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You can get hired by a Silicon Valley company that have a presence in Europe.

You won't get a salary as high as Silicon Valley itself but it will still be much higher that other companies, and the work will be pretty similar.

However I think you're mistaken about quality of life between US and Europe (I've lived in both) or it really depends what country you're talking about.

First of all you're talking about standard of living - and it's not lower at least in western Europe (Germany, France, UK, etc...) It's similar to US. Regarding quality of life, I'd argue that it's higher in Europe because of health care, better work balance, better town planning, etc.

You're talking about car ownership like it's an indicator of quality of life, on the contrary we have a single car in my family even though we can definitely afford a second car and I couldn't be more happy to be able to live without taking my car for every single trip.
1770 films so far and as a European I'm more in awe with early Iranian cinema than ever. Definitely a world away from Hollywood, in the best possible sense.
> Developers are users too. They use code.

The whole point of the GPL is that the reverse is true as well. If I - the user of the software - wants to become a developer of this software I can only do so if I have access to the source code.

That is not "mandating behaviour", if you are the original developer of a piece of software, you are free to take it closed source any time you wish.

If you benefitted from having the code of your software available to you, why would you want the right to prevent someone else to benefit in the same way ?

I am genuinely curious why that makes you feel so attacked.
There will be more strains than there are letters in Greek Alphabet. So brace yourself for Delta 2 or Lambda 2.
Maybe so, but there are a bunch of people quietly watching the situation that absolutely hated right-wing cancellations and that find to their surprise that they also hate left-wing cancellations.

To many it seems like while bigotry used to be the best way to bully and intimidate people, now performative anti-bigotry is the best way to bully and intimidate people. So what we see is merely an evolving toolset for sociopaths.
I’m aware, that’s why I said « I heard ». I feel that someone who quotes a rumor as a fact doesn’t really need to actually have seen it anywhere, they can just make it up all the same.
Why does that matter? Think of this from the perspective of a bootcamp grad working in tech, for example. That person might want to complement their practical skills with theoretical knowledge and deeper understanding. That understanding can help them hone their skills and develop professionally as an engineer.

There are lots of people for whom this content is very valuable. Many of those people don't necessarily care about being able to use the title "computer scientist" is totally irrelevant. I have a degree in computer science but I don't call myself a computer scientist.

I don't see the reason to disparage the content because it doesn't come with the title. Maybe I'm missing something you can share?
They should just shut their dev center in India and ask staff to relocate.
The government can easily block them, but the optics of that would not look right. So this whole play around law and regulations.
well there is DesqviewX, so someone could use remote X apps
, I am not sure if QEMM is working well with FreeDOS.
No, COVID-19 came from Wuhan, regardless of theory.

The CCP banned domestic air travel from Wuhan to other cities in China early in the pandemic, so the CCP knew at the highest levels where it came from. The various crematoria in Wuhan worked around the clock for months.
some interesting sweeping generalisations there...
It's not just $300m. It's $300 for storage. I'm sure they spend more on the GCP platform.

They also use AWS, which is over $350m a year. That contract ends in a year or two.

Afaik, they don't run on azure anymore.

It's not hard to believe they're spending $1B+ on external cloud partners.

At $57B net revenue ($274B), a high margin space such as the cloud services could make sense. Although if they're not selling it to the public it would only account for 1-2% net revenue.

Apple likes to learn from companies.. Soon there will be an Apple cloud using low energy ARM (M1X) servers. Let's call it the "Digital Apple Tree". Maybe a small reference to the DAT recorder, as Apple likes music. Of course this last part is just made up ;-)
Absolutely.

It’s not the only antidote to copyright, though. Dismantling the current legal system that is designed to protect profits above human need could solve the problem more permanently.
There’s probably a cosmic gravitational wave background “behind” the cosmic microwave background, but given that the gravitational wave events we can currently only just detect are multiple stellar masses of radiated energy, I doubt we’ll be able to see that background until after we can build a Dyson swarm.
I live in Portugal and I can't think of any job that can give you better quality of life (without family/party/etc connections) than software development.

I have friends leaving other jobs, that they spent years in university for, and have some years of experience in, for an entry-level frontend development job that pays double after a few months bootcamp.

Maybe you can't get filthy rich as easily, but I don't see that as a bad thing, my life is comfortable and I'm better off at 26 than almost anyone I know in other jobs, even people much older than me.

Sure, if you're a doctor or a lawyer you might be paid a bit more than a dev, but with much more hours per week, a very stressful work environment, and less respect. It's also much harder to quit and switch companies if you don't like what you're doing.
> The U.S. is almost entirely alone among developed nations in lacking universal healthcare

Right, I obviously have a huge problem with that situation. I was referring to this part (inserted below) in your original comment, which draws an implication between universal healthcare and paying insurance bills. The US is far from the only developed nation to have private insurance providers with insurance premiums. For instance, here in Switzerland which is admittedly something of an outlier, the average adult pays over $200 per month in premiums. I believe many other central European countries are around $100/mo or perhaps a bit less.

