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I'm not going to bother watching Youtube videos on this, because the authority I'm citing here is the judge who wrote the ruling in the TRO, citing the AWS contracts that show Amazon was not under the circumstances required to give Parler notice.
Just because AWS is being an asshole doesn't mean they are also completely wrong. SSPL isn't Open Source per that old definition AWS themselves points to, or the one Fedora seems to take. On the other hand, if you mean to say "I want to be able to read the source code" then yes, we can still do that. But from a legal perspective that is not even close to the same thing.
Well flip that around for a second to step beyond the US focused bias and see if the logic still holds up.

Should the US be able to force Chinese companies to do what the US wants?
The source is available to look at, but the OSI certainly doesn't consider it "open".
Thanks wikibob, somebody I know really needed to hear that.
If Russia would like to kill people discretely, they would could use various other venom's and poisons. Ricin, for example.

Russians use Novichok or Polonium because they are signature weapons that signal everyone that Russian intelligence agencies were involved. Polonium is FSB's signature. Novichok is chemical weapon in the hands of military, so G.U. (GRU).
I did a quick search and it looks like InnoDB implements a spin-lock. Do you see increased CPU utilization when the buffer pool is overloaded? This could explain the behavior described in the article.
No, I was actually really trying to figure out why you didn't mention the rest of the paragraph. It seemed like a good answer to your question. If you didn't think it was a good answer, it would have been helpful to know why you thought it fell short.
Let's consider for a second though. With the size savings of HV wire you now have room for a _lot_ of nice insulation that could last a long time. Arcing would not be a problem if you don't do live disconnects/reconnects. Rain would not be a problem with extra insulation. If arcing does occur this could be detected and power interrupted for safety, and a faulty cable replaced.
This is such a defeatist attitude. Single payer healthcare is a pragmatic way forward, but we should also aspire to have services available at functioning market prices outside of insurance rules. Private pay will always be more patient defined and nimble.
That's logical for any profitable company. The question is whether or not the amount is reasonable.
News media from big corporations is dying, nothing can save it because it's all pretty much clickbait trash or propaganda. So little of the real journalism these media empires did remains.

Independent journalism has to be the future, and whoever provides a platform for that will win.
Looks like a very nice more functional-focused alternative to pydash[1] (which is a Python port of lodash.js, which in turn is a superset of another library called underscore.js - whew).

[1] https://pydash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
I would say that all software engineering jobs are about integrating existing projects, although ideally that would be accomplished by building something interesting.

Often we draw some artificial line and ignore everything below that. If you draw the line right below where you're working, then you can "I'm building a system from scratch! Just using [Excel|a web browser|AWS services|NPM libraries|C standard lib|an assembler]."

I'm not sure there's any obviously "right" place to draw the line. The people working on better compilers are building on a stack of technology so vast they can't see the bottom, even if they're clearly many, many levels below where I am tinkering with some payment code talking to Stripe's APIs.
Overseas, Google told news outlets "wave the fee or we remove your results". The Australian law has a new unique element forbidding this practice.
I've worked on very high current automotive applications in the past. While you raise some valid points, there are generally solutions to them. I've found its best to think of these things on a unit level - which is why so many battery characteristics are quoted in that way. If you can think of solutions for how to get around these issues for a single battery on a bench, there tend to be tractable ways to scale them.

Heat dissipation is one of the only things that doesn't scale linearly. 6kw sounds like a lot of power, but over 10 minutes, you are only talking about 1kwh of energy - about enough to boil 10 liters of water. Given the mass of the 100kwh battery, a large fraction of that could just be absorbed as temperature gain. If you assume the specific heat of iron (which is an underestimate) and the weight of the current 100kwh batteries, its about a 13 degree C change.
Sure, it's a stupid law, but that's a separate issue to the idea that Google's response is also self-defeating. We're already laughing at the idea of Google search no longer being available, like do they think we haven't heard of DDG and Startpage?
Albertsons is testing automated kiosks:
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/albertsons-supercharging-e-...
Program it like a video game stick shift, let the software do the shifting
Alexander's name was public (in fact: it was, before the drama occurred, exposed by one of the most naive possible Google queries for it --- as well, some of his better-known writing was originally published under his real name) prior to his encounter with the NYT; Alexander's demand was that the NYT pretend the fact of his name was a secret. The principled arguments about how the NYT was in the wrong revolve around an NYT story simply being more visible than the other public places you could read his name; of course, that's true for practically anybody and any source, the NYT being one of the most visible sources in the world.

