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>GPL forbids me from sharing opensource code between work and hobby projects

You still retain copyright unless signed to transfer it. So if it's your own code you can share. Many projects are even dual-licensed so they can develop in open source manner but also be possible to be sold for commercial use. Now if you just want to take code from someone's else GPL-licensed project without sharing your own, well, unfortunately not possible.
I was skeptical, the site seemed to only show renders, nothing practical.

It looks real though: https://simonhackett.com/2021/05/23/redflow-gen3-zbm/

Datasheet: https://redflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/RDF1199-Redfl...

Nothing on price
With all these layoffs though, it's perverse because the people being laid off are practically never the people responsible for the problems. Laying aside Mark Zuckerberg's personal responsibility for lighting billions of dollars on fire for nothing, the reason there's a massive swathe of middle management in Meta is because that's what Meta's management team decided to reward. If you were a good IC, you got made a manager. Now they've got tonnes of managers doing nothing and instead of saying "Ok, let's take a look at senior leadership and figure out where the weak leadership is that led to this situation", the answer is to fire a load of top performers (that's why they got made managers!) and let the people who made the mistakes continue to coast. The exact same problems are going to happen again, because whilst they'll do a detailed post-mortem for 5 minutes of downtime, no one is interested in a post-morterm for 5,000 fired engineers.
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This event happened February 3rd.

11 DAYS AGO.
Thanks for proving OPs point.
TL;DR: big corps are clueless and nobody there got fired for hiring equally clueless big-name consultancies who pretend to be confident
A couple of weeks ago I said it makes sense to be skeptical and critical of new technologies, especially when they are made by big people, and was criticized for this. I think you hit the nail on the head. The problem is that technology is not only what it is, per se, but also what we want it to be. So people want to believe, much more than they actually need the thing in practice. And the people who build the technology are aware of this, and make use of it for their benefit. In some instances, the market is far from being a competition based only on skills and product quality. There is a lot of fantasy, too.
Globalization was meant to make us all happy friends but that wasn’t enough for some countries who feel that they should rule the world.
> this argues that you want people whose true values match your stated goals, and you should ignore their stated goals.

Only if your goal is your stated goals and not your true values, which by definition it isn't.
Absolute Streisand-Effect here.
I have built professional, scientifically sensitive, important apps with Lua.

A recent project involved doing fluidic particulate quantification in an embedded, field portable instrument, which was delivered on time and under-budget - and represented a major revenue source for the customer (40 million dollars worth of orders) when it was shipped. The client was told it "could not be done" with the hardware as specified - not only did we do it with Lua, it has since been widely recognized as the most advanced bit of architecture the company has implemented for its instruments ..

Lua is not just for games. Games are a good place to learn Lua, though.
For many companies, throwing a bit of cash at Open Street Map is incredibly cheaper than going with commercial alternatives.

Wikipedia, I honestly don't know. I suspect they live on charitable grants by institutional actors.
Interesting. What is the added styling complexity? I am interested in using Shadow DOM for the next version of my component DataGridXL (https://www.datagridxl.com/) to prevent outside CSS from affecting the component. WHy do you say it is not worth it?
> My understanding is that the employees are the largest shareholder of Facebook

The employees are not a shareholder, largest or otherwise. If you counted them as one, though, sure, they’d be the largest, trivially, since as CEO Zuck is an employee, and he, considered alone, is already the largest single (individual or institutional) shareholder by a very large margin, Vanguard and BlackRock are #2 and #3, and together have less than Zuck does.
>I think in this case the impacts are "access to the model pre-prompting" which is low impact if it doesn't have secrets in it

Except in the case of fine-tuned models where the training samples and pre-prompts are the secret sauce...
> Most people commenting here haven’t lived in a pre-globalized world.

You're probably using "globalization" as "trade, communication, and, to a lesser extent, travel, on a global scale".

They're using "globalization" as "the process seeking to erode sovereign countries, national identities, and distinct cultures, until the only remaining force and identity are corporate international conglomerates, free to do as they please since all competing systems of belonging and organization have been eliminated."

In their view, globalization is not complete until all "discrimination" by a formerly sovereign nation is made toothless. I put "discrimination" in quotes, because while it probably makes you think of whites-only water fountains, I am referring to things such as Article 27 of Mexico's constitution forbidding the sale or privatization of indigenous land, or Canada's ban on foreign house buyers [1]. I.e. discriminating against non-Canadians, or non-indigenous-Mexicans. Laws that see people as not just "global citizens", but local ones.

