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> So I hope somebody forks MongoDB from the version where it was open source.

To what end? Why should we use a fork that's supported by a few people when we can still use the Community Edition that's from the horse's mouth? The idea of forking things for the fun of it actually perpetuates the problem that we already have with OSS.
We want to get things for free, use them to make money, but still expect support for new features and bug fixes. This is worse when someone does this in their 'free time'.

Let's discuss the merits of forking from when it was open source. Percona has a fork, or is it not fit for purpose as they also adopted the SSPL thing?

Wait, how has a fork of MongoDB also adopted MongoDB's evil license? How are they able to take contributions from MongoDB and package them under the same license? Do they share the source code internally, or do they upstream changes that are in the open?

> Why the fuck should we care what their business model would be? That's for them to figure out.

Isn't restricting Amazon and others from profiting from their efforts part of figuring out this business model?

> But if they sell something as open source and they close source it, then we, the schmucks that bought into it, will point out that MongoDB is no longer open source and treat it as a proprietary piece that comes with the caveats of proprietary software, lock in, etc.

Did MongoDB sell you their product as open-source? Which specific product? Was it the Community database, or the Enterprise one?
Your argument lacks substance, because you're responding to someone who's asking why people are moving to another closed source product, one whose source code you can't even inspect.
The solar panels are shared between the fridge and some batteries. His house computer is connected to the charge controller of the panels, to the fridge AC inverter and to thermometers inside and outside the fridge to decide whether to turn on the AC inverter. It also generates graphs of the temperatures, running times, etc. And it warns him if the fridge temperature gets too low.

That said, I think the 3k lines include adapters for talking to the sensors, etc. The algorithm itself is about 250 lines: https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/joey/house.git/tree/src
President Trump tweets pic of sensitive satellite photo of Iranian launch site
What a moronic idea..

nothing can be intelligent unless it is self aware first.

What happened?
why did it bomb moscow?
don't know.. its "AI"..
You can go on vacation in your state too ;-)
If we don't solve this problem you won't have the luxury of travelling anywhere, we will be spending all our energy and capital just on surviving.
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I believe more in Putin changing your memory than the other way around. Small details I suppose. And that I believe that Putin would indeed nuke you before letting that happen.
A drop in replacement would be very attractive. How much electricity would it take to make a liter of fuel? How much money?
to be honest the budget thinkpads have always been crap (as have most of lenovos non thinkpad laptops) its only the T/X/P/W models that were worth looking at, its entirely possible the newer AMD ones are better than in the past but i think AMD sill have a gen or two to go before theyre competitive in the laptop market

still theres nothing out there id consider replacing my X1C with, its a fantastic machine as was the first gen one it replaced, im not loyal to many companies for things, if i think i can get better elsewhere i will but ive yet to find a laptop that fits me better

good thinkpads are expensive (at least new, theyre very affordable refurbished) but to me theyre worth it as they simply last longer, my laptop lives a very hard life and im something of a cruel owner, lesser systems have caved in from such a life in the space of 12 months. my X1C took 5 solid years of abuse being hauled all over the world in an overstuffed backpack (including glasses of orange juice, beer, JD and coke, Umeshu and coffee spilled in it) the only issue it ever had was that a couple of letters on the keyboard stopped working following the umeshu spillage, i could probably have cleaned it up with isopropyl but i picked up a replacement for 15 quid instead

so yeah basically avoid the E/L/A series and maybe even the Tx95 (AMD) range and youre likely to get a very good system (with unquestionably the best keyboard on any modern laptop)
google: '<<your chosen language>> literate programming' and use the templates there but remember comments evolve with code, so consider them 'first draft'
The breakfast kickstarting myth came from research tainted by funding from the breakfast cereal industry. It’s fake, and completely not true. Historically breakfast came from breaking the fast of the day before, which would be around modern lunch time. Eating so early isn’t natural at all, and for people that prefer it, it really is likely only a habit more than anything related to physiology.
Vaccines are transported in a cold chain from the manufacturer all the way out to the last village on the end of tracks so poor only motorcycles can ride on them. The last part of that cold chain is off grid, using solar, diesel generators, ice packs, and kerosene fridges.

