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Something ridiculous like 90% of arXiv papers get lost in the sheer volume of submissions - 90% of it could be wrong (that's a made up number, sue me).

Just like flat earth or anti-vaxer theories on YouTube, incorrectly published work could be damaging and dangerous.

Getting peer-reviewed & published legitimizes the research work. It has been verified by a panel of experts.

Good for those start ups. I can't wait to attack all their Deep Learning APIs [1].

[1] https://openai.com/blog/adversarial-example-research/
I dearly hope not. A 1 GWh battery stores 1/10th the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, and will release it incredibly spectacularly should it ever catch fire.

I don't want that thing anywhere near a train... Or where I live.
but the VCs have
> refusing to use a wifi connection on your laptop because there aren’t free drivers helps basically nobody

[citation needed]

What if the mild inconvenience encourages people to write a free driver or donate to the developers?
It happens all the time.

> and only harms yourself

...or it encourages me to work on an alternative. I often contribute to GPL software. As a side effect, it really improved my skill and career.
The existence of features in any piece of software is a burden on further development of said software. Every time we go to add some other new feature to the spec we have to take into account how it will affect EME. That's just how software works.
You can flash a sparsebundle to a local disk, then browse it like a normal filestystem.
> sRGB which do correspond closely to retinal cell responses

What does this even mean? sRGB primaries are chosen to maximize the gamut of a 3-primary additive computer display. They do not “correspond closely to retinal cell responses”.
> is a boon to creativity.

Its a boon for one generation of creatives, but then the buck stops there and you are right back to proprietary everything no creativity left for the masses such as on mobile platforms. Copyleft guarantees creativity for all who touch the software, not just the first developer to commercialize it.

> good for them!

Made this comment[1] that Steve even replied to a week ago, and imagine that whole discussion thread inspired this blog post, but its not really just "good for them".

> looking for a simple answer to the question

And have spent going on forty years at it, because there is no simple answer to escape the externalities of writing code. Either nobody uses your code and it doesn't matter, or somebody uses your code and it does matter. What you write, how you license it, how you distribute and produce it, will all matter if it gets used.

The fallacy is that the permissive community wants to see it used at any cost. To make the code matter, even if it has a negative impact - on the developer ecosystem, on the ecosystem it works in, or on society at large. But at the end of the day, FAANG is entirely built on top of both free and open source software, they represent combined the greatest concentration of wealth in the history of the free world, and you can't stay naive enough to think the code you give away is simply "so people will use it" as the be all and end all forever.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19497949
My solution is to start of with GPLv3, then I can always relax it later if needed. If your project takes a lot of external contributions, you can always require that the contributions be licensed under a less restrictive license in case you need to relicense later.

The other thing is you can grant exceptions to people if they have an unanticipated need (i.e., mixing your code with other free software code with incompatible licenses).
Use CMD ~ to move between the windows of the current app.

I’ve also mapped a four finger down gesture to open App exposé.
Up until a few months ago, natively playing netflix was not possible with a released version of Kodi. Now it is using the link I posted!
So now HN readers are not allowed to make predictions based on past and recent behaviour and revelations (that in my opinion make these predictions extremely likely)? Anyhow it's your site, your rules. I visit HN to discover new technology, and engage mostly with privacy-related discussions (since other topics that interest me rarely if ever appear on HN). If you think the site would be better off without my comments then feel free to ban me.
For articles on open-source software, I would recommend JOSS [1]. The organization that publishes JOSS has other journals [2], but nothing in the lines of your study.

[1] https://joss.theoj.org/

[2] http://www.theoj.org/
Surely the first thing you do while trying to hide is ditch the GPS enable microphone and camera you carry everywhere?
Much better than fossil fuels, even if reuse and recycling are ignored.
There is an exception: https://www.gog.com/
Wait a minute there's a public archive of Compuserve data noone has any clue what it is? What if it's PII? It wasn't that long ago to make this a non-issue.
The rule with Linux and drivers is and has always been: "check hardware compatibility beforehand". There are many many Linux compatible laptops that will work out of the box with no fiddling around.

It's a shame that hardware manufacturers with closed, low quality, drivers taint the image of an excellent OS for power users. However, being power users and all, the extra step of using only good hardware is not too much to ask.
You are correct that houses are built cheap and torn down, but as a note houses in the states depreciate as well, just the construction tends to be more expensive so most homeowners prefer to refurbish a fixer-upper rather than replace it.

While culturally cherished in the states, our 100+ year old homes have tons of problems from insulation issues to lead contamination, bad electrical wiring, sometimes structural issues, and so on. We pour countless dollars into renovating and repairing over the lifespan of a property rather than into reconstructing and letting it degrade over 30-50 years. I would argue that this is better from an environmental perspective, but from a financial perspective it's not so clear.
since it's my article, I'll strengthen the case for "yes". I won't get into contract vs licence because that's also highly controversial, but I can argue without settling that.

