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by tombert | 2025-07-04 04:29:53+00:00
If you can directly prove a violation dead to rights (or have enough cause for a discovery request) and you have money for legal defense, sure.

A lot of open source stuff is libraries and utilities though that is pretty entrenched in the code. It is hard to even find out about a violation, let alone prove anything.

Imagine I came up with a new algorithm to do Fourier Transforms 10% faster than FFTW (or whatever the current market leader is) and make a library and I release it as GPL. A company could fairly easily just import it to whatever project they’re doing, and it would be extremely difficult for me to prove anything, especially if I don’t have any obvious things like strings in there.

That’s not even taking into account that it would be relatively easy for a corporation to just pay a junior engineer to do a direct “port” of the library to another language and pretending it’s their own independent work.
by 0_gravitas | 2025-07-04 04:30:58+00:00
These goals, and their 'approach' to reaching them is a complete self-cannibalizing snake moment. Further, there can definitely be something _wrong_ with how someone might try to 'reach their high goals', like ethics violations, etc.

And saying the article is trying to 'farm outrage' is extreme- it's barely an article if anything, more of a blog-post, with a matching tone, there's not exactly any call-to-action.
by whatshisface | 2025-07-04 04:31:19+00:00
There is no way the rules for gun could be used to carry five people at seventy miles per hour. For one thing, the idea that a, "piston rod" could somehow catch the bullet without being damaged is preposterous, not to mention the idea that it could turn some kind of "crank shaft." How fast do you think this, "flywheel" would have to be moving? While I admit that we've used the fact that some low-velocity bullets can't penetrate thick plates of steel armor in the past, the idea that the rotation of the armor could push a second bullet back in to the barrel of a gun that had just been fired is beyond reason. No, I do not want to hear about how you've put the mechanism from the flour mill we fought in last session into a metal box and filled it with oil. Roll for initiative.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-04 04:33:05+00:00
Super clean style of interaction regarding the units and general syntax.

Regarding the CRDT side of things what's the main driver? Syncing is probably better off without CRDT (I'd rather know a note had 2 copies significantly edited differently and now I have a sync conflict rather than no sync conflict but a hacked up note) so I'm assuming paid customers get (or will soon get) live multi user editing (i.e. you can trade local for concurrent usage)
by Thorrez | 2025-07-04 04:36:02+00:00
>The grain they're adding somewhat distracts from the compression blurriness but doesn't bring back the detail.

Instead of wasting bits trying to compress noise, they can remove noise first, then compress, then add noise back. So now there aren't wasted bits compressing noise, and those bits can be used to compress detail instead of noise. So if you compare FGS compression vs non-FGS compression at the same bitrate, the FGS compression did add some detail back.
by ytpete | 2025-07-04 04:36:25+00:00
> Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on a sweeping claim that President Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws, newly disclosed documents show.

> Ms. Bondi wrote that Mr. Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his “constitutional duties,” so the law banning the social media app must give way to his “core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers.”

> The letters ... portrayed Mr. Trump as having nullified the legal effects of a statute that Congress passed by large bipartisan majorities in 2024 and that the Supreme Court unanimously upheld.
by shaneziegler | 2025-07-04 04:37:08+00:00
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by philipkglass | 2025-07-04 04:38:14+00:00
Atmospheric CO2 cannot be converted back into hydrocarbons without expending more energy than the fuel originally released in combustion. Atmospheric CO2 can be converted into stable minerals that no longer drive global warming, at an energy cost less than the fuel released when it first burned.

See this chapter from the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_chapte...

In particular, section 7.2.2, "Chemistry of mineral carbonation." The carbonation of magnesium and calcium silicates is thermodynamically spontaneous but kinetically hindered. The kinetic hindrance is why an additional energy input is needed to draw down atmospheric CO2 in less than geological time: the mineral's accessible surface area must increase dramatically for fast silicate weathering. The thermodynamic spontaneity is why the additional energy input can be small compared to the original energy embodied in the fuels that generated the CO2.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-04 04:38:40+00:00
Here's one way to think about health care in particular: the money being "stolen" from you has no intrinsic value. It's a number in a computer somewhere. If you were truly alone in the world it would have no value at all. So its value comes from an implied consensus of sorts, one that exists because the surrounding society provides infrastructure ranging from national defense to roads to law and contract enforcement to communications regulation to weather forecasting to basic scientific research to public health to ... whatever.

