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The type of generation and rate is new. The distribution of computing (global) is new. The security and availability is new.

Ethereum is a brand new thing. Enables new forms of governance, information distribution and synchronization, etc. Research it.
> States are lines on a map.

Saying this doesn't make them less important, it just shows a childish attitude. Local and State governments and representation are important parts of the Republic.

Dollars are just numbers in a database. Will you give me all your money? Or is it only certain "made-up" things that are important to you?

> Do you seriously not see how that can lead to disproportionate representation of some views?

Yes, and straight up popular vote leads to the same thing. That's why we have a system that is a combination of popular vote and state vote.

* The People are represented by the House.

* The States are represented by the Senate.

* Both are represented by the President.

Seems like a well-balanced system to me.
This honestly just reads like paranoia. Social media isn’t sowing anything. It’s the people on the platform and the recommendation algorithms behind the platform.

edit: sew/sow
Then Elastic should've come up with a non-Apache-2.0 license at inception.

Licenses exist for a reason. The onus is on the person choosing the license to choose one which aligns with their intentions. You cannot and should not expect downstream consumers of the software to confine themselves to some subset of the actual license's allowed activities just because it's the "nice" thing to do (as of course this assumes morality is in any way objective).
That's not the exactly what's been happening. I'll give you a more accurate timeline

Elastic: Hey here is some software. You are free to use it without paying us
Community: Awesome!

... years go by and the community is loving it, Elastic is loving it everything is great

AWS: Wow! Free, popular software. Millions of dollars already invested in it so we don't have to. We'll take it for free and sell it.

... years go by

Elastic: Hey AWS! So glad you like our software but we can see that your actions are hurting our business which will hurt the software and the community in the future if we don't do anything. What do you think about making a deal?

AWS: Lol, suck it.

... years go by where other cloud providers make deals with Elastic

Elastic: Okay AWS, from now on we are changing our license so you and other companies similar to yours cannot re-sell it

AWS (and their fans): What, how dare you?! We've made millions by reselling it as our own, and not you are going to restrict us doing exactly that. You dick!
You also can't put your hands on email, or videos, or most US Dollars. That doesn't mean they cannot be useful and valuable.

Gold's value is based on people wanting it. Bitcoin's value is based on exactly the same thing: higher demand than supply.
ES had a business model. It was open-core, but with critical features like Security and Access-Control hidden behind their paid support.

The core disagreement was that Amazon (and many other contributors) wanted to add that to the base distribution, and Elasticsearch fought them for years on it, deliberately breaking any community plugins that got a solution working.

Enough blame for the current situation on all sides.
Yeah, and here I feel that there's something missing in my description. While I think Elastics move is bad I definitely don't feel like Amazon is the good guy here either. I feel that there's a good chance that Amazon steam rolls Elastic and then five ten years away the community is worse off.
It's more of an example than a resource, but the 'git2' crate that wraps libgit2 does a good job of providing a nice rust interface over a C library.
I don't think anybody is pretending otherwise. It's a cool cult car, that's all there is to it. I guess it would also be a cool technical challenge to update it to modern standards while keeping true to its roots.
I’m with you. I’ve memorized an odd password for entry into my Bitwarden and my ProtonMail account.
TIL the Pluto is a company that lies. Their product is not VR by any common definition. So basically they've taught my they're a scammy company

Note: I get that by some mental gymnastics you can say it's VR but by that argument, all services you use to communicate with are VR as is nearly every video game. VR has a meaning. This usage of it is not that.
A lot can be said about AWS and open source, but it is clear they have created some "secret sauce" on the networking, storage and virtualization side of things which is their core business. Unlike Elastic they never promised open source and never used it as marketing. So it completely fair for them to keep those things closed as they provide a big part of the competitive advantage to their cloud.

Those components underpin things like Aurora (which does tricks with storage and replication that MySQL can't) and this warm/hot storage. So there is probably no practical way to open source those elasticsearch changes without opening up their storage system as well and even then it wouldn't run outside of AWS.
> Sure, how else would they do it?

Write the very first version of the compiler for language X in X.

Then hand-translate that compiler source to some other language or assembly.

Then you don't ever have to rewrite the compiler.
I have a StreamDeck[1] that I use for various random things. There's an open source driver for it too that you can drive from Python[2], letting you run Python code when a button is pressed. You can do some cool stuff with it (eg I've used mine to make HTTP requests on button press)

[1] https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/stream-deck

[2] https://github.com/abcminiuser/python-elgato-streamdeck
> based in Australia which doesn’t have freedom of speech

By that definition, which countries have freedom of speech? And why must America be the definition of freedom of speech?
Are you insinuating that's a small amount of data? You've got to be kidding.
Ask HN: People who are able to build stuff quick, how?
I've noticed some people are able to launch projects one after another, up to 10 per year or so. They are full projects.

