skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not a coincedence or tribute - same has been the same in the uk for many years. the letter "i" is typically not used for such purposes because it can so easily be confused with numeric "1" or alpha "l".
All this implies is that Hashicorp is no longer an open source company. Many of Hashicorp's actions like this one run completely against the nature of open source software. Another example is `Hashicorp Vault Secrets` - which they just launched as a closed-source SaaS only tool.

I'm obviously very biased, but take a look at Infisical as an open source alternative to Vault: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical (we run under MIT + some enterprise features).
Your line of thinking was that Pulumi uses terraform providers under the hood, right ?

It’s a good question. I suspect several forks might be happening as we speak.
Thanks. We've pretty much done all you suggested up to getting a lawyer. My 10 neighbors and I are meeting up to discuss and it sounds like we'll just have to pool our resources and hire a lawyer.
> If that's what you think open source is, it'll vanish.

Free software has been fine without any businessmen or companies involved, we don't need your or any company's approval. It seems like the only thing that will vanish from the open source sphere are companies with flawed business plans.
YC did so well because they never really asked for the qualifications other investors did and put an end to potential founders deciding that its not worth it/procrastinating
> To abuse the spirit of open source

The main way I think about this and how I often see people act are that actions which undermine the long term success and sustainability open source community is abusive. So you take a behavior and say if a non-trivial number of people emulated/copied this behavior will the open source community survive long term, if the answer is no, then the behavior is abusive.

Of course people disagree with what will lead to long term sustainability of open source projects and communities, though it does seems like a reasonable heuristic to the first degree of approximation.
I certainly _love_ building game engine technology, but my ultimate goal is definitely to build games. I've actually already started working on a more serious game in Bevy during my free time. It isn't yet a high priority for me, but I plan to ramp up my investment in it as the engine matures (especially after editor tooling starts to materialize). I believe it is important to "dogfood" the engine / be my own user. I already participate in the official Bevy game jams, but that isn't the same as a long term project.

Making money in open source isn't easy (or stable), especially when I'm not particularly interested in the "commercial open source" route. So it would be nice to have revenue streams from games as well (not that games are a particularly good way to make money!). I think there is a lot of value in building high quality Bevy games and making the source code available to people willing to support me financially.
> the rate is not 0% or even approaching that

0% is an impossible number to hit. Even in a perfect world you need some fluidity in the market. For comparison, Japan is considered to have a fairly tight housing market and they still have a 13% vacancy rate. The US on average (which includes Detroit) is less than half of that.

CA and NY have the worst problems with homelessness because they have the worst time adding new units. There are 4x as many college graduates in California every year than their are new homes or apartments being made.
That still provides deterrence, and safeguards against future harm from the same perpetrator.

Regardless, the chess federation is not being asked to act on pre-crime either, so in that aspect they are no different than the legal and police systems.
Starting with the end so we're on the same page about framing the situation:

> I don’t see how AI can do some sort tech breakout/runaway.

I'm expecting (in the mode, but with a wide and shallow distribution) a roughly 10x increase in GDP growth, from increased automation etc., not a singularity/foom.

I think the main danger is bugs and misuse (both malicious and short-sighted).

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> How does an AI language model devise an experiment and observe the results?

Same way as Helen Keller.

Same way scientists with normal senses do for data outside human sense organs, be that the LHC or nm/s^2 acceleration of binary stars or gravity waves (or the confusingly similarly named but very different gravitational waves).

> The language model is only trained on what’s already known, I’m extremely incredulous that this language model technique can actually reason a genuinely novel hypothesis.

Were you, or any other human, trained on things unknown?

If so, how?

> A LLM is a series of weights sitting in the ram of GPU cluster, it’s really just a fancy prediction function. It doesn’t have the sort of biological imperatives (a result of being complete independent beings) or entropy that drive living systems.

Why do you believe that biological imperatives are in any way important?

I can't see how any of a desire to eat, shag, fight, run away, or freeze up… help with either the scientific method nor pure maths.

Even the "special sauce" that humans have over other animals didn't lead to any us doing the scientific method until very recently, and most of us still don't.

> Do we even have a model or even an idea about what “thinking” is?

AFAIK, only in terms of output, not qualia or anything like that.

Does it matter if the thing a submarine does is swimming, if it gets to the destination? LLMs, for all their mistakes and their… utterly inhuman minds and transhuman training experience… can do many things which would've been considered "implausible" even in a sci-fi setting a decade ago.

