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> I don't really understand this feature creep argument against systemd.

> Also, the way I understand systemd nowadays is it isn't an init system, it is an API for Linux systems that abstracts low level features in kernel in a consistent way (either using unit files or systemd C interface).

Starting as an init system and becoming a general API that abstracts low level kernel features seems like feature creep.

> You can use as much or as little as you want, but if you choose not too you need to invent your own way

Correct. The problem arises when you try using tools not provided by systemd in conjunction with systemd and systemd actively makes that hard. The accepted solution to that problem in the systemd world is to rewrite more tools the way systemd sees fit with the side effect of extinguishing every other approach and dragging linux further away from its BSD/Illumos cousins. This is again a form of feature creep.

Don't get me wrong. I think the tooling available 15 years ago mostly sucked and there was definitely a need for something new. I just don't believe cleaning a mess with a giant monolith is the way to go.
Windows users, obviously
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The announcement claims:

> All changes to Elasticsearch were sent as upstream pull requests (#42066, #42658, #43284, #43839, #53643, #57271, #59563, #61400, #64513), and we then included the “oss” builds offered by Elastic in our distribution. This ensured that we were collaborating with the upstream developers and maintainers, and not creating a “fork” of the software.

With links on the issue numbers. Why should we not understand this as contributing back?
"It is completely unambiguously obvious to me that" the author is an intellectually lazy rube who recycles tired old arguments. Anyone who talks about "China-based" miners hasn't done their research on the actual hashrate distribution today. That's a talking point from like 2015.

What the author misses, and what many on HN miss, is that technical expertise does not translate into financial/economic expertise. You may grok Bitcoin on the CS level and still totally misunderstand the economics.
> What is the problem crypto is trying to solve?

Digital money without trusting a centralized authority. However, Ethereum is even more interesting in that it can be a 'world computer' for things other than money.
Amazon's forks will still be Apache-licensed, so if there's a tit-for-tat element here, it appears to be Amazon responding to Elastic's abandonment of open-source.
So many problems are like this though and they don't get solved. I doubt bitcoin will be any different.
The solution is to put the actual package into the Dockerfile instead of the reference? Asking because I don't actually know the answer.
They don't even seem to have an app, so I'm not sure how that is a viable alternative.
Amazon is doing all of the work of buying servers and hiring skilled professionals and setting up instances of Elastic and automating it so that you can easily rent a server to run it.
One could argue that the "intrinsic value" of crypto is that it enables censorship resistant point-to-point data transfer (transactions). As long as some subset of people are using it for that purpose, it has value, even if it's a tiny minority. I imagine that of all the gold in the world, the vast majority of it is the "store of value" kind, and not the "computer chip ingredient" or "jewelry" kind.
> what are the good search server options for a small shop dealing wth geo search?

Manticore Search is an actively developed GPLv2 fork of Sphinxsearch since 2017 - https://manticoresearch.com/
The time-tested model for a situation like this that benefits everyone is big company offering X as a service hires/funds N developers in proportion to the popularity of that service on their platform. That helps ensure the project is sustainable, gives back to the community the big service obviously benefits from, and is certainly a form of "good karma".

I think a lot of people are upset due to the perceived violation of that social contract, though it obviously isn't a legal issue and may not even be a moral one depending on where you draw the line. AWS has the appearance of benefitting enormously from many OSS projects but rarely funds contributions - funding that would be a rounding error to the AWS budget.

The ball is entirely in Amazon's court. They've earned this reputation (fair or not). They can make the problem go away at any time if they want to spend a little money.
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I would assume that she could create an email address using a service like Proton and access it through Tor Browser.
Why EIP 1559? (Ethereum to change the way transaction fees are handled)
Which is perfectly alright, there are plenty of Java implementations, including full commercial ones, just like with ISO languages.
Last I checked, sustaining a for profit business wasn’t a guaranteed right. It’s called competition, and plenty of companies fail.

If you can’t sustain a business around open sources, then don’t be open source.

