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Ask HN: Opinions on Harmony CLAs?
I collaborate with an organization which acts as an umbrella of Open Source Software projects destined to fund and support technological development. The technical committee are now implementing a policy change by which all of the individual projects belonging to this org must require contributors to sign a common CLA. The CLA that projects must adopt is the Harmony Contributor Agreement for either Individuals or Entities [1].

I'm not very happy about requiring contributors of these OSS projects to sign any CLA, and have read articles such as [2] about how they can be harmful to OSS, but I've read specifically bad things about the Harmony ones [3]. This choice was consulted to and approved by a lawyer firm, but I worry that they were analyzing from the point of view of the business interests of members without much regards to how beneficial or harmful it might result for the OSS side of the projects. Specifically, I'd like to avoid a bad impact on the number of OSS contributions the projects receive.

I'm told the ground principle behind adding these CLAs is protecting both contributors and projects, preserving from contributions that might break each of the current project licenses and their business commercialization possibilities.

Is there a better option that can be proposed instead? (I'm in the position of making such proposal). I read about DCOs ([4], [5]), but those seem to be meant for a much smaller set of requirements.

[1]: http://harmonyagreements.org/agreements.html

[2]: https://opensource.com/article/19/2/cla-problems

[3]: http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/07/07/harmony-harmful.html

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origin

[5]: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-difference
I hope they will not drop their CPLD chips. They were made obsolete at least once but Xilinx fortunately decided to extend the support for a couple of more years. CPLD are very useful for repairing vintage gear where logic components fail and are no longer available (for example custom programmed PALs), so you can describe the logic in Verilog and often solder it in place of multiple chips.
If they drop it then the only way to do it would be to use full blown FPGA which is a bit wasteful.
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Thanks Anand!

Absolutely, you have captured it well.

Yes, the traditional banking infra is definitely weak and takes quite a bit of navigation to even capture the gist of their broken documentations :)

One of the key things that we are aiming for is switchability and optionality, essentially giving more power to the companies when it comes to their API infrastructure. That will take care of both those aspects around downtimes and complete banking shutdown of any provider.

Happy to discuss our SLAs and showcase our demo in detail. We are on - admin[at]decentro.tech

Cheers
Hi, I have created this after experiencing pain of monitoring APIs while I was working as a Technical Manager at a Fin-tech startup. I have 7+ years of experience in Technology working as a developer, and a Technical manager. I have founded 2 startups (e-commerce and Fin-tech space) before this.
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Interesting. But, I'm surprised no one mentions the 'originator' of this type of application: TheBrain from TheBrain Technologies LP. Perhaps because this is closed source commercial product?
This product and approach was invented over 20 years ago and has all the features mentioned. One use case, Jerry's brain, has over 500K nodes and is still useful graphically.

Two problems with these types of things is
1. the graph is most useful on large displays. I have not tried the mobile apps. On a large data set I would imagine scrolling and zooming would be needed.
2. Search is still a key feature. Even with fully linked graph structure, finding something would take too long, 'tip of the tongue' recall problem.
In this interview with Stephen A. Orlins, Kai-Fu Lee explains the value proposition of Alipay

https://www.ncuscr.org/media/podcast/uschinainsights/kai-fu-...

Orlins: You focus a lot on, kind of Alipay or WeChat Pay. How does that change the landscape for AI in China versus the United States, where we still are heavily reliant on a credit card system that seems quite old and outdated when you're in China?

Lee: It's a very unique opportunity for China to leapfrog. The U.S. had the world's most leading transaction tool, which was the credit card, but it became outdated. It charges too much, it's inconvenient, it's only customer to merchant. In China, with WeChat and Alipay, anybody can pay anybody. We can do micro payments and there are no fees, almost no fees, so the 2% extra charge is almost like a tax on the American economy charged by the credit cards. But with respect to AI, now everybody, including WeChat and Alibaba, but also, if you build an app, you know who your customers are, and what they paid and why. And if you're a retail shop and people scanned you, you know who pays you and why. There are even beggars in the street holding up a sign, "Scan me and give me money," and they know who paid them and why. So I think this is creating a huge amount of data that will help AI.
I'm still trying to figure that out honestly, but https://www.meilisearch.com/ is pretty sweet. Doesn't cover everything ES can do obviously, but it covers a big one.
I did not know how widespread ES5 is nowadays: https://caniuse.com/es6 says 94.69% of users worldwide use a browser that fully supports it.
>at least in the west

Yes. Much more in the western US than elsewhere given vast swaths of land are owned by the federal government and (especially outside of national parks) offer largely unregulated ability to hike and camp.

