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Ask HN: How do you track/report open source licenses for legal?
I work for a development shop, and increasingly we have highly-technical software clients with legal counsel requesting that we do not use open source software without approval of the license by their team.

Now, the projects are largely Javascript (Node / React) based, and this gets unwieldily and puts burden on us to make sure our developers understand the license and what the client's legal team will support. Our engineers are not lawyers, they are not well versed in IP law and under time constraints, so its not uncommon to pick out a package without doing due diligence or submitting it for legal review.

A compromise we made with one client, was saying if the package manifest is available for review in Github then they can veto a package that they see as non-compliant or not up to par.

But some of our newer clients' legal depts are taking things a step further, expecting our team to submit the license for review / approval, and attempting to put the burden on my team for legal liability if an OSS license created a conflict later, redlining that into the contract.

This would create a whole new category of additional work and expense that would slow down timelines and inflate the cost beyond where expectations are set.

What is a good way to deal with this? I've chatted about it with our lawyers and other than fighting these redlines in our contracts, we're not clear on whats a reasonable solution going forward.
Couldn’t we just make a fossil?
"Apple definitely cares about its customers being driven away from them."

"Apple doesn’t seem to care about top-grossing scams on the App Store"

Both can easily be true.
> Apple Applogism in the flesh. I wish I had people apologizing and defending my company. Not sure how Tesla/Apple does it.

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> I've already seen a bunch of anit-vaxers referring to this in new articles this morning.

So, take pause and examine the situation. Are these people actually anti-vaxxers, ie they oppose all vaccination due to weird paranoia about autism due to a discredited "study". OR are they against this one vaccine because of political affiliation.

I'm really concerned that if we call out the people who are afraid of this one vaccine as anti-vaxxers that we'll only succeed in introducing them to the wider world of being afraid of all vaccines.

Find a different term so that we don't introduce these two groups of people to one another and give them a reason to join forces.
I Became the Most Hated Man in Tech (2019)
https://silvermistrecovery.com/blog/2018/09/2019-guide-the-l...

It isn't a 1:1 causal link--virtually nothing is. But there's very strong evidence that unprocessed trauma is one of the core drivers of addiction.

It's constructive to think of drugs and addictive behaviors as emotional crutches. You don't help people with problems walking by making crutches illegal; you do so by focusing on treating the root cause, which may include taking the crutch away in a properly supportive therapeutic environment.

I'd also point you to the experiments dubbed "Rat Park" (https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-tea...). Addiction is ultimately a social/emotional disease; the drug/habit is the symptom.
Easy: give the individual states more responsibility. This has already begun. There is really no reason why California and Alabama need to have 100% of the same laws on highly contentious issues.

It's not called the United States for nothing.
Colemak has worse hand alternation than Dvorak and Carpalx does not account properly for this.
Okay, what are some examples of functioning sites or services that work with no moderation?
Thanks for this, will try to remember and use that term instead
> Your chance of dying from COVID is heavily dependent on your age and any preexisting conditions, so any comparison that uses a single probability for everyone is totally wrong for a very large number of people.

It also depends on the rate of community spread (and what's spreading) in the communities you're in.
I’ve been happily using Colemak for 10+ years but recently decided to give Halmak [1] a try. Only a month in so I’m still slow, but it feels really good.

For programming, though, the best decision I’ve made was to add a numpad and common symbols [2] under a second “shift” key to keep my hands on the home row.

[1]: https://github.com/MadRabbit/halmak

[2]: https://andrew.kvalhe.im/+qit9y6o8uodxpiqezpxcaw7css6gtfkp
> The US has by far the most confirmed cases of Covid-19 - more than 31 million - with more than 562,000 deaths, another world high.

The BBC is usually pretty good about sticking to relevant information (at least compared to US media), so I was a bit disappointed to see this blurb - especially since it's only the fourth sentence in the article. What does it add? It has nothing to do with the subject (ie the safety of the J&J vaccine) and isn't even particularly useful data in almost any other context aside from half-baked political jabs between nations.
Lots of marketing lingo in that post which obscures the real change – you can now only have 1 project, 3 files and 3 pages per file on a free account, down from unlimited.
The main feature that pushes my projects from Starter to Professional is Sharing Libraries, aka Component Publishing. It was never possible in drafts or Starter teams, so these changes don't really do much.

Due to the way their prototyping works (not allowing links between pages), I almost always work from one file and one page. Extra limits don't change much.

So, whatever. More editors, good.
Europe survived the invention of the printing press just fine.

