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For me freshmeat.net was the source of new software around that kinda timeframe.

But I did help a few people download browsers, and better FTP clients from tucows.

There was a related site, an index of available software, but I can't remember the name. I remember it had an abbreviation, something like "chase" and hosted mostly shareware stuff. But the details elude me.
In just a few years, 30% of the US population will be responsible for electing 70% of the Senate.

How is that not "bullying"?

How does that play any role in an actual democratic nation, as opposed to some pre-Lincoln concept of the US a series of independent states merely "unioned"? The answer is obvious: it doesn't.
Same here. Pretty easy to follow their popular picks and make real money.
Porche Taycan has two speed transmission and Bosch has a turnkey 2 speed for EV applications. But seeing the numbers the Taycan puts down show it isn't a humongous difference like in an ICE. Probably not worth the cost/complexity as we see the Lucid Air can do qtr mile times in less than 10 seconds and soon upcoming Plaid Model S will have a possible quarter mile time of under 9 seconds and 200mph top speed.
I wonder what a statically typed SQL would look like.
I'm sure you have some good reason for feeling that strongly, but please don't let it translate into abusing the comment system here. You're going way over the top and breaking the site guidelines badly. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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"I've read lots of interesting discussion on how much power tech oligarchs should or shouldn't be allowed to have. But this is the first time I've seen someone suggest their powers should include a magic privacy-destroying gaze, where just by looking at someone they can transform them into a different kind of citizen with fewer rights. Is Paul Graham some weird kind of basilisk, such that anyone he stares at too long turns into fair game?"

This is an interesting concept that I haven't heard discussed by society much, but seems like its true. The powerful have the ability to make someone go viral without their consent.
Reddit bans whole subs when they get too out of hand to moderate, while Parler effectively is one of those banned subs. Amazon presented a record of months of complaints about specific pieces of violent content on Parler, to which Parler not only didn't respond, but in fact waved off by saying they had a backlog of tens of thousands of similar pieces of content.

Reddit would have killed the toxic sub and been done with it. Parler couldn't, because they were the toxic sub.
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> ES and other companies have a business that sells a managed version of their product.

Therein lies the flaw in the argument. If a company decides to develop something and open source it, it's not a product. If the company chooses to assign their time and resources to help develop it, great, but the moment it no longer becomes beneficial for them to keep supporting it, they'll drop it and leave it to the community.

Many companies invest time and resources into furthering open source projects without being the owner/creator of it. This is no different, whether they created it in the first place or not - they chose to open source it.

Building your business around something that you give away for free will always be a terrible business model.
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to feed egregious comments by replying, but to flag them instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cue https://killedbygoogle.com comments...
Hopefully they change the names. Even if keeping the old names isn't legally trademark infringement (IANAL, so I don't know), using those names without Elastic's consent is a low blow.

That said, being able to make a fork if you disagree with the direction of an open source project is one of the great things about open source. AWS clearly has the resources, and the motivation to maintain a fork of Elasticsearch, at least they are making their fork open source instead of keeping it proprietary. It probably would have been a better situation if AWS had created some kind of reciprocal partnership with Elastic and Elastic hadn't felt the need to change the license, but it is likely too late for that now.
Lawns are so, so very stupid. What an awful waste of land. You can get milkweed seeds very easily. I highly encourage you to do so, and other native wildflowers.
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Some context:

WSB believes that there's a short squeeze imminent for $GME, and they've been hyping up/calling for people to buy and hold its shares.

As OP points out, some members of the media have indeed taken notice: https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/1352368321212145674

I'm no expert on this stuff by any means--I'm just a casual trader who lurks on WSB sometimes for the latest memes--so instead of trying to (badly) provide more details about this myself, I'll just link to some of the discussions that are spilling over to WSB's sister subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/l21gpz/infinite_sho...

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/l2ehsg/lets_talk...

EDIT: The Out of the Loop thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/l2gkpe/whats_...
Foo Fighters - Everlong. Such a great song.
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no this is not free. Because what you would do is setup a "peering" between Snowflake cluster and your own. Even if it is the same region, there is a cost - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/vpc-peering-b...

That cost acts as a barrier if AWS launches its own Snowflake competitor. Basically AWS taxes you for not using other AWS services, once you are inside AWS.
Google is shutting down Android Things
Volkswagen (the Group [1]) was very late to the EV game, yet in 2020 they sold 231,600 EVs [2]. About the same numbers as Tesla in 2018 (254,530 EVs). So they are only two years late. We will see if they manage to catch up, but they are certainly planning to.

