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Only a data point here -- after I read about this license change on HN, it took me about 2 hours to struggle over the issue, discuss with my team, and switch from MongoDB to PostgreSql. We are very lucky in that we were into this project for only two months, prototyping and learning the ropes with MongoDB schema. With PostgreSql now, everyone feels secure in a familiar territory. Yes, we have to make changes and its not rocket science to move over.

The issue is not about having to buy a license here. The problem is the uncertainty with a product whose license agreement is being switched over mid-stream. It makes me weary of what else might happen with their license structure further down the road.
As a security person I love serverless. Sometimes getting people to patch or harden servers can be like pulling teeth. These problems just go away in a serverless arc.
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This would significantly ameliorate the problem.
Prior work at Google Research before it made it into the product:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/experimental-nighttime-pho...

And by the original researcher in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7lbnMd56Ys
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You had to manually disable it. There was a little bit of wiggle room so maybe your iPhone faired better. But from personal experience on 11.3, if the battery capacity was below a certain amount the phone would just suddenly shut down on a fairly regular basis.
It could have been an internal document that was published a few years after written. This could be due to a indecision on whether or not to publish the work. This document could also be originally for internal use to educate new hires.
my mom used to use a type of fish sauce as fertilizer for her house plants. i think it was called "emulsion" but probably about the same stuff. smelled horrible but the plants enjoyed it, and we enjoyed the plants.

what do you put it on? i know they use it in the Phillipines and some other SE Asian countries, right?
For what its worth the T4x0(s) series has been very good for Linux in general. We've been hopping the odd numbers every other year.
The question is, why isn't "the javascript equivalent of bytecode" just javascript? Why do you think there's a difference between "javascript" and "bytecode"?
I'd try sticking a USB keyboard into it. Hopefully USB ports aren't dead.
I can confirm this. I was trying out their product as an option and still they were super helpful (shout out to Sai if you're here) and everyone else too..

Also their slack page is decently active and helpful
>Same with Terrance Mackena. All these people who preach psychedelics don't end up accomplishing much besides writing profusely about psychedelics.

As far as Terrence McKenna is concerned, I think the man accomplished a little more than writing profusely about psychedelics. He was a brilliant lecturer. There are probably 100+ of his talks available on YouTube. The topics of those talks often go far beyond mere rambling about psychedelics.
Ok, I get it now. Thanks! :)
Actually I’m this case I think he means combustion chambers...
As I understand it, it is basically the skysource water extraction device hooked to an all-power labs gassifier, which produces electricity from gassifying organic material. Allpower's product uses the gassifier output in a conventional engine, in turn using that to power a generator. The great part here is - uses locally generated biomass, and produces a waste stream of biochar, which can be used for argiculture, essentially putting the carbon back into the soil. Pretty, it isn't, but carbon neutral it is.
I'm sure many executive level people simply got tired of Musk's antics
Anyone else enjoy the PDF-like presentation of the webpage? This design is so clean. I initially thought OP submitted a document.
Not to mention even a study that didn't pan out still has a lot of data that may be used for something else in the future.

Even a failed creation has parts that can be re used in other projects after all.
I'm tracking patches for external git projects I'm using with such a local merge/rebase bot. you need to enable the rr-cache then. manual intervention only needed once a year. tracking submodules alone doesn't keep your patches.
I think there will be a time in the future when we'll look back and think how crazy people were in 2018 pumping all kinds of known toxins into the environment. It will probably be the same incredulity we have when we look at people using radium toothpaste in 1920 or the mad hatters working with mercury the whole day and going crazy.
Maaaaybe. Truth be told, it's all about networking. Grants go to the friends of the reviewers more so than to those deemed most deserving [0]. Granted, it's really hard to read a bunch of proposals and determine whose is 'most' deserving. So reviewers act like the humans they are and give the grants to their friends.

[0]Total anecdata, I have no source for this.
You’re talking about professional psychedelic enthusiasts, for the most part. There are many people who have used psychedelics to improve their lives in big ways and small who simply don’t talk about it — because it’s illegal and because there’s a stigma attached to it.

LSD and ecstasy had a profound impact on me to such an extent that I can’t even imagine what my life would be like today without the experiences. I’m almost certain I’d be a less happy, less successful person.

But I’m not exactly going to have a casual conversation about it with someone that I don’t know very well.
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This sounds like Persian Wind Catchers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

There's a similar type of building which uses temperature difference to generate condensation within a building, creating a pool of water. The name escapes me at the moment.
I'm sure they will address your concerns in SSPL v2. But make no mistake, you can't win here.
I somehow doubt nasal surgery will account for what I lost after a blunt force head trauma, but it might mitigate things by addressing other issues. Thanks for the idea.
Or Motorola Droid4, where it called "WebTop". It was good idea: built-in keyboard, display as touchscreen, and large display, but firefox was painfully slow because phone was too weak for that.