The parallels between the internet and the printing press are many.
I worked retail in highschool during the 90s. It was exactly like this. Just because something is possible with modern tech doesn't mean it should be done or is better than bog simple stuff like a log book.
The Finnish context and the American one aren’t really comparable. The USA is an 18th-century project where there was little emphasis on ethnicity. Modern Finland, on the other hand, is the project of 19th- and early 20th-century nationalism where the independent nation would be a home for specifically the ethnic Finnish people, while still providing rights and recognition for the ethnic Swedes (and, by the late 20th century, for the Saami). Complicating matters still further, some of the ideologues of an independent Finland for Finns, were ethnic Swedes who "switched sides", as it were.

wassenaar10’s two posts above are quite reasonable and on-topic, though I can understand how they might sound odd or offensive to people unfamiliar with Finland.
> mostly at companies I had ideological issues around

> I should have gone to a small, cheap island nation and swam with dolphins

> After some months of that, and with enough runway to go for another year, I went back to the game and finished it. Unfortunately, it wasn't as finished as it should have been

> questions about complicated SQL queries (I use an ORM

> they fired me after a few months because they found they couldn't bully me into working longer hours for lower pay.

> I really did say fuck it and just left the country to travel around and work as a digital nomad

I can't believe he'd post this publicly. The reasons he's unemployable are he never dug into the technology he's using, he's bad at finishing things, and he's a bit of a beautiful and unique snowflake.
Why I Quit Google
The federal tax brackets are the same everywhere you go. If you're married and making 350k, most of your income will fall in the ~23% tax bracket. And a small portion will be taxed at 32%.

The main variable is state taxes. If you're living in California, most of your income will be taxed at ~9.3%. With a small portion taxed at 10.3%.

So your marginal tax rate will be 43%, and your overall tax rate will be closer to ~33%.

Nit: USA does not tax bonuses any differently from salary. They are both interchangeable, when computing taxes. Also, all income-percentile metrics in USA are based on pre-tax income, not post-tax.

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/federal-tax-rates-and...

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/california-state-ta...
If a robbery or damaged occured you would know. If you audited the cameras. If you had a second employee.

Tracking location by the second isn't necessary and can be defeated with a rc car and a piece of tape by a 6 year old or robot (the tommy robot from the 80s would be perfect) or drone if you want to stay upto date.
On a Starter team. Drafts are still unlimited.
If we look at entertainment we see that ease of access has increased viewership (consumption). In terms of drugs we want to wean people off of addiction. Of course making drug use less dangerous is better than not, but it does nothing to mitigate the issue of having a population addicted to harmful substances.
They're basically the same thing. Difference is ADHD meds are 5-10mg Meth, or similar drug at a lowish dose, and orally. But you can take meth a low dose and achieve the same effect.

Taking more doesn't help your performance, it makes it worse, and you get way more side effects, especially mental side effects. These build up with time.
> interviews are hard in that they have absolutely nothing to do with your day-to-day job

I often wonder why this is legal, especially given the legal concept of disparate impact. It's basically just a disguised test of some combo of IQ + free time + willingness to grind dubiously useful information
There are also people not experiencing death by misadventure because people are doing fewer outdoor activities and most especially not hanging out with or showing off for the bad influences in their lives.

Also offset by excess deaths over the next few years due to long term effects of a sedentary lifestyle, stress, and all the overcompensating we are likely to see next year with people trying to “make up for lost time”.
Asbestos maybe.
I think it is a disservice to outright label people as anti-vaxers simply for questioning the risk-calculus of vaccines. The (1/7 million) is the current, unconditional and empirically observed adverse effect of the vaccine - this is a somewhat noisy measure of the true prevalence of this issue. It is okay to be cautious and there are legitimate concerns, and quite frankly, I trust the FDA have good reason to pause this if Moderna/Pfizer are readily available anywy. In countries where there are not alternative vaccines available, the risk calculations change, and as such, you might be better off taking J&J or AZ. In any case, to your earlier point of why they stopped it: they didn't stop it because (7/7 million), they stopped it because it was not observed in the trials and now they have to recalculate the risks for various age-groups and inform people, accordingly. If these events were observed in the trials and the prevalence was the same (in trial, and out of trial) then it would not be a cause for concern.

Edit: got the wrong agency, it was FDA, not CDC
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Oil is used for a lot more than just cars: petrochemicals are a massive industry. Everything plastic is a petroleum product. Fertilizer is a natural gas product. About 1/3 of fossil fuel electricity generation is oil (other 2/3s are coal and natural gas). There is no way to stop producing oil while maintaining living standards in the near to moderate future.

The turbine blades on wind farms are composites made from petroleum products. PV arrays are encapsulated in petroleum products. Tires are made from petroleum products. You can make these from renewable sources but it is much more expensive and the supply chains to do so don't exist yet at scale.
that is a great site. To be really honest, Those bugs are not much trouble compared with your service to all. that is really remarkable useful website. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts.
I switched to Dvorak after some 12 years of Qwerty. It took ages and was still 100% worth it.
So he was a no hire? "Poor cultural fit", I'm guessing?

