skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really want to get into the moral rabbit-hole of who's right and wrong as that's clearly super controversial and subjective.

But I did want to add my personal anecdote to serve as a canary-in-the-mine on what effect the status quo could perceivably have on the proliferation of open source software over the long term:

I think we can all agree on the basic premise that having more open source software is a good thing for society.

For the longest time I dreamed of creating my own open source tools and products and simultaneously monetizing it to create a comfortable life for myself and maybe even eventually turning it into something bigger, and leave my mark on the world.

However, as the years past and events like ElasticSearch v Amazon unfolded, I became more and more disillusioned on the realistic prospects of such an outcome.

Today, I'm in the process of building something that would probably see more success in terms of adoption and do more good in the world if it's released as open source software, but at this point I've basically made up my mind to release it as proprietary software to have a realistic shot of monetizing it to achieve financial independence and eventually build a company around it.

Basically I've weighed the tradeoffs and chose to put my own ability to capture the value of what I created over trying to maximize the value my software could create if open sourced.

This was not a easy decision for me to make, but I suspect I'm not alone in having thought about these tradeoffs and reaching these same conclusions. And as more and more people witness the struggles of companies trying to build viable businesses on top of open source software, more and more people could make the same decision, and thus society would be robbed of all the value that having these pieces of software as open source could have created.

I think the chilling effect these kinds of case studies have on the proliferation of new open source software, and the loss incurred by society as a whole as a result, is at the core of what we should be trying to figure out a solution for, not some philosophical discussion around who's in the right or wrong.
Ehh, you can smash and grab before people realize what's going on.

Personally, I don't think I've ever checked to see whether a car alarm is mine. What's the point?
Exactly. Would you trust a computer interface that gave no indication it was responding?
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How do police or insurance access it?
> I wonder what their real goal is with this.

Google do shadow banking. They are "contracted" by Lloyds, but it's all Google on the backend, developing a Revolut alternative among other things
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With the utmost respect. F@ck delivery targets.
I thought this was “no politics” week on HN?
I'll go through my saved links tonight. I remember it was a bit of a cludgy operation, like all things new+Linux, but after I got everything setup it all worked as expected.

I think this forum post pointed me in the right direction:
https://www.forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/36879-raspberry-p...
Maybe they find it too cumbersome to memorize and type an ipv6 address. Or grew up and cut their teeth on v4.
You're looking at it wrong.

This is free expression, they are providing a platform as free as you going in the street and expressing yourself.

If the government wants to censor this type of expression, it must pass laws, and it must dictates what you can say or can't say. With such a move, social medias would become forbidden, or inefficient (as every post would need to be approved before being released).

If this is the world you want to live in, it's fine, but you need to understand the consequences and the ways to get there.
Publisher site here:
http://www.admiraltytrilogy.com/harpoon.php

Includes link for a free “Jumpstart” version of the game, among others.
They will not hesitate in San Francisco to break a $300 window to steal the change out of your ashtray.
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A table of contents you don't have to manually maintain. Built-in interface to insert special characters you can't type with the keyboard. Automatic grammar checks. Auto-corrections. Macros. All of the above in one program instead of a hodge-podge of programs. Being able to send and receive documents from people with no conversion needed.

No offense but you don't sound like someone who writes a lot?
And this one https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.0/seed17653.p... is less monster, and more like /r/badwomensanatomy :)
I suppose given their claims, a caching strategy would be beside the point :)
Seconding this. Unless something's changed, my experience with the default Go daemon they provide was shock at how much resources it consumed in the background. It was something like 12% CPU usage while doing nothing at all for hours on end - I wasn't even accessing any ipfs content.
Marched in a band. We set off so many car alarms during practice.

Have also seen two cars next to each other that keep setting each other off. That was not a fun night.
Yes, that is precisely the point I am making— that this effect is only a thing in places like the UK with a strong national public broadcaster to whom politicians must answer.
I am very curious what Apple employees think about all the slave labor and child labor accusations. Do you think its fake news from haters? Is it all exaggerated? Is it some sort of misunderstanding? Is is just unsubstantiated rumors? Is it all ok with you? Are you scared to even question things? Tell us so we too may share in your understanding.
This happens to houses in my area all the time. Either the owner is on vacation, or has moved out, but it hasn't sold or the new owner hasn't moved in, and some alarm or other starts going off. Sometimes it's the annoying smoke alarm "replace the battery beep" once per minute. Sometimes it's something more annoying. I usually call the police or fire department and let them know. That's the only way I've found to make it stop.
What was planned?
The peaceful demonstration with the friendly supporters that saw positivity in Trump?
People that listened to Trump literally to gather Peaceful and protest against the steal of the election?
Or the small group of Q supporters that were believing that some people in the government were working against corruption?
Or the small group that was violent at one side, and was mixed with some rioters with a different political background?