> Being grateful to your country for giving you the opportunity to work to pay insurance bills to have a child, because there's no universal healthcare?

(In fact, most of the systems that seem to score highest in efficiency according to reports I've seen rank these public-private systems in countries like the Netherlands or Germany higher than nationalized systems, but I still don't actually prefer it having lived in both the US and another developed nation with a relatively functioning system of private insurers.)
Alienation from? The academic community? I question whether those are the folks this content targets.
Because you don't stand on the shoulders of giants?
It's pretty disparaging that there are people on HN who feel confident enough to enter into discussions about software licencing —albeit on a throwaway account— but don't understand that software can have more than one license.

I'd like to think I do understand all sides of this, but I will admit AGPL does give me pause for thought. It makes sense for standalone projects which don't have to be integrated. But at component and library level, when there's so much MIT/BSD/etc on npm/pypi/etc, I don't have to think about it.

Does make me wonder why there isn't an ALGPL: "Use my network-expressed component as you like, but if you alter its source, you also need to redistribute the changes under the same license"…
I'm sure many companies use google cloud...
Programs are riddled with mistakes. Just because you can point a finger and say zero-day, doesn't mean that there's a single solution to this problem. Nothing _is_ safe; life is inherently unsafe.
Does that copyright, coming back, have any actual consequences?

What people mean by virality is not some copyright coming back; it's the fact that GPL "spreads" via linking. And that does have consequences: it's where license incompatibility comes from, and it's also why you can't use GPL-ed code with code under other (Open Source) licenses.
The first line doesn’t check if is the void **r pointer is null before the dereference. The incorrectness starts there.
That’s a fair argument to make, even though my counter point would be that first and foremost the (A)GPL excludes a community of developers who need to earn a living with their work. In fact, the FSF will call this “morally tainted”. That being said, the free software purists aren’t a particularly tolerant community.

And again, I actually like and endorse copyleft in the form of the LGPL. So basically a license that can co-exist with others and doesn’t force it’s ideology on other people and their work.
Or even more interesting, the original sources from CBM:

https://github.com/mist64/cbmsrc
Yes alienation from the academic community
How close is the Pinephone though?

The Raspberry Pi is "usable" as a desktop, so I can't imagine the PinePhone being too different?
You have not understood my point at all. If you think I feel attacked in response to a comment laboriously explaining why two sides have been locked in pointless battle for decades, you’ve taken a point of view from me that simply doesn’t exist. The conclusion you’re drawing, particularly that I have any interest in denying someone rights or that my criticism of GPL implies a wish to harm others’ freedoms, is interesting in itself and speaks to what I’m saying (and some I’m not).

I prefer offering more rights to all my users, including those GPL advocates tend to perceive as exploitative, which is why I use more permissive licenses than GPL in my software. I don’t lose sleep over Boeing patching a random library I wrote and not sharing the patch. It’s genuinely that simple. We have different priorities and shit we care about, and I can have mine without excluding yours or entering a confrontation where someone feels “attacked” over IP law (of all the things).

And no, what you’re saying isn’t the whole point of the GPL. I’ll give you a point but there are plenty of other rationales behind it, many spoken in this thread.
> London on the other hand, sounds liky it's almost a requirement there at this point

I live in Lisbon. Most people don't have AC at home, we survive.
Unless you have a passion and you know it, you will always be lost. Keep looking for it and enjoy life in the process. There is always the chance that you do not even have one and you prefer chilling with mates at a beach.

At the age of 30 I moved to another country without speaking the language and without any degree or certificate. At this point I had worked in more than 15 different jobs, sales, promotion, tourism, waiter, Quality assistent in a laboratory, logistics, office worker etc and had quit my studies as a Civil Engineer. 6 modules before my degree.

In the new country I worked for the first two years in warehouses and factories without getting any qualification. Learned as much as I could the language and after those two years I started learning in a 6 months distance learning program how to make websites. I saw for the first time in my life what is html, css, javascript etc. Before that the only thing I would do with my computer was watch movies and play games.

After 6 months I finished this course and started at another school learning more about developing. Java, SQL etc.

It took me another two years to finish and at the age of 35 I landed my first job as Backend developer.

Right now I am 37 and a junior backend developer. At the same time I grew interest about blockchain technology and now I am being part of the IOHK (Cardano) pioneer program for Plutus platform and want to learn how to make smart contracts.

I feel lost too.

