skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...because of the explicit no-patent-grant clause. Yes, I'm perfectly aware, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned that earlier myself ;)

> Public domain allows the redistributor to charge a fee.

So do Open Source licenses. You can sell software on GPL, MIT etc. with absolutely no issues. You just need to allow others to redistribute it further without any additional fees (but if they wish, they can charge a fee too).

See: https://opensource.org/faq#selling

It's in fact one of the requirements for it to stay Open Source. You are literally guaranteed to have a right to charge a fee with Open Source software. Some people would like to change that and to consider licenses that add additional restrictions like disallowing commercial usage as Open Source too, which is why the article we're commenting under has been written in the first place.
Not necessarily. The margin is really high on Google services even though they are free.

I don’t know Google well enough to know what they would need to do to offer non-shitty service. Maybe they show more ads.

I also think they could automate good service if they wanted to, but it’s not a priority and they aren’t required. I used financial services before and after CFPB and I don’t remember price increases on my bank accounts. So perhaps something similar would apply here.
Chaquopy is now open-source
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There are also online communities where people (the posts read as children/teens but that may be my own bias) actively discuss and strategize about how to essentially 'summon' / 'create' / manifest a second internal person in their mind. Like, they essentially actively _try_ to create an 'imaginary friend' that is more than just imaginary but is almost a split personality like entity. The goal is for the 'thoughts' / internal monologue of that second entity to feel like they are thoughts that are not generated by the host, but instead truly feel to be generated by an external entity.

That community is called tulpas and the subreddit bears the same name.

By one token you could seemingly accurately describe the discussion there as unchaperoned children and teens actively trying to become mentally ill through meditation and self-talk.

On the other hand, I remember when I was a kid we used to talk about how maybe if we wished hard enough we could become more powerful like the characters in Dragonball Z. And I remember a web forum where kids talked about how maybe Digimon was real and there was a parallel universe where Digimon existed and how the forumbase could merge that world with our own if they wished hard enough.

So maybe kids have always been quite out there and it just looks more alarming when you are an adult.
Sure, but the solution helps with both (bandwidth because they only need to stream data once over the internet to each data center, not once for every client connected to that datacenter; and latency because there are fewer hops between client and content source).

An infinitely-resourced online play service could pay to install machines that run the games the same way Netflix pays to install their streaming boxes, and would care about both latency and bandwidth (since more bandwidth => better resolution video).
I don't remember any attempt to pull Russia westwards. Did Russia had visa waiver with the EU? What kind of real integration was there?

Instead there was a 20 year long streak of trying to pull Russia's neighbours westwards and away from Russia, at the same time Russia being told that it needs not apply.
You don't really need dang's opinion to flag unclearly-sourced outrage stories. There are much better places for them to be verified. It's a good idea to do that well before they potentially affect someone badly.
This is it. Another thing with a webapp that someone might use regularly is that the JavaScript bundle that's sent down is cached and you likely won't have that same load time every single time.

However, if you have a landing page that someone might only visit once, then you want to optimize for as little JavaScript as possible, and in that case, just a pure server-side render might be best for that job.
Thanks! Yeah I've seen a few similar projects (particularly written Java which I wasn't excited about). That looks like a nice project. It's written in Python and says it can take from an hour to several days depending on the computer and they don't recommend running it on a Mac.

I don't have up-to-date benchmarks but my project is written in Go and everything was designed to be as highly parallel as possible, broken up into multiple pipeline steps (splitting the Wiktionary dump, lexing, parsing, resolving, etc...) with a high emphasis on performance so I would assume it's faster but would need to do a head-to-head test.
Everybody who depends on you directly (partner, children, parents, and extended family) should be on you VIP contact list and have direct access to you. I find that reduces my anxiety. I don't get distracted by notifications, or the thought that someone might be dying and trying to reach me.
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"If it fails to gather adoption and it dies (like many startups do) we get blamed for killing products."

That doesn't explain the mess of 8 different messaging apps each year. If Hangouts was still the de facto android messaging platform and google put some effort and marketing dollars, it would have billions of users, instead you have a mess and millions switching to iOS because android messaging is a joke. Same with payments. I get an email every 6 months for "the new google pay is now android pay and gPay is google pay". it's a joke. same with adnroid music play all access google play music plus.
I have enabled web push notifications for a few sites, specifically Slack and Help Lightning. But those are both communication tools where I often use a browser instead of a native app and want immediate message notifications.

