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> Your legal department

Not everyone has a legal department.

If I'm an independent contractor who wants to sell my ElasticSearch expertise as a service, namely by charging to setup and maintain ES instances on behalf of others, am I compliant with ElasticSearch's newfangled non-free license? Or am I "Amazon" in this context? Judging by how Elastic themselves describe their license[1], it looks a heck of a lot like I'm "Amazon" as far as they're concerned, since my labor would take the form of a "managed service" - never mind that my annual income is several orders of magnitude less than Amazon's, and probably would continue to be such even assuming my services sell like hotcakes.

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[1]: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
Yes, because if there's anything PinePhone needs it's to be even more obtuse and expensive.
Lying about one's birthdate is routine though. Both for young and old.
I'm comforted by history. Shopped photos don't mean we distrust photos entirely, but we're now generally "herd immune" to silly things in a photo because we all know that it came from somebody's edits.

This will hold true for deepfakes. It means that we might start judging the character of a person, their surrounding information (e.g., who they know who vouches for them) instead of the core information itself. It'll be a bit like how cybersecurity involves trusting the trust of trustworthy sources: not perfect, but doable.
No, women who are pretty without makeup do exist.
At some point it probably makes sense to line each apt in rf blocking sheets and then have only your own wifi inside. Would cause problems with guests on 4g though.
Is there any desirable practice that net neutrality would forbid?

But to answer your question - yes. AT&T zero-rated their own streaming service: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/17/22336872/hbo-max-data-cap...

(Zero-rating doesn't mean "free". It means "You're paying for it whether you use it or not. Competitors cost double.")
My website is hosted on the cheapest non-free Heroku tier ($7), and served by a single Node process. I've had a couple of posts get to #1 on HN (one stayed there for 24+ hours if I remember correctly), with zero server issues.

I do statically-render everything, so not doing that is the only reason I can think of for why so many sites might be going down when they get up on the front page. Many of these are blogs so could probably do much better, though I did see someone mention that this one uses websockets for something, so it would definitely be doing some logic on the server-side and wouldn't be able to go fully static.
I love it! The dialog idea is genius too.

This week I stumbled upon John Robertson for the first time. He made an choice based Adventure game called The Dark Room, which (in its first iteration) was realized with YouTube Annotations, then performed live, and now he streams it on Twitch. It's an interesting combination of preparation and improvisation
> I wish Apple would give Docker some love like Microsoft does

It is my hope that Docker continues to accelerate down its current path toward replacement by other systems such as podman.

I suspect that Apple has little motivation to add a Linux kernel alongside the existing BSD-compatible kernel, even though macOS does have a built-in hypervisor framework/API.

BSD containers (e.g. jails) seem like a better fit than Linux containers (e.g. docker, lxc) for a BSD-based system.
Change needs to come from the top. The UK did it with Gov.UK, and their success inspired many other governments around the world to follow them.
This is great. Thought I'd got it for a second when I hit #11...
Dark Forces (a Star Wars 2.5D FPS from the 90's) used portal rendering. This let you create impossible geometry, like making a doorway that appeared to be for a small room on the outside was actually a portal to a larger room on the inside (think the Tardis from Doctor Who).
the comment section in this blog is somewhat more genuine than the blog submission from AT&T blog team
Same questions here. I’m not sure I would know where to start on those particular configs
i dont think there were any games in 1994 that had support for 800x600, let alone FPS games. The SVGA enchanced edition came out many many years later.
I finished it, but I still think about the haunting sounds of the "Cyborg Assassin" characters sometimes. Their tendency to ambush made them particularly terrifying.

Neato! I've got the GoG version installed on a PC on my network here. I just discovered that the ".CRF" files that contain the game resources are all ZIP files. Now I'm awash in System Shock 2 sounds.
Its time has passed, but System Shock 2 was one of the greatest gaming experiences for me .... played it for months and months.

System Shock 1 could have been good - I don't know - its controls were unusable - they were before the time of the mouse being used for looking around.
You don't need it. I do. I use a ton of the browsers APIs. Every single one of them improves the experience in some way. Several of them that people poo pop the most would make the apps I make fundamentally impossible.

What is so special about the browser that this one place you don't want apps to function? If I couldn't do it in the browser, then I'd have 5x more work to build my app for all the platforms I support. It wouldn't stop my app being made, it would just cost more. What possible purpose is there to artificially inflate the cost of development?

Or are you under some illusion that native apps are not tracking you?
Interesting - there is a series of lectures (ref to follow) on UK economy - they try to show the biggest component of house prices is land and the biggest contributor to land is people just bid up using mortgage funds.

On the other hand why should leverage be freely available to "the rich".