The question you're asking is how the unexhausted patent right to exclude manufacture interacts with the copyright rights to reproduce (copy) and derive. I made a couple of arguments for this in the article, but I think the strongest one is public policy. If you can restrict copying and derivation using the patent right to restrict manufacture then we have a huge problem in the copyright ecosystem because patents have no fair use doctrine. That means every copy you make, including from your software disk to your hard drive and every time you load the bits from your hard drive into memory requires a new permission to manufacture under the patent. That gives patent holders carte blanche to hold software purchasers to ransom. This would be a huge disruption to an existing area of well settled law.

The same goes for the copyright right to derive. If that requires a patent licence, then even after I licence a patent for some proprietary SW purpose, I'm required to pay again for every change I make, including bug fixes which are some of the most common things software is updated for. Not quite as huge, but still a disruption to a well settled area of law.
The article doesn't discuss the earlier butterfly keyboards because those were even worse and are recalled* per the link the other user included

* "we don't call it a recall, we'll just fix it"
No need to wonder, just read the article.

Spoiler: He only uses instagram.
If you really don’t care about right and wrong, you should have just bought followers on eBay and posted 1 photo for 30 days and paid for the likes. You’d be done with 1/10th the work and compared to even a low hourly rate, you’d save money.
All these articles about licensing are starting to feel a lot like Microsoft's not-that-old 'Get The Facts' FUD campaign.

Anyone else get the feeling they're being manipulated by a campaign?
He says specifically in the article that he is only resharing Instagram pictures.
What are the bad decisions?
>Thanks, but to you and any other GOOGLE EMPLOYEES

> Are you not internally aware of this?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his [exceptionally generous] salary [and RSUs, bonuses] depends upon his not understanding it!"

- Upton Sinclair (approximately)
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995966.
What “Worse Is Better vs. the Right Thing” Is About
Hypercasual games seems like the fast food of the gaming industry. I once evaluated the reviews of many of these so-called "games". review after glowing review, I see it over and over again: "uhhh great way to waste time", "great time waster". As a former builder of strategy games, I'm saddened by what gaming has become for most people: a way to just waste time, I cringe everytime i hear that.
I find the original Apple cables generally very short lived these days. I bought a USB-C to Lightning cable to charge my phone when the Touch Bar MBP came out, and it's already come apart (< 2.5 years). Similar with the USB-C power cable. I mean, it's just $19 + $35 to replace them, but still.

I wonder whether it's related to the push to be more environmentally friendly.
If the W3C making the right decision would make them irrelevant then what has actually happened is that they're already irrelevant, and becoming a rubber stamp on bad ideas only serves to prove that and erode their credibility.

Moreover, such organizations are made up of their members, and it's up to the members to do the right thing as well. Nobody had to volunteer to be the first to add this gunk to their browser. It can't be a competitive disadvantage if nobody else has it either, and it can't be a competitive advantage if everybody else has it, and those are the two options so why not choose the first?
> Strongly agreed. Exposure to a History & Philosophy of Software course might reduce the amount of wheel reinvention that plagues our industry.

I agree that wheel reinvention is an issue that needs addressing but not to the extent as you describe (a "plague").

I also believe this comment misunderstands why it happens. As it stands today, it is a feature, not a bug. You don't see reinvention a lot in traditional engineering disciplines because you have something concrete and functional that takes years of research and hours of construction. Any hacker with a laptop can pick up a language and start building stuff. This ease of access is what creates the "wheel reinvention" situation, that and an endless amount of choices and a limited amount of discoverability of what is out there. Exposure to history and philosophy of software would do nothing to address that.

Finally, reinvention is seen as virtue in this industry, not a plague. To some degree, I agree: software is never complete. And even if you think so, the software built underneath your software may change, thus changing your software. Some level of reinvention may come with new considerations that were not considerations of the past.
You could argue that the internet itself is the greatest library we've ever had and over the past decade, the internet has been slowly destroyed. The saddest part is that it isn't the luddites or religious fundamentalists behind the destruction of knowledge and the internet. It's politicians, journalists and CEOs behind the incredible push to "clean up" the internet. The internet went from an anonymous information sharing space to a pathetic censored version of facebook/twitter/google.
I am unemployed, so I'm at my most free to talk right now :) So not these posts at least!
US health officials alarmed by paralyzing illness in kids
The article is utterly full of shit. Please disregard it.
Torrent is something that I have nothing to complain about. It's decentralised. No big corporation is trying to control it. It's truly by the people for the people.