The first rule of operating an off grid cold chain is to always, always, always keep the freezer full to the top with ice packs.

The ice packs will of course be needed to pack coolers to distribute the vaccines, but they are also your backup system. A freezer filled to the brim with ice packs will be able to bridge a 3 or 4 day interruption in fuel (or failed generator, or burned up wiring, or security evacuation, or, etc, etc, etc), and save hundreds of thousands of dollars of vaccines from loss, not to mention possibly human lives.

Ice rocks.
This is a very simple principle, yet I see it constantly violated in big projects with plenty of redources.
Even though it seems obvious, it takes a lot of effort and arguing to keep these kind of interfaces small and effective.
Fellow South African here, you'd be very surprised then with the capabilities of our spy agency. Very secretive by hugely funded. The former apartheid spies went on to consult for the current government, and they were all very highly trained. In fact one of the precursors to the mass surveillance tech made famous by Snowden, was actually developed at a firm in Stellenbosch in the late 90's to early 00's. That was then sold on to various other state intel agencies, of which SA got a cut of the profit.

We've been developing very high level intelligence tools for years in private/public partnerships. It's all just highly secretive, and one of the areas that really does work, so it doesn't get any attention. Most of us, like yourself, just assume that because other areas here are awful, that our intel community must be to, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Lastly don't forget JZ himself was Head of Intelligence, so he always held it in high regard, and gave it the funding it required.
I don't know any forum that is as pro air travel as HN. In my country you get publicly shamed if you even consider flying anywhere.
> You need something like decile transition probabilities, not merely directional changes.

That's exactly what's in the linked article. The probability of going from the top to the bottom in one generation is 8%, to second-to-bottom 10%. That's a significant chance.

> Going from the top decile of wealth to the second or third from top is not a significant loss of wealth.

I disagree. Going to the third decile likely puts you in the bottom half.

> How many people who are born into the top decile of wealth end up below the poverty line in total assets + income?

Roughly 8%, as the bottom decile roughly coincides with the poverty line.
> it took me that long to really get into the story

Was there anything in particular that turned you off? I do remember putting off reading it for several years because it simply didn't sound that interesting and the feudal aspects sounded more like fantasy than sci fi. I'm genuinely surprised by that comment though because I thought there was more than enough intrigue and mystery introduced early on, I was hooked almost instantly.
What is "No Tech Magazine"?

> NO TECH MAGAZINE – We believe in progress and technology

> No Tech Magazine hosts all links and updates from Low-tech Magazine. We refuse to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution.

Is it a parody site? Is it a "Low Tech Magazine" mirror site? Or is it sister site operated by low-tech magazine fans, just with a slightly different altitude towards technology, hence the joke?
I don't know about your specific situation, but I think we'll both agree that the majority of HN readers need a browser, a terminal, a text editor, and an operating system that gets out of their way.
This!

So called "hypothecated" taxes (supposedly dedicated to a specific purpose) are rarely actually restricted to that usage.

In Australia, even if the tax is supposedly restricted in what it can be applied to, I believe that the parliament can legislate otherwise at any time.
It just comes across as them being arseholes since no reason was given.

Typical 'better to ask permission than forgiveness' fuckery that companies featured on this site are famous for.
Electronics and the internet are 4% of the world's total CO2 emissions. That's more than plane travel and growing at 9% each year.

"Climate crisis: the unsustainable use of online video”: Our new report on the environmental impact of ICT"

https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-onl...
That means the other half the time, with the same further digging, it is not.

