skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the valuations for software are just insane.

What does it mean that redis is valued at 2 billion $? It means that the investors would pay this much.

But why? How long would it take for redis to bill 2 billion $ to customers? It will probably never happen.

So I think they are overvalued.
Nobody's saying screw VCs.

We say screw to fooling your users that you're an OSS adopter and supporter, just until your project is big and you can say screw OSS.
> It and the hospital trip cost a few hundred with insurance.

That’s a major asterisk. People usually lob this complaint with the context of not having any insurance or somehow their insurance not covering the particular ambulance. Your story does not disprove the others.
Why does the fix work like that - only checking for this one scenario when you decrement by type max? [1]

In Solidity, where it's a serious security risk, before the language performed overflow checks itself, library authors would perform the arithmetic operation and then e.g. check if the result is larger than the original value in the case of a positive subtrahend [2].

[1] https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/pull/1581/commits/dc5140dd...

[2] https://github.com/KingdomStudiosIO/contracts/blob/51873b574...
Do you think people should be accepting contracts that are difficult to understand?

Is it people's duty to default to 'I'm sure its fine' if they don't understand the wording, even if it reads to a normal person as if it is doing something against their interests?

If the default is 'assume good intentions' why have a contract at all, or why does the company not make it less far reaching and more accessible?

This 'blame the victim for being to dumb to understand what they must agree to, without being give notice or a chance to option out without being locked out of their account' is kind of misanthropic.
> rigthfull owners of Redis and the author has freely given ownership to them

By using BSD license Antirez has freely given it to the whole world, not the name Redis but the code. No matter how big the corporations, the cloud providers are just using that code the way Antirez intended when he used the BSD license. You can't blame the cloud providers for that.

> Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.

But one can become famous by writing quality open source software and this fame can be used to get very high paying jobs.
Redis did not dump open source, the source code will still be available.
You seem to be confused. Even if the project is big and they change the license, so what?

The old code is there with the existing license still. Fork it and move on.

People, man.
Digital Ocean now and Linode in the past have been considered viable providers at the companies I've worked with. Never have I ever heard the same about this company.

> Your loss as a potential customer will certainly go unnoticed, and life will go on for all parties involved.

Do you have an interest in this company or something? Oddly passive aggressive comment.
Just use TheScore. Or the Apple score app.
It's somewhere in my git stack :).

Until I get to publishing it, the proto/gRPC definitions for node management are a good enough start: https://github.com/monogon-dev/monogon/blob/main/metropolis/...

And the top level API to actually deploy workloads is plain Kubernetes.
I don't agree with this, but also think you're arguing a different point.

My point was that prices being "stable" isn't actually what's desirable, prices being nonvolatile is.

> So if I make a game, or an uber for dog walkers, or a global shipping service

I mean this is exactly how many of these things work. Uber pricing fluctuates based on demand. So do global shipping prices in many cases. So do game prices on Steam.

Even if the price was the same in the currency you're using (say USD), the value of USD is constantly changing.

> and the more people who use it the higher the value of eth is.

And I'm not sure how this follows. The more people who purchase ETH, the higher the value is.

But using the ethereum network doesn't require you to transact in ETH, only that you pay for the transaction fee (the network cost that makes it possible to to store and execute your transaction essentially) in ETH
Just tell everyone you're dealing with that your primary purpose is getting rich with the software.

Don't tell them you have always been and always will be open source, just until you're big and give the middle finger to OSS in order to get richer.
Would that not be their target market? They seem to market their low prices heavily.
No, that would be a different policy.
> No system is perfect and a culture of taking home leftovers does not necessarily reduce waste overall.

Well not being able to take home leftovers does increase waste, because as others have pointed out there will always be cases where you will have leftovers, no matter how careful you are.
when people make this argument I think they mean "assuming the person has an approximately normal parenting style". Its a bit like saying the infra doesn't matter, only the app does (assuming the infra is built with best practices for availability and scale). When in reality, its missing the forest for the trees. You're essentially claiming that a parent who neglects feeding a child, drops them repeatedly, and lives in the drug-infested dangerous area of town, abusing drugs and alcohol while pregant "matters very little", when its obviously _the_ defining factor in how this child will grow up.

Your point holds when we assume most parenting styles are roughly equal (but this would also hold for environmental factors and genes, since most of those won't be too drastically different for most people).