> So unless we make some radical breakthroughs in general purpose robotics

I don't think it needs to be general, as labs are increasingly automated even without general robotics.
I still do. It still does...
> without providing material contributions back

They need more open PRs? It's not like these contributions would necessarily be welcome.
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> You would have to replace everything, probably including the actual heating/cooling systems themselves.

You wouldn’t need to replace the actual boilers/chillers/air handlers/terminal units, just the temperature controls/control wiring/control relays/control computer. There is mechanical equipment out there that is still controlled by pneumatic controls and that equipment can be retrofit to use digital controls.

Replacing the mechanical units may be beneficial, condensing boilers are extremely efficient and so are newer chillers/etc.
Maybe, but this is something I experienced on Firefox ESR.
Which does not disclaim "be forked and built on top of freely", especially given that Hashicorp products (in the modern era, at least) are written in Go and MPL is a file-level license: creating a new file in the same module under a non-MPL license and shipping it beside the MPL code as one broader unit is, I believe, fair game. But even still: MPL is a legitimate open source license that just asks that you give your changes back to the community. Seems like a fair trade to me.
Second this on Goodthreads quality.
There was a pricing error back in July of 2020. I got dress shirts and pants for $7 - $12. Incredible.
Larry David had the same thought, and it was the theme of the episode "The Covid Hoarder" in Curb Your Enthusiasm wherein Albert Brooks stages a funeral for his non-deceased self.
I don't know if the rumor is true, but even if Windows itself doesn't provide an API that looks like that (I also looked around real quick and didn't find anything), it's not unreasonable that there could be libraries that provide the version that way.
"Speed is Life."
You could retrofit a more modern computer in there. Probably even reverse engineer the radio system and replace it.

This would have been done by an enthusiastic high school student with both programming, electronics, maybe some RF knowledge too. Radio amateur? I find these stories kind of sad. Clever system built by someone talented, at a low cost -- replacement with a modern system costed in the millions. Those talented people still exist but they wouldn't get a look in with most RFPs.
> I think the answer is: Each kid gets whatever experiences maximize their potential. That’s not controversial, is it? Ideally, they’d learn whatever subjects, in whatever style would best help them flourish into rich, happy, successful adults.

Actually, that isn't what people want.

If your ideal is "what each child receives is what that child deserves" then the only inputs that determine what the kid receives are from the kid themselves. What is missing from that equation? Parents. One of the fundamental goals of almost all parents is help my kid. They want to increase the opportunity and resources their kid has regardless of that kids' potential relative to others or whether the kid deserves those extra resources in any general or moral sense.

This is just another way to think of Pinker's trilemma, which is one of the most insightful things I've ever read about human society:

"No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn."
> why not just move the guns so they do not shoot through the props?

You can mount guns in the wing, as seen on many WWII fighters, or run through the center of propeller shaft. These approaches have significant benefits, notably the rate of fire is not limited by propeller speed and number of blades, as well as having much more room to work with when wing-mounting (or the case of the P-39/P-63, having significant volume in the nose).

However, these approaches have some significant limitations, particularly for WWI-era aircraft. Most importantly, the wings of WWI aircraft were not strong enough to survive the stresses of mounting (and firing) machine guns. Wings of WWII and later metal aircraft are vastly stronger than the early wood, fabric, and wire bracing wings of most WWI aircraft. Through-propeller mountings are fundamentally incompatible with radial and rotary engines, and really only work with V-type inline engines. Relatively few WWI fighters were fitted with such engines. Also notable, wing-mounted guns must be angled inwards to converge at a desired range, and to be effective a pilot wants a gunsight that helps them estimate range to target. Such gunsights didn't exist in WWI, and so fuselage-mounted guns are easier to aim with basic sights.
By any chance are you familiar with Little Free Library (https://littlefreelibrary.org/), those public boxes for people to take or leave books? How would you feel if someone took ALL the books, repeatedly, and then sold them? Would you just shrug and say "well that's totally fine, why is it free in the first place?"

This behavior is antisocial, and completely destroys the offering/concept for everyone.

I have a bootstrapped software company with an open-core product. Meanwhile, a VC-backed startup that has raised over $100m of funding decided to use one of my core open source libraries (which they haven't contributed to in any way) for a critical component of their commercial product, which also overlaps with my product's functionality in some ways.

In response, I eventually made the difficult decision to archive that library's repo and moved its functionality into my main product in a way that prevented external use. So then this startup created a hostile fork of my library, and started to implement functionality that is only present in my own commercial product.

After that, I had to waste several months of unpaid time just to make their fork of my own library no longer easily compatible with recent versions of my own product. Some time later, finally the startup decided to abandon use of my library altogether and wrote their own similar library (which was undoubtedly much easier for them, being able to see all the edge cases my library already handled).

