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No, I don't want. I want to use mature distro, with thousands of packages, with known bugs fixed, with fresh software, like Fedora.
> The proliferation and commoditization of F/OSS is what made SaaS business thrive, and made it so that integration and polish is the only avenue left to make a buck, leading to our paltry attention economy, oligopoly, and platform lock-in by network effects.

Do I think F/OSS played a role in these issues? Absolutely. Do I think it's the primary role in causing these issues? Definitely not. I'd argue that weak antitrust law, ill-intentioned VC money, and lack of oversight of software titans play the biggest role in what you've described here. Yes, F/OSS gave the companies tools to iterate over app development quickly, but they were pushed for hockey stick growth and total market domination by the checkbooks, and the government has completely failed to police their behavior. F/OSS gave people with questionable incentives the ability to do questionable things, but it didn't create the motivation to do those questionable things.

> when was the last time you used a piece of software that truly achieved something useful on its own rather than solving a perceived problem that only exists because of the idiosyncratic nature of the web and cloud stacks?

I actually use a fair amount of F/OSS that is independently useful to me, projects like Hammerspoon, MIDIMonitor, VLC, MuseScore, and others. Yes, the majority of F/OSS that I use is for commercial purposes, but that's certainly not exclusive.

> Meanwhile, maintainers of popular F/OSS get nothing in return.

I completely agree with this, and I think it's one of the most critical problems to the F/OSS movement.
Well, a few years ago a Finnish citizen got a giant fine for speeding, based on his income: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31709454

IIRC he managed to have it later reduced because his income dropped sharply (tied to Nokia's fortunes I think), although I can't find a mention in the article.
I think you meant this bit: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.683784,-1.9032482,3a,53.7y...

It's got more of a wooden frame up and down the embankment, a Public Footpath sign and look right / look left warning paint.

It looks like a poor compromise to retain an existing right of way when building or upgrading the dual carriageway.
As William Gibson says, the future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed.
There’s a cottage industry of piano learning apps, and an equivalent amount of people getting frustrated at the lack of progress and quitting
AGPL still allows compeditors, it just means you, and all users, get access to their improvements.
Things said in public during negotiations are part of the negotiations. This is said publicly just before Friday talks is to signal firmness to EU. The hope is that EU backs off.

If EU negotiators don't give anything more, UK position collapses unless they really intent to go on with No-Deal Brexit.

No-deal hurts UK more than EU, so I don't see why EU would flinch. Maybe they allow wording that allows Johnson to pretend he got something.
Ask HN: What are your language (human, not programming lang) learning hacks?
Other than physically moving abroad, what are your language learning hacks?

I'm currently making a list of English words that I commonly use everyday. Hoping to use that as a base to learn French vocabulary (I understand this will only help with vocab, not grammar etc). Anyone tried this? Does it work?

Any other tricks, hacks etc to learn a foreign language and retain, starting from scratch, for adults?
Much of the discussion in this thread has highlighted the difference between those who regard open source as a community and public good, and those who regard it as a resource to be exploited. The latter sees anything beyond legalistic compliance as an unreasonable expectation.

Personally I'm disappointed with the exploitation view, but I also think it's an interesting example of how different assumptions lead groups to talk past each other. "AWS was in complete compliance, what's the problem?" versus "AWS violated the spirit of the community". Each camp agrees with the other camp's assertion but sees it as irrelevant.
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I imagine even just driving those (wooden?) pylons at the beginning to create the drainage areas took years. Even modern powered devices take a good day or so to pound in a single pylon around here.
Do you have an instruction set? I tried following most others I could find and they all tended to fail at some stage.
Honda's cars (which are compatible with OpenPilot) don't connect to the internet unless you really want software updates, and those can be transferred via USB easily (or you can just not update it, since it's a car).
Because it's a psyop in the US. Look up "the great reset" it's an excuse to collapse the world economy and take the property/wealth of unsuspecting people. 100% real.
A link to a random blob means nothing if it's not actually in the tree. Here's how that link was faked:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005577

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025378
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> That suggests you and your team have communication issues and meeting in person is just a plaster over it.

That's an interesting conclusion. What makes you believe that?

Would you say the same thing to a band trying to practice together...virtually/remotely? Why or why not?

> Why exactly do you need to see other team members in person?

I covered this in another comment under this thread.

> Why do you think getting friendly with people at work is appropriate? Mixing work and personal life will introduce unconscious bias and you will give different treatment to people who didn't invite you to their weeding. This is bad for business.