I like everything and get bored by everything. On one hand I am looking for stability, on the other hand I am really bored by doing the same thing all the time.

This summer, during my vacations and while doing the IOHK program, I will decide if I want to change again and move into blockchain jobs.

If I take this step it means that at the age of 38 I will be a junior developer in smart contracts.

Will this be my final step? Will this become my passion?

Maybe. Maybe not.

Relax and do what interests you and makes you happy until it doesn't.

Then move on.
Thanks for clarifying the etiology of that nagging feeling that I've had in recent years about online behavior.

Now I know why the only thing I do online these days (besides work-related things, HN occasionally or utilities like navigation) is participating in (pre-weird times) "human scale" communities and non-commercial browsing.

Much of the rest feels so synthetic, unrelatable or incomprehensible it might be best to live in ignorance of it. These dynamics leave their confines soon enough anyway.
Most reasonable people agree that copyright on creative works is a good thing, but it has to be short. 10 years is plenty. What we currently have is "life plus 70 years"! That means well over 100 years. 100 years! It's totally insane, but most people just don't question it.

Are we really to believe that there is anyone out there encouraged to write because they know their work will still be copyrighted for 70 years after they die?
>and yet all my apple devices from before 2018 are essentially now bricks.

I doubt many 2017 and 2016 models are "now bricks", though "before 2018" might also mean "2012" or so.

In any case, none of them is a "brick". Even the unreleased Monterey version, post AS reveal, still supports tons of pre-2018 models:

MacBook: Early 2016 and newer
MacBook Air: Early 2015 and newer
MacBook Pro: Early 2015 and newer
Mac Mini: Late 2014 and newer
iMac: Late 2015 and newer
iMac Pro: Late 2017
Mac Pro: Late 2013 and newer

And of course Big Sur continues to work on even earlier models.

A very similar story is true for iOS devices - which is in fact a much better story than vendor Android support (which usually is 3 years max) or Windows Phone (which was discontinued altogether).
The Pi 4 uses DRAM with on-die ECC, which AFAIK does not provide any means of reporting errors (corrected or uncorrected) to the SoC's memory controller. It is effectively a cost-saving measure to improve DRAM yields. As such, it does little to guarantee that there are no memory errors.
iCloud _is_ encrypted (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303), but it's not End to End encrypted, meaning Apple holds the keys, not you.
one thing someone explained to me, is that there is actually strategy!

how? well you can manage your cyclist team's resources (leg muscles, stamina, etc) throughout each stage to try and win. Or for example, knowing when to draft and when to cycle fast.

As it is impossible to "just" cycle as fast as you can.
>and the characters basically having the acting skills of cardboard cutouts

Neil Patrick Harris!
I love it when a plan comes together. ;-)
So, without GPL, how would Oracle render RedHat useless with telemetry? And why didn't it prevent the Audacity drama?
Great this is an excellent sentence lol! Thanks so much for your input!
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(See my reply to parent.)
If there's no reason for the user to share the data, 99% won't, if only because it's the quickest option to get it out of the way.

My suggestion would be to give a reason, however small, to send that email. For example, "Would you like to vote on which of these four issues from our roadmap you would like us to prioritize?" (best asked after a bit of usage, rather than on first installation).
It's easier and more cost effective to buy a proprietary license from the author.
so those infected survivors got much closer than the healthy ones and yet survived. Sounds like a [harsh] filter for the high survivability traits which may be beneficial for the population, and that may explain why the [susceptibility to the] infection hasn't been selected out.
> Does make me wonder why there isn't an ALGPL: "Use my network-expressed component as you like, but if you alter its source, you also need to redistribute the changes under the same license"…

I'm fairly sure there's a GPL like that, either the GPLv3 or a version of the AGPL. It definitely doesn't let you alter the source for network servers, though, exactly like you say.
Of course the theory is used that way, it fits nicely into various political arguments. But that doesn't influence the veracity of the lab leak theory either way.

Looking at the article, it also uses weak arguments to support its thesis:
"She first takes aim at the popular version of the lab leak theory that posits that Covid was taken from nature and escaped in its wild form. The problem with that scenario, she told me, is that a swab from a bat contains very little infectious virus. Each bat weighs less than half an ounce, and each sample is basically a Q-tip swiped briefly over a bat’s mouth or anus. These samples are stored in vials in the freezer; they’re not likely to spill or leak, the way disaster movies have primed us to suppose."

The real-world counter-argument to this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus

Lab leaks do happen, and all researchers in those labs do have an interest to play down the danger and cover things up to continue working.
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They used to be the poster-child for app-engine.

