skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the Clause is necessarily the most elegant end-all solution, but there are often broad business, timing and legal requirements that make it really hard to draft a full license to satisfy everyone.

In fact, I'd love to see a v2 standalone license. One of the design constraints was size and readability. I think part of the goal here was to start with something extremely short-form.

More broadly, the average OSS license is far from robust.
> People say this constantly, and it baffles me. Facebook has grown to the point that it's hard to avoid.

I guess it depends on your definition of "hard" or perhaps your friend group. But for me and many of the people I know, it's easy to avoid and not use it. You just don't go to the site or use the app. No problem.
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like he says it's really not that hard. Also real human contact is so much more enjoyable than a couple of characters with zero intonation or facial expression (emoji nonsense is way too low bitrate)
That's a very appropriate username you have there! :)

I suspect you're just looking at greener grass on the other side of the fence. Education is riddled with nonsensical fads, people selling each other things they don't need (probably >50% of university education is like this) and so on. You just have a vague feeling that "education" is something moral and pure, whereas "mobile apps" is rubbish and doesn't need to exist. But that probably isn't true. It's just familiarity.
Anything can come before scientific knowledge.
JPEG definitely destroys low light information. I've had some pictures I took with in RAW that I thought had nothing in them, clicked "optimize" in generic photo editor and realized I could make out a ton of detail. Didn't magically recover a good photo, mind, but was a lot more information than originally visible. Tried from the JPEG and got nothing.
Hjkl turn into something strange with colemak but they are still vaguely directional and I have not rebound any vim hotkeys.
Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn
Guess I should have verified that before I opened my big mouth.. oops!
Wikipedia is citing the psychosis claim to:

Warner ML, Kaufman NC, Grundmann O (2016). "The pharmacology and toxicology of kratom: from traditional herb to drug of abuse". Int. J. Legal Med. (Review). 130 (1): 127–38. doi:10.1007/s00414-015-1279-y. PMID 26511390.
Nvidia was probably the best you could get at the time, but better buy AMD next time. The AMD drivers are very good and don't have the integration issues of Nvidia's.
Utterly confused. Does this have anything to do with Creative Commons licences? That's what the articles calls it in its first and last sentences.
Whatsapp Backups no longer count against your Google drive quota
The example clause at https://commonsclause.com/ does not really make any sense. It first says you can't sell the software and then provides example text below like this:

Software: [name software]

License: [i.e. Apache 2.0]

Licensor: [ABC company]

If they actually used the Apache 2.0 license anyone would have the right to sell the software. Hence putting that clause and then putting "Apache 2.0" as the license makes no sense. The licensing terms would be contradictory.
looks class actiony
This could have been made clear in a few simple sentences:

We have created a new software license which we are calling the 'Redis Labs License' (RLL), by adding the Commons Clause terms as extra restrictions on top of the Apache 2.0 License. We recognise this will no longer be a true Open Source license, but we consider it a fair trade-off between our business needs and our responsibility and commitment to the Redis community.

From now and in the future, work on the following Redis Labs modules will be published under the RLL: Module A, Module B and Module C.

There will be no change to the licensing of Redis core, and we remain committed to supporting ongoing development under the existing BSD license.
Ironically AWS (and probably Google) is the reason why they had to adopt that kind of license since they are not giving back. Obviously AWS is not tied by the license but it would make sense for them to sponsor the product instead of milking it entirely. Elastic is having similar issues with AWS.
I actually think open source will destroy the “Commons Clause”, which is just a name for a model that keeps being tried (shared source with limited free use but pay us for the use we think we'd like to monetize) that keeps getting killed by open source again and again and again.
Its front page describes it as an experiment, and it has 98 open bugs. Both PyPy and Python have released new versions since the last update of this project, so it's at least missing important updates.
The concern I have about this:

1. Why do they know that I have whatsapp content on my drive account? (If it's an encrypted backup.. they shouldn't be able to confirm that)

2. Why does google know that I have and use a third party service? I get that FB would know (they're the owning company)
The Clause was drafted as a reactionary move to solve against specific bad behavior. I'm not entirely sure it's my place to call out these actors (I'll leave that to the users of the Clause), but our job was to open up an option that isn't quite "screw this, let's go full closed source".

See the commons clause FAQ for answers to your other questions:

https://commonsclause.com/
Ordinarily I would appreciate comments calling for an audit of security-critical software, but spoken with such derision and apparently ignorant of the fact that the author audits code for a living I can't get behind. As for "cleaned up", LKML's only objections to it so far are formatting; think variable declarations, line wrapping (or lack thereof), et al.
Ok, since you claim that "the opinion shapers are purpofuly distorting finding to attack an advesary", name one false claim from the PDF document's executive summary. Should be quite easy, right?