I see you're intentionally being snarky about my typo.

But on topic - again, I ask, what makes you believe that? There are plenty of studies and psychologists who would disagree with you. Go read some of the articles on Harvard Business Review that explore the dynamics of friendship at work, and how important / rewarding they can be.

> It seems like you just feel lonely and you use workplace to find friends. Can you see how wrong that sounds?

I'm not lonely. I'm also an introvert. But when friendships form, it's a beautiful thing.

Why do you believe this to be so "wrong"?

It's a simple matter of simplicity and practicality. I'm more likely to meet like-minded people in the workplace, and those people aren't necessarily even on my team or even in the same department.

As I mentioned in my parent comment, I do feel bad for people who have not had a chance to experience this - it seems you fall into that category.

> Did you think about finding a hobby, getting good at something other than work and meet people that way? (there is plenty of meetups for people sharing the same interests)

Of course! And I do those things, too. But my hobbies tend toward solitary activities (cycling, tinkering with electronics, coding side projects). Yeah, I meet interesting people at the local Raspberry Pi enthusiasts meetup, but rarely people I'll form close friendships with.

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Friendship at work might not be right for you. But don't mistake that with it being "wrong" or "inappropriate" for everyone.

I'm genuinely curious (and feel free not to reveal anything you aren't comfortable sharing), but I really wonder if age/geo/length of career factor into this.

Often, the mindset you're promoting seems to come from a lack of maturity and understanding of the importance of relationships in the workplace. I'm not saying that's necessarily the case for you, personally but I'm genuinely curious to understand where you're coming from when there's so much evidence to the contrary.
Congratulations, you've just reinvented the original BSD-4 license! It included what was called the "obnoxious advertising clause".

> 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the <organization>.

There's a good reason why we no longer use BSD-4 anymore.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.html

> The result is a plethora of licenses, requiring a plethora of different sentences. When people put many such programs together in an operating system, the result is a serious problem. Imagine if a software system required 75 different sentences, each one naming a different author or group of authors. To advertise that, you would need a full-page ad. This might seem like extrapolation ad absurdum, but it is actual fact. In a 1997 version of NetBSD, I counted 75 of these sentences. (Fortunately NetBSD has decided to stop adding them, and to remove those it could.)
If TCP had a header flag to indicate that the next segment was <MSS in size, then the receiver could be a lot smarter about whether it delayed the ACK.
I’ve not read the proposal in full (skimmed it, so might’ve missed something admittedly), but if you were debugging a macro you wrote, why not just blow away the pyc files each iteration vs incrementing the version? I see the version increment more for when you distribute the macro.
Ahhh, I wasn't ready for that citation.
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The problem with medical predictions is that everybody wants to live forever, so of course he tried to rush it a little bit compared to what's realistic, so that rejuvenation can happen before he dies.

At the same time we have a small experiment that successfully made 9 people younger using growth hormone therapy, so we know that there are targets that work in human, we just need to decrease the side effects significantly (which can sadly take 20 years realistically, as experiments are extremely slow and expensive compared to running an A/B test on a web site).
I apologize if I'm dense, but I feel like you went far astray in this answer. I'm asking who is supposedly party to this specific agreement on printed on the plastic.
Ask HN: Suggestion for master thesis related to hyperldeger projects?
I have a Bachelor's degree in computer science and in first year of my master i got some cryptography related courses. Now i have to choose my master thesis but i am so confused. i like to research about subject related to blockchain and i am looking for some general advise about good research topics. I also really like to know opinions about how good it would be to use one of Hyperledger projects in my thesis and to hear some suggestion and advise how to do it(which project is a better choice ? what would be intrsting research related to that project and ...). Anyway any piece of advise is welcome even about other good area of cryptography for research.
I installed to try to use it to prune through all my bookmarks.

I figured at the worst, import/prune/export back to my bookmark bar.

Exporting and syncing isn't a feature and won't be a feature, so uninstalled. Glad that part worked fast.
Ask HN: How do you become good at digital marketing?
I have a couple of small websites (in productivity area mostly) that I want to be able to present to a wider audience, but my marketing skills suck.

I understand that content is the king nowadays, but s there any good books/other resources on content marketing, and in general how one can teach himself?

Thanks!
Not all AOL subscribers participated in these boards/posting though.

