MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fastball | 2025-05-02 01:57:53+00:00
I think that is not normal at all, and absolutely should not be normalized.

It is much worse for my package manager to install a totally different software, than for my package manager to install a new version of the software I asked for that now has a different license. Also as an aside, SSPL is not closed-source.

If the distro wants to do something, they can throw a warning up saying "this package is now licensed with the SSPL, would you still like to install? Try installing valkey for a BSD-licensed alternative". But installing software I didn't ask for is bad, actually.
by lo-fiPilled | 2025-05-02 01:58:04+00:00
There are jobs out there. Sure, it's a bust cycle for the dev economy, but coding jobs do exist, and some people are going to get really lucky and get those limited jobs.

If you want those jobs, you have to find an edge, and hackers have it better than most. Hack the job search and you'll win.

Send me an email (it's on my profile) if you'd like and I can share some of the hacks I've come across to get you started. An example of a job-hunt hack, for example, is applying for a job that isn't being offered at a company you love, and offering to work for free for a week or two. I have stuff like that.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-05-02 01:58:11+00:00
"walking off with your money"

This is the heart of all of these stupid takes. There is no "your money" for anyone else to walk off with. Nothing was stolen.

If you want to sell software, or rent access to software, then just do that honestly forom the outset. And good luck to you on that. I will not consume it unless I have no other choice, and I will not contribute to it at all period, even tertially by for instance developing things that use it or help people work out how to solve problems with it etc. In other words just generally not invest in it, in all the different ways one might invest in something. But hey maybe you will make something indispensible and do it better than anyone else can, and maybe you will get a bunch of other customers.

If you want to benefit from the adoption and goodwill and army of free work that comes with open source, then do that.

The honest reason to work on open source is because you yourself have recognized how much utility you have been given fo free because of it, and wish to pay it forward and basically add to humanity as a whole. What you get back out of it is the same thing everyone else does, the use of the software itself, plus your name being on it.

But if you license something open source, and then care the TINIEST BIT what someone else does with it beyond adhering to the attribution and share-alike terms, then you have missed the point of open source. You are bent about being "robbed" of something that was never yours in the first place. You have no right to Amazon's billions, even the part of it that they made by hosting a copy of some oss software you happened to have written. Amazon is not selling your property, they are selling a managed hosting service. You have no right to the revenue from that. The software being hosted is a community resource there for everyone to use like the air or water, only even better since unlike Nestle taking the water from everyone else, everyone else still has the software.

If anything the supposed injured party in all of these cases are the bad community members because they are often only OSS disingenuously in the first place. They start off with MIT/BSD style licenses because they know a lot of companies are allergic to GPL. But WHY are they so intolerant of GPL? Because GPL doesn't allow them to steal, but MIT allows them to steal. So they start with an MIT-type license because it's "commercial friendly" and then later cry that someone "stole" their B S freaking D licensed software.

People that do that were never writing open source for the purpose of adding to the community pool in the first place. It's either dishonest or at best, possibly honest but in that case just unbelievably incompetent and ignorant.
by fluidcruft | 2025-05-02 01:58:17+00:00
Just wondering... if you work for a company and your employer provides you with modified GPL software, it's not considered distributed to you in ways that GPL would apply (so you are not free to further distribute it). At least that's how GPLv2 used to be explained as as business friendly--"private" modifications remain private and employees are not considered exterbal distribution. I'm not familiar with AGPL though.
by idle_zealot | 2025-05-02 01:59:02+00:00
You are breaking the social contract of the project, not the legal one. The MIT license is the legal contract. The additional social contract is established by the author asking (without legal teeth) that you not do exactly what you did by removing the branding.