You're letting Google really easy of the hook regarding the location history PR disaster. Google uses dark UX patterns to trick their customers into sharing more data, and this is one more instance of that. The fact that "technically" location history is not a master switch is just a flimsy excuse.
I've used EAV before after putting some time into thinking of a solution and I'd be curious if there was a better way. Basically, we were building a restricted stock database depending on either a client preference or a customizable list.

For instance, a religious institution may not want to invest in a company that derives revenue from tobacco. So, we might have:

1. Is the company in an industry or sector we have flagged as tobacco?

2. Upon review, did one of our analyst create an exception list for companies partially involved in selling tobacco i.e. CVS, LVMH with duty-free, etc.?

3. Did the religious foundation also provide its own list of companies associated with tobacco usually through a consultant or several.

Therefore, we used a schema like:

table: exclusion_lists
columns: company_id, exclusion_list_id, source_id

An account would register a restriction, which would group the baseline restricted companies from say sector to along with any customized lists that the account subscribed to, and a view would output all the restricted stocks and reasons why.

It didn't seem like an anti-pattern at the time. The benefit seemed to be if a restriction code was changed, it would all happen in one place versus updated in a bunch of JSON objects. Adding a column for a client for some special restriction with three companies would create a very sparse table so that didn't seem like an elegant solution either.
Reminded me of the Logicomix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix
An analysis of Facebook's archive of political ads
Has it been linked to any deaths on it's own yet? AFAIK it's links haven't been much more than a line item on a toxicology report. One of these reports was a self-inflicted gunshot wound if I recall correctly. I think it's pretty disingenuous to call that a link. I'm not saying that you're being disingenuous but that people are using examples like that pushing the FDA for a ban.

I will see if I can locate the findings of the journalist that scoured the reports that were giving to the FDA.
Now ask yourself “how many people did they test” and “what statistical test did they use to show significance”.

This popular-press article doesn’t say, and doesn’t have to. Their actual scientific report will have these dry details and be a more formulaic read.
It might just be me, but I believe most people thought Google was a worse violator prior to Windows 10. Some (probably naive) people used to think Windows was the last bastion of non-Linux hope.
Kevin,

If the goal is to monetize the Redis Labs modules, why not just put them under straightforwards proprietary licenses? This is a well-trodden and well-understood path.

This Commons Clause combines the twin mistakes of being both offensive and ineffective. It will get Redis pulled out of many OSS repositories, decreasing your distribution and mindshare. At the same time, I can see Amazon and Microsoft lawyers laughing at it now; it will do zero to prevent them from building their own cloud offerings.

I really have to wonder about the quality of advice that FOSSA is providing to its clients if it went ahead with this. You say 'OSS-savvy companies aren't dumb' but it seems like the consultants of FOSSA are, or they are counting on everyone else in the industry being gullible.

(and before you play the "consider the poor OSS developer" on me, I worked on Postgres for 18 years, and we never pulled this kind of nonsense)
> More broadly, the average OSS license is far from robust.

Care to elaborate? That is an extremely broad claim. The GPL has been upheld a number of times. The MIT/BSD licences are about as simple and solid as they get.

> I think part of the goal here was to start with something extremely short-form.

Yes, but to your point above, courts rarely appreciate schizophrenic agreements which say one thing in one place and an entirely different thing elsewhere.

How is X Open Source + Common Clause any different than the Redis^e + X hosting/brand piggybacking others have been doing to RedisLabs?
The idea that liquid at temperature has anything to do with health is outdated. It seems to have been spread by the transfat supporters 30 years ago, and they have been discredited.
I don't think administration overheads in universities have grown because admin workers are easier to cut than academics. It's more like money acting like a river of treacle. It moves slowly, spreads out slowly and may never make it to the destination at all. If you dump a giant bucket of treacle in the middle of the the floor all at once it takes a long time for any to reach the walls and most of it will end up sticking to the place where it was dropped.

Money flows into universities via the administrators. It mostly gets stuck there because that's what benefits the admins. I don't think it's a conscious choice - there's just no incentive for universities to use money wisely. It's hardly a competitive market.
My interpretation is that, because the public bank is doing the lending, the city collects on any interest payments made on loans they provide. Because all money on loan from the bank is generating income for the city, the net income is greater than if they simply collected interest from their stash of money in another, public bank.
Developer and volunteer time and attention is a finite resource though. Effort that was spent on open software that's now spent on proprietary software is less effort being spent on open source. Furthermore if you're now expending effort to fork something - in this case possibly many things - thats effort you're not spending on what used to be your higher priorities.