In addition, you have social media boosting other social medias, Facebook, Reddit, this place, each with their own individual brand of shenanigans. You didn't have that way back when (mostly because the alternatives were just as sparse)
SCXML is a universal standard which means it could be consumed by any programming language.
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This comment doesn't make any sense to me - it's like responding to an article titled "So, you want to build a transistor radio from scratch?" with "No, I want the latest iPod Touch".
The moment she started speaking on behalf of the Trump campaign she stopped acting in her role as an agent of the government, and became a spokesperson for the campaign.
I hear this a lot but have any actual, tangible comparisons been done with k3s vs kubeadm arm resource use?
An atom can’t be a transistor. That’s like saying “a single atom banana”. An atom can encode spin state, which can be used for computation.
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You can exclude companies that have multi billion company in their tree.
Documentation is not the problem. The problem is that, the advertising clause requires ALL promotional materials to include these acknowledgements, for ALL software that has been used in the software. It was not a problem for BSD back then, since UCB was the only developer. But for projects with multiple copyright owners, such as the Linux kernel, a Linux distro poster would contain a thousand lines of acknowledgements, and this is not even counting the packages in the userspace.
Wrong post. It was over 2 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17760536
> Not sure how much those brexit effects these

Implicit auctions across the interconnector to end.

Also gridwatch isn't 100% accurate. Accurate enough to get a good picture though.

And if you want to download data, just download from elexon/bmreports. No point gong via a 3rd party.
It's always better to have a million people watch a video of one book being destroyed by a hydraulic press than to have a million people destroy one book each with a hydraulic press.
I’ve seen several attempts at optical monitors. The first I became aware of was Agamatrix in early 2000s.

I doubt this is possible without some kind of catalyst. There’s just nothing all that unique about the composition or phonon modes of sugar or insulin.

There are other fluids aside from blood though. I think those have promise. Google X was working on a CGM in a contact lens. Maybe somebody is working on a CGM in dental roots. Gastric sensors may be just as good.
I think it's pretty obvious if you raise a child.
>Building the Great Pyramid of Giza today would be a massive project even with modern technology.

Only because we expect a far lesser fraction of societal productivity to be spent on them.

I don't know if anyone's run the numbers for the pyramids but European castles and cathedrals took a massive fraction of their area's productivity to create compared to modern civil engineering products.

Recreating the pyramids would only be "big" because modern society doesn't spend big on vanity projects like that anymore. With modern tech we could build the same pyramids much cheaper or many more pyramids for the same money.
Anybody who buys the grape and tries to propagate it. But I doubt the pseudo-legalese printed there is of much use. Like I've tried to say: even if it was enforceable it's somewhat pointless as almost nobody is going to be able to do this.

EDIT: but yes, it has an entirely pointless vibe to it. I am not sure why the marketing of this product is bothering.
Are you basing those positions on an article by a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch that was released 3 weeks before an election?
Most satnavs have it already.
I run mine completely offline, it doesn't require an internet connection except every few months. This check can be disabled pretty easily.
I believe CC-BY[0] covers this. Worth noting that CC is more of a generalist license than software, though, so you may not have as fine-grained control as with BSD/GPL/MIT etc.

[0] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Tragic story. My grandpa and uncles from my mother's side were all coal miners. None of them lived a long life, in fact my grandpa died with just 60 years and one uncle with 55.

This is what Trump wants to reopen, bargaining votes from depressed regions and bringing death. Not just for these poor people. But for the rest of the world that will have to endure more coal.

A radical solution needs to be put in place instead. These are some of the strongest and most resilient people in the world. They can learn any job and they just want work. But there needs to be a viable alternative.

Stop trading lives for votes.
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This is incredibly naive. FOSS ultimately is business (if the code has any real value) and that's why there are licenses, to keep industry in 'check'. If RMS shared your optimism there would be no FOSS. Business are not people, they are entities driven by profit and the limits of law. Call it greed if you want but that's how you get endless $1 loafs of bread and the ability to fly anywhere in the US for a couple hundred bucks or less. If you really want something to be so, get it in writing. There is no 'community' like you illude to. Maybe in certain corners of the web or for some more notable projects, but there is plenty of FOSS that is really the backbone of a lot of sw and non sw infrastructure that is contributed to almost exclusively by corporations that are in competition with each other. FOSS is not just web devs hanging out on twitter making some app with a cute logo that will be forgotten in 3 years. There is big business going on and without a good license you have nothing.
The Chrome extension that beats distractions
The internet has beaten me more often than I like to admit...
That's why I made a useful chrome extension for myself that redirects me from distracting websites to useful and interesting websites! No more reddit for me, but more Hackernews! No more Instagram, but trends.co. No more YouTube, but more Producthunt.
You get the picture
If that sounds something you want to try, you can add it to your chrome browser for free. Any suggestion would be more than welcome!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusfox/knbdgliej...
So if someone is informed on a topic they have a kind of societal obligation to post? By not posting, it allows those who may be less experienced or outright trolls to steer the discussion towards irrelevance.

