skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but I do not think that I would have seen Maidan in general as something that warranted more or less immediate action from Russia. Either I really got this wrong or I must have come across something more relevant.

I think it is fair to assume that in general the USA prefers Ukraine in NATO over a neutral Ukraine and that over one oriented towards Russia. In NATO there are at least some countries that preferred Ukraine remaining neutral. Even if everyone always says that it is a sovereign decision that does not preclude them from at least having preferences. But there is at least some evidence for outside influence to push Ukraine into a certain direction which goes beyond just having a preference.

I did a bit of reading yesterday but I have not yet found anything I consider strong enough to support my Russia reacted point of view. At least at this specific point in time, in general I still have no reason to doubt that a NATO membership was the desired outcome. So currently I really tend towards I got this wrong and I am mostly held back only because I looked into all this in quite some detail after the invasion started and that seems like a mistake I should not have made.
It's not the change, it's the way the sell it. If they have just been up front about it ("Look, OSS isn't working for us so we are going to take it closed source.") then there would be much less drama. Instead they always try to weasel-word how they believe they are still open source when they are not in a lame attempt to not scare away their contributors.
Any computer targeted at business users really needs to start at 16GB minimum. I can't understand why 8GB is still the default base configuration on almost every computer.

My company made the mistake of ordering 8GB M1 MacBook Pros for everyone. After all ... they say "Pro", right? Truly the worst computer I've ever used, all because of memory management (and M1s unique memory-sharing architecture).

Even simple tasks like opening a new tab or switching windows showed serious lag. I could not run my local dev server and listen to music at the same time.

We eventually just said "screw it" and bought all new 16GB MacBook Airs. 1000x better.
The Problem with SSPL is, it triggers at runtime. Most OpenSource Licensens trigger at compile time. GPL ... you pull in GPL Code, compile it, your code becomes GPL. SSPL? Triggers at runtime if you run it as a SaaS, not really making clear what counts as SaaS, not really making clear what counts as a third party, etc. Thats the reason it should NOT be recognized as a open source license.
The defence industry is treated like that in every country. Part of the reason why a country wants to retain some military industry domestically, is to ensure production capacity during a security crisis (kind of like for agriculture). It's not just "jobs", but "jobs" with that particular skillset.

For instance, Germany is producing the Leopard 2. They may export most of them during peacetime, but should they need to, they could start pumping out those tanks for the Bundeswehr instead. Furthermore, with the skills available domestically, it would take much less time to repurpose VW/BMW/Audi factories to also produce weapons.
Click on one video with a gun in thumbnail, then you'll see you get pulled down the rabbit hole
GNU Unifont afaik
It’s free for companies with less than 25m annual revenue, just so you know.
"Like, when somebody releases something open source," ... to get traction and own the market (and sometimes, don't know here, get free work) as a business strategy, not for the greater good.
> I think they clearly state that the fresh versions are not open source, they are "source available".

To me it reads like they chose to switch to a proprietary license but don't want to be subjected to the natural consequences of betraying the trust of their userbase.
> makes it easy to forget about KISS

Does this really happen?

My experience is that programmers always try to make things as simple as possible, and when they fail at that, it's because they don't know how, or don't have enough time, or maybe the "simple" solution isn't persuasive enough that it covers all the cases, so a "more complex" version is preferred, or something like that; not because they forgot "whoops" I was supposed to make things simple not complicated.

The only times I have heard "KISS" suggested in earnest have been from bad managers.

> But even the best of us are prone to fall for it, and sometimes they even produce excellent results, cf. Donald Knuth and the TeX / Metafont ecosystem:

I don't see how this has anything to do with failing to keeping things simple, yak shaving for sure, but this yak (if it's a yak) did need the shave: there weren't any typesetting systems comparable to TeX at the time (and by some opinions there still aren't). What else can you do? Have someone spend hours typesetting and resetting a thousand page book every time there's an error, or turn the job over to a computer and automatically typeset it?

This is just solving problems. Solving problems you have is good, and where people go wrong, it's when they are solving problems they don't have (but perhaps think they might), or perhaps they underestimate how much of their problem the computer could actually solve.
> How did CO2 increase when humanity was pretty much insignificant and not burning fossil fuels? How did that happen?

> The answer is simple: Massive, continental scale forest fires.

You are factually wrong because you don't seem to be getting the hang of this "cycle" thing.

If you are earning $100 from your employer every week and then proceed to give that money back to your employer within two weeks, are you saving money?

No, your net effect of the cycle comes to zero. Same as with trees burning up. See, trees are built of carbon taken from the atmosphere. The net effect of the tree growing and then burning up is exactly zero. Almost all trees will eventually burn or rot with the effect that forest do not materially influence amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Humanity emits more carbon we dug from underground into atmosphere than is stored in the entire biomass, every 10 years.