I am tempted to solve it on the demand side - I am willing to bet one major difference in money management is just daily awareness of total spend and wealth. Something like Mint for everyone might actually move the needle (it's kind of where the EU / UK open banking is headed)
Sure that's a reason that the risk profile is different, but it's not fundamental. The current system is deeply flawed because of the guarantee.

Maybe the answer is you can't discharge it through bankruptcy for a certain number of years (e.g. 10?). But also, it shouldn't be 6 figures.
> Large drives 100TB will be fine if enough of them is used in the array

So one one hand you say that "big boy stuff" doesn't matter to anyone else, but on the other you say that "proper redundancy" requires higher scale. Seems a bit Goldilocks-ish to me, or perhaps even a bit slippery. There's a pretty well established trend, especially in storage, of things that happen in large systems becoming very relevant to smaller ones over time. RAID itself was considered a super-high-end niche once. And don't assume that my knowing about the high end means I don't know the low end as well, or make appeals to authority on that basis. Rebuild times have always been an issue worth addressing, from 1994-95 when I was working on the then-highest-density disk array (IBM 7135/110) to now, from high-end HPC to SOHO. Don't act like you occupy some magical space where what's true everywhere else is not true as well.
I mean... I don't disagree with this statement. But there are norms on how you are supposed to write numbers with significant digits.
Anyone more knowledgeable than myself following any of the research saying that the mRNA vaccines can be dangerous due to over/mis-expression, such as:

https://carterheavyindustries.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/co...
That's what it sounds like. Possibly safer and simpler than viral immunoconological vectors. I guess the issue is identifying the very specific histological anomalies in cancer cells to target SARS-CoV-2-spikes style. Perhaps this can be done by flow cytometry and sequencing of healthy cells vs. cancer cells. The big challenge is making certain no other cells share the targeted structures.
There does seem to be a fingerprinting angle on it, but I wrote about using CPU, Battery, Memory etc. to be consideration over how much JavaScript you load for your users: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/242-considerate-javascript/#load-...
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Hey is it to buy furnitures? :D

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I don't really need to share or even git my stuff... but I did for the curious & stubborn :)

you lucky to own mony me I don't :(
I wonder if that's legal. Big apartment buildings that block cell signals and whatnot.
Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous
Actually I think a better idea could be a common chassis. The common chassis could provide power, (touch)screen, buttons, audio, IMU, NFC, light/distance sensors, barometer, thermometer, cameras and leds; it could connect to the motherboard through pogopins using USB-C standard. This allows video, power and USB hub to expose the rest of the hardware to the mobo.

The mobo could have slots in the back similar to librem-5; theses slots would hold sd, wifi and modem cards.

I foresee 3 groups for whom this maybe interesting: pine64, purism and fairphone. I really think there is a market for a common platform to make linux phones competitive against alternatives on price too.
> All markets are made up.

Maybe the one for beanie babies, but not the ones for steel, chickens, milk, used cars... I think the author is not well versed in economics.
well i'm not the one making a claim that for profits are far worse than non profits....
I know there's real development and innovation here, but any time I hear about randomly or freely-wired neural networks, I can't help but be reminded of the "hacker koan":

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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I should build a list of places where it works or doesn't. Some places will work if you set the right options, enable the right ligatures. Which version of Word did you use?
I really want to love Julia language but the overhead of package loading annoys me. Perhaps this may be just me being lazy or spoiled after using R packages or Python libraries.
Imo ES got benefit from open source sa marketing tool. Amd no matter what AWS contributed back the fact is ES doesn't want someone else to reap the benefit of that marketing play.
> However, my rebuttal is that the colleges referenced in the article were for-profit and unaccredited to begin with

False. The two institutions that together account for the majority of students at issue here were ITT Tech (now defunct, but was nationally accredited) and Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (also now defunct, but many of their constituent institutions were nationally or regionally accredited.)

Nonaccredited schools aren't qualified for the federal student loans being forgiven here.

> Did the school commit a crime?

That's a weird standard. Why would it need to be a crime rather than a tort?

> so, there's no need to forgive the debt - the government and/or students should go after the school, and our existing legal process makes things right.

Er, the majority of the students affected are from institutions that no longer exist, largely because of their frauds. There is no one to go after.
New study shows microplastics turn into 'hubs' for pathogens
> How is client core count contributing to this in any way?

I maintain an open source encryption/decryption library[1] for E2EE privacy request fulfillment at my current employer. We use navigator.hardwareConcurrency to distribute decryption jobs across multiple CPU cores so that you can get your E2EE files downloaded in a timely manner.