Elastic chose to close their source but are now lying about it to make it look better than it is. AWS is releasing an “actually OSS” fork - totally inline and allowed under permissive OSS - and is somehow unethical? The mind reels.
what a waste, around your waist!
Moreover, as I'm fond of pointing out: Amazon bounces people off AWS all the time, just like every hosting provider; abuse is a basic fact of life in hosting. Amazon will have no trouble establishing that what it did with Parler is routine, and that nobody could reasonably have an expectation that the AUP was merely performative.
Electric motors "torque ripple" at low RPMs (well, at all RPMs, but it is most noticeable at lower RPMs), which can cause motor "cogging". Cogging is either a complete stall, or really jerky behavior that feels pretty close to what an ICE is like at very low RPMs. *

There are different motor designs out there that alter power delivery for situations where very low-RPM torque is required. As with most design decisions, there are trade-offs involved.

And yeah, I'm sure a torque converter would be helpful in that situation. But I think that generally, passenger cars don't need to go very fast, so most EVs can get away with short enough gearing that cogging isn't an issue, at the expense of top seed.

* hold some low-power electric motor in your hands, turn it on then gradually clap the output with your fingers. You'll eventually feel the power output go to nothing and the motor will wind. That's cogging.

Also, the whole "peak torque at 0 RPMs" thing is really a side effect of the fact that electric motors produce consistent power across the rev band (except at really low, and really high RPMs). And the formula for power is power = torque * RPM. Since power is essentially fixed with an electric motor, you rearrange that equation to be torque = power / RPM, and peak torque is at the limit as RPM goes to 0.

In real world applications, torque output is limited by physics and current delivery, so peak torque is truncated at low RPMs.
I'm mostly going with that because of the whole "it didn't last" part. It did seem to help them get through some tough times when the world had basically turned against them.
If you care about social impact, why is voting important?
Nor, IMO, should you want to.
Do you have a source for it reaching that rank?

Iirc it was dropped from the two app stores about 12h apart.
Drivers have been an issue in Linux as long as I can remember.

Integrated graphics cards, Ethernet chipsets, WinModems, the list goes on.

It was fun building drivers and inserting modules but were fortunate that a lot of work has been put in, and most popular hardware (at least for business machines) “just works”
Maybe you can on AWS, I don't know, but it's also not the point. The purpose of our service was primarily for web hosting, and it ran on VMs, so one person consuming all the CPU time would negatively impact other customers. 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. Which is the same conclusion the judge came to in this Parler case.
Mainly government jobs - I don't know the union.
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Terminal
So why didn't they crackdown on this type of content back in the Obama administration when the threat of political blowback also wasn't there?
Peaceful protests often involve visibly breaking the law. Rosa Parks even did it without cameras! Gandhi, MLK, suffragettes, conscientious objectors, Thoreau etc.

There is a long history of police and intelligence services surveilling and infiltrating peaceful protest movements. Authorities of the day definitely will imprison people.

The big difference is that the QAnon/Trump/etc crazies are planning violent criminal action. Those people end up grouped with IRA/UVF, Nazis, ISIS, Hezbollah, mafiosos etc.
I think IDEs may be a bit more subjective than are often presented. Personally speaking, my experience with Xcode has been just ok (not amazing) while IntelliJ based IDEs have been clunky and arcane, with some of their "smarts" functioning in ways that aren't expected or intuitive at all. Both are functional if you let me pick which to spend a work day in, it'd probably be Xcode.

What one is first exposed to and how they're exposed to it probably makes a big difference.
> This is an instance where people believe that it is ethically unacceptable for Amazon to do what they've been doing, so strongly that they are relicensing open source software to prohibit Amazon from continuing to benefit from their work on it.

Elastic isn't the saint here, they aren't doing this to "Double Down On Open Source" as they claim. They're simply doing it so they can squeeze the hell out of the SAAS market by betraying their promises to the community and contributors.
I mean, if you're a contributor to Elasticsearch or Kibana, you now have a choice on which project you are going to make contributions to. Apart from dislike of AWS, I can't see why anyone would choose the version with the more restrictive license, which is SSPL.
I don't think responding in less than five minutes was unreasonable. It's also not legal advice, simply my personal opinion on some of the numerous issues that are likely to be litigated.

I also think this entire thread will be worth revisiting upon appeal.
This is why I like GPL.
When I first got on the internet, there was Altavista and there were some web directories. Alstavista was nice, but the directories were much more organized and I saw them as the future, so much that at one point I even maintained some categories at dmoz. When Google took off to the point that non-tech people I knew recognized it and dmoz closed down, I was pretty disappointed even though Google was clearly the future by then (And it was better at actually finding stuff back then. Nowadays it's an echo chamber and worse, it just feeds you anything, I don't think I've seen a "no results found" page in a decade.).
You don't think there is a moral difference in changing how we interact with someone based upon their behavior vs. changing how we interact with someone based upon an intrinsic property of who they are?