This is the real culprit, not the trees burning up.

(Yet another way of thinking about forest fires is that they are promoting growth. When the old forest burns up there will be, for couple years/decades, a flurry of new growth that is making up for the biomass that burned up.)
That you won't get it back doesn't mean that it's not useful to count the crime. It won't get counted if not reported.
Even as US tech sanctions escalate, it seems that for generation of the iPhone the Chinese value-add increases.
There are plenty of gifted students who are not from economically privileged backgrounds. These are kids who can easily drop out, not just from school but from society as a whole, if they’re not nurtured.

I have first hand experience with this, as a former high school dropout, now close to completing a math degree just before the age of 40. The cost to the school system to keep me engaged rather than bored and ignored would’ve been minuscule compared to all of the lost tax revenue from me staying out of the workforce for over a decade and a half.

None of that has anything to do with forcing gifted kids into math research. And there are a hell of a lot more gifted kids than just the Olympiad gold medallist prodigies. I could’ve learned calculus in elementary school but I am far, far away from someone like Terence Tao.
but... 2020 is already gone. did you mean 2030?
The biggest European travel/tourism company "TUI Group" used to be a mining and heavy industry company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group#History. Quite an interesting shift.
This is the problem with characterising heat pumps as '300%' efficient.

They're not, they're actually around 30-60% efficient like most other heat engines. It's just the thing they do is move heat so people characterise the 'output'/ work as efficiency when in reality the relevant factor is something like output / output_of_reverse_carnot_cycle.

A 100% efficient heat pump would produce exactly as much electricity putting the heat back where it started as it used in the first place.
Thanks. I feel myself that l am too influenced by critics. Years ago I used to go to Blockbuster and come away with random movies based on blurb on the back of the dvd case. Nowadays I'm wary of watching a movie unless it has a great score and lots of reviews on rotten tomatoes. I feel like i'm probably missing out on a lot of hidden gems.
At the top level, that sounds apt.

But people have automated the throwing in of stuff, and even when the original stuff was excellent, stuff sources are sometimes bought out by bad actors.

And sometimes the stuff has ingredients, where the ingredients are also so managed, so I would say that there is still a chain.
I always wondered can "you not just" dumped a your modern'ish pc in big bucket of mineral oil to fight of the radiation ? Given that water (and other hydrocarbons has been suggested as a shield material for cosmic radiation). As I understand It Cosmic Radiation is the bigger enemy than the "normal" beta/gamma radiation ?
How is it irrelevant? Operating a single node would be $10k+ per year. That makes no sense for a large corporation to adopt. They’re better off rewriting the entirety of Akka.
Oh my homework was sheets of that stuff. The constraint was writing speed honestly. It would take hours of work just to write it out. I was talking to my parents the other day and they laughed about how many pages of cursive text they had to fill just to let me off the hook. But who knows, maybe you're better than me.

It's definitely one thing I like very much about American education: it appears to be much less mechanical. Though unless you go to magnet schools or specific private schools, the peer group is usually weak.
Wise words. I never understood how anyone trusts mass collaboration. It’s a Disney-esque fantasy.

You can’t even count on a large family to stick together over time. Or a small one.

I’ve been involved in many organizations and movements. The only one that hasn’t fractured and turned into muck so far has just two people in it.
We can only hope because the nature of the type of investment they are talking about, isn't something that just happens every day. The fact that it isn't a full year or something is worrying in itself.
I’m actually a big fan of the BSL license, as if it gains popularity for commercial software there would be a lot less risk of vendor lock-in like with Adobe and Autodesk.

I don’t mind paying for good software, but too many companies abuse their market position once they get big.
> You don’t have to die on every hill you see.

I’m still trying to internalize this hah
Sorry, I was responding directly to the claim ""once something is OSS, it has to be so forever". They owe you what exactly?" without thinking about Lightbend in particular. If you sign a CLA saying they can change the license later on if they so wishes, they are of course free to do so.
> Just because you didn't manage to build a company around a Open Source library/ecosystem, doesn't mean Open Source is not sustainable. It just means that your company is not sustainable. But I guess it's hard to blame yourself when you see others using your code without paying for it.

This almost religious attitude makes no sense to me. Clearly other’s use of that code wasn’t very sustainable, since the author now says they will no longer maintain it for free. You’re essentially describing the “everyone looses” outcome that the OP wants to address, but you seem to think it’s a good outcome.
Pdf-annotate.js Annotation layer for PDF.js
This doesn't really make sense. Akka is a framework/library, not something that could be offered as a service, anymore than you could have "boost as a service" or "numpy as a service".