I'd like to think oh it must be because they are using Ruby on Rails but that would be short sighted.

How do you do it?

Do you hire someone to quickly do design work / wireframes?

how can i go from say from idea to launched project?

I know it sounds like i'm asking for step by step plan but that's what i'm asking...

scrolling internet mindlessly.... something triggers a thought which leads to an idea which looks like it's good..

Steps 1..

- check if it's made

- if yes/no figure out what is missing

- think of domain name and even buy it

- ???

I've many ideas, i want to build all of them... one by one.
I always remember that biblical passage about praying in private vs public. Such concerns about virtue signalling have been around for a long, long time.
Well, starting with the fact that there was 80M dead in Europe and the entire country was flattened (it's real in Germany, not just something we see on documentaries). So 'that banned group' are not just some bumpkins.

But also, governments come and go but there is at least some degree of representation of the people.

I have absolutely zero trust in Jeff Bezos to do anything other than what he wants to think he can do or get away with.

I don't fully trust governments either, but at least there are degrees of transparency, courts, etc.
Yes but that’s for the company to argue. Why would you help them lower your compensation?

Your goal is to maximize the value delivered. Their goal is to minimize how much of the value you capture.

You’ll find balance somewhere in the middle.

And ultimately there’s only so much a company will pay if they can’t extract value out of your work. Regardless of how good you are.
Almost shellshocked from reading the name GetRight. Jesus that feels long ago.
> Now I want to be clear. I'm personally an anarcho-capitalist

Yes, that's why you and people who like open source (generally left-wing people doing stuff for betterment of society) will never agree on matters of ethics and morality.

The gist of it is that what Amazon is doing is exploitative - and some people think that's despicable even if legal - and some people think being exploitative is just smart business play - why leave money on the table?

Those two groups of people will never agree, not matter how long will they shout at each other.
Interesting, could be fallout from the SolarWinds incident, although if they got to financials, why not go for technical secrets as well?
> contributions from community

Good point. When I willingly contribute to open source with no compensation, it's with the understanding that it's because my contribution is available to anyone under the same terms, I'm contributing to a "commons" open to all, willingly for the public good.

If anyone wants to use it for profit-making purposes, that's generally fine with me, because everyone can on an equal basis.

If instead the software is licensed such that one company has special rights to profit off of it that others don't... why would I donate my contributions for free to that company? Shouldn't I get a cut?
This is a good approach, but it requires having a partner in the first place...
As open-source developer, I make $0/hr :/
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It's a good application and service that offers much on free accounts "but":

* there's still no way to keep fetching icons disabled across all devices and instances of bitwarden - each time I have to disable it; I just simply don't like such feature anywhere it's present

* there's no emptying the trash on desktop client and neither in browser addon

* logging in generates email on which your account is registered, which is a good security feature but sometimes it's just... annoying

* import exist only in the web vault interface, while export is present on desktop application and web vault

* despite of having vault unlocking to set with pin, I have to provide password

Still, it's my secondary choice for less important passwords for sites and apps since it works nicely on mobile and isn't limiting features like Enpass which is my main password manager.
Having "open source" vs "source available" or whatever you want to call the new license isn't a guaranteed right either, so if there's no problem with the one then what's the problem with the other?

Would you prefer more software to be released openly or less? Cause if you're making moves like Amazon did with their ES service, you're pushing the world towards "less."

I'm not too concerned with this, but it's strange to me that people are both trying to keep OSS licenses "pure" and advocating that companies release less of their code in the first place...
The whole argument is so silly. Trump could snap a finger and have cameras ready to air on national TV whatever he wanted to say.

If Valve bans me from Steam for my language is that also violation of my free speech or is it their right to protect their platform?
Same here, I have been using dropbear-initramfs since forever. I am now looking into Mandos[1] though, as doing it manually with Dropbear becomes a massive pain when managing several bare-metal servers.

[1] https://www.recompile.se/mandos
Yes, this is probably it, they might already have the H1B person lined up, but they've got to offer the job to citizens/permanent residents. They often do this in a way that guarantees that they will get no takers.

The immigrant will agree to a low salary because the alternative is getting deported.
Cavalry dominated the middle ages except in mountainous areas until artillery became prominent. Yes, cavalry could be defeated, but all things being equal it was far superior.
He was poisoned on a flight. The FSB officers hoped this gives them enough time for Navalny to die until help is available. To their surprise the pilot made an emergency landing and medical staff was standing by on the ground, they quickly recognized it’s poisoning and treated Navalny accordingly. Afterwards he was transferred to Germany to receive special care.
Depends if they actually develop it. For other open source software, they usually keep improvements (say, improvements to Spark working with S3 from EMR, to give example from my area) to themselves in proprietary modules.
Why would the US Gov want people to pay their taxes in BTC instead of USD?
Just so everyone here is aware re: pricing...