I hope, someone will reimplement that with WiDi, on-screen keyboard and touchpad/magnifier, and support for both android and desktop apps.
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They have an ERC-20 token called GNT, it's a smart contract that runs on the eth network.
That's exactly the kind of thinking I'm trying to address. I made a couple arguments against your position in the summary.
Might I ask what specifically you found to be unconvincing?
I think you are wrong. This gives more details about how it works. They are using gasification both as power and as an additional source of water. I think that's pretty clever and I'm confident that the x-price people wouldn't have awarded the prize if it didn't meet the requirements.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbddw8/artificial...
I don't think I had an opinion beforehand or anything. I mean I was always down with the idea. But I think the problem is that it's such a long process to get from point A to B, and then the market for putting things into orbit is pretty niche that most people just can't see the potential. And lot of people are living from paycheck to paycheck aren't really planning years down the road. It's completely out of their realm of experience or expertise in every possible way. And they would never attempt it so that's get projected onto the world as, "Anyone who attempts this is foolish."

Hindsight is 20/20 after all. And vision is only lauded in hindsight. Because a vision that ends in failure gets a big "I told you so." from people who usually have none.
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Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years...

While you're busy figuring out what monitoring solution to use on your VPS to monitor the running all for the sake of a little Python script, I've already set up a lambda function and maybe set a cloudwatch alarm to look after it and can move on to the next thing and leave it running indefinitely. Depending on the usecase I might not even pay a penny during that time, either.

I swear 90% of the hate for serverless purely stems from irritation at the name.
I suppose the law probably is very easy to game because I remember receiving a letter via regular postal mail from one of the top utilities company in Spain that literally said "to comply with GDPR we will contact you for marketing purposes in _OUR LEGITIMATE INTEREST_. If you do not agree, contact us at this website."

Their turnover is 50B EUR so my understanding is that they earmarked some budget to check with a lawyer to ensure GDPR compliance.

Moral: ensure that your legitimate interest is to sell more and then you are fine.
Is this comedy?
You either have access to amazing weed or crappy mushrooms.
So then, really, a big part of the critique here is that the SSPL is simply not written very well?
> The days of needing separate constructs because of bandwidth are over

> It was for ease of changes.

Wat? Not solely. CSS had many goals, the primary reason was a separate styling language that could be universally interpreted and expanded, without involving HTML (or any other standard like ECMA). HTML versions were already bogged down in semantic squabbles.
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I am no friend of drugs in general and psychedelics in particular.

It might work to get out of a rut but, IMO, the risks (what dosage?) are not worth it. Certainly not without professional assistance (not a shaman). The new rut might be much worse than the old rut.

Also: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/charting-the-depths/...

IMO no problem is solved by psychedelics. Unless you sell them to solve your money problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkbMtkwU2g
That depends on how you think a court would weigh the source of value of your offering; and any factor that makes MongoDB more valuable as a component before considering the license makes it more risky when you consider the license.
I'm not 100% sure about Newton but Einstein didn't do any empirical research, which is the topic of this discussion.
early?

> This interpretation hinges on interpreting successful sub-majority writes as not necessarily successful: rather, a successful response is merely a suggestion that the write has probably occurred, or might later occur, or perhaps will occur, be visible to some clients, then un-occur, or perhaps nothing will happen whatsoever.

> We note that this remains MongoDB's default level of write safety.

- http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-6-4
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I still think Total Annhilation had one of the best soundtracks of any video game ever recorded, including The Elder Scrolls. It was Jeremy Soule’s magnum opus. https://youtu.be/o2jS4ZaVOWA
https://youtu.be/lA-iag83kQc
https://youtu.be/r_9QO_76l_I
https://youtu.be/1mOG3Q8CSoY
The sixers are to blame for these missteps!
Can someone flag this comment? I pointed out already that this is a newly created user and he is posting inflammatory comments and abusive language.
I believe you ;). Chris Taylor evokes TA a few times in the interview. Still I did not called these features innovative or new, just that they are very useful to in order to deal with all the complexities of the game.

Still I'm not really interested in TA, I've been plenty happy with SC and I don't really want to climb another steep difficulty curve. (also lack of time too)
Yeah, no blinding, no placebo, in the field, small sample size and at a drug related event.

