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> Wow, such a propaganda tone that I am not used to seeing in

> HN.

I think we have a very different definition of propaganda.

I suggest getting into the comments early when a keyword is used in the title.

> "9 billion a year for a voting right" is like saying that

> the average software developer in London pays 20K a year

> to the government for voting rights every 5 years.

It's clearly a tongue in cheek exaggeration.

> The "divorce bill" makes it sound like it some kind of a

> fine or something but it's actually about the obligation

> that the UK committed through the years.

I used "divorce settlement" - and it is very much like a divorce settlement. Both parties are expected to settle remaining costs and you end up losing the kids.

> A good analogy would be the UK participating in a birthday

> dinner party, promising to chip in for the present,

> ordering the food and the desert but leaving before the

> desert arrives so people expect the UK to pay for its

> desert as it was already cooked and pay its part for the

> present they bought.

Maybe, but then you would expect to be able to chose what to do with the desert if you've paid for it?

> If the UK does not honour its obligations, it would be

> incorporated in the future trade agreements.

Unfortunately, yes.

> Please don't use propaganda catchwords and talking points

> here, the topic itself is divisive but this is beyond

> that. It is a dishonest portrayal of reality.

I purposely put the word "divorce" in speech marks as it's what it is commonly referred to, rightly or wrongly. I wasn't aiming to paint a picture perfect version of reality, I would need several books to describe Brexit accurately (and no doubt somebody will write them). The purpose is simply to show that £3.3 billion is really not that much compared to our ongoing projects. Hell, another one to look at is the Trident project.
They're predicted to work out fine. And maybe they will -- which would be great. But even if there is a 75% chance of that happening, we should still be prepared for the alternative if it doesn't. Don't put all your eggs in one basket etc.
More generally, I think we're living in the moment where all successful startups acknowledge the fact that growth means more people, and more people means higher likelihoods of terrible behavior, since humans are on average a terrible organism, at least in relation to the values we espouse.
PINs and passwords are not the same though, PINs are for devices and usually not intended to be sent anywhere else, unlike passwords. PINs are also protected from bruteforce, that's why they are usually just 4 numbers.
We will never escape this hell
By this logic, every other secure messaging method (Signal, Matrix, etc.) all have the same issue because someone could have it open on multiple devices.

It's really not up to Apple to enforce whether you use your one Apple ID with multiple devices.
One ideal is the open development model, where anyone can come along and submit patches, where multiple companies can conspire to create a project, and so on. Open core, where you have a central project that is open source, then a number of plugins that are less open source, is the better model towards this goal. The worry is that members of the community will begin recreating features that have already been added to the paid version, and releasing them as open source. Under the BSL, you have a tension here because the paid version will become part of the free version in a few years. Under open core, you'd ask the community members to release the feature as a plugin, and the two separate plugins can coexist.

The other ideal is the principle of free software being like software I would write myself. MIT and the unlicense are strong versions of this, where I can use them in (nearly) any way I would use software I had written from scratch. The BSL is the better model for this, because it entails paying for software that, in a few years, you will own in this strong sense. Open core entails no such guarantee, and if the company producing it went under, there is no guarantee that they would release the source code under a permissive license.

I think the impetus behind their decision is that they didn't observe a strong open development community, so they didn't feel they would impact that too strongly by using the BSL. The really interesting license would be a combination of both, that is having a truly open core, then licensing everything else under the BSL or equivalent. This is probably avoided for the complexity factor, but would probably entail the best of both worlds.
I wish my sockpuppets had 6K+ karma :O

These people aren't me. (Thanks to them for kind comments, tho!)

I have a couple throw away HN accounts but I do not use them to talk about gun.
Progressive taxes, a safety net of social services.
Is this just a secret shopper?
This is pretty extreme though- three years is a lifetime in the software world, and the original codebase being open source means you likely accepted a lot of code from people who thought they were contributing to an open source project.
Data Lords: The Real Story of Big Data, Facebook and the Future of News
Marketing departments are burning money like mad. It's google and other brokers that make a ton of money.
> Minimal limitations on usage of code; as free as possible

Wait what?
> I /presume/ that no Linux desktop setups today actually support this workflow for user login,

I login to my Linux desktops with a Yubikey and its PIN. I have it configured as a OpenPGP smartcard, and to authenticate (for login, raising privileges with sudo, or unlocking the screen, etc.), I use the poldi[1] PAM module.

[1] http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=poldi.git
>either learn to drive, find a way to get a car, use public transportation, walk/cross only in appropriate place etc.

Your inability to put yourself in someone else's shoes is staggering.

Yes, my whole point is that it is too much for some people.

