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> How often have you passed up on utilizing and contributing to a great software library just because its open source license was not compatible with your own preferred flavor of open source?

Famously, Sun's implementation of ZFS isn't allowed in the Linux kernel since the CDDL isn't GPL-compatible. But aside from that, are there any other real-world cases of license incompatibilities between two FOSS projects that people would have otherwise combined?

> In order to ensure your project remains completely free and unencumbered by anyone's copyright monopoly

This only works for code contributed back to your repository. Normally, you'd expect phrases like that to refer to forks too, which is what copyleft gives you.
Sorry, if "micro" is bothering you. /s/micro/reasonable-sized/ it's not the point I am making.
Pretty much guaranteed to always be the agony of defeat.
Well if I am, that's a new name to describe me because I've held these beliefs for over 20 years.

You are wrong about climate change. Ask your local weather service, the weather's not what it used to be. When the rich abandon their seaside mansions, you'll be too late, because the mountain retreats they'll go to they've already bought.

No, taxing was invented to fund the government (and later expanded to counter exponential wealth consolidation, but we're not allowed to talk about that very much).

The BLM protests achieved awareness, and that's all that was needed, and that was most certainly warranted.

The c19 lock-downs have since lifted, as we're in a democracy, and a civilized society we do these things for our own good to get out of a prickly situation. I get that for you being uncomfortable for a short while was infuriating, but maybe you'll be stronger the next time around.

I'd like to believe Jesus would be happy to do safety training courses, what does that have to do with anything? Anyway, the way I hear these conservatives talk about socialism, being tolerant to one another I don't think they'd like his TikTok very much at all.
I also noticed that regularly, my YouTube playlist has songs that disappear, and it's hard to know which song it was.
I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that, yes of course a text model can be prompted to behave in all sorts of ways, but maybe the question we should be asking is not "is LaMDA sentient?", but "is the sum of LaMDA, a specific prompt, and an ongoing thread of dialogue sentient?"

I don't think LaMDA is sentient, but it does seem like we're quickly reaching a point where language models (if not now with LaMDA, then in the near future) are able to combine the right prompt along with a chat history to convincingly simulate it.
> We're more beholden to primordial stress responses than we'd like to admit

I completely agree. This is why I don’t think thought terminating cliches are a solution. Our stress response is a policy trained over eons of evolution. We should honor it with real thought and real action.
Oof, that's sad..

I really liked RbW but didn't want to get too invested because it felt like it wouldn't even get a second season. Then the second season was released, got me really invested, and now this, booh!

At least the second season of Foundation is still being filmed, looking forward to that and hopefully that will last past two seasons.

The Three-Body Problem is getting a TV show on Netflix, heard good things about the books, maybe the show can live up to them.
We just value different outcomes, that’s all. You’re emotionally invested in diversity of ecosystem, and if everything sold is a Tesla, I’m fine with that. Legacy automakers have had years to get their act together, to build charging networks, to deliver on electric mobility, and even now they’re just making a half hearted attempt. If you want better outcomes, build better companies. It’s not Tesla’s fault legacy automakers absolve themselves of innovation and speed. They could swing for the fences too if they wanted to, but that is their choice to make.

There’s a reason Teslas sell well: make something people want and they will buy it. GM is discounting their Bolts by $6k and can’t give them away.
Ask HN: AWS CDK Frustrations?
If you use CDK/Infra-as-code equivalent, what are your biggest pain points with it?
I don't think I've been pleasantly surprised by an Amazon purchase in well over five years.

I find I can only trust them with fairly basic items, things with simple manufacture. Or, obviously, books.

I used to rely on them for clothes, but this month I've tried buying and returning the same pair of shoes no less than four times. Each time they got something wrong. This included both first party and third party distribution.

In 2020 I spent a bunch of money on a webcam that simply didn't work. It seemed like the vendor had swapped the item being sold on the same listing, but had kept the earlier reviews. When I remonstrated I was offered a gift voucher to provide a five star review.

There's a whole cottage industry devoted to making money on Amazon through dodgy tactics - brushing scams, sending faulty equipment, or just plain old counterfeits.

From the perspective of this consumer at least, Amazon just aren't a trusted brand. The shoe thing was the last straw. I have no faith in any listings; it's just full of tat from China
Source: https://etudes.developpez.com/actu/256794/A-l-Ecole-42-de-Xa...

(The picture in the middle of the article doesn’t require to understand french to be understood)
Er, when? Apple II was sort of the first big successful home computer, and it had DRAM (The CPU and the display accessed the ram on alternate cycles, and Woz placed the display buffers so that most of the refresh was "free").

As far as I can tell, all the actually widespread successful computers after that have used DRAM too.
It was a fine excuse to have a few big-budget sci-fi themed FX spectacles.