I like the idea, but not sure how folks know which group they fall into.
Corporations the size of Amazon are imune to shame. If it's not a hard requirement, they'll only comply if it's not against their self interest to do so.
It seems they did, just in a not obvious place. The thing with legal documents is that, if it's not in the document, you can't expect it to be adhered to. This gets hairy when opposing parties have different ideas of what "norms" are, aka "unspoken/unwritten expectations", as we see here.
I would imagine the opposite side would say the same.
That's one part of it. But where is this claim even from? Where are the sources?
> Keynes' 15 hr workweek prediction

I m optimistic about this , with people who work remotely. There are alot of jobs that dont require a lot more than 3 hours of real effort per day.
"increasing bank reserves decreases the cost of lending"

Only if there is a net margin between what the central bank pays on reserves and what the bank has to pay out on the matching deposits.

Once central bank renumeration gets low, the cost of unsecured deposits matches or exceeds the central bank remuneration because of the draw to cash.
I believe the phrasing might not be clear to everyone, so here's a reduced version:

* Nim's current async implementation creates a lot of cycles in the graph, so ARC can't collect them.

* ORC is then developed as ARC + cycle collector to solve this issue, and it has been a success.

* This 1.4 release introduces ORC to everyone so that we can have mass testing for this new GC and eventually move torwards ORC as the default GC.

TL;DR: ORC works with everything† and will be the new default GC in the future. Your old Nim code will continue to work, and will just get faster‡.

† We are not sure that it's bug-free yet, which is why it's not the default for this release.

‡ Most of the time ORC speeds things up, but there are edge cases where it might slow things down. You're encouraged to test your code with --gc:orc against our default GC and report performance regressions.
Remember the movie Equilibrium? Before anyone gets too excited, it's wise I believe to live by the idea: Don't cheer a powerful tool that you would not want your worst enemy using against you, or in ways with which you do not agree.
I desperately want it playing the Substrate screensaver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCCVgBOVD0E
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Hi Andrew, I'm Zenaton's cofounder and you are right Temporal and Zenaton follow the same "workflow as code" pattern. I've written an article recently about it (https://medium.com/swlh/code-is-the-best-dsl-for-building-wo...) - Note that Zenaton is closed now (not enough commercial traction) and I'm working on a new open-source (well Common clauses) implementation of a workflow-as-code engine - similar to Temporal - but with different technical choices (cf. https://medium.com/@gillesbarbier/building-an-event-driven-o...)
> Charlie Hunter

One of these men are not like the others.
I always find these things over hyped. Like yes, you can trick an autonomous car into stopping or crashing. But you can also trick a human into stopping or crashing by running into traffic with a construction hat and stop sign, or dropping rocks from an overpass. The reality is that road safety relies on the vast majority of people agreeing to not kill each other.
I've seen normal, rational people, even one science PhD, turn to talking gibberish when discussing the world after lsd and mushrooms. The PhD no longer believes in the fundamentals of science or basics of microbiology that he studied. Also, try to talk to a Rasta and figure out what he really believes aside of abstractions.
The nation’s response to tragedies such as Number 9 had always been the same: prayers, an outpouring of sympathy for the widows and children, toothless coal-mining safety legislation, and a return to the collective amnesia that allowed things in the mines to go on as they always had.

This is very similar to what happens after gun deaths.
That is the same bahviour Trump shows when he retweets racist stuff. Both are unacceptable. The difference being, The MP you mentioned is part of the minority, and she deleted and the retweet and ecused herself. The article also discribes the original tweet coming from "a parody account" from a journalist.

So, you just confused the opposition, it is a Labour MP after all, with the government. And you totally ignored the origin of the retweet and the fact that the MP in question re-tweeted and did not write that tweet herself. Nice job, really.
To be fair the person they're replying to was the one who was either being pedantic of trying to score some cheap virtue points by stating the obvious (and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming the former)
I think "fake news" at least started as something a bit different - propaganda sure, but of a particular form, i.e. in the form of a fabricated news event propagated through media channels as if it were true.
Okay then, what's its real purpose?