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But I am not assuming at all. In fact most professional writers still use Microsoft Word. It's sort of how people don't realize the world still runs on Microsoft Excel. Markdown is not "rich" in any way. It's syntactical representation for what you want the "exported" text to look like. It is not a drop in replacement for rich text editing.

Of course people who come here are going to be the outliers of this use case and say markdown is fine. Go ask Neil Gaiman or Stephen King if they know markdown and after explaining what it is ask if they need it? And I'd be willing to put money on them just stating "why not just make my italic text italic, why do I really need to put special characters around it?"
Would be nice if this was freely licensed and available.
Not really. Everyone having an equal ownership of capital is not the same as a central representative authority holding all capital. Democaratically syndicated ownership of capital is closer to (true) communism and the complete opposite of socialism.
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Nah I think the Itanic concept is dead in the water

VLIW works (especially in the way it was done in Itanium - IIRC) when either your workload is too predictable or maybe if your compiler manages to be one order of magnitude smarter than it is today (even with llvm, etc)

It seems even M1 prefers to reorder scalar operations than work with SIMD ops in some cases (this is one of its processors)
This blog post strikes me as poorly written, overly emotional, and light on reasons to care. While not Amazon-sized, Elastic is itself a rather large company. Am I supposed to be upset that you're having difficulty getting even larger because of Amazon? Considering you're the experts on this product, shouldn't you be confident in your ability to differentiate from someone offering it as an afterthought? If anything, Amazon's poor support of their Elastic offering amounts to lead gen for a properly run solution. Finally, feel free to change your license now that your original license is no longer conducive to your growth aspirations, but whining that "not OK" Amazon forced you to do it just comes across as sour grapes.
I think there are valid differences in opinion in what “open source” means and an organization with an agenda shouldn’t try to own the terminology.
There are a few linux phones now. None are ready for prime time yet, but all are close. Contribute to development (either by writing code, or just funding it) and they will be sooner. I'm excited about the pinephone, but there are a few others.
Totally disagree. With the same budget a much more successful vehicle could have been built.

Simple changes like not going for hydrogen, separating main engines from Shuttle itself, not using hydrogen on the first stage, vertically mounted shuttle and so on.
Reflecting on this more I think capitalism is the wrong word. Completely unregulated markets is what is really the issue. It leads to the incumbents extracting all the profit and then using their monopoly position to extract rents for the next few decades.
"they" = The Intercept

My statement was pretty bad, since it is very simplified and can be misunderstood (since the "they" is ambiguous). I posted the relevant links below, these explain the whole story way better.
If you create low quality estimates willy nilly then don't be surprised that you will break them.
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The cringe on this thread is appalling.

Elasticsearch B.V. owes you nothing. The source code is still open source, but you should pay for re-selling or providing hosting services around it. They have salaries to pay. Period.

Too many open source "believers" find themselves out of pocket, taking time away from their families and lives, only for companies like Amazaon and other WAANKs out there to make billions in profit. Time for this to stop. Starve them of your hard work and make them pay if they want to use your software. For sharing knowledge, code can still be freely readable, but should not be free of charge.
That's arguably not "both-sides-ism" so much as "straw-man-ism" if one side does not get the best representation.

That said, it depends on the demographic you want to represent.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Seagate+BarraCuda&ref=nb_sb_noss_...

&

grep ( with parallel )

...if it matches your use case, you'll find it trivially outperforms elasticsearch.
ClickHouse. It's Apache 2.0 and will stay that way.

Edit to add disclaimer: I work on ClickHouse.
why not make a license that requires to pay
Date: Dec 3, 2019

Please update the title and append "(2019)"
I don't think we really need that. The current solution works relatively well: anyone using open source in a sense other than that described by the OSI, is reliably met with a hailstorm of criticism on HackerNews for being disingenuous. That's as it should be. It's a term of art in the software world, and we don't insist on legal enforcement of every term of art.

I tend to capitalise the term, Open Source, to emphasise that I'm using it an a precise way. I do the same with Free Software. Not ironclad, but I figure it probably helps.

With all of that said, I don't think anyone should be permitted to deliberately mislead people when they're pushing a product. It's obviously right that false advertising is forbidden by law.
> We’ve tried every avenue available including going through the courts
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Slightly more aggressive take: fully automated contract manufacturing is the future, those that resist its march will be trampled and those that ignore it will be left behind.

Semiconductor manufacturing is just one example where this is happening, electronics is another. Maybe one day Toyota Auto fabs will be making Teslas.
Well, I would say the opposite. The West cares too much and incited too many revolutions.

