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> not your rights as an end user.

I'd love to have a license that grants FOSS rights to people but not to corporations. There are end users and then there are corporations monetizing FOSS and giving nothing back. On top of that the monetization is via SaaS which is a more closed computing model than commercial software. With SaaS you don't even have the data and everything you do is subject to total surveillance.
Shouting 'FOSS' is also a great way to acquire talent.
It seems an odd choice to begin a newsletter to one’s international customer base with "Let us all hope that the difficulties brought about by the COVID-19 virus are now waning and that more aspects of our lives will return to normal soon," when officials in several EU countries have recently said that restrictions are likely to last until very late 2021, because even in a best-case scenario not enough people will be vaccinated until then.

But one can understand Pine64’s impatience for the crisis to pass: COVID has seriously slowed down international shipping, and the forums have been full of people complaining that their order (if they chose regular post and not DHL) has taken weeks or months to reach them. Buyers have been blaming Pine64 for shipping issues that they have no control over.
My immediate thought is "why would anyone use Google or Facebook to log into other services?" I understand the desire to consolidate login credentials, but surely it's better to use a password manager than to give additional personal information to proven bad actors like Google and Facebook?
Having been on that edge and (luckily) not having the guts, I found that the moment when you can't give yourself the certainty to just do it is somehow even darker than contemplating it.

I hope you have that certainty in hope for a better future with you in it and that things are better for you now.
I just wonder about the process and the results. I mean, it doesn't look to me, as if there is a management behind this, that actually has a goal.

It looks more like they are giving funds to projects who apply for them. IMO, they should state 3 clear goals and sponsor specific projects which reach those goals. To give some example how those could look like:

- create a decentralized, federated instant messaging platform, that is build on public standards

- create an e-learning platform that is usable with already established devices

- establish a market for the created software with partners

Naturally, all result would have to be open-source products and the goals would need some details/numbers to measure them. They could even invest into already established projects, but please, with easy to understand goals.
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I am still using a SandyBridge core i7 laptop from 2011, and my only real gripe with it is its comically large bezel around the monitor by today's standards. I can't game with it, but general usage and development is not an issue.

I knew I was getting a big architectural jump when I bought the Sandybridge, but I wouldn't have believed you if you told me that in ten years I would still be happy with its performance and still using it.
My favorite way to short the dollar is to use fixed-rate debt to buy productive assets (real-estate, etc.). Double whammy. Assets in general should keep pace with inflation and fixed-rate debt gets inflated away.
Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
I've always wanted to see my patterns on github and decided to know what had caught my interest throghout years.

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Here is the screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/4qyYy1w.png

Here is the source code: https://github.com/nurgasemetey/top-topics-by-github-stars/
Student said that sadly cancerous cells could last longer starving than healthy cells.
Maybe the US, which is a very large country, but issue an order to the major ISPs (cellular and cable) to stop carrying domestic network traffic and you accomplish pretty much the same thing. Sure there may be some WISPs in the middle of nowhere which aren't affected, but you've accomplished most of your goal.

There's two ways for internet to be shut down.

One is legal -- the government tells registered ISPs "stop forwarding packets". Doesn't matter how good your connectivity is when you simply have to turn it off. Your protection there are courts etc, but it's not technically difficult.

The other approach is extra-legal -- e.g a terrorist attack.

Just look at the effect from a car bomb in Nashville last month, I quote from a newspaper:

> The immediate repercussions were surprisingly widespread. AT&T customers lost service — phones, internet or video — across large parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. There were 911 centers in the region that couldn't take calls; others didn't receive crucial data associated with callers such as their locations. The Nashville police department's phones and internet failed. Stores went cash-only.

> At some hospitals, electronic medical records, internet service or phones stopped working. The Nashville airport halted flights for about three hours on Christmas. Rival carrier T-Mobile also had service issues as far away as Atlanta, 250 miles away, because the company uses AT&T equipment for moving customer data from towers to the T-Mobile network.

The area effected was about 100,000 square miles, roughly the same size as Uganda. From one carbomb outside one building.

I think there's only one major Internet Exchange point in Uganda (just like it seems there was one in the south east of the US), but there's certainly multiple fibres in and out. If you're in Mbarara and sending traffic to Rwanda it's unlikely to go via Kampala.

Here's a network map of one provider in Uganda: https://bcs-ea.com/service/uganda/

The UK has a few exchanges, but almost everything runs through Docklands in London - various Telehouse buildings within a mile of each other, Telecity etc. Almost all internet traffic in the UK runs through London, and the sites that aren't are owned by Linx (IXLeeds is the only one that isn't). A major flood breaching the Thames Barrier will cause chaos.
I matched with a girl and am dating her. She lives in Amsterdam while I am on the other side of the country. Why? Because I am planning on moving there so why would I try to find a relationship at my current location.