Could have stood to be a full hour shorter, though.
My gosh this. I recently had Windows update on my sons laptop, a 2012 "hand me down" Thinkpad. We'd composed a song together in Ableton that used 4 soft-synths and after the update it could not play the song without pegging the CPU!

I eventually tracked this down to Windows Defender sitting at 40% CPU! Disabling it entirely brought the performance of the laptop back to what it was pre-update.

I find this behaviour extremely disappointing. This is a perfectly serviceable laptop that would have likely been replaced by someone who was less technically inclined had it happened to them and they did not have the wherewithal to track down the offending piece of software.

Your original quote reminded me of a Cormac McCarthy quote which seems to apply to the Windows Defender engineers right now (I kid):

> But when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Ridley Scott is a middling, hit and miss director who has said that if something does well he'll follow up with sequels. It's a kind of throw it at the wall and see what sticks approach as opposed to committing to a vision and knowing when to let it end.

Blade Runner was an ambitious, pretty, ambient but also boring film. To refer to it as the GOAT is hyperbolic. To call Scott a genius etc. because of Blade Runner is also unjustified because all its strengths trace directly to PKD, Syd Mead, Jordan Cronenweth etc.

It's one seriously overhyped film. All subjective of course, but then so are such articles and they arguably add to the hype.
> what could possibly cause this sense of entitlement

You keep typing this out in different words, almost like you're seeking to reinforce over and over that I'm entitled. I see what you're doing, you're heard.

And I'll say what I've said earlier - I feel entitled to be treated well because people generally treat me well.

And your brilliant contribution is "but why should that be the norm?" Thanks.
I find it kindof odd that the Blu-Ray disc adopted Java as a standard, that is, every Blu-Ray disk is really a big Java "applet" that runs on the player. Pretty frequently the "applet" is a stock player with a small amount of customization since Hollywood isn't any more interested in software development than TV station owners: that is, an interactive ATSC 3 TV channel is just a single page app that gets events from a websocket server embedded in the TV.
If I recall correctly, GPT-3 is trained from Common Crawl archives.

Like Internet Archive, Common Crawl does allow websites to "opt out" of being crawled.

Both Internet Archive and Google Cache store the Common Crawl's archives.

It is not difficult for anyone to search through Common Crawl archives. The data is not only useful for constructing something like "GPT-3". Even if one manages to get OpenAI to "remove" their PII from GPT-3, it is still accessible to anyone through the Common Crawl archives.

Common Crawl only crawls a "representative sample" of the www (cf. internet). Moreover, this excludes "walled gardens" full of "user-generated content". AFAIK, it is not disclosed how Common Crawl decides what www sites to crawl. It stands to reason that it is based on subjective (and probably commercially-oriented) criteria.

Common Crawl's index is tiny compared to Google's. Google has claimed there is much of the www it does not bother to crawl because it is "garbage". That is obviously a subjective determination and, assuming Google operates as it describes in its SEC disclosures, almost certainly must be connected to a commercial strategy based on advertising. Advertising as a determinant for "intelligence". Brilliant.

OpenAI myopically presumes that the discussions people have and the "content" they submit via the websites in Common Crawl's index somehow represent "intelligence". If pattern-matching against the text of websites is "intelligence", then pigs can fly. Such data may be useful as a representation of www use and could be used to construct a convincing simulation of today's "interactive www"^1 but that is hardly an accurate representation of human intelligence, e.g., original thought. Arguably it is more a representation of human contagion.

There are millions of intelligent people who do not share their thoughts with www sites, let alone have serious discussions via public websites operated by "tech" company intermediaries surveilling www users with the intent to profit from the data they collect. IME, the vast majority of intelligent people are disinterested in computers and the www. As such, any discussion of this phenomena _via the www_ will be inherently biased. It is like having discussions about the world over Twitter. The views expressed will be limited to those of Twitter users.

1. This could be solution to the problem faced by new www sites that intend to rely on UGC but must launch with no users. Users of these sites can be simulated. It is a low bar to simulate such users. Simulating "intelligence" is generally not a requireemnt.
Sounds like a startup, and with the small scale in mind, it should be whatever the team is most comfortable with. And ideally something that isn’t too hard to hire more people for. Makes me wonder what made them pick Java in the first place for the prototype, if there’s no love for it.

Edit: For task management, issue board etc. it’s probably best to let the team(s) choose/vote for what they enjoy working with, rather than prescribe it from the top. Your process is more important than what task management tool you happen to pick
>>The other, despite the article's unqualified praise of "open up your economy to foreign investment and trade", is trade restrictions and various forms of state meddling to support local industries

A couple counter-arguments to that:

According to Milton Friedman, after Japan was forced by Western powers to remove trade restrictions and drastically lower tariffs in the late 1800s, it prospered, contrary to what the mercantilist theories of the time predicted:

https://youtu.be/CWgNe8v6KFc?t=322

Also, there is much evidence dispelling the mythologized account of MITI's role in the expansion of the Japanese economy specifically:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/JapanandtheMythofMITI.h...

