skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before there was AlphaGo, many top Go players believed that understanding Go is somehow special in helping us to understand the universe. The AlphaGo was a shock, because it turned Go into "just another game", which can be beaten by enough calculations on a powerful computer.

I think the mathematics is the same. Lot of its beauty we cherish, because we don't properly understand it on the "raw" level of SAT (I would write logic, but I really mean the simplest metalogic you need), which is evidenced by our lack of understanding of P vs NP. Once it is understood, the process of "doing math" will be understood algorithmically, and it will become "boring" or "dull".

But as I said, I don't think lack of universal meaning (or lack of mystique) has to detract from the beauty of mathematics.
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CRISPR is a tool that allows easy static binary patching
While I’m sure there is some, I can’t think of a single B2B Saas product that sells their user’s data for targeted advertising.

That’s more of a consumer problem.
So now we have covered PostgreSQL and food waste, how about the topic of avoiding small aircraft for transportation (because they are so much more risky compared to larger commercial aircraft)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_from_aviati...
I was a vultr user for years. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on their services.

When I was setting up my email server I requested to have port 25 opened, but instead of getting it opened I got some copy pasta reply from some senior director, how it can’t be done…

I moved to Hetzner, after 1 month and after the first bill was paid, I requested the same port opened and immediately it was opened.
Thanks! Why would you want fast read access in the customer example? More customers looking for items means a smaller queue
There's tons of crazy things you learn. For example France actually invaded a small part of Germany in 1939 and encountered almost no resistance due to the German invasion of Poland, and had they continued they likely would have taken a significant part of the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Offensive
When I chose BSD for Redis, I did it exactly for these reasons. Before Redis, I mostly used the GPL license. Then my beliefs about licensing changed, so I picked the BSD, since it's an "open field" license, everything can happen. One of the things I absolutely wanted, when I started Redis, was: to avoid that I needed some piece of paper from every contributor to give me the copyright and, at the same time, the ability, if needed, to take my fork for my products, create a commercial Redis PRO, or alike. At the same time the BSD allows for many branches to compete, with different licensing and development ideas.

When authors pick a license, it's a serious act. It's not a joke like hey I pick BSD but mind you, I don't really want you to follow the terms! Make sure to don't fork or change license. LOL. A couple of years ago somebody forked Redis and then sold it during some kind of acquisition. The license makes it possible, and nobody complained. Now Redis Inc. changes license, and other parties fork the code to develop it in a different context. Both things are OK with the license, so both things can be done.

A different thing is what one believes to be correct or not for the future of some software. That is, if I was still in charge, would I change license? But that's an impossible game to play, I'm away from the company for four years and I'm not facing the current issues with AWS impossible-to-compete-with scenario. I don't know and I don't care, it does not make sense to do such guesswork. What I know for sure is that licensing is a spectrum. I release code under the MIT or BSD, but that's just me. I understand other choices as well. What I don't understand is making the future of open source in the hands of what OSI says it's correct and wrong. Read the terms of the license, and understand if you are fine with them.
Subjective experience is the awareness of an internal representation.
The problem with streaming is that it is always tempting to put the best teachers in the more academically inclined classes because that is where they get the most visible effect. But of course it should be the other way about, the very best teachers should ve assigned to the students who find the whole affair the most difficult. The best students can often just be given an assignment and told to get on with it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucippus

I think my kids would prefer your approach to teaching history than the stuff they currently get.

That and the musical Six :-)
To get the 2.50 deal, you need a VPS that is, I think, in NYC and runs a certain Linux distribution, I think Debian. Everything else is $5 and up.
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For Danes, half the experience of a meal is the presentation. They would not want to eat an already half-eaten meal out of a styrofoam box.
Then don't use redis. Lots of other cloud products you can use.

There's no problem with the outlined approach.
Meanwhile it seems everything in Microsoft 365 defaults to "anyone internal can access/use the resource." As a result, I've seen large organizations leaking some of their most sensitive information to regular users.
Not sure about underrated, but if you mean lesser-known, here is some of the most memorable, possibly lesser-known science fiction I've read over the past few years. These are the ones that stick in my brain and continue to generate thought, even though I read them months (or even years) ago:

"Chocky" by John Wyndham

"This is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (a new all-time fave for me)

"The Book of Strange new Things: A Novel" by Michel Faber

"The City and the City" by China Miéville

"The Fifth Science" by Exurb1a

"The Initial Fold" series by Nick Adams

"Peacemaker's Code" by Deepak Malhotra (still not sure why this is not more well-known)

