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I absolutely reject the notion that they chose Apache 2.0 "randomly"...indeed it's what Lucene, which they use as their kernel of sorts, is licensed under.

You use Apache 2.0 when you explicitly don't want copyleft. But here's what's great: copyleft wouldn't even stop Amazon, so they have to use SSPL which is a proprietary license masquerading as copyleft.

Also, one way they were clearly outright reneging on their promise was that Elastic explicitly promised the community that the parts of the codebase that were Apache 2.0 licensed (the 'open core') would never be made proprietary. They broke that promise for this move.

And what's doubly hilarious is from a business perspective it's an awful move. It won't stop Amazon from making money - they'll just fork 7.1.0 and develop under Apache 2.0 like they just did, and keep operating their service just the same. And by the way, it's Amazon's right, legally AND ethically, to be able to operate AWS Elasticsearch for profit - just as Elastic is right both legally and ethically to use Lucene as a necessary part of Elasticsearch.
Having used instacart (through Costco) and walmart grocery delivery almost exclusively for the past 10 months.. I'm more amazed at how cheap it is, and I'm a bit worried that employees are not getting paid enough.

Costco is probably the more 'reasonable' one. They mark up the products probably 5-10%. So this one I feel that the delivery people are probably being paid ok.. although my nearest costco is 16 miles away (about 25min).. so it kind of feels like a steal to be able to get delivery from them for what feels like not a whole lot more.

Walmart is closer, but there are no markups.. and I pay whatever $10/mo for free delivery from them. Order multiple times a month.

I'm honestly not sure I'm going to go back to the stores as often even when things are normal.
There behavior with Elasticsearh [0] seems similar to what they did to sellers with Amazon Choice and their other knockoffs [1].

> When Amazon announced their Open Distro for Elasticsearch fork, they used code that we believe was copied by a third party from our commercial code and provided it as part of the Open Distro project. We believe this further divided our community and drove additional confusion.

> Recently, we found more examples of what we consider to be ethically challenged behavior. We have differentiated with proprietary features, and now we see these feature designs serving as "inspiration" for Amazon, telling us their behavior continues and is more brazen. NOT OK.

0: https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS

1: https://archive.is/9TIu6
The world is safer, kind of, but we also now heavily discourage activities deemed to be unsafe, and may have erred too far in that direction.

In the US, walking and biking to school has declined from nearly half in 1969 to 13% today. A Vancouver BC man recently won a lawsuit after he was taken through the child protective services wringer for letting his kids ride the bus unsupervised. While overall traffic deaths are down, the fatality rate for pedestrians is shooting up.

We have basically created a world where only car travel is safe, and where we explicitly and implicitly encourage driving and discourage walking to get anywhere.
If you keep drugging your cats, they'll never be able to hold down a job.
yeah, while I enjoyed those stories it feel wrong at the end, because it is an appeal of authority fallacy. "I was was right about unrelated fact A, B, C I am an authority so trust me on this."
Yeah, the obvious thing is to split LA, and New York into 5 different states each, so that the liberals gain more power in the senate.

The state level representation of the senate is very arbitrary
I mean sure it’s not, but back in the late 2000s I did everything under it and it made for a great experience. It’s little package manager was handy, everything I needed was there, it worked surprisingly well.
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Yeah, how do we get more specific here? I had a few ideas, but they all seemed similarly nebulous or else might create suspicious discontinuities. [1]

I wonder if categorizing contractors v. employees is like recognizing porn. "I know it when I see it" says Justice Stewart.

1. https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
I always imagined that time travel into the past would involve some statistical uncertainty. If you got close to creating a paradox, you'd simply transition back. Disappear essentially.

Make a nice story - ghosts are time travelers, appearing and disappearing without making any permanent changes.
Maybe, what would such a law look like?
In the US we find your road safety laws insane as well. It costs 3x as much to DIY fix your own can there as it does here due to needing "approved parts" and an inspection of every repair. Things that are easy, safe and affordable DIY fixes in the US are impossible there.

