skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are streaming solutions that work well enough via the Internet.

The trick is that they basically render a skybox/sky-dome. If you turn (rotate) your head, that is computed locally, you just get shown a different part of the picture that's already on your device (if you turn too fast, you may get a black cut-off edge until the viewport is updated from the remote machine.

If you move (translate), it needs to re-render for paralax etc. and that's when you notice it and potentially get VR-sick. So games where you have to move your head a lot are probably not a good match, but e.g. Fallout works great.
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We should fork everything and relicense for the end user’s sake. Have said this for years.

Also start looking at a plan B for the www. Gopher is a winner there because it’s difficult to use it for anything other than information delivery.

While this is extreme, we need a contrasting platform to fall back on always.
One issue with "getting paid for open source" is how much marginal value the project is generating. For example, take left-pad. At the time of its infamous removal, it was relied upon by thousands of packages, including Node and Babel.

But does that mean that it was worth millions of dollars? Of course not. Because if it wasn't available, anybody could have replicated it in a few hours of work.

I don't know if that's the case for this project, but just wanted to note that "being used by <multi billion dollar company>" does not necessarily mean that you're providing that much value.
LOL, can you replace the F122 if it fails?
Not sure if I follow your argument here :)
GPLv4 needs to address a number of new problems:

* "any user data serviced by this software must be easily exportable; no attempt must be made to block other 3rd party companies or services from consuming this data"

* "if this software is itself sold as a service, any automation or tooling built in service of this system must also be made available as open source"

* "any devices using this software must not actively prevent or prohibit users from running their own software"
Either way it shouldn't matter. If someone is being an ass or cheating online, maybe that's grounds for multiplayer banning, like with valve, but not for a complete shutoff. Watching youtube videos or playing beat saber by yourself doesn't let your toxicity spread to others. Same with potential payment fraud even, just don't let them buy online anymore.

It should also be up to the developers of apps. Some may not care (ex: beat saber), or someone just want an ability to ban from their app specifically for bad behavior in their app, or have cool off periods instead of perma bans or whatever else.
I can see that a passion to please can be disappointed if there is no reciprocity.

But a passion to build great technology should not depend on who starts using it.
Or a change of work environment. Too much paid work or no more JavaScript, who knows.

I've been offered to take over the development and maintenance of a small Ruby gem many years ago. I think I contributed a patch or something. I needed that gem in my current Rails project, probably not in the next one. Furthermore I don't work only with Ruby. So I refused.

Something like faker is useful in nearly every project and I contributed to the Elixir faker (my customer agreed to that, we needed it.) I learned a couple of things of the Elixir environment in the process. By the way, nice team and great tooling. Would I take over that package if offered? Again no, because I don't use Elixir full time and I'd rather drop another contribution whenever I need it. No time to work on fixes and look at issues not related to my work.
> The right reaction is not to stop producing open source software. The right reaction is to adjust the license.

The right reaction is whatever the author/maintainer wants to do. If they want to re-license, that is fine. If they want to just shut the whole thing down, that is fine too.
> Switzerland and several other Eurpean countries have very high rates of gun ownership, but low rates of gun violence.

They also have vastly stricter gun regulation laws, and while ownership rates are high in some, the US is an extreme outlier and no other country comes even close.

Because nobody in any European country thinks they have a "right" to own a gun, most of them could if they wanted to, but they simply don't want to deal with the hassle that owning a properly regulated firearm entails.

As it should be, owning a deadly weapon is a lot of responsibility that not everybody is up for/actually wants. The importance of that responsibility gets completely lost when firearms are treated like cool toys that everybody should have and exist in abundance.

That's why headlines like "toddler shoots mother" or "dog shoots owner" don't exist in Europe, but are a sad somewhat regular thing out of the US. These toddlers and dogs didn't do that because they watched too much violent media, they did that because the actual owners of the guns where irresponsible individuals and never should have owned one in the first place.
I think people initially work on some of these projects, at least in part, to beef up their CV and make themselves more hirable. Every second tech job advertisement these days brainlessly asks you about your 'open source contributions'.
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He's not complaining about use, he's complaining about support.

This is not a licensing issue.

He is frustrated that companies that use his software for their business raise support and feature requests and expect him to work on them for free again and again.
Hmm, I agree with you, but this is a bit different. It’s not like someone took faker.js and started charging for it. It’s a tool that the author chose to give away, and other companies used. There’s literally nothing even asking people to pay, other than sponsorships at the bottom of the README.