Yes forking might in some cases be the only option, but it's not easy and it's not cost-free especially when the code is still available 'for free' (warning: many actual freedoms not included).
Postman update gives developers more freebies
Yes, and right below it acknowledges that it is not Open Source and doesn't try to be:

> It this “Open Source”?
> No, at least not by the official definition set forth by the OSD. Applying the Clause to an open source project will transition the project to “source-available”.
If dev teams want "native" (as per the definition you posted downstream [1]) linux ports, they will put in the effort just like before, except they now have another tool.

Maybe with this new tool, teams that wouldn't have considered putting any effort into porting their game will now change their mind.

Regardless, no one who cares about porting their game will ignore issues because it's not their problem.

[1] "Without expanding upon ever tiny definition, take "native" to mean a linux release developed, beta-tested, and supported by the original developer. Not something developed for windows and then expected to just run on linux boxes thanks to a compatability layer."
'just get a dot on the map' makes shit products. the locusts move elsewhere after the damage is done.

this is the state of tech.
Well, we already have positive responses from few large enterprises.
One of the largest benefits of national currencies is when they're healthy everyone uses it and knows the value making commerce 10000x easier. Look at the EU one of their major projects was creating a single currency to make things much simpler to facilitate trade between their members. Now imagine the US 'private currency' situation, it's like the European market pre-Euro but instead of the boundaries of the currencies happening at national borders it's just an undifferentiated mass.

The US had a mix of currencies at one point as local and state banks issued their own bills and it was a mess.
Ask HN: How do you find clients with no network?
I've been programming for ~14 years and throughout this time I've found that I've been most passionate about my Open Source work and Linux community involvement.

Over the years I slowly withdrew from the Linux community, then a couple years ago I changed jobs and found that it slowly killed all passion I had for programming.

Last year I was laid off (no reflection on me personally) and after taking some time off, I decided to try my own thing. I've been doing that this year by attempting to work on my Open Source project(s) as much as possible and while I haven't achieved what I hoped I would, I'd say it's been great.

Problem is... this isn't viable without proper funding, so I've been trying to sell my skills (React, TypeScript, Go, etc.) and I'm finding it very difficult to find clients.

The usual places like UpWork and other Freelance websites seem to be a race-to-the-bottom and/or filled with horror stories.

I've also tried cold emailing and contacting people through Reddit and Facebook with no luck.

Jobs postings here and other places naturally seem to be directed at finding actual employees while I'm more of a web dev agency/consultancy.

Other advice I've seen is to build a network, but I'm not exactly sure how to go about it without already having some kind of network behind me.

I've been thinking to put the idea on hold and find employment, but I fear I would simply end up in the same situation I've been in the last couple years.
The packages that get installed are: git curl wget zsh tmux neovim

It depends on what OS/platform you are using to uninstall a package.

The configuration files are in the ".dotfiles" directory of your home folder. You can remove one or all of them from there and restart your terminal.
I agree with you. The compliance costs alone with starting a bank, plus how do you earn interest back on investing in transportation infrastructure? If the bank makes a loan to the city for a new train line, does the city pay itself back...with its own money?

I get the overall activist position against modern finance in the aftermath of the financial crisis, but letting politicians run a bank is not a great idea.
No, it’s a popular article by one of the study authors. Researchers can and do write in both modes sometimes.
It being high in MCTs is it's USP. I feel like a lot of people using coconut oil are aware of this.
There are several challenges here.

One challenge is the name "Commons" is very misleading. It's not creating a commons, and it's also confusingly similar to the term "Creative Commons" which has been around for a really long time.

Also, the Commons website says that the Commons license is not OSS "at least not by the official definition set forth by the OSD". Yet that is the official generally-accepted definition.
It is most certainly a reasonable consumption for a payment system. Every society with inflationary money eventually grinds to a halt and crumbles. The world must absolutely have the best implementation of money that it can get its hands on.

Energy use is not its defense against attacks. Distributed hashing is. The hashrate can be much lower and Bitcoin would still work. The difficulty would adjust downward.

Obviously, the hashrate will top out at some point in the future. From that point on, it can dwindle and that won't be a problem. Just so long as a certain minimum amount stays around to keep the network running. That won't be a problem in a future where Bitcoin has become the new global currency.
So are prison guards as per Orange is the New Black.
The book (and interview) are about REAL bullshit jobs. It's defined pretty rigorously. There's a range of types, but this REALLY is stuff that is bullshit, not just jobs in a bureaucracy complex enough that you can't tell if your job matters. Your exact concern is discussed in the book.

