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Google says it will remove search function in Australia if media code become law
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Got a moto g power. Big battery runs 1.5 to 2 days without charger time unless watching more than 2-3 hours of video. Fits my browsing and talking needs. Camera is pretty good to buy I barely use a phone camera.
Mongo adoption has risen at a rapid rate, and cloud services now make up nearly 40% of their revenue (which, in turn, allows the company to push those $$$ into the core product). Your statement, while a common view on HN, is not correct. Just because tech bros have moved on towards other interests has not meant that adoption of Mongo has faltered.
(I am not affiliated with, nor own stock in, MongoDB, Inc in any way)
I think it comes from a desperation for clarity in a messy conversation.
That's no different than a "letter to the editor." Still not remotely similar to social media.
Yeah, that's part of it that I was having trouble putting into words.
Polonium, Dioxin, Novichok. I wonder what they use when they want to be more stealthy about it.
And yet... for whatever torque the motor supplies at 0 RPM, you could have 4 times as much torque with a 4:1 1st gear.

As I see it, a manual stick EV would be pretty good in combination with a modestly-powerful drive system like what's in the Nissan Leaf, as opposed to something like a high-end Tesla (where you have enough power that shifting gears doesn't matter as much).
American Superconductor sells wire for $200 per kiloamp per metre. It would worth it getting a lighter superconducting cable given it wouldn't need cooling.
They would “waste their time” because they are here to claim that Twitter is distributing porn. They are not here to win the case. By the time the case is won or lost the public will have long forgotten about it.

Moral crusaders are only interested in the immediate attention the case will bring to their cause, along with the donation from people concerned about Twitter being a corrupt den of wickedness and evil.
Scott Alexander, a very, very popular blogger deleted his blog because the NYT was going to dox him. After uprooting his life to deal with that he has returned to blogging. Many people expressed their support, for which he is very grateful. The NYT is still committed to doxxing people if they feel like it, which Scott abhors. As part of radically changing his life he quit his previous psychiatrist job and is going to see if it’s possible to make a living treating the uninsured for a lot cheaper than most psychiatrists. He signs off with his real name.
Should Australia be able to force US companies to do what they want?
Not claiming every git commit uses work emails

Referring to the fact that the original 600 Amazon PR claim was rescinded in that thread
Obviously this is what we all want to hear. I just think there should have been iterations on the Prius by now that kept pushing what it means to be an EV. Fuel efficiency and MPG should no longer be in our dictionary.
I don't see why they can't serve ads in Australia for other businesses that are based outside Australia but do business in Australia and might want to serve ads to residents there, e.g. Coca-Cola or whatever.

All financial transactions would take place outside Australia, Google wouldn't need a legal entity there.
> I don't see how it helps the orderliness of the planet to post in a disorderly way to HN.

I think it is plausible that if rational, computer programming types could regain the ability to discuss culture war topics at a level of discourse that has some regard for what is actually true (as opposed to mistaking one's ideological/heuristic opinion for fact, and losing one's temper when someone dares to ask "is that true?"), perhaps:

a) you wouldn't have to pass out so many warnings

b) we here at HN could perhaps bring some rationality to these issues, and perhaps come up with some solutions

c) if (b) succeeds, perhaps other communities could learn too

> It's not so hard to stick to the site guidelines if you choose to.

I assume it is this one that you believe I have violated: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

Am I "pushing an ideology" when I ask someone if their ideological and rarely factual (but stated factually) comment is actually true? To me, engaging in "political or ideological battle" is pushing(!) an opposing political/ideological idea. I may at times point out an opposing idea, but I do not do it on ideological grounds, I do it on epistemological grounds.

> I don't want to ban you but we really need you to post more thoughtfully (or put it this way: only post when you're able to post thoughtfully) and err on the side of respecting others.

