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My problem with GPL is that the term "derived" is defined to vague or not in the way I like it, which in turn opens up all kind of legal uncertainty.

(I don't know if this also applies for AGPL.)

I would love to hear that AGPL legal reliably works like he describes (or there is a different license which does).
You can easily buy class 3 and 4 lasers which can permanently damage your eyes. I have one for astrophotography alignment. So yes, the protestors are definitely using harmful lasers, as well as the police I’m sure.

https://www.laserpointerpro.com/attribute/class_class-iiib-l...
im not really registering domains that i necessarily /know/ how i plan to use them yet, but more as vanity names i like and may want to use in the future--basically i tend to register the domain and then use it for some side project sometime after, since that lets me frontload some of the DNS configuration in advance. im using Cloudflare for the DNS part already for sure, so it's convenient to have both that and the registrar in one place.

totally get that something that enables my silly personal domain purchases more smoothly could be abused by squatters and that their use patterns could create unwanted support/engineering load you wouldn't want to deal with though, i think that's reasonable. the one thing i'd wish for is maybe being able to transfer a domain i've recently purchased elsewhere more quickly--as-is i think there's a waiting period before you can move a domain onto the Cloudflare registrar
The truly amazing thing it to consider that this boat is an iteration of an analog design which matured over 80 years ago.

When we consider the design characteristics of those older boats we can truly appreciate how much knowledge we had to build from scratch and glean from failure in order to get where we are today.
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If low level people were as productive as 700 other low level people they wouldn't be low level people.
I can't think of a single piece of software that's stands out worse than the others but really it's anything that's still using Java or Flash of which there are a number of tools.
Big fan of Arrow (and Parquet) and we use it at UrbanLogiq extensively. It's a wonderful toolset and great for data interop across multiple languages and environments!
Depends where. Used to live in the western part of the state near West Yellowstone (parents still have a place there), and the prices there are kind of surprising. Even ignoring the Yellowstone Club, there are a lot of multi-million dollar homes sitting on relatively small plots of land (relative to other places we lived in the midwest, not relative to SF).

The western part of the state is where most of the picturesque landscape is, and there were a lot of expensive developments in the area and on the Idaho side of the border from us too.
"The construction site in Japan where Obayashi is building a dam almost exclusively with automated equipment" under a photo with at least 10 people.
I can't tell if this is serious or not. You realize that not all vibrations are visible by eye, right? In fact, the vast majority aren't.
Eben Moglen wrote the AGPL. There's a standard process courts use to figure this stuff out. Intent fits into it. Eben Moglen clearly states what he meant in many talks. Courts favor intended interpretation of a contract. That makes the risk pretty small.
*permanent blindness

article mentions it as well. the lasers used in this article follow int'l law
Who said it was the best economical model?

Human society is made up of individuals. Capitalism, as opposed to socialism puts the power of utility in the hands of the individual. Thus individuals strive to make the most of the economic landscape and this often means making as much money as they can.

Again, I am not saying it's perfect but it's worked pretty well for western values.
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> Linux

It's called OpenBSD.
Well, as I've learned in my own life, you can be told that so many different things have no real impact on your satisfaction after you finally achieve them. But such is the human condition, that you still need to experience for yourself before you learn (generally).

If only there were a way to pass the real feeling / understanding to someone else so that we wouldn't all have to bang our heads against the wall and find out for ourselves...
What would a retroreflector on the target do to the dazzler's operator?
This seems to be accounted for, according to the article:

> The main idea behind the system is that it modulates its output based its range to the target via using an internal laser range-finder. Thus the maximum eye-safe setting can be used throughout the engagement. This is also important because international law prohibits the employment of any such system that is deliberately designed to cause permanent blindness.
That would imply the use of class 1 lasers, but those lasers wouldn't have the required range. The laser in that picture is definitely capable of much, much higher power output then a few milliwatts of low frequencies light.

It's much more likely that the US simply refused to sign that treaty just like they refused to sign treaties about other horrors like land mines or chemical weapons.
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I have had the same experience and the same feedback.

It’s much, much, much worse in the embedded world. I think the author is being quite disingenuous on his take.
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This isn't accurate -- there are multiple query engine subprojects within Apache Arrow.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory but those aren’t mutually exclusive.
> a basic reading of the AGPL text readily and clearly confirms this fact.