At best, this falls into the "quite interesting should probably do a proper follow up" pile.

One interesting line from the study. It says "that we did not use a control group (for obvious ethical and practical reasons)". Practical I get, there were only 38 of them in total. But ethical? What are the ethical concerns with not giving people a micro dose of hallucinogenic truffles?
Yeah, and they aren't the only one.

Companies like https://hetrixtools.com/pricing/uptime-monitor/
are slightly more expensive but still alot cheaper.
No. I think they're referring to Tesla (and its struggles) seeing that it's a car company and cars classically run on cylinders, but since Tesla's are electric, no cylinders. You know since Elon Musk is a founding member of both SpaceX and Tesla.
How does it work in practice though? Monsanto's RoundUp hasn't been getting rave reviews lately ...
Yup, that's what I got from it. But also the engine is producing CO2 and Water from the biomass. Which can in turn be fed into the water extractor. I think that is the novel step.
Here's a list of countries where Spanish is the official language (note, this doesn't include countries where Spanish isn't official but is still widespread): https://www.spanish.cl/vocabulary-lists/spanish-speaking-cou...

That's all countries in the western hemisphere of any decent size except for the US, Canada, and Brazil.

So you just haven't traveled much in the western hemisphere.
Why spend $5 when you could spend $1? I've got a site running without using servers and it basically costs the R53 hosted zone cost as it's very low traffic. No servers to configure, no residential connection to potentially fall over, high durability. Why wouldn't I use it?

Different use cases warrant different solutions.
It's notable that this 'accumulation' method effectively lets you have a near-infinite exposure time, as long as objects in the video frame are trackable (ie. there is sufficient light in each frame to see at least something).

I'd be interested to see how night mode performs when objects in the frame are moving (it should work fine, since it will track the object), or changing (for example, turning pages of a book - I wouldn't expect it to work in that case).
AWS has had an engineering office in South Africa for a very long time. The decision may be more pragmatic than anything.
I have a question about how derivative works are defined with respect to AGPL.

With the GPL, you couldn't distribute software that links (at runtime) to GPL software, without open-sourcing your software as well. This is because, linking another piece of software to a GPL'd binary means you're creating a "derived work". That's why they made the LGPL (the "lesser" public license) which allows being linked to from closed-source works, without being considered a derived work.

With AGPL, they seem to have gone the opposite way from LGPL: it seems to have extended the definition of "derived work" to include software that accesses the covered software over the network. If that's the case, doesn't that mean you just plain can't use MongoDB in the backend your own closed-source website (without open-sourcing your site's code?)
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Fair enough - there are edge cases. If you're running Xeons or the new AMDs and don't have an iGPU, you're out of luck. But this is Nvidia's doing, not the developers'. It's Nvidia who is stubbornly refusing to implement standards. I can't blame the devs who don't want to duplicate their effort. This is the price you (and I) pay for using Nvidia GPUs.
Hopefully OpenCL (or similar) support catches up soon and Nvidia gets some competition, or we're headed for a dark future.
There's no reason to assume that China's tech actually works in the field.

In totalitarian china, everyone is a suspect, so detecting a suspect is trivial.

That article does a decent job of explaining that the surveillence is as much pseudoscience and propaganda as scientific technology.

>>>>
China’s national database of individuals it has flagged for watching — including suspected terrorists, criminals, drug traffickers, political activists and others — includes 20 million to 30 million people, said one technology executive who works closely with the government.

...

Officials said humans still sift through the images to match them to people’s identities.

...

In Zhengzhou, police were happy to explain how just the thought of the facial recognition glasses could get criminals to confess.

Mr. Shan, the Zhengzhou railway station deputy police chief, cited the time his department grabbed a heroin smuggler. While questioning the suspect, Mr. Shan said, police pulled out the glasses and told the man that what he said didn’t matter. The glasses could give them all the information they needed.

“Because he was afraid of being found out by the advanced technology, he confessed,” said Mr. Shan, adding that the suspect had swallowed 60 small packs of heroin.
Pure urea is not a gas at room temperature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea
The monoculture status quo certainly takes some of the blame. In a balanced ecosystem, no one pest can gain a foothold because the ecosystem supports natural predators, and the foodsource is spread out enough that the pest population won't reach a critical mass.
lol no. you simply dont know what you are doing
You're right, you haven't convinced me. Every opportunity everyone has given you to define hate speech, you asy "I don't need to!! It's obvious what hate speech is!!" That's not an acceptable definition. Apparently it's anything you highly disagree with. From talking with you, I'm convinced you would classify a discussion on freedom of speech as hate speech. That scares me. I get the sense you want complete control of all speech just so hate speech dies. In other words, a casual stroll toward tyranny.

