skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like it doesn't make sense to code a complete OS from scratch every five years

No but it does make sense for us to pay for using an OS given that it's fundamental to what we do. The free as in free beer model means that the entities that produce operating systems do not extract any significant fraction of the value they are responsible for generating. It also perpetuates this idea that we shouldn't pay for software at all, not even $5 for a compiler.

So with that in mind, I'm saying that we should be careful about what software we opensource, and ideally we should at least be commercially sponsored to produce the software that we do open source if we want careers in building these high quality components or if we want to breed a culture whereby employers do invest engineering hours building these things.

> And I'd argue it makes technology a lot more valuable

Yes it means that businesses are able to produce a lot more for a lot less, but it also means that my skills are valued less. Companies value engineers by their hours of input not by the commercial value of the code. For example, I think Electron is terrible for desktop app development. It's great for prototyping but it's bloated and inefficient, I think we can do a lot better. There is no real market for an alternative because we have QT on the high perf C++ side and we have the trash web code on the other. If we had a culture of expecting to pay small amounts for software it would be more likely that I could write a high quality middle ground based on Golang or something, which is less approachable than web dev but more approachable than C++, and we would have higher quality and better performing code produced by it. For us to have this thing I either have to build this thing for free also or I have to come up with some fairly contrived business model, hope that kind people donate etc. The backdrop of opensource culture has devalued this implementation beyond the point of viability, so we will not see it unless a commercial sponsor has a specific need for it or I'm feeling particularly charitable.
This I can get behind (note this has nothing to do with talent).
The paper discusses this a bit:

Identification of an individual organophosphorus compound is a complex and time-consuming process. [9] In fact, ascertaining the involvement of a novichok agent and its biotransformation products in this case was only achieved several days after establishing the diagnosis of cholinesterase inhibitor poisoning and did not affecttherapeutic decisions.Organophosphorus nerve agents exert the same mechanism of action as do organophosphorus pesti-cides (ie, inhibition of acetylcholinesterase) and clinical management is largely based on experience with organo-phosphorus pesticide poisonings, which still pose a major health burden in southeast Asia, with more than 100000 deaths per year. [10] Clinical diagnosis of organophosphorus poisoning should be straightforward.

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[9] John H, van der Schans MJ, Koller M, et al. Fatal sarin poisoning in Syria 2013: forensic verification within an international laboratory network. Forensic Toxicol 2018; 36: 61–71.

[10] Mew EJ, Padmanathan P, Konradsen F, et al. The global burden of fatal self-poisoning with pesticides 2006–15: systematic review. J Affect Disord 2017; 219: 93–104.
Let’s leave alone for a moment the fact that the most permissive licenses (BSD, MIT) were not really designed, as much as they appeared out of historical accidents as a “just don’t bother us” device...

When it comes to licenses that were written “with a plan”, there is a charitable reading and an uncharitable one.

The charitable reading is that, back then, it was assumed that every computer user, local or remote, would have access to a compiler; and that any user would eventually learn how to operate a compiler, hence making it obvious that they would want to mod and compile the software they ran. And then they saw the licenses worked well enough to develop an ecosystem, and more or less left it at that (unless explicitly threatened, as they did when reacting to freeloading trends in embedding with the GPL 3).

The less charitable reading is that they left the door open precisely because they knew it ensured demand for service providers and system administrators (which many of the original “foss hackers” were, in their day job).

In any case, I don’t think anyone would have predicted they would become so dominant; everyone just assumed the big commercial vendors would be around forever, and FOSS would always be the underdog ecosystem; hence, leaving certain activities commercially unburdened would have always been somewhat necessary.
I guess it's better for small states to bully around big ones instead?
If becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world in an adjacent field and using that to fund an open source SaaS is a demonstration of a financially viable open source business; we're in trouble.
Literally the only reason to display a retail price on the website is so sales reps can say "see we are giving you a massive XX% discount!"
No, if the point is staving off anti-trust, the US government is the customer, competition is the product, and Mozilla is surprisingly unconstrained as the first two bulls lock horns.
I am not sure that there are, but that's also the point. Open source software does not guarantee or even offer a business model. If you want to license your project with a "do what you want, no warranty" license that is attractive to contributors, you cannot also add a clause to limit something.
As I wrote below, I misjudged the project because of the low activity in its issues. Clearly the projects are not managed through GitHub, which is what I am used to. I made a mistake.
Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goe ahead
I'm not defending Amazon here, just pointing out that they are correct to say that the SSPL is not open source.