Not trying to be rude, but are you a lawyer? To interpret such a license with potentially huge legal ramifications, I would rather listen to lawyers than laypeople.
A Navy fact sheet on what it calls 'non-lethal optical distractors' reads:

Non-lethal optical distracters are visible laser devices that have reversible optical effects on human targets. These types of non-blinding laser devices use highly directional optical energy to support several non-lethal capabilities, including:
I think the author is misreading Google's policy (https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/). They're not saying that communications over the internet constitute a linkage, they're saying that:

* Because of free and open development practices within Google, it's impractical for developers to be constantly aware of what libraries get linked into their binaries. (This is exacerbated because of their monorepo, but even in a multi-repo setup it's very easy to end up with random libraries in your dependency chain.)

* If an AGPL library did end up linked, because all Google's services are accessible through a remote network, the virality provisions kick in and they might have a legal duty to distribute the entire binary.

* Therefore, they have to ban AGPL libraries so that no core service developer accidentally depends on one.
I think it depends on how you define "clued in". They are aware of its existence but aren't just ignorant of how it works but outright apathetic and hostile to anything which goes against their personal narrative.

Just look at the "Google selling your data" being uncritically accepted when five minutes of thought would conclude it is the last thing Google would want (even a better search algorithim would find it hard to bootstrap on user base and comparable training time) or the casual John Yoo worthy torture of the definition of monopoly to include Goddamned Netflix when whining about FAANG monopolies. That level of generalization and stereotyping is like blaming the Amish for flying planes into the World Trade center because both are radical Sbraham religions.
It still baffles me that Microsoft still doesn’t get the value of clean UI. What are the designers there thinking?

Same with Windows Menu? WTF is cotton candy doing there on a fresh install ?

Why does opening Edge have so much msn news spam?

Like is Microsoft just oblivious to what the user really cares about ?

Most likely some execs compensation is tied to how many ads they shove so they prioritize that over the user’s experience.
Doesn't Google recognize that 100% turnover on a team might be a management problem?
If your basic reading of the AGPL text readily and clearly confirms something that multiple IP lawyers independently found dubious, and you're not a lawyer, I'd rather trust the lawyers, thanks.
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Access to healthcare is a big challenge in the US because of cost: your pricing seems to be very accessible but I’m curious if you have any specific ideas around how you can make therapy more accessible to people who can’t afford these prices.

I guess my question is whether your vision is a digital version of traditional therapy, or if you see your mission as making therapy more accessible which _currently_ is digital traditional therapy but could evolve substantially over the coming years?
That is completely different from treating all mail equally. In fact, it is the opposite of that.
Why risk anything? On the grand scale of things, effectively nothing has been tested in court. This is no grounds for making baseless statements about a license which are unsupported by its text.
Oh and now they don't deserve this better service and you've made the choice for them. No thanks.

So eager to remove choices from someone else.
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I both love your HN username (I hope you don't troll dang), and think that's an awesome suggestion. I don't know why it didn't occur to me.
So, ban all competitions in general? That sounds like a fantastic idea... gonna solve lots of problems with that one.

Football, both kinds, have lots of permanent injuries throughout the body and brain. If you want to talk about rewarding people for pushing themselves to the extreme, those are far better examples than free soloing.

It's interesting when people are fine with stopping passion sports like climbing, skateboarding and now sledding, but they're too scared to say the same about the 800-pound guerrilla, money making machine sports with a lot more TBIs and deaths. Especially since a lot of people go for football more for the reward than for the actual passion.

Again, it's not like anyone participating in any of these sports are unaware of the risk. An argument might exist for 20-30 years ago. But not today. That takes flat-earther mental gymnastics to think they aren't putting themselves at risk. But at the end, if you're complaining that, "These people push their body's too far", that's not you caring about their well being. That's you seeing your own weakness, laziness and cowardliness to attempt the same feat. These folks are going to push themselves some way, some how, because they want to not die wondering "what if". No one is ever safe from "mental demons" and it's terrible when someone takes their own life, no matter what the category root cause was. But I know very well that choosing to achieve nothing due to fear is a bigger open door for those issues.
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Kilos? Jesus, what would that even look like? I can't imagine that that much LSD would exist in the world at the same time. Amazing
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Your comment would be just fine without those bits.
Who did you move to from Cloudflare?
automation != AI. Japan leans as far away form AI as it can, everything is hardcoded/pre programmed.

> Japanese craftsmanship in robot form

you mean Asimo 'I have full diaper' pre programmed non closed loop/inverse kinematics walk?
MacOS uses BSD code for free. Apple, most profitable company in the world, contributes nothing back. Sad story.
Congrats! And a big thank you to Wes for being such a devoted community leader!