Put another way: perhaps the most important factor is the one furthest from the mean. If your genes are basically average but your parents are horrible (abusive, neglectful), you may not live to 12. If parents and genes are average, but your environment is war-torn 3rd world, you may not make it to 12. If your parents and environment are average but your genes are horrible, you may not make it to 12. But its clear all the factors can be extremely important, and the claim of the GP only applies "all else being roughly equal".

Back to the app example: assuming sane infra, yes the app might be "more important" to the business. But if you have an average app, but your infra is terrible (long load times, constant outages, losing data, payment system failures), well, you aren't going to succeed.
The meals aren’t actually oversized in the US, they are serving you 2 or 3 meals when you order. Nobody expects you to eat all of that food in one sitting. Many restaurants even place the to-go containers on your table without asking because it’s culturally ingrained.
This can be solved through reasonable abstraction. Windows does it, OS X does it, earlier Mac OS and pre-Mac Apple computers did it.

Your application software doesn't need to know what exact disks you have in your system so long as it can interact with the disks through a standardized interface. Your application software doesn't need to know what other application software is running on your system so long as you can facilitate interoperability through shared resources like storage, clipboards and sockets using standardized formats and protocols. That's how systems have been designed to host arbitrary software and hardware in more than half a century.

In OS X, `ls` doesn't know that `cat` exist, and neither know anything about your SSD, yet they have absolutely no problems interoperating.
I imagine Stephen Hawking would have found a use for this had it been available before everyone got used to his computer speaking voice. Anything that may cause someone to lose their ability to speak along the lines of your example.

Another might be for placeholdering - you could use an array of (licensed and used appropriately) voices to pitch a TV show, film, radio show, podcast, etc to give people a decent idea of how it would sound to get financing and hire actual people to make the real version. Ofc you'll need an answer to "why don't we just use these AI voices in the actual production?" from people trying to save a few quid.

Simple one- for fun. I'm considering AI cloning my voice and tinkering around until I find something useful to do with it. Maybe in my will I'll open source my vocal likeness as long as it's only to be used commercially as the voice of a spaceship's main computer or something. I'll be a sentence or two factoid in some Wikipedia article 300 years from now, haha.

Universal translator - if an AI can replicate my voice it could have me speak all sorts of languages in real-time.. sucks to be a human translator admittedly in this use case. Once the tech is fully ironed out and reliable we could potentially even get rid of "official" languages (eg you have to speak fluent English to be an airline pilot - heck of a learning curve on top of learning to be a pilot if you're from a country that doesn't teach English by default!)

I dunno if it'd be a weird uncanny valley thing, I wonder how an audiobook would sound reading a book in my own voice - unless I'm fully immersed in fiction that's generally how I take in a book, subvocalising with my voice in my head - maybe it'd help things bed in a bit better if it's my own voice reading it to me? If so I wonder how fast I could have AI-me read and still be able to take in the content with decent recall.. Might have to test this one!

Splintering off the audiobook idea - I wonder if you could help people untrain issues with their speaking in this manner? Like would hearing a non-stuttering version of their voice help someone with a stutter? I am purely in the land of hypothesis at this stage, but might be worth trying! Even if it doesn't help in that way, the person with a stutter would at least have a fallback voice if they're having a bad day of it :)

E: ooh, having an AI voice and pitch shifting it may help in training your voice to sound different, as you'd have something to aim for - "I knew I could do it because I heard it being done" sort of theory. The first example that popped into my head was someone transitioning between genders and wanting to adjust their voice to match the change.

I imagine there's other fields where this may be useful too - like if you wanted a BBC news job and need to soften out your accent (if they still require Received Pronunciation, idk)

Admittedly I could probably come up with more abuse cases than use cases if I put my mind to it, but wanted to stick to the assignment :)
I mean, I rather like Huberman as a podcast personality and for various reasons I'm not surprised that he's popular with the ladies, but I would wonder how much work he's actually able to accomplish while juggling six relationships; frankly I have trouble with one.
and yet, ostensibly, this is an objective result:

A team of European researchers analysed the words in more than 12,000 English-language songs across the genres of rap, country, pop, R&B and rock from 1980 to 2020.

It's in Nature and open to peer review: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x

Regardless, it's hard to deny that PhD's today have been dumbed to a three minute music video level ( /s ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSYO3fApEc
at least in the 60s there were real lyrics like "baby i love you", "love me do" and so on
>There's nothing preventing someone

Isn't that the whole idea? The freedom to have it be whatever users want?
A given piece of open source code when licensed is always open source. Changing the license doesn’t retroactively do so for the previous code.

