skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for a lot of companies that would be an instant turn-off, especially if they're still starting up.

Besides, it would have to be a lot more formal; another commenter mentioned the Unreal Engine, which states something to the tune of "free to use until you earn over X, then you pay us Y% of your revenue".

Cynically, open source libraries need to use the err, hook-and-sinker approach? Be really good at bootstrapping a company or part thereof, then when they have buy-in, start charging. It's what Unreal and (I think?) Unity do, it's what Slack did (really successfully, in a lot of places where it was introduced it was snuck in the back door by employees, used for a couple of months until the restrictions became too much, then the company started to pay for it; I've never seen 'grassroots' software deployment like that before and I'm impressed).

But it'll be difficult to pull off fully without the software being as-a-service or DRM things.

I wonder if the package manager systems could play a role in that. Require you to register your application at e.g. NPM, then every time an `npm install` is done, keep track of it. If usage does not decrease, start charging for things.

One could also consider an alternative, compatible package manager; an open source publisher could opt to only push to and promote that one. The package manager charges for use, and pays package maintainers relative to usage.
Urine isn't sterile, though[1], and there's good reason to believe that the toilet seat is one of the least concerns when it comes to sources for bacteria[2].

I can buy the argument for "I prefer not to sit", but I'm not convinced about the hygienic aspects.

[1]: https://www.popsci.com/urine-sterile-drinking-pee/
[2]: https://time.com/4908654/cell-phone-bacteria/
They've destroyed our open web, replaced RSS with DRM, left us with streaming and music options worse than cable and personal audio libraries.

The web is bloated with ads and tracking, AMP is given preference, Facebook and Twitter are testing the limits of democracy and radicalizing everyone to cancel one another.

This is the important part from the GP. If they were under the AGPL or say a new better GPL which patches the problems with GPLv3 then those companies that have destroyed the open web would have at least had to buy the work or do it themselves. Even if that doesn't have a huge impact on the state of things, at least project maintainers can say that they are not contributing to it.
This looks like a pretty popular project, so I assume he's decently talented. How does he not have a day job? Passion projects are great and all, but they're not known for paying the bills. Especially for solo maintainers, it's almost like playing a gig at a coffee shop for tips. Want to make a career out of it? You need talent, marketability, and be ready to compromise on your vision.
I used to be a data analyst in a fraud investigation team and we would often use Benford’s Law to figure out whether a nominal account in a general ledger contained dodgy transactions. It’s a useful tool but needs to be used in the context of a wider investigation. If the graphs in the image are accurate then that’s a pretty big red flag that warrants investigation but I don’t know exactly the context of the graphs or how they were created - that’s pretty important to ascertain. But yes... definitely worth further further investigation!
So you admit defeat on the politics aspect of it? Because every one of your points was political, save for 1a.
ITunes has been DRM free for over a decade?
That sounds like an aggressive copyleft license plus a paid commercial license to avoid the copyleft terms. If someone wants to charge for a software library, is there a good royalty-free, one-time payment license template out there somewhere?
Depends on how heavy you're going. If you're sticking to less than 2-2.5x BW you will be fine. Just don't try to set a 1 rep max.
Your own toilet is as clean as you keep it. Urine pools under your toilet smell which is why I also sit down at home.
Be interested to know which part of it is fake news eh.

The culmination of the recent tweets and actions presents this as having more of a personal tone than a grand indictment of big companies relationship with open source.
That seems like a false equivalence as perhaps the requirement to add a SSN for children was precisely because there was evidence of the fraud. In US elections there are fraud monitoring systems in place and there's a lot more anti-fraud and ballot checking processes than using an honor system to count your dependents on a tax form.

In general, especially legally, evidence is required to prove the merit of a claim, not to refute a claim. Proving a negative is often impossible, impractical or oppressive.
Potential*; it won't do much good if it's trivial software easily reimplemented by Apple's great army of engineers, or if there's competitive software that does the same thing.
The only way for the government to bypass encryption in chat apps is to create their own social media company, just like china did.
Maybe it's just me and my social circle, but showing off richness is considered tasteless. Of course, you'd have good clothes and other things, but they don't need to be of a famous brand or the most expensive ones.
Of course, there are people like those that you've described. They are everywhere. It's just I feel like in western culture, the US and Europe, it is less.
Then you're just indirectly donating money, no? What you described is just proxying the donation through an engineer.
You offer a copyleft license like AGPL but also offer a paid license for those who don't want to deal with AGPL. Since you as the creator own the copyright, you can license it however you want, including multiple licenses simultaneously.
Which is absolutely null compared to their income, and does close to absolutely nothing to benefit society - it is only there so they can feel good about themselves.
One of the fallacies in reasoning is that people tend to judge outcomes solely on the results, not taking into consideration the initial conditions.