I think that makes this change worse, though: it means that the new license will infect many more projects--like Spark, for example. And they won't even be making security patches to existing versions available under the old license. "Nice project you got there, it'd sure be a shame if some unpatched security flaw came along and ruined it," they're saying.

edit: I wasn't aware, but Spark stopped using akka several years ago. But the basic point still stands.
Private healthcare in France is supplementary to public healthcare and mostly abides by regulations dictating what can be reimbursed by the social security system, there's quite a bit of price control. It only gets wild in niche products (say very fancy dental implants).
This is truly awesome! Not necessarily the ergonomics, but the power these tiny devices have and the dedication people still have to the classic id classics.
Thank you. #2 is the most recent of these. It was made by projecting an iphone screen via a toy mirror and lens projector directly onto photo paper. Maybe it was influenced by this exhibition, https://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/exhibition/index-4040.html and Barbara Morgan that I saw there http://www.artnet.com/artists/barbara-morgan/4
I have limited experience, but had some licensing costs in my budget over the years, and $2k/vCPU seems to be at the lower end of such systems. The lever some companies pull is to let you pay for test and developer systems. Then $2k/vCPU gets expensive very fast (from another comment it sounds that you only pay for production systems).
Then I must have overestimated the effort needed for an experienced dev to set things up. I assume I would need a day to figure out how to best self host. Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try this weekend.
With everything about what I've been reading about public schools recently, no way in heck would I want my child in a public school, where instead of teaching the basics, they are more about indoctrinating children into a specific political worldview.

I'm neither liberal or conservative, I'm neither. But from what I'm reading, the agenda at public schools is about as hard left, left of left-left-left, as possible. I don't want my children to be indoctrinated to the left or right. I wouldn't have my kids go to a public school where they push religion, either.

Both suck.

Just...no thanks.
I really wonder why supply chain security wasn't such a big issue before, and why there weren't really many supply-chain attacks on software before.

Too few attackers understood it well enough? Or were other attack vectors easier?
Nice! Will def check it out. What I don’t understand is why it sees “value”->target as a diff.
Also inside the if statement, target was semantically unchanged
Of course they are allowed to change the license to whatever they want, or start adding bugs on purpose to the software if they so wish, anything is possible with the various copyleft licenses.

It's legal, yes. If it's nice towards contributors of past versions, is another thing.
I have seen the mob cosplaying as "journalists" fighinting against the "Mainstream Media". They are more of a joke than Fox news or CNN.
Michael Reinoehl was a prominent case. He was wanted for a targeted political assassination:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/portland-protest-suspected...

> Reinoehl's sister, who asked that her name not be used, said in a statement that her "estranged" brother "believed that the country is going to war."

Pipe bombs and incendiary devices were also frequently used against police. Off the top of my head, there was at least one police officer in Chicago who was critically wounded by a pipe bomb, but again the censorship bubble is making this difficult.

There were also numerous targeted assassinations against police officers. Here is one example: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/us/nypd-bronx-officers-shot-m...
The COU on that watch seems quite less powerful, so perhaps quake is not the best game for that hardware. Maybe Doom :-)
I can't believe I didn't know that. Thank you for calling it out.
In what situations has Bitcoin saved you, and where (country, city)? The reason I ask is because I cannot recall seeing any shops which would accept bitcoin, and the last ATM that bought BTC for cash I knew of in my locale disappeared a little while ago.
> I would be very careful to use "open source" technology from companies that depend on sales from this piece of technology.

I feel your comment is a gross misrepresentation of the problems posed by replacing a FLOSS license like Apache with a proprietary one.

Software that was released yesterday under a license like Apache will remain FLOSS today, and usable under the exact same terms. Subsequent releases won't, but the one version you've been using to sell your product/service will remain usable under the old terms.
2.5% would be far from insignificant. The European Commission Climate Action website put it closer to 2.9% and volumes are expected to increase by as much as 100% until 2050.

The percentage is even more significant if you look at it from the point of view of relatively clean part of the world like the EU. Shipping is 4% of our emission.

Something will definitely have to be done with shipping if countries want to hit their emission targets.
Really? I think Akka is far too niche for that to be likely.
> I had that idea at least 1-2 years ago, and I've only recently written my first post within the past 2 months. I think I enjoy tinkering with build systems much more than writing.

This is very much an easy trap to fall into! What helped me was not sweating over the small stuff and setting up an instance of Grav, though I think that most of the turnkey blogging solutions out there would work (e.g. Ghost/Bolt as well, maybe not self-hosted Wordpress as a first option due to large surface area): https://getgrav.org/

What I really like about that solution in particular is that it is flat-file based and also has an admin web dashboard that's a separate plugin that can be enabled/disabled (some might prefer writing text files directly, with front matter and all) and has separate URL path that can be put behind basicauth (in addition to built in auth), client certificate auth or anything else.