I agree that Japanese auto makers are not yet very serious in all this. I shall know, I was in the market for an EV and bought an hybrid because I didn't find anything in my price range, and the charging infrastructure in Japan is still severely lacking.

Maybe it's because they are king in hybrid technology? So don't want/feel the need to switch. Cars are not a social network, it's the opposite of a winner take all market, so it probably doesn't matter much if they are not early in the market.

On the software side if Tesla masters the self-driving car aspect then it's a completely different story. On the other hands if the technology comes from Apple or Alphabet, I think all car makers will be able to access the technology. Especially if it's Alphabet.

[1] Volkswagen Group includes the brands Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche.

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/465956/in-2020-volkswagen-group-s...
Yes Ethereum is useful and interesting as an experimental platform to see what's possible with this new tech, and what better-designed L1 protocols, programming languages, and APIs may be able to support.

But I'm not comfortable with their marketing it as a "world computer" among other things, implying it's more production-ready and robust than it really is.
It’s clear you don’t like it.

It’s weird that you are mad others do.

In what way does it traumatize you that other people like and shared a thing?
we are talking elasticsearch here. This is not aggregate computation. you are constantly pushing data to ES and retrieving queries.
I’m going to say I called this one at least 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270

Loon is not competitive in a world with Starlink (even without Starlink it seems).

The business didn’t make strategic sense.

I still really liked their original goal of loon for all and the first video they made for it: https://youtu.be/m96tYpEk1Ao

It’s a little sad they had to downsize and give up. I guess Licklider was right to title the original internet paper an “intergalactic computer network”.

Musk started with interplanetary goals and he’ll at least end up with one that covers the earth.

Loon for all started too small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network

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Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419880

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601473
WSB periodically gets set to private, but it always returns. Given this repetitive occurrence, I'd call this a nothingburger.
>Try finding the documentation online to write a systemd service. Google finds tons of useless results [...]

The correct page is literally the first result on ddg and google for `man systemd.service`, or even just `systemd.service`. Same for all the other `systemd.*`

This isn't even new; I've been searching `man systemd.service` and `man systemd.socket` for years to reach those same pages.
After a week you can judge pretty well. I use my brake pedal maybe once a week nowdays unless i'm driving alone and wanna feel some Gs.
People often make fun of Google/Alphabet for their graveyard of failed initiatives/products. While some of it might be warranted, projects like this—that strive to solve a large, global issue through somewhat charitable actions—are generous and have only increased my respect for the Google/Alphabet/X team. I hope they don't get flamed for this, and hopefully some of their research and donation funds can live on and solve the issue that Loon originally intended to one day.
Cooping people up in the winter is how we used to believe would cause illness to spread. Why are we doing it on purpose now?
Given that Starlink will probably solve the same set of problems within a few years (that being access to internet worldwide in areas with minimal infrastructure) this isn't too much of a surprise to me.
You might want to have a look at this blog post[0]. It presents an up to date version of the state of GUIs in Rust

0: https://dev.to/davidedelpapa/rust-gui-introduction-a-k-a-the...
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN. It's tedious. That's the real sin here.
> It's a distinction without a difference. I don't want to host violence provoking content. I don't think others should either. You think they should, and you have your reasons.

Still no. Nobody wants to be hosting it. The question is what happens when perfect moderation is impossible, which it is.

> That's false, and that it is false was upheld by the Federal judge today.

You're quoting Amazon's lawyers, not the judge.

Wanting to do something hard and being less than 100% successful is not the same thing as not wanting or trying to do it.
Ah, bookstores! The travesty of consolidation in the last 25 years really cements things. I miss the independent retailers and variety. Kinda makes you think about having total recall and being able to revisit what once was.
Much as I like WSL, WSL is the natural "embrace" phase of an EEE plan, and a partial implementation with key compatibility differences the "extend" phase. I will be optimistic but forever wary, and continue to do all of my serious work in native Linux.
>...the road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped. So we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Loon.

I don't really understand - wasn't the whole premise of Google X and their "Other Bets" that "Google has deep pockets. Let's use this to explore radically big ideas, that are ahead of their time, and let the world catch up to them?"

Bringing "abundant, affordable Internet access, not just to the next billion, but to the last billion" is clearly an investment. You bring them the internet. You spur them to achieve great things. Then you reap the financial rewards.

But that's not a 10-year plan, that's a 20-50-100 year plan. But, there's no reason to think that Google couldn't think like a 20-50-100 year company if they tried.

So what happened? Did they really think that they were going to make money from the poorest 1B people on the planet BEFORE they brought them ubiquitous internet and helped them use that internet to improve their quality of life?
Is it possible to use a more extreme generalization than ISIS?