The article notes much more foundational properties of the 50s/60s Japanese economy, like a smaller portion of private sector output being taxed to support the public sector, as more likely causes of its growth:

>>"The fact that the tax burden is unusually low by the standards of other developed countries may alone be a significant factor in the explanation of the high rate of private saving and investment in Japan." From 1951 to 1970, while Japan's real GNP was growing at an average of 9 percent per year, total national and local taxes (excluding social security) fell from 22.4 percent of national income to 18.9 percent. This left more money for people to save and invest. Compare Japan's situation with the United States, where the proportion rose from 28.5 percent to 31.3 percent. Interestingly, Japan's two decades of greatest postwar growth were also its decades of lowest taxes. During the seventies, as Japan's taxes rose to 22.8 percent of national income in 1980, real GNP growth declined to only 4.8 percent. Higher taxes weren't the only reason for this deteriorating performance, of course; oil price increases also contributed.

This graph demonstrates how much lower social welfare spending used to be in Japan:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...
While the DMCA might not oblige google to do any of that they could do it off their own back. Given that a few dodgy DMCA notices can effectively shut down a channel (which could be someone's livelihood) it doesn't seem that unreasonable.
>> the developers are saying "we will treat you this way regardless of how you treat us"

> in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance

I have a lot more respect for people whose ethics are not conditional on the behavior of others.
There is very real and consequential disconnect between actual policy and polling, however. A fringe minority is setting policy for the majority, and will for the foreseeable future. If only more people were voting, the outcome would match the polling. Most Americans don't vote, and there are consequences for them and everyone else too.

Lincoln established in his 1st inaugural address that the judiciary did not have a monopoly on constitutional interpretation. if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

Second, Lincoln asserts the importance of majority rule. The majority is the only true sovereign of the people. Unanimity is impossible, therefore either the majority or minority must acquiesce in a dispute, or the government ceases, he said. And it is untenable long term for the majority to acquiesce to the minority in anything approximating a representative democracy. Yet this has happened twice in a decade, two presidents elected by a minority (not even a plurality), with consequences that directly results in the three justices on the Court today completely out of touch with either 20th or 21st century women's rights, calling back to the 19th century by their repugnant reference to Sir Matthew Hale and self evidently misogynist founders.

Third, Lincoln asserted the federal government is the sovereign of the nation and of the national people, that the Union cannot be dissolved for it would be a government terminating itself. And in effect it was turtles all the way down if a precedent is set that minorities can cause the termination of a country.
Regarding that last sentence, it's the exact opposite experience for me.

I see multiplayer experiences as just a past time, and singleplayer experiences the one that can have a meaning and are valuable by themselves.

I think the key point here is what singleplayer games are we talking about, because the offer is more varied than ever.
I also saw Blade Runner in its original theatrical release, and it's still the version I prefer. In this case I think the studio heads did Scott a backhand favor by ending the film as they did.

Spoilers:

If, as depicted in the original release, Deckard is human and Rachael is a replicant, then the movie is a true love story. The message of a true love story is that the Other is as deserving of love and dignity as I am. It's the message of Romeo and Juliet, Frankenstein and To Kill a Mockingbird, to name three offhand.

Whether your allotted lifespan is four years or threescore and ten, if you understand that you don't know how much time you really have, then you are entitled to the full measure of decent regard and respect the melancholy of that understanding earns. Batty bought that respect for Deckard and Rachael's sake. Thus the original ending is moving, and completes the film's overall themes.

If Deckard is also a replicant, as subsequent versions try to establish more and more explicitly, then of course he's going to want to be with Rachael. It's a no-brainer, it's no sacrifice, and there's no moral revolution of the characters. In which case I don't really know what the movie is supposed to be about. Boy robot meets girl robot, boy robot loses girl robot, boy robot gets girl robot? Boring. Definitionally cliché.

I suppose the realization of it is supposed to be some kind of shocking twist, but to me it simply empties the film of meaning.
No they should not otherwise random thieves and/or idiots will raid the site and destroy the real archeological value ...
Not gonna say they're in the same league, but I quite enjoyed Possessor, Annihilation and Arrival.

But I agree it's hard to beat "the originals". I've come to the conclusion that it's probably just as much me that has changed.
> You should organize each day as if it were your last, so that you neither need to long for nor fear the next day.

I've come to find this "live each day like it's your last" advice to be pretty unhelpful. My favorite quote about it is, "all that goes to show you is some people would spend their last day giving you stupid advice".