There is no lie.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x
Your confusing copyrights with trademarks. The project belongs to the authors (perhaps in shares depending on the jurisdiction where it is being copied/derived) not the society. The options that were licensed under BSD generally remain licensed under BSD unless someone revoked that license. It does not seem that the latter has happened.
XTTS2 works well locally. Maybe someone else here can recommend a front end.
One of my issues with panpsychism is the question of causation. The behaviours of particles can be entirely explained in terms of physical dynamics, there is no behaviour left that needs explanation. If they do have experience, it doesn’t seem to be causal in that it doesn’t seem to have any consequences.

We’re not quite there yet with galaxies, but there doesn’t seem to be any problem with doing explaining their motion and gravitational dynamics in principle.

This means any experience these phenomena might have would be purely epiphenomenal, and therefore lacking in consequences, or explanatory power, and be unprovable. It would be pure speculation, maybe so, maybe not, maybe something else, just an exercise in imagination. Thats not a reliable route to knowledge.

With humans we have social, emotional and intellectual behaviour predicated on the existence of personal experience. We talk and write about having interior experiences. That is a causal phenomenon in the world that needs to be explained, aside from our personal first person experience of it.
PostGIS was way ahead of the MySQL equivalent last time I checked.

The plugin ecosystem is pretty astonishing. Foreign Data Wrappers... I'm not hands on so much any more but there were a lot of things back when I was.
>As I've said before, the story of what's happened to Redis (and HashiCorp stuff) is likely to become a warning to the tech community in general: if an OSS project you rely on transfers control from it's founder(s) to a company, you probably need to consider continuing with a fork from the last open version, because apparently "(try to) monetise popular open source" is the newest way to win the douchebag villain award given to MBAs at VC funded companies.

Or, even simpler, if the project is not contributed to some open source foundation, and does not have copyleft license - it's a trap.
I agree. People seem to be angry that the project which received contributions under BSD changed to the project licensed under SSPL, but this is explicitly what you are doing when you contribute to BSD projects and all contributors should have known so.

If you don't like it never contribute to BSD projects, or projects requiring CLA. Contribute to GPL projects without CLA.
The practical main use case I can think of is entertainment. Games could use it, either dynamically or prerecorded. Amateur videos could also use it for fun.

Outside of that, more versatile text to speech is generally useful for blind people.

More emotional and non-robotic narration of text can also be useful non-blind people on the go.
"The founder of FTX lives his life by a calculus of altruistic impact."

That aged well.

In general all the super-rich/CEO articles are teenage-level celebrity gossip/worship for neoliberals and startup bros.
Those are hell of big contributions.

It'd be worth billions if Postgres was a greed-driven enterprise (like Redis, Elastic, Mongo). And this value is now available and enjoyed by everyone on Earth.
It does not belong to the society (whatever that's supposed to mean). It is not in the public domain as far as we know.
I know it’s intense. Those people must be stupid. Or it’s their fault and they deserve it. ( :s ! )

My bad for the figure, I had a third in mind. It’s less. Can’t find a general population figure in the short amount of time. 20 ish % of black kids is enough or it’s fine ?

Source :

https://www.cpex.org/blog/stateofhunger

What was eye opening to me was volonteering in a random school. And noticing how the breakfast was a important and respected steps. Like.. not everyone had dinner last night.

Oh well, right ?
It doesn’t threaten you. They aren’t stealing your white collar job, but there are manual jobs that do still need to be done. These young folks deserve a better environment to grow up in and raise their families over time.
My grandfather came over from Italy literally with no shoes on.
May he rest in peace, humanity surely lost a great mind today.
That's the thing, they can be working on multiple paths in parallel.

They can be building on nvidia and have a semiconductor team in another corner experimenting for alternate in the future.

When profit margins are insane, there is always competition quietly fomenting.

We just won't know until they release it because it's also a competitive advantage to keep your own plans underwrap until it's ready. Or else it may start an arms race that'll only drive up costs to get done faster.
> tried that on this very page, and I'd love to know from you how it went

It went poorly, but after having written that page, I'd bet a second attempt could be made both extemporaneously and successfully.
That, or really, closer in timeframe, PCI cards, except the shelf is internal.

Also, Framework laptop. Or RPis with stackable HATs.