You can’t expect companies to pay if you never ask!

I’d love to see GitHub create more avenues for paying for software. Shareware-esque licenses with an easy way to pay, bounties attached to Issues, etc. I think companies _would_ pay (if given a reason); right now it’s framed as a sponsorship (not even a donation!) so the thought process for a company (assuming they even notice it and consider it) is “well, I don’t think it’s a good marketing expense for us” and that’s it.

I’d say most people using faker.js aren’t big companies trying to fuck over a random dev. It’s an employee typing “npm install faker.js”, and genuinely never thinking about it.
My address also always completes to "XXX-borough (except the following buildings)." I hope one day more sites migrate to Posuto on the backend to clean up the mess.
I've been noticing more push back against the open source bargain lately. Years ago software was fully build on the backs of a multitude of giants within their niche domain.

But for a while now large companies have been adopting a model of taking from open source contributions and raking in billions. The original social bargain of "pay it on" has been broken by the Bezos of the world raking in billions. And yes, as others have pointed out, nobody owes you anything, this has down the line knock on effects of ingraining having to build widgets inhouse for the thousandth time because all the talent went and put it into their day-job instead of the community. Maybe a partial factor because the industry has expanded and matured so much in the past three decades that name recognition is harder to filter out among the noise by merely doing good work.

Whatever the case, developers are starting to believe that voluntary free open source contribution is for smucks. Which will hamper innovation and morph the industry to how, well, every other industry operated before tech came along. Siloed and slow.
Apple puts major supplier Pegatron on probation for labor violations
I wouldn't let an auto tagging solution anywhere near my collection - at some point it will get things wrong. However if you don't mind manually checking and editing tags I find Meta [1] to be an absolutely fantastic app.

Every new release that gets added to my collection will spend a few seconds in Meta so that I can check and edit the meta data and rename the files in a consistent way. Obviously you can also edit multiple releases at once.

I used quite a few tagging apps over the years, Meta is without a doubt the best of them.

[1] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/
They can afford customer service in this case, since stuff is being sold for $20-$30 a pop with $300 devices.
Never heard of this source - I hope it’s okay in this time of misinformation to ask for a recognizable source?

Edit: I mean I am okay with leaving it as “somebody on the internet says”, but wondered if the evidence was more clear than that.
It's not stealing when you've given it away, explicitly and out of your own free will.
Talking up the artist skill, but not even crediting the artist that made the pieces you decorated your post with?
AI simulating video *outside* the frame
Red Hat is exceptional.
This is the relevant investigation https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
Isn't this cloned from the hmrc GitHub project https://github.com/hmrc/claim-tax-refund and it's front end project
Okay? This particular project is soliciting donations:

“Support us with a monthly donation and help us continue our activities.”

I’m not really sure what your point is, because you never actually made one. You just said I was wrong.
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I disagree that the "victory is total". First of all, distortion in the upper part of the audio range is not that stellar. Secondly - I personally can tell apart Class-D, Class-AB and Class-A. Class-D has grainy sound, even the best ones, $3000+ I tried; I get fatigued pretty quickly from them.
More recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbot_War
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Public pressure rarely materialises spontaneously, out of a vacuum. For it to materialize, someone has to rally for it. A manifesto needs to be written, the goals written down and elaborated. It has to be pushed into the media.

It's not easy, but it's the only thing that will work.
While at the same time these governments fail to properly use the information they have and are able to gather through traditional intelligence work properly to avoid the type of attacks they claim putting up backdoors will prevent.

Most recently last weeks attack in Austria could have been avoided if the information the authorities received from a neighboring country of an attempt to purchase weapons by the attacker would have lead to actions. (I’ll try to find a link, apparently they had months to process and act)

So I think this makes the situation more unsafe in two ways - back doors will lead to all sorts of issues from leaking private communication to impersonation and authorities still don’t take responsibility and fix their processes so they can do their jobs.
What a sad zero-sum way of looking at things. Your open source software doesn't go away because some corporation decides to use it. The companies you list have made substantial contributions to open source.
Another potentially _right_ solution is for programmers to have a union, and put pressure on employers such as google/amazon/facebook/apple to donate x% of their profits back to open source initiatives.
I've seen a few abandoned projects where the first issue is by someone announcing their fork and their willing to continue maintenance, merge PRs, etc. Not an ideal situation, but sometimes it proves helpful.
> There should be no discernible patterns of any kind.

