skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one is interesting to me. I've been a big fan of Hashicorp ever since the only thing they had was Vagrant over a decade ago. The core of my usage has remained all of the CLI tooling, i.e. Packer, Terraform. It's more or less impossible to create any kind of competitors by trying to steal from these as they're free to begin with, plus they provide virtually no value on their own and rely on a universe of a providers and plugins to actually do anything, some of which are created by Hashicorp, but many of which are not. One of the more extensive foolaround tools I ever made was vaguely inspired by Packer, years ago when there wasn't a plugin to support Hyper-V and I wanted automate creating machine images for my Windows laptop to run various flavors of Linux so I could work on Linux from Scratch over and over without having to copy/paste everything at the command line. It was only "architecturally" inspired, though. I didn't even look at their source code and wrote everything from scratch entirely in Powershell since it was only for personal use and only intended to run on Windows.

I guess the signal here is they care more about and have pivoted business-wise to their own hosted offerings. I admit I'm not entirely sure what those are. I don't anyone that uses Terraform Cloud, but I guess someone must. So I guess Consul, Nomad, and Vault, but again, does anyone use the hosted versions of these? The big sell to me has always been all of their products can be self-hosted. Professionally, my use has mostly been with defense and intelligence customers offering behind an air gap who couldn't use the cloud offerings if they wanted to.

By far the biggest value add has always seemed to be Vault. Consul and Nomad have very clear competitors that still command more mindspace, but Vault seems to reign supreme if you want to self-host a secrets manager. On this front, though, as great of a product as it is, how much of that is even due to Hashicorp itself? The security is provided by implementations of open encryption algorithms, Shamir secret sharing, fips modules in the OS, and HSM support, but they don't make the HSMs. HA is provided by the Raft implementation of the Paxos family of consensus voting, but again, they didn't invent that. The fact this product exists at all is because they stood on the shoulders of giants who did all the heavy lifting in creating these secure and robust algorithms in the first place, and then shared them and allowed others to build commercial offerings on top of them. Your entire company exists because of other people's open source efforts, and then you close off and say no one else can build on top of your work, when if the OGs had done that, your product would never have been a viable business.
GDPR, cookie popup requirements
What does this have to do with kiwifarms?
Oh it was incredibly graphic.
I believe they require contributors to sign their CLA: https://cla.hashicorp.com/

That CLA grants HashiCorp full license over your Copyright, and explicitly allows them to sublicense your contributions[1]. Drew Devault's blog posts[2][3] on this topic are extremely relevant.

[1] > Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HashiCorp and to recipients of software distributed by HashiCorp a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.

[2] https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html

[3] https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html
Serious question: why not just move the guns so they do not shoot through the props?

I've always assumed there was a reason for it that required solving the engineering problem in the first place. But now I wonder whether it was just simply easier to invent the 'sync gear' than deal with whatever problems ensue from moving the guns.

> Sync gear, also known as an interrupter or gun synchronizer, was developed during World War I to ensure that...

Was the sync gear an application or adaptation of an existing technique?
> 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.

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.
> - Selling things sucks. The market is really unpleasant. Even donating things is a challenge, find an interested recipient, and arranging transportation. And then throwing things away is morally corrupt.

This is the big thing for me. I have a medium-sized hoard that I believe could probably fetch a few bucks, but taking the time to list everything individually for $1 here and $3 there on eBay, and then ship them one by one is infeasible.

I'd probably be willing to use some kind of consignment service where I can just box up all my crap and send it to them, they'd sort it out, figure out what works and what doesn't, list and sell what they can, and give me 10% of the revenue or whatever. I can't be arsed to do all that myself.
We (RESF/Rocky) are _not_ CIQ, and do not take direction from CIQ.

End of story.
Nothing she says matters and everyone knows it and she knows it. But that’s what the job entails. To BS.
Our commit latency dropped when we turned it on, so _something_ changed on a technical level
It's so laughably stupid.

"Trust us, we have a safety mechanism in place."

What safety mechanism? Can they elaborate, especially when they're asking for backdoors/tools that will enable them to view private messages of anybody using the platform?

This is just a complete violation of individual privacy rights. Hope there's other apps and platforms out there that will operate just out of the governments eyes that will still offer encrypted messaging.

I'm not an encryption guru and I don't know the specifics about how they want to add a backdoor to these apps, but can't we generate our own keys to share between people we want to communicate with, removing the need to have these apps provide encryption?