> It's not really blowing my mind that you are an disingenuous douchebag

If it can be done, it will be done. Real progress lies in the social norms that we perpetuate through the standards and policies of the applications that we use. Try to be the force that makes changes for a world that you want to live in.

1. https://github.com/transcend-io/penumbra/
Randomly wired networks reminds me of a classic AI koan:

> In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

> “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

> “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

> “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

> “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

> Minsky then shut his eyes.

> “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

> “So that the room will be empty.”

> At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
You're right, we should do away with those pesky machinations and get rid of the elected lower house.
Who's to blame for bad code? Coders
Cows tend to pass where other cows passed. Herd behaviour. Something like a real world effort optimisation.

No use trying to optimise in a week using one brain something that found a local minima (or maxima) over years and multiple people.

Normally the change (and effort) to achieve a better minima (or maxima) has to made on a variable you just can't see or imagine.

Something on the line of Chesterton’s Fence.
sabotage is the best you got? how about just saying i dont mix business and pleasure. im here to do my job. if you dont like it you can find someone else.

who wants to work for some big corp pushing woke agenda and treating you like children anyway? sounds like kindergarten "okay kids now its recess" or "now is your naptime". im good. id sooner starve in the streets. i think too many people are cowards and wont stand up to this kinda thing. so they deserve what they get.
I guess the need is so much more at this point that the cost of producing the drug matters much more. Anyways, it can't be too expensive to produce to be practical, because the valuation of the company increased by billions of dollars.
Ah, I was going to build an app just like that! Guess not, anymore.
Looks like you took a cool idea and did an awesome job of executing of it!
But how is my CPU count useful to you in that situation? My i7-8700k has 12 threads, my Surface book 2 pretends to have 16 threads, my iPad Pro pretends to have 16 cores, my iPhone pretends to have 12 cores.

What is the API I can use to map that to any sort of useful 3D performance? How are 3d game processes using this data to evaluate what they are supposed to be doing?
when i was 10 or so, an older friend introduced me to pirated software, and gave me a burned cd-r with some video games and 'warez' written on it in sharpie. i asked my dad what 'wahr-ehz' was, and he told me it was a city in mexico. i was left slightly perplexed but assumed it had something to do with the provenance or distribution. it was at least five years before i figured out what it was supposed to mean.
Is haggling anything but a waste of time? My understanding is that it's like haggling for cars. The buyer never really wins, they at best "don't lose."
I know a pilot for the EG Air Force One. Yep, the oil revenues go to the élite. Typical African story as far as natural resources are concerned.
cowardly, but effective
Ban 'em all.
There's a similar idea that I've heard since about 2010 about subtly-influencing differences in how a human language appears to impact cognition.

> Spanish and Japanese speakers couldn't remember the agents of accidental events as adeptly as English speakers could. Why? In Spanish and Japanese, the agent of causality is dropped: "The vase broke itself," rather than "John broke the vase." [0]

Here's a figure from the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20210319233610/https://www.econo...

The difference between "crash" (there's likely a human agent) and "accident" (there is no human agent) seems to be the same.

On the other hand, in my experience from editing the professional writing of colleagues, there's often subtle implications from the chose of words. We tend to have so many different options in English, but two words never really mean the same thing because each carries different connotations either from history or from usage. Yet many readers aren't quite aware of those implications. I'm not sure if the implication does not exist for them, or if they are simply not aware of how it might colour their perception.

[0] "Lost in translation?", The Economist, 2010-07-29, https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/07/29/lost-in-transla...
Not JavaScript, but... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
For me, using Kubernetes is all about the patterns that it provides and how it removes a certain class of problems for you.

Deployments, scaling, logging, etc are some of the patterns it provides and the consistency matters. How many of us have worked at companies where deploying two services have been completely different? One team runs the jenkins pipeline while another team FTPS the files over. Now multiply that by several services and several tasks (logging, scaling, etc).

The benefit is in the patterns and standards it provides.
Im not sure who's right here, you said there was a law to adjudicate student forgiveness, but the article states that congress never passed any rule reversing executive action on the matter.

So, if executive action by trump's cabinet was responsible for eliminating the existing process, it follows that prior executive process brought forgiveness to life previously.

A process is not a law.

My point is that we already have laws to adjudicate tort / fraud claims.

We don't need another (based on no law) to have unelected political operators to choose which fraud claims are to be heard, and which will not.

Equality is under the law. Not under process.
they're trying to make any service fabric work
It’s illegal to jam signals but I can’t imagine it’s illegal to shield from them. Just concrete does it well enough.
My rule of thumb is that anything title "...for Hackers" is crap.This link was not an exception.

> Since the relative error is invariant under scaling (x↦αx)(x \mapsto \alpha x)(x↦αx), we will mostly be interested in relative error.