I think the concept holds water, e.g thinking of the music realm, from pedalboards to a ton of USB devices (soundcards like Scarlett or Volt, DAS...) to standard rackable items like DACs/ADCs with a ton of IO.
AutoBNN: Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
A documentation problem is an Azure problem. A problem with support is an Azure problem. It's all part of a package.
Seems a reasonable place to ask. The Linux kernel is a solid contender for the most valuable software project. The amount of repeat work avoided by building on that is infeasible to estimate. It doesn't appear to be at risk of being suddenly proprietary.

What do we think is the primary reason why it is immune to this failure mode?

My guess leans towards there being a large enough number of corporate interests in play that none can seize control from the others, but that seems likely to be an oversimplification.

Why is Linux not vulnerable in the same way Redis has proven to be, and is that a model that can be copied by other software projects to avoid this failure mode?
This is a factoid I didn’t learn until recently, and it blew my mind. I’m not sure how serious they were, but the UK apparently also offered to merge France and the UK into one country before they fell.

I learned a ton about WWII from this series on YouTube…here’s the week when the UK sinks the French navy:
https://youtu.be/gRR683NJOwc
SSPL is not open source, it's source available. Different kettle-o-fish.
PostgreSQL's development never looked like design by committee.
Apple uses/used Skyhook to geolocate where a Wifi network was- that's it.
The target audience point is fair. There are basic concepts that I don't bother defining in any paper I write, and I'm sure there are people who would make the same argument about them that I'm making here. But I'm not suggesting writing everything like "An Extremely Gentle And Slow Introduction to X, With Lots of Reassurances That You Can Do It".

The question probably comes down to how accessible a paper should be. Personally, I think a reasonable bar is something like: a third-year PhD student in your broad area should be able to skim the paper and say a couple of paragraphs about what's happening and why it matters, and upon reading the paper more closely, present it in a seminar and defend it at least a couple of questions deep. IMO, most papers are not at this level, and are instead pitched at actual experts.

I think my point (and TFA's point as well) is that going from an experts-only paper to a seminar-ready one is actually not a ton of text. It might increase a paper's length by 5%. It's not about making everything longer, but adding enough context and signposting that the story can be followed at multiple levels, from the 5-minute pitch you'd get at a poster session to the every-detail one the author has. So I think we can have a paper that both the grad students and experts like.

I think doing this takes some skill and effort, which is well within the reach of most of the people who can write these papers, but way less effort is expended on this non-technical aspect.
I had never heard of this- thanks for linking!
Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days
They have a GMRS version now too.
I want to use (almost) my own voice in an English video without my country's accent?
Lilipod – A Simple Container Manager
Yeah calorie is probably not the right terms

Looking up what I had in mind the proper way to reference it is “food insecurity”

Source :

https://www.cpex.org/blog/stateofhunger

Or “no kid hungry Louisiana”, that the one I noticed here. Giving breakfast out in school. My first reaction was to wonder why. Digging I realized that a fair amount of kids were coming to school on a empty belly.

That’s it.

Also “been to New Orleans” is a funny statement! Congratulations on seeing Jackson square and the French quarter. It’s a city, not 10 historical blocks.
It's also consistent with previous studies in certain ways:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop...

https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/

https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove...
> They opened the side door, let the cat out onto the sidewalk, and watched with eager anticipation as the feline secret agent sauntered away towards her target—a pair of Russians sitting on a park bench.

> Less then a minute later, as kitty tried to cross the busy street, she was run over by a Russian taxicab, and the operation came to an abrupt end.

I mean, all that effort and cruelty, and they did not even have the sense to wait a bit until there were fewer cars around.

This story reminds me of this video on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkuo7-sefEQ
I haven't seen any comments quoting the TOS that support this being non-hosting services only, even though the CEO is saying that's the case. When looking at the TOS it seems to make very clear that it's talking about all of its services, including hosting services.

That said I do think the intention of the section was just to allow them do what you're paying them for, but the lawyers just got a little too zealous.
It is one of the big enough projects that companies actually pay for their own devs to develop it. And they lose little by providing those changes to others. I think reality is that you need that sort of scale for it to work.
> Yes, and that's a feature, not a bug, we're here to share our opinions, this is not a peer-reviewed forum

If it’s your opinion, you may want to introduce it with "Personally, I would never …" instead of writing "no-one who cares about food ever does", which is obviously false.

> With all that said, I still cannot understand how come a person who says he/she cares about food could eat re-heated takeaway stuff (supposedly at the microwave, which makes it double yuck-y).

There are other ways to re-heat food, you can mix with other things, you can also eat it cold if that’s your thing. It’s also not just about caring about food, it’s also caring about money: when you eat your leftovers, you don’t have to pay for new food.