It's different and considerably more remote from, say, taking a long distance walk in England in ways that are both better (for some) and worse (for some).
> A name that could've come straight out of a Discworld novel

You'll be pleased to know that there's a beautiful old house on the Amsterdam canals with the inscription on the front quanti canicula ille in fenestra.
It is doable. I've seen it during my Computer Engineering courses 14 years ago.

Basically you analyze the code for candidates, select a candidate, upload your custom hardware design, run your operation on the hardware, and repeat.

The difficult part is that uploading your hardware to FPGA is in the order of tenths of seconds, which is ages when compared to the nano and micro seconds your CPU works.
So your specific operation must be worthwhile to upload.

A bit of FPGA on your CPU makes it more flexible, for example your could set a profile such as 'crypto' or 'video' to add some specific hardware acceleration to you general purpose CPU.

Imagine your CPU being able to switch your embedded GPU into another CPU core.
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try out mpv. with cranked up caches it will buffer the whole vid in ram and bobs your uncle.
I like these kinds of explanations. As Feynman said: “What I cannot create, I do not understand”.
A boogeyman with unlimited funding and a penchant for stealing trade secrets that has put ethnic minorities into slave camps.
Hi Abhishek,

Public sector banks will take a while, of course. But we will taking at least a couple of them onboard.
For most places, the number of tourists won't affect much the equation. Only in a few famous microstates, for example, Monaco and the Vatican that this skew could happen.
That reminds me that I read once that Vatican's crime per capita looks very horrendous if it is based on crime/resident, but most crimes occurred are petty like pickpockets targetting tourists.
This! I would have happily paid 50 EUR for a high-quality hardcover.
Open source or not, I think this'll (hope so!) lead to a much better FPGA development flow within Xilinx ecosystem in not-so-distant future.
On the topic of pronunciation, say, "beta", "eta", "zeta" — is the first vowel actually pronounced as "ei" in English, instead of just "e" (as in "bed")?

"Mew" and "new" are actually a good approximation for the ancient Greek letter names: actual sound was of course "y", "i Graeca", but it's close enough, the blending of initial "j" with following "u" produces a reduced "y".
> There's no custom framework invented here.

Proceeds to literally invent a custom framework.

It’s interesting, but I’ll stick with Vue/React.
The floating islands one made me want to go re-play Bastion
This can be used with a client-server model, that is if there are enough free cells and I/O available on FPGA it could let it install the configuration and then any application could communicate with it concurrently, maybe with some basic auth.
That's an argument for having some personal organisation system, not necessarily for org-mode. After multiple attempts of using Emacs and a couple of tries at org-mode I just decided that the time investment that I need to put in a frustrating to learn interface just isn't worth it.
> μ is pronounced Me not Mew

Ouch! I always say "Moo"...
Is there a solution that is better than a failover which will not break the TPC connection for the client. Say I have two independent ISP routers, an offshore VPS with a
perfect stable connection, and an old video call software which disconnect the call when the TCP stream breaks. Is there a custom protocol that can retry packets on the other 2nd ISP connection, or even say duplicate all packets like RAID 1 for hard drives, and the VPS+Client will determine which packets made it and which didn't, ensuring perfect connections.
You lose them?
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I just hope they bring back angle as a cross platform back-end so you can access "low level graphic hardware" without needing to implement also for Metal and Directx11.
> bare concrete is just fundamentally an ugly material

"Ugly" is an emotional response, and isn't universal. Maybe some people find bare concrete ugly some of the time, but that's a far cry from it being "fundamentally an ugly material".

There's plenty of bare concrete buildings which are appreciated. This house in Chile comes to mind: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/108353211/am... . The Barbican Centre in London makes extensive use of bare concrete, and is widely appreciated.
Without expressing support or condemnation for the CCP, I think being 'bored and numb' is a poor justification for disregarding concerns about potential bad actors. Sets bad precedent for engaging with sources who can intentionally pollute information streams.
I recommend the scott manly video another commenter linked to for a more full explanation, but:

The sample container that's currently jammed open is on the end of a long arm, while the sample return capsule is mounted on the body of the spacecraft. The only way to measure mass in free-fall is to spin the entire craft and measure where the center of rotation is compered to before the sample capture. The difference is then used to calculate the sample mass.