And what was the result?
Did these people listen to the guards and police?
How many fires were burned?
How many windows and structures were destroyed?
How much property was stolen by the mob?
How many people were severely wounded and how many died directly from it?
How much of it was intended?
How does this compare to the other peaceful demonstrations that happened this year?

For good information check different sources, because even a different side of the building show a different story.
Tim Pool's reporting is reasonable neutral in that sense.
There were also many reporters on the field and maybe you can find their reporting.
Like the CNN journalist who encouraged people to break into the building.
Not really, you can just easily switch to another solution, like B2+Cloudflare, which costs pennies.
It’s doubtful that any large bureaucracy can execute that decision quickly, though I do agree 3 years is way too long. I’d put 3 months as hard minimum even assuming every internal decision process went as smoothly as possible, and 6 months as a more realistic amount.

Just legal validation alone would take weeks even under emergency round-the-clock conditions. It’s the same with most open and shut zero-tolerance style firings as well, for all but the most fungible roles.

This largely has nothing to do with how grievous the transgression is or how sincerely the management wants to do the right thing. It has to do with red tape that is designed from first principles to permit zero exceptions or special cases that can cut through it quickly.

It would require refactoring not just Apple’s red tape infrastructure but the entire concept across virtually all of corporate America to optimize for speed of firing vendors based on child exploitation.

It’s like choosing an O(n^2) algorithm, baking it in as a load-bearing centerpiece, then being upset something doesn’t happen in O(1).
>...curated content from the userbase.
The key word there is "curated". Just upvotes/downvotes is not sustainable for quality discussion. It just leads to low quality easy effort content like memes. Moderators are important to keep discussion on track and prevent the sub from becoming a cesspool. Of course, they can and do still power trip, so still a problem.
> does it now mean all the vendors are locked in for that period?

Probably contractually, yes. For large scale manufacturing there are agreements and purchases that look ahead years in advance. Parts and labor are allocated. If you have quality control issues at any point (which is common), you fix them.
Literally none of those are examples of anyone stopping you from saying want you want to anyone else.
My understanding is that the integrity of the contents is assured due to the identifier being a hash of the content. From there I don't think it's really needed for a whole protocol to verify the author. Couldn't something as simple as a gpg signature be sufficient? If they signed the hash and gave it to you then it would be good
This gets close to it: https://awesome.ipfs.io/

There is also https://ipfs-search.com/

Some sites may offer IPFS versions transparently and you only notice if you have something like IPFS companion installed, as it then switches to your local node.
Item #1 - 100% correct.

Item #4 - I fully disagree. Some choices are scary to actually make, but are healthy. For instance, my mom stayed with her abusive husband for many years because she had Stockholm syndrome. If you had asked her why didn't she leave during that time, she would say "I didn't have a choice". Ask her now, and she will tell you "Fear - fear of not knowing how things would work out."

Sometimes the hardest choices to make are the impossible choices.
> somehow

Computing has long been an interplay of curious, light-hearted hacker types and business/military types. e.g. Woz/Yannes/Stoll/Stallman and Jobs/DARPA/Musk/Thiel.

I don't think the values of skill, sacrifice, daring, and greed (sorry if that offends anyone) that roughly underlie HN are effective filters to remove Trump values. In fact, they move the needle toward the business/military side. HN appreciates the fun hacks, but, by design, amplifies the business side.
I recommend you read the original article written by The Information (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-took-three-yea...) instead of the BI article. The original does a better job of clarifying the situation.
A -- "A lot of application developers are switching to working with containers and haven't historically had to do any manual network configuration. It's all new to them."

B -- "Linux networking conventions change every few years and simplying keeping up with the basics is a chore. netplan is the current flavor of the week but it's still new to plenty of people who've never had to worry about anything more than auto-configured DHCP or cloud-provider-default VPS networking."

