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The article seems to gloss right past Free Software and copyleft licenses based on the claim that some copyleft licenses like GPLv3 aren't widespread because companies don't like and won't use them, then proceeds to opine on what license terms best annoy companies (profanity, ambiguity, lack of licensing, etc). And yet there's no consideration given to actually using copyleft licenses like GPLv3 or GPLv2, just the repeated assertion of the death of "Free Software".

If a copyleft license is sufficiently strong that some people don't want to use it under those terms, some subset of those people may be willing to pay for an alternate license. (The set of people who wouldn't pay for an alternative to a copyleft license seem even less likely to consider any completely non-standard incompatible-with-the-universe license.) If you want to use a license that may potentially lose you a few over-cautious corporate users, but which protects a community of users and the possibility of revenue, a copyleft license like GPLv3 or GPLv2 may make sense.

Many of the people using permissive licenses don't work for companies, or otherwise don't have anything that might block them from using a copyleft license. Many people seem to worry about using a copyleft license because it might mean some people can't or won't use the software. I've even seen companies who would actually benefit from a copyleft license just not-think about the possibility of using one because they have a vague impression that Apache or MIT is what they should use. It wasn't that they considered and dismissed copyleft; they just didn't even think about the possibility and weigh it as a potential option.

(Also, last time I saw a survey of licenses on popular software repositories, GPLv3 was about as popular as GPLv2. LLVM vs GCC is a relevant and memorable problem, but those two projects hardly represent the whole landscape of software licensing. LLVM also gained popularity for reasons beyond just licensing, such as recognizing the value of extensibility and providing compiler framework libraries, much sooner than GCC did.)

I'm not going to say "use copyleft for everything!", and there are good reasons to use permissive licenses (such as propagating standards or releasing tiny projects). But next time you're releasing a project, give it some actual consideration. If you want to release something under a permissive license, and that's a deliberate decision, by all means do so; but don't just do so "by default" without thinking about it, and without thinking whether the permissive-by-default culture is actually in your best interests.
> A lot of people think like this. I get paid $200 an hour, my electrician gets paid $100 an hour, therefore I should pay my electrician $100 and use the time I saved to make $200.

The flaw of course is that $200 is not opportunity cost. Your time is only worth money if you’d otherwise be working. So when I get home from my 9-5 job where I make a fixed salary, and fix my faucet, that job just got done for free. There was no opportunity cost because I don’t get paid hourly and was already done with work for the day.

I’m a rather extreme DIYer, and I can confidently say I would not live the lifestyle I do if I paid people to repair my car, build my furniture, cook my food, mow my lawn, do all my home improvements, plumbing, electrical work, fix my electronics. All that labor adds up, especially in the expensive Bay Area. If you take what you’d otherwise spend on all that, starting say age 20, and instead put it into your retirement account you could probably retire 5-10 years early.
If Epic itself cannot do it for less than 12% selling only the best earning category and serving barely any free games when they're trying to _prove_ that it can be done for less than 30% apparently running an App Store isn't as trivial as most people at HN make it appear to be.

Also the 30% "rent seeking" happens on any platform Epic is on except the PC and Mac. They tried to go around the Google Play Store and pivoted on that decision.

I would like to see the % go down, I think they can run it for 20% without much trouble but when the kickback on titles goes down the price of the hardware goes up. So you can have a "cheap" Playstation with expensive games or an expensive Playstation with cheaper games.
Well..if I could cry a river, it wouldn’t be for you.

Look, it’s not personal. It’s about the money.

Please feel free to donate your money. How about turning that non judgemental POV to those who don’t care to be on your side.
The lack of capitals at the start of sentences....
Please explain better.

The article talks about virtual machines as a subset of memory encryption. It also specifically says "ephemeral keys". Not ones that would be preserved across a shutdown.

What is encrypted on a powered-off server that the CPU knows the key to?
I don't think regular citizens should have less rights than journalists in the first place, but maybe I'm just nutty.
It's not a good thing that I need 6 stores installed to play the games I've bought, each with their own updater pulling several gigabytes a week off the net just to keep the store app up-to-date.

I'd be interested to see whether any jurisdiction would hand down a consumer mandate for unbundling the DRM component from the storefront app; the former only updates occasionally.
Clippy you can keep, but I liked the cat.
This week I built a home-made computer using an ESP32 instead of a Z80 and hodge-podge of 74xx logic chips to run CP/M and started playing with Wordstar 3 and 4. I used it many decades ago briefly on the Amiga and it was more graphical but I'm only just getting to grips with it now.

Obligatory screenshot here: https://mastodon.social/@stevelord/104824411022687268
Essential brand strategy KPIs you need
One of the few popular pieces of software affected by the JSON license finally managed to eliminate it: http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/jshint-watching-the-ship-si...