Don’t know if they still are, but they are not only using, but deeply embedded in GCP.
I agree. Standards or requirements should be enforced, and if there's a failure in the company's infrastructure, a panel should investigate if it was due to negligence or non-compliance with the standards. Also, insurance should be mandatory. If a given online platform was a physical piece of infrastructure like a school or a bridge, current state of affairs would cause an uproar.
I appreciate that there are other people taking the time to create something like SE-radio, getting interesting individuals on to talk about interesting topics and then giving it away for free (I do not consider it payment to listen to an occasional ad for 10 seconds).

But I have tried so many times to start listening to SE-radio and always given up do to the audio quality. It is so grating when the interviewer and interviewee have drastically different volumes and quality.

This may have been fixed by now, as it has been around two years since I last tried.
Where did you get these sentences from, was it a book?
It is. Light travels one lightyear per year.

Although, when you have to account for anything in relativity, the expansion of the universe included, you have to be pedantic about what you mean by both distance and time because they’re both observer-dependent, albeit in a way that keeps the speed of light itself a constant.
The profit does not come from the source code, but from the assets.

There are games which are fully opensource, but where you have to pay for the assets (and where the source code was released at the same time as the rest of the game). This was not the case for doom, but the demo for doom was free and came out at the same time; the engine was always freely available.
We like to critique design of websites and apps. Yet we struggle to give many examples of what well-designed ones look like.

Surely things aren’t all that bad, and Apple's website isn't the only one to look up to?

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These are ranked purely based on user experience design by industry professionals and general public — all using universal scoring system called UX Points®.
Thanks so much I will check it out!
India could prohibit companies doing business in India from doing business (read: advertise) on Twitter. That's the real threat.
The 1571 also has a 6526 with a working hardware shift register in it, which is connected to the serial bus. Should allow for higher bitrates out than the CPU alone could support.
>> The move comes as tension escalates between the Indian government and Twitter. Google, Facebook, and several other firms have partially or fully complied with the IT rules, which among other things, requires any significant social media firm (any firm with over 5 million users in India) to appoint a chief compliant officer, a resident grievance officer, and a so-called nodal contact person to address on-ground concerns.

FB, Google have appointed the chief compliant officer, but why Twitter doesn’t want to do it?
What is the point in releasing your code as GPL anyway? If you've solved some interesting problem, then people can read your code to figure it out and then reimplement it, and no one will ever find out.
What if the user encrypted and stored the data on their own storage media. It might actually be beneficial because it eliminates dependence on a third party, i.e., a point of failure. "It might also speed up access to data."
So, as you can see, there's nothing to gain from GPL in this scenario: the choice is between Sony not upstreaming their changes because they don't want to (BSD), or not upstreaming their changes because they couldn't use your code in the first place (GPL).

With Android, Google wanted to give their changes back, so they were able to use GPL-ed code. They would give the changes back without GPL too. You can see that with non-GPL-ed projects they contribute to.
> symbol: Sv

Oh my... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
I guess his point is that the we haven't seen a big community fork of the code with FOSS games being released, etc.

There's been a handful, but nothing like the flurry of Unity games, etc.
> “Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?”

Dogmatism usually means this.
Is a CS degree important nowadays? I do have one, but literally no one mentioned or asked about my education during an interview, ever.
Do you know any kid that signed up for math drills? It's nearly always imposed by parents or teachers.
What is in CS that makes it a field that can be self taught? Can you become a self taught physicist? I think you can't. Then what is the difference between studies in CS and physics?
>Well, as someone who stays on slightly old versions of iOS, that I can't even order food off of DoorDash is pretty frustrating.

Well, the idea with iOS/macOS is "Have a recent OS+Device, we change things all the time and demand that everyone moves along in 5-6 years or so".

With Windows it's "We support 20+ years old programs just fine. If you're OK with having to deal with 8+ layers of GUI code and legacy cruft, we're your thing".

It's not like this hasn't been the case for decades, for it to be a suprise...
Why is that?

I find it equally obvious that China released the virus to attack the world. Exhibit A: China only have 92.000 cases total and no new cases in like a year. Point is I have a hard time believing what’s true or false when the ”fat cats dance”. Atleast it’s no secret that China have silenced doctors and people working in close proximity of the virus in the early days of discovering it.
Well, a (more) compact bytecode representation is one of the design decisions made for web assembly... That is one reason why it is a stack machine.
It's depend on what is considered usable for daily tasks. I don't think there is a modern OS as small as DOS which can run FireFox or Chromium, but NetBSD and OpenBSD have kernels smaller than FreeBSD and much smaller than Linux, but still can run most modern open-source software including browsers.
bipartisan support is not for wars, it's for military conflicts, meaning wars that has no impact on Americans directly(outside of the conflict zone) a war with a major army will affect Americans, so it has no support of a cynical political class.
And locations, surely? To minimize latencies.