Those seem like fundamentally different moral scenarios.
Sure, there are a lot of them, and only a few vaccines. If we tried to vaccinate the whole country in a day there would be able problem, but over two months most people go to a pharmacy anyway. (Many are in some other store)
Not parent, but have been involved in getting patents. The process itself is not that complicated, but it can be difficult to get a patent which has some value (very easy to end up with a worthless one). I recommend reading the Nolo book on patents, if only to help you understand what's going on, and help you select a good attorney.

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>>I do not get why people are coming down on AWS here. Elastic made the software available under the Apache License. That gives AWS the right to offer this service.

Something being legal does not make it ethical, many people see what AWS did, including profiting off the TradeMark of Elastic Search with zero compensation to the project is unethical

AWS is clearly in the wrong here, I am surpised by the number of people that defend AWS, this is why FOSS continues to struggle

AWS is a leech on Open Source, like many other large companies. I will be SHOCKED if AWS fork has any actual feature improvements, my guess is it will be a pure maintenance fork with security updates (maybe)
AdGuard with Brave is another solid option (extension and Mac app).
> begin selling replica cars that resemble vehicles produced at least 25 years ago

for people who might be interested in owning a weird or unique vehicle with quite a lot less cost than a $50,000+ electric vehicle...

The 25 year comment reminded me that you can legally import just about anything to the US, including japanese domestic market right hand drives vehicles, as long as its date of manufacture was at least 25 years ago. There's lots of amazingly weird japanese vehicles you can buy for less than $8000 via reputable brokers.

you will want to learn to read the inspection report forms for each vehicle, and the grading system used in japanese used car sales and auctions.

Shipment to a west coast port should be under $1800 USD.

The US federal import paperwork for a 25 year old vehicle is not very onerous or difficult, if you google a bit about it you can find examples of what it looks like.
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I suspect overall you are correct. But it's really a function of what you pay in price, or tax. One of the reasons why contractors make more/hr is that healthcare and other benefits are factored in, at least in theory. Couples that both get benefits suffer the lower earnings while only one health benefit gets used (ignoring the small affect of coordination of benefits).
It's a good point. Imagine if one of those open source projects that Elastic uses licensed there own little bit of code under the SSL. Elastic would flip out.
Somewhere around Redhat 7 (the first version back in 2001/02), I had a Dell laptop that worked great. I did buy a specific PC Card Ethernet adapter that had support, but everything else worked.
That is a bit surprising to me as Denmark in Scandinavia has a reputation for drinking a lot. I looked up the numbers on Wikipedia and "Pure alcohol consumption among persons (age 15+) in litres per capita per year" is 11.4 in Denmark and 9.2 in the US (same as Sweden). Of course DUI is something else entirely..

TIL.
It's a decentralized system, anyone can install and set it up. If I am running a pod and only give access to a few friends, how is that not fair use?

Mind you, this is only one of the basic cases. There are plenty of other use-cases for such a service that does not even involve copyright abuse. Imagine an indie label that sets up an instance to promote their artists. Or a music school that puts performance from their teachers/students.

There are plenty of ethical reasons for something like Funkwhale to exist, it's not on the developers to ensure that it is only going to be used in a way that doesn't cause the ire of the big-baddie RIAA.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865040
Functional programming in Python is severely hampered by the fact that Python is statement-oriented rather than expression-oriented.

The lambda limitations are a product of this plus the particular whitespace rules Python has.
So... if Amazon's fork is still Apache 2.0 license, which is a permissive license... Elasticsearch is welcome to take any code they want from it and port it into their copy, no? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, we all know this is a lot of work, and will be a manual process if it wasn't coordinated, increasingly manual as the codebases diverge. But, anything especially valuable Amazon does, ElasticSearch can copy if they want. The same is not true in the opposite direction of course.
Jack Dorsey is a big advocate for decentralization and bitcoin enthusiast. Maybe he thinks he has made is money and is more thinking of his legacy.
Google compute platform even offers user-provided keys at instance startup; they persist in RAM only for the lifetime of the instance and you can provide an rsa-encrypted symmetric key to GCP if you don't trust the box responsible for calling the GCP API.