I have never, nor would I ever enable web push notifications for any sort of marketing or newsletters. I am still a huge RSS reader fan, and use imapfilter to automatically format and send certain emails directly to my RSS service (freshrss) [1].

I am big on zero-inbox, so I _hate_ having non important stuff in there. But for some reason, having a backlog of RSS feeds doesn't bother me! I wonder if part of it is that I find mobile email clients and web email clients so limiting when it comes to filtering and managing messages/threads.

[1] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...
You can't have Rust's safety guarantees without being at least somewhat similar to Rust.

There are attempts to achieve this in a simpler way (such as Vale) but right now you're better off using something with GC if you want that sort of safety.
Ah yes HP 1999 calling there…
>What confuses me is that everyone is pledging net-zero by some date but emissions keep rising. So somehwere someone is "laundering" emissions.

Nah it's way simpler than that. They're just setting targets and not following them.

>Climate Action 100+, a pressure group formed by 700 investment funds, aims to ensure that 166 of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas emitters align with the Paris targets. It said this year that 69% of them were committed to reach net zero by 2050 or sooner. However, only 17% had set medium-term targets or produced quantified decarbonisation strategies. Almost two-thirds of oil and gas companies are still pursuing projects inconsistent with limiting global warming below 2°C, it noted.

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2022/07/21/internal...
MFA is a great option to provide, and I would even suggest it should be default on, but what's the harm in allowing the user to opt out of MFA?

If available, it seems to me it would be the best option for this demographic.
this is actually why I submitted it! (I put the Todd Rundgren fact in the headline but HN mods apparently thought that wasn't relevant). He's mentioned it briefly in a couple interviews (like that Guardian article you linked, and on a podcast with Bob Lefsetz), but I have yet to see an in-depth article about Todd's career/hobby as a software developer. I'd love to read an article only about that one day.
A meme is a memetic virus, people just forgot it can cut both ways because of the funny cat pictures in the early 00s.
CADPAT works terrifyingly well in the temperate forests of Canada during spring/summer. I had a chance to go try and to spot people wearing CADPAT in the early 2000's and it was a royal pain to try and see them compared to the olive drab or even the US woodland patterns.

Just a fun aside: when Canada invaded Afghanistan, there was a lack of the arid variant of CADPAT. It left soldiers to land in the brown and tan desert wearing vivid green camouflage designed for summer in the Canadian rain forests.

>I find it bizarre that this is all done by private companies, competing in public competitions, with royalties to be paid for the chosen design. And I'm quite surprised that some designs were found wanting because they don't work under IR (e.g. the soldier shines against the background). That sounds like they're using the wrong dyes; surely a decent design methodology would lead to such problems being remedied by incremental improvement?

It was fixed AFAIK. IIRC issued CADPAT clothing were controlled items in 2000's because they had the the treatments designed to work against near infrared. Civilian CADPAT lacked those treatments so companies like Tru Spec[1] could sell it on the open market. There were other teething issues I am aware of; the dyes bleeding into splotches instead of the digital pattern as called for, as well as fading issues after laundering. Fixed of course but it took some iterations.

[1] I just double checked, Tru Spec never sold it. There were some smaller outfits in Canada that produced CADPAT available on the civilian market for short time; Drop Zone Tactical out of Edmonton for sure was one. Rumor mill is that it was material made by Consoltex under military contract that failed to meet the military's specifications and sold off to licensed DND manufactures to recoup costs.
What do you think about zfs vs btrfs for your use case? Why do you use both?
> root for the underdog

This has been a lot of it for me.

I didn't switch to AMD until the Athlon XP 1700+ came out. I've stuck with them for desktop builds, mostly, except a few budget "Intel Gxxx" cpus, while I stuck with Intel for laptop purchases until the Ryzen 4xxx chips came out.

I've switched between Nvidia and ATI/AMD a lot over the years.

If Intel becomes the underdog (against the AMD and Apple titans), I guess I'll have to hope they put out good products :)
Incredible singer and songwriter, messed-up human being.