Dang, have you read any of the conversations I have been involved in, have you read the comments of the people whom I have engaged in discussion with? I simply cannot wrap my head around how it is I who should be posting more "thoughtfully", or need to "respect others". Go read for yourself! Compare what I say to others, and compare what they say to me. Compare the quality of the content of other's posts to what I say in response. Peruse the historic voting on my comments (90%+ of my comments get precisely "-1" - isn't that a coincidence!), versus the thoughtfulness/respectfulness of the comments.

On culture war topics, this place has become not much better than what you'd find in /r/politics.

Where is the thoughtfulness? Where is the concern for, or curiosity about, what is true?

If you have actually perused my history, and this is your take on the relative behavior here, that I, the one who is exerting effort to discuss these topics in an evidence-based manner, am the one you shall pick out of the crowd to be given a warning, then I will be absolutely shocked.
> This means that Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source software.

This is categorically not true. The source is open, and will likely always will be. It’s not free for AWS going forward, however. Why is it that Amazon has such a hard time paying for stuff they use and commercialize? There’s no issues here with other providers (GCP, Azure, etc.), so clearly the problem lies with them. While they’re at it, they should also get off this “open and free” high horse they seem to be on. A few patches here and there don’t qualify as big time contributor status. If they want to show that they’re committed, how about the release their infrastructure code that runs all their services? That’d definitely go a lot further than “big bad Elastic changed their license and we’re defending users.” Get outta here with that nonsense, history shows otherwise with all the other tech that’s been ripped off.

I also don’t get all the criticism for Elastic doing this. They own the software, and they can do whatever they want. Should they have done this license from the start? Maybe, but it’s not exactly easy getting a project off the ground without some way to gain attention. If you’ve got no users, you’ve got to show at least what your code is doing, and picking software licenses is not exactly a straightforward task. They changed their license to fight back, and it’s entirely within their right to do so.

Hate to feel like I’m venting, but AWS is being the bully here and feigning that they’re pro-user, which is frustrating to witness.
Tucows is still a domain registry. (See: https://tucowsdomains.com)

In my experience, they are one of the shadier ones, but maybe they are all bad these days. For example, if a rare domain (E.g. any three-letter .com) is registered with them and about to expire, instead of releasing it as they should, it will be held for auction.
Nobody wants the SSPL (not even MongoDB), but Amazon is forcing companies to do this while contributing nothing. These projects are still open source, and actually contribute to the libraries they depend upon. As a former developer of MongoDB who watched this happen, I’ve contributed to a variety of open source projects. MongoDB also couldn’t just lay everybody off and let Amazon grow their monopolies (much like Oracle’s behavior). But please don’t suggest I’m any less a part of the open source community than I was 20 years ago.
I think I’m on the same page. The law is ridiculous for requiring remuneration for providing a link but Google and other tech giants wield too much unchecked power and they need to be regulated, maybe broken up.
That’s not what the decision said, you have misread it. It was not the first amendment, but rather the California constitution that required allowing the speech.
Considering the two leading search engine companies are in the Fortune 25, I think it's absolutely sustainable to siphon off search engines. They make a massive amount of pure profit, and are amongst the richest companies in the planet in raw cash on hand.

And it's also very fair, because search engines are, functionally and fundamentally, content scrapers. Everything they have and everything they offer is done by consuming the work of others.
Within their jurisdiction? Yes absolutely. That's call the rule of law.
Show HN: Quickly get the archived version of a URL
Just prepend arxiv.link/ to any URL in the browser address bar.

This is a quick and dirty way to get the last working Internet Archive version of any URL. The reason I built this is because I was annoyed to having to pay an extra visit to Internet Archive and copy and paste the URL there, etc. whenever I came across a link that was broken or down for whatever reason, e.g., [0] ([1] archive version.)