We've been on quite the journey here: https://www.graphistry.com/blog/graphistry-2-29-5-upload-100... . Think json -> protobuf -> arrow, and paralleled in our work on parallel js -> opencl+js -> python rapids/cuda for accelerated native compute over it. The blogpost demos the ~100X bigger & faster dataset result of supporting Arrow for our uploader & RAPIDS for our parser when you can't and want us to convert for you.

Something folks miss with Arrow, IMO, is it is like google protobufs for everyone else. Arrow is not just having a nice binary format, but is also ready out-of-the-box for streaming, rich datatypes, and for larger/longer-term projects, standardized & auto self-describing schemas. If you've had to manually decipher, maintain, and update generated protobuf schemas (because you aren't google with all the internal ~protobuf tooling / integrations / infra / etc.), that should sound pretty good ;-) A lot more to do, but already way ahead of most other things, esp. in aggregate.
Monetary contribution certainly can be considered contribution. But FOSS is not about "contribution" at all.

Big companies are users, too.
It does work, but you can have filters that can remove that noise electronically enough to get some actual voice signal. Faucets along with whispering directly in the ear would work. But a better choice is to simply write on a piece of paper instead of talking.
You could just write that term into a modified BSD license or some such. It wouldn't be Open Source at that point but it would get your point across. Enforcement would be difficult but you'd really only need to rely on the rule following behavior of a few big corps
Silicon Valley non-FAANG hardware + software company here:

If you need a lab, you are allowed to use it with approval from your VP. If you don't, you WFH.
hi, Wes (Apache Arrow co-creator and Python pandas creator) here! If you're wondering what this project is all about, my JupyterCon keynote (18 min long) from 3 years ago is a good summary and the vision / scope for what we've been doing since 2016 has been pretty consistent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdmf1msbtVs
So far- have you found any particular methods to be the most effective? (Return postage envelopes with a form letter, online tools, other options)

My grandma, who passed a bit less than two years ago is still receiving all sorts of junk mail. I have tried unsubscribing normal ways from some of it (online forms, etc) and none of that seems to work at all.

I do use the "do not mail" junk mail opt-outs which has reduced the volume that comes in both her name and mine, but there's still loads of "previously accepted/subscribed-to mail" that I can't seem to put a stop to- even if I use the publisher/sender's preferred opt-out method.
Yes eventually. Pima and Cochise counties are also similarly in trouble. Many rain collection techniques are really just starting to take off in Arizona. But they are also short sighted. You can tell when you listen to the radio there, news daily about the Colorado river problems and rural farmers. They literally don't know what to do.

In any case I do think as wells run dry in Afghanistan, they will migrate to these techniques too. However if they are just now pumping, it may be that they are many years behind AZ's farming culture and they probably have a good 20 years of pumping. Drugs, unfortunately is a long term crop. Even if that eventually goes away there are many crops that can make money. They'll adapt as US farmers do each year.
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Anyone have guesses to the organization here, since they’re pointedly not mentioning it? I find that a bit confusing since their code is probably publicly available under the AGPL, which is really all this comment discusses.
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Season 2, Episode 4 "The Outrageous Okona" ~19:20

https://www.netflix.com/watch/70177892?t=1160
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> I wonder what encryption and key based techniques can be used to verify the authenticity of audio and video records in the future.

None, since encryption isn't the answer to this problem. Take Romney's leaked "47%" comment [1] or Hillary Clinton's leaked "deplorables" comment, how would encryption have been useful to either verify the recordings' authenticity or reject them if they had been a deepfakes? It wouldn't have, as those comments were meant for private audiences, so neither of them would have officially signed them. If the encryption could trace the recording back to the individual that made it, then the leaker might decide never release the recording (since they don't want to be outed). And if all the encryption can do is trace back to a random device, why not just get a random device to sign your deepfake?

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/09/17/16131...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2016/09/10/493427601/hillary-clintons-ba...
> Why is no one asking in good faith why federal law enforcement might feel like they need to take these kinds of actions?

This invalidates any good point you're trying to make. Law enforcement is so much more powerful than random black block protestors.

Who gives a shit that they 'feel' like they 'need' to take these kinds of actions.

Taking these kinds of actions is /incredibly/ dangerous to a functional democracy, and unless we're talking about a bunch of black block people actively killing people and blowing up buildings, or whatever, it's /way/ more dangerous.
I'm not even sure I believe this anymore. Seeing how many people out there believe masks are BAD for you makes me skeptical that most people will actually get the vaccine...
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Honestly I'm not a big fan of using *GPLvX and I didn't even know what Google was thinking about it.