On one hand you had ISIS posting beheading videos. On the other you had grandmas posting selfies in the rotunda.

Yeah, there are some nutters out there. But to claim that everyone caught up in the tech purges is somehow equivalent to ISIS seems a bit rich from my perspective. Even if you accept that some of these people are genuine domestic terrorists, reasonable people should be able to distinguish between rogue elements and ISIS, an organized terror state.

This is a bit like the claim that everyone who entered the Capitol Building was a terrorist. These are wide generalizations that only serve to confirm partisan biases. For me the use of these fallacious comparisons is illustrative of the problem at hand, toxic divisiveness.
So does every business. None of that means General Dynamics operates parks.

The Marsh line of decisions you're referring to was disposed of upthread. It's dead, Jim. SCOTUS just last year said you can't expect to pretend social networks operate as public squares; you can only claim functions that are normally exclusively the province of governments.
Hey, 9 years is a pretty good run for any product, especially a ambitious one with no clear revenue model. And the shuttering is paired with a $10M donation to continue the support of the mission.

I know Google gets hate for shutting things down, but they have hundreds of products – I can't think of any other tech company with such a wide range of products. They make bets, and with bets comes a certain amount of failure. I'd guess they have a better "success" rate than, say, YC.

(Ugh, I hate defending Google, but alas)
> ...and I can't really find anything Bitwarden does that much worse than any of these.

I feel like I can think of a lot but I'll give you one that, to me, is Bitwarden in a nutshell:

What happens if you open your browser, go to https://news.ycombinator.com/login, and hit Bitwarden's autofill shortcut? Nothing, because you didn't log in to Bitwarden first. Pretty much every other password manager will ask you to log in and then they'll autofill.
I think you have to go through the intuit account on website but not the Mint app...very frustrating and stupid when companies make it so hard.
Few would donate to the museums if they were for profit, which would destroy the economics.

Many museums are education oriented rather than entertainment oriented anyways. There is a reason school busses are constantly distorting students.
~1k lines (per enumerated prs in blog post) against millions of lines, aka less than a fraction of a percent.. plus ignoring code review, issue triaged etc. insignificant level might be more apt.
Save your favorite article, links, images, etc in one dashboard.
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I suspect that Starlink will render it unneeded.
Banks were just as well lawyered up and that didn't prevent damning communications in 2008.

This case may not succeed but I can see it being re-used as part of a larger antitrust lawsuit. Though I doubt a democrat DOJ will actively drive such a lawsuit against big tech.
Probably†, but they don't have to. AWS's AUP sets the bar for what is or isn't acceptable on AWS, and AWS has 64 pages of Parler posts that contravened that AUP, many of which AWS warned Parler about and got no response.

† We'll all know soon enough, since Parler got dumped by a trivial IDOR vulnerability almost the moment AWS gave them notice they were going to be taken offline.
Yes, the article was changed to :

"When I type https://<website address> into my browser, the computer translates it to send the traffic to the browser's IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port 443"
Google is cursed by its own success. Any product they release will always be on shaky ground when compared to their advertising and search money-printing monopolies.

At this point, they should give up and settle into their role as the 21st century IBM.
There's a lot of refugees at /biz/ and they stick out like a sore thumb
"I got an email from Balaji Srinivasan, a man whose anti-corporate-media crusade straddles a previously unrecognized border between endearing and terrifying. He had some very creative suggestions for how to deal with journalists. I'm not sure any of them were especially actionable, at least not while the Geneva Convention remains in effect. But it was still a good learning experience. In particular, I learned never to make an enemy of Balaji Srinivasan. I am humbled by his support."

Top notch.
Well... Starlink showed its a 6 year plan.
So did you make it?
People with that type of vision get suffocated out by the bureaucracy of big companies. That Google doesn’t exist anymore.
for me the best advantage of working with containers is the initial setup for new colleagues, especially junior devs...,

setting up pyenv, correct version of python manually, nvm, postgres, etc.. takes time and our setup guides grown a lot in the past 5 years...,

with containers all those long setup guides can boil down to `docker-compose up -d`
> federal officials declared the monarch butterfly “a candidate” for threatened or endangered status but said no action would be taken for several years because of the many other species awaiting that designation

This really brought home how many species are going extinct: there’s literally a waiting list to be considered endangered. And these are often the charismatic ones we hear about.

So incredibly sad.
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I am currently reading "The Idea Factory" [1], the story of Bell Labs and its innovation streak for many decades. There were so many amazing things Bell Labs worked on - all directly related to solving business problems. At one point, they were given a task of developing the most perfect lubrication oil dispenser with a requirement that it dispenses exactly 15 drops of oil per squeeze of the trigger. They worked on Tractors that dug channels for laying telephone lines to materials that lead to the invention of the transistor to solve the problem of unreliability of vacuum tube based switch boards. Some worked on improving manufacturing and invented what we call Quality Control. Everything was deep and wide, but still tied to the Bell's business.