Cars aren't an option for everyone. As for "walking in appropriate places" and using buses - how many times do I need to say that these simply don't exist in most of the US (are you from here?).

>The benefit for pedestrians should not come at the expense of vehicle. Is that too hard to grasp?

Frankly, it is. What expense (to an inanimate object) are you talking about? Slowing down and paying attention to the road? Cry me a river.

The expenses for pedestrians is risking lives just to get to places.

Yes, it is hard to grasp that you think it's comparable.

Again: we aren't living in your fantasy land where sidewalks and pedestrian crossings and public transportation is available. Saying "use those or drive" is not an option for people who can't drive. The killed woman was one of them.
Revolut now automatically sells your data to whoever apparently, opt-out now
Other factor, this is 3rd factor auth.
In Firefox Developer 71.0b7, it works for me on Windows 10, but not Windows 7. So maybe it has something to do with the OS?
I am going to add that Lambda cold starts are pretty overblown unless you really do have an application that is super sensitive to latency (i.e. you are doing stock trading or something else pretty latency crazy). Most applications can use Lambda and pretty much never worry about cold starts. Consistent traffic keeps Lambda's warm and I've seen services at their busiest suffer less than 1% coldstarts.
The post on archive.org states:
>Any book that does not yet exist in digital form will go into a pipeline for future digitization, preservation and access.

My reading of this is that they will put it on a list of things to scan and make available once the lawyers decide it is ok to do it (or more likely scan it and wait to put it online until they think it is ok to do so).
You definitely pay taxes on a sold property (capital gains, like stock), assuming your profit is over $250k, like this example. Prop 13 doesn't affect that.
Order cancellations here as well, after books have been sent out and returned as undeliverable. Have not ever had that happen with any other shipment to my address, so I suspect they have a recurring issue with label printing. Their customer support just ignored me when I brought that up (several times) and issued a refund without any explanation.
This is in the context of Olympic qualification. Today I believe you need to run under 2 hours 11.5 minutes to qualify.
The vast majority of outside contributions for any project come from people who use the product already or plan to use it. They contribute value but they also derive value, so to me, that's a wash right there.
I had a job once where we worked 35 hours a week. I agree, you had little time to mess around. Yet, I felt like I managed to get everything done on time.
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
I would argue not to include SS benefits as savings purely because SS payments are a tax levied upon the rest of society rather than any sort of fund, trust, etc. that actually has money allotted to someone. It's basically just an IOU from Uncle Sam that they will tax other people to pay you.

Therefore, that is subject to change at the whim of those in charge of changing the laws. Sure, it's politically ugly to reduce/eliminate, but a severe recession could easily change that.
wrt. Cars, there's a whole can of worms which IMHO matters to every car shopper (whether they think they care about it or not): Ergonomics. Every driver may have their own preferences on where important controls (pedals, steering, AC temperature, volume, etc.) should be; every passenger (including the driver) may have preferences on the hip point, seating position, interior material, etc.. In reality these are (rightfully) widely differentiated across models and makes.
Anything crowdsourced can and will be gamed. That is the essence of this type of problem.
> We're firmly committed to being good Open Source citizens.

Good open source citizens usually don't close their code to prevent competition. If you want to go proprietary that's fine, but you're going to get infinite push-back if you continue to say you're a good open source citizen.
Really not that easy, except if you can everything the same, aka go back in time.

Otherwise, causal inference is sadly not easy.
I come from Eastern/Asian culture. I'm surprised to see Western culture swings. When I first got to live in Western culture, everyone was talking about equality as truth. There was equality everywhere: gender, income, race, marriage, geography. Now we talk about inequality as, maybe, the accepted truth. People talk about tail, asymmetric risk taking.

I think Eastern philosophy has a balanced view on this. There're Yin & Yang. The system eventually needs to find a balance. Stop swinging, start living.
> airbnb for used syringes

So just regular airbnb?
Enrollment is a FIDO thing. If you have a FIDO key then you've done enrollment, it was that first time you had to press the button when you'd already signed in and were adding it as a second factor.

For a fingerprint (or like, I dunno, a pinprick blood sample, or maybe they'll make one that requires a freshly plucked hair from your head) that enrollment step just adds a boolean flag saying the Relying Party demands the user's identity be verified by the device during enrollment and any subsequent authorisations.

It's sort of on the honour system, except, if you actually demanded this (maybe in a corporate environment?) FIDO has a mechanism for devices to provide a certificate proving which batch of devices they're from, so you could say OK, I trust Yubico's BioKey 4.1 and BioKey 4.2 and the FooCorp EyeBallSlicer 1000 but any other devices aren't allowed to enroll. If you then found out the BioKey 4.1 can be fooled by breathing on it instead of a fingerprint you'd remove that from your whitelist.