"Eifelheim" by Michael Flynn (a most unusual premise and a gob of seemingly inane stuff to get through at about the 2/3 point, but IMHO worth it)

"Providence" by Max Barry (heart pounding)

"Hench" by Natalie Zina Walschots

"Orange World" by Karen Russell (short stories but many qualify as sci-fi, very memorable to me)

And here are some definitely well-known examples that also stick in my head:

"Infernum" by Jayson Adams

"The Fourth Wing" and "Iron Flame" by Rebecca Yarros (more fantasy than sci-fi, but very well done if you can handle two or three extended and explicit sex scenes)

"Rabbits" by Terry Miles (book includes some hidden hints and puzzles that lead you to things outside the book

"We are Legion (We are Bob)" series by Dennis Taylor
Until you listen to The Warning. https://youtu.be/97Pxe9KTgJc?feature=shared
One of the first products I enjoyed using after learning about startups in general, and yc in particular, was Posterous[1] specifically for this feature.

Very cool.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/posterous
TreeLine: An Update-in-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage (2022) [pdf]
Absolutely!

There absolutely is a small subset of parents like that, though being in the Bay Area, access to abortion has been fairly common for decades, especially given the affluence of the district and the relative lack of stigma, so I don't see that as playing a significant factor.
All it would take is another license change preventing you from using it.
'The Nose' – Nikolai Gogol (1836) [pdf]
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This message is brought to you by AWS? Or by whom?

Since they ask us to ask ourselves some questions, let's do that and get some answers.

> How a company can ask others to "give back to the community" while they are not using open-source anymore?

You read section 13, you decide wether it's open source. The extra strict clause forcing users of the software to make their software open source. Aka copyleft, aka the most strongly community driven definition of open source.

> How a company can ask others to publish their source code while it doesn't publish its own cloud services source code?

By making sure they have their copyrights in order. No one's forcing anyone to use their copyleft licensed software. They offer their software under a copyleft license, that's more charitable than most companies to begin with.

> How a company can declare open-source is part of its DNA while it uses a non-open source license?

This is just the same question as the first one.

> How many of the 3000+ employees share their work and source code with the community? (spoiler alert: way behind 3000)

You want MongoDB's sales staff to share their work with the community? What about Google's 190,234 employees, and AWS's 1,541,000 employees? Where's their open source communities.

Is this some sort of joke? The double standards are ridiculous, did the author even consider who is hurt by the SSPL and who is not? Hint, it's not the community, and hint, it is companies with more than 3000 non-developer staff.

> Are those companies tech companies that want to share with the community or sales companies that want to increase investors' profits?

They are sales companies that want to increase investors' profits. And they do so by participating in the open source community. It is an amazing fact that this is possible, and the Open Source community should be supporting them and engaging with them to find a way to do so that benefits the entire community, instead of building attack ad websites.
The number one reason being that it’s free. In a purely technical comparison it is not at the top of the list.
The people living in a rented house aren’t the one making these decisions.
Good thing, we're nowhere near AGI in the actual state of art and Worldcoin is a joke.
> It’s like complaining that there are too many implementations on GitHub of the same thing.

You're spot on. People are bellyaching that the world doesn't operate according to their arbitrary rules.

Perhaps I'd be happier in a geocentric universe, but it doesn't make a non-geocentric universe bad per se.
Right now ethanol is also sourced from methane unless heavily subsidized, so far as I know.
>If a ToS is going to be a contract, it has to be interpretable by the person hitting 'agree', no?

That is why other counterpart would also hire a lawyer.
> mongodb is a fortune 100 company

Excuse me? MongoDB Inc. posted a mere $1.68 billion in revenue (with a $177 million loss). Coco-Cola posted $45 billion in revenue and ranks at #100. Forget Fortune 100, MongoDb isn't even in the reckoning for Fortune 500.
I don't understand what your point is. I'm saying that it doesn't matter that the community edition is still free of charge, because it's the fact that it's not open source anymore that's the issue. What part of that are you responding to?
This view of capitalism is relatively recent in origin. Prior to the adoption of the "shareholder value is the only purpose of a company" nonsense by Wall Street in the 1980s, it was understood that companies have obligations to their employees and their country.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should and certainly doesn't mean it is right to do so.
First, if you write process-concurrent code in Elixir/Erlang, it will run on all the cores in your machine. It's automatically locally scalable. The number of processes should range from some small multiple of the no. of cores (say, 10x cores), up to 100k - 1m on a big memory multicore machine.

