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I no longer participate in the OSI process, largely for reasons laid out here: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/04/23/OSD-wontfix.html

I've read quite a bit from OSI stalwarts about why they take the positions they do, but I still don't understand them, and therefore shouldn't try to relate them.

If I had to make one criticism of the OSI mailing list reaction to both my License Zero Reciprocal License, which later became Parity, and also MongoDB's Server Side Public License, it's that takes almost invariably focused on who was proposing the license, and the business model they seemed to have in mind, and ignored the extent to which older licenses had provided substantially the same functionality, as the basis of similar business models, before the software-as-a-service shift. It wasn't clear whether that was relevant criticism or not, since the process wasn't clear to begin with, and notional clarifications from OSI staff and eventually the board only muddied the waters.

When literally anyone can object to a license, or block the approval process, for almost any reason, so long as they can phrase it in vague philosophical terms, then no new ideas in copyleft will ever get through. Even if those new ideas boil down to maintenance work on existing licenses now showing their age.
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Definitely, this is convoluted AFL
Now we are doing the same to meat, in order to valorize "plant-based" foods.
Please see my edit. I sorry my question registered as a defense. It was not rhetorical.
I managed to work like that for ~9 months; when you work on some bleeding edge stuff like inventing some new Deep Learning method you can actually have fun and be eager to keep doing it. If it's just usual treadmill caused by silly decisions from the top and inability to push back to customer, then it's hell.
Interesting, I was just thinking about this yesterday. I think making it cool to leave your devices at home, locked away where Alexa and Google can't listen or follow you would be a good thing to do. Increase in-person media, live theater, bring back Salon style discussions, I attend all of these so maybe idealist. Interesting stuff
From the search results I get, the body appears to be encrypted but things like sender/subject/etc. are in the clear and can be indexed.

This is why I hope they fix the bridge: I'd like to index my email fully and locally, but I'm not going to use thunderbird to do it.
I completely agree, because I am a compassionate human. Corporations are not, and would need a financial justification to extend you common courtesy.
> This is the Marxist conception of racism

No, it's a concept of racism that originates with people who abandoned Marxism for bourgeois identity politics. The right likes to call it “Marxist” because it originated with former Marxists and exists within a dialectical framework which replaces the Marxist class-conflict framework with a racial-conflict one, but it is very much not—and in some ways fundamentally opposed to—Marxism.
If it starts xn-- then it's punycode, and the prefix was apparently chosen because it didn't occur in any actual DNS labels.
WSJ is not a hard paywall+, it has multiple technical solutions similar to what was allowed before, open these in a private window for example:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-co...

https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/th...

https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/artic...

Notice that "?mod=rsswn" is used as described in this issue^ for a browser extension which can be used for a number of sites.

I'll try all these after I click reply and edit if it does not work.

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496356#19506786

^ https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues...

edit: All worked though an ad appeared over the article that I was able to dismiss by clicking on the small x in the upper right of the ad itself. Then I was able to read all those articles without being logged-in to the WSJ, just like readers of HNs could before.
Feels like this kind of thing would be useful for generating better jazz backing tracks. The programmatic backing tracks you get these days are good, but can be really repetitive. I wonder if there's some way to force the model to follow changes.
I noticed that is well. My best (and most paranoid) guess is that this is being done by McDonald's employees. Not the ones working at the stores, but ones that run the systems. They capture card info on new subscribers, then generate a bunch of bogus orders. Because they work with the systems, covering tracks is a lot easier. Does this sound plausible to anyone else?
So did margarine continue displacing butter after WWII?

If TFA were generalized some, it would help explain what killed lard and butter in the US. The lard-to-Crisco and butter-to-margarine narratives have much in common. Different companies were involved, but it was all enabled by hydrogenation. And there were the same (now known to be bogus) health claims vs saturated fats. Health claims that were undoubtedly sourced, at least in part, by sellers of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Human interaction has so much potential - speaking as a musician here this is exciting.
It's the New Republic, an intellectual fashion magazine for the American Left. As it says at the bottom of the article, the author is one of their staff writers. Comments about American hegemony and how other countries can't be blamed for wanting American idiots to go die are the kinds of intellectual fashion statements that the New Republic expects its staff writers to make.
I didn't just call it Marxist, I explained the difference.
Amazon plans to turn Prime two-day shipping to just one day
Frankly, open source is more of a distribution model than a way to solicit free work from outside developers. As a developer paid to work on a popular open-source product with paying customers, most of the outside PRs I see are small tweaks that address very specific use cases, not major new functionality. Those are certainly welcome, but those kinds of contributions are not going to make or sustain the product.
I'm shocked, absolutely shocked! /s
At least in my experience, residential networks aren't worth bothering with for email.