[0] https://www.nickgrossman.is/2019/the-butter-thesis/

[1] http://arxiv.link/www.nickgrossman.is/2019/the-butter-thesis/
NASA Lends Moon Rock for Oval Office Display
thank you so much! great work!
Is this law protectionism? Remove the foreign incumbents to give local businesses a chance to establish themselves, then slowly remove the restrictions?
I invite you to take a look at the post-IPhone world and how all other phone makers vanished up to that point.

Anyway, I do contemplate this particular shift in cars because of Tesla’s valuation. Why would Mazda keep existing if Tesla and Apple just out school them? There’s going to be some dead companies for sure. Where is Mazda on future tech?
A mere dictatorially run company can tell an entire democracy what to do?

To be fair, Big Media have been doing something not unlike that for generations, as have big businesses in numerous other industries through various forms of lobbying, regulatory capture and revolving door politics. It's not as if Big Tech getting in on the act is a unique or original move. Not that this necessarily makes it any better, of course.

One interesting potential difference this time is that in a very direct way, Google are only strong enough to make this strategy work if they have a lot of popular support for their services continuing to operate, which is another way of saying that their services are providing a significant public benefit and possibly they have a point. If their services aren't all that and competitors can readily step in to provide a similar value to society, as various comments here have already suggested, then this strategy by Google is doomed to fail and will also leave them in a considerably weaker position when it comes to playing poker over other regulation in the future.
MIT license is super simple, short way of saying "You must give me credit if you use this in the form of including this license and my copyright statement in software you distribute"

Apache license is a longer and more complicated version that is the same in spirit but also includes the agreement that the licensor does not sue the licensee over patent infringement for use of their contributions to the software or the cumalative software, unless the licensee makes a patent claim against the licensor in which case the license terminates
Nope - he's charging $35/month.
Google Threatens to Remove Search in Australia as Spat Escalates
Not sure how easy convenient this is in practice, but the docs mention using the "do" function [1]

[1] https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#toolz.functo...
The way the bill is written is disappointing because it conflates two different things together:

For the purposes of this Part, a service makes content available if: (a)the content is reproduced on the service, or is otherwise placed on the service; or (b)a link to the content is provided on the service; or (c)an extract of the content is provided on the service.

I think most of us would agree that a search engine being charged for providing links (b) is pretty dumb.

But with the rise of content embeds and republishing (a/c), it's a completely different scenario when Facebook is sucking up your content for the benefit of their users.

So while I feel this is a raw deal for search engines, it is about time that social media platforms paid their dues.
In the past there have been companies that had their own navies. Maybe in a few years..
Potentially, but realistically not unless the engine has reached a critical mass. Per the draft code[0] whether or not it applies to your company is up to the Treasurer[1] - see relevant section: https://i.imgur.com/7RSqXDJ.png

There's a major issue here because as a search company you could wake up one day to find that a single person has decided your revenue and expenditure has changed drastically. Even if you believe the spirit of this law is good, the way this is written is downright dangerous.

[0] https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20Bill...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasurer_of_Australia
As someone from Australia. I'm okay with this.

Let's be real Web search isn't that new or special anymore.

Before you cry that Google has the best results, the results are actually fed by data mining users. If we all jumped onto Bing tomorrow, after enough usage, it will have the same results as Google.

Amp and Chrome dominating the market is reason enough to ditch Google before it continues to abuse its monopoly like this.
Indeed. The schematic shows a Richtek rt6150b-33gqw, which is a buck-boost converted [1]. I fully would have expected a buck converter or LDO there. Well, pity then. Take it up with the RPi foundation ;-} On the plus side, this should allow you to run the Pi Pico from a single lithium cell on Vbus.

[1]https://www.richtek.com/assets/product_file/RT6150A=RT6150B/...
I'm not sure what exactly that would entail, but Google has quite big offices in Sydney and elsewhere. Google Maps came out of Sydney, and I believe a lot of its development still happens there.
The Origin of Cut, Copy, and Paste
>you underestimate the manufacturing capabilities of automtotive giants with far longer history at mass scale production of cars.