I wonder if more protocols like this will get invented and become mainstream. Or those glorious days are already behind us? Since every big corporation is just trying to grab market share by creating walled gardens for everything.
This would be my question as well. The track pad is the killer macos/mbp feature imo.
I once asked Diane Greene straight up, when she took over Google Cloud, "How can you possibly win enterprise customers when there are 12 deprecated APIS in Google Cloud right now, and you haven't even started to turn the thing around." She dodged and said there were no deprecations.... I literally had the deprecated services listings from their site up on my phone. I think this is one of the reasons she moved on: it's never going to stop, there. They'll always leave things and move on to the next thing, not worrying about the old customers.
On a related note here's an arch linux package that rips Widewvine out of chrome and adds it to chromium - download the source files by clicking the "Download snapshot" button on the right, or just view the main script by clicking "View PKGBUILD" also on the right.

Edit: Forgot link https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-widevine/
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Thanks for the detailed answer.

I've seen white, clear, and black "plastic" utensils. Most were plastic from petroleum, some from corn. Seems like it would be nice if C-PLA utensils were to be dyed green so it could be separated from the rest.
I think you're overlooking android, play, photos, docs, and drive.
I think that, in and of itself, is an interesting question!
Dudleya farinosa is easily purchased from a number of native plant sellers in California. At Yerba Buena Nursery in Half Moon Bay, you can buy a gallon — yes, a gallon — of Dudleya for $20. But that's not what international collectors appear to be after. According to a Press Democrat investigation, "large, wild-harvested Dudleya are considered luxury items ... Imperfections inflicted by the elements are a plus."

-- TFA
It means that the colors chosen for those primaries are "red", "green" and "blue" for precisely the reason that those match our cones and are easy to reason about, which (I assume) is the quality you are desiring in XYZ because of the "bump" you're complaining about.

I get that you're trying to be pedantic on this, and that's fine. But the fact that you're complaining about XYZ the way you are shows that... you've sorta missed a few steps. The pedantry goes much deeper, and XYZ is the way it is for some very good reasons.
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Also, I wanted to do something for planet earth, so I will be planting a tree for every signup.

What do you think about it?
> This article is 17 years old and I haven't seen any clockless designs in my professional experience in all of that time.

Yeah, async design takes a while, and async chips don't tend to be well advertised, but they are there.

Async FPGA has 60% less power, 70% increased throughput
http://csl.yale.edu/~rajit/ps/fpga2p.pdf

High speed routing (from Fulcrum, one of the startups bought by Intel and shut down)
https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc15...

Ultra low power processor
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1402056/

Ultra low power neural network accelerator from IBM
https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44529.wss
We know peer review is unnecessary for quality and progress in science because it only became a standard after WWII. Einstein published one peer reviewed paper.

There are multiple fields that have routed around peer review; everything that works on preprints and working papers. It takes more than two years to get an Economics paper published. If it took that long for things to get eyeballs progress would be exceedingly slow.

Peer review may have some good points but it certainly isn’t necessary to modern advancements in knowledge and understanding.
MesaLink 1.0: a memory safe TLS library in production with 10M monthly users
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer (2017)
John Cooper Clarke: ‘UK punk got politicised and became rubbish quickly’
This guy works for the FCC. Seems like he's risking his career by writing this.
In terms of hard value, you're right. In terms of actual value to yourself: maybe, maybe not. Without strict discipline spending can be like a gas and expand to fill available volume.
Prescription drug prices are in no way coupled to the cost of production.
I feel this is a sort of corporate Dutch Disease. Highly profitable sectors drive out investment in the rest.

I get this, but then why even launch if there's no vision at all beyond cancel it in a couple years since they're not willing to even try to drive new revenue with these? No profits, burnt goodwill—cynically, I wonder, is it just make-work to keep restless engineers happy and out of the arms of potential upstarts and competitors?

Cool cool, if that's what you must do. Google can go on making piles of cash with their money engines and on the side, going through an elaborate game of charades as if they were making real products so they can figure out who gets get a promotion for best pretending to create anything of actual value.

But, I'm going to ignore all Google product launches and treat them as the mistimed april fools jokes they are.
Who do you mean?

People who have wrote some successful language are not necessarily "world class compiler and GC experts", and it's even less correlated with "having kept up with the last 30+ years of PL research" as mentioned above.

Would you call e.g. Kernighan or Guido "world class compiler and GC experts", compared to people like Anders Hejlsberg, Lars Bak, Martin Odersky, Wirth, Simon Peyton Jones, Lattner, and co, who are experts devoted to exactly PL (and don't miss real-world accolades).

Robert Griesemer might come close, but he doesn't appear to be the driving force.