I sincerely hope no new project ever uses that license.
I’m sorry, what does it have to do with my question? I gave a specific example where I couldn’t get what I needed from Pytorch. Would Julia be any different in this situation?
Unfortunately, the world doesn’t work that way. Especially for a commodity business like consulting/agencies.

Even if you have product market fit, and are experiencing the “pull” of a hot market...if you have no reliable distribution channels, you have no business.

Humans are busy, and the problems that businesses solve for in the modern world are not life or death issues. Any product that solves a problem that tons of people are already searching google for, is by definition, going to also have tons of competitors.
This is a technology where energy density doesn't matter at all because the amount of energy stored per ton is the same. So you want as many tons as cheap as possible. Therefore we either use water or concrete.
Huh? How are you reading that in my comment? I explicitly think that throwing Congress in jail would be silly, and actually unjust. But I didn't at all address that.

I was merely pointing out that the US's "government for the people by the people" was laughably not at all that back when it was founded. "The people" didn't give the government abc powers; a single-digit percentage of them did.

Beyond that, suggesting that an armed insurrection could ever be successful at deposing the US government... that's a silly fantasy.
> The point is that web apps are distributed instantly to users, on demand, anywhere, extremely cheaply, with no middlemen necessary. Back before the web was prominent, software had to be distributed via physical media, usually floppies and later CDs.

You're conflating "web apps" with "distributing through Internet" and forgetting that between floppies and web apps, for about 15 years the main way of getting applications was downloading regular pieces of software through FTP and HTTP ("download the installer" in Windows world, a package manager in Unix-like worlds, etc.).
>Sure, my personal user experience on my daily-driver phone is ok on my phone because I have very fast phone and I'm often using it from fast wifi. But it's terrible if I take a road trip across the U.S. and the experience is terrible anywhere in the U.S. with an old phone.

This is a per peeve of mine, in my (perverted) mind the developers/programmers (not only web related) that usually work and use (it is fine, it is their work, they deserve the best of the best) high performance hardware and connections should have a low performance setup (simulated in a VM or simply some oldish hardware with a limited amount of RAM and a slowish processor) where to test what they release to the public for interaction/responsiveness/etc.

In my experience, bar the professional developers or programmers and a few designers, architects, engineers, etc. , the only people with high end hardware are gamers, all the rest (both at home and in the office), for different reasons tend to have relatively underpowered machines.
Well it's a no-model AI system if the interface is a HTTP endpoint that's out of your control...
A geographic model of why Europe tended to fragmentation, and China to unity
I never said they have children because of responsibility to society.
What is a token? One character? Or is it a currency?
I'm a huge fan of using simulations to ground qualitative arguments. While the sims usually need to be fine-tuned so extensively as to leave them open to claims of 'overfitting', the benefit is that it nails the assumptions in your argument to the church door.

Abstract:

Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms of topographical features and the location of productive agricultural land to quantitatively gauge the effects of “fractured land” on state formation in Eurasia. We find that either topography or productive land alone is sufficient to account for China's recurring political unification and Europe's persistent political fragmentation. The existence of a core region of high land productivity in Northern China plays a central role in our simulations. We discuss how our results map into observed historical outcomes and assess how robust our findings are.

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nber.org/papers/w27774
Indeed. But now OpenAI has become more like another DeepMind, but starting to rent out their APIs to its users, indicating that they probably won't ever release models for their research.

They might as well rename to Standard AI.
As much as I enjoy Lindybeige, I would take his analysis with a grain of salt. There’s a rather infamous case where Lindybeige released a video filled with bizarre and misleading claims about the MG34 and MG42 German machine guns (which he bizarrely conflated with each other and incorrectly dubbed the “Spandau”) and their relative merits with the Bren, followed by a rather substantial rebuttal from Military History Visualized, to which Lindybeige issued a defensive counter-rebuttal, the comments of which contain further commentary from Forgotten Weapons. If you don’t really want to get invested in an argument between three youtubers, fair enough—my takeaway is that while Lindybeige often has some idea about the topics he presents, he also has strong biases and gaps in his understanding that often result in him confidently pontificating well past his actual expertise.
In general more connectivity means you need less storage as it's always windy/sunny somewhere in the world.
The primary benefit is reliability and lifetime. Your lifted rock isn't going to "malfunction" and suddenly weigh less.

I agree that gravity based energy technologies are mostly junk though. There are two important factors: cheap weights and unlimited scalability. Doing something "cute" such as using a mountain side or old mineshaft is reducing the scalability.
So if this was triggered by the vaccine (rather than the adenoviral vector), would it mean that this person might have also had TM if they had caught Covid19?
A little about graphics subsystem internals on microcontrollers
Take a look at : https://www.softwareheritage.org/
They've made it their mission to collect and preserve source code.
When I read the headline I thought this would be a sort of P2P Dropbox. Now maybe that's an idea...