Consider the case of the guy hired to run a communications system nobody uses because the people in the office actually prefer to avoid each other. And when he tries to quit, they give him raises because they like having him around so that they can avoid each other and have some excuse about this communications system. He sits around all day doing nothing, sometimes someone asks if there are messages, but there aren't because nobody uses the system. That's the sort of bullshit jobs we're talking about. REAL bullshit.
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Also: there is no longer a source-disclosure requirement built into the license.
Google Home is maybe years ahead of what Facebook voice-AI will feel like.
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Yes. The page is full of tautologies. It shoudn't be.

Here's a pull request: https://github.com/fossas/commons-clause/pull/3
Please ignore my irony, but good luck funding that. Almost no well known food item would/has ever go through something like that as it would set you back several (tens) millions. The best you can hope for is a study where people report eating different substances in their daily lives and afterwards you draw conclusions from several biomedical read-outs. But that wont be cheap either, you would just be testing multiple things at once.
Indeed, "music theory" is largely melodic and harmonic theory, and the study of the study of larger structures such as the sonata form. Rhythm is left up to the personal taste of the composer and performer.
Yes I imagine most consumers will eventually come to think like this. You might be a bit ahead of the curve though?
From the article: "Many of our most vexing problems, from overeating to not saving enough for retirement to not working out enough have something in common: lack of self-control."

The definition of the word: "make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters"

Still not seeing the magical connotation; seems pretty well grounded in human behavior, which is topical for Scientific American.
With no 4 wheel drive option, this thing is just a car with a pickup bed. I wouldn't use it for any real rural work.

The electric truck I think has most promise is the Bollinger B1 (https://www.bollingermotors.com/). Itching to get my hands on one of those. Analog gauges on an all-electric truck has serious appeal.
Try writing about stuff that is against Silicon Valley, all of these platforms band up against you - it's amazing.
Very misleading title about a very interesting development! A link to the actual paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01561.

In less clickbaity terms, DeepMind has developed a scalable system for distributed training of certain types of reinforcement learning agents. They use that to train an agent to solve a pretty big collection of different reinforcement learning problems.
Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay
You're NEVER going to convince me that you're gaining any benefits over being five minutes from my house. Home to eat lunch, and take a nap in silence is worth more than any perk on this planet. I pity you all with hellish travel.
Borderlands 2 is known for running better on wine than on Windows. IIRC the reason was the filesystems (ext4 vs ntfs).
Insulting is not the right word. I'm not sitting here mad or anything.

But I often see people labelling disagreements over things like licenses or editors or programming language as "religious" disagreements, with the implication that this means "driven purely by thoughtless adherence to a group and/or authority".

Clearly, religion sometimes works like this. But consider people like mathematician and theologian Blaise Pascal, or literature professor and theologian C.S. Lewis, or any number of ordinary Christians I know who do think critically, including about their theology. Being religious does not necessarily mean holding a position uncritically, being hostile to those with whom you disagree, or being able to acknowledge partial agreement and gray areas.

On the other hand, non-religion can also display the "religious" tendencies people are trying to deride by using this term. Some people are so fervently allied to the Republican party, or Marxism, or environmental causes, or conspiracy theories, or atheism, or white supremacy, or feminism, or any number of other things, that they're unable to consider opposing arguments.

Unthinking herd mentality is neither inherent nor specific to religion.
I had a revelation a few days ago, a crypto "Airdrop" is nothing but a campaign that turns people into bots.
Hard disagree - I personally will never agree to the idea that fairness is achieved by taking away people’s representation in their elected leader.

It’s a stretch to call the electoral college the genius of western democracy, since every other western democracy doesn’t celebrate a system in which the minority can rule over the majority. The fact that every other major democracy can achieve this without stealing votes is a worrying tell. American presidential elections are becoming increasingly unrepresentative, with the winner of these contests being the opposite choice of the voters who actually voted (Bush ‘00 and Trump ‘16). I think this distortion is a root cause of political paralysis today, as narrow minded interests continue to assert their control over national policy at the direct expense of the majority.

This is in addition to the fact that the electoral college is a throwback to before America was actually a democracy, and part of a system which was explicitly designed to enslave a portion of citizenry and disenfranchise an additional portion. Lastly, if the goal was to moderate the influence of urban vs rural areas, the population differences between 2018 and 1830’s America are quite staggering, and trying to use a system based on 1830’s population levels is nonsensical.
Thanks I've yet to read the original.
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Suiteness (YC S16) is hiring a front-end engineer who loves travel
The "Black Mirror" coming true slant is albeit amusing.
It’s a popular article, not a formal report. It contains links as references to the papers.

SciAm never publishes formal scientific articles as far as I know. It is a popular magazine about science, not a primary source journal.