation of arbitrary binaries.

I then called your hair a bird.
> We pretty much had as many deaths as we would have doing nothing.

In the US, 1.8% of cases have resulted in deaths, with 10% of Americans getting sick and tested[0]. The majority of these deaths happening 6 months into the pandemic, i.e. a lot of knowledge had been gained and resources stockpiled.

Doing nothing early in the pandemic would likely have increased the death rate to roughly 3% because of a lack of medial resources (including doctors and nurses), and resulting in 66% of Americans getting sick. Excluding children (i.e. 300 MM US adults) the expected death count would have been 6 MM people.

That said, I feel you, I would have personally hoped that for the effort we did put into "whatever we did", it would have reduced deaths by 100x (i.e. less than 0.06 MM deaths) but sadly we didn't work as a team and people died for it.

However, while it shouldn't even have been 0.6 MM, "whatever we did" roughly decreased the deaths by 10x and thats a worth calling out.

[0] As of May 5th 2021, 32,513,303 cases and 578,500 deaths. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/01/8167071...
Complicated indeed. For prostate cancer, the pendulum really seems to have swung in the direction of underdiagnosing. My dad was doctoring for several months with urinary tract systems. The doctor flat out told him "you don't have prostate cancer". It wasn't until he sought out a second opinion several months later that he was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.
Connought Labs, once a Crown Corporation, was sold to Sanofi who continues to operate the campus in Toronto, and GSK has a campus in Ste Foy [1]. Neither Sanofi nor GSK were able to develop a COVID vaccine in time and their facilities could not be re-tooled to produce the vaccines that we do have. There is not sufficient capacity to take on this challenge at this time, as to your point, those facilities are occupied producing other necessary drugs and vaccines.

Canada was once a dominant player in the vaccine game, but those days are long since passed, especially after the privatization of Connought under Mulroney.

In my opinion this would be a good opportunity to revisit a Crown Corporation devoted to vaccine development, as it does appear the public sector is not well set up to cater to this national security need. We are just 38M people after all. Maybe under the NRC?

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/domestic-vaccine-manufactur...
>and the top talent keeps leaving because they are miserable

Can you expand on this please? Why are things so bad?
While this is certainly the case overall, at least in today's meta the variety isn't that bad. For example, if you scroll down on https://www.hltv.org/stats?event=5728 you can see a breakdown of what was used in the Dreamhack Masters tournament which was on this weekend.

I feel there's enough variation there (especially for "eco rounds" were people can't afford the top weapons) to find value in comparing them.

Nonetheless, you are correct on the majority and for sure that will be reflected in the usage of the site - a lot of the comparisons are going to be "Can the M4A4 kill with 1 shot to the head at range X" or similar.
And then bunch of naive idealists build system for payments without most important feature - reversibility. Of course, it's used only for speculation and illegal stuff.
Cool, learned some new stuff. Please add the progress tag, and tips related to encoding and languages.
Thanks for the informative reply. I think it's a fascinating system. On paper it could act as an OTHR if the signal processing was changed.

I'm guessing each station would need to lock its carrier to GPS and transmit as often as possible (10W would probably be okay with lots of stations). Similarly receiver local oscillators would need to be GPS locked (+/- 1ns?) and the receiver be coherent. Processing would need to be based on the raw stream of samples, but with a 6Hz bandwidth one could get away with a sampling rate of about 10 samples/s (Nyquist + a reality factor), each sample being a pair of 16-bit I/Q components. The low bandwidth might limit resolution. The signal processing would be the fun bit. Can all those receivers and transmitters be synthesised into one big array? Could the processing could be done in a distributed manner? Lots of interesting problems.

Apart from being an OTH radar, such a system would be the mother of all ionospheric sounders, as the main difference between a radar/sounder/communications is which features one chooses to extract from the received signal.

Is passive radar a thing in the amateur scene?
Thanks a lot! I was almost about to spend couple hours analyzing the ip and ports. Now I know that it’s a reserved multicast ip.
I think if you zoom out enough Python code looks a lot like pseudo code.
The gap between 15th place and 40th place is pretty small -- it's essentially a many-way tie between EU countries.
For me, as someone who played OW just to have fun, what pushed me away was just the lack of things to do. No mode diversity meant stuff got stale really fast.