Regardless, best of luck!
DRG is action coop run-based game. There is no complexity in it. H5 is tighter on resource management but it can't compare with grand strategy where plays could long for hours.
Jsonptr: Using Wuffs’ Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder
That is a limitation of the pipeline infrastructure, because of hydrogen embrittlement of steel pipes.

It is not a limitation of the large storage facilities, which are just exhausted natural gas wells and work just fine with hydrogen.

The cost of outfitting one such facility with steel pipes that are not subject to hydrogen embrittlement is trivial compared to the cost for the electrolysis units etc.

Note that I am not a big fan of hydrogen at all. But large scale storage is one of its few redeeming qualities.
For filesystem access they are beholden to their enterprise users as well and Chromium still has a lot of open source developers that aren't simply looking out for Google's best interests. If they became overly hostile, then I'm sure we'd see a fork at some point. I'm not saying they are perfect, but a lot of Chromium hate is unfounded and exaggerated.
Nice cherry picking skills.
The web began with basic HTML sites. It will end with basic HTML sites
The UK is currently taking steps towards this - the plans aren't perfect, but will require "security updates until" dates, no default or symmetrically derived passwords, and a vulnerability disclosure programme to be available.

It doesn't go as far as to force unlocking, but requiring transparent disclosure of a committment to security update longevity (like Chromebooks and pixel phones have) is probably the first step along the road to that.
Wow, with the commentary it's also really cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxa3j8bK-c4
https://winworldpc.com/product/wordperfect/6x-dos
Why Disney’s new Mulan is a scandal
Since early 1980s, Karachi city is not under PPP govt. So it really doesn't matter how corrupt Pakistan Peoples Party is, Karachi has not been voting for them for nearly 40 years now. It is always MQM with some coalition who runs Karachi. Right now PPP has only 3 NA seats from Karachi.
The weird space that lies outside our Solar System
The market is separate from legislation. Of course without society existing and in a purely rational economic scenario the "market" and "companies" would only provide these "perks" to attract workers.

Society does in fact mediate the purely rational economic incentives and companies thus don't act purely rationally, nor are they society in and of themselves. America isn't the best about it relative to European countries but even here in the U.S. the FMLA bars employers from dropping employees just because they're pregnant or having a kid.
Oil rigs only need to drill a hole with the diameter of a pipe. With gravity storage you would want the hole to be as large as possible.
Yeah... this. Not all situations at home are equal. Wish folks at work would understand that.

... school aged kids outnumber my partner and I. IEP and 504 support has yet to prove effective remote. But it’s the effort to mitigate the developmental regression that keeps me up at night. Cognitive behavioral therapy, etc. isn’t cheap either.
... working from the 1950’s garage with ambient temps just shy of 100F last week (no space to work inside).
... partner is now out of work too, but I guess it’s a good thing for ensure all the kids attend “their meetings”?

It can always get worse, and likely will. I dunno, just saying—-yeah, i agree. COVID stress isn’t even on the radar.
For very large scale storage we are not talking about steel pressure vessels that are subject to hydrogen embrittlement, but depleted natural gas reservoirs which are just gas-tight geological formations and have no issues whatsoever with hydrogen embrittlement.

For small and medium scale storage you are right. Which is why hydrogen for cars and even trucks is a bad idea.
It isn't entirely irrelevant. If you can get reinfected but not get sick twice, it's as if we reached herd immunity at 100%.

And it's perfectly normal that antibodies don't stay in the bloodstream forever. The immune system remembers how to make them and can produce new ones when needed.
So I will respectfully disagree with you there. In general I agree with you about most (almost all?) rights - they should be available to all citizens equally.

However if you agree that:

- The state should be allowed to keep secrets

- The state can't always be trusted to choose what should be secret or not

- There is a need to hold the state to account, but somehow not make all secrets public by doing so

Then there needs to be some subset of citizenry who can gain access to those secrets without the blessing of the state.

In history this has been likely to occur when a person with access to the secrets feels strongly enough about something that they feel the secret should be made public. For good reasons or bad reasons (which not everyone will agree with either way).

A good journalist can fulfil that role IMHO. I realise that "good" there is another assumption...
They should be but if you look at the history they haven’t been. This is an effort to correct for this.
It's not only getting slower, but shit. Animations everywhere. Unecessary spaces everywhere. Infinite scroll bullshit everywhere. Still can't find shit on webpages without ctrl+f

Why do current webdevs think this is a good idea? Well yes, 'mobile first', but even on mobile it usually looks like absolute bullshit and animations are even more annoying on mobile. Why can't we have plain webpages that actually work?