He gives good reasons for not wanting his name more public than it already is; they're hard to argue with. But some genies are hard to put back in the bottle, and reasonable people can disagree about the extent to which the NYT is obligated to help with the attempt.
I wonder if they have regrets about their 300 million dollar diversity push.
Isn't the point here that Google did exit the business when local laws required it to do so, but that turned out to hurt the media who were previously complaining more than it helped them?
Aside from the spirit / intent of this law, the way it is written is extremely poor / downright dangerous. Whether or not this law applies to your business online is not based on a set of metrics/rules/requirements, it's based on whether or not the Treasurer[0] of Australia decides it is: https://i.imgur.com/7RSqXDJ.png

As a company owner you can wake up one day to find that your company is now listed as an official designated digital platform corporation in the Federal Register of Legislation[1] and your finances have completely changed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasurer_of_Australia

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Browse/Results/ByRegDate/Legi...
So... When is news.duckduckgo.com / .au coming out?
The article does say they made 230+ contributions last year to the OSS Elastic is (was?) built on. Not sure how one counts those, but perhaps it helped Elastic as well?
Is the presumption satellite internet like Starlink replaces the need for Loon?
> Local and State governments and representation are important parts of the Republic

Why? What even is a state, if not its people? What even is a local or state government, if not the people in the city or state? Can you even have a state or a state government if there are no people in the state?

What's special about the state or state government specifically that it should get its representation separate from the people it governs? Are the state or state government's aims and objectives different from the people of the state? If so, why, and what legitimacy does it have? If not, why have it represented?

Moreover, if this was really and actually true, why was the 17th Amendment passed? Why aren't senators still chosen by state legislatures, or nominated by governors and confirmed by legislatures? Why does the state get represented twice (Senate and EC) but the people only get represented once? Isn't that an imbalance?

> Seems like a well-balanced system to me.

Because it favors your side. You'd be singing a different tune if it was the other way around.
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This was a project proposal of ours in my MBA class. Build classic cars, like the Thunderbird, but put in an electric motor, and sell it to (formerly hippie) Boomers

I knew the patent on industrial designs expires after 25 years, but didn't know the NHTSA needed to approve such things
All the search engine has to do is direct traffic to the site where the article is, not host on AMP and thus collect all the royalties and ad revenue itself.

In the meantime, Google is “experimenting” with leaving out Australian media entirely which on one hand is good (starving Murdoch of oxygen) but on the other hand is terrible (starving everyone of oxygen).
There is a step further to take, in this example, as the public regulator can decide whether or not to accept that they selectively enforce based on the bias in the tips they receive.

In the real example at hand, as long as the US government is happy with the de facto regulatory behavior of private individuals and organizations, they can maintain the status quo, perhaps at some cost of effort.

If this leads to justice at a low political and financial cost, then it is not necessarily a problem that defaults are selectively maintained, of course.
My very first side hustle was a sports blog. In blogging, especially about sports, the content needs to be there when people wake up, head to work, and first arrive at work. That’s the peak reading time (at least when I was doing this). That meant, I had no choice but to get up super early and work to get my writing out before I headed to my day job.

That constraint stuck with me. I cannot work on side hustles after work. I always work on them before. My second successful side hustle, Graphite Docs, started that way. It eventually became a full-time gig for me. I shut it down last year, started another company, left that, contracted, then eventually got a day job again.

And now, I work on yet another side project in the mornings before starting my day job. Perligo (https://perligo.io), a digital critique group platform for creative writers, is mostly a passion project for me, but even still, I don’t think I could muster the energy to work on it after my day job.

So, that’s a long-winded way of saying try working on your side hustle before work instead of after :)
Thank you for buying and for recommending it!

The v2 is water resistant, we sealed all components in a layer of epoxy.

For v1 there's still a layer of epoxy on the components. As long as you dry it before usage, a bit of water shouldn't damage it. Or if you feel adventurous you can try sealing it with some glue or epoxy.

P.S: I called it side business in the sense that it started as a side business. Then thankfully it grew into a company.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autos-exclusive/exc...
> supports gay rights, women's rights

Are you patting your self on the back for doing the bare minimum for being an OK human? If your about to go about cancel culture or something similar, your repeating right wing talking points. You hold right wing views.
Elastic wants to get the benefits of permissive licenses without the drawbacks.

Having a permissive license is a massive asset for getting people to adopt your software, but it means you will have no control over what they do with it.

They want the goodwill and other benefits of a permissive license without loss of control that these licenses bring.
A country rules by the prerogative of power.
> This is categorically not true. The source is open, and will likely always will be.