I _do_ think it was very shifty of Elastic to say that switching to the SSPL was "doubling down on open".
Agreed, we need to change the mindset of being unwilling to pay $5 for an app while spending $1000 on a new phone every 2 years
NYPost is just about the worst “mainstream” publication available and anything they’ve ever done devalues the technologies which transmit it and degrades the minds that consume it. Unfortunate to see them linked & highly ranked on HN.
I’m not an expert on Buddhism or Japan, but I found this[0] on Wikipedia which states that the colour is 藤黄 (tou-ou), wisteria yellow. Today I learned that wisteria can be yellow.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_colors_of_Japan
Here's an announcement from Toyota last year with claims of a major battery breakthrough Real Soon Now™[1] "It is still unclear just how far the prototype tested in Kyoto is from series production."

I hope this works. Toyota has a good reputation. But the history of battery announcements is so disappointing. If this came with "and you can order the development kit battery now", it would be more convincing.

I'd like to see a 1, 5 and 10 years ago in battery announcements column somewhere that publishes battery announcements.

[1] https://www.electrive.com/2020/08/14/toyota-developing-flour...
Sharing with friends via a server is as much copyright infringement, legally speaking, as sharing with randoms on bittorrent. Its just much harder to prove, much less financially beneficial to prosecute and much worse PR if you do it anyway to set an example.
Why are they exclusive to the UAE? (neither this article, nor the one linked from the HN discussion the other day mention exclusivity). If it was a UAE manufacturer, I could see why, but you'd think Philips would want to sell world-wide.
Need to justify the ever-expanding surveillance, police state, and curtailing of civil rights somehow.
I tried Otter, which touts itself as a mobile app specifically for Funkwhale and found that it had some pretty glaring flaws, namely the way it managed the playing queue. It also had some other issues with volumes in an album.

So I've been trying Ultrasonic, using the subsonic API feature of Funkwhale, and it's working pretty well. Not as slick as Google Play Music ever was, but better than Otter (for now).
Honesty is appreciated. But the reactionary laughter signals a deeper cultural issue than just WLB, IMO. It struck me as off-putting.
> It's downright astonishing that he recovered as well as he did.

Given the poor track record of what intelligence agencies have tagged as "deadliest poison ever" I am not particularly surprised, neither is MoonOfAlabama in that regard

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/09/a-curious-timestamp-in...
It is a fair point
> 100kv [...] 1000kv

Don't those voltages leak like crazy across things which a normal person would consider as a safe insulator?

E.g. might some regular dirt on a plastic charging cable leak it into your hands?
Safety deposit box at a different bank
Yeah, it's three different things.

The First Amendment to the US Constitution applies to the government.

Free speech is the principle that suppressing allegedly false information is more dangerous than not suppressing it because if the information is actually false you can refute it but if the information is actually true then it allows powerful actors to suppress atrocities and lie with impunity.

Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of speech. Private censorship is not a violation of the First Amendment but it's still censorship.
That's not as bad as I thought. There are already water-cooled CC2 charging cables that can handle 500A as long as the radiator system is up to the task. Hopefully by 2024 we'll get there.
It's the exact opposite of parasitic. Search engines scrape your site so that they can help users find your site.

If you don't want Google scraping your content, add a noindex directive or robots.txt to your site and Google won't scrape it or link to it.
Cadquery is continually updated. Maybe you where looking at the old repo?
> But not having the right documentation was a challenge.

How do people overcome this? I managed to reverse my laptop's LED commands: they were implemented via USB so I used wireshark to intercept and analyze the data sent by the proprietary vendor software. What if it's some ACPI thing though? Or some memory mapped I/O chip? How do people figure out how it works?
If I’m understanding this correctly, this has nothing to do with deplatforming or freedom of speech. Although motivated by self interest, someone found DDoS-guard’s dirty laundry and aired it to LACNIC.
Nice animations, pretty clean :)
This is the correct take.
I’m sorry, my bad. You asked that question as if he/she (will just cal her/him X) is talking about the Big Foot so I couldn’t help myself.

As for the information warfare part. The media on opposite sides tend to sensationalize their titles to manipulate the discourse for their benefit.

In X’s comment, we can summarize information warfare as lies. So X thought that “Trump is going to pardon himself” titles are part of the informational warfare and Trump won’t actually do that. But now that X saw this HN thread, X said “was he even going to do that? Do we actually have a proof that he intends to do that? Or was it just a lie to shape public opinion further” Like the time Pelosi asks US generals if they keep Trump in check so that he can’t launch nuclear weapons. [0] Implying to the public that Trump is so crazy he can start a nuclear war. These type of things, shape public opinion over time. It is the same with Fox News shaping conservatives’ opinions about Biden. Or the NYT shopping global issues from a pool for Americans to get concerned with. It is standard propaganda and has been happening for decades.

That’s why I think X’s skepticism is healthy and warranted.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-nancy-pelos...
That goes without saying. Since when did Apple discuss future plans?

