skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By using an SSPL project in your code, you are agreeing that if you provide an online service using that code then you will release not only that code but also the code for every supporting piece of software, all under the SSPL. It’s not a stretch to interpret the wording of the license as requiring users of the SSPL’d software therefore to release the code for everything straight down to the bare metal

This seems to be an issue of people not being able to figure out what the license actually would imply if challenged in court.

I think this is a fair argument, at that point, even a full on proprietary license where you ha e to pay to use ElasticSearch and Kibanna might be seems as less risky by business lawyers.

Now, I'm not a lawyer, but this makes me wonder how is "law" supposed to handle scenarios like this? Is law at a point that even reading the license terms that you agree with isn't good enough to know what you're agreeing too?

Isn't law supposed to be about agreeing to things ahead of time so there is no surprises? So what's failing here?
New CF Limits Allowing up to $5M Become Effective 03/15
I live in Israel. I got the vaccine by walking in and getting a spare at the end of the day, as mentioned in the article.

The writer makes some valid points, but IMO the success is down to something less tangible. It's hard to define but there is a buzz in the air about it, and a strong sense of everyone pulling together to do what it takes. So many things need to work together well for an operation like this, that I don't think you can put it down to any one thing. But if you can get the sense of "drive" going, things slot into place.

We don't trust our politicians much about anything, but we sense that even they have pulled out all the stops to make this happen. The actual process was like clockwork - the paperwork took 30 seconds - swipe HMO card and 5 questions, get the shot, wait 15 minutes and leave. No waiting.

Yes, there's an election on the way which undoubtedly plays a part, but isn't that how democracy is meant to work - they do the best for us so we vote for them? Yes, they paid Pfizer more than most other countries, but since the total cost of the vaccines equates to around 2 days of lockdown, that sounds like a good investment.
how does that related to the study? lack of physical activity or something? it seems like they controlled for such factors and the problem persisted
The author says in the end that the problem is not Amazon. Then links to a post where he suggests that companies maintaining the open source should have "invested the resources to build stronger communities around them. They would have reached out to Amazon, encouraged them to contribute back to the projects, and helped them to do so."

Of course, they should "encourage" Amazon not to steal their product and business model. Right.
One of the modules could be resources that you need once you are at Mars, not needed during the journey so you wouldn't need to move between them.

I like your idea!
Curious to understand how the peg integrates with Bitcoin's UTXO model. For instance, Matic [1] uses a construction of the Plasma framework [2] so that the peg can operate bidirectionally.

[1] https://docs.matic.network/docs/contribute/matic-architectur...

[2] http://plasma.io/
> - indexing Youtube and other videos. It takes up to 2 days before new youtube videos show up if you search for a video. Example a mcdonalds burned down in my city a few weeks ago so I searched for videos and photos. It did not find any videos only photos and articles. Google found a few videos including once on a dutch news website.

If I know that I am searching a YouTube video, I usually search directly on youtube.com. I use Firefox search keywords for this, I just type "yt Rick Astley Never" in my top bar and instantly see the results. Pretty sure Chromium et al. should have something similar...
> their code

Meaning the entire codebase of the infrastucture that provides the offering. I.e. the underlying code behind AWS. Not a big deal right?
Our DA is a joke. The cops don't make arrests. Judges don't do squat. The entire justice system is rotten here. You're free to openly steal from Walgreens and commit as much property crime or assault and cops will never do anything. Our joke of a DA recently refused to charge a repeat offender who went on to kill two others. I'm super progressive, but I cannot understand why the left thinks it's progressive to let people defecate in the street and that giving free needles and tents to that crowd is helping them. The left in America is sick sad joke. Compare SF to Amsterdam and it boggles my mind to see what the left in America does with unchecked power and what Amsterdam can do with similar levels of freedom and even lower income. We have no excuses for how filthy our city is. The only rationalization I can make is that somewhere someone is skimming off these funds and making money off all the homelessness.
by adding it as a feature into whatever model they created likely
None. That's clearly not offering Elasticsearch-as-a-service.
> There is also the issue that people with higher disposable incomes can afford to not work.

People with savings or wealth can afford not to work.
Similar age group as you and also in the US. I can recall a single fight in school, and I honestly don't think any real punches thrown; it was more of a stand off with light hitting that died down quicker than it started.
> businesses like AWS that exploit FOSS to repackage it for profit

Exploit is questionable.

A true open-source project like PostgreSQL only benefits from Amazon and Google offering it as a paid, hosted solution. It makes it easier to adopt, sell to decision-makers, and gain more user and developer mindshare over alternatives.