It happens that most advanced societies consider the widespread availability of medical care to be a similar force multiplier, something that enables every individual in the society to produce more and earn more and reach their full economic potential.

Free-market solutions to health care are problematic because there's nothing free about a market that everyone is forced to participate in by virtue of being alive. Likewise, private insurance models make little sense when every insured customer is virtually guaranteed to file expensive claims at one point or another.

Consequently health care is widely considered a valid area for governmental involvement and taxation. Yes, the money for public health care is "stolen" from you, but again, there is a widespread consensus that the economy that you participate in is healthier as a whole because of that. Just like public subsidies for many other things that many/most people agree are important but that fall outside what conventional markets do well at providing. In a society that didn't attend to such needs, you might have more money from a numeric standpoint, but it would be worth less.

Obviously there are weak points in this argument from a libertarian perspective, but it's very hard to convince people that it's without any merit at all.
by graeme | 2025-07-04 04:38:44+00:00
It is exceedingly likely that any sequestration will take substantially more energy than burning fossils fuels produced. I couldn't explain it properly in physics terms but when you burn fuel you are releasing stored energy and when you sequester carbon you are storing the energy.

If we could store energy cheaper than we could use it we'd have a perpetual motion machine, I think? Fairly sure this would be physically impossible. Where this might be wrong is if we found a process to use another energy source (the sun, something that uses the sun, etc) to do it for us, but we haven't go anything that works in that vein either. Trees are actually one of the better options, but to reverse climate change you'd need to reforest the earth AND sequester all the oil we burned.

Burning carbon is effectively debt. If we stopped burning carbon right this second, billions would die, as our whole system depends upon it. But if we don't stop burning it, we increase our future problems.

This is unpleasant to reckon with so most don't. I don't think it makes the problem intractable, but it gets harder the more we delay.

We do need sequestration because simply eliminating all carbon sources wouldn't be enough, we also have to reduce current levels. Also there are some cases where fossil fuel might be the best solution (rocketry?) so we'd need to be able to deal with the waste.
by protocolture | 2025-07-04 04:41:04+00:00
This thing.

https://github.com/protocolture/petulant-exchange-export/blo...

Its the most useless script ever devised by man.

The requirement was to ensure that there was no impact on production while pulling down a set of mailboxes from exchange.

Fun fact, at the time this was written, exchange was already smart enough to perform error checking, limit the concurrent exports etc. It was all done under the hood.

But my manager was absolutely insistent that everything be done within our control, and he wasnt satisfied by Exchange documentation.

Its a relic now, I think exchange powershell commands have changed twice, shit I dont think exchange handles exports any more, but thats within the purview of microsoft purview.

It also represents maybe 1/3rd the energy I have devoted to powershell in my entire career.
by db48x | 2025-07-04 04:41:21+00:00
While that is a valid complaint, don’t move the goalposts. The original comment was:

> But then I remember that trump is invoking the ancient "war powers act" to do them. Why didn't obama or biden have to do that if they were able to deport so many people?

In other words, this guy thinks that Trump is using this act to boost the number of deportations. But the gang doesn’t have enough members to make a dent in the statistics. 35k illegals are being removed from the country every month and no gang has 35k members, or even 3k. They might have three dozen.

And I’ll reiterate that if lots of people are angry at Trump because they think that he’s using some ancient obscure law against _every_ illegal immigrant then they are suffering a misperception of what has actually been going on. If this is the reason for the sudden protests against ICE then it is a very bad reason indeed.
by 0_gravitas | 2025-07-04 04:44:28+00:00
Oh hey it's my industry! We assume all of our clients 'lie' to us by default. We bake in a minimum of a 10% scrub-rate for our advertisers as a baseline, then it's a matter of seeing how much our numbers diverge when we check in with them.

For our publishers I had to write a script that checks for fraudulent traffic (based on a handful of heuristics/stats) and will ping our pub-managers if X-flags are raised for a given source.

The industry is definitely filled with garbage (I mean, it's marketing, anyone that participates in it is a plague), we've had companies just ghost us with a 100k outstanding bill, others that tried to DDoS us after we shut them down for fraud. Tracking your own numbers, and confirming with the wallet-holders on the client side regularly to make sure books match up is an absolute necessity.
by Kostchei | 2025-07-04 04:45:07+00:00
I disagree. I have played since red box, played all the versions including 4th, I play 5th ed a lot.