The problem is that if it actually was your last day, most people would give the finger to all of their responsibilities and go party, eat cake, see friends, familiy, lovers, etc. Which is simply not an actual way to live your life. It's a way to exit your life.

An alternative framing that I've come to find more helpful is to take your life expectancy, and cut it by 2/3. Now what do you do? For example, if you're 20 years old and your life expectancy is 80 (ie. 60 more years), pretend that you only have 20 more, so you'll only live until you're 40. It's nice cause it naturally adjusts as you get older. You'll have smaller windows to work with.

This approach strikes a nice balance. It gives you enough time to be able to really do something and change directions if you want. But not so much time that you can really waste any. It forces you to ask the hard questions about whether your day to day is truly connecting with your dreams, and whether you're on a path to get there.

Of course, Seneca didn't have life expectancy tables to work with. But I think he would have approved. :)
But if you replaced the setting with a mundane one the movie would be a generic film noir.

It only works because of the combination of the setting and the story.
Well I don’t think you’re a psycho for talking to you. Say hi to you for me sometime.
This point seems incongruous to me, without its opposite:

"45. Be in dread of hell."

In zeal for mutual understanding, and practical fruit in general solutions that solve problems escaping a single perspective, would be that opposite for me.

We cannot approach the sublime within ourselves by fear, in my opinion.

There are a few other well-known teachings that appear to be missing from these rules, the first among them is the New Commandment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Commandment
> branchless programming

On that note, why aren't we calling it "bamboo code"?
Meh - it's quite good.

On IMDB rankings the best three are Inception, The Empire Strikes Back and The Matrix.
I think the overhead here is not devops itself. Docker and the tools like ansible that have evolved until now are really much more useful than the scripts, etc we had back then.

The overhead is paying thousands for AWS/Azure/whatever cloud services for your little internal company server or small SaaS when you could just get some on prem servers and host it yourself. A lot of people have been sold on proprietary, fancy stuff like ec2 and lambdas that lock you in just to suck more money out of you.

Of course, failure redundancy should be also worked into this, but even hosting in 2 locations is much cheaper than feeding the hungry cloud beast.
I think its pretty clear that some people just don't get on, so I don't think its true that basically any two people can "be the one". You need some kind of shared values and ideals first. Beyond that though, I think most people can work if both are willing to work on it. My main point is that a belief in the romantic notion of someone being "the one" seems to give people a false sense of complacency: if they're truly "the one", then surely you don't need to work on the relationship, and if the cracks start to show, that's clearly a sign that they weren't actually "the one". In reality, life isn't so rosy and we have to work on our relationships, even if we get on amazingly well with that person.
Remote may be a bit of a misnomer. The CKL KVMs ( https://cklkvm.com/ ) have a wired remote.

That said, the “remote” is pretty simple. It uses what looks like a mini-A to mini-A USB cable, but they use the connector as a 6th pin. I needed the remote to be further away, so I cut the stock cable and used 6 wires of an Ethernet cable to add an extra 15ft.
Demand for housing in Atherton isn't high because Atherton's rules made Atherton nice. If Atherton allowed high-density condos to be built, demand for housing in Atherton would not decline at all, because Atherton's "character" has very little impact on its desirability. Demand for housing in Atherton is high because of its location, full stop, and its location is attractive because Bay Area residents started businesses in cities adjacent to Atherton, and because Bay Area taxpayers built a Caltrain stop in Atherton. People who own property in Atherton have massively benefitted from their proximity to the tech world, while refusing to contribute to housing its workers. Atherton houses 13x fewer people per unit area than San Francisco. Its landowners are like Hacienda ranchers, or feudal lords given exclusive rights by the government to manage profitable land to their own benefit, at the expense of the peasants who actually make that land valuable. Fuck their exclusivity.
> We just value different outcomes, that’s all.

Ah, so now you've changed your tune. It's no longer that I despise Tesla, it's just that we value different outcomes.

Your vacillation is boring and dishonest. You should try harder to keep your story straight.
Thanks, Perhaps I was paranoid but I have had several users reported to me "I have never shared my phone numbers with Linkedin or on social media". The data is very current afaik since I have had users who only recently joined getting CEO gift card sms.
Is there anything more pathetic than pretending that not being able to argue against something and escaping with "this just further proves my point" is an own? Probably not.

Pedophilia enjoyer.
Trying to do DevOps without any [sysadmins, network engineers, DBAs, security specialists] is like trying to write an accounting system without any CPAs, or manage a chemical processing plant without any chemical engineers. Reading the books as a substitute for experts with experience only works a little way.

The point of DevOps was to take that experience and multiply its effectiveness through the tools of modern software development.