Remember OW was supposed to be a different game, one that they cancelled. They reused a lot of the assets and so on and hashed them together with the ultra-popular genre of the time. It mostly worked at the start but it was pretty clear to me after a little while that they didn't really have any clear idea about where to take it. It always felt like a "recovery" game, a "we spent a huge sum of money building these assets, let's at least get something out of them" rather than something with a well-thought out long term plan behind it.
Sure, I completely agree with everything you said about engineering and safety in general. I don't understand the speculation on your part about it seeming likely to you that they're making obviously and absurdly bad safety critical design decisions just because it's complex and you haven't looked for or seen any evidence that they're not doing that.

I'm saying there is evidence they're considering this issue, because they wrote about it in the product page's FAQ. They at least intended to design the system so that lapses in the financing plan do not compromise safety in any way, and they wrote about that intention explicitly. That is evidence to indicate they've thought about it. All speculation otherwise is just FUD.
I know it's super popular to complain about over-regulation in California; however, I think it's worth pointing out that most regulations are things like this. Generally, lawmakers in the state of California do things to try to make things better for most of it's citizens. Do they always get it right? Of course not! But when they do, its wonderful.
Quake3 is still one of my fav games. I could literally play the same map all day even.

I think it may be more that the content is getting stale too quickly. Like place once and done.
How dare you! Needing to build roads was definitely a good design decision and not at all a pointless and irritating thing to try and optimize around.
It was introduced in legislation over a year ago and became official while Trump was still president. You may be projecting a bit too much here-- I haven't seen anyone give Biden credit for this.
Very cool, I wish the path of the rocket wasn't white though. Blends in the the clouds too much imo.
I used to be a daily Hearthstone player and I dropped completely given how they handled the situation with the Hong Kong protests
As someone who had an early melanoma detected and removed, I disagree with this. What I find frustrating is that they only attribute UV damage as the cause when it's probably a combination of UV damage and diet, or repetitive extreme UV damage combined with bad diet, etc.
> I've always considered the last Roman vs Persian war the first world war. It lasted nearly 30 years, saw action, territory changes, and troop movements from Western Europe, through Africa, and the Middle East.

It occurred in a time that humans in the Americas were split off from the rest of the world and thus could not participate. At least two entire continents not participating in your "first world war".
Excellent points; thanks for the feedback. I responded to someone else in here with more details, but I'll be adjusting it for sure.
So glad I took time to move as much things as possible off Gmail and Google.

I'll set a 6-monthly calendar to check the accuracy of my Google data btw...
I cancelled via chat 2 weeks ago. Was just asked 1 question by the bot which then forwarded the transcript to a live agent who then went ahead and cancelled without further questions. Maybe they updated their policy recently?
> 1. The US population is on average over 30lb overweight

Not far off from Canadian numbers, you can look it up. Canada is at pretty much exactly 2/3 overweight + obese. Certainly not 3x as high.

> 2. has very old population similar to Italy (though this is similar to Canada too)

As you noted, also similar to Canada.

> 3. has tons of tourism during winter

Is winter tourism worth an additional 400k deaths when you scale out the per capita difference?

> 4. Canada has a population density of 4 people per square kilometer

This is just a bad argument, for the obvious reason that dividing the Canadian population by the entire area of their landmass tell you nothing about the density of their cities or how many people live there. China has first-highest population in the world, way fewer people died there.

SF is one of the densest cities in the US and it had a low covid death rate.

> 5. New York was been found to be the origin of virus variant for majority of the US states - something Governor Cuomo played a big role in

The NY variant doesn't spread more easily, unlike other variants. Granted, Cuomo is an idiot (I've been an early adopter on that line of thought, he basically got famous early in the pandemic for how much of a failure his state was but people didn't realize it), but I don't think you can pin the entire discrepancy on Cuomo.
The article is a little unclear on why Germany referred to the conflict as a 'Weltkrieg' or World War. The term was used exclusively to refer to a situation where the British Empire entered a conflict between the Central Powers(Germany & Austria-Hungary) and the Dual Alliance(France & Russia). It was used even before any side mobilized or declared war in diplomatic communications with Austria-Hungary.

The declaration of war by the UK brought in all its colonies and India into the conflict and made possible the capture of Germany's colonies in Africa. This radical transformation of a european continental war is what justified calling the conflict a world war. The industrialized nature of the war was not why the coming conflict was described as a world war. By that criteria it is hard to see how any prior conflict would even come close.