That's not a correct description of the model given.

The author writes "The slight drift from D to R mail-ins occurs again and again, and is likely due to outlying rural areas having more R votes. These outlying areas take longer to ship their ballots to the polling centers."

That is, the author says there should be a discernible pattern.

Note that this is a hypothesis which was created only after looking at the patterns in different states. While it appears to be true of some other states, there's no strong argument for why it should be true of all states and all vote counting methods.

Unfortunately, the author then double-downs by saying that since this is the expected pattern, and it wasn't seen in PA, then something's suspicious, to the point of being "likely evidence of ballot backdating or manufacturing."

The IMO correct interpretation is observation that the random model, which was already tweaked in order to explain one data trend, might need more adjustments in order to explain other data trends.

For example, the author uses PA and WI as examples of outliers to the drift-to-R-mode. But we know that (quoting https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/06/how-s... ):

> While most states began processing mail-in ballots before Election Day, others had laws preventing election officials from doing so. For instance, election officials in the swing states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania requested the ability to begin processing earlier and the Republican-controlled legislatures in those states refused, all but ensuring the high volume of mail-in ballots would not be counted until after Nov. 3.

There's no reason to expect that a model trained on states with one vote counting model should be applicable to states with another vote counting model, much less be strong enough as to justify a claim of ballot backdating or manufacturing.

Furthermore, I believe there's a reasonable argument that the "Republican-controlled legislatures in those states refused" in part to muddy the waters, and create anomalies which could be interpreted as fraudulent voting.

This potential confounding issue was also not included in the "deck of cards at a casino" model.
Currently I have a lot of trouble with my body because I am sitting to much.

After different types of exercise I believe what matters most is keeping the blood flowing and stimulating blood flow.

Strength is nice but when acids still build up it does you no good.

There are also no shortcuts. Exercise takes at least half an hour a day.

In my experience walking half an hour a day can be as good as lifting weights.
I think you might be missing the perspective. A heavy deadlift is one of the most "focusing" exercises I know. You can't lift 500lbs+ barbell without complete, singular focus. That's part of the value I derive from this exercise.

Also, squats are harder to learn, require good shoulder mobility (which a lot of desk jockeys don't have), and, at a minimum, require a squat rack, which you're unlikely to have at home. Better yet, I'd advise to use a power rack, which will catch the barbell if you fuck up your balance and fall forward.

TL;DR: while I agree that squat is a better overall exercise, and one that the author of the article should be doing if they don't have the time to do anything else, it requires a lot more gear and training than a deadlift. It is, therefore, not very practical to do barbell squats at home. And if the choice is between a deadlift and no lifting at all, it's deadlift all the way. It hits the posterior chain and core pretty well, and all you need is a barbell and a set of cheap-ass plates.

One way to not overdo it out of the gate is to not use straps on the barbell - you'll be limited by grip strength which is pretty slow to build. You also get to build a truly crushing handshake that way, for when we're back to handshakes. :-)
> How hard is it to intercept mail-in ballots, sign them, then mail them in? Who knows that you did so?

Well first of all, the person who was supposed to get the mail-in ballot in the first place. In Michigan, you can check to see whether they've received your mail-in ballot.

Don't you think that if 100k Republicans in Michigan didn't receive their ballot at all, but checked and found that they had been registered as having voted, we'd be hearing about that?

> I personally find it very implausible that in both elections that Trump was in he produced results about 3% better than polls indicated he would.

I find this highly suspicious too. In 2016 it might have been the "Shy Tory" effect, but the Trump voters in 2020 didn't seem at all shy to me.
> Spotify

You don't own the music. You can't share it, use your own software to analyze, shuffle, remix it, etc.

> Netflix subscription

But now there's Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Peacock Premium, etc. Except now instead of one easy to use interface to access it all, it's spread out all over the place and inconsistent as hell. And more expensive!
Introduce a machine to print the ballot once candidates are selected.

Voters take their properly formatted ballot, verify the information is correct, and drop it in a box.

Machines should be able to do recounts quickly, and the paper trail receipts can be verified.