The source is available but not open. Open source is a specific thing with a specific meaning, and Elastic no longer qualifies.
I know it's a lot of text, but if you're at all curious, I highly recommend at least giving it a shot. He's such an amazing writer that this post will likely hook you after a few paragraphs. (It did me.)
Looking at the die shot [1], they have plenty of space for cores and cache if they remove the GPU. Surely it's not that simple, but I believe they should be able scale to at least 8+4 cores without large interconnect changes, and at that point they are already knocking on the 5900X's door.

[1] - https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/M1.png
As one of the protagonists of the article in OP, I want to mention that the vast majority of ad-seeking writers are not also charging paywall-style for their content. This is about providing an alternative to the paywall for writers.
Man... I had some of the first freeware programs I developed listed on Tucows. They were crucial to developing a userbase. I had no idea they were still around, and I'm thrilled to see they made it this far. Farewell, old friend!
Interesting way to decorate your house: print the free art on canvas and frame it to decorate your house..

https://www.arttoframe.com/canvas_wraps/

Considering that this option is available, it's odd that people buy, to pick a divisive example, Thomas Kinkade prints:

https://thomaskinkade.com/shop/
The Australian law is different - Google cannot delist/derank the publishers from the search results, so Google is forced to pay or leave.
Google also do business in Australia, which means they are subject to Australian laws for the services they provide in Australia...
"Apple declined to comment on its plans or future products."
That is how law tends to work; it dictates what is lawful within the area it controls.
The EU's attempts to force extra-territorial enforcement of the GDPR are hardly uncontroversial. It remains to be seen what will happen if and when it comes up against another big fish that is willing to take that fight.

As probably the most obvious example, looking at the relative development of the tech sector in the US compared to the EU, particularly now the UK has left, I don't think it takes a genius to work out who loses if the EU really tries to cut off US tech for not playing nicely with EU rules (GDPR or otherwise) and the US government retaliates.
I'm a little embarrassed by my earlier comment.

Thank you for taking this in stride and for updating your site.
Polonium is actually very stealthy. It's an alpha emitter which is not detectable by most equipment, and it was very nearly not detected even by the UK government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
> But from a legal perspective that is not even close to the same thing.

Very true. However, my rebuttal would be that the majority of folks reading this are of an engineering background, and seeing the words “no longer open source” can land quite differently.
GPL would not solve the problem Elastic has - it's perfectly legal (and in the spirit of the definition!) to take GPL software, host it yourself, sell the hosted service, and not pay the creator a cent.

It's also perfectly legal to run GPL software on a Windows machine without open-sourcing Windows.
Yes but could they do anything? As you said, the lack of a business presence in China was not a shield, and the consequence is that China just blocked them.

Australia would be more than welcome to do the same.

(But hee hee, we secretly know their citizens would protest if they set up a national firewall.)
ZFS is optimized for storing data, you can ZIL into an SSD but you can also ZIL into something faster.
Correct, it uses an aggressive spinlock without fairness features for waiters like you'd see with a proper production-quality mutex. This makes it very efficient in the absence of contention (i.e. in trivial benchmarks) and extremely poorly behaved in times of contention.
I think that clearly something needs to be done though I don't know what. Something has to give.

Search engines are absolutely a parasitic business, for the mere fact that they could not exist without the content they scrape, index, and serve to users. It would be permissible if Google didn't make a profit by doing these things, but they do. So--something needs to be rebalanced. Either search needs to be a public service, non-profit, or there needs to be a profit sharing or some new licensing scheme or law that the content owners are subject to.
That is not at all what I am saying (or anyone else afaik).

Understanding and protecting minorities is one of the core values that need to shapes policies.

You can't solve the minority problem by giving them more votes, because you can't give it to all minorities. Everyone is part of somekind of minority.

Today rural people are a minory who has a privilege compared to others.
They are already drowning trying to support the ops load of their managed ES that is far behind Elastic's. Without a major shift in poaching Elastic employees and adding many more devs, I agree AWS doesn't currently have the ability to do this.

Disclaimer: Amazon employee
Not sure if you're mocking the twitter censorship of Trump (after reading your post history, it would seem you are), but it's not concerning that Rupert Murdoch "wants" to do it, it's concerning that he has the power and influence over our public government to get it done.

Apple meet Orange.
Details are on the site: https://lorienpsych.com/schedule-payment/
mildly interestingly, the word "algorithm" is actually someone's name, mangled:

> 1690s, "Arabic system of computation," from French algorithme, refashioned (under mistaken connection with Greek arithmos "number") from Old French algorisme "the Arabic numeral system" (13c.), from Medieval Latin algorismus, a mangled transliteration of Arabic al-Khwarizmi "native of Khwarazm" (modern Khiva in Uzbekistan), surname of the mathematician whose works introduced sophisticated mathematics to the West (see algebra). - https://www.etymonline.com/word/algorithm
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I started Graphite Docs (https://graphitedocs.com) while working a day job. I put in the work mostly before my day job every day. And on weekends. It was successful from a usage standpoint. Tens of thousands of people used Graphite. And for a period of time, it was successful from a revenue standpoint. I was getting about $20k per month in grant money from the protocol Graphite was built on.