Furthermore, I've used it plenty of times before traveling to set it to a country where I will be going. I am very clear about not wanting a hookup and just meet up with locals and that has been working quite well.

Not everything is about having a hookup.
I have to imagine unions have a bit of an uphill battle right now, they took some major black eyes in 2020:

- Police unions openly declaring war on their own citizens

- Teachers unions causing general chaos in school reopening plans

I understand that public sector unions are a different beast, but purely from an optics perspective I have to imagine public sentiment for unions can't be very high right now.
Except the Gardener is completely and totally wrong in this case. This assumes that no one else has tried something different. There have been an massive number of attempts at something better. The result? They have all failed and developers continue to use the command line. You can write a ton of type of apps with visual tools but almost universally it's sucked or only valuable for toy apps.

Examples that I have personal experience with:

* VB6
* Frontpage
* Delphi
* Access
* Excel
* Hell even storyboards in iOS based Dev
* Blueprints in Unreal Engine
* etc...

The same results, they work for non-programmers/non-professional programmers. Almost without question we have seen that text based programming on a more or less standard *nix based OS or text based programming on a Windows OS are the two ways that are the most effective for engineering of software. The programmers complaining about the tooling we use? Sure we should continue to improve that tooling but that doesn't mean scrapping the basic fundamentals. The installer should ask to modify the $PATH and then do that. There that solves that issue and doesn't throw out 50+ years of science and research and experience on the best way to engineer software.
Does anyone know if donating to Signal is considered a qualified donation under the CARES Act. The $300 deduction was extended for 2021 [0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2020/12/22/new-bi...
> This is not a good outcome for people who want an independent OSS ecosystem.

I used to manage a licensed ELK cluster. The licensing was expensive (order of six figures) and was really only necessary for LDAP integration. Features like timelion were cool, but definitely not worth the price tag.

I migrated to an AWS-managed solution to for two reasons: 1) to alleviate the burden of managing a cluster, 2) get away from the onerous costs associated with licensing. Even thought it was more expensive to run a managed cluster, since, at the time, AWS limited the disk space per node. The cost savings was significant enough to warrant migration.

I realize that Elastic.co offers their own managed solution. But the version on AWS was an easier sell to management due to known costs and not having to deal with sales people.

I think a lot of OSS is having difficulty transitioning to a cloud-first model. The people making choices on tech stacks want to spend less time dealing with infrastructure and more time developing stuff. And this model of charging high licensing fees for "enterprise" features feels antiquated, and provides a large attack service for companies like AWS. What enterprise engineers really want are AMIs, or better yet, fully managed cloud interfaces, to bring up and manage OSS deployments. Something that lets us focus on the products we sell; not the ones we buy.

I believe that we need to rethink how OSS is delivered and how to make money from it. "Enterprise" support looks a lot different not than it did when Redhat was founded, yet the OSS business model remains eerily similar.
Indeed, the ratio works out, at least for me. I get help even at night time. As far as I understand, the algorithms uses distance and language to find a helper. So if nobody near me is awake, I can still get help from people speaking my language which live in a different timezone.
Wanted to wait until this dropped off the front page out of respect for chx's concerns.

In that vein, let me say that I have neither the skills nor the equipment to evaluate any of chx's technical concerns. The best I can say is that it seems to do what I want (pass power and TB3 with a magnetic coupling), and there haven't been any symptoms of problems that I've been able to see. Yet. I'm now a little worried, though :|

The 24-pin one here is what I'm using: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0896QK2J5
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On top of that, there are people who actively avoid official distribution, thinking e.g. anything should come through a middle man. Diversity is weird.
And invest (even more) heavily in robotics.
Why not build your own site + Stripe?
The article says one thing the investigators are sure of from the beginning is he died of "natural causes."

Toward the end it seems like he might have starved to death or maybe of dehydration.
Here in a G7 country there have been many offline business shuttered this year. Life goes on.
Again, if you or the OP can demonstrate that the BBC (or other institutions who claim they don't), then that's interesting.

Baseless bullshit illustrating nothing but your own cynicism, however, is not, and doesn't belong here.
Messaging app Signal facing technical difficulties
When Donald Trump threatened to block WeChat in the US expats and Chinese people alike started to download Signal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-bans-wechat-some...
I’m not sure how I would feel if my partner wanted to spend 3 times as much time alone as with me. That’s kind of degrading unless you are both into that.

What are you getting out of the relationship at all? Sounds like they should leave and be alone.
>Why would anyone use a pirated/cracked version?