If you buy through a VAR and/or Dell reps you don't pay the price on the website. What you actually pay is typically significantly lower. I don't think anyone actually buys servers like these by just ordering from the website. We (Let's Encrypt) certainly don't.

These are expensive servers, crossing into six digits, but not $200k.
Elastic Search launched more than a decade back, when the cloud was used in an entirely different manner. The team had no way to foresee the shift to the managed services model; of AWS taking popular Open Source products, repackaging it and undercutting the original authors.

The decent thing to do (for all managed Open Source products that you didn't create yourself), would have been to offer a cut to the original team. Instead, AWS takes all their customers, keeps 100% of the revenue, and passes on nothing.

Terrible.
I may be wrong. I'm reading into this that was on HN the other day--

"We collaborate with cloud service providers, including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Tencent, Clever Cloud, and others. We have shown we can find a way to do it. We even work with other parts of Amazon. We are always open to doing that; it just needs to be OK."
https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS.
> Amazon can easily fund developers, they just didn't because they didn't have to.

Looking at the various projects at https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/, the most prominent ones seem to only have a handful of somewhat active developers, almost two years after launch.

If AWS hires a lot of people to work full time on their ASL2-licensed Elasticsearch and Kibana forks, then ... that's not necessarily _just_ bad for Elastic? I doubt Elastic execs thought AWS would just fall over and discontinue something that's probably billions in revenue at this point. If AWS actually starts contributing code beyond trivial bug fixes, code Elastic can legally fold into their own Elasticsearch (via the ASL2-licensed fork) if it's good enough, then ... good for both?
> AWS is releasing an “actually OSS” fork - totally inline and allowed under permissive OSS - and is somehow unethical? The mind reels.

Yup. This mentality drives me absolutely insane. People seem to regurgitate whatever propaganda fake-open-source-company-X tells them.

Sorry, I'm not going to feel bad that the $15B company that built their business off the backs of open source - which is totally fine - is upset that another company is competing with them. And the biggest irony is, Amazon's not eating Elastic's lunch, they're both eating respectable lunches. Elastic's built a great business, which they are now doing their best to ruin as quickly as possible.
I'm not saying you're wrong here, but the burden of proof is typically on the person making the claim...
Why not? Stanford did that years ago. Stanford has an autonomous electric DeLorean capable of precision drifting.[1]

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/autonomous-delorean-dri...
All core MS products are the result of some level of backstabbing.

Apple + Microsoft. Expected: Macintosh apps. Actual: Windows

IBM + Microsoft. Expected: OS/2. Actual: MS NT kernel

Sybase + Microsoft. Expected: Sybase SQL server. Actual: MS SQL Server

Sun + Microsoft. Expected: Sun Java. Expected: .NET Framework

OpenGL ARB + Microsoft. Expected: OpenGL. Actual: Direct3D.

Also see what happened with Xamarin and Corel Office for Linux, DR-DOS, etc.

But hey, they bought Github and open sourced an Electron based editor so we have to worship them now.

Imagine you hire someone to do something for you and they end up stealing your business model and market share. That is Microsoft in a nutshell.
Not really. It still needs to be broken down from large lots to smaller lots. My local store, Metro, uses their physical locations as a delivery staging area - they do large-lot breakdown and distribution as normal, but for an online order, they put it on the "online delivery" cart instead of stocking. This means all deliveries need a 24H advance notice, but it's done for a flat $12 fee for to-your-door delivery, with items at in-store prices.
AWS's model seems to be to take a popular OSS product, do _just_ enough to make it work with AWS, make tons of money out of it, contribute a minimal amount back... and then act all surprised when they're painted as the bad guys.

Take postgres. RDS is a core AWS product. They absolutely rely on it. But if you take a look at
https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/, are any of the current major contributors at AWS? If they are, I can't see them.

It's okay to behave like that when you're a small or even medium sized tech company. But when you're the world's number one cloud service, by quite some margin? Hmmn.
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It's a little more complicated than that. "Strong" and "weak" is not the right way to characterize genes. There is only "better and worse at reproducing in a particular environment." At the moment, our genes are in an environment where health care is available, so there are genes that are able to reproduce in that environment which might not be so good in a different environment.

Also, we are not entirely at odds with our genes. Obviously the relationship is symbiotic to a large extent, because we can't exist without our genes and vice versa. But our brains can want things that are bad for our genes, and vice versa.
I'll take one Datsun 510 please in avocado green and an EV with right-hand drive.
Oh I know that a clutch dump is a far less elegant way to get moving than having torque available at 0rpm but the former is far, far harder on things.