With the sample at the end of a long arm, the spacecraft doesn't have to rotate very fast to get a large enough difference in rotation to measure the sample. If the sample is in the return capsule, the moment is so much smaller that it's probably below the sensitivity of the instruments they were planning to use.
You can use Waifu2x to upscale artwork:

Online demo: http://waifu2x.udp.jp/

Repo: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/bkw543/tutorial_how...
I'm also wondering about how much better / less bad would be if they got rid of the section "2.3 Outbound License" and instead just specified "inbound=outbound" terms, which seem to be the biggest negative impact that OSS proponents seem to find against Harmony CLAs.
Ghost has been a superb platform for my dev blog, and I'm hoping to migrate my personal blog over to it at some point in the future (it's currently using Gridsome).

https://ghost.org/
I don't think I understand what you're asking for, but you can easily switch from org-mode to text-mode and back, on a custom keybinding if you like.
Better social media has RSS, which I use extensively: Reddit, blogs, this very website.
Oh I don't have an alternative suggestion. Just thought it was an interesting approach. Also I've never used JSONP and hadn't considered the security implications of using a JSONP api you don't control.
Left hand first, then right, then both at once
I've been slowly getting more and more into org over the years (decades, really). It's nice to just have a simple little text mode that results in easily readable text. Good for brainstorming and scribbling notes. Everything else is just icing.
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It's like when Mozilla says that the "Pocket recommended articles" they show on the new tab page are not ads.
This is a very good point. IP protection may be the only thing keeping margins alive in this sector when the DUV gains run out.
For what it’s worth, my wife and I slipped into a similar pattern and it put a great deal of stress on our relationship. We did seek some outside support and things have since moved back in the other direction. No advice here. Just sharing to acknowledge that these things can be fluid.
I've been looking for a transparent mask for my kid's teacher. Will check this out.
You mean, as opposed to the incumbent which is a boogeyman that sent the army to suppress protesters against racism, and which has killed millions of civilians in the middle east, and which is sterilizing women in border camps?

Both boogeymans have issues that they need to work out, but banning only one boogeyman doesn't make the world better. It could very well make the world worse, because the incumbent boogeyman would have no rival to keep its power and abuse in check.
> Twitter is a social media site that anyone can post on...

Anyone agreeing with Twitter's agenda, it appears.
Investing is quite literally legalized gambling, just for more complex systems. You're gambling that when you invest money in something it will show value, others will acknowledge that value, hopefully at a higher value than you bought in at, and your investment will increase in value.

Obviously with gambling, it's more stochastic in nature by design but often large complex processes have a lot of stochastic elements to their successes and failures as well.
AMD's P/E is high but that's based on the fact that AMD earnings are $390m (2020Q3) vs. $6Bn (2020Q3) for Intel - essentially people are pricing in AMD being the obvious alternative to Intel in the data centre and the potential profit from that is enormous compared to AMD's current market share.
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Political stress because of resentment due to rampant economic inequality. One of the theses of "The Evolution of Civilizations" by Carroll Quigley is that many major civilizations of the past have collapsed because of economic inequality that got too large.

We need a Marshall Plan to deal with the underlying causes. Even if Biden wins we can't go back to business as usual because the business as usual is what brought us to this point. We need to address the material causes of economic inequality, in red states as well as blue ones.
Just like "new study shows people are shedding coronavirus for months" when they are just saying people test positive for RT-PCR tests, without trying to cultivate the virus from those tested as "positive for months".
Nice. But I'm curious how they deal with the network effect. I.e., how do they motivate event organizers to post their events on this platform too? And how do I convince my friends to RSVP on this platform so I can see where they are going?
On that topic, I found out that using specimen date instead of reporting date (for those health agencies that do that) gives you a far better picture of the trend, since reports can lag a lot due to testing bottlenecks.
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in a strict sense, all markets guaranteed by the government of a single state are faith-based, given the market-as-it-exists is dependent on the state for enforcement of laws and as a guarantor of some basic standards allowing for the market to function.
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Thanks Varun!
How does your product differ from (or) compare with Fusion by Zeta[1] ?, They look pretty much the same to me, but Zeta seems to cover more workflows.

[1] : https://www.zeta.tech/fintech/
It would not be necessary to gradually replace the brain, nor any other parts of the connectome. If you agree that cognition is due to physical processes of the brain, then it is impossible that consciousness is anything more than very advanced logic. You could devise a situation in which a person is gradually converted into a robotic form, and another where he is simply replaced with a robotic clone, such that you would end up with the same exact logical brain(contained within the robot) in both cases. So, in this instance, where does cognition diverge? If the gradual replacement results in the continuation of the stream of consciousness, but the creation of a robotic copy does not, then why can't that difference be physically measured? Would you suggest a supernatural explanation? Or is the experience consciousness as shallow as the belief that it has been preserved (which I say it is)?
There are people who disagree with this point

> it's indisputable that it still has significant inequality

I was trying to understand where you were coming from and giving you the opportunity to change my mind.
You seem unhappy with the results of your current approach. Instead of making changes you're making excuses and sabotaging yourself. Hoping won't accomplish anything. Have you considered therapy?
It is a common solution, but losing track of where connections are from can be a pretty big price to pay.