I've been hearing this since 2010. It's now 2021.

"Most experienced automakers race to put a car together in three years," said Angus MacKenzie, editor of Motor Trend magazine. "I can't see Tesla making more than a handful of these -- if any -- in 2012."

Source: https://money.cnn.com/2010/06/29/technology/tesla_ipo/index....

>look theres' nothing special about electric cars. they are mostly just battery + chasis + motor. It's just not 2016 anymore, they've all been quietly acquiring the know how and waiting for the battery before making their end game chess move.

"Faulty software set back a bid by the world’s largest car maker for electric-vehicle dominance"

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-volkswagens-50-billion-plan...

The inherent nature of EVs require a ton of software development. Which is incredibly hard to nail and requires top talent. This is a monumental task for the auto incumbents. The only way to solve it is to start from scratch. Without the risk of alienating their OEM suppliers and system integrators.

> Let's keep the personal attacks to a minimum please. I can't even have a conversation on HN anymore without getting flagged by people who can't handle criticisms or fear their narrative coming under attack.

Maybe you should step back and reflect on the reason(s) why you're getting flagged.

> Jim Chano [sic] is NOT wrong on this and lots of people overlook at this simple accounting trickery.

So far, people like Jim Chanos and David Einhorn hemorrhaged money to the tune of $40B if you're not aware. Chanos also have (just very recently) closed his short position and converted them into PUT options.

Sources:

[1] https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/01/06/tesla-short-sellers-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/jim-chanos-is-no-longer-shor...
But search itself isn't the paying feature for either company. If they say "no, thank you" then what do you replace it with? A worse search engine that also loses money? How do Australians come out ahead in this?
Apple hasn't made such an announcement.
Simply withdrawing their business presence from Australia would not necessarily remove their liability or remove them from the jurisdiction of Australian courts. The lack of a business presence is not always a shield against long-arm jurisdiction.
We did it with just the Kickstarter, so around $100k, nothing out of pocket except maybe a total of $1-2k to prototype.

The "mistake" we did initially is that we didn't account for enough extra inventory. I mean, with the KS money you have to 1) fulfill the backers, 2) create additional inventory to sell. But at a certain point while you're selling your inventory you need to start manufacturing another batch and you need money for that. Tl;dr: 3x your production costs, don't 2x them.

It's not a huge issue, but that means you can do a smaller 2nd batch and you risk to run out of stock, which we did.

Don't get me wrong, it's a good problem to have... it's just extra work and we could have optimized better.
Oh sure, it would impact them for sure. Just saying that if they do pull out of Australia, they don't need to stop serving Google Search to Australians. They can just serve it out of a foreign IP address just like Baidu would be for Australians to access.

If they served it out of Singapore or some other place in the region speeds would still be decent.
But I didn't imply anything, I asked if he had read it.

I wasn't trying to be rude, I legitimately think that the rest of that paragraph was a really good answer to his question.
From a link in another thread[0]:

"But iterated games sometimes require a strategy that deviates from apparent first-level rationality, where you let yourself consider lose-lose options in order to influence an opponent's behavior."

"Or, in layman's terms, sometimes you have to be a crazy bastard so people won't walk all over you."

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive
Google refuses to operate a search engine in China because of the laws it imposes. Mad about that too?
It is possible if a bit convoluted [1, 2]. When I looked into it last year it seemed the good guides were focused on Clevis & Tang with a separate server (i.e. your PC at home on your network would boot but if away from the Tang server the PC would fall back to password). In a quick look it seems they may simply support TPM2 now although I haven't looked into how/if this is different to the article.

[1]: This is older with TPM1.2, but is the 'autoboot' similar to Windows BitLocker, https://ranzbak.nl/tpmluks/
[2]: https://blog.dowhile0.org/2017/10/18/automatic-luks-volumes-...
[3]: https://redhat.slides.com/pladd/securing-automated-decryptio...
Please, Usa next. How do we sign up?
Not exactly the same. As I mentioned in the comment, you have direct access to the Linux OS when you host. Open as in access to the underlying OS is open. You can configure it, install packages that you want, etc.