Remember the Arab spring? People are still burning in hell and nobody in the West gives a shit anymore. Sure, Gaddafi was a terrible dictator, but his death is making things much, much worse. If Assad was dead, things would become even more ugly. All the West wanted is to judge and prevail instead of solving the problems, or at least try not to screw everything.

Imagine yourself as an average Syrian or Lybian person, the government is imperfect just like anyone else but life is Okayish. All of a sudden some superpowers just yell freedom in your face, then soon there's wars and bombs - your home turned into rubble, many people you were killed.

It's not only painful but also confusing and not constructive at all. Nobody learned anything. That's worse, things like these doomed to happen again, in another year, on another land, and happens to some other people.
Good voice would be both genderless and non-human. You want as little anthropomorphize as little as possible.
> Even Thailand is doing that now. The royals are largely symbolic and don't exercise direct political power. But there's still a strong cultural attachment.

Don't know how biased the Economist is on this, but they've had a number of articles talking about the increasing role of the current king. An example is linked below.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/14/thailands-king...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210103234100if_/https://www.ec...
That need a bit of nuance IMO. Blasphemy in general doesn't need protecting.

But blasphemy targeting a specific person or institution is effectively hate speech, and there are good reasons to ban it.
"and thats not ok; but forget that"

Why do we need to forget the trademark infringement?

If Amazon is engaging in trademark infringement, lying about their connection\collaboration with the trademark holder, and including commercially licensed technology in an open source fork of a project, they are acting very poorly. Your argument of Amazon just being able to execute better falls flat if these facts are true and it means they're cheating, and that deserves some recognition.
> When Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple all decide that you shall not be heard, you’re locked out from the 99.99% of the population

Yeah, I know, it's like Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) recently said on Fox News: Republicans literally have no way to get messages out now.

Except...
That’s a fair point!

The example should be voluntarily paying a writer to write what I deem truth worthy, vs the state threatening with violence if I refuse to pay for what they want me to pay for.

In my country Sweden the state media is very biased and paints my points of views in a bad light - but I am forced to fund them.

I encourage Americans here to cherish not having to have that.
If you adopt, or give birth to, a baby, chances are very good that there will be no particular issues. If you adopt an older kid through social services, you're all but guaranteed to have a lot more problems than the average parent. Not to mention that the kid will not be as attached to you, making it doubly difficult.
Would ElasticSearch have gotten as popular as it has if they had used a non-opensource license from the start?
Do you have a recommended process for accessing the second hand commercial market?
There is a solution to that already, it's called using source available licensing instead of Open Source.

But the point of Open Source is that reciprocity of code/money/value is not required. That's literally the scenario that many of us are trying to build.

It feels like the difference here is that you're looking at "someone builds a giant public hosting service off of our code" as an immoral end. But I'm saying that's not immoral, that is an acceptable result.

It's obviously not the result Elastic wanted, and I empathize with that, but... I don't know, maybe we need to educate people more about what Open Source actually means. Maybe we need to encourage more people to use source available licenses if there's a disconnect in how people understand the actual goals of the movement.

We believe that people have an intrinsic, moral right to share and reuse code. Not just good citizens who help build up the system and support us -- everybody.
I'm not that familiar with the case. Here is the first result from google however, comparing his sentence with other notorious cases[1]

[1]https://www.freedomforsholam.com/
Would you say that about all state funded news or is the BBC uniquely worse?
obviously so. the Italian mafia is said to exist because the local (legal) system of distributing punishment was ineffective/unfair. modern what we call "democratic systems" will paint a different story - they will tell you these people were unable to live in peace until they came along.

it's where the parallel ends though. my comment certainly was _not_ an endorsement or fetishization of crime, just an observation from my own experience living there. the alternative view point which is to call everyone who hasn't been integrated into a "civilized system" a crook (or backwards) is too imperialistic for my taste, especially since Thailand is also the home of many hill-tribes who have a natural difficult relationship with empire-building city folk.
That's why we ended up with the triage row. This way we had a list of issues we could actually sort and work on. Triage issues were de facto assigned to me, the guy in charge of refining tickets into actionable tasks. Now that I think of it, the triage column was the PM/PO's todo column.
It just reminds me Blender meme.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/mxeon1001/status/1108738701956472833

[image] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2MH4hwWwAEjhsv?format=jpg&name=...
Is it exactly MySQL (but hosted by Eznzt) or is it something mostly like MySQL but different?
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IANAL, but my understanding is that including the software package in the product/service name this would potentially open your company up to a trademark suit, because it potentiates customer confusion regarding the things that Elastic is complaining about w/r/t Amazon's offerings of Elasticsearch.