Even more importantly, does Go strike you as the product of "PL expertise", or just a competent, pragmatic, if humble, compiler, the likes of which are many (and even more full featured, even from smaller teams)?

What I see Go having more is adoption and libs (probably due to Google's full-time dev support and branding). Not some PL upper hand over other languages like Rust, Crystal, Zig, Nim, etc.
Firefox will ask you to download a proprietary blob which is needed for DRM the first time you visit Netflix.
I increasingly see this as the next level of alienation from work-product.

Carpenter makes and sells chairs to people who need chairs, farmer grows and sells apples to people who want apples.

Then there's the line worker making just chair legs for people they'll never meet, and the farmer selling their entire apple crop to a big company that'll do who-knows-what with them—sell them, turn them into apple sauce, use them as input to some process that turns out a "natural ingredient" that's some pure, extracted chemical contained in the apples.

Then there's the sort of crap we're talking about here. Projects that obviously never should have existed in the first place, and/or that would have been better if done in a simpler, faster, cheaper way, but a ton of make-work was thrown in due to agency problems and perverse incentives.

How much of the benefit of computers is being eaten by this kind of thing? The most effective things we do with them may provide 1000x the economic output of that apple farmer, or more, but then we spend a bunch of time doing useless or negative-value stuff, without even getting into a lot of the actually-lucrative work having large negative externalities—spyware-enabled advertising, say, or even just advertising, full stop. What does it do to someone's psyche to spend 90+% of their time doing harmful or useless stuff? Hell some people end up doing nothing of actual value for years on end. What are we doing?
I've been running Ubuntu on all of my desktops and laptops for many, many years. Prior to that, I ran Redhat, and prior to that, Slackware.

For desktop especially, I've had close to zero problems over most of that time, and especially recently, though I admit that I've always used the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

My desktops have always been generic, build your own affairs, with relatively slower/older graphics cards up until the past five years, where I've been getting one generation back from the high end Nvidia cards.

There's no question that the hardware integration for OSX is better. But, for desktop at least, in my experience, Linux has been pretty close for quite a while, though I know my experience has been better than what others have reported.
If I don't get large number of subscribers I will plant myself, else I will contact some NGO :)
I suspect the issue is that Firefox uses Widevine in a straightforward manner (play the content to one browser), whereas OP’s scenario needs some sort of additional insight in what the plugin is doing.
I think getting into the habit of testing and good code style will pay dividends. Most test frameworks are very similar across languages so I'd say learn multiple languages and try to test your code as you do so.
It feels like you keep moving the goalposts and your initial argument was "I have no personal experience with [x] so I don't believe [x] is a thing."

I can't leave links to my life experiences, but as I finish my undergrad I have heard every type of teacher and student maintain that the only differences between men and women are socially constructed. It is common knowledge and thus not really debated. The one time I saw a teacher maintain otherwise, it was a guy in the biology department who was retiring. The class session dissolved into a shouting match between students with the teacher looking on.
> Vietnam Cong Hoa party doesn't harm anyone

There is misinformation from every sides, but be careful with blanket statements like that, because they're almost always false. For example, look up the 10/59 Decree where they brought guillotines throughout the southern rural areas and executed people on the spot if they suspected them of being communists.
The value in strictly adhering to religions like software freedom or veganism isn't so much to cause any meaningful change yourself - you are actively harming your own experiences and potential in restricting yourself in most any way dogma would limit you - but it projects to those around you an adherence to that belief that can inspire and promote the change in those you directly interact with.

This happens in all manner of things - politics, old school regular religions, intellectualism, scientific literacy, rationalism - for the ideas to spread you need prophets and priests to spread the word and adherents to project legitimacy to attract converts. But pretty much any belief system, followed dogmatically, is not for your own personal empowerment - its self sacrifice for the cause.
Also in Germany, you have to announce it to the Police
Nope...everyone is subject to the 6-month lockup period
I hope these are archived as they accrete content. Assembling and torrenting sub-petabyte archives can't be easy, but it beats stirring the ashes of a digital Alexandria to find snippets of knowledge.

Donating to Sci-Hub today.
How Ancient Greeks Trained for War
Most YouTube videos (including the one you linked) don't use DRM, that's why 1080p works on Linux. Netflix only works with up to 720p on Linux.
"It's effectively a proxy in front of Youtube,"

Then it will be killed when it gets popular, and is not a long-term replacement, because that's only dubiously legal at best (and I'm being generous there, I'd go with "not legal"), and the blocking-it arms race is going to be advantage Google.

There isn't really a replacement for YouTube, because it's not a service, it's content.
I do not remember which it was. I do remember asking the salesperson, 'just need a simple phone for calls and messaging, no need for data'. Like 'MAGIC' I was handed what fit my need.

No internet, some apps but I never used them.