For 5e.. 1st campaign, no houserules, 3 years run time including transition to online during covid 2nd campaign, no houserules, just a bit of re-skin warforged are necrons, right? etc in person 3rd campaign, added legacy items inperson, different group concurrent with campaign 4th campaign, some house rules on spellcasting (provokes attacks of opportunity etc), accelerated progression till 9th level, expand legacies to things other than items

Play Pirateborg, Starwars or Dark Heresy etc, don't play a 2nd campaign, no house rules. You just live with the short comings of the system, you won't be there for long.

That said, I ran a 10 year rolemaster campaign, so maybe I'm an outlier. But people who read the books and don't play a heap, seem to have a lot of strong opinions. "City X is a terrible place to live- says some tourist who has transited in airport".
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-04 04:45:22+00:00
There's also hollow core fiber, which is pretty close to speed of light in a vacuum. 2.0e8 m/s for fiber, 2.3e8 m/s for copper, pretty close to the full 3e8 m/s for hollow core.

No glass, just some reflective coating on the inside of a waveguide (hollow tube).

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-hollow-core-fiber...
by alganet | 2025-07-04 04:45:33+00:00
I don't get it.

I misunderstood _because_ it fits my narrative? Or I didn't opened it _because_ it fits my narrative?

I think I nailed it, and the article approach is representative of the "oh shit, it can't do it all" phase, which soon will be followed by "more traditional programming".

These guys promised you an LLM that can do magic, from curing cancer to solve democracy, while delivering half-assed shit that doesn't stand scrutiny (even for the non-hype purposes it was designed for), and somehow I am the "fringe skeptic". If skeptics are on the fringe, then who is in charge of mainstream?
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-07-04 04:45:50+00:00
Odin have a great LSP, it supports everything the language offers, generics, unions, bitsets, using, same with Zig, their LSP supports most of the notable features even comptime..Both language are quite new, relatively to D

There is no excuse for D, if they can make a great compiler, they surely can make great tooling too

I suggest you give the D LSP a try, I have mentioned templates, but it's very frail for everything else, using `auto`, having a chain of identifiers or even using reference/pointers is enough to confuse it, most of the time

I think it stems from the fact that both Zig/Odin provide a parser/lexer as part of their std, making it easier to just focus on building the tools, the community built parser is not good and lags behind
by slg | 2025-07-04 04:46:11+00:00
The article also feels a little dishonest comparing total unit sales to cumulative player statistics over an extended time period. If you click through to the linked Ars Technica article, it says the cumulative player number for the previous entry is 22 million and 30 million for the best of the series. Is a 3-5x increase from going from presumably a $60 game to free to play really that crazy of a goal?

That isn't to say that EA doesn't suck. This 100m goal just wouldn't be among the top 100 reasons I would point to as evidence.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-04 04:46:21+00:00
an early colleague of mine was a guy who ran ratpoison for a fullscreen firefox window and did the rest of his work in the frame buffer. he had no time for, or interest in, any kind of aesthetic distraction, but he was one of the most insanely skilled and knowledgeable people (especially at his age) i've ever met to this day.
by motorest | 2025-07-04 04:47:02+00:00
> I never understood this meme.

If you don't understand how and why and when eventual consistency is a problem, you will never understand why cache invalidation is hard.

By the sound of your example, you only handle scenarios where naive approaches to cache invalidation serve your needs, and you don't even have to deal with problems caused by spikes to origin servers. That's perfectly fine.

Others do. They understand the meme. You can too if you invest a fee minutes reading up on the topic.
by pastk | 2025-07-04 04:47:04+00:00
CoMaps cherry-picks changes from Organic Maps regularly. OM is also free to pick from CoMaps, but so far they haven't been doing so.

And yes, amount of work done on OM has reduced significantly, as many contribturos have moved to CoMaps.

Still, features-wise priorities of both projects are quite similar. E.g. being easy to use and simple , offline-focused, etc.

I would say CoMaps is a bit more serious about privacy and is also more open to customization by users (to a reasonable extent).

As CoMaps is a community-driven project then it's possible that with time the growing community would change the direction of the project somewhat.

But the biggest differences that actually were the reason for forking - are in the way the project is run - CoMaps is truly community-driven, open and transparent, which includes project's finances and decision-making.
by rincebrain | 2025-07-04 04:47:33+00:00
There's an argument to be made that, even if it's an open and shut violation, if enforcement is nontrivial and a vanishingly low risk, it still pattern matches as "grey area" in terms of risk.