My lesson from all this: I will never create another new large open source product ever again. Too many sociopaths out there for the system to work at all. If I ever decide to make something source-available, I will consider BSL.

And before someone says "why not AGPL?", it is because many companies don't touch AGPL software with a ten-foot pole. My sense is that adopting AGPL for a brand new product typically causes the product to be dead on arrival. That said, I would honestly love to be wrong here.

If there are a lot of AGPL open core / commercial FOSS companies that have been successful, please share examples, I say this genuinely and without snark.
Bram is a guy who could have chosen to make millions but instead helped millions.
In-memory SQLite doesn't read or write files, and therefore doesn't generate syscalls, by definition.
That just means that the constitution permits it to be a thing; if congress doesn't actually issue such letters anymore it's not practically a thing.
It's kind of a shame this is based on Groovy, rather than Python which is much more familiar to people in the HCLS space. I've always been stuck on the fence between wanting to use NF (since it's the most popular) and Snakemake (which feels like less of an oddity development-wise).
At this point you have to both go with a “real” brand and investigate if any of their lines are still designed in house, or whether it’s a zombie brand that only badges white-box items.
Maybe replace it with LoRa... but what device is in each building? I doubt you have to update the heating/cooling systems, they are likely just relay closures.

Also each school is probably on the net these days, so replace with some Wifi IOT device.

Or Samsung "Smart Things".. but unlikely to last 30 years..
I guess you're right, the logic you describe is simple, but I submit that there's a more fundamental logic: If the folks who split away pull people out of the original community, it means there was demand for the things that prompted the split in the first place.

If Neovim had nothing to offer vs vanilla Vim, nobody would have followed them. This seems like efficient exploration of an idea space, to me, and something to be celebrated.
> I argue the window is moving as to what “open source” means out of survival.

I don't think this is happening at all. Open source means the same thing it's always meant. Some people are just retreating from open source. Which is fine, they should be writing Free Software anyway if they want the world to have it, or use proprietary licenses if they don't. Otherwise very wealthy people will live on your back.
can some physicist explain why the calculations are so hard... something something Taylor series?
Your point being? "reddit got it faster"? No pun intended, I would like to understand your reasoning.
You don't need to define all keys in a JSON object - by default, new keys will automatically be added to the index mapping when a JSON document containing that key is added to the index.

Details on how to query JSON objects can be found in our docs: https://docs.getretake.com/search/object
Why replace what's not broken? Amortization of costs is one possibility. The replacement parts must be hard to obtain, but are they spending over 50k/y on old amiga parts? If not, why do you think maintenance of the old system would cost more than the new system? (+ ongoing yearly fees/maintenance)

Just receiving a funding doesn't imply the need to burn the money.

Any replacement using wifi +- cellular and some javascript pile of dependencies is likely to work less reliably: for any budget of b=1 million it'll cost a multiple x>1 of that.
Eh if you understand the history of the Luddites you may see their position better.

If there is 'cheap' digital competition then a huge number of people end up with no way to survive in our current paradigm.
It's not like DocuSign does any sort of identity verification. I signed up for a free account and they validated my email address, that's it. That would be the only identifier associated with my signature, so Google actually has more information than them.
It's extremely unreasonable.
Maybe it's no coincidence that Tse Chi Lop, the alledged leader of the Sam Gor crime syndicate is Canadian Chinese.
I had the same thought. It's where I first heard of Svalbard and is always the first thing I think about when I hear about Svalbard. I have to keep reminding myself it's a real place.
They taste and smell better too.
Right now I'm thinking about it in the way that I think about Let's Encrypt.

Let's Encrypt has their own infrastructure, governance, etc., but I don't use Let's Encrypt products to interact with Let's Encrypt. Instead, I interact with Let's Encrypt via products like Certbot from the EFF.

If OpenELA's going to provide source, and I access that source through builds provided by CIQ or SUSE or someone else, then I'll be thinking of it in the same way as I think about Let's Encrypt.
The claim was "No one has extra money to travel and stay in AirBnBs".

Americans on average have plenty of money to do so. You're just arguing with the BEA definition of disposable income... which I guess is a perspective, but IMHO not a useful one. We could look at real household median income, which is also up https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N.
Except it's terrible for that (if you care about the condition of your books) because they did away with their book-specific packaging, and now just toss books in a box or bubble mailer with no protection. The majority of the time they arrive banged up. You may as well buy them second-hand for cheaper.
*Google

Also might be something to do with your ISP?
> it seems like software companies start noticeably going downhill about 1.5 years after they go public.

I firmly believe this is a fact too.