I stopped an interview once. I told the guy I didn't think I'd be a good fit for the organization, and maybe we should save ourselves some time.
I used with a design agency on my current project. Have to say, I was very satisfied by the feature set, considering the output is generally the same as what can be made easily using a common toolset (ie. html/css, it even gives you the CSS when you highlight a component)

It's not a photoshop/illustrator replacement, but I think the agency imported some of the more 'complicated' SVGs and such from another editor.
And India was part of the British empire, Mexico (then called the viceroyalty of New Spain) a part of Spain and the list goes on. Might makes right belongs to a bygone age and people are entitled to self-determination.

To decline to stand up to dictator - nay, a tyrant - such as Putin makes one a coward undeserving of the liberties they were born with.
> If you’re young and healthy, the chances of dying from COVID are basically zero

Death is not the only risk factor. Covid-19 carries the risk of serious complications for those who recover, even including those who are infected but asymptomatic.

https://jacksonhealth.org/persistent-pulmonary-problems-in-a...
Then I'd ask why you trust them with everything else? They can pretty much make you a non-person, or make you disappear, or treat you as sub-human. And they regularly prioritize companies, rich people and other special-interest groups over you.

So yeah, you shouldn't trust them. But right now they are an inevitability with no alternative, so we need to figure out how to solve the problems plaguing us whilst reigning government in and keeping it from overstepping. Some element of "given" trust is necessary for that.

As a side note, seeing as this is a technical space. One reason you should trust their identifiers is the same reason you shouldn't use non-unique natural keys as primary-keys in your database. The identifier is essentially your surrogate key and government is in a very unique position of power/influence that aides it in being a custodian of citizen data.
Which is quite ironic, because to locals the Champs Élysées is known to be a hang-out place for banlieusards, a place where companies have flashy flagship stores, and clueless tourists who do not expect either of those things. If there is a place to have O'Tacos restaurants in Paris, the Champs are far from the worst place.
At my last interview (which happened less than a month ago), I said I used to do "stupid stuff with Raspberry Pis" (my exact words) and I got hired.

Maybe I was just lucky, but I think you don't have to be all "florid", just show enthusiasm when talking about what you did, and it doesn't have to come from the vocabulary; people can tell whether you're enthusiastic from your tone.
Bringing AI to the Edge with Nvidia GPUs
You can keep using your last paid version forever.
Google Brain and NYU Guidelines Address 'Broken' NLU Benchmarking
April 20th Apple Event
Looking at their current iteration of the code, the problem is not in the regex crate's API, but rather on them not having the ownership system internalized yet.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/ and https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings might be good places to visit to gain that experience, as well as improving the specific diagnostics to be more actionable.
> I think that article I linked represents a real risk

The article you linked estimates the risk of DNA integration is three orders of magnitude times lower than gene deactivation through regular mutations. I think we're safe.

> Additional dangers of DNA vaccines include production of anti-DNA antibodies and autoimmune reactions

Any documented cases in clinical trials?
The exact same caveat can be made for people who are vulnerable to the extreme side effects of the J&J vaccine. It depends on specific characteristics of the person taking the vaccine. “any comparison that uses a single probability for everyone is totally wrong for a very large number of people.”
I’ve found strength training far more effective for that than all the equipment money can buy, and I tried quite a bit of it.
> But one day in the far future, I hope, somebody will notice one of my little marbles, pick it up, and wonder what it is, how it was made and even -- if we’re very, very lucky and tales of a glorious civilization somehow persist that long -- who put it there.

That's much more optimistic than Steinbeck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pearl_(novel)#Summary
As someone who generally agrees with the poster you're replying to, yes I would be in favor of a 100% estate tax
IBM picks a name for the GS spinoff and it is bad
> Also, pessimism is so lazy.

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

― Mark Twain

;)

Optimism takes faith or creativity, but both are pretty expensive.
QAnon may prove that (at least some) adults aren't capable of managing their lives or beliefs. Even if that is true, though, free speech is still worth preserving, because the alternative is worse.
Figma is cool, and I still can't believe that such a good product is free. Big kudos to them!

This is something that I've done with Figma, mind that I'm not a graphic designer and this was my first use of Figma:
https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-designs
That's not been the messaging.

Note that other vaccine's that prevent infection also reduce your risk of spreading the disease (measles etc).

So the fact that COVID spreads (not just in rare cases, but enough we all have to remain masked AND socially distant even if vaccinated) is a CRAZY big difference here.