Not the first, won't be the last.
That’s correct but even if it’s not positive you can still ask and understand. Even convert if you know how to convince
The Air Force did get their own camo - the ABU (Airman Battle Uniform) digital tiger-stripe; based on a Vietnam-era tiger-stripe uniform but with a color palette similar to the UCP; only with more blue.

In fact, it's not just their own camouflage pattern, the ABU actually had a distinctive blouse and pants that are different from the BDU that came before, or the ACU that the Army had adopted. Then they took the sage-green fleece from ECWCS Gen III (what the Army was wearing), and added the APECS Goretex parka that the Marine Corps was wearing, only in the ABU tiger-stripe rather than MARPAT.

Most of the actual battlefield airmen (i.e. the people who might reasonably expect to find themselves in combat conditions where camouflage could help like combat controller, TACP, PJ) didn't wear it anyway.

As pointed out elsewhere, this is very largely about esprit-de-corps in the context of a military organization, even if your job is actually avionics maintenance or personnel.

It does seem like a huge waste for all the services to have their own completely distinctive utility uniforms though - the pendulum is swinging back the other way now with the Army, Air Force and Space Force all back in the redesigned ACU/OCP with stitching color (black/spice-brown/blue) as the service-distinctive element.
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Hey HN!

It’s Eric and Niraj, and we've been building PandaFlow.io for about a year and a half now. Think of PandaFlow as a more modern and flexible Zapier :) - specially built for multi-step use-cases that are difficult to do on simpler nocode workflow tools. As background, Eric and I also founded Eventgrid (small exit) a few years ago, created and still maintain DotnetFiddle (Microsoft Stack - yay!!), as well as helped to create Booker Software(now part of MindBody)

PandaFlow is a low-code workflow automation platform that helps to connect popular SaaS apps/systems that are typically run by companies but disconnected. While we are big fans of IFTTT, Zapier, Make, and others - we felt that when using those systems, there were things like looping, multi-legged, non-linear workflows that were hard or impossible to do. This is why we decided to roll our own. Of course, as usual, this is easier said than done, but we've found enough customers to get it going.
In addition to our low-code workflow features, we have added advanced capabilities, including adding custom JS, processing nested loops, and making it easier to add new connectors just by importing your OpenAPI YAML.

When deploying Eventgrid (enterprise event management software) with customers, we consistently ran into application integration and automation problems. Enterprises had plenty of apps but no easy integration tool or the engineering bandwidth to do the work (and maintenance). We decided to tackle this problem with our PandaFlow. The idea was to provide a tool to businesses that could enable them to not only connect all of their apps but then apply whatever logic that also needs to be executed. We opted to go deeper vs. wider and focus on specific use cases. Currently, the majority of our customers are e-commerce businesses where we help automate, syncing their operations into various other systems.
PandaFlow has dozens of connectors out of the box, and each one encapsulates a single API. We support both GraphQL and Rest API formats.

While there are a plethora of no/low code tools on the market today, there has recently also been a healthy amount of skepticism towards low-code tools, mainly due to concerns around extensibility and scalability. But we think the low code movement is here to stay, and as the tools mature, more people will start using them in the enterprise.
I know the feeling. I think your best bet would be sharing with her gently and honestly, and if that doesn't go like you hope then looking into some couples' counseling/therapy to resolve this if she's agreeable.

Family baggage is tough and there may be stuff she needs to work on within herself too before she's ready. Encouraging that is a good way to be supportive and work towards the goal of kids together.

Strongly advise against ultimatums
I use sites like https://biztoc.com once or twice a day and I'm more or less done with news. Just make sure you only read the headlines ;)
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"Today I decided I would try to change Google."

The best part for me is "try to" rather than the much more common and nonsensical "try and" that I see all the time. I think I would pay for a Chrome extension to automatically replace all occurrences of "try and" with "try to."

It takes a librarian...