If you are concerned with "competitors" offering your open-source project to more users, then perhaps being open source was just a poorly chosen marketing tactic that backfired.
Some people watch too much History Channel. My first thought on that page was, "These people must hate rails as much as I do."
Okay, that source also mentions coal, but oil is the part of that statement that really set people off. Since Obama took office to just before Covid, US oil production nearly tripled. The decline of coal is economically priced in, but shutting down domestic oil and gas production anytime soon would take a shotgun to the economy.
> The US is currently well ahead of Canada in per-capita COVID delivery.

The US is actually well ahead of most of the world, especially when you factor population and geography [1]. Sure, Israel has crushed everyone, but I think we can all agree there are exceptional circumstances which make this easier in Israel than in most other countries. Other success stories have been largely small, wealthy countries.

It's a shame that the US media is so politicized as to not recognize Operation Warp Speed and the men and women - from researchers, to logisticians, to clinicians - who have made this possible. It has been an absolute miracle of human achievement and will hopefully be celebrated by historians, since the current generation refuses to do so.

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[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Lets have a round of applause for the Lucene contibutors !
Oregon has almost 200K unused Covid vaccines- attempts to track them are a mess
I think it's probably seen more as just being a decent boss.
> How do you suppose you prevent violent rhetoric? You can only react to it.

Look around you. Right here on HN, we discuss politics. We're doing it right now. Yet... no violence. And the reason is moderation. The moderators remove violent commenters and the community shuns them. Clearly HN/dang have been able to "prevent violent rhetoric". It works.

And Facebook and Twitter are doing OK right now. Both were very late to the game, but are engaged in a heroic effort right now to clean up their communities. In fact it was something of a left-Twitter running gag over the past week to giggle at conservatives complaining about their follower count suddenly dropping.

But Parler did no such thing. So outside forces had to apply the moderation.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20378106/
Lists, especially long lists, don't make great HN submissions. HN itself is a list, so it's too much indirection:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It would be better to pick one of the most interesting specific items from the list and submit that. If you submit the list, there isn't much to discuss other than the lowest common denominator of the list elements, which is usually too generic to be interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
MD has democrats controlling state legislature, so should be OK.
> For that matter, should convicted murderers get their accounts suspended? I think not solely on the grounds that they’ve committed murder - but maybe if they are using their platform to cause further harm.

On a related note, Facebook policy bans sex offenders from having accounts at all, regardless of what they do with them:

https://www.facebook.com/help/210081519032737:

> Convicted sex offenders aren't allowed to use Facebook. If you've seen an account that may belong to a convicted sex offender, please report it to us.

Not sure about the other social media networks.
Wait? Would even my devops pipeline fall under it?

Or my monitoring? Deployment and management in kubernetes for example?
That's precisely my point. We only have some very limited data available. And none of that says anywhere near 200B or multiples of that as you present as a fact.
Muneeb here, Stacks co-founder. Great question. You are right that Clarity smart contracts have direct visibility into Bitcoin, so you can write a contract that has logic triggered by pure Bitcoin transactions.

Moving Bitcoin to Stacks is a bit more complicated and there are several ways:

a) Wrapped assets. Tokensoft + Anchorage (custodian) have a solution that they're calling xBTC where a "wrapped Bitcoin" is issued on the Stacks chain. Such wrapped assets exist on other chains like Ethereum as well with one main difference that xBTC is secured by Bitcoin itself.

b) There are more decentralized solutions similar to Keep network, where threshold signatures can be used to move the assets by a group of nodes.

c) The most decentralized way of doing this is by locking your BTC directly on BTC chain, using Clarity to monitor funds, and then having Clarity trigger release of funds on Bitcoin chain. This requires Clarity logic to trigger Bitcoin state changes. This is theoretically possible but at R&D stage currently.
The best part though, is not the initial response or the counter, it’s the fact the “commons” is so valued you have this sort of meta self-regulation taking place to rebalance to equilibrium. Super cool and wish, well basically everything else in life was like that.
What about The Pirate Bay account? Should it be banned as well?
Java Developer in 2021
1. You can export your entire database (it's a stanrad Mongo database).
2. You could use the library and write your own backend API using the same routes and your application would not need any changes if you decide to stop using StaticBackend.
3. You have the option of purchasing the source code. From there you may do whatever you want and change direction and what not.

I admit that the 2. needs efforts on your part to switch. But it's possible to stop using the tool and still have no rewrite on your frontend code at all.
The problem with Ethereum is that if the guys in power do not like what is going on in their blockchain, they fork and rewrite history.
Maybe not perfect answers, but letting beavers do their thing is somewhat easy and can lead to shockingly large amounts of water being conserved even in regions experiencing desertification[1][2]. The author of the linked article wrote a book about it, which is pretty fascinating, but there's also been studies in places like Colorado that view it as important enough that I believe it's now part of the state plan for water management.