One place I recently worked, I joined as it was going public and it went downhill quickly. The friends I’d made there talked about the fun perks, holidays and benefits the company was known for. Over the space of less than a year most of the culture atrophied, people left in droves and there were exactly zero holidays or perks given out.
Or just transfer shares of the LLC to the new beneficial owner.
A tl;dr for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction is that in recent history we've switched from using the distinction to promote antisymmetric relationships, to using it to promote symmetric ones.
If you’re a fan, I recommend the book he wrote about songwriting. The method you described is a warmup exercise he uses before writing.
>They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything

I never understood why you should mass deny security clearances to people who like to "party".
> I suspect this is what would be difficult to replace. A bespoke wireless sensor monitoring and communications system, integrated into an old heating/cooling system. Modern system just would not integrate into this, without a lot of work. You would have to replace everything, probably including the actual heating/cooling systems themselves.

I wonder if it just integrated into a pre-existing control network:

> The Commodore Amiga was new to GRPS in the early 1980s and it has been working tirelessly ever since. GRPS Maintenance Supervisor Tim Hopkins said that the computer was purchased with money from an energy bond in the 1980s. It replaced a computer that was “about the size of a refrigerator.”

> ...

> A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s. Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area.

> ...

> Hopkins said the system runs on a radio frequency that sends a signal to school buildings, which reply within a matter of seconds with the status of each building. The only problem is that the computer operates on the same frequency as some of the walkie-talkies used by the maintenance department.

If programming it was a school project for an 80s kid, might as well try to make its replacement a school project for a 20s kid. If a kid did it back then, the integration can't be that hard.
Looking at the public data [1], Hashicorp looses money every quarter. At some point they need to stop burning cash because they have yet to figure out how to run a sustainable business.

I don't know enough about their operations to have good suggestions on how to become sustainable. But, I don't like this move. There are many sustainable open source companies. Moving to source available from open source will likely never be a move I like.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HCP:NASDAQ
there's an easy fix though. ingredients have to come from a autosuggest list that can't be added to that only lists actual food items used in recipes.
+1, SuperAGI’s discord feels very crypto.
IIRC some cross az traffic uses vendors' fiber (albeit definitely encrypted) but I could be completely wrong.
Perhaps it is not as popular, but I found the groovy syntax ideal for DSL like that
> Why Bram built his own language [...] I don't really understand.

What language would have you chosen in 1991 instead of creating vimscript? The vimscript language is a very natural extension[0] of Bill Joy's "ex" language, that was used in vi since 1976. The history of vimscript is not weird, it's just a fairly natural continuation of existing practices. Vimscript9 is a least-friction update for modern times.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)#Vim_script
No, if words have meaning, "closed source" does not provide source. Closed source does not mean "not open source."
The only amazon basics I bought is two monitor arms. I bought them because they are made by Ergotron and have a logo applied to them. They were on sale for 65€ each while the original (Ergotron LX) costs 160€

I only bought them because they are Ergotrons.
> real estate interests and their YIMBY allies.

What? Real estate interests are notoriously and by their nature NIMBY. Almost all opposition to upzoning comes from homeowner groups to protect property values.
It is not clear what you mean.
Seems like an obvious next step is to get enterprise hardware and software vendors to begin certifying on OpenELA in addition to RHEL. OpenELA10 or w/e could stand on its own as a competing enterprise linux standard that everyone is free to build from.
> creating a new file in the same module under a non-MPL license and shipping it beside the MPL code as one broader unit is

but they are not saying they will be adding new files under business license keeping old files under MPL, they are saying future releases of products will be shipped under business license.
Points for originality, at least you don't even pretend to bother to do a denial spiel.
Third option: you get a panel of experts and they tell you what to do with the panel.
This is the whole problem with Amazon and why I call it a flea market.

Other retailers put their reputation on the line with their merchandise. Sure, the same factory that manufactures for Old Navy makes QRYGGS. But Old Navy vets it.

Amazon’s issue is that it tosses its hands up and says “Sold by QRYGGS, fulfilled by Amazon.” Amazon says: if it’s garbage, not our fault, but you can return it. That’s just wandering a flea market with random vendors selling junk.

So I’m actually disappointed that Amazon would double-down on this by eliminating its private labels. At least if I see it’s an Amazon brand, I know they vouch for it. Indeed, my experiences with Amazon brands have been at least decent. But given the choice between fighting the regulators, somehow firewalling the private labels from the other vendors, or reducing its flea-market trafficking, Amazon decided to double-down on the flea market and scale back goods that it vets. It’s a big red-light district of some good stuff mixed in with tons of garbage.