No more having to worry about the different mistakes people make on their forms, and counts and recounts would be much faster and require less effort.
Two of those are already in the GNU AGPLv3 (2007).
That's coming out of the musicians' pockets...
I don't want GPL. I want a license that prevents unpaid use by any entity that has any stakeholder worth more than a billion USD. That's it. That's all I want. MIT-Billionaires. Want to take funding from A16Z? That's a million a year for the license or something that maybe scales with a market cap just to level the playing field between a funded startup and Apple Computers.

Don't get me wrong, I love Apple, but I don't love this hyper-centralization of wealth and it would be better for the world if we defanged the power that billionaires have.
It’s like a catch-22 though. If I start a company using open source and must give away the software I then build on top of it as open source then I likely fail to capture revenues and my company fails.

What would be a nice option in GPL 4 is a mandatory commercial licensing fee structure to pay either to author of software or to EFF / FSF if the author doesn’t provide payment details. That would give a commercial incentive to startups to pursue using open source AND provide real revenues back to the community.
You're right. You can tell this topic makes my blood boil, unfortunately.
This can be as devastating class action law suit. If enough people start exercising their right to arbitration it can get VERY costly for Facebook.

I can’t find the story now, but there was a case in I think California of a company suing to get out of an arbitration clause, wanting instead to move to a class action lawsuit. Thousands of arbitrations became time consuming and costly. So I think there is still big potential for a coordinated effort to make this difficult for Facebook, even if a class action suite were off the table.
I tried many Class-Ds - and all of them caused fatigue. The initially sound even better than AB, but in 15 minutes I get tired.
> The people who argue that Apple should be forced to allow third party stores are only interested in the potential commercial gain they could make if they had access to Apple’s customers.

> They just want access to the customers so they can make money out of them.

> That is all this argument is about and all it has ever been about.

And this is not an accurate representation of reality. I have zero professional or financial connection to software development, but I still want Apple to allow third-party stores or at least third-party installs so I can do the things on my phone that I want to that Apple says no to. I want to play games on an emulator, I want to stream video games (e.g. xCloud) without downloading individual wrapper apps for each game or attempting to play through Safari, I want to use proper browser engines other than Safari and hopefully have proper uncrippled PWA support, I want to run interpreters/compilers/shells like iSH, I want to play adult games, etc.

What I find even more abhorrent is the notion that because you bought an Apple product that you belong solely to Apple when it comes to anything in regards to that device. I'm a consumer/customer period, not Apple's customer. I bought the phone because of the hardware quality and that should be the end of the transaction.
Not the individual you replied to, but my company uses both internally. We used to use Skype (for softphones, video meetings, and IM), which sucked for group messaging. Slack unofficially picked up steam to fill the void, among some teams.

Now we've migrated from Skype to Teams internally. Groups that originally filled the void with Slack have pretty much continued due to momentum, but those that didn't have picked up Teams pretty enthusiastically. There's not really an advantage to one vs. the other, besides network effects and momentum.

We don't actually have an official Slack org, and but rather a smattering of Slack orgs (some paid, some not). But they're all used outside of the purview of IT, which probably isn't a good thing. Even the paid orgs are just expensed directly by various business teams, rather than centrally managed/invoiced by IT.

One thing of note is that we're an agency (well, a holding company with many agencies), and it's not uncommon for some of our clients to want us to sign into their Slack orgs and use it as a preferred means of communication. So our central IT makes the Slack client available for download, even though we don't have an official Slack org ourselves. This ease of access is probably one reason it started getting used in the first place.
> to constantly use 20% of my brain when out in a cafe to keep an eye

Same thing for me. Singapore would stress the heck out of me, I'd have to constantly use 20% of my brain on whether I can drink that coffee or it is an illegal substance and police will just casually murder me. No way I'm setting foot on that crazy hellhole.
how about Project Gemini? https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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Customers who pay off their phone receive no benefit from this policy.

The business model is purely built around customers who can't pay the phone off and that you must lock the phone to get it back. The end result is that a lot people who shouldn't have gotten a financed phone in the first place will get their phones locked instead of simply getting a cheaper phone.

Making financing more accessible to risky customers means more repossession. The repossession rate is simply a matter of company policy and not a matter of personal responsibility.

The economic downsides of people having their phones locked will far exceed the benefits of being able to buy a slightly better phone.
That is what happens when the hipster folks attack GPL and push for MIT like licenses.

Had Linus not chosen it for Linux and I bet I would still be using a mix of Solaris, Aix and HP-UX on the server room.

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.

Bills have to paid.