When I look at Google X and bunch of modern corporate labs (Lab 126, Facebook probably has something, Intel Labs (drones!), Microsoft Labs), I see a whole lotta hoo haa about tech innovation, but nothing with a long term vision of integration, capitalization and sustenance. No sense of practicality and pragmatism. May be Loon is a way to make Google an internet company (ISP), I could be wrong but as an outsider, it feels like a PR stunt than anything else.

Highly recommend this book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio...
"So then there is nothing at all to fear from Parler and all of the efforts to keep it offline are misguided?"

If you fear Parler being online, you are being tricked by the media.
Does google have anything successful outside of: search, adsense, chrome, chromebooks, and android? Those are all large accomplishments to be sure, but it seems like they should have more products out there that people actually buy.
We changed the URL from https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/monarch-butterfl... to the original source, which also doesn't have a noxious autoplaying video.
I agree! You might be interested to hear about the Iraivan temple of Kaua'i which is under construction now
Sure it would be harder, but that is life, hard and made of options.

I have been there during the first .com wave, so I know how hard it was, including what happens when the money stops flooding in.
I believe modern Certbot also does OCSP. The intent here is, if for any reason your certificate was revoked it makes sense to try to obtain a new certificate even if it hasn't expired. Even if it can't, perhaps the operator will notice a logged reason from Certbot when they did not yet notice their certificate was revoked.

Examples of reasons your certificate might have been revoked:

* You re-used a private key from somewhere, perhaps because you don't understand what "private" means, and other copies of that key leaked

* You didn't re-use the private key but your "clever" backup strategy involves putting the private key file in a public directory named /backup/server/ on your web server and somebody found it

* You use the same certificate for dozens of domain names in your SEO business and yesterday you sold a name for $10k. Hooray. The new owner immediately revoked all certificates for that name which they're entitled to do.

* Your tooling is busted and the "random" numbers it picked aren't very random. (e.g. Debian OpenSSL bug)

* A bug at Let's Encrypt means their Ten Blessed Methods implementation was inadequate for some subset of issuances and rather than cross their fingers the team decided to revoke all certificates issued with the inadequate control.

* Let's Encrypt discovers you're actually a country sanctioned by the US State Department, perhaps in some thin disguise such as an "independent" TV station in a country that doesn't have any independent media whatsoever. It is illegal for them to provide you with services and you were supposed to already know that.

So that is a network connection, but not to the Let's Encrypt servers described in this story.

In practice OCSP is done by a big CA by periodically computing OCSP responses for every single unexpired certificate (either saying it's still valid, or not), and then providing those to a CDN and the CDN acts as "OCSP server" returning the appropriate OCSP response when asked without itself having possession of any cryptographic materials.
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Interesting take, and I can see why Drew feels it's valid. He's ascribing to the maximalist interpretation of open source licensing. Licensing which never had any idea that Open Source would one day take over the world, licensing which never could've imagined that cloud providers would begin to undermine and influence projects to their own ends.

The problem that Drew is willfully ignoring here is that corporations see an opportunity in open source licensing to hijack projects, which I would remind you is exactly what is happening with Kibana. The control shifts away from the thousands of contributors and gets a board of engineers employed by corporations. Once these projects land in corporate control there's no denying that their culture and terms change. The CLA's he wrote about will surely be enforced, and if everyone ascribes to his belief system then the project will delve into chaos.

Corporations like ElasticSearch were setup to sustain the project that is ElasticSearch. If you destroy them, then you will get Amazon's vision of ElasticSearch, not what the contributors chose, certainly not what the creators chose. When forks happen, they happen. There is a big difference between some random or influential person forking Elastic Search and a conglomerate, who is really only forking it because they intend to undermine the business that was setup to sustain the project in the first place. Want to see a fork I was completely fine with? Look at Gogs versus Gitea.

The fact that they cleared a billion dollars is so arbitrary. At what threshold should anyone with principals and a backbone stop caring? At what point should someone like me not care if a conglomerate comes along to replicate and wipe out SourceHut? This has nothing to do with ElasticSearch and has everything to do with corporations flexing power, power which has repeatedly been used to influence and undermine projects in the open landscape that doesn't make it quite so open anymore.
Honestly this shouldn't even get put in the same pile. The whole point of X is to try moonshot ideas that are truly out there. By definition they are ideas that have a low chance of making it.