The fact that german leaders at the time felt the need to coin a new term is a very powerful argument for WWI being a significantly different kind of conflict.
Yes,they should totally have a high water mark "trigger" so you could set a shutoff for $100 or whatever.
Thanks - this is very useful feedback that we will address with an update.
As someone getting up there in age, it's kind of shocking how cavalier a few people seem to be about old people dying from COVID. "Close to death's door?" Years of Life Lost as a measurement? Really? It's like we're living in Logan's Run. My parents are elderly but they might just live for 25 more years--who knows? If they or someone else's grandparents were to die of COVID it would be no less tragic than if a 30 year old died of it.
That was a fantastic flight! The previous ones were great to watch, too, but seeing them really stick the landing this time was a sight to see.

Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team!
Vaccine makers have little incentive to recommend dosing intervals different than what they they ran in their studies, but I have yet to see a shred of evidence indicating that mRNA vaccines lose much effectiveness after 3-4 weeks and some evidence that effectiveness keeps increasing. I wish the US had used the single-dose strategy for anyone under 65 as I think our cases would've started shrinking much earlier than they actually have.
What good is a system, if it only benefits a few? And levers are used at the wrong time, benefits only a few people?
FTA: "We find that intergenerational earnings persistence is mainly explained by differences in investments received during childhood, which in turn drive differences in cognition, years spent in education, and ultimately lifetime earnings."

So, I don't think it is as simple as your comment.
I wonder...

Back when I was still in their target market, Blizzard was definitely known for imitating successes better than their rivals. Starcraft, Diablo and WoW were all quite late to the RTS, RPG, and MMO scene respectively, but they had a depth and polish that the pioneers in these fields lacked and that made them powerhouses of their respective genres. They were the Shakespear of popular genres, doing nothing original but doing it better.

Overwatch seemed like it was an example of that approach into the... not sure what to call it, Team Fortress genre perhaps? But I've not seen anything similar since, they seem to have stayed out of the sandbox RPG genre altogether.

I wonder whether they were so focused on customer experience that they couldn't emulate the loot box model, and therefore were left behind.
YugabyteDB 2.7 Released
And also cross browser support for the spec in general - eg desktop Safari doesn't implement that date picker, or any special treatment of input type="date" at all.
In other words, the same way you explain the success of eg Java.
> They had to work a lot as prisoners, so I guess both sides wanted their share of work from war prisoners

As a practical matter, it may also be easier to guard and manage prisoners who are busy and tired from work, rather
than idle and restless. For a detailed view of the late-war
and early post-war years, I can suggest: _Savage Continent_, by Keith Lowe - https://www.npr.org/2013/07/24/204538728/after-wwii-europe-w...
Can't any cloud storage service be used to deliver malware?
> reset days

I think it's time we admit that a five day work week is counterproductive.

Even Google notices this but is probably too big to make that change to a shorter work week; the best they can do is "reset days." Smaller companies seem to be doing fine with a shorter week.[1]

[1] Buffer comes to mind first, other examples on 4dayweek.io
Culturally we don't really stand up for ourselves, and my perception (as a tech worker) is that calling out any of these measures in my social group is roughly equivalent to saying I don't believe in vaccines or climate change or something, so I've not heard a lot of people voice strong contrarian views.

Also, these policies are much worse for the working class that we don't seem to care about, which are either immigrants or people outside of Toronto or Montreal, so don't count for politicians. It's just really another conversation piece for the zoom crowd.
Because full motion video can be impressive on a Power Mac G3. I recall downloading a video from Apple's website soon after the introduction of the G4. Of course I still had a G3. The G3 struggled to play the video at a couple of frames per second. (In retrospect, the video was intended as a technology demonstration of codec quality and performance on the G4.)
If I had to make a guess they're taking a stream from some embedded system with a camera on board the starship, downlinked to a system running VLC at the test site, and that system is being used to perform some form of on the fly transcoding or resizing, feeding video out to a live editing/mixing setup (how they're accomplishing the picture-in-picture of inside the rocket skirt and exterior camera at the same time).

VLC can do all sorts of stuff that 99% of its users never touch, if they're just playing files.

https://wiki.videolan.org/transcode/
they say they don't want their games to be used to take political positions

then they put their president on stage wearing pride pins, make statements about BLM, and go on at length about how "every voice matters"

... whilst simultaneously banning people for saying "free hong kong", censoring the fact that Tracer/S76 are gay (in countries where this would hurt profitability), amongst other things
What you're still not getting is that 'white' and 'black' are not ethnicities.
My biggest regret as a Northeastern alumnus was not taking compilers with Matthias. The man really knows his stuff.