When the authors started, did they really know that the library was going to take off and be used by many companies in the world with boat loads of money? Hell no.

Open source licenses by are optimized for high usage and freedom. You also have to consider that because it was so permissive, people at huge tech companies used it for their projects, which led to those engineers telling other engineers about the project and fast tracked to amazing growth there.

Anyways, the authors have the right to renegotiate but I don't think companies have done significant evil.
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For somebody who is nearly 2m tall peeing without sitting down means uniformly coating my legs and the immediate surroundings with pee droplets of high velocity.
Seconded. It's almost painless split keyboard for normal user but also has great software and some advanced features. Kinesis Freestyle Pro is almost same.
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I dunno, there's websites like placeholder kittens and the like which are "mock data as a service"; faker.js could be offered as a service as well in that regard. I can't see much opportunities for making money, but it's something at least.
Totally agreed that badly designed rep systems can rapidly descend into Black Mirror territory. In Nosedive for instance the score you get is absolute, while the thing we’re proposing here is entirely relative and subjective. The idea is to empower users to maintain their own view of the world. If a voting ring of idiots conspire to try to trash someone’s reputation... you’d filter out the voting ring from your reputation feeds; it should stand out very clearly. That goes whether it’s bots or humans behaving like bots. Alternatively, you could choose to hang out with that tribe and believe their rep data if you so desired.

We’ve been wargaming through all the various ways this could go horribly wrong (and have a few fun scenarii off the back of it - look for the GPT-3 example below), but on balance it feels a lot better than the Black Mirror episode where encryption is fatally weakened...
> Dual licensing is the only true path, it was already so in the shareware days, and it will be back to be the daily reality.

It's strange to me that the GPL licenses get regarded as too ideological, but an mit license also has an ideology behind it. Yet now we're discovering that lots of people have been using mit style licenses when they don't agree with the ideology.

All the tools have been available to avoid this problem. Essays have been written about why these things are problematic. Hopefully now actual practice will catch up with theory.
"I've been noticing more push back against the open source bargain lately."

it's open source vs. free software

open source = free labor for private profits.
I can't blame the authors for the choice permissive licenses. Maybe they were idealistic and starry-eyed, maybe they never thought their project would catch up, maybe they were naive victims of propaganda or maybe they had ulterior motives, who knows. I don't blame the companies that take advantage of it, they are profit-seeking entities - if they see an opportunity for profit they'll take it, morality be damned.

I blame those that justify and help propagate this behavior, justifying abusers of free labor arguing that we wouldn't have all these nice products that make our lives easier. Yes we would, if there's a market for them we would - only now people would either get paid to create them or the companies would be forced to give back to the community just like they benefited from it.

So, authors, if you are sick and tired of your good Samaritan efforts being abused, switch to GPL and let them rant
Not the perfect feed, but at least a working one [0]. Disclaimer: I develop a tool to transform markup to feed, completely automated [1]

[0] https://rssproxy.migor.org/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Farzg.g...

[1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
> Actually even GPL is not a protection here, with sources given away they become almost a manual how to re-implement it which is far simpler than making it from scratch (oh and yes, people are doing that without copy pasting).

That's quite a gamble, since it falls foul of the Clean Room Implementation criteria

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Big companies (faang) won't touch that approach with a 10 meters pole, but obviously I'm not surprised that smaller actors might have a more cavalier attitude to copyright law.
I've spent a lot of time in the past being a moderator on a larger game system's forums - one that has a ban system. I've seen enough "I wasn't cheating and I got banned!" posts to be really doubtful of people claiming they got banned "for no reason at all"

That said, you should be able to do whatever you want OUTSIDE of your game or game environment, which is the main issue for me.
Due to Facebooks track record of leaving users out in the cold with no way to appeal, I would never get an Oculus at this point.

That, and the fact their whole product lineup is effectively spyware.
Indeed, I will add a startup check in the next version.
>According to 8008 designer Hal Feeney, "We built the carry look-ahead logic because we needed the speed as far as the processor is concerned. So carry look ahead seemed like something we could integrate and have fairly low real estate overhead and, as you see, the whole carry look ahead is just a very small portion of the chip."

This is a very strange remark. Setting aside whether Feeney actually did design it, that look-ahead carry takes up a huge area of the chip -- almost as much as the whole rest of the ALU.

If they had cared about speed, they would not have shoehorned it into 18 pins.

According to Federico Faggin (Italian: "Fah-jeen"), Intel considered itself a memory company, and the 8008 project a waste of attention. They weren't about to set up 40-pin infrastructure for a nothing part like that when no memory chip would ever need 40 pins.
> Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source.