That's the problem.
Or just that Space doesn't care about losing 1 Satelite.
Yeah, I'm aware :) I think people that are healthy can try it for themselves in small steps (with supervision of a doctor, if possible), and see how it makes them feel. I have been objectively tracking my mood (Remente), sleep (Ouraring), strength (only body weight exercise, tracking reps, cadence and more). Overall it's been improving in all categories, from very good to even better. If it's a result of the fasting or something else I've changed is hard to tell, but I'm pretty sure fasting is not making it worse for me at least.
OpenBSD tends to have nicer defaults. On laptops the volume and brightness keys work everywhere out of the box, including on the console, without needing to be configured, unlike on FreeBSD, NetBSD, (and Linux, where they only work on X11)

FreeBSD has a couple more drivers for wireless cards than OpenBSD, and has some GPL drivers that you can optionally compile in for even wider support (bwn has optional GPL components for example). But for most hardware, the support will be very similar (aside from bluetooth, which OpenBSD got rid of because their code was poor and unmaintained—nobody's gotten around to writing another bluetooth stack yet)

I prefer OpenBSD, but FreeBSD has a lot going for it too with Jails, ZFS, support for NVIDIA cards, Wayland.
Ask HN: What should Western intelligence do in Hong Kong?
This question is not on whether it's desirable for China to collapse, but the hypothetical question: What should e.g. the CIA do if its goal were to destabilize and ultimately bring down China?

For example, undercover agents shooting HK police would likely be far too blunt and lose public support. Now. Once the PLA goes in, anything might go.

There must be lots of analysis into strategies how one should optimally escalate these situations without going too far too quickly. What are they?
Stick with ubuntu. Arch has benefits, but most new users will do just fine without it, and arch can be a big pain to get running.
> I wonder if it would improve battery life.

Compared to what? If Windows, then absolutely. Any Linux- or FreeBSD-based operating system will make your laptop seem like it's brand new in comparison.
upper 16 bits are usually unused on x86_64 as well (since the x86_64 virtual address space is only 48-bit), though whether they're one or zero depends on bit 48
I agree with your statement.

Rationally, MongoDB's decision made sense because of the real actual threat of AWS and others offering alternatives (at various levels of baking) that seek to undermine MongoDB.

If this is the path that we choose to take, we'll see more companies go back to the closed source model (which MongoDB hasn't gone in).
If you'd like to program / code your own ponzis and ponzi simulations on the blockchain, see the free "Programming Crypto Blockchain Contracts Step-by-Step Book / Guide" [1]. [1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/programming-cryptocontrac...
I bring you jolly tidings. You can put an image of, say, Manjaro Linux on a stick, boot it up, answer a few questions about language and keyboard, and have a fully working install on your ThinkPad inside of ten minutes.

Am writing this from such a setup on my TP.
> The difference is nowadays it's starting to be less of a fringe view, thank heavens.

Well put. The timing is good too, because NLU-is-just-around-the-corner hype is starting to have some really negative social consequences. Yesterday a disturbing article about automated test scoring in the states was trending on HN.
There is the point that I originally made:

"Families that have been wealthy over generations have figured out how to do this, while the "noveau riche" often fail after one or two generations."

That also implies that if you're born into "old money", you most likely will stay rich. Just being "born rich" isn't sufficient though.
>You can often store that bit within the pointer itself

Alternatively you can follow what java did with compressed ops and use 4bytes per pointer on 64bit archs (instead of 8) and shift the pointers prior to dereference - effectively enabling 32GB heaps with 4bytes pointers.
I should probably have included an example: https://coconuts.co/hongkong/news/not-welcome-far-right-patr...

Gibson has since been indicted for felony riot which can carry a term of up 5 years, incidentally.
Eh... no, we really don't. At least I really don't. For me Manjaro runs out of the box flawlessly with no config wizardry - except font changing (because I like Lato more than Noto Sans) and scaling down the resolution from 3000 to 1920x1080. The rest is fine as it is. I used to do bumblebee shenanigans but nowadays I don't do gaming on the mobile.