Your laws are not EU-wide, by the way. Most of the EU doesn't require the approved parts to pass inspection, and only requires the inspection at regular intervals, not after every repair.
“I came here for an argument, this is mere contradiction.”
When did half the population have their speech banned?
We live in a post truth world because of social media algorithms, which made that content successful. I think we need to heavily regulate those ASAP.
You say this as if it's not a sign of a monopoly.
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It only needs to hit 88 mph before it hits the wall, for things to be interesting.
Yes, these days Goldstein and Lanczos might be more apposite
ESH
When I was an analyst we'd get paid $10K+ per day for speaking/consulting (not including travel time) and the one expert witness job I did was about $500/hour. But for the bulk of the 200ish workdays a year, we were earning much less or nothing at all.
This project is unbelievably good!

And created only with vanillaJS, that is the incredible thing!
Very insightful comment. Thank you!
How do you propose to fix this? Should languages include high(er?) performance data structures in their standard libraries? Or possibly even include some segmentation for small/medium/huge data sets?
That sounds excellent: I’ll have to give it a shot. VSCode under WSL2 with its Docker support is neat, but can be slow due to the storage system overhead. This might solve that for my team!
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> The sentiment you're trying to express here is empathy. There is more empathy for people protesting racial injustice and the murder of minority groups than there is for people waving hate group symbols and trying to kill political leaders. I don't see a need to demand a system void of empathy.

Every man considers the group for which he fights oppressed and the group that fights against him a “hate group”, and every man has cherry picked statistics to show it.

> Everyone has a choice. Everyone identifying as conservative can point at the white supremacists in DC and say "Those are my people" or "Those are not my people".

And the same applies to the the more extreme and violent parts of the b.l.m. movement.

As is usual, and as I criticized, you cherry pick the most violent parts of “the other group” to make your point, while showing the more moderate of your own to front them as the good guys.
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I don't think is about not caring about the money... it seems to me that the salary is just the manifestation of the value the company places in the individual, and thus a company that pays 1/3 of the industry average shows very little care for their engineers, at least in my book
You’re confused. This isn’t about crushing an OSS project: it’s about ensuring there actually IS an open source project.

What Elastic is doing with its licensing is not open source.

You might argue that if Elastic Inc dies then the project dies, but then it wasn’t a very robust project.
> deliberately ignores my point which is beeper is being added as a listener in an opaque way to the iMessage user.

I'm ignoring that point because I disagree it's a valid point that's worth making or acknowledging.

iCloud backups are added in an opaque way to the iMessage user. Screenshots happen in an opaque way to the iMessage user. And while you'll get a blue bubble in iMessage when sending over SMS, you won't see that until after you start the conversation. The point is, if you don't trust someone to have a secure phone, that's a talk you need to have with that person, it's not a problem with the Matrix protocol.

If you think that Matrix presents a novel, undetectable way to exfiltrate data, then you trust iMessage too much and you should rethink your approach to secure communication. Thinking in terms of, "the bubble is green so my contact can't be doing anything weird" is the wrong way to think about security. Don't do that.

Especially since, again, you should not be using iMessage for seriously private conversations in the first place, you should be using Signal, or in a pinch (ironically) Matrix/Element itself, since both platforms actually have full E2E encryption that forces users to validate sessions and doesn't break itself by default.

It's fine for you to be skeptical about the security of this company, but if you think it breaks some taboo or compromises your phone in some unique way just because it's a bridge, then you're putting too much faith in Apple and approaching message security from the wrong perspective.

> possibly using a wholly unprotected iOS device

Just as a sidenote, this in particular is weird to me. Your argument is based on the idea that you trust Apple. But Apple is the one that makes messages from those old devices show up green. If your argument is that they might be unpatched, shouldn't you bring that up with Apple and ask them to start requiring updates to be installed before green bubbles appear in chat?

Why is it Matrix's fault that Apple considers old iPhones to be secure?
Elastic is derived from Apache Lucene, it’s unclear if anyone involved in its’ development could legally have made it more restrictive, though they apparently are trying to.

It seems like a lot of us perhaps rushed to discussion before reading this article, which is about Amazon forking ElasticSearch so that an OSS version would remain available.

Honestly, this is a shitty move by Elastic and I’ll be advocating against new uses of it, though /because reasons/, I doubt this will come up for me in the near future. ;)
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Please don't perpetuate political flamewars on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. If another comment is egregious, the site guidelines ask you to flag it rather than feeding it by replying.

Also, please don't use HN primarily for political battle. It looks like you've been coming close to that line lately, and that's the line at which we start banning accounts. We have to, because otherwise this place will just turn into a political flamewar site, and we can't allow that. I've written many explanations about this if you (or anyone) cares to read them.