The messaging has been clear - even if vaccinated you MUST wear masks and socially distance - which shows how different this is then other viruses. Given that, it's understandable that people are a bit more meh on the vaccines - because you can still spread it to others either way.

I do wonder about the experts messaging at times. Initially I thought airbone virus, began wearing my leftover N95's from wildfire season. Then they said those don't stop this airborne virus and to take them off. Then they said put them back on. and on it goes.
not unheard of and it seems like a relatively inexpensive way to convert additional business.
That would actually make the problem with scam apps even worse. Getting software on iOS is super easy and safe compared to Windows where you can install any program you like. The amount of scams, malware, etc that regular people get tricked into installing in Windows is immense.

An open ecosystem does have advantages, but reducing scam apps and malware is not one of them.
OpenSearch: AWS rolls out its open source Elasticsearch fork
Project CHIP embraces a timeline and the blockchain
Edited to add the fallacy op was making. That should be enough to make it a substantiative comment.
It's not for speed, it's for comfort/safety. You can type 100 WPM with two fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqyiyh_hrUs

This comes up in every HN post.
And this is exactly how Ukraine came to life in 1991.
My daughter's boyfriend, an RN, has been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. This week, on the advice of hospital management, he is getting the first of two jabs of the Moderna vaccine.

Anyone else heard of this double vaccination approach?
I am gonna melt some pictures and USB sticks inside a marble. Must be doable without destroying it.
I wonder if just business size can be used here rather than monopoly position. If your business is above a certain size, then more restrictions apply to what you can do. The reasoning is that the bigger you are the more people you impact, regardless of your market position and poor behaviors of smaller players to compete with larger players is also an issue. The current economic model of monopolies is very limited in scope (only looks at pricing) whereas there are many negative externalities a business may have beyond just consumer prices. Look at the consumer unfriendly business practices that take hold in industries (eg 24hr fitness famously making it really hard to Vance their service, poor competition on the part of ISPs, etc).
Only to the extent they are able. But you and I are being tracked regardless, by hundreds/thousands of other entities, commercial and government, to the extent they are able. 5G/IoT is the latest weapon in their arsenal.
For a company that spent $6+ billion on a new campus, you'd think they could use even 1/60th of that to implement appropriate controls, especially when they're claiming it's "safe" and that's why it must be the only appstore on iOS.
Overnight on the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was awesome, one of the highlights of all the scouting trips we took. It felt like we had full run of the ship, and my buddies and I explored quite a bit. My first impressions of WWII history and Battle of Midway where USS Yorktown (CV-5) sank were from the tours and videos shown that day.
Ok that's fine, but then I may as well use as much resources as possible because fuck it?

Let's build lots of unsustainable suburbs - I mean literally unsustainable as in we won't be able to pave the roads or repair bridges and then when that happens we'll just build some more and keep doing that over and over and to what end?

I'm anti-communism because command economies suck. I'm capital C Capitalist. But what we're discussing here isn't an economic system, it's a public policy system. The government builds the roads, and creates the building standards, and creates zoning laws, and all of that. The military industrial complex (among other things) helps secure cheap oil to fuel this lifestyle - that costs money. This shit isn't cheap and that's not even taking into account the actual raw materials and resources.

It's absurd that we've intentionally built societies around "one person gets in this 2,000 pound machine and uses it to drive a mile down the road" - you could just build cities better and walk. Hell you can do this and keep your car for these inconsequential use cases. The problem is you're defending the enforcement of car use. That's stupid. Sorry.

The other 3bn people won't get to have the same living standards. The planet isn't big enough. We'll trend toward a median over time instead which will certainly lead to a quality of life change for the west. The question is do you want to be driving a car and paying $15/gallon for gas or would you rather spend $15/lb for a high-quality tuna steak from a local store you can walk to?

I don't view cars as necessary for people to live. There's no reason to design an entire society such that they are necessary, except of course government subsidies to the construction industry (jobs program) and the automobile industry. You complain about communism yet are happy with the government subsidizing unnecessary jobs and construction projects, propping up industries that would otherwise die, and using tools like minimum parking requirements and building new roads to do it.

You can call that ideological as if it's some sort of insult or bad thing. Doesn't really matter much. If I'm ideological and have a vision for how things could be, you're ideological and can't see past how things are today.
"Realize, when you go for FAANG job you are competing with a lot of younger people, "

You know, I think I can understand that simply due to the gigantic amount of in-house legacy code, toolkits, etc. It could be simply that younger people are more likely to take that Sisyphean task on, especially those on their first job. Schools aren't bad at numbing people to be part of a collective.

Maybe it's same to assume that a FAANG is simply the modern equivalent of a defense contractor.
Not a single one of those health authorities allowed vaccine challenge trials. That tells you how much they care about saving lives versus how much they care about not getting blamed for any deaths.