But these are personal tweaks, the machines run happy as they are post-install without any meddling. Steam runs happy, proton is running a lot of games without any problem. So it _is_ ready for the Desktop for some of us.
The OSI has a clear definition for what they deem "Open Source" that hasn't changed since it was written down '98, based on the Debian project's Free Software guidelines. This was all long before cloud vendors could have payed them for anything. And they have, as far as I know, a very non-bogus claim on the term as they coined it to distinguish their (less strict) definition from FSF's "Free Software" term.
yeah, 64bit is a lot of address space, and masking/shifting provides quite a few bits if one is willing to manage their own pointers.
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In the Seattle area they keep tearing up the old train right-of-ways and then claiming they need incredible tens of billions of dollars and several decades to create new right-of-way.

The city also dug a new tunnel for cars. They decided the best use of the old tunnel was to fill it with rubble. Meanwhile, Seattle has some of the worst congestion in the country.

I have no idea what goes on in the planning meetings for this stuff.
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I've been using the word "paltering" or "to palter" to help make this distinction. Once "lying by being truthful" has a concrete name like paltering, it is easier to get others to start to see the different kinds of propaganda and label them.

Paltering is what Chomsky rails against in traditional media in his books such as Manufacturing Consent. Ex: tortured Polish Solidarity Catholic priests in the USSR get national headlines, but Catholic Priests murdered by US-funded death squads in Guatemala do not.
However, one could also argue that the majority of the nation does not have the luxury to spend a single day traveling, so going by sleeper train is even better. I recently had a business trip to Switzerland and took the sleeper train from Berlin to Basel (9pm to 8am) where I arrived after a nice breakfast (in the train) so much more relaxed than after a hectic flight. Its more expensive but only because its basically hotel + trip.
"He explained this as an aversion to certain textures of food that he really could not tolerate, and so chips and crisps were really the only types of food that he wanted and felt that he could eat."

Is his thinking the product of parents who allow anything, teachers who have to allow everything, the entitlement culture?

It's hard for me to accept that the boy is not tolerating any kind of vegetable in the biological sense of the word.
Lead batteries can be rejuvenated, with a device mostly called "A pulser/desulfator/refresher" Short story: I had a completely dead 12V car battery. It was at 0V and would not accept a charge at all. Connected it to a bench power supply and slowly cranked the voltage up until it charged with a couple mA @ 30V. Slowly it accepted more amps so I constantly dialed the voltage down until it was charging at 14volts. Then hooked up the desulfator and left it for couple of weeks. Every other day checked voltage and hooked it up to a charger for couple hours. After that it was perfectly able to start my car(oldtimer) again.
I haven't replaced exercise with fasting, I think you still need both! Of course you wouldn't be as strong as someone who lifts 5 times/week if you didn't. I'm speaking of strength relative to body weight here... I see no benefit in being able to bench press 200kg, I rather do 15-30 chins with no effort. Sleep, exercise, a good diet and relationships are all required for good long-term benefits in any endevour.
The article tries to paint Waze as an "evil" corporation, but to me it sounds like they haven't perfected their algorithms yet. If Waze reroutes 1,000 cars to a shortcut that can only handle 100, that's idiotic and does not provide a good service to users. But if their algorithms took the road's capacity into account, everyone would benefit since there would be no "synthetic" traffic jams.

In my experience traffic apps are imperfect and even dangerous:

- Waze sent me once to a shortcut via a very shady neighborhood

- Google drove me through an alley so narrow that I had to fold the side mirrors in order to pass

- Google twice tried to put me on a toll-road ramp that could only be used by electronic pass holders. As a tourist, I didn't have one.