I am painfully aware of this due to a situation where a rogue machine with an out of date version of software kept making unwanted updates. It literally took months of off and on searching to locate the machine. And the most irritating thing was that Postgres internally contains all of the tools that we needed to trace where connections came from..which is how we knew that it was connecting through pgbouncer.
Ok so not unlike the current US government.
Considering how vapid the current lineup of social networking is, I'm willing to see how it turns out.

There are some other great features too, but I didn't see anything about video-conferencing, which would be a killer feature.
Too little for what and too late for what? Qt has a massive install base in embedded and desktop, and plenty of weird niches like kiosk and interactive media. Also try building out some specialized UI featuring any kind of heavy computation and IO, there are very few practical choices for this. Qt is one of them
Is there hard data about this somewhere?
I'm with you. If I want to subtotal and subtract one subtotal from another, I'm popping over to excel. But... columnar text is a big win.
The performance of soft cores are significantly lower than hard cores.

Xilinx already has a RISC soft core in their MicroBlaze architecture so they don't have a pressing need for a low power, reasonable performance RISC soft core. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBlaze

AMD has high performance CPUs being fabbed by TSMC (same foundry as Xilinx), so (theoretically) AMD CPUs can be grafted onto the Xilinx FPGA as a hard core.

With AMD and the MicroBlaze, they have the high performance and low power processor spectrum covered with no need for 3rd party licensing costs.
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Nokia designed their ReefShark 5G SoC chipset with significant FPGA component and used Intel as their supplier. Intel couldn't deliver what they promised. It was complete disaster.

They had to redesign ReefShark and cancel dividends. It was a huge setback.
And the same in Danish and AFAIK Swedish. I wonder where it originated or if it's one of those separate, but parallel occurences.
Again, business cannot exist without advertising. Even money and finance is negotiable - business can survive on barter alone, even though the overhead would be monstrous.

But advertising is not negotiable, it must exist in one way or another if the economy exists.

If you want to go down this road, argue about the "how", not the "what".

The idea of banning advertising outright is too silly for words.
Statistically 1/4 heterosexuals have some form of an STI. They can be even higher depending on what you read. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575167/

STI in transsexuals is even higher. Some reports have it at 3/4 with high percentage of HIV. High rates among gays. Lesbians are pretty low (but have high domestic abuse rates).

STIs are a real danger unless many precautions are taken. We’re looking at dental dams. Condoms. And a lot of cleaning.
I don't believe that you believe that this is actually separate. Why else would my opinion matter here?

I know very little about HR departments and bias training. I do know a lot of academics who study race in fields like history and sociology and I do know that people scream at some of them and call them anti-white even though their scholarship is very rigorous. So I would expect there to be a range of quality among bias training and that both high and low quality bias training causes certain groups of people to lash out. But I also have basically no information here.
I keep refusing to enable DRM on Firefox. Hopefully there are enough people like me to matter.
No, the spacecraft is already on a trajectory away from the asteroid, and any further maneuvering is not an option until the sample capsule has been stowed to avoid more debris spilling.
Exactly this. From one viewpoint, https://pad.riseup.net/ is just a worse version of Google Docs, and most people will never use it. From another, it's a vital service for preserving the anonymity and security of activists, and comparisons to Google Docs are moot.

In other words, these tools quite effectively solve the pain of a small but clearly-defined group of people - turns out this approach is useful beyond the startup world!
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I wrote a pizza ordering application back in 96 using turbo pascal 7. The software got pirated and is still used by some places where they take phone orders.

Most software at the time used mouse clicks, mine had an interface where you could use keyboard shortcut to add ingredients. It was like 20 times faster to take an order.
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I think those areas hate coastal elites because of economic inequality and wounded pride. vestiges of the Civil War that have never been dealt with.

Think about WWII history. After WWI the Allies ground their heel on Germany, creating terrible economic conditions and a stew of resentment for Hitler to take advantage of. After WWII we helped Germany rebuild and now they're an ally. If we had had a Marshall Plan after WWI Hitler may have turned out as just another bad portrait painter.

If Biden wins Democrats need to be gentlemanly victors and help the losers up off the mat. I'm not talking about appeasement, I'm saying we need to win and then be gracious about it.
Did they disclose what the control group got as a placebo? For instance, in this study it's a meningitis vaccine, so it could still have those side-effects if you've never had that vaccine.