It's more about the bothersome of the question what the actual legal implications are.

I would love if such licenses ship with a long list of positive and negative examples which if they exactly fit you overrule any interpretation of the rest of the contract...

EDIT:
To clarify my opinion in this context is about cases where the AGPL is in something like a library position. AGPL on software which is used as a service seems to be quite reasonable without much legal surprises.
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If by "consumer" you mean the things sold for presentations, given away as advertising gifts (red ones), then yes. If you mean ones you can easily buy online, they can be quite scary power-wise. (And green ones are an infrared laser sent into a frequency-doubling crystal. A well-made one is well-aligned and has a filter stopping stray IR. A bad one might just pump out a bunch of IR too, without anyone knowing)
I don't claim it's unmeasurable. I claim there is no absolute scale. That's very different from eachother.

This conversation doesn't make sense for me to continue since you keep assuming things about me and claiming I said things I never said. I don't like such bad faith arguments.
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Seriously, maybe it's "about time" in some 40s movie fantasy world, but hasn't everyone seen the transcripts of previous hearings with the likes of Zuckerberg? It's like hearing my partner trying to explain Zoom installation to her elderly mother.
This seems to be an upgraded, directional version of a signal lamp, and describing it as a weapon has caused confusion and outrage.

(Provided the claims about automatic power limit are true)
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>It's obviously propaganda but it is very interesting nonetheless.

Sorry, how is this video obviously propaganda?
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Did someone get why "It cannot be that S has an even number of elements" (in the first subsection)?
It's only a war crime if it is intentional and the weapon has no other function except to cause blindness.
A program using PostGIS via TCP is no more a derivative work of PostGIS than a program storing data in its underlying database is derived from PostgreSQL.

I can't imagine the tortuous logic one would need to arrive at a different conclusion.
We've known each other, for so long...
This is neat! Will definitely try it out.
Yeah, it's complex:

* The article is right that Google IS spreading FUD. They're making legal statements which are probably false to minimize usage of the AGPL outside of Google.

* Google came to a sensible conclusion, that THEY shouldn't use the AGPL

* Google's articulated reasons don't hold legal water, and following Google's lead and interpretation causes many companies to mislicense their code

It's a right tool for the right job kind of thing, and AGPL is not the right tool for Google's job.

I've used all sorts of license in projects I've worked on. It's always a pragmatic evaluation. Right now, I'm working on a project which, pending legal review, should be AGPL. Any other license would be business suicide. AGPL gets us the ecosystem we'll need, without having to unfairly compete with our own code.
Perhaps people would listen more readily if you didn’t ascribe malevolent falsehoods to routine risk management and identified any idea other than your own as intellectually deficient. There are reasons and advantages to monorepos in some circumstances that you haven’t considered, for example, because you haven’t been exposed to them. Binary dumb/not dumb across the board is a junior engineer argument, and you’re better than that.

I’ve followed you for a while, Drew, and it’s a recurring theme. Respectfully, you could stand to listen from time to time. This is one of those times.
I bought an Alibaba well drilling rig for $3k plus shipping and tariffs. I drilled 130ft deep with it. It took months to fix problems the machine came with and get proper drill bits adapted to it. Then at 130 ft I hit a void. All the drilling mud that you intend to recirculate drained into the ground. This can be a great sign. Aquifers also can absorb liquid. But I couldn't drill further. I did some testing with an airlift pump out the drill stem. It seemed I hit an aquifer. I had to reem the hole larger and used bentonite at the bottom of the hole to restore circulation.

During the whole process the manufacturer offered little guidance. The user manual is just a few pages of poor translation. Their YouTube channel is disjointed 10sec clips of them drilling. The best advice I got was from a local retired driller that came by.

In the end, I still can't get water out of the hole. I drilled some geothermal wells next to my house so I can theoretically use those and not feel like it's a waste. I'm selling the machine and hiring a pro haha. That was a fun hobby for a year. I had better success on friends property's with shallower water tables where we could hand auger 30ft down to water for $100 worth of tools.
>Why can't they write it? Conduct a user story workshop, slice out an MVP release, and that's your "spec."

Well - yes, this (variations) is what we do, but guess what the outcome is.... "I'm not convinced that we've got this right...", "I was never fully signed up to that...", "I think we have invested a lot of effort in a process that isn't generating business value..."

The problem with Agile is that it doesn't account for politics, if people play nice and are all signed up to get the best done with the tools and people available it's brilliant. If you've got to deal with corporate politics it leaves those with good intent exposed in 100's of ways.