It's all about reliability - I need my email to work at all points in time. I can't deal with ISPs blocking the port, not to mention everything will flag your emails as spam because it's coming from a residential IP.

If you're selling a commercial offering then you're going to need to fix those issues, otherwise, why wouldn't you pay for a "standard" solution that solves those issues for you?
Your tax dollars at work =D
Intel stock plummets as the outlook fell short of expectation
Let all your colleagues know that you only ready emails at specific times, eg start of day, after lunch, end of day (replace with actual hours if possible).

And if there's something urgent inbetween times, they have to call you.

It worked for me ;-)
Because the background is not "real."

Given two stories, both identical, where one story is real - the real story will always be more meaningful because it has actually happened within the constraints of our reality, granting it validity and us the ability to relate to it.

Now, consider two stories, both identical, where one story is "real" and the other story is from a simulated universe. Now I'd say that both stories are of possibly equivalent value, since both have happened.
I think the news was out for some time and only now the rumor started to confirm.

Tether is trading at exactly $1/$1 on Kraken. It had touched $0.85/$1 on October 2018 though. It was discounted for the last quarter of the last year. The discount lasted for several months suggesting lack of liquidity and possibly lack of funds.

The Tether discount suddenly disappeared. And suddenly a discount/premium appeared on Bitfinex. However, that discount was getting smaller everyday and almost disappeared (until a bit earlier but still negligible in the volatile crypto market).

I personally hold a significant amount of USDT/Finex Dollars and not worried. I think the price is more relevant than the news. The probabilities or lack of funds will be builtin in the price. And the current price suggests that iFinex has got its shit together.
Wow, I backed this on Kickstarter in 2011 for $60.

I was supposed to receive "A custom made FreedomBox Foundation MicroSD card reader so you can keep your freedom running in style and a MicroSD card loaded with Freedom Box software"

...I have not received anything (yet?)
Maybe "Neo-Marxist" is a better label then.
The use for vanity numbers is a later development. Originally the three digit exchange "number" in North America was identified by a three letter code. On a phone with no dial you'd tell the operator the exchange codeword and the four digit number within the exchange if you didn't want to manually pulse the switchhook. For automatic switch dialed calls, the dial needed to also be marked for these letter codes so you didn't need to use a separate reference for the corresponding digit.
If their comments are consistently good then they should stand on their own merit. Else you just get idol worship and groupthink.

Names are not as useful as you think.
It's surprising that the optimized C is slower; it's much faster on my machine. Like 20s (optimized C) vs 1m20s (unoptimized C).
I once bookmarked a blog post [1] which attempts to review existing research on the topic. The bottom line, I think, is that unstructured interviews have the least predictive power. So whatever is your interviewing process, make sure it's structured and similar for every candidate.

[1] https://erikbern.com/2018/05/02/interviewing-is-a-noisy-pred...
I don't think anything you wrote refutes what you quoted. Certainly many contributors to open source projects have been motivated by not wanting to pay for software. And many if not most of the users of open source software have been motivated by not wanting to pay for software as opposed to a desire to read or modify the source code. There are a lot more people who run apt-get install than open up pull requests. It's why Stack Overflow has more MAUs than GitHub. Freeware has been around since the beginning of software, open source is a more scalable way of doing it.
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This paywall is the most awkward I've seen so far.
They didn't say very high acceleration, they said instantaneous changes in speed, like the object has no mass.
That could be a good compromise.
boycott these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo#Products_and_brands
(if you care anything about your health, this is not even difficult)
Facebook is today's tobacco company. Tobacco companies need to pay 2-5 times to the "normal" rate to get people to work for them.
I moved to San Francisco from Russia and lived there for over 10 years. Despite unstable life in Russia, with each year I was becoming increasingly anxious whilst living in the States. Although I was making a bank, it felt like I could loose it all any day if I’d became ill.
I left that country less than a year ago. It’s magical how exponentially happy and calm I am after moving to Australia.

US is a country for people in their 20s who are either rage at EDM festivals or those who busy building startups.
There’s nothing to do if you poor or ill - you fucked!
until they come up with Angular-esque Dart 2.0 that is not backwards compatible and you're left maintaining their mess.

Forks are nice for small patches or development teams with a plan, no one outside Google cares enough about Dart fwik.
True. Or it gets rolled into mongodb as a sort of .net version
The New York Times’ podcast, “The Daily” covered this today:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736...

If you’d like to listen rather than read the story.
Well, if everyone stopped having kids effective immediately, we could have the population issue solved very quickly. Along with all our other problems, too, after a few decades of suffering.
Chicharrones are awesome. They call it "pork rinds" elsewhere (eg: in Canada).
https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
I wouldn't mind giving this a try with Firefox, but I haven't had much luck making Chrome-specific WebExtensions work even though they're ostensibly compatible now.
I'd love to see a comparable study on Slack, I predict there will be a similar finding.
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You might be. That hardly means that music is. Music is whatever humans think is cool to listen to.