The point I'm trying to make is that the people acting like electric motors are particularly hard on drive-line components are just wrong.
The whole point of "The Cloud" is to profit from F/OSS. And Elastic, Redis, Mongo, and also RedHat have indeed already adapted their licenses or offerings accordingly.
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I had the same, also took 5 days for me because of the timezones. I was a customer for barely 2 days when I was locked out.

I triggered their spam algorithm by using the ‘redirect’ button in Apple mail to send an invoice to my administration tool, which keeps the original sender in the ‘from’ field.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt for now, since their offering is really good.
"Amazon can easily fund developers, they just didn't because they didn't have to"

That may be true for a few OSS projects, but if they were forced to do that for ALL the projects they're profiting from the math would probably not look as simple.
WOW, I can't believe we went this long without this. I knew these old IDE hard drives full of MP3s from the 90s/early 2000s would come in handy someday!
A suggestion for the beeper folks -- offer any 2 integrations for free, and then another tier for 2 more integrations, etc.

Maybe the free tier has google ads -- these folks are already seeing these most likely and wont mind?
TL;DR

AGPL your software, kiddos!
I've had this conversation a few times in the week or so. Usenet still exists, but to what extent I have no idea. It might be worth to try out Giganews or any number of other providers.
Skylake has 180 registers. "mov rax, [blah]" performs "rax = malloc()" from this pool of 180-registers / "the register file". Eventually, the retirement unit "garbage collects" the registers that aren't used anymore for recycling.

Yeah, out-of-order processors are weird. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm)

If you have one thread that doesn't need a lot of registers for some reason (ie: most of its dependency chains are short, and it has very few memory operations), then you can have a 2nd thread eat up the ~180 registers that it wasn't using. "Sharing" the malloc pool of registers.
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I downvoted you not because I thought it would intimidate you, but because it lacked any content at all. You just asserted something without explanation. It was a low quality post. The way you respond to the downvotes now also makes me think you are not even arguing in good faith, but just doing performative victimization.
> I think Bezos feels the same about literally everything.

That sounds weird. Comparing the "productization" of ES+Kibana to any AWS database stack is night and day. And not in AWS'es favor. ES and Kibana are much more of a product.
XKeys looks nice!

I've got a StreamDeck XL mounted under my monitor, in a button box; its capabilities as a macro machine are vastly underrated, although a few people are catching on that it's not just for live content creation.

It's absolutely amazing when doing remote work to be able to fire up OBS Studio, the meeting join, microphone control etc in a single click - and I have that just on one page, along with other meeting controls such as camera scenes. Another for VS Studio, there's integration with that which is quite useful to send commands directly. I have all my most of ten work websites on buttons of their own.

As mentioned, I also have button boxes however I'm still working out what the best way of sending commands would be; Joy2Key seem to mess up alt keys sometimes, making it sticky. When it worked it was nice, imagine adjusting text size just twisting a rotary for example.
If the typical user would use a trust-based institution, then what is the advantage to the end user over the traditional banking model? It's hard for me to see why I as an end user would want to use such a thing, outside of speculating on the price of the cryptocurrency. Put differently, if there were a cryptocurrency whose price did not fluctuate, how would you convince me to use it?
You mean that knowing how to "show source" for a webpage is a key skill? Sigh.
Amazon is used to being hostile, so I'm not surprised they've started a hostile fork.
i've got more than 16 "right-sized" VMs on the VMware cluster in my homelab. Between the other half-dozen physical servers, there's probably another 40+ "OS instances".

Besides, I've had a RHEL developer account (which allowed me to register 16 hosts) for a few years now and it's been unused. Having to request it be renewed annually is a pain in the ass too.
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> so one person consuming all the CPU time would negatively impact other customers

So charge them more or limit their compute? If you are in the business of renting out compute resources then you need to spell out what the terms are. It's like renting out your car and then getting mad when someone drives it 2000 miles in one weekend. You need to spell out: "Yep, it's $50 a day, and you get 100 miles per day. Every mile after that is $1. If you want to drive the car further it's $100 per day" not "It's $50 per day unless we don't like what you are doing then we'll revoke the car arbitrarily"

> It's not that we morally objected, it's that it wasn't the business we wanted to provide, and it was against the TOS

Ok and what was the clause in the ToS they violated? I sure hope it was more specific than the vague arbitrary clause Amazon used to axe Parler.
Oh! That’s even better!
I actually commented on that exact quote in the article to the same effect. I was kind of worried reading it that they plan to ditch the AWS integration tbh.. but at least for now I’m pretty sure it’s the same as the others.
Ah, yes - writing our comments in parallel. :) The SD is great. Thanks for the link to Python code, I'll check it out.