Firefox (and maybe Chrome?) let you blank this out basically, so sites can either accept that you won't tell them what device it is or they can refuse to let you enroll. I can imagine _maybe_ making an exception for my bank or government, but any other site can fuck right off.
May I ask what unimplemented features you're referring to? I think one of the biggest issues the older crowd has with Electron apps is not only that they eat up 500MBs of RAM, but also that they only have a tiny subset of the features contained in apps that ran fine with 500KBs.
No amount of "verification" can get me to stay in an Airbnb.

There's no way for them to prevent homeowners from installing (legal) hidden cameras, and when cameras are discovered, they defer responsibility (to preserve their brand image).

A hotel, by contrast, can't legally have hidden cameras and takes the full brunt of the bad PR if one is discovered.
You might know running that job board - do 30 hour jobs pay as good an hourly rate as regular 40 hour jobs?
I'd also argue that US government should shut down Uber's self-driving research division. If they want self-driving cars they can license from Waymo, or someone else who is actually taking it seriously.

Its pretty clear that Uber's techbros have some serious culture issues. They have shown they are incompetent and should be disqualified by regulators.
I had the same thought. Our PPC consultants strongly recommended that we do branded ads and I pushed back against it using this same logic. Ultimately we performed a test, but the results were very different from in the article—we did find that a significant percentage of those who clicked our branded ads would otherwise click the organic results... but far from 100%. And because cost per click on branded ads is so low compared to other ads, it appears that they are still profitable for us, even once we take into account the users who would have arrived through organic links if the ads didn't exist.

This was and is surprising to me. The only explanation I have is competitors bidding on our brand keywords and taking traffic that would have come to us absent any ads. Which makes the whole thing look like a nice racket for Google. Regardless, for now we pay since the alternative is apparently to lose those users.
>I don’t propose we do that. Open means open.

I don't think we need software Manichaeism. Software can be as open or closed as anyone likes with many degrees in between.

It is preferable for everyone to have software that is relatively permissive but has barriers in place as to not run into a tragedy-of-the-commons like situation where large companies simply take the code of small innovators wholesale and profit off their work without contributing back. License extremism is silly.

Why would we be better off if sentry completely closed down their source code, thus robbing everyone of running and using sentry themselves?
I think there is 24/7 user support and very different software consultant like support and AWS can't actually provide the latter even on a product they control.

I don't really get what these growth startups are supposed to be and for people who contribute nothing back maybe buyer beware is fair.. But it is dishonest to create these company sponsored communities that convert after taking input from individual contributors. Plenty of people try to help a community with out considering that this kind of thing happens and these products compete directly with real open communities through this temporary branding.
When it comes to meditation, the tradition I come from has two kinds of meditative practices. One kind of meditation, like Mindfulness Meditation, increases awareness. When your awareness is increased you'll sometimes notice more psychological habits or problems you do not like about yourself. The next kind of meditation is using a handful of techniques like Noting, which is a way to change habits and behaviors, kind of like manually programming yourself.

Once you become aware of the cause-effect relationships within your mind, it becomes easy to change what causes your mental stressors and improve yourself.

Once you start changing your habits and behaviors and improving yourself into being the person you want to be (Which is what is called: finding your middle ground.) you'll have less of a reason to be on as antidepressants. Usually what happens is you begin to slightly lower the dose and over time and you eventually find yourself not needing antidepressants at all.

In short, the goal, in a way, is to get off of antidepressants, but not to banish it. Antidepressants have a side effect of reducing awareness, so while it's not impossible to end all stress (aka enlightenment) while being on an antidepressant, the antidepressant becomes pointless if not eventually problematic.
Most non-integrating gap countries have a very different background, values etc. None of them are very compatible with a modern industrial society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon%27s_New_Map

In most of these countries, often but not always with tribal backgrounds, it is "grab what you can".

Why is Africa corrupt? Why are they so far behind? Why don't they have good infrastructure, good education etc.?

South Korea was poorer than Ghana in 1957. Why are they rich today?

Trust me in one thing. The answers are unpleasant and especially unwelcome on Hackernews.
That depends entirely on how much power they generate. It can cost twice as much as a fission reactor if it generates ten times more electricity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/dealbook/boeing-...
It's a choice you can make, but it's worth noting that the alternative to getting SDCs working isn't "Nobody gets hit;" the alternative is "We keep having humans operate multi-ton vehicles with their known wetware attention and correction flaws and an average of 3,200 people die a day."

That doesn't imply Uber has the right chops to solve the problem, but I hope someone does.
> This attitude that any employment is immoral if it’s not for life makes no sense to me.