No, No, No, No. This is very much dependent on what you are measuring/modelling, what is the tolerance you are willing to accept, the consequences and so on.

A 1% of error in the change the cashier gave you back maybe is not a big deal. That same error in the national budget is equivalent to 2X the NASA's budget.
So, under a zero protection scheme it is optimal to wait until your competitor invests in research, and then just steal it. Which is what happens on a geopolitical level where there is no feasible enforcement possible.

Is it such a bad thing? The United States did it in order to industrialize and I would say that's a good thing.
that sentense doesn't even make sence, you don't 'pay' senctions
Wow. This is literally clickbait.
I've recently seen Julia and Elixir mentioned in language discussions about homoiconicity. They're technically not--in the same sense as much as Lisp's s-expressions, but are convenient to do run-time code inspection and generation without much fuss which is the pragmatic side of it.
Ah, I see what has happened.

You're correct, however I believe ACICS, who accredited both (or a least some of the institutions) was later found to be a poor accreditor by the DoE and was stripped of its ability.

Nonetheless, your point is that at the time they were both accredited and those were able to get the federal student loans. I stand corrected.
I have family in Germany and they had a far earlier and stricter lockdowns and far better testing and tracing early on than the UK or US, resulting in far fewer infections. (At least until December or so when things started to look a lot more similar.) With a strict lockdown the effects are of course look not so bad since far fewer people get infected.

How is the FT article cherry-picking? The numbers I referred to are in the section titled, "Death rates have climbed far above historical averages in many countries that have faced Covid-19 outbreaks". They show the total excess deaths since 100 confirmed cases for each country, approximately a year of data for each. These figures are simply the number of deaths from all causes recorded in each country.

From the FT data you can see that Brazil had 23% excess mortality over approximately a year of data. It didn't see the huge early spikes seen in Peru where seroprevalence studies estimate about 40% of people were infected in Lima: https://andina.pe/ingles/noticia-peru-nearly-4-million-peopl... I can't find directly comparable figures for Brazil, but in July in Rio de Janeiro (vs December, though Peru's big outbreak from those graphs was early on) it was around 4% rather than 40%.
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Lots of cool stuff in there, but if you run this without heavy editing you're an fool.
Ah, yes, the Unixness of the Lisa, the LCII, the Quadra, the System 7, Mac OS 8.1, Mac OS 9.2...

So much Unixness on the Mac OS boot ROM, the Pascal API, the lack of memory protection, and so on...
Looks like they are only about 4.5 years overdue
It's not illegal to have copper wallpaper or whatever, if you want to go full faraday cage. Passive signal blocking is legal. There might be a few situations (movie theatre?) where you would want to install a big obvious sign stating that wireless devices will not communicate outside the room. It's really no different than being in the third level sub-basement of a concrete parking garage.

Jammers are not legal, unless you're operating them in a shielded RF test chamber.
> Wouldn't be better to call this "cheat sheet"?

No. A cheat sheet is used as a reference to some subject and is for making it easy to look up things many times, over time. This is something you read through once, apply the full thing / parts and then forget about it. Pretty big difference.
Just to go further down this rabbit hole, this is how that page looks to me without any further interaction:

https://i.imgur.com/Y4argxH.png

They omit all the relevant parts (which you were trying to highlight), and instead show a rant about morse code.

Twitter is truly unintelligible.
We’ve overthrown countries to protect that in the past. Developed countries honesty care little past having access to cheap goods, and any rhetoric that says otherwise needs to be proven in spades before it should be believed
It's an advertisement for a phone.

This phone, however, is very hacker friendly and does things that other phones don't, so we (HN) are interested.
Perhaps it’s that they are tired of zoom meetings and more that they feel a need to meet people in real life.
As someone with a pinephone, I think there needs to be solid development put into two things:

1. Phone calls need to consistently work

2. Signal needs to handle texts

I plan on contributing when I have a tad more time, but I’d actually use the phone full time if it could make and receive calls without error. Can’t do that yet.
I think you are missing my point. I'm sure you could lurk at /r/CreditCards to find young adults getting credit cards with limits of up to $1,500.

My point is that you won't find credit card companies willing to loan those same people $50,000 and they shouldn't. The ability for young adults to easily strap on large amount of debt has inflated the price of college. Banks only do it because they are guaranteed to be paid back. If banks were more strict with their loan requirements, they wouldn't give so much money away and, in turn, there would be fewer students out capable of paying high tuition.

Colleges would be forced to lower costs, ideally to the days where you could afford to pay tuition by working part time.
Never said it was for the 3D rendering. If all my app did was 3D rendering, it wouldn't be an app, it'd be a tech demo.