Never trust your government (at least in the western world! Some european countries do actually care about their people). They don't care about you one bit other than your ability to shut up and pay taxes. You are a resource to them and if they can control you by reading your messages and punishing you if try and go against their rules, they will.
Just casks
They try to address similar solutions, but comparing snakemake and nextflow doesn't do either tool a favour. They use different computation models, nextflow is based on dataflow programming and therefore schedules processes dynamically as new data comes in, while snakemake is pull-based and schedules the processes based on the dag defined by the dependencies. Anyhow they are both great tools.
CIQ is a sponsor of Rocky (and my employer, to be transparent) - but they do not have a say over what Rocky does.
Is the Windows version ever exposed as a string in the Windows API? Seems strange in my mind, but I have no experience with Windows. On the one hand it sounds like something Microsoft would do for backwards compatibility, but on the other hand it seems like a weird API to provide.

I found GetVersion[1] but that returns the version as two numbers.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoa...
I've considered using Nextflow for bioinformatics pipelines but have yet to take the plunge.

At work, I develop a proteomics pipeline that is composed of huey¹ tasks (Python library; simple alternative to Celery) which either use subprocess to call out to some external tool, or are just pure python. It runs in a worker container which is managed by Docker swarm, and all containers pull jobs from redis. For our scale, it works great. However, I don't have control over the resource utilization of individual steps, and in the past I've had issues with the pipeline blocking as a result of how I was chaining tasks together. I think something like Nextflow would remove these limitations, but one thing I think I would miss is the ability to debug individual pipeline steps locally with an interactive debugger. As far as I can tell, Nextflow has logging/tracing facilities but nothing quite like an interactive debugger. I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong, or even that I'm doing it wrong.

Other reasons I'd like to start using Nextflow:

- my homebrew pipeline would be easier to setup/share

- there are some efforts in the proteomics community to develop Nextflow pipelines (eg. QuantMS²). I think it would to have a shared language to express pipelines, and it would make benchmarking simpler.

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¹ https://github.com/coleifer/huey/

² https://docs.quantms.org/en/latest/
This falls under the heading of "technically correct" - in the sense that the limit is high enough for people to make the argument you are, and yet too low for most enterprise use-cases. Worse, the offer could be withdrawn at any time.
https://archive.ph/FZjtE
Most freight trains are diesel. Electric trains are usually passenger lines in dense areas. Also, this is direct electrification, so they just use the grid. But batteries imply another separate infrastructure on top of that. If batteries could power everything, then this might be acceptable. But they can't, so we are left with chemical fuels again. So we are supposedly forced to simultaneously invest trillions into batteries and trillions more into green chemical fuels. That is highly infeasible and unlikely to happen.

Redundancy is best solved with chemical fuels. This is because you can store them for long periods of time. So if this is a major factor, it will shift heavily towards that direction. And green fuels can be made with just renewable energy plus some common material. In hydrogen's case, this is just water. Synthetic fuels need some kind of green CO₂ source, which is doable if it can be pulled from the air somehow. So this already is protected from oil prices.
Part of evaluating your service is evaluating backup and restore. If that's not robust or reliable, then your service isn't valuable.

If I was paying you to store my backups on a your off-site server. Yes I could see your logic. However, backing in restoring up to my own local hardware incurs zero cost to you.

I'm not above paying for a service the values the end user and their data.
...and I'm the one just here to argue?

This is your ~60th comment on HN today. Maybe take a break, go outside, touch some grass. Not one thing you wrote here is reflective of the conversation you and I were having.
Which terraform then copied with the AWS Native provider...
More now, since I was a part of the other universe that didn't know this!
Why do whistles have a little ball inside them?
thats what i love about hn.

i sometimes think yc is just a front to secure payment for hn servers for many many years.
"Why did I leave Halloween candy on my porch if I wasn't okay with one jerk kid taking all of it for himself?"

Because projects believ(ed) that the good will of their users would be enough to sustain their projects and businesses.

Now that certain projects see that good will isn't working, they're switching to the legal system.
I agree except I think it's our of short term greed plus arrogance rather than survival. Maybe in some cases that's not true, but when companies like Meta are championing pretend open source, it's not existential for them, it's trying to push for a world where they have more control. Like I said, I don't have a problem with closed source business models, it's the deliberate conflation that's troubling, especially when it's leveraged to get community contributions.

On the other hand, if popular software becomes faux-pen source (I read that somewhere recently) and community members stop contributing, it's a loss too because it means we all become takers on whatever company's terms.

Your almost certainly right about the window shifting, I'm going to keep complaining anyway.
I tried adding one perspective above :), maybe that provides some insight
The concentration of lithium in seawater is quite low, approximately 0.17 milligrams per liter (mg/L) or 0.17 parts per million (ppm).