Stop. Buying. Their. Shit.
When I worked at Google I heard AGPL called the "fuck google license" for this reason. There do exist licenses which restrict certain business models, but I agree there could probably be even more work around improving it
Maybe! I've only ever glanced at it, but something between awk and python does sound useful.
Eh, I don't really buy that these contributions are so huge. What is the replacement cost of tools like this? It's not that high. It actually seems like this kind of software negligibly impacts large businesses, but small businesses and individuals are the ones who really benefit, because even a small replacement cost is significant for them.
This is a bit like closing your eyes and seeing how many steps you can take in a large empty (safe) parking lot before you just can't take it anymore. This matches the author's first listed goal of "Do I have the willpower to get through the experiment?"

It's not easy to do for a long time.
Yeah. One is a VR HMD and the other is a paperweight to get people to sign up for Facebook.
That's not entirely unreasonable, although mostly wrong. I haven't heard it lately, but back in the 90s it was pretty typical to hear a joke along the lines of this one: "Meet Bob, a contestant on Jeopardy. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from CalTech, and designs rockets at work. Now meet Sally, a contest on Wheel, a housewife from Ohio who is fascinated by small shiny objects" I think that was from George Carlin.

But the truth is almost everyone who watches one watches the other, especially in markets where they air back to back.

Although if you read Pat's Twitter, I can see where you might get the red/blue thing from. Pat is a Trump superfan.
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Terrorists don't need an information exchange channel to be a nice looking app with great UX, stickers and animated emojis.

Even regular GPG-encrypted email using random rarely used email addresses will work quite fine.
It's a pattern that works very well - many large companies have standing policies that they can't use copyleft licensed software so they have to get the paid license while those happy with the copyleft social contract get to enjoy and contribute for free.
https://www.bountysource.com is one. I have used a few times to sponsor features in Weblate.
Interesting that when they finally checked the time, it was just five minutes after the alarm.

If you consider they were trying not to look at the time (and so probably spent a while deciding whether or not to finally "give in"), I'd take that as a strong piece of evidence that humans have an extremely accurate internal chronometer, and that we are just bad at consciously accessing it.
That Wikipedia article is a bit weird because it says fraud allegations and 26 people indicted but no mention of convictions.

However, the special grand jury report claims 58 people were convicted and it is very clear that an organised fraud had taken place.

https://sites.duke.edu/pjms364s_01_s2016_jaydelancy/files/20...
You publish under AGPL for free and also under a commercial license for people who do not want to abide to the conditions of the AGPL. See servicestack.net as an example. It seems to work for some people.
> I want a license that prevents unpaid use by any entity that has any stakeholder worth more than a billion USD.

That is an arbitrary criteria, and you'll end up with software being written by Apple Development LLC, the loss-making shell company that Apple uses to do all it's development.

If you want something other than the GPL you can use it but don't be surprised when people commercialise your software at scale, don't pay for it and don't release changes back to the community.
As it should, but who will verify it's only used in that way? Who watches the watchmen? Snowden revealed that the watchmen (NSA) are scooping up all data they can find, and that they have easy access to big internet companies' data (and they're not allowed to mention your data was accessed, even if no charges were made).
Because recordings of politicians interacting with experts and NGOs in a recent Norwegian hearing (about bulk metadata collection) makes it seem they have no practical understanding of the subject matter.
I implemented Apple Login.

Took me about 2 months, since I do it on weekends, and had to move the deployment of the back-end microservices to a ci/cd docker instance since .so files of openssl can't be compiled in mac and used in linux ( i use Aws lambdas). And of course, I have a MAC because HOW else I would BUILd and Archive my ApPLE XCOdE IOS app haahah? In my prev company we had a Mac machine plugged with SSh to Jenkins!!! GOd! A company that has 700milion visitors A MONtH is forced to do this!

You see, the problem is they force my choices All the time, and by forcing it I have to make bad decisions.
How do you read the news critically?
You are aware Bentley is part of the Volkswagen group?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group
Oh, I remember this. Gosh, I really wish it was good, and I mean that sincerely. It's just got such a limited selection and set of genres, and if what I want is a radio station to listen to in the background half the time...

Don't get me wrong, the music is lovely. I like the idea a lot. It's just really not comparable =/
So you've made something cool and it's time to release it. These seem to be the options at hand:

1. Release under a permissive license (MIT, BSD) and:

- Have everyone and their grandma use it.

- Die poor

2. Release under a copyleft license (GPL) and:

- No company is going to use or contribute to it, unless they can somehow clearly separate it from what they see as their intellectual property. Or just hide it where nobody sees it.

- Die poor

3. Release it under a commercial license and:

- Get bashed on HN for doing so

- Nobody uses it

- Probably die poor

4. Dual license it as GPL and commercial and:

- Sue everybody as they are just taking the GPL version and never looking back. Especially if they can hide it somewhere.