Personally, I find that thinking about this issue seems more intuitive when imagining tangible physical products. Imagine that Amazon decides to enter the Cookies as a Service market, and starts launching service offerings with names like 'Oreos by Amazon'. At a glance, would one not assume that this was some sort of collaborative effort between Nabisco and Amazon? I think the average consumer would. And the same probably applies in a situation involving a software product.
It sounds more like they have a military government, who claim to act in the name of a king. And hence claim that any criticism of them is criticism of him. Against which there are both strong laws (even if these were seldom applied so strongly before?) and a cultural taboo (which otherwise a general appointing himself leader would not command).
How did you write 200k lines of code in nine months? Was that all functioning code? Was some stuff generated? Retaining ~730 LoC per day including weekends for nine months is a really crazy pace and I'd love to hear more about that workflow.
This is true, and there are entire categories of licenses which are considered untouchable in an acquisition because of the risk associated with them.
In Germany, lese majeste laws made it technically illegal to insult a foreign leader until the law was abolished in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Böhmermann_affair
Using an AGPL-licensed fork does not suffer from this risk.
Well they are using elastic code freely given away with a few small additions, is that not involved enough?
They can indeed solicit the help of others, but the original claim was that they could do it on their own.

There are a great many essential operations that people pay a professional to do all the time, even though it be quite easy to do on one's own.
Your friend’s shop has an atomic clock?
It was a bad choice of name by Amazon. They should have created "Amazon Search Services" and ElasticSearch would be one of multiple available options ala RDS and its many database options. I'm no lawyer but it appears to me that they are blatantly in violation of ElasticSearch's trademark.
I’m halfway through my second novel. Both in very barebones markdown (using pretty much only headings). Plain text is a blessing. I can keep everything in git, searching in emacs with swiper is fantastic (and good search is a must as the material grows) and any tool I lack I can hack together.
We most definitely agree on that.
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We're using Grafana and Loki to great effect.
You are correct, sorry my wording was clumsy and inaccurate. I should have clarified that the project itself is now under a different license, though I believe the net effect is similar to relicensing the original code, as forks are unlikely to be sustainable.
The vast majority of developers never profile their code. I think this is much less of an issue than anyone on HN would rank it. Only when the platform itself provides traces do they take it into consideration. And even then, I think most perf optimization is in a category of don't do the obviously slow thing, or the accidentally n^2 thing.

I partially agree with you though, as the penetration of Arm goes deeper into the programmer ecosystem, any mental roadblocks about deploying to Arm will disappear. It is a mindset issue, not a technical one.

In the 80s and 90s there were lots of alternative architectures and it wasn't a big deal, granted the software stacks were much much smaller and more metal. Now they are huge, but more abstract and farther away from machine issues.
I know it's not the same, but after going on an unsubscription drive, I've had pretty good success with simple address-based rules to move new mail to folders.
This happened in the last few days, so I hadn't seen it. Neither had Rep. Pressley when she made her tweet many months ago.

Doesn't alter the case in the least. Still clear self-defense. Post-hoc assignment of affiliation doesn't stick. An earlier court search of Kyle's social media revealed no far-right affiliation [0]. As things are now, the media made him a pariah, so only pariahs like the Proud Boys will accept him. Same thing happened with George Zimmerman; the sad yet predictable outcome of forcing someone out of polite society. And that’s not to mention all the death threats [1], which would probably make the offer of Proud Boy protection appealing.

The meaning of that hand sign's in the eye of the beholder, as anyone familiar with its history will know.

[0] https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/rittenhouse_response...

[1] https://patch.com/illinois/grayslake/rittenhouses-mom-chasti...
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I think the West has done enough meddling in other country's affairs the past 120 years.
As far as I can tell, this is basically an ion thruster, though I've never heard ion thrusters called Hall-effect thrusters before, so this may be a somewhat atypical sort of them. It ionizes gas to propel itself. The EM drive was basically a microwave in a sealed container that was hoped/theorized to create thrust through an unspecified/unknown mechanism, with no reaction mass coming out the back of the craft.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-effect_thruster to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
£148k? That really seems like not that much for any sort of executive.
I agree, the overlapping difference in quality software production is diligent security and testing.
Input power can be plentiful with modern solar cells, and Sun just keeps on providing 1 kW / m² in optical emission.

Propellant, OTOH, is finite; once you use it up, you cannot maneuver any more. Solar cells may degrade, but keep providing power for decades, if not centuries.