To determine how much seawater is needed to obtain 1 gram of lithium, you can set up a proportion:

Given:
1 liter of seawater = 0.17 mg of lithium
x liters of seawater = 1,000 mg (1 gram) of lithium

Using cross-multiplication:

x = (1,000 mg * 1 liter) / 0.17 mg
x ≈ 5,882.35 liters

Thus, you would need to process approximately 5,882.35 liters (or about 5.88 cubic meters) of seawater to obtain 1 gram of lithium.

In practice, extracting lithium from seawater is more challenging due to its low concentration and the presence of other elements. Techniques have been proposed and researched, but as of my last update in 2021, they were not commercially competitive with other sources of lithium like mineral deposits.
> I actually hope more open source projects start with a business source license

Well, by definition they wouldn't be open source projects then. But yes, better to make that clear from the start.
https://www.bigal.com/articles/what-does-square-mean-in-spor...
Y Combinator is for established businesses, right? Not just business plans?
I know WoW is aware that's it's running in Wine. There are some setting greyed out in game with a message of not compatible when running in Wine.
This is just a collection of static ChatGPT prompts and an output aggregator - I really don't see any novel research or real-world applicability of this aside from potentially scaffolding a project. One of the assumptions baked into the coding prompt is that you will never need to use an external library or API [1] which is an inherent requirement in most practical use cases.

> ## Code: {filename} Write code with triple quoto, based on the following list and context.

> 1. Do your best to implement THIS ONLY ONE FILE. ONLY USE EXISTING API. IF NO API, IMPLEMENT IT.

1. https://github.com/geekan/MetaGPT/blob/main/metagpt/actions/...
I was going to make a joke (against HN policy) about the earth's core being a superconductor, then found this Standford ?crank?
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Geom...
You make it sound the licence is infallible
The licence could be the problem in how the competitors are operating and leaching
I meant every word. It was exactly what I felt seeing my precious hours on this earth vaporizing to no good end.
"Designed to be representative of all adults 18 years and older experiencing homelessness in California, CASPEH includes nearly 3,200 administered questionnaires and 365 in-depth interviews with adults experiencing homelessness in eight regions of the state, representing urban, rural, and suburban areas. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish, with interpreters for other languages. In partnership with a wide array of community stakeholders, the UCSF BHHI team collected data between October 2021 and November 2022. CASPEH was funded by UCSF BHHI, the California Health Care Foundation, and Blue Shield of California Foundation."
https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/our-studies/califor...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439828
because most of their desired customers ban AGPL usage.
Same here. There are at least a few of such tools, and they are highly customizable.
AWS in particular already has its own competing services that predate or otherwise do not derive from Hashicorp's offerings (CloudFormation, Secrets Manager, etc.). Same with pretty much every other major cloud provider. The whole point of going with Vault or Consul or Terraform or what have you is to not tie oneself to a particular provider's offerings.

Put simply: Hashicorp's target market for a given product is largely not going to be interested in a cloud provider's locked-down equivalent, and a cloud provider is not going to be interested in deprecating its own tightly-integrated product in favor of customizing some third-party offering.

And again: if this was a legitimate fear, then the AGPL already fully addresses it.
Ads(like on the blank space on the page or owner paying to show their house on the top) and donations is what I thought for the server costs, but you are right marketing is an issue
Want to solve the problem of paying to get the owner's number which am facing myself, It's too much of work to be just an hobby project

Initial plan is to not verify anything, the issue getting solved here is the tenant can see the photos of the house, if they like it they can get the owner's number without paying

After this it's between the owner and the tenant, the tenant should go and do a propery visit before taking the flat
If you or your team are providing something original, such as solving a new technology problem or providing a wildly superior solution to an existing technology problem, it can be stressful. Other stresses are the result of some combination of bad leadership and/or unqualified developers.
- You need to get there somehow. It is far. Half way between main continent and North Pole. Usual way is going through Norway so in that case you need to be able to get in the Norway anyway.

- You need to have support (like job) or be able to support yourself. As relatively recent example when it does not work out: https://icepeople.net/2021/07/24/our-editor-get-expelled-her...
You mean this isn't a website for lambda calculus enthusiasts?
While there will be obvious corruption involved in that, voting for access to cheap energy and access to foreign economies for investment are both things I'm in favour of. Being warm in winter and being wealthy are both good outcomes. So corruption is bad in all its forms, but that corruption doesn't threaten me.