Not at all in favor of the person stealing someone else's code and slapping a new name on it in violation of the license, just that I think I see why people might list that as matching the same intent as a question like that.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-04 04:48:32+00:00
But that's a pretty much entirely separate concern?

Docker is about creating an image that can then be run on any supporting Linux server. It's not aimed at dependency management, really. It's aimed at producing an artifact you can then test and deploy. Sure, in most languages dependency management is a core part of this process, but it doesn't have to be.

Most downloaded images are petty fundamental and only include things that can be installed via a systems package manager, e.g nginx to get a web server, or node to get a nodejs runtime etc.

This significantly improved the issue of things working only in certain environments, because each environment was actually running exactly the same way.

Then came k8s, which tried to solve the issue of deploying across clusters of machines, PaaS. That's not a trivial problem to solve, and consequently is still hard, even with it. But if you need to deploy countless services across hundreds of nodes... It's ultimately a great tool.

As k8s became more and more widespread, it made sense to also use it for smaller deployments, because it solves a pretty fundamental issue you still have to solve, and if everyone is using it ... It's easier to onboard new people
by nemanja_codes | 2025-07-04 04:49:18+00:00
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by lurking_swe | 2025-07-04 04:49:20+00:00
well, i’ve discussed this topic with my family that lives in europe every year when i visit, and they don’t disagree. Our immigrant culture in the U.S. is what makes us different. We don’t have a single ethnicity, a single culture, etc. the way most countries on the globe do.

I also think it’s hilarious when americans, who are (almost always) americans because one of their ancestors immigrated to the U.S., try to “pull the ladder up behind them” by hating on immigrants or treating them poorly. Letting others seek a better life like their ancestors did? Inconceivable apparently…hence my comment about most americans needing a mirror.

Enough about me. Since you disagree, what do YOU think the point of the US is? What makes us unique and mostly successful as a nation? Since you claim i read propaganda.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-04 04:49:32+00:00
It's baffling why someone would do this tbh. It's not like the base project is some spectacular piece of engineering that would be very costly to replicate.

I'm guessing they just looked at it as a jumping point. It probably went something like:

- We know how to polish an electron app

- here is a barebone electron app with an interesting idea

- Can we build a polished UI around this, and give a demo?

The baffling part is, had they just disclosed that, no one would have given a shit. Plenty of demos begin like that: "here is a cool idea we found, here is that idea on crack". is a very common demo pattern. But of course you can't give a shout out to 'cheating-daddy' at YC demo.

It's like a fine student at a fine college, in a class they are doing fine in, then they decide to copy their friend's cover letter because "eh", then they get caught and now what? wtf would you do this?
by ipsum2 | 2025-07-04 04:50:11+00:00
This is the second time in less than a year something similar has happened.

Previously, a different YC company (Pear AI) copied Continue, changed the licenses, and "launched".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707495

I wonder if Pear AI is dead or pivoted, their open source repos have not been updated since May.
by nativeit | 2025-07-04 04:50:13+00:00
Better public services, free college, free healthcare, better urban planning, more robust protections for privacy, civil liberties, cleaner air and water, less caustic sociopolitical atmosphere, better quality-of-life metrics, better economic mobility, longer life expectancy, more cohesive communities, greater representation in the democratic process, more equitable pay standards, increased paid time off, literally any kind of standard maternal/paternal leave, better medical services, greater scores of general happiness and fulfillment, more stable economic policies, more stable legal frameworks, more like-minded cultural communities, increased freedom to travel to more diverse places with less costs and administrative burdens, stronger social safety nets, better retirement plans, nicer weather with fewer natural disasters, greater diversity in populations, expanded access to rich cultural experiences, more aesthetically pleasing architecture, greater access to "third places", more educated populations, less religious populations, less political polarization, and that's just the off-the-cuff obvious items. Some more subjective than others.
by monster_truck | 2025-07-04 04:51:32+00:00
He was fantastic on film, no doubt about it.

But his work as Toni Cipriani in Grand Theft Auto 3 was what I always remembered him for. Bumped into him while I was at the beach on vacation forever ago. I was pretty lit and couldn't remember his real name so I said "ayyyyy Toni!" He picked up on it immediately and did the "do you know who I am? I'll beat the shit outta you for this!"

RIP