I’m hoping to recapture that with my new side project, Perligo. I haven’t launched yet, so we’ll see how it goes. But my main advice would be start small. Small things don’t take a ton of time. Graphite was super small at first. Grow as your time allows.
Write, buy, sell more software and art!
When it comes to the "spirit", the people criticizing it seem to be talking about the "spirit" of Stallman and Free Software; the term Open Source and the OSI as an institution were explicitly built on friendliness to running side by side with proprietary software and to third-party commercial use.
The source is a legal document that amazon would be guilty of perjury for falsifying.
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maybe come back when you can say anything other than "I find it interesting"
Startpage is just using Google data, so presumably if it's able to still operate in Australia when Google does not, it'll be missing a lot of relevant recent data for the Australian market.
That doesn’t require open source, just the source. (Some?) Borland compilers used to come with the source of their standard library, which allowed us to hack around bugs in their time() implementation, but it wasn’t open source.
Damn, this is worth a read. Among many other things, the day after poisoning his body temperature was 34 deg C (!) and heart rate only 44 bpm. The poor guy was on a ventilator for 24 days, and would almost certainly have died if not mechanically ventilated within 2 hours. It's downright astonishing that he recovered as well as he did.

How many people would willingly return to the lion's den where this happened to them?
I don't think Google opposes the law itself in good faith, because it basically just demands that Google negotiate with media entities for a price-sharing agreement when it comes to showing their content. The Australian search market is obviously still a billion dollar business, the law is not literally 'unworkable' and Google probably knows this. What else is Content ID on Youtube? Third party revenue sharing agreements for content already exist on Google's own platforms.

What Google is afraid of is the precedent it sets for other countries to do the same and eat into their search revenue because it would dispel the myth that tech companies cannot be regulated, that's the real danger here.
I agree Australia doesn't get to dictate what people do over the internet from remotely.

Neither does the EU.

Neither does China.

If you violate China's laws with your website, they block you. They don't need you to change your website. It's very simple.

If you violate GDPR, the EU is welcome to block you.

If you violate weird Australian laws, Australia is welcome to block you.

No different. Just that (hee hee) we know the EU and Australia won't dare set up national firewalls. But from the perspective of the website owner, they're welcome to set up a firewall if they don't like the website. But the website isn't going anywhere.
The thing with antifa (the “anti fascists”) is that their techniques are indistinguishable from fascism: If you say one thing out of line publicly, they hound you for the rest of your life.

Like deplatforming, the goal is to deprive people of their right to speech. That’s fundamentally anti-democracy.

Its sad that Antifa became the thing they hate; if the big internet providers follow suit, it’ll be a disaster.
You're right. The dems would never cheat.

Don't care that they did. They just cheated better this time.
I think you meant 'we assume innocence until proven guilty'
Pretty cool. Fresh Direct got started early and they rewired the entire supply chain. That's a tall order.

Instacart and the local grocery store should be able to work together to make incremental changes to what they are doing today. That seems like the low hanging fruit that could be put into operation in short order.
We don't know how long protection lasts after the 21 days, but we have enough data from other vaccines to make educated guesses. I wouldn't go more then a couple months.
Apple should buy DeLorean
That's not true at all. Tons of people in Bay Area/NYC/Seattle are making $500k+ just for being relatively good at their jobs at a company that values software engineers. That's a typical Staff+ comp at a FAANG or similar company. You don't have to be some mythical engineering genius or be in the right place at the right time (to make it to $1MM+ probably does though).
inb4 the first discovery of a program which "doesn't log plain text passwords" by logging them with the foreground colour set to the background color.

And then the one which exploits a terminal for arbitrary command execution with a buffer overflow in the VT escape code parser. Wait, what am I talking about "inb4", that happened already and it didn't even need a buffer overflow: https://www.proteansec.com/linux/blast-past-executing-code-t...

> "mod_rewrite.c in the mod_rewrite module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x before 2.2.25 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator."
The whole thing looks like a desperate money grab. The primary purpose of a search engine is to provide links to content related to the user's search. This gives the content providers visibility. From my understanding this law requires that the search engine pay for listing some media companies as relevant search results. The law also makes it illegal to simply not list those media companies as relevant results. This strikes me as utterly ludicrous.