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We no speak crypto: Banks seem prone to cryptophobia despite growing adoption
"From refusing to bank crypto trading desks to closing accounts held by platforms, the mainstream financial sector appears to be putting up roadblocks to seamless cryptocurrency commerce. Without banking support, exchanges are often forced to depend on other fiat on-ramps to service the deposit and withdrawal needs of their customers.

The apparent discrimination against crypto exchanges also goes beyond the refusal of banking services. In countries such as South Korea, banks have increased the level of scrutiny involved in renewing operating licenses for platforms. The cost of compliance for these added regulatory provisions has led to several smaller-sized exchanges exiting the country.

These crypto-phobic practices by banks often draw from arguments that cryptocurrencies are a conduit for illegal activities. However, actual investigative data from several sources show that there is hardly any truth to the claim that crypto promotes money laundering and terrorist financing."
There is so much on the plate of the academic that to learn yet another piece of software — like docker which can be trying at the best of times — is yet another straw that can break the back.
More like 1,000,000x
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> This is pretty much exactly what happened to MySQL, and now we have MariaDB, which is a better and truly open source product.

This is controversial example, in my understanding MySql creator requested to agree with his terms for all OSS commits, which gave him copyright rights on codebase, then sold his rights to Sun, and only then created MariaDb - OSS fork.
The sad part is that while I really want to support Elasic here we are likely going to have to move to Amazon's Apache-licensed fork for our internal use because SSPL is incompatible with our company's open source policy.
> It was astounding how large the disconnect had grown between management and the front line

Isn't this the core of the MBA-hate argument ?
That they occupy middle-layer positions, and actively obfuscate messages and merit from front line in order to redirect all the benefits for themselves ?

There is also a darwinian component there, where such behavior is beneficial to game company evaluation, so that only people with similar principles end up being promoted, then actively scuttling any other middle managers that don't adhere to the same set of principles since they are effectively representing a dangerous rival set of values, thus ensuring that after a few cycles, only they remain.

That's how culture evolve in (most) big companies where upper management don't make an active effort to keep middle management in check. A begrudging hard work, that most prefer to skip (get the quick compensation, and move on).

That's also why there is a big difference when companies still have their founders in, as they tend to pay more attention to these issues since they are personally invested in company's future and brand, than recently promoted middle managers which are just temporarily in for the check.
Then, they will make the case there is a "talent shortage" and attempt to hire overseas workers at salaries that barely pay bay area living costs.
Ah, yes. I’ve had colleagues who went to this unique college.
How much is the Elastic Search business worth to AWS?

I'd image now AWS will have to put significant resources to maintaining their fork and keeping it current. Couldn't that money have been applied to a licensing deal with Elastic instead?
I see absolutely no use for this what so ever. I wish systemd would just concentrate on being an init system rather than being a Swiss army knife! GRUB and cryptsetup handles unlocking just fine!
Bitcoin in particular would have really benefited from some basic understanding of monetary economics.

If you want it to be a currency, it needs to be able to expand its supply to meet demand as a medium of exchange. Otherwise you get huge deflation.

Instead, Bitcoin was designed to have a very finite amount of supply. And - shockingly - anyone trying to use it as a medium of currency would find that viewing the world through the lens of Bitcoin has been massively, hugely deflationary (meaning: the cost of a Bag Mac has fallen dramatically in terms of Bitcoin, as has your paycheck).

That same 'feature' is what made it the darling of speculators. It's like the feature that makes it a dysfunctional currency is also what made it successful as a tool of speculation.

That's not an indictment of crypto generally - hopefully other coins that were designed to more intelligently expand supply as the demand for them increased as a medium of exchange, and these other coins would exhibit more price stability, a core requirement of a functional currency.

Crypto brings some great decentralized features, and its creators deserve credit for it. But combining that innovation with some understanding of monetary economics would truly unleash its potential as an alternative to state-sponsored currency.
Because they don't want to, or see no value in doing so. I've been downvoted to oblivion just by stating that contributions to popular OSS projects, especially those initiated,or heavily used by large tech companies,are nothing more than just free labour.
Amazon's business is commodity: they made books,one of the most precious things we,as a civilization could create,a commodity. The storage space, computing, even ML is being commoditised. Logistics will folow,then some more. The company's perspective and business goals are completely different than many would like to think.
For what it’s worth, the GPU thing can be solved using an eGPU on Intel macs — but the thermal throttling and CPU perf basically killed that dead in the water for me; I was running an RX 590 which worked brilliantly, but gaming itself was lacking sadly.