Nothing I said expressed this attitude.
Have you considered that SaaS is just a terrible business model?
Embraer is pretty large. Not Airbus or Boeing large but they make passenger aircraft for medium and shorter routes.

Embraer's commercial business is owned by Boeing now — the subsidiary is called BBC.
I don't have any experience in this.

When you sell a house and the buyer is paying via mortgage, do you get paid cash by the mortgage company in full (the purchase price) at once, or do you receive a monthly amount from the mortgage company that sums up to the house price you sold for?
Illegal immigration and what happens in other countries are at best a red herring here because illegal immigrants aren't typically eligible for benefits and are typically working off the books. The US government has responsibility for its citizens, not those of Mexico or Latin America.

Also keep in mind many of the proposed redistribution efforts fall squarely in the "equality of opportunity" column which you claim to support. For example, free or very cheap higher education. If we want to be as educated as the Nordic countries this would go a long way. Or taxpayer funded healthcare. This would both reduce the total cost of healthcare and also greatly improve access. It's hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you're sick and can't afford to see a doctor.

Perhaps let me turn this conversation around. Rather than throwing up your hands and saying "it's complex", what specific policies would you support to improve equality of opportunity?
I agree that advertising as a whole might be a bubble. In fact, my next piece is about TV advertising which is arguably worse. See: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273476

I do think it's more accepted in traditional advertising that we just don't know how well it works. In digital advertising there is a grand illusion of measurement.
How is this an improvement over Airbnb's existing review and complaint mechanisms?
Ask HN: How can I as an individual possibly make a difference to climate change?
A paper published today (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50302392) points to a global 'climate emergency'.

As an individual, how will any lifestyle alteration I make have any impact on climate change compared to the damage caused by livestock farming, population growth and fossil fuels etc?

Beyond that, what other action could I take? Were I to make a career change, which companies could I work for and make a measurable impact? Or would my time be better served in government?
This is a better link, I was going to post the same thing
I wonder how much (in %) the 'Google tax' is these days, which is paid by businesses that advertise for their brand as keyword on Google despite being the top search result, just because Google sells the almost indistinguishable ad spot above the first result to their competitors.
Why are you entitled to all future releases of Sentry under the same license terms?
Indeed, and it’s not like a billion dollars in google cash couldn’t paper over any disagreement, no matter how ugly.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a cloud/hosted version of an open source project?
Hello fellow HN-ers,

Let me put some context: I'm running a free service, mainly focused to the developers and tech savvy. I want to monetize it, of course, but I already made it open source from day-1, under BSD license, and I don't want people think I'm a dick, also, there are some people already contributed to the project.

I'm thinking of rolling out a paid plan for using cloud version of it, and if people don't feel like they should pay me, they could always host it themselves on their own server.

The paid plan will also contains some exclusive features that will not be available in the open-sourced version.

Do you think this is a reasonable approach, and if you're my user, would you willing to pay for it?
You probably meant the GNU Affero General Public License in this case cuz the software in question runs on a server on the network
I was given the information to help base my decision on which offer to accept. The idea is that the better qualified buyer has a better chance of actually closing. I thought it was a little strange as well. Each of my offers came with details about their financing, and in a few cases, the buyer's income information.
There is a clear subtext in everything put out by Tesla and Uber that their cars are self-driving. That is to say, they drive themselves. That is to say, nobody else needs to drive them in order for them to get from A to B.

If they are truly trying to stick to the guns of "well the 'driver' should have been prepared to take over at zero notice", then their (potentially criminal) negligence is in how they present and market their product and not in the software. But it's one or the other.
So you need to wait for sensors that have 100% accurate object detection before you can work on a self-driving car?

Meanwhile, you let humans who are far less than 100% accurate (and are often distracted) keep killing people? I went into a panic stop one rainy night when a billowing piece of plastic blew across the road in front of me, it looked exactly like a jogging person to myself and my passenger.

We don't need self-driving cars to be perfect before they are released, just better than people.
Exactly this. As a Windows API/GDI developer, I used to loathe the WndProc way, but after looking at how Qt and Gtk do things, I really really miss it; specially considering the aforementioned libraries requires megabytes of space while a simple winapi program might take a couple dozen kilobytes.

What I dislike about Qt is that it's a C++ only library with no proper way to use it in C. And Gtk imposes a convoluted object oriented C library you should learn and the usual tried & tested RAD point & click to get forms done is way more complicated than it should be, vis a vis the MSVC form builder, the way .NET does it or hell, even VB6. In hindsight, Windows API/GDI was great.
That sounds like short light transitions, not cameras.
~6 seconds is quite a long stop distance when decelerating from 40 mph. Wonder what the visibility was. Not sure how valid "ya they were looking away but they wouldn't have seen them anyway" is.