Actually I think "inventing new forms of music" is a pretty great musical Turing test. How much neural-network training would it take to make an AI that can take the sum total of existing music, extrapolate the rules, and then deliberately break those rules in such a way as to make something that humans would find interesting?
> That clearly states that unpaid internships are legal,

Sorry, this is why I said "usually". One of the many circumstances under which internships must be paid is if you provide benefit to the company. Since most internships do this, even unpaid ones, most unpaid internships are illegal (but not all fo them).

It's all very vague and I'm sure you could lawyer up and find loopholes should students complain. But I feel like if you're giving unpaid internships in the first place, money for a court case is not on the table.
Do you pass the rendered out duck fat through a filter of some sort? To separate the solids?

I normally buy duck fat from stores, but maybe I should try it.
I wish there was more discussion about how society should recognize and handle this. Much of modern society is orthogonal to parenting and raising children, I would love to see it addressed more in the public discourse -- maybe even "disrupted" by tech so we can be thrice better parents, citizens, and workers.
You shouldn't, because there is nothing wrong with React, or the premise behind the team doing it.

People are imperfect, and organizations made of people are inherently imperfect. If you didn't allow yourself to use anything made by anyone who acted immorally, you wouldn't be allowed to use anything.

Should I not use Comcast for my internet if it's the only provider in my area? At a certain point the 'karma' associated with taking a hard-line on a company's ethics is no longer worth the inconvenience.
Elon Musk is brash, impulsive, and overly self-confident. These qualities are what make some people follow him with a cult-like dedication, but they make many others want to see him fail.

Personally I don't care about all that. He's not a great person. He's a bit obnoxious. But I think that from a purely technological standpoint, Tesla is having an important positive impact on civilization. So I want to see it succeed despite Musk (and despite his best attempts in recent months to bring it all crashing down).
I've been in commercial contact with FirefoxOS people, and they were definitely targeting phones that are the same specs as what KaiOS currently supports. (512MB RAM, 4GB storage, which is half the RAM and half the storage of Android Go)
I don't really know they were calling it smartphones or feature phones though, that might change things.
does it matter if its traffic is routed through counties with a history of breaching privacy?
I use duck fat every day to fry up (locally-raised organic) ground beef. Always get the same level of satisfaction as that of eating a chocolate.
How is this relevant to Hacker News? Are we to surmise that any and all news articles are now welcome here?
Can't use Netlify if you self-host Gitlab. (I wish we could!)
Is that a good life for a programming language? It doesn't seem long compared to others.
Encouraging..? They have yet to launch.
"klass" seems to somewhat outnumber "clazz" in OpenJDK, 1541 to 1021. Wonder if there's a reason they haven't settled on one.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/search?q=klass

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/search?q=clazz
> Just because some company got away with something doesn't mean they all should.

I totally agree.
Look at what the CIA paid for during the height of the Cold War. Remote viewing studies going on for years (STARGATE), MKULTRA and whatnot... A lot of money went around.
I am personally grateful for every blog which does not go out of it's way to follow "standard typographic rules" because so many of them end up looking identical.
Nobody should be forced to work 75 hrs to put food on the table, it's dehumanizing and we, as a society, have enough wealth to make sure everyone can live a minimally enjoyable life.
I don't really have an attachment to any of the three platforms; I use all three. Moving between different windowing environments and UI designs is a huge context switch and provides no value to me (it's just eye candy).
Honestly, for that money, I'd sell out. But I'd also make myself a huge thorn in the side after the first year anytime anything unethical was going on. If I got fired, I would ADD IT TO MY RESUME, that I left a job at FB making 150k because I took an ethical stand against nasty behavior. I'd have a big chunk of green in my pocket, come across as a coding saint to future employers, and they would KNOW that my last salary was 6 figures. It's really kinda awesome!
How the Ethos of Individualism Sucked the Soul Out of America
I don't know of any good canonical references. The perf story is always changing since a lot of this back-end work is pretty new. Also, the type system changes in 2.0 are still fairly new and I'm not sure how much the back-ends take advantage of those types yet.
Whatever Happened to the Consumption Tax?
We make our own lard, rendered from pig fat (usually from around the kidneys), which is readily available for cheap (I buy 5 lbs for a few dollars from a pasture-based farm, so likely cheaper if you get it from a more industrial farm). We also render our own suet. Haven't needed to use vegetable oil for a while now. Love lard, makes all vegetables taste 10000 times better.
Can we lay off the environmentalist cum vegan morality for a brief period, especially on meat-focused submissions?
That's patently false on two charges:

- Vegan dishes enjoy nowhere near the popularity of low-fat foods in the anti-fat wave of the 80s and 90s. Not even close. It's still a minority of restaurants that offer any vegan options.