So a long-lasting satellite which just needs to keep its orbit may be better off with a low-thrust engine not ejecting any reaction mass. A long-range mission with a finite travel time towards the outer reaches of the Solar system may be better off with a high-Isp jet engine.
Pick and place robots for electronics parts are mesmerizing to watch in operation. They move so fast it is almost impossible to see the actual placement of a part start-to-finish, you see parts 'appear'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7pUqRZjU8

10 parts per second is pretty common now.
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This is the huge issue with open source. The way to make money is to offer support or hosting. However, many businesses would prefer support and/or hosting from a big enterprise. For example, a lot of CTO’s would prefer Amazon Elastic Search vs a separate agreement with Elastic if for no other reason than that there is a single bill and a single entity to call for support. You don’t want Elastic saying it’s an AWS issue and Amazon saying it’s an Elastic issue.

In addition, the fact that API’s are not copyrighted makes this even more in favor of the big enterprises like Amazon, as they can release something with the same API.

Honestly, the problem of how to sustain an open source business in this environment is an open question.
Capitalism is simply an economic system defined by private ownership of the means of production. I'm not sure you are using capitalism correctly here.
Not having some of the largest wealth inequality in the world (look it up).
The current youth generation isn’t adhering to these ideals. I hear a lot of people’s parents tell them not to talk or post about the protests or anything, but they seem more interested in the movement, autonomy, and democracy than worrying about the traditions.
It's more like having the sign say "feel free to do what you like" then someone poops on the lawn and you sigh and have to update the sign to say "no pooping, though".

Most free/open source software licences come from a different time. In most cases they are applied because the authors want to do open source and it's expected that the licence is enough to uphold that spirit. But it's not enough and hasn't been for a long time now. The AGPL was created for this reason but oddly developers have gone the opposite direction and "permissive" licences have become the fashion. Many of them are now realising there was a reason for licences like GPL and AGPL after all.
I always laugh when lots of the US cop shows we get here in the UK have the good guys prominently using Microsoft equipment... to GOSUB their subroutine, or some similarly authentic "tech speak". With the new AI powered by Product Placement Of The Week, they can enhance the image and miraculously read the plate on the bad guys' vehicle!
You sound exactly like one of my best friends. He couldn't get into med school due to very average MCAT scores and so he started working in research making pennies. After some odd years of that and racking up a ton of credit card debt, he had a go at a coding bootcamp and found a job as a senior engineer making over 130K almost quadrupling his salary. Not sure whether that speaks more to his intelligence or to our industry. I'm happy for him that he doesn't need to worry about next months rent anymore, though
That is not a good comparison. Blue and red are well defined as high frequency and low frequency electromagnetic radiation. Capitalism and socialism, on the other hand, are very vague terms, and I think the many discussions here prove that.

Take, for example, a country where the majority of things are privately run but are heavily taxed by the government. Is that more capitalist or socialist than a country where most of the economy is run by the government, but the remaining private businesses pay little to no taxes?

Or a country where one party owns everything but pretends to act on behalf of the workers, as opposed to a country where everyone is a business owner? Or a country that has little labor regulation but a strong social safety net, versus a country with weak social welfare but strict labor regulation?
Yes, the m1 isn’t a graviton 2. But then again the mobile i7 in my current MBP isn’t the same as the Xeon processors my code runs on in production. This isn’t about serious optimization, but rather the ability for a developer to reasonably estimate how well their code will work in prod (e.g. “will it deadlock”). The closer your laptop gets to prod, the narrower the error bars get, but they’ll never go to zero.

And keep in mind this is about reducing the incentive to switch to a chip that’s cheaper per compute unit in the cloud. If Graviton 2 was more expensive or just equal in price to x86, I doubt that M1 laptops alone would be enough to incentivize a switch.
It's especially ... ironic, that they think Amazonification is not-ok, but Enterprizificaion (open core) is a-ok.

That said hosting ES is basically the same as building a carwash, or a gas station, or let's say a printing house. You get the machinery and build your own support services around it.

Even the unit economics are not that different. AWS spent probably millions of dollars to push the marginal price down. The initial cost of procurement for machinery might be zero for ES as opposed to buying a printing press, but none of the aforementioned sectors are limited by the cost of machinery. In case of brick and mortar services the cost of land, labor, construction, and logistics are all a lot more important.

Yes, okay, but what about AWS's advantage, their "moat"? Elastic will never be able to match that. This is the same problem that plagues the browser, phone OS (and other) markets. Google can easily spend a billion USD each year on fiddling with Chrome and Android. Mozilla, Canonical, KDE, and others can't.

AWS has the platform advantage, Google has money.

It seems these market forces virtually force ES to become a "public good" like the Linux kernel. (Or Elastic could try to fork it and stop using any kind of free/open/available license. And try to find business niches.)

But at this point the cat is out of the bag. Likely no amount of license engineering will be sufficient to overcome AWS' advantage.