Also, thanks for changing Google for the better, and helping those who need help the most!
They (libraries) could even set it up using Google Workspace, or any other email service provider like FastMail, Outlook, etc. Maybe companies could add a super inexpensive plan for public service providers like libraries to enable this sort of account for which librarians could do password resets, unlocks, etc. Maybe charge for the # of administrators only?
I'm still searching for authentic tasting America balls.
Spotify wants users to pay for separate ‘Play’ and ‘Shuffle’ buttons
Exactly. Very very few things in nature actually are made of large blobs of a single color (unless you're very shortsighted). Honestly, it baffles me why militaries didn't realize this earlier.
> Similarly, it’s not rolling back the standard of living to acknowledge that this lifestyle is expensive ($11+k USD/driver/year), unhealthy, and soaks up a lot of time. Yes, it’s nice to get in and go and that even works okay in a rural setting but in practice ...

I have a family of 5. For me, a car is cheaper, faster, and healthier (less sunlight, less smoke, less pollution (or at least filtered once before it goes in your lungs), more capacity, flexibility in where I go...). It's cheaper for actual transport, for housing, for groceries, holidays, ...

But, frankly, even going to work by myself in the morning the car is still the cheaper and faster option when it's just me by myself. Even if I have a 15/20 minute walk from where I park to where I work (I can, and do, take public transport for that if it's too hot or raining or ...).

And when we're 5 it starts at an order of magnitude cheaper. Except perhaps compared to flying, but compared to public transport it's just not a contest.
I learned about microwave ovens at my grandma's house. We couldn't afford one. She had one that was so old it had dials on it.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma...

Given the bits of family finances I heard I'm sure she bought it new, not used. She had a stove the size of a fridge tipped over too. It had its own wall in the kitchen. I have never seen its like in any other house, movie or TV show (I did at one point rent a house that had the oven from Bewitched in it as recently as 2010. That was a weird beast of an oven. Burned the fuck out of my hand when I accidentally set it to 'broil' and touched the glass to see if it was on. Luckily it was my left hand but still)
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All that proves is that there is a person who matches the photo on their ID? It doesn’t prove it is the account owner unless the ID and personal information is stored with google ahead of time. And now you have people upset about google asking people for id to sign up, like their children for a school account and other people like me upset that my account was phished. I don’t think they even have my real birthday on my account, at least I don’t remember being required to share it.
Story of one of the projects I am involved in:

We came from Ansible managed deployments of vanilla docker with nginx as single node ingress with another load balancer on top of that.

Worked fine, but HA for containers that are only allowed to exist once in the stack was one thing that caused us headaches.

Then, we had a workshop for Rancher RKE. Looked promising at the start, but operating it became a headache as we didn't have enough people in the project team to maintain it. Certificates expiring was an issue and the fact that you actually kinda had to baby-sit the cluster was a turn off.

We killed the switch to kubernetes and moved back to Ansible + nginX + docker.

In the meantime we were toying around with Docker Swarm for smaller scale deployments and inhouse infrastructure. We didn't find anything to not like and are currently moving into that direction.

How we do things in Swarm:

1. Monitoring using an updated Swarmprom stack (https://github.com/neuroforgede/swarmsible/tree/master/envir...)

2. Graphical Insights into the Cluster / Debugging -> Portainer

3. Ingress: Treafik together with tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy so that traefik does not have to run on the managers

4. Container Autoscaling: did not need it yet for our internal installations as well as our customer deployments on bare metal, but we would go for a solution based on prometheus metrics, similar to https://github.com/UnclePhil/ascaler

5. Hardware Autoscaling: We would build a custom script for this based on prometheus that automatically orders servers of Hetzner using their hcloud-cli

6. Volumes: Hetzner Cloud Plugin, see https://github.com/costela/docker-volume-hetzner - Looking forward to CSI support though.

7. Load Balancer + SSL: in front of the Swarm using our Cloud Provider

Reasons that we would dabble in k8s again:

1. A lot of projects are k8s only (see OpenFaaS for example)

2. Finer grained control for User permissions

3. Service Mesh to introduce service accounts without requiring to go through a custom proxy
I take it as a sign that I would have to understand a bunch of prerequisites before I could understand the content of this paper, its implications, and the possibilities it raises.
> You're probably thinking of after-tax salary

I am not.

> Salary is almost always discussed in pre-tax terms

That's correct.
Dell follows Apple in exploring laptops with reverse wireless charging