When you run AWS Elasticsearch, you have no access to ES instance. You can't configure it, you can't add your own plugins. You are no longer a user, you are just a consumer of the UI/API, even when the primary product is still called Elasticsearch.

Big difference.
Marriage is not an intrinsic property.
> I do think Apple may be able to do it but I wonder what their motive would be in doing so, as margins are much lower in auto than computing.

I share the same sentiment. From my own observations, Apple might have a better shot than the incumbents.
A Megasatellite Orbiting Ceres Would Make a Fine Home for Humans Scientist Says
One interesting possibility here would be if Google closed down all Australia-based operations -- no more offices, no legal presence, no employees -- and offered its services to Australians purely over the Internet from somewhere else. At that point, Google wouldn't necessarily be within Australia's jurisdiction any more, and all Australia could really do would be either attempt to block access to Google services that was desired by its citizens (and look like China Lite) or attempt to exert some form of leverage on the host nation(s) from which Google was then offering its services (and since that list would presumably start with the US and possibly be followed by lots of places that want to do business with the US, good luck with that one).
Europe’s growing mask ask: Ditch the cloth ones for medical-grade coverings
The potential is only lower until people figure out that looking for irregularities in people's IP address allocation is a great way to deplatform people you don't like. I'd say that grace period is just about over.
You don't have to guess about this. The judge cites the AWS terms in the ruling. AWS was not required to give any notice under the circumstances.
This will give oxygen to those who could build an alternative
Yes, if you can connect the docker cli to the remote host, then vscode can connect too.
GPL2 doesn't prevent a closed fork of Linux. It requires that if you distribute your closed fork outside of your organization, you must also distribute the modified source under the GPL2 license. Large tech companies run their own forks of Linux without providing the source.
Twitter is not hosted in AWS. They just signed the contract, the content hasn’t moved yet.
Why one biologist says it’s not too late to retract the “arsenic life” paper
China isn't a democracy, is it?
It isn’t an insult, I was pointing out the tribalistic attitude the modern left takes towards individuals who won’t consider themselves leftist.

You know nothing of my policy preferences or whom I voted for, yet because I said I consider myself a centrist you catalogue me as right leaning.

Even if we were to agree in policy, and I bet we most likely do, I just can’t say I belong to any of these extremes that see everything in absolutes.
The hole did exist ten years ago, though. The AGPL was released in 2007, three years before Elasticsearch was created, to fix this exact problem.

…except Elastic doesn't want to use the AGPL because anyone using Elasticsearch would have to open-source their whole codebase — a non-starter for most companies. Elastic wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want the wide adoption of open source software, while also preventing people from competing with them. That's not how open source works.
A Description Logic Primer
Hard to pigeonhole. Long, sometimes rambling, well written (in my view; opinions vary), generally thoughtful, fairly centrist, often left-of-centre (enough so to deeply annoy certain breeds of conservatives), but with enough libertarian or classical liberal ideas sprinkled through it to deeply annoy a certain type of leftist.

Some of his consistent themes are a gentle scepticism about what we think we know, a refusal to attribute malice to those who disagree with him, and a desire to be pragmatic about how we can achieve our shared goals.

...obviously this means there's a vocal faction on social media who believe he is the modern equivalent of a grand wizard of the KKK, and who have said so in exactly so many words repeatedly.

If you're the kind of person who'd like Scott's writing, you'll probably like it a lot, and you will reach this conclusion quite quickly. You'll also likely find it inexplicable anyone might disagree. If you're the kind of person who does not like his writing, you'll probably hate it, and probably find it confusing that anyone else might not hate it. For reasons I don't remotely understand, he (and his writing) is oddly polarizing.
The struggle over chips enters a new phase