[1] https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.15/wildlife-how-beavers-make-t...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/620402681/the-bountiful-benef...
would this have any relationship to declining sperm rates as well?
I think this is true in general. Any code that is made available an open source license is available under that license in perpetuity.
In practice it would only affect corporate thieves, so I think it's actually necessary to protect the open source ecosystem.
Whenever I think of Fitbit I think of Pebble and get sad. I wish there was a Pebble replacement.
You have to trust the Stacks blockchain to be able to send the money back to Bitcoin.
Could Socrates and Stoicism Save America?
The richer you are the more likely you CAN social distance
> Possible toxicity of something

This assumes (it seems to be universally assumed in this thread) that the earlier average level of testosterone - meaning the year 1999 - is more optimal, which doesn't seem evident to me.

Why not, equally: a toxin has possibly been removed?
Indeed it is. Sorry for the typo.
Of course, they should "encourage" Amazon not to steal their product and business model. Right.

It is not possible to steal something from someone who deliberately and freely offers that thing to you.
> I don't know at which point things become legally uncomfortable,

I think that's at the point that HN does special accommodations for the use of Sci-Hub. Converting links to unpaywalled versions would be the same.

I don't follow PG, so I might be wrong, but consider that this tweet is very terse. I think one can't extrapolate much from it.
What's the difference when it blows up in your face? Throwing explosives in urban centers is unacceptable and violent.
I'm sorry you are getting downvoted for wrong HN think. People come up with all sorts of weird off-the-cuff justifications for things. Medical staff, various home contractors, grocery-store staff all wear masks for extremely long shifts. HN logic seems to be: Poor people less-likely to social distance and wear masks -> HN responds with all sorts of supposed sociological factors why they don't and why it's acceptable. Meanwhile, lots of poor people (who work in the aforementioned professions) actually do wear masks and safely practice all the precautions, so the HN peanut gallery just end up being patronizingly insulting to poor people.
Sorry about that. This is a more relevant link about the odometer ruling change with the actual statistics:

https://dmvnv.com/news/20023-new-odometer-rules.htm

"The average age of a vehicle in the U.S. is now almost 12 years, up from 7.6 years when the odometer rules were last changed in 1988."
The smart contracts part comes with Clarity lang: https://clarity-lang.org/

Clarity contracts have direct visibility into Bitcoin state and can write logic against that.
Oh for the love of science, GIVE IT A REST.

ETC exists, if you don’t like ETH go use ETC, the community voted with their wallets, ETH won, give it a bone already
D&D 5e basically acts like 4th Edition never existed, and you will find it very familiar as someone who ahs played 3rd Edition.
> If they're using a dynamically typed language to do monetary calculations, it's not going to be ideal.

And yet, Q.
I recently started learning Tcl for the heck of it and am surprised by what a nice little language it is and that it doesn't get more publicity. It's true that it's not great for working with numbers or complex data structures, but it's a really nice language for "plumbing", and is still in active development. The last few releases have added support for tail-call recursion, "coroutines", and native dictionaries. It's had a bytecode compiler for like 20 years, so it's not as slow as it used to be.

As far as complaints about the syntax being weird: It's far more consistent than Algol descendants in that everything is a string, much like everything in Lisp is a list. You don't have to learn a bunch of different syntactic constructs, everything is a string, and every string is a space-delimited list, and can be interpreted as a command. The hardest part of the language is the quoting rules, which the documentation affectionately refers to as "quoting hell". Once you wrap your head around that, everything becomes clear. The standard library is pretty easy to learn, and the documentation is good.

Check it out.
Then you end up with terrible engineers with zero practical experience who make terrible designs due to said lack of practical experience. Engineers out of college today have no zero clue how to run machines or do anything but create drawings that half work which is pathetic
>grammar: thanks, I'm not a native English that's correct, I'll try harder.

Why not just hire an editor or copy writer. Nothing wrong with focusing on your core goals and outsourcing some of the tasks you don't need to focus on right now.
The license is quite long. https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license

Trying to determine what offering as a service is or implies is a bit difficult. If Discord used it to enable full text search, does they need to release their management layers too? Why or why not? How excited to defend your rationalization/decision to the court are you, if some disagreement arises?

The ask, that companies open source their management layer, concerns me because it's unclear in many circumstances what does & doesn't need to go into that box. A management layer is often a rather sprawling piece of software. Trying to disentangle & release the Elastic Search or Kibana management layer from the other management /deployment/control systems could be quite onerous.

I do think the intent is not "bad", but it's so hard & murky, there's so much peering into the crystal ball to guess whether, some day in the future, a once "open source" company that may, a decade down the road become aggressive/ligitious (not presently the case!) continues to find your particular use does or not does qualify as offering the product as a service, and does or does not expose you to a long complex obligation.
> The SSPL restrictions apply when the licensed software is used to provide a service.