If you want an example: I recently tried to find an appartment using airbnb. Since the last time I used it they changed their design and it's super slow, the animations don't even make sense, but rounded corners everywhere. Fuck. This. Shit.
I find it hard to believe that all stores combined patch a single gigabyte in a week, let alone every store patching multiple gigabytes. The size of the stores and their patches are negligible compared to installing any modern game.
Should they block online email providers too because someone might send a phishing email?
And how would the similarity work? The derivative is defined at a point, it makes sense to calculate f(x) and f’(x) together. What integral are you talking about precisely?
> Do consumer laws apply to businesses in Australia? Because afaik, in the EU regretfully a lot of laws that protect consumers against abuse from vendors, do not apply to B2B/enterprise transactions.

Yes. Consumer protections apply to everyone. Within Australia, those protections are considered the "bare minimum" that must be implemented by every business, across the board.

Certain industries have other protections they must implement atop of those.
Wouldn't this amount to basically working less hours effectively? Maybe that's the real issue here- the majority of people are forced to devote 80% of their weekdays on work and chores (10hrs work+commute, 30 min lunch at work but personal time ie unpaid, 1hr dinner+relax, 30-60min misc chores = 3.5-4hrs out of 16hr day remaining).

This seems insane to me but everyone seems to put up with it
Where did you learn about cryptographic systems?

Less about the algorithms, but more about designing applications of cryptographic primitives?
It's been over a decade since I studied it, but from memory you could also end up in infinite loops when you start generating the closed form solution if it doesn't exist. Which with as much hand waving as possible is ultimately equivalent to the computer function form auto integration would produce.
Android allows installation of apps outside of the Google Play store but Epic is pursuing the same path against Google.
Ask HN: How is Netflix's streaming quality so pathetic?
I am just curious what's the structural difference Netflix's streaming implementation and others like YouTube/Vimeo?
I can stream 4K content without any hiccups on YouTube but Netflix struggles even with 480P
There is no history of consumers overcoming price elasticity on the basis of software platform security preferences, so that's a bold claim requiring hard evidence.

In contrast, here's a study that says even consumers in one of the most technologically aware regional markets do not perceive a difference between iOS and Android safety:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316573401_A_Study_o...

which is much more in keeping with just about everybody's experience of people outside the tech echo chamber.
What a luddite, he still writes letters.
r/wsb
> Capitalism sadly is the root of most of our modern day problems/wonders...

Ok so what is the alternative comrade?

> I think sometimes if a future without borders/capital/currency/poverty/war/etc is even possible...

Don't worry, its all possible in an anarcho-communist utopia. Except that not one-of them actually worked in practice or was sustainable enough to exist for long.

> FOSS is dead

The moment Mozilla took Google's contract, it was already over. In fact it was dead on arrival and it has been like that for other companies in the FOSS world that are kept on life support and can't make revenue for themselves.

> Long live FOSS

Shall we get started on building that FOSS commune of ours then and depend on lots of donations from our friends in capitalist organisations? Will it work this time and will it be more sustainable unlike the other failed experimental communes before us?
A rube-goldberg machine who's only purpose would be to increment time only as I worked on it. The method of incrementation however would become increasingly complex and confusing... Seriously though, I'd try to come up with an app that would put the power of information into the hands of regular non-technical people. The "power of information" could be a very simple concept using public information with a simple web-based interface, for instance: a dynamic map of all board members of all US companies and their memberships on other boards. This could be expanded easily in a second stage to shed light on campaign contributions. Maybe data-retrieval exists for this but perhaps not as compelling as I'm imagining it.
> Parenting is not a choice when you have children in your home.

Of course not, but choosing to have children in the first place is.
Are you joking? Building nuclear power to cover peaks is insanely uneconomical. More expensive than building a nuclear power plant in a flexible grid.

If you don't know anything about how a grid functions then maybe you should stop shoehorning a single solution to solve every problem when everyone is already aware that a large array of different technologies is necessary for a modern grid.
He pops up on HN all the time. I'm surprised he's still posting, wasn't he recently prosecuted for the politically motivated release of the names of women in an active sexual harassment trial?
Facebook engineer quits, slamming stances on hateful and racist speech
While I think your argument is specious at best, your point is salient. I‘m a parent and have several co workers who do not have children, and I push them —- have to push them —- to take time off. I think there’s a lot going on here:

* parents need more time to care for their kids

* parents feel guilty for the time off they’re taking

* non parent workers might feel some resentment, but probably not overtly

* non parent workers probably feel like they need to pick up the slack

Let’s be real here: very few of us are doing anything of actual consequence. Your job is not important. Your job is not you and you are not your job. Take as much time as you need, and if your company or your boss doesn’t get it, leave. I’ll fucking hire you.