It's well known since 2014 that they have been working on Project Titan for a while and even hired former Ford, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz employees.
NFTs?
no different than what was happening in Victoria, Australia recently regarding COVID protests, people getting arrested at home for promoting the protest on facebook etc.
Stallman has no problems dual licensing software and selling proprietary licenses to companies.

His goal is freedom zero, the freedom of a user to use the software as they want.
Barnes and Frey didn't read the contract closely.

Uncivil Law is a friend of theirs and he goes over the contract here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhWDKx9myI0&t=6187s

He's a conservative lawyer, so he doesn't have a political bias against Parler. They just don't have a case. I think Parler's lawyers misread the contract and thought the 30-day notice applied to termination for cause.
Also note that as of November, Funkwhale is looking for other maintainers (https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/funkwhale-is-lo...).
> Delivery is now large enough that having someone walk around a large store optimized for display, one order at a time, is super inefficient.

If it isn't apparent by now, the people who are still walking around a large store aren't driven by efficiency. They want something to do / enjoy the routine of it, and don't want someone else picking out their stuff for them.
Your link with the by line "unmask antifa" has rather little credibility (Edit: your guy is editor of The Post Millenial - "Follow Us On Parler"). For good or ill, "antifa" is a just a label for a wide variety of groups that aim to fight "fascists" in the streets. These range from random leftists to the somewhat unhinged, who indeed get regularly banned for overt calls to violence. Which is to say there are no "top Antifa accounts". Twitter bans all sorts of people regularly for all sorts of things.
You might have had a minimal argument pre-17th Amendment, but that's not how the world works any more.

In addition, there's 0 reason for the house to be as malapportioned as it is. 435 house members isn't written in the constitution.

Third, the entire concept of smaller states having an outsized voice in the federal government comes from the slave owners from the South in 1789. There's no rational basis for it any longer.

People like to pretend the founders were deities and the constitution is handed down from god. But they weren't and it wasn't. A lot of their ideas were really stupid. I mean JFC, we couldn't even get through 3 elections before they had to redo it.

Vermont has a lot more in common these days with California than it does North Dakota. The EC and Senate are outmoded relics from a stupider time that should be abolished.
very good point on lucene contributors making money
It's 500 kW, you started at 600kW, not 1000 kW. They are absolutely going to have active cooling.

$4,000 is high enough I guess, but it matters more how much it costs per charge delivered (which depends on how much it is used and how long it lasts and so on).
This seems likely. They bring a weak case, and when it gets thrown out, they can say that further proves their victimhood.
The problem is less people that start out in engineering then switch to MBA/busness track. Its the psych majors / marketdrone people who think that running a tech company is equivalent like running a clothing line or sports drink company.
This is a common misconception for people with English as a second language

"You" can be used to refer to people in general

The comment you replied to was perfectly fine in their usage, it was clear which definition was relevant
Is it possible to make a cable safe enough for people to be holding at 100kv?
this is maybe missing the point but how about the blue/green of iMessage? surely they went to great lengths to find the most displeasing shade of green for iPhone owners to talk to non-iPhone owners.
I agree. Toyota is reacting (woefully late) to EU announcements about banning or restricting the sale of ICE vehicles starting around 2030, with PR spin about a magical new technology that isn't even in pilot project stage.

Those (magical new untested technologies) always turn out to be manufacturable, reliable, durable and profitable, of course.
Open source is not about the license but the philosophy
I live not far from Capitol Hill in Seattle, so the worst was pretty close to me.

I grok free speech. You can't outlaw some speech that is considered immoral because that speech may equate to the future moral high ground. Gay rights, as one example, would never have happened were there a moral gatekeeper on speech. I deeply understand this.

There's a difference. Firstly, much of what you attribute (or what was attributed to BLM by right-wing propaganda) was in fact the anarchist faction and their leader in Seattle (in addition to the police). The anarchist faction (and Nazis at other times) always cause a shitshow during Seattle protests, irrespective of the specific protest. CHAZ/CHOP was truly bizarre, but it was inherently peaceful. People were growing cabbages. This story rings true across America in varying ways and, while there is no doubt that some BLM protesters were violent:

* BLM never committed sedition by invading the federal capitol.

* BLM was protesting against the very perpetrators of the violence and casualties that occurred during the protests: the police and right-wing extremists.

* BLM attempted protest peacefully for the expansion of rights. MAGA violently rioted for the limitation of rights.

The violence during the BLM protests is proof of the BLM claims.

> the tolerance for violence is quite a bit lower when it concern an ideology one does not agree with.