Combined with AMD-based (SEV) confidential computing and shielded vm you can get close to what on-premises hardware offers.

Nothing can truly replace hardware you own (except maybe fast fully homomorphic encryption eventually) but if you can trust the firmware that Intel/AMD, HP, Dell, or Supermicro ships in a box then the cloud is 99% as good at this point.
I am not trying to be funny, but disparate treatment.
Of course Amazon will contribute to the new fork. They have many thousands of paying customers who have little incentive to switch, for better or worse. The only thing that might actually call for a migration is a significant decline in feature development.
Read the link. I think you are right here. SSPL is definitely a weird one.
If Fortnite is the future of live music, why have there been so few shows?
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Agreed. Everything feels over-saturated.
> You should be able to set a default username or email to automatically use when creating a new account.

I think that might be a mobile limitation. Profiles address that problem but I'm not sure if Android or iOS give developers the ability to autofill profiles.

Bitwarden's UX is pretty poor but the way I see it is that's what $12 a year gets me. :)
The only way that could ever be the case is if taxes ceased to exist. Until that point, there will always be lobbying for lower taxes.

Your objection really seems to be engagement in culture wars.
Depends on the implementation of SMT.

I know that POWER9 for example, reserves the superslices for different threads as you go from SMT1 (1-thread per core) up to SMT4 (4-threads per core).

Thread#0 and Thread#1 get Slice0, while Thread#2 and Thread#3 get Slice1.

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For an even more extreme example, Bulldozer's implementation of SMT / Cores / whatever you wanna call it... the L1 cache was split between the two cores. So you'd rather have 2-threads doing two different things (even if they shared the same decoder and significantly shared the same resources), because you'd "magically" get access to more L1 cache.

Even on modern Skylake / Zen systems, some SMT resources are locked to one thread or the other. So you do in fact get more resources from SMT.

On the other hand: you're absolutely right in that pointer-chasing can be done in parallel in a single thread due to ILP (and that ILP is probably even preferable to using more threads). Still, the fact that SMT systems are implemented so differently and so weirdly at times... it means that we can't really make general rules about SMT systems.
A lot of engineers I’ve observed are increasingly far removed from sales, marketing, and ultimately, their customers.

I also think the world (particularly technology and laws) is a complicated place with a lot of history. The old timers tend to appreciate this a bit more. There’s a book out there about the “Death of Expertise”. People think they can learn a complex domain from some questionable YouTube videos and maybe blog posts or a book. They decry the experts. In fairness there are also a lot of charlatan experts out there.

Combine the two problems, and it is an opening for “outrage bandwagons” to form that claim to simplify the matter without actually understanding it. And companies try to exploit this comprehension gap to fulfill their agenda.
That's why Britain has to develop new markets, different from the EU.

This is almost a mirror-image of what happened to Australian exporters, who lost their 'guaranteed' British market when Britain joined the Common Market about 50 years ago.

Up till then, Britain counted on its 'colony' in Australia to provide the 'Motherland' with produce at very cheap prices. And Australia had counted on the 'Motherland' to take all those exports.

There was the silly situation of British housewives paying only half as much for a pound of Australian butter as Australian housewives.

Then, all of a sudden, Australian markets and profits were lost. And it took about 10 years of Australia promoting and selling to the Asian markets to regain the levels of exports that it had lost overnight.
> This is the whole point of open source.

What is? Because I don't think the point of open source is to have big companies make money off code that other entities—in many cases individuals—made available for free. It's certainly something that happens, and I don't think it's universally bad, but I wouldn't say it's the point, either. I've heard of several high profile cases of the people who maintain high-profile projects supporting $billions worth of commercial products struggling to make ends meet, and I don't think that's the point. That's not a system working as designed, because nobody designed it and there arguably is no point—it's simply a dynamic that emerged organically from the factors that drive people to contribute to open source, and those that drive businesses to maximize their profits.
This is where the Free Software, ideology, and the "open Source" ideology really show its difference

I view SSPL as a Copy Left style License for the SaaS age.

They picked the wrong license in the first place with Apache, they should have used GPL, AGPL, or some other copy left anyway

I generally oppose Apache, MIT and other non-copy left license exactly because it allows Amazon and other large companies is leech off the work for their own commercial offers while giving nothing back