Doesn't even have to be pirated or cracked. ESEA put surreptitious bitcoin miners into their installer/client software back in 2013.

Greed talks.
Microsoft surface laptop 4 is likely to be this - looks like the 3 was close - except for poor battery:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3449758/microsoft-surface-la...
What is an epic?
I would recommend you learn the dbg module that comes with Erlang. Its a great tracing debugger able to trace existing code in runtime without having to modify the source. There are also several wrappers on top of the Erlang tracing tools, like Recon for example.
> any SOC2 audit would overlook this because they're just going down a checklist

From the GP, "They also stored (1) all the production database and server passwords in a plain text file accessible to half the company and (2) no audit trail of any kind on logins."

Any competent SOC-2 auditor would not overlook this. Large swaths of criteria are specifically geared to uncover both of these (unencrypted credentials and audit trails).

SOC-2 audit firms have a strongly vested interest in hiring competent auditors, because if a SOC-2 auditor did not ask questions covering these areas, then failure to complete the audit would be actionable malpractice and the auditor would be liable, unless the company lied (committed demonstrable fraud) in its written responses.
thank you for that link -- just donated $50!
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What is your experience with using the hourly billing model for IT work or for code/programming work either at a larger org or in a consulting capacity? Does billing by the hour for coding and IT work put efficient/senior resources at a disadvantage? Is this a good model for the business, but bad for the clients?
> ... should be making no less then $20 an hour to start!

Why?

A company should have the right to pay whatever they deem appropriate and an individual should have the right to choose to pursue whichever job they wish.
Exactly what I am saying. But I am saying, stop blaming others, start changing yourself.
100% this. I've been working through similar issues in my personal life (complicated by COVID, natch) and what I've come to is that I need to get way better about setting clear boundaries and expectations with people I care about. This can be done in a compassionate way, and relationships will be better in the long run even if doing the boundary setting feels hard or mean in the short term.
I thought TSMC would be so overloaded that they would not be able to provide meaningful capacity for Intel. Interesting turn of events.
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I wisth they do not put up funds to signal. It is closed ecosystem. Even traditional phone calls are more open (having federated independent operators and interoperable implementations).
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Maybe it didn't phrase myself right, I mean you don't see public display of weapons in the sense of seeing people wielding weapons on the street, you don't see weapons in protests, you don't see people with carry on, no one has weapons on display on their houses and it's not a subject of discussion at a table... it's almost like it's rude (unless it's a meal of people that hunt).

I've grown around hunting weapons, mainly shotguns and rifles since my grandfather was an hunter. But all my education revolving weapons is that they are tools - dangerous tools - to hunt. Everyone of my friends I grew up with had family members that hunted, and some of them became hunters themselves. For sport some shoot plates, but a lot of those places closed own over the years due to polution.

The weapons body are made of wood and usually have some sort of carving in the metal accents. Hell, some of them were literally works of art - with duck/foxes/boars/deer/flower motives. I dont' recall seeing anyone who had weapons that were "military" style, neither in shape or even color/pattern.

Now that I think of it, there was some sort of snob attitude around all of that (like usually only people with a lot of money could buy access to big game properties).

At least this is from my life, in my country living on the countryside. Weapons and the subject revolving weapons are limited to specific contexts, so for me it's just odd a lot of what happens in the USA.

As a kid I found weapons fun, had air pressured rifles to hunt birds and shoot at targets, airsoft guns, etc.
> This is not a good outcome for people who want an independent OSS ecosystem.

I understand why this is not ideal for Elastic-the-company, but is it a bad outcome in the longer term?

As someone who is happy open source exists but uses mostly proprietary software, this seems like a natural and expected response to an open source project adopting a more restrictive license.
creative commons has many such licenses but then it's not Open Source
"Discretionary income is far higher than most people realize."

You just said that. Basically most of the people not saving money. Imagine if noone was saving money (or if it ignorable), this spending you get has to come from somewhere, so you need to cut something to spend on my widget.

When I said competitior, I didn't mean another widget maker, it can be anything else you are spending your money on. Even you can maybe skip eating lunch, so widget maker stealing from the restaurant.

There is no win-win in this actually.
By Akanksha Rana

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Signal said on Friday it was experiencing technical difficulties and working to restore the service, as it dealt with a flood of new users after rival messaging app WhatsApp announced a controversial change in privacy terms.

Along with another encrypted app, Telegram, Signal has been the main beneficiary of online outrage around the policy changes announced by WhatsApp last week. Telegram said on Wednesday it had surpassed 500 million active users globally.