I don't think you're examining the problem (and censorship IS a problem) critically. Forgive me, but you are the one copping out. And actually, people do ask "what is privacy." It is being redefined all the time and there are people actively fighting for their definition of it. They at least have a definition.
I would like super sensitive cameras like this to be used inside fridges to see the very faint glow of food going off.

Chemical reactions by bacteria breaking down food produce light, enough for humans to see in only the darkest of places (if you live in a city, you won't ever encounter dark enough situations).

A camera simulating a 1 hour exposure time in a closed refrigerator ought to be able to see it pretty easily.
It’s still just an infinite series of substitutions.
It does, go up one directory to the root on that URL. Just installed it for Chrome, am using "Dark backgrounds..." on Firefox.
The runner-up is in Hawaii. The $1.5M winners are in California.
Of course, the article has absolutely nothing to do with millennials, other than the fact that the people running TransitMatters happen to be “mostly” millennials (which could mean that a number of them are not millennials).

Generational language like this does nothing to curb ageism, and it detracts from an otherwise interesting article.
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> I don't buy it. Facial recognition has had as many failures as successes, probably more because we only hear about the times it works, not all the times it fails. It seems like it is something ridiculously easy to fool. I know you all love fancy tech, but there are and will be amazingly low-tech ways to defeat these systems.

Also, with a large enough population, you'll also have to deal with doppelgangers (e.g. https://twinstrangers.net/). Probably too many false positives to be very helpful, unless you're willing to spend a lot of money sorting through them.

BTW, you're shadowbanned, and seem to have been for some time. All your comments are invisible to most users unless someone vouches for them.
Depends on how well written/what court decides to do.

I'm going to short circuit a lot of nuanced case law and differences between jurisdictions/courts here to give a clear answer:

Usually these things are written so the clauses are severable.

The court would then most of the time just remove the invalid pieces and leave the rest intact.

If it is not severable, the contract stands or falls as a whole.

If it falls, nobody is a valid user (though surely would be given time to stop or for mongo to fix it).

Why?

The default state of copyright is that only the owner has the rights.

If you invalidate the contract/license granting you non-exclusive permission to those rights, you no longer have that permission at all. So you have no right to be using it.

note: Any such court decision would only apply to the relevant court jurisdiction (IE if it was a district court decision, it would only apply to the parties)

It would just be persuasive evidence to other courts.
Most of them, especially those developed before the 2000s.
Is that for Safari? How long has it existed?
This is a very bold comment, explain how you scale write, do HA in pg?
> much like a BSD

Why not try a BSD, then?
Okay so after reading the article, and thinking about this for a while, I get the following out of this debacle:

The issue here is that SaaS providers are building tools on top of MongoDB that effectively add functionality, instead of modifying MongoDB (which would force them to share those changes publicly).

This is a valid concern and I understand the motivation behind the license change. However, how is this different from any other FOSS?

Just as a random example, think of a proprietary blog/site provider like Tumblr and Weebly. They are effectively a SaaS provider that introduces tools on top of open-source web servers (like nginx or apache) to make hosting a website much easier. Instead of building the entire model/code of your website, you simply add customizations using a frontend.

Maybe the comparison is not ideal, but my understanding is that all FOSS suffers from this concern, and the industry seems to be doing well enough.
As usual Apple has set off a major change in the way we do business. Newspapers, Apps, Slack, everything is going to start supporting dark mode. I think the original way we tackled "custom color schemes" of the OS was too much - we allowed people to set individual colors for everything. Once again apple has simplified that to just light mode and dark mode. And that's how the rest of the industry will finally tackle custom color schemes (no choice but light or dark) and the OS will now dictate that setting automatically much like en-US, es-MX etc..
You’d figure they would test something like this for efficiency in the desert. Just to be practical.
I do not agree with the current bout of GMO scaremongering, but I think your first sentence is off the mark. I heard from the friends on the biotech side (and sorry, do not have a citation) that many current GMO cultures are engineered specifically for high pesticide tolerance so farms can pump in pesticides to kill all other flora and fauna without killing specific crops.

So, GMO good (or allows for significant benefits), current products kind-of pretty bad. My 2c.
This might turn out to be true... But today we are clearly in a "golden age" of performance cars. If you are interested in this kind of thing, make hay while the sun shines!
Could be the toupee problem. You only notice the bad ones, and assume that all toupees are unconvincing? Meanwhile, the effective hairpieces slip by you undetected.
Seems much easier to setup an asp.net core lambda app.