A pretty basic assumption about Google and Facebook is that the US 3 letter agencies use the data in coups. Speaking as an Australian, the next time we have a Whitlam-style dismissal I assume Google will be covertly involved. Yandex not so much. Similar logic would hold in the Americas, Asia, and most of Western Europe. It'd be fascinating to know what role US social media companies were playing in the 2014 Ukraine revolution too as a comparison to somewhere that is very much a place where Russia would want to weaponise Yandexq.
Yes, I think YC is almost always worth it. Even as a founder who has raised VC and exited previously I found it to be worthwhile.
Maybe we can get one of those "0 Days since last GTP post" counters somewhere...

Probably could be static, too...at least for the next while
They fund both but not much on these business plans unless the team is connected or credentialed from what I can tell
I feel like I used to see a lot more Launch HN, Y Combinator batches, etc. Or maybe I started tuning them out
Not having competition is not the problem I have seen listed when abuse is talked about. It is not contributing back in ways that are promotional to how much the company is benefiting. Or not going out of their way to acknowledge that they started with someone else's open source project, not even something like an academic citation.
> which is the balance point if you took an imaginary flat surface and put an identical weight on it for each person.

And with real weight for each person we'd see a center-point further south.
> We, however, were not in this position. Eric and I still had full-time jobs when we were accepted. While we had been meeting regularly for a few months to discuss different ideas, we had absolutely zero traction, no working product, and very little validation.

This is the key part IMO. It's easy to give up 10% of what is essentially an idea in your head in exchange for $500K and some legitimacy from a big brand. That is exactly how an "accelerator" is supposed to work. If you have spent time (sometimes years of your life) and significant money actually building a product, finding a market fit and gathering customers, YC's terms will likely be much harder to swallow.
The problem is not that elites exist.

The problem is that the current elites hate the people they rule over, and conspire with capital to rob everyone.

The dreamworld is not a classless society. But rather one where the leaders love those they lead and work for their betterment.

That being said, I’ve met enough Harvard and ivy types to have a low opinion. They’re no smarter than anyone else. These networks are powerful though. They will eventually collapse due to the crushing weight of their own incompetence and greed, but such corrections to the natural order take generational time.
> Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better.

I just find these comments to be so strange. You can look at all of the articles in that blog to see all of the feature improvements that have launched in Docs over the past 2 years. It's a lot of stuff.

Maybe they're not features that matter to you, some are available only to paid customers as opposed to free tier, or maybe you just haven't bothered to even notice. But they're there.

It's nothing about Google specifically -- I see people make these comments about so much software, where they assume a project is or has been dead, just because they can't even be bothered to look at the changelog. It baffles me.

It's like, unless it's a radical total UX overhaul, people don't notice the work developers are putting in on actual features. And if it is a radical total UX overhaul, people complain about the change because they assume it's superficial rather than actual features.
Privateer. When you want to be a pirate but also want to stay a law-abiding normie.
My guess: it's easier for the pilot to aim a gun that he's sitting directly behind. If the guns were mounted under the wings or whatever, it would be much harder.
> and you come and take my work unchanged, strip all atribution and mereley resell it, then

If they strip all attribution, then you can just take them to court for violating the license; other than public domain and WTFPL, even the most permissive licenses (BSD/MIT/Apache) still require attribution.
I don't think nginx is a good example though. They have a lot of features they refuse to get contributed as they want them paywalled in nginx-plus

Like service discovery and better load balancing algorithms.
Oh, agreed. Just while reading about it, it made me think of Beebeep so thought I'd give it a quick review in case anyone else was reading thinking, "I could use something like that."
The vast majority of indie label owners are toiling away by day to fund their passions. If you are a successful indie label you are likely investing a lot of your profit back in to sign and put out more bands. Some are able to run a profitable record label along side a more 'traditional' business like a record store, recording studio, or being in a fulltime touring band.
> No surprises here. Come what may, Amazon has always strived to lower costs

Maybe it's just a goal to reduce costs, but it seems likely that this is a response to Google's introduction of AlloyDB, a Postgres-compatible database competing with Aurora that is advertised as having "no...opaque I/O charges". I doubt Amazon was feeling generous.
What's the motivation to rent an ISP router? That's a lot more control than many people would prefer to give to an entity that is likely anywhere from "greedy and dumb," to greedy and outright hostile.

Having DOCSIS, I buy a modem, and own my router. I am aware that for more exotic technologies like fiber, a rented/ISP-owned 'modem' or network terminal of some sort may be compulsory, but a router is a bridge too far (no pun intended) for me.
I encourage you to continue to complain. Sometimes it’s the only way the rest of us have signal we might be wrong.