Gave up and built a mini ITX box next to my laptop. Swap DisplayPort, swap one USB-C, done!
>it is an appeal of authority fallacy

Couldn't say it better myself.

Smart enough to understand tech trends, but not smart enough to introspect using logical fallacy.

SMORT
In the USSR central museums (think The Hermitage or The Pushkin Museum) would distribute a lot of art from their archives to regional museums, even to museums in small villages. So you wouldn't be surprised to see good quality art (sometimes by famous artists) even in small towns.

This is something that can be encouraged more, especially across borders. For example, British museums definitely don't know what to do with their vast caverns filled with plunder .... ahem, vast archives of art, but even a small fraction of a fraction of that would be a great addition to a museum in, say, Moldova (my country), or Serbia, or ...
Bitcoin will be less useful for these people if prices goes way down.
Precisely to fence off Amazon from using their Open Source with their Name on it?
Are you familiar with how publicly traded corporations work?
With for-profit corporate open source, you are either giving it away because doing so benefits you in some other way, or you are doing it wrong; expecting downstream open source users to pay you is “doing it wrong”.

Its arguable that Elastic simply hasn’t come up with an open-source compatible business model, and that’s fine. But its not Amazon’s fault.
>that affects the entrepreneurship and innovation.

It very likely does but it also saves a lot of peoples lives each day. I mean, not only niche cars, but not having good basic safety in general on the roads. Road fatalities per one billion vehicle km is at 7.3 in the US according to Wikipedia. The worst Scandinavian country is Denmark with 3.9. I guess it comes down to if you want Freedom To Do Stupid Things (like no helmets on a motorcycle).

That said, I don't think you can compare a Tesla Roadster to a 1981 car in safety. I agree there should be some allowance for niche cars but 40 year old safety being sold as new?
A real Satoshi could have lost his key, like many people lost their Bitcoin wallets. A fake Satoshi could possess the keys, by stealing or by receiving them in gift etc.
The things I say when I open my mouth...

Graduated with my MS and three internships with Intel into what I thought would be my 'rest of life' job. I wanted Brian's job, which at that point was the head of the fabs. Got less than one month of training and then told 'all yours now'. Worked my ass off for like 18 months, made a name for myself in the factory, was literally on call 24x7 by myself for 11 months. Got an annual review were I was told 'we had limited budget for bonuses and raise budget, and we gave it to XX because he has kids'. Sucked it up, told myself I was playing the long game and to just put my head down and work. Hacked together software that made stuff which never worked work. Worked and worked and worked. Lost a marriage over it...who would want to be 25 and married to someone who works over 100 hours a week and gets woken up by a phone call almost every night?

I had been working an issue for months, got no buy in, got told it was no big deal/no budget/ignored. The fourth time the same thing broke, suddenly it was an emergency. I was supposed to leave on vacation that day...a vacation I had given 10 months notice on because I had no coverage. Got asked to cancel the vacation. I walked out.

I've learned, I'm smarter than that now, I respect myself in new ways I wasn't ready to understand. Now when I mentor undergraduates I am laser focused on quality of life mattering and learning to respect yourself beyond how someone else evaluates your work. I still know what my ring tone on my on call cell phone there was...and I know that it still cause anxiety when I hear it (but not panic attacks anymore). The ring tone is in a James Bond movie, I don't watch that movie.
> One of the conclusions of a recent purge by Reddit was that it just pushed the banned users into even more radical spaces online[2].

You should re-read it. It offers that as a possibility, with terms like "may" and "could have". It does not conclude it did happen; it notes that some users migrated, but that's not at all surprising.

The hardcore folks are likely to always wind up somewhere, but driving them off Reddit likely makes it more difficult to recruit less initially strident users. As the study indicates, "the ban worked for Reddit".
Out of 958 libs, 230 of mine on my desktop are only used by one application, according to the results after running the stuff from the link. I'm not disagreeing with you about polluting the global namespace, but at least in my case, it's certainly not a majority.
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