My perspective has been that "A" is directly leading to "B" for similar reasons new javascript frameworks keep being released. Linux networking conventions don't change rapidly (5 - 10 years) but new management tooling does get created alongside to sit next to existing tooling, already abstracted out OS tools have new tooling to further abstract out system management which just creates further unnecessary complexity.
A fact is not an idea, it's a thing that actually happened and can be measured.

Your doublespeak, on the other hand, trying to equate facts with opinions, is what is concerning. This is the kind of nonsense that allows anti-vaxxers to be given equal voice to people who have studied biology for decades, or any of the qanon garbage that has resulted in people being killed.
But what would you think if you were a child in a poor country and that was your only way to eat?
I don’t think the customer cares as long as you can use it
... even in a Taxi cab.
Was there ever a time where child labor was acceptable? Now I'm not in touch with all the logistics here, but if I were growing up in a country where I had the option of starving or sending my kids off to work I know what I would be choosing. Child labor occurred in my family as little as a generation ago. My mother and her siblings all worked long hours in the field to raise crops with her family. She seems to be thriving after being in a situation the west seems to deem as terrible.

Ideally children don't have to work, ideally no one has to work - I do wonder if South Korea would be as democratic and free today if it weren't for their child labor force as little as 80 years ago though and I do wonder if those children or families would've preferred the alternative to child labor. Presumably they did not, since they volunteered their children to work for low wages.

I really do think we have to be mindful of judging other cultures against our rich western values. There are likely clear cases of child abuse that should be abolished - there are abusive cases of employment for all ages that should be abolished. I do wonder if we're too quick to judge child labor as a category in the west, though.
Ask HN: What makes a good problem for a bootstrapped company to solve?
I recently joined YC's Future Founders Course, which I think was new last year. From there I ended up on the Kevin Hale talk, "How to Evaluate your Startup Idea". In that he talks about what investors at YC look for when they're evaluating the problem that you're trying to solve.

He says...

- We like problems that are urgent
- We like problems that are really expensive to solve
- We like problems that are mandatory
- We like problems that are frequent

In the "How to Get Startup Ideas" talk, Jared Friedman has some good tips where he suggests the "Idea Quality Score". With it, there are four questions you use to rate your idea. You rate each of the four questions between 1 and 10 and then average the values to get your score. The questions to ask yourself are...

- How big is this idea?
- How much expertise do the founders have in what they're doing?
- How sure are you that you're solving a severe problem?
- How important is your new insight into this problem?

Other signs you might have a good idea...

- Your making something that you personally want to have
- It has only recently become possible

I'd like to create a small company while I'm working and I'd like to bootstrap it myself. So, I'm focusing on growth but probably nowhere near the startup founders growth. I realize there's a chance that I have "Schlep Blindness" and I'm rejecting ideas that seem hard. But, really expensive problems are probably out, unless I've got a great idea on how to solve them on a shoe string budget. So, I'm discounting the expensive ideas for my small company.

With all that in mind, what do you think makes a good problem for a small bootstrapped company to solve?

References:

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6e-how-to-evaluate-startup-ideas
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8g-how-to-get-startup-ideas
I'm having second thoughts about posting this now :( considering a caching strategy would have been out of the question for them given the claims of what this site is.
We see how loyalty is rewarded in the end game though. People might think they're being smart while being duped into wishful thinking. Just for someone else to get into the next leveraged position to sink everyone around them, in order to "win".

A political platform would be able to reason and explain projects using facts and figures.
> Clearly some of the Establishment wanted it to succeed.

Or massively & publicly fail... if we’re trading conspiracy theories.
Oh thanks! Doesn't seem intuitive a skip back icon/button means start.
No, you are both correct. You are talking about the SSPL, the parent poster you are replying to is talking about the Elastic License which does in fact prevent you from modifying the code and running it in production:

See 2.2 Restrictions:
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/license...

With the dual-licensing you have a choice of Elastic license or SSPL, but they both have terms you might not like. And if you use the binaries you automatically use the free as in beer Elastic license.
Make it a law, or expect companies to follow the $. It's sad, but it's the state of our capitalism in the US.
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> The second would be Apple pushing all MacBooks to M1 too soon, breaking certain tools and workflows.

I don't think this is an issue. Apple has been fairly straight about timelines and people who want to stick with Intel have plenty of time and options to get their stuff in a row in advance. More important, Apple fixed most of the major irritations with the MacBook Pro. If they hadn't launched the 16" MBP last year, people would have been stuck with a fairly old/ compromised design.