Compare to a take-a-penny-leave-a-penny tray from an era past. You are legally allowed to scoop up all the pennies into a bag, and leave the store, then repeat at the neighboring store, and make a few bucks. You'd be an asshole, but not face legal trouble. You "followed the rules" to the letter. But guess what? If you publish an easy how-to guide with "one weird trick" for making some quick cash, and people start adopting your antisocial behavior and emptying out change trays, you've forced the issue and now either a) businesses will stop offering this convenience or b) the rules around it will be tightened and the utility will be degraded. In the concrete case of Anubis, the maintainers may decide to stop contributing their time to this useful software or place a non-FOSS license on it in an attempt to stop gain-maximizing sociopaths from exploiting their efforts.
by dkislyuk | 2025-05-02 01:59:04+00:00
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by jeswin | 2025-05-02 01:59:47+00:00
If anyone betrayed the spirit of Open Source, it is those who were trying to siphon off the entire commericial value of these projects while contributing little back to the project.

Companies have to pay people to work on it. Hell, they are even entitled to profit from it. A world with commerically viable Open Source is way better than without it. Ditching OSS companies for trying to survive 90% of revenues going to $1T cloud vendors is counter productive.
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by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-02 02:00:25+00:00
It makes a lot more sense if you don't assume from the start these people have one iota of intellectual horsepower.

Signal is approved for government uses, just not non-public DOD information. They're supposed to use Signal for something like "hey, get to a SCIF so we can discuss details," then they discuss the details in a secure environment.
by kragen | 2025-05-02 02:01:10+00:00
Do you have any clues about which DEC system it might be drawing these other elements from? I mean specifically:

- FCBs.

- A command interpreter prompt ending in ">" rather than "*" or ".".

- 8-character filenames (rather than 6).

- ASCII filenames (rather than RADIX-50).

- Drive letters.

- PIP switches in square brackets rather than introduced by slashes. (Some TENEX programs evidently enclosed their switches in parentheses, but the ones I've seen so far don't use square brackets.)

- Launching programs from the command interpreter with command-line arguments, like Unix.

Maybe Kildall thought all these things up himself, but I suspect some previous DEC OS was their origin. But it isn't RT-11, TENEX, the DEC 10/50 monitor, TOPS-20, or VMS.

I want to emphasize I'm not claiming that these are advances or innovations. I'm just saying that they suggest some other influence.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-05-02 02:01:12+00:00
Perl's sweet spots were CGIs & sysadmin. The advantage for sysadmin was easier portability in the days when there were a ton of flavours of UNIX systems.

The ergonomics & distribution of Perl in the 90s were unmatched, Ruby, Python, Lua were niche in comparison.

The other killer feature was CPAN, the Perl community basically invented language package management and everyone else copied it.
by fastball | 2025-05-02 02:01:59+00:00
Isn't it though? They weren't contributing before and they weren't paying Redis corp before, now they are at least contributing to a fork (and still not paying Redis corp).

Presumably some of the things being worked on in Valkey, etc can be upstreamed back to Redis in some form (not entirely straightforward since it is a hard fork with a diff license, but concepts can be borrowed back too).

e.g. apparently Valkey has introduced some performance improvements. Redis can implement similar if it seems worthwhile. Without the fork those performance ideas might have never surfaced.
by anonym29 | 2025-05-02 02:04:01+00:00
From the context of our socialist society's current far-left overton window featuring social wealth redistribution pyramid schemes (OASI, which meets the SEC's and CFPB's statutory definitions of a pyramid scheme), socialized medicine and healthcare (medicare, medicaid), socialized education (public school system, taxpayer-subsidized higher education loans to students, taxpayer-funded tax advantage status for higher education institutions), yes.

From the context of the overton window of individualists, anarchists, voluntaryists, and even federalists, hahahahaha, LOL, not even close.

Trump is a big-government left-wing socialist who has vocally pledged not to touch OASI, Medicare, or Medicaid, which collectively cost about half of the entire federal budget. Socialism has simply been so normalized in this country that even left-wing statist socialists like Trump can be perceived as right-wing authoritarians.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-02 02:04:04+00:00
Jeez, what does a normative statement need to do to get a drink around here!?

> you're thinking about population which is irrelevant. [...] There are 50 equal states, regardless of how their populations differ.

Imagine it's 1915 and you're campaigning for women's rights to vote, and and somebody says: "You're thinking about population which is irrelevant. Women can't vote, regardless of how many there are."