"We have been adding new servers and extra capacity at a record pace every single day this week, but today exceeded even our most optimistic projections," said Aruna Harder, Chief Operating Officer of Signal Messenger
one should be very cautious when extrapolating cause-effect relationships

Interesting statement after publishing this article with that title.
On the other hand, the billion prices project (http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/) is generally well-correlated with the CPI.
Unions in the US and unions is Europe are completely different. In one they cooperate to see that the company succeeds...and in the other they seek to drive up the cost of doing business to the point that shitty products are extremely expensive (GM, Ford).

Unions used to be for protecting the workers and ensuring that companies were getting the very best skillsets when hiring. Now they protect the lazy, promote the well connected and drain efficiency from businesses. Longshoreman are the most shining example of how to destroy businesses...Port of Portland is now shuttered because they intentionally slowed down work to the point of forcing companies to go elsewhere. ILWU was hit with a $19M judgment because of the things it did in Portland.
Adding more servers to support more users, also means more bandwidth. Those are increasing costs at a rate that they had not planned. Their spend rate has to be insane now to keep things running on top of their rents, utlities, opex. They have to be needing more money than they planned for.
I'm going to hazard a guess that this is a function of saving into a Sharepoint Library that appears as file/document storage. This would likely work if you were saving into a folder that's then synced via OneDrive.

The commentary that I've seen really has Sharepoint as the storage for anything that may be shared with other users (via file, Teams, whatever) and OneDrive as storage for files that are strictly for one user.

Caveat: not an expert on this
Reading that I felt like I saw myself in it, a bit of my earlier self. Perfectionism was required at all costs back then and my work would be very much over-considered compared to a more elegant simplistic solution scoped for the scale of the problem at hand. It's a lonely way to work and generally is less collaborative (so less learning once you get to a level). It's hard to feel like you are making progress over time when your only standard is perfection.
Is this the end of Intel fabs?
I had an ex that was sort of like this. She wasn’t necessarily abusive, but she needed everyone to like her and the people that already did she didn’t have to do anything to impress. I interpreted it as a deep insecurity resulting in really fake behavior: a mask as a sibling poster said.
WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash
I favorited this comment, because it's one of the best high-level explanations of Cancer I've come across. Thank you for sharing.
Sounds like simple resource starvation: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350165610936766464 (which is kinda understandable if they're experiencing off the charts turbo growth)
> You connect to AWS when you connect to Signal. That means the USA is the government with the most influence on Amazon to have taps placed or connection logs handed over.

I'm not an networking guy but can you explain this more? I'm actually curious and what better place to get actual info than HN? If you have a sealed sender then shouldn't this be impossible? Shouldn't the size of the message be sealed as well and when the message is received you'd see that 1) it is signed by a different key and 2) the message size doesn't match? Shouldn't this be rejected? 3) Shouldn't this also apply to any app because traffic is going to bounce through some US based (or US company owned) server? My understanding is that sending data from San Francisco to Berkeley can route through Seattle or Tokyo depending on optimal routing, server configurations, and loads.

> Other than, say, your real-life-identity-tied user ID of course.

This is why I'm excited for the usernames. They are promising them this year.
The trackpoint/nipple was awful. It's fetishized now because of anti-apple counterculture but it's a truly horrid pointing device that was only ever popular because early trackpads were that much worse.
But it's not a Map, it's a Set. If I see an API return a Map, I expect it's returning a relationship of keys to values, because that's what a Map is used for. If I see it returning a Set, I expect it's return a collection of unique values, because that's what a Set is used for.

I mean, you could support only List objects in the language and call it a day because they can be used as anything else. Or only lambdas, for the same reason. At the end of the day, though, having structures for the various ways you want to treat data is helpful. Using the right structure to hold data reduces cognitive load.
The VLE I'm talking about is this: https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/cd00161395-variab...

This may be a vendor-specific extension though?
This is definitely the weakest point of Matrix. There are clients that have a nice setup flow (like FluffyChat) but the are missing some pretty important (to me) features such as sending images and video calling.
Because we _let_ people choose cheap plans, and don't use federal taxation to shift the costs to the wealthy. And we tie health insurance to employment, so all those fringe benefits you were unaware of suddenly cost real money when you start your own biz.

If OP had been required to carry a stronger insurance policy, their runway would have been even shorter. And if the tax regime gifted Americans universal health care, it would likely mean OP would have a smaller savings, if any at all.

Perhaps it's a testament to how healthy the jobs market is in SV that 'I'll just get a job' as a fall back plan if you run out of cash is plausible.
> None of you had any reasonable expectation of getting a free Elasticsearch to begin with

That is sure what "Apache 2.0: now and forever", as they previously promised, means to me.