- The main argument for plant-based diets isn't that they're healthier (though a minority of folks do argue such), but that they're less cruel to animals and are more environmentally friendly. In contrast to arguing that low-fat diets are healthier, both of those assertions are uncontroversial.

Personally, I still eat meat, but have moved (aside from eating out, which I do rarely) to buying all of my animal products from farms that are certified for specific animal welfare conditions. And, well, I also always have some lard in the fridge. Where I'm from, people tended to save rendered pork fat in their fridges.
How would it actually solve a problem that couldn't be solved more conveniently with current standards?
Python and the Black Hole
We struggle to detect stealth aircraft from our own civilization more than a few dozen miles away.

If a species can travel from star to star, it can likely evade our detection. Telescopes are basically worthless for spotting anything small or stealthy - asteroids are fairly regularly discovered after they whiz by the planet.

Of course, the other part of the answer is that these things are likely terrestrial, and didn't come from space in the first place.
I have had to point out to colleagues that I might always check mail when I come in and again at lunch time.

But if I am engaged in a task I might not look at mail for several hours.
Aluminum is singled out because of large amounts in use, and, more importantly, massive difference between energies required to make it and recycle it.
The significant majority of contributors to Elasticsearch are Elastic employees. Nothing prevents outside contributors from attempting to monetize their work through selling, supporting, consulting on, or hosting Elasticsearch. They're just not likely to be nearly as well-positioned to monetize it as Elastic is.
That's using version 0.4 of Julia too (current is 1.1). Current version has a a lot of improved optimization passes that would likely benefit this benchmark.
> And it is the western corporates that have deliberately created this anti-competitive business model.

You sure it's not the same cheap consumers that cause race-to-the-bottom business models in a lot of other industries too (airlines)?
It's a sad state of affairs when someone like Angwin is ousted because she stood in the way of what appears to be the formation of another Vox/Gawker clone. Hopefully she and her editorial staff manage to pick up somewhere else with the original vision.
Agreed, it isn't clear to me what a 'good' conversion would be though. I suppose you could compare to an average wage or something, but then that doesn't capture subsistence farmers, or that there wasn't really a middle class then, or that on some measures a poor person today, is better off than a king from the 18th century.

On top of that, the nature of the thing we are measuring has changed. Today it's a fruit, 250 years ago it's seeds and root were medicinal.

All that said I'm struggling to work out where you got the billion £ figure from, or the 40x increase. The first 2 tables seem to suggest growth on the order of 100-150 fold, which would suggest £100 millions, rather than a billion, or am I misunderstanding something?
One thing to keep in mind with the internal referrals is that people tend to recommend those who they like or with whom they had had a good "cultural fit" before. So if you only rely on internal referrals you might end up having a very homogenous workplace.
MongoDB used to use AGPL, but apparently that was not good enough. Not sure why?
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I think 99% of us would love to be able to get into flowstate and actually get chunks of work done.
In my experience 996 is a scam to get compensated for doing tons of hours of work while often doing no more work than the employees on a regular schedule. I've seen plenty of people working two jobs who just do the needful and rest every minute they can who do far less work tha their "less hardworking" peers.

You CAN take a 40hr week worker, make them work extra, and their productivity will spike pretty hard. It's just that people eventually adapt by resting more at work. Employers end up seeing little additional work done even if they schedule somebody for an extra 20hrs a week.

The only jobs where more hours = more work sustainably are jobs like trucking where the work is actually very easy and its just a matter of staying awake at the wheel. Long work weeks are mostly a form of virtue signalling which you recieve money for doing. The only reason the 24/7 crunch time companies don't immediately go broke from sheer inefficiency is because they don't pay their staff overtime. Everybody would be better off in the long run with a culture that was focused on hiring a greater number of people to work more reasonable hours with strongly encouraged breaks. This 996 crap is a reflection of the egos of people like Jack Ma who would rather have employees with his work ethic rather than employees that get a lot of work done in little time.
Wow. I hope this response is not the official company line.
The agreement isn't for X, the agreement was for "whatever you can provide". You don't provide a unit of work, you provide "your brain as applied to the problems of the company".

Game theory is for the company to fire you and find someone who will honor their contract...
It's almost like unregulated financial institutions have a tendency to screw over their customers... No one could have predicted this in the consistently solvent, regulated, and trustworthy cryptocurrency market. It's too bad bitfinex got ripped off by a surely unrelated entity. /s

Have we learned our lesson yet?
Hmmm I'm not sure changing our whole naming system is feasible, but I mean, you can still call it whatever you want to I guess.