That said, these apps provide huge value by telling you about road conditions (e.g. accidents) and routing you around them, estimating your ETA, and telling you how to get to your destination even if you miss a turn. I would not want to go back to the old way of navigating using paper maps and just hoping for the best...
I have installed Arch Linux on a Lenovo Ideapad 700 last year and everything worked out of the box. Didn’t have to configure a thing. I haven’t noticed that I haven’t installed Nvidia drivers for four months because vanilla 4K support was so good.
If you're seriously interested in the magic of Heinz Ketchup, this New Yorker longread by Malcolm Gladwell from 2004 remains the benchmark-

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...
Darwin at its finest, cant fix stupid.
Some ideas for starters:

- Detailed description of the final product
- Description of the MVP functionality (we can also help with that)
- Specific technology requirements
the first one it generated for me looked like Aunt Flo from Bod...
I hope you realize the extreme effect the completely outrageous decision to have randomize on by default has on people. Turn it off before someone goes crazy for real.
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Arch folks certainly do, but I presume they know what they're getting into and enjoy working out how things work. It hasn't been like this for the vast majority of Ubuntu and Fedora folks for a long time now.
Yes, a hobby is a good description. If you enjoy it it's great, and you can learn a lot. I certainly used to, but nowadays prefer to just use fedora or mac OS and have more time for other hobbies
Historically “open” was shorthand for “mostly POSIX compliant at the source level”. The term “open source” for licensing is much more recent.
Sterling falls beneath $1.20 in front of Brexit confrontation in UK parliament
No they don't:

http://hyperlogos.org/article/Who-Invented-Term-Open-Source
And yet, direct witness statements from two helpful people standing next to each other, made immediately after the event can vary so wildly that you would wonder if they are describing the same event.

paraphrased from "The Invisible Gorilla: and other ways our intuition deceives us" (Chabris and Simons)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003P9XE56/
Doesn't appear there is a STEM shortage after all.
The Surface Laptop is microsoft seeing modern macbooks and going "Apple is not going far enough". Literally everything is soldered, and then the laptop is completely glued shut.
This is happening right now in Kashmir.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/28/india-restore-kashmirs-i...

It really makes me wonder whether a strong movement towards mesh networks could resolve this. What are the ways authorities could block a community network? At least information could be spread this way, and might have saved the Zimbabwean journalist.
The elite, detail-obsessed world of the people who judge classic cars
Hard to get this done properly in C I imagine. You're getting into UB the moment you start bit-fiddling with pointers I think.
Recession prediction – 24 month probability is brim now
afaik thats not really long time
It is linked to by Low-Tech Magazine all the time, so it is a sister site
Select Code_execution from * Using SQLite;
Highest score posted here before comments are closed wins!
I've been a Linux user since 1999 and recently got Arch up and running on a spare laptop just to see what it was all about. Not sure if my experience is typical but compared to my day-to-day Ubuntu system it was like going back in time 20 years. I'm sure some people enjoy the challenge (and the learning opportunity) but I've been spoilt now and already have too many hobbies as it is.
I guess like most other HN readers, I’ve heard of the Ponzi scheme but didn’t knew the real story behind it. As long as there are naive people there will always be smarter ones taking advantage of them.

A very interesting read and I’m sure this would make a great movie (Di Caprio playing Ponzi)!
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We are all full of fears, except those who are blind to the inevitable consequences of their disconsidered acts against nature.
TerraPass! All American so should be locally verifiable etc etc.
Artificial memories in humans have already been done. In the 1980's there was an epidemic of psychologists implanting memories of sexual abuse in children who grew up believing they had actually been abused.
That’s only on the new route masters in zone1, outside of zone 1 there’s one door and everyone must enter through that door, tap in while the driver watches and the driver will not leave until everyone who gets on has paid
[1] Personal story from a fellow colleague from Botswana.

[2] http://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=11129
That feels like it'll start hurting when you don't know the (maximum) degree of your nodes. As you won't have fixed-size object anymore.
Inner-Platform Effect
I think the limitations of the mobile app I use for Hackernews hindered me here. I do remember looking for a report/flag option.