Second, as the other comments say, Elixir/Erlang have very transparent built-in ways to address other nodes, and the programs will scale as expected: more cpus v. network data distribution cost. So good for small tasks that require lots of compute. The native clustering will run to a few dozen nodes over a trusted LAN.

But soon, you will want some layer managing the cluster, try Swarm:

https://github.com/bitwalker/swarm
> I am now investigating alternatives for hosting FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems. Preferably that take custom installs.

Hetzner. I am a customer of them. I run FreeBSD on the servers I rent.

The way that I got it installed was I did the following on each of the servers:

1. I booted the Hetzner Linux based recovery image on each of the servers. You can do this from the “Robot” web ui that Hetzner gives you access to for managing your servers.

2. Then I used dd to write an mfsBSD image to one of the HDDs and then rebooted

3. I then sshed into the server now running mfsBSD and then I used that to install FreeBSD.
To save you a long read - there is not a slightest bit of evidence to suggest that Sun can possibly be conscious. The argument is essentially religious.
Viewing my CT Scan in 3D using Linux
How about a bus that carries hi speed network and power... and everything running Plan 9 to glue it up together :-)
To sound like a broken record, what’s the alternative? To put into context: we have an enormously distorted ecosystem today compared to just a decade ago, consisting of open source projects like Linux, Postgres, and all your programming languages. And then we have trillions of dollars going to like 3 mega-corps. They base their entire infrastructure on top of open source projects, and in aggregate give very little back relative to their size and revenue. The small-medium sized companies are often bought, or fail to compete because of lock-in and other competitive advantages in the cloud.

I don’t know about y'all but I want a healthy mix and I want a path for small companies to compete and grow, so we don’t get another AT&T technology stall. Although you can’t prove what would exist “otherwise”, I strongly suspect we’re already in an era of stifling innovation, especially the kind that has positive externalities, like interop and standardization.

So when you see BSL and friends, put it in this context. They most likely didn’t get it fully right, indeed. But is this because of ill intent? Or is it because it takes a lot of work and luck to strike the right balance?

I don’t know, but I feel strongly that we need solutions that lead to a healthy middle. Just imagine the best-of-worlds outcome, where OSS development is a viable way to make a living. Imagine working with an ecosystem of tools and libraries made by more people who currently don’t have the luxury of spending their spare time volunteering. Licensing is just one tool, but it’s an interesting one because it makes the tech giants uncomfortable. At the very least, it’s worthy of good-faith critique.
Heart of a Buddha
Built for martial artists and those looking to rekindle with their spirituality, a few quotes are available for viewing.

While the quotes themselves are historically inaccurate, I feel the message comes across.

This is especially for my fellow Judoka where the arts have become much more competitive and seem to have shed some of their humility and grace.

Enjoy
It is mainly bad to big cloud corps. I don't see anything wrong with the people behind these products not trying to get fleeced by Bezons and the rest out of their sweat and hard work.

In general if you're making money using some piece of software you should contribute, as much as I love using OSS it does cut down the value of software engineers when a company can just leech of someone else's work.
> Any company needs money to survive, of course. And money in open-source is not bad at all.

> This is why MongoDB has its "Enterprise Server" edition. Or Elasticsearch has its "Elastic Enterprise Search" product. Or Graylog has its "Enterprise" version. These companies got profits before SSPL, with their open-source editions and commercial editions.

So when AWS starts offering it as managed service, the author thinks nobody will migrate to that? That's very naive.
Many companies will choose AWS-first because everything else is in AWS.
In IDA you basically have only detection of stack frame layout (in a quite confusing fashion) and "create struct out of this pointer", which is something you have to do manually and its intraprocedural.

Imagine this being done automatically, across all of the binary. If you pass a pointer to another function the type is correct and you build the type from all the functions using it.

Then obviously the user needs to fix things, but boostrapping can definitely be hugely improved.
I for one don't like it when companies do a bait-and-switch. It's fine to develop proprietary software, the problem is when you grow a user/customer base based on the fact that your software is open source and then turn it proprietary.
Who cares if they do that? Do you see Torvalds and co running around crying because the entire world runs on Linux Kernels?

I would love nothing more than for a project I built or contributed to wound up as an AWS service.

Writing the code is just part of the value, running it is also very difficult. Especially as the use increases and expose new code paths and bugs and what not.
Sort the classes by learning speed, the faster kids aren't expected to do more or harder class work like today instead they get longer lunches, free periods, more recess and early dismissal. Only slow kids need homework, the fast kids get it done as part of class and peer grade themselves.