I suspect Apple is going to maintain MacOS right where it is now. People have been worried about "iOSification" for nearly a decade now and while there have been some elements, the core functionality is fundamentally the same.
Me and some friends went to movies, left my car behind. An old truck.
We came back to finding the truck on other side of road.

After much WTF. Friends dad comes out and let us know he moved it due to street sweeper.

His same brand, but Older and different Model truck key fit mine.
They will continue to behave this way until the damage to their profits is higher than the damage from a supply chain interruption. To quote fight club:

> Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
From the article:

"The Secret Service said in a statement on Saturday that six protesters were arrested in Washington and “multiple” officers were injured. There were no details on the charges or nature of the injuries. A spokesman for US park police said their officers made no arrests, but several suffered minor injuries and one was taken to a hospital after being struck in the helmet by a projectile."

A few injuries, with perhaps only one serious enough to lead to a hospitalization. A far cry from a police officer beaten to death by a mob of right wingers invading the Capitol.
That is truly amazing. It makes AI feel like a wild thing. It's got something... A creative stamina and output that is astounding.
There's some similar sites that are currently a better use-case for that if you want to customize one on the page with live inference, check out https://waifulabs.com/
I am working on SAAS, and I want to open source the codebase. But I'd like to avoid a big commercial entity to run my software as a competitive service.

What is the best license to use for this use case? I want to allow as many uses of my code as possible, like on premise deployment, schools, ... But with the exception of using it commercially to run the same service as me.
Boston does this better, where if there isn't traffic, sirens aren't run. At night, sirens are relatively rare. Especially compared to Seattle and Boise where I've also lived.

In Germany, I only ever heard a couple sirens the whole time I lived there, and none directly on my street.
Mozilla makes an entire browser.

Brave takes an existing browser (Chromium) and adds some extra features to the UI and networking stack.

Modern web browsers are incredibly complex pieces of software. The overwhelming majority of code in Brave's repository is shared with Chromium. What Brave's developers do and what Mozilla's developers do are not comparable.
Cars in Europe don’t honk on open/close. It’s not illegal but there are some non honk areas and because of that manufactures don’t enable it.
Anecdotally, I tuned into some of the protester's livestreams early on because I assumed that they would be trying to get into the building to stop the confirmation of Biden's win. It almost felt so incredibly obvious to me that it was going to happen.
Er, no, though a link to that failed experiment from 2016 was posted within the past week, so that may have been the source of your confusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25785191
When I'm bored, in the shower, or just day dreaming I sometimes like to think about what it'd be like if I was a multi-millionaire or billionaire.
One thing I imsgine myself doing is giving giant donations to museums with the only request that they let me wander around various warehouses and storage areas.

I like history and old stuff, and it just boggles the mind what they must have back there. Especially when I read articles about someone "rediscovering" some old or obscure item because it wasnt catalogued when it was put into storage, or the record was lost.
Yet less than a week to cut ties with Parler. If this had been as public as the capital riots I'm sure they would have moved quickly. That said I can't imagine the effort in moving production on their scale.

Edit: After the onslaught of down votes I thought I'd better clarify. Apple is only moving away from this supplier because of the damage it does to their brand. They are not motivated to act ethically as they would have moved a lot faster if that had been the case.
You make assumptions about my behavior. I don't bring my phone with me unless it's truly necessary.
Do people call the police and have the police show up if something like that happens?

Here people don't even turn their heads when an alarm goes off, and the police will show up, but far past the actual event.
I think it’s larger than you claim. If someone is willing to pay for new, but offered a lower price for used, they will likely pick the used copy.

And yea chargebacks aren’t a mechanism for getting a refund. They are essentially a fraud accusation. Try doing a chargeback with amazon on a large purchase and see how long your account stays in good standing.
I switched to side mouse buttons a few years back, probably around the time Chrome made this change. It's been great: my hand is on the mouse much of the time. On top of that, almost all of the time I click back, I want to either scroll or move the mouse soon after.

I can't believe I used to move my hand to an out-of-the-way spot on the keyboard to go back a page.
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Is it possible, right now, to do business that requires such a complex supply chain without encountering significant labor issues of this sort? By which I mean, are there Western firms with more robust labor laws that could fill these needs?
Maybe he shouldn't have donated all that money to bigoted organizations.
> Was there ever a time where child labor was acceptable?

Just like slavery was. Slaves always had the option to kill themselves, but instead the slavery system allowed them to live and have families and feed them.

In that light, you comment comes out as extremely callous.