The police literally stood aside for the MAGA seditionists, but opened fire on peaceful BLM protestors due to the threat of a pink umbrella. Yes, this is very true, but likely not in the way you mean to suggest.

And racist speech is protected and has been protected by the American Supreme Court on multiple occasions (National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie). Racist violence is not protected and nor is BLM violence.
I think there are about 4 of us on HN that are current or former firefighters (in the literal sense).
"Star wars cockpits" is an interesting comparison.

I wonder at what point the Star Wars people will thematically have to update their cockpits/other tech because it will otherwise date.

Kind of how CyberPunk has dated because they missed out on smartphones...
Open-Source No-Code Chart Maker from Microsoft Research Team
I doubt the Aust Gov could competently setup a national firewall.
Especially not a Liberal one.
I'm not quite sure that I understand the advantages of doing development work inside of the container. What am I missing?
The biggest flaw in the piece is "This means that Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source software."

The SSPL is an open source license. It's just not the license that can help Amazon make money.
We have treaties addressing issues like these, and generally it is an accepted principle of international law that a country can regulate a company that chooses to business with its citizens.
Apple seems to be moving away from trying to sell more iphones and instead in to getting iphone users to buy more kinds of things. You now have AirPods, the Apple Watch, and a million other things which each can last quite a while but add up to what would have been a new phone every year.
Been using gonic[1] on my Raspberry Pi at home. Works brilliantly.

As an aside, I'm glad I didn't bother with Funkwhale: https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/code-of-conduct/.

[1]: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic
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"This means that Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source software"

Elasticsearch is open source. the SSPL is open source. It just can't help Amazon make money.
If you're considering those sort of voltages you might as well look into just using liquid nitrogen cooled cables and super-conducting cables.

Liquid nitrogen can be made from the air on-site if needed, and is a hell of a lot easier to handle then hundreds or thousands of volts.
for Elastic to be truly open source, we will need adoption and push by major players and the key difference is Google cloud and Azure not looking at Elastic opportunity
Thanks for the link; I hadn't heard of Mandos.

Another solution in the same space is Clevis[1]; last time I was researching this problem, I came across it via Red Hat's docs[2].

[1]: https://github.com/latchset/clevis

[2]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
An interesting related story that has been hitting the news this evening:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/google-agrees-to...
> Bitwarden's UX is pretty poor

Hmm, I've tried LastPass, Enpass, a handful of Keepass clients I can't remember the name of and (shortly) 1Password, and I can't really find anything Bitwarden does that much worse than any of these. To be perfectly honest, they're all kind of clunky, IMHO.
I think the point is it doesn't matter whether it's self-defeating or not. If the law passes it becomes infeasible for Google search to continue to operate in Australia legally, so they have to shut it off; simple as that. Google isn't making threats, just stating facts.
Sorry. Linking to (not even requesting) a public domain does not give any sovereign nation the right to demand funds. No one who is having funds demanded of them is visiting said country or said site, so no leaving is necessary. It’s frivolous money grabs like this that rob credibility from legitimate intellectual property
It goes without saying that Apple declines to comment on its "announcement"?
Cloud is basically managed hosting allowing a pay-as-you go model for resource utilization (compute, storage, etc.). Which was also not really anything new as that model existed on timeshared systems prior to that.
Who posted?
> Elastic wants to have their cake and eat it too.

That doesn't follow from your preceding statement. Elastic doesn't want to constrain all users of their software by using AGPL; and instead they adopted a license which imposes restrictions only on cloud providers. That's better compared to AGPL for general consumers, if you ask me.
https://www.youtube.com/c/HoegLaw/videos has an entire video series on this (and other) cases where he goes through the filings by both sides.

Recommended watching.
The flagging is getting ridiculous now. As soon as you say something that the OGs dont agree with you get flagged and censored.

It's bizarre. How can people be this narrow minded on HN? Maybe they are not hungry anymore, they cashed in their stock options or made their acquisition and think they are infallible.

Look I love my Ferrari, its never going to lose value, its gone up since I bought it two years ago because as EVs become more popular, people are always going to value analogue.

There's a reason the manual version of the same F430 has a 100,000 USD premium. As EVs become no longer just Tesla, ICE cars are going to be even more sought after.

Tesla's electric cars are boring and Porsche's rendition is what the future holds. You can't compete with software alone, other manufacturers have largely caught up now.
Why assume this has to be a traditional cable. I'm imagining something in the middle of the car park that latches on to the bottom of the car. Maybe it could be 10 charging cables in a base that rises up which gives you the amp rating without massive copper strands.
Slightly off topic but...

> …except Elastic doesn't want to use the AGPL because anyone using Elasticsearch would have to open-source their whole codebase — a non-starter for most companies.

They wouldn't have to. This is a common misconception about AGPL.