Wrong. It only affects code going forward. Elastic can't change the license of existing code.
These developer roadmaps might be helpful :) https://roadmap.sh/
My gut is saying : plastic.
What Is Concept Whitening in Neural Network and Deep Learning
I think there's already a good amount of discussion around where current ML methods. stuff like lack of sample efficiency, adjusting for distribution shift, etc.
Are there any known instances where a company offering Mongo or another SSPL-licensed app as a service has complied with section 13 by releasing the “Service Source Code” of everything supporting the service?

If not, that basically confirms the OSI's rejection of the SSPL as an open source license -- If that provision is too onerous to be followed, it might as well say "you can't offer this as a service".
The analogy is flawed. Saying there are no monopoly issues as long as there are at least two competitors is even more flawed.

If major cinema chains (Twitter, Facebook..) refuse to show a movie, but you can still rent the back of Moe's bar (and thousands bars like it) and use their second-hand projector (an analogy for the small audience of alternative platforms).

How successful will such movies be? Should we be concerned that the cinema chains can decide what sort of movies can be made or have any sort of impact?
It's too complex of a phenomenon to reduce to one, singular explanation.

However, increasingly sedentary lifestyles are definitely part of the problem. Jobs encourage people to sit motionless, of course, but most of our leisure time has been replaced by other motionless activities.

Global obesity rates have also been rising steadily while testosterone levels have trended downward. Obesity is well known to reduce testosterone levels.

There might be additional answers in environmental toxicities, but it's a mistake to ignore the elephant in the room: Lifestyle is a problem.
They're making the very pedantic point that you need more 9s e.g. 99.9999999%
I don't believe that is correct. This classification system considers both. To be in class I or II you need either no or "slight climatic limitations". I found another document that says N.D. has 47% of its area as either classes I or II, making it the third-most-arable state after Iowa and Illinois.
Yes. Any version released under a given license remains under that license, it cannot be retroactively changed.
If you liked Pebble, you'll probably be excited about Watchy: https://watchy.sqfmi.com
> Because what Google wants to buy is their marketshare and existing userbase

And we should care, why? If anything we should want Google to build its own competitor.
Because you can't fork it and do whatever you want with it.
The problem is not that the technologies are opt-in. The problem is that there is no simple UI implementation at this point in time. In the end any anonymized Lightning Wallet transaction will be just as simple as scanning a QR code with a simple slider that lets you choose the level of anonymity. And the ability to "opt-in" will give the market the opportunity to properly price anonymity. This is a feature not a bug.

> Scaling is still a difficult and unsolved problem for now

Scaling is essentially a solved problem thanks to Lightning. Adoption is currently a problem but will become a non-problem as soon as transaction fees rise so much that it is worth the effort for everyone to get Lightning Network running. Right now this is not the case.
Please, don't forget, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was hijacked years ago by Ver who purposefully used misleading marketing.

Bitcoin SV (BSV) long ago took over the "Bitcoin" project as designed by Satoshi Nakamoto and described in his White Paper.
Is it really similar? Duels would be scheduled in advanced. There would be rules to be followed. I don't think I ever read about a duel involving fisticuffs. I suppose you could be saying that a duel is the posh version of a drunken bar fight, but that's like saying that a moderated debate is the posh version of a profanity filled screaming match in a bar parking lot.
26 and just was prescribed testosterone booster. Haven’t changed anything... it really came out of nowhere.
> denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. ~ Oxford

Or the Open Source Definition from https://opensource.org/osd

On the license there are 3 main "propagation" clauses: Conveying Verbatim Copies / Conveying Modified Source Versions / Conveying Non-Source Forms

Furthermore: Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies / Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients

On the other hand, the "issue" seems to be an Aferro-like clause that conveying it as a service combined/linked with other software over a network _counts_ as distribution an gives a right to the users to request the source code that makes the service work.

Here is Google rejection of APGL on this basis: https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
That's an estimate by someone with insight, but not like they were the bookkeeper for Putin. And if true, that's still inline with the top western capitalists (which we have real data for). Not multiples of their wealth. That's ridiculous to assume and present as fact.
From the link:

> The SSPL allows free and unrestricted use, as well as modification, with the simple requirement that if you provide the product as a service, you must also publicly release any modifications as well as the source code of your management layers under SSPL.

Not a lawyer, but I think AWS fall foul of "as well as the source code of your management layers" because they have a massive amount of closed source stuff running behind their ES service.
> 1 year ago, Snowpack first released

Wow. It feels like at least three. It has been a very very long year.
I know! And I was referring to the flying spaghetti monster's original liturgy being inaccurate!

https://www.spaghettimonster.org/about/open-letter/