I think you'd be pretty frustrated at such an obtuse dismissal.
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by utkarsh858 | 2025-05-02 02:04:51+00:00
The first link you shared of hrw...in one of the incidents it showed the arrest of newsclick.

The problem with international media houses is that they don't report why someone has been arrested on what charges and with what process. Newsclick offices has been raided for allegedly taking funding from CCP for propaganda and also inciting Delhi riots.

The second instance when the hrw is saying that Delhi police arrested 'peaceful protesters', there were RIOTS! A police offices was stabbed in two digits, a boy' limbs were amputed while being alive and left to burn in his shop. They were not peaceful protests in any case.

Amnesty international did the same thing. It did not report why Kejriwal was arrested. Kejriwal's lavish mansion made with money of tax payers has been a topic of mockery by Indian public. His party lost elections badly because people knew that the arrest was not whimsical.

I won't comment on topic of court more, as I don't know you can be right.

Independent credible sources :p. Name any media house and I can show how they have repeatedly used media as a propaganda page with full of fake news whether left or right(except reuters maybe). The only thing credible is reading from multiple sources to know fully about an incident. What I like about Opindia is that it provides a very comprehensive coverage of every incident with sources and proofs at every line and has even corrected itself in past for mistakes.

India has not become less democratic that is just a farce by some parties who neither have any agenda, neither consistent neither in touch with what people want, they are just envious that they are being repeatedly loosing elections in multiple states of India. They only cry India is less democratic when they lose elections.

The opposing party repeatedly wants a caste census and invites regularly people of different castes against other castes. In fact caste violence is at its lowest period, since from my parents times. Young generation have stopped believing in birth castes except to make Instagram reels. Love jihad, I can show you hundreds of cases when a member of a community (you can guess) has posed as member of other religious group for an affair to be finally have his identity revealed after marriage after which domestic violence and sexual exploitation of the victim arises. Now before you say that it is a 'Hindutva majoritian' agenda, well not when the church groups of Kerala raise the same issue in their community.
by kylecordes | 2025-05-02 02:05:31+00:00
This reminds me of something I did back in 2008, we were using Postgres, not SQLite, and we needed to get a backup from one production machine onto several other machines. Copying saturated the network for an hour - And we needed to copy four times if I remember right. We didn't want to wait four hours.

I found this tool laying around "udpcast" and used it to send the backup over the network just once to all the destinations at the same time.

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by greazy | 2025-05-02 02:05:48+00:00
This is a weird thing to add when you're looking for a bioinformatician dev:

> If you don't remember what the difference is between a thread and a process or do not feel like you understand the basics of networking to debug a front end application, you might want to make sure you review enough fundamentals before applying.

While we will know the difference between a thread and a process, we generally dont work with websites/front end technology.
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by giancarlostoro | 2025-05-02 02:06:55+00:00
> Or are they an illegal proprietary fork?

As long as their clients can redistribute it, its not illegal, especially if their clients have 0 interest in leaking the source code, the real trick is, has anyone who is NOT using that client hit any of the AGPL relay servers?

For context, I worked for an employer that sold a custom software solution, which used GPL'd software, client was in the military space, so I guess DOD, anyway, for over a decade nobody asked for any of the code, till some years back. I am guessing they just wanted to have it evaluated, but it was a workhorse of many many things, good luck trying to fork it, LOTS of moving pieces involved.

Nothing illegal unless someone who touches a TM SGNL server (somehow) requests the source and they reject you from having it.
by fsckboy | 2025-05-02 02:07:17+00:00
>Corps are separate legal entities so individuals are generally protected from personal liability.

not really.

corps have the defining feature that their passive shareholders are protected from personal liability, but not their officers, directors, nor employees.

they are "entities" so they can sign contracts and you can sue them and bring them to court. they are entities so the entire body of preexisting laws about suing and bringing to court would not need to be rewritten from scratch for corporations, it slots them into the rights and responsibilities that individuals have.
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