- Die poor

Pick your poison.
Really? That's really a shame you know. Solving the anxiety of suffering people is already not that bad.
Ask HN: Linux/FreeBSD tape backup software?
I got a tape drive quite cheaply and I am searching for a backup software to create backups of NAS, maybe a laptop (I can stage it), but after searching for a software I wasnt able to find anything that is not rudimentary simple (tar - scripting it might be my choice at the end) or completely overcomplex (bacula, bareos).

Do you know some software that would allow simple selection of few folders, do incremental and differential backups but wouldnt require too much hassle with configuration and would support tapes ?
It's not about the scenario where Trump actually wins the electoral vote. It's about Biden actually winning the electoral vote, but Fox, Trump, and right wing media sowing enough doubt in half the country that a "coup" is taking place and Biden isn't lawfully President and that their supporters need to support the "legitimate" President by any means necessary.
I should've worded that better. Of course they can't pull the existing versions, but then can shut down any further development and support.
This pretty much adds up, and invalidates the whole analysis in my opinion.

But I still believe that the first conspicuous batch of mail-in ballots being dumped in the witching hour, after poll watchers were told the counting was done for the night, is fishy, and I will not be surprised if the court considers it part of a larger pattern of behavior which causes ballots (legitimate but unverifiable, in many cases) to be thrown out.
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Just like phone taps and listening devices. That said, those should only be employed if there is reasonable suspicion; iirc they still need a judge to approve employing these tools.

The fear with this is that they will try and catch all messages and retroactively look for bad actors. And of course that the backdoors will be discovered and abused by bad actors.
Anyone wanna make a stock market for free/open source software? I'd like to be able to invest in software that have a chance of becoming acquired or adopted by big corporations that make them a lot of money, and then get some kind of ROI for it :P
What i find weird is people always ask if "you are going to open source this and that". It's a bit rude, like asking strangers to give you their car. I get the trust aspect but still
> It's also disingenuous to suggest the extreme left isn't dominating the messaging from the left.

Except they're not. Your country has drifted so far right, every opposing voice may look like "extreme left", but it's not. Nowhere close.

If you want to argue about the actual extreme left, go right ahead. I'm as left-leaning as they are, but I'll probably agree with you. There's some idiots.

But the extreme left isn't really that vocal at all in the US right now. It's the moderate leftists trying to restore some sense of normalcy.
Yes but as a user you don't control this. That's the problem. Anyone you're talking to can activate cloud backups and there is no way to know.
A software developer? It's the only real thing any human has.
People in rural areas think similarly due to a similar environment. What a rural area desires in the nation's leader does not necessarily align with city voters. You must see the danger of minority having the majority of the voting power.

Say Louisiana and the mid-west would decide that a fascist leader would be best for the country. How the hell do residents in the cities stand up against that in any way but force.

Works just as well, and is what is actually happening.
Borrowers from “fintech” lenders are more likely to default
Are you familiar with the TimescaleDB license[1]? It basically means open source but companies cannot just take the product and offer it as a (paid?) service. They are allowed to provide other services services that are built with timescale underneath but not offer the product itself as a service.

[1]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...
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We could apparently add about 5,500 reps through ratifying a long lost amendment:

https://thefederalist.com/2016/03/14/want-to-fix-congress-ad...
wasnt that the model of ICOs?
I like weightlifting. I pick up heavy thing, I put it down. Working up a sweat is good. And it makes my head clear. You might be overcomplicating exercise. I just have fun with it.
Growing fast into high double digit headcount. But we neither have software engineers in Helsinki - just Account Managers, TAMs, Solutions Architects, etc. AFAIK the closest location for SDEs is Berlin. Anyhow, thanks for noting the problem on that page, just created an internal ticket to get that fixed!
As a heads-up, the "wannehireme.com/" overlaps your input on Firefox.
If the police would ransack my family home after a fire you could probably write the same article. Charred RPi's and lots of computer parts, enough wiring for a new house, lots of chemicals (cleaners, fertilizers, other chemical agents with regular gardening use cases), ultimate survival guide and related parts ("This guy was prepping for something!"). The naming of suspects is just adding insult to injury. If he's in good faith... Anyone could lose it after a house fire plus being named a 'unabomber' by your neighbours.
However those are somewhat neglected by their user base. Digital releases are rarely even listed along with their physical counterparts on Discogs. Of course it's up to the users to actually create and maintain those entries.
There are a ton of real world problems here though: if a small
company gets acquired, do they have to stop using the license? Negotiate with you to pay for it? FOSS licenses are meant to be free to anyone, including big orgs, so long as they play by the rules. AGPL might be your target.