It's not perfect, of course, and has given me the occasional headaches, but it's also good enough for my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/

That said, I still struggle with my homepage - instead of going back through 5+ years of projects and describing all of the noteworthy ones, putting up a few galleries of screenshots, listing technologies, ordering them by relevance and also making sure that it doesn't contain too much data... it's just sitting there, on my TODO list. It's been that way for a while now.

I want it done. But I don't want to do it.
Anyone can fork any chain, nothing more than a single miner is required on the new chain. In fact the pre-rollback chain lives on as ETC. A parallel universe where code actually was law.

One entity decided they were sad about code being law and decided to roll back the outcome of a faithfully executed smart contract using their influence. When one person can influence enough miners to make it the principle chain simply to undo what is in their opinion an outcome they disliked, that's centralization. Or at least a plutocracy.

Today that power rests principally with Jeremy Allaire since of course only one chain can represent the real world dollars in his bank account (USDC).
it’s basically a cc by-nc? https://www.draketo.de/light/english/politics/free-culture-d...

NC covered works trick people into investing in a dead end.

They can do that, for sure. It is legal and I don’t see reason to complain. You cannot trust a project to stay free if it is licensed without copyleft or requesting that you assign them your code without guaranteeing that it stays free.
Ancillary data collection is against Firefox Add-ons policies. They should be reported if the extension does indeed collect such data.

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-p...

> Prohibited Data Collection

> Collecting, or facilitating the collection of ancillary information (e.g. any data not required for the add-on’s functionality as stated in the description) is prohibited.
> As a retail investor, the most challenging part of investing is psychology, and DCA can help in that regard.

Agree 100%.
How about all the throubles with hijacked NPM packages? These attacks are still "small", but have had big effects, multiple times.
Good auto-completion and highlighting.
Recently, I edited some stuff through libreoffice like borders, alignment, paragraph endings etc. I had a really bad experience, got completely pissed off during the editing to the point of punching the display.

Right now, I use 'OnlyOffice' an open-source office mannagement. It works really great (better than libreoffice, in my opinion). It has no particular bugs which will hamper production.
From my perspective the challenge is, what happens if there is a critical bug found after 3 years and you're on the Apache version? Do they backport the fix (out of kindness)? I've jumped through many hoops in the past to pay for fixes to older open source systems - because the systems weren't properly updated - to get a patch, and it was never easy (and fixing this yourself is nearly impossible if the bug isn't obvious, and you don't want to break things in such a core technology).
Wow this looks nice. Lots of focus on details here in the thread but don't let that distract you.

From the code [1] I take it that you're using polar interpolation on two random points around the original noise right?

This is very cool stuff, thanks for sharing!

[1]: https://github.com/lwneal/duckrabbit/blob/cb375ec7c6067bf805...
> You need hydrocarbons

You mean nuclear power.
Climate Change Has Made Existing Flood Maps Outdated, Admits FEMA Director
I've been poor. Six figures in debt with less than $10 in my checking account. I know what it is like. But there are plenty of accounts in the U.S. which have no minimum balance and no fee. You can have $5 in there.
Seems very similar to what I have been using for a while now: https://github.com/jorbuedo/react-reactive-var. I reckon that library is based on the reactive vars in Apollo client, but without the unnecessary GraphQL code. Reactive vars are great to work with, the implementation is only a few lines of code, it is very predictable, and it doesn't require monkey patching your React internals.
What a headache it causes in the world. I don't think anyone can measure the total cost of lost productivity in Europe, just people who read the news and worry. Sad.
I think people don’t take the license of projects they use seriously. The license allows such relicensing.

Use a copyleft-licensed project with outside contributors if you want the project to stay free.
Remembering : In the 90s, when it came out, I couldn't run Quake 1 on my desktop PC as it required 6 MB of RAM, and I had only 4 MB installed.
> The name "Hotmail" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in "-mail" as it included the letters HTML, the markup language used to create web pages (to emphasize this, the original type casing was "HoTMaiL").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com

Ahh.. never knew that's where the name comes from.
The ZFS integrity checks?
I personally just don't see the point of having multiple banks manage my accounts. In the USA many of these banks require a minimum amount to avoid fees and since they can arbitrarily set those limits and they can change at any time I find that having multiple accounts ends up being a liability. On top of the non-existant interest why would I park $1000 in a bank account? Instead I can at least invest it in something. Heck even just adding that $1000 to my mortgage payment would be a vastly better investment.
I doubt the people making shows for netflix are not being paid well. Even the ones pouring out absolute junk lately are being paid bank. a Better example would be english teachers who absolutely are being underpaid while providing value to society.

gender studies is still bullshit. I took a few mandated classes back in university. 90% of getting an A is just knowing what the teacher wants to hear. I have a hard time believing any of them can understand critical thinking giving how much of their doing well in that major is just going with groupthink.