Frees up teaching resources for the slower kids and respects everyone's time. Puts the incentives in the right places, rewarding the diligent responsible students.
According to Jonathan Haidt's research, most teens would prefer to not be on social media because they recognize the toxicity of it but feel compelled to be on it because they have FOMO.
This one gained more traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856756
you can't fork and maintain everything yourself, and that de-facto lock in is exactly what companies bank on when they pull this kind of bait and switch. The idea is precisely to gain popularity with open source, "the first dose is free" style, and then capitalize on the dependency and popularity. Literally just the developer analog to the misleading "everything is free and always will be" advertisements of consumer facing software.
Ask HN: How do I acquire an overachiever personality like the typical HN user?
Hello,

I have basically slept, daydreamed, failed, stumbled, bumbled and procrastinated through 24 years of existence and if the average HN user met me, they would be shocked at this specimen of a human with the intellectual capacity of a stone-age hominid.

Despite being raised in an environment where hard work, sincerity and importance of academic excellence was stressed upon, i turned out to be a wretch of a person with fondness for sleeping and daydreaming about great success without putting even the tiniest sliver of work behind it. Along with a humongous tendency of self-victimization (i a doing it right now), rapid switching between delusions of grandeur and feelings of inferiority and a passivity that has rendered me unable to learn the nuances of dealing with people and the workings of this crazy world, i am plagued by my misdeeds and despite trying hard to forget the past and live in the present, the memories keep coming back. i have so much more i wanna write but my brain is a mess and i don't feel like writing more.

So, the gist of the question is how do i become like you guys? how do you keep learning so much everyday about the world, complex technical concepts, becoming technical experts, opening and running businesses, nurturing friendships and relationships, and fulfilling the various needs of modern life.
I have to say that the "fun facts" included here are actually pretty cool. They are exactly the sort of thing one would want to use to explain the whats and whys of the ship to your kid.
Ah, but this is why almost all SSPL-licensed software is actually dual-licensed: there's the "paying customer" license, which gets you the software without the virality, and there's the "free user" license, which is the SSPL and makes it impossible to sell the code as a service.

The SSPL virality clause is a way to scare away free users (Amazon, GCloud, Hetzner, those kinds of companies) from hosting it as a service. Those companies can still pay for the proprietary license, of course.
How does this compare to gVisor?
Doing a writeup on visual programming without a single screenshot or image is just.. baffling.
Well it's probably better than bunker oil or whatever petroleum fuel was used before.

Battery electric may work at some smaller scales such as local ferries but not for moving 100,000 tons across oceans. The energy density just isn't there.

Nuclear would be good but would make the ships a huge piracy/terrorism target. You'd need military escorts for them.
I admit that I've not and so in that regard, I'm speaking from the perspective of an outside observer. I have worked in middle management before switching back to IC for personal satisfaction reasons.

If I had to guess, this statement that I made is the one you are honing in:

> American corporate culture has devolved into: get promoted into management and coast.

Generalizations are what they are. There are always exceptions etc. And I fully recognize that there are talented, hard-working managers out there.

But, what I'm specifically getting at is that American corporate culture encourages far too many cooks in the kitchen. Managers are necessary. But I think most corporations have far too many. And part of that is because it's the norm to promote your top IC's into management. Eventually the structure becomes top heavy and overly bureaucratic.

To be honest, I don't think what I'm describing is particularly original/surprising.
Great recommendations! I've read all three of those books and they're terrific in different ways and all worth reading.
Do you have a competing interpretation you'd like to present?
I strongly believe we live in a golden age of music. Did you know 40%+ of Spotify payouts go to independent, non-agency artists? There's SO much good new music coming out in every genre. And you can access 95% of it for like $15 a month.
No such confusion is going on. Most Linux people won't touch the Microsoft .NET stack with a 20 foot pole, whether it's called .NET Core or .NET Framework.
In my experience MySql is more popular. Worked at several companies that used MySql, none that used Postgres.

Kids at universities still use XAMMP to learn databases.
Hmmm, I’m noting that the current industry trend seems to focus on the opposite strategy: assuming compromised devices, assuming breach. « Zero trust », as they like to call it.

It’s not mutually exclusive with your approach, but it’s definitely the new industry gold standard, rather than trusting vetted devices. Seems they gave up on the vetting.
Virding's First Rule of Programming (2008):

Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language
contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation
of half of Erlang.

https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of...
Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013)