That NAFTA did in fact involve the cancellation of Article 27 [2], that the 100 orders imposed on Iraq included a prohibition against saving newly designed seeds [3], and that "free trade" agreements in general involve a host of demands that go far beyond lowering tariffs, implies the view of "globalization" as merely trade is incomplete, and that seeing it as a force opposing sovereign nations is more accurate.

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/who-s-exempt-from-canada-s-f...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agre...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Orders - order 81
"When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
The story here is less about the train and more about the lack of response. Which is why it took a while to get where it is.

People said it was unsafe.

Officials disagreed.

Proof is provided.

Nobody has pie on their face.

The story is about a lack of pie.
Fair is not the right word. Your house, your rules.
It really depends where you are. On one hand side, Matt Levine is a journalist. On the other, so are people in the Daily Mail. Yet, there's a massive difference there.
I think I will see this now
My solar panels were free, I got them in 2021. The local council installed them. They came the same week I applied and were really pleased to do it because they were under pressure as they're meant to get X household a month to hit an annual target and were badly behind.

https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/news/2021/free-solar-panels-barking-...

(there is now an income limit which I disagree with but whatever...)

I told my neighbours and enthusiastically recommended them.

They "weren't sure". Here we are 2 years later and they're concerned about energy prices.

The problem here is not and should not be money. I'd be all for free insulation, solar panels, better boilers, etc. And we rightly already do all that.

Then people say no because doing things is scary and why bother when you'll just be bailed out? That's the "small-c conservative" mindset we need to get out of. It causes 101 other social issues too but now I am just ranting.

I hope the link above inspires others to get them too
For sure. I hope it helps others to understand how an eng org should be run, so that they can help adjust their org’s approach. If incentives and process aren’t set up right, there’s only so much you can do to bandaid over the dysfunction.
BBC India offices searched by income tax officials
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Yea collecting sci fi ideas is fun but writing a book is wayyy too hard sadly ...
Wow I’ve not heard this one before? Who said this? I love it.
Come to think of it, if the Chinese want this balloon back, does it make it more or less likely that this is a US balloon?

(then again, if it is, presumably the US wouldnt simply hand them back "as is", so not sure what kind of endgame that would serve)
I’m sure you’re familiar with supply and demand. The investment in green tech is driven by price of renewables compared to price of fossil fuels.

A big decline in supply of fossil fuels (which is what has happened in Europe due to the war) shifts the trade-off significantly in favor of green energy. This shift can be so dramatic that it drives up the short term cost of green energy. That’s a good problem to have because it just means demand is really high, which can be solved by more investment in the supply side.

Your thesis that this would somehow reduce investment is completely backwards. You sell pickaxes during a gold rush, not before or after.
How about squid or another straight up http cache?
I'd love to see that, but I don't think it'd work because most people aren't capable enough to disinfect their machines and you can't just block their access to the internet.

I expect locked down devices like cell phones and tablets to be less problematic in that regard (but maybe that's not true at all), so maybe the home-botnet-issue will resolve itself as more and more people stop using personal computers?

I have no way to tell how the big Cloudproviders actually handle it. I've occasionally reported persistent phishing campaigns to SES & similar providers and never really got a reply. I've reported a DDOS to Azure and it took them 18 days or so to say "thanks, we'll forward it". If Microsoft and Amazon don't respond appropriately, how can we expect smaller ISPs to handle that?
Yeah globalization is over. If you’re kind and try to make friends for a long time but you keep getting treated badly, you won’t continue being kind.
If LEO was a state they'd all work on temporary visa. Chances are they are all filling taxes at home, as if they were Americans.
The likely reason that he isn't still barred from entry to the US is that he became India's prime minister:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-narendra-modi-was-banned-fr...
https://archive.ph/Kf95r
The startup I work for hasn't ever had issues with any of the things you mentioned. What line of business is this, do you sell weapons to Ukraine or some such?

> absolutely first thing I do at every company and on every project is ask if I can [block various countries]

For side projects?! Blows my mind. This feels like the 2020s version of what used to be in chain emails "don't pick up this phone number or they'll eat your dog". People believe it because it works. They don't pick up the number and their dog wasn't eaten. Doesn't harm them, only the person who owns the number. Better be safe. Use ddos protection (it's free!) and centralize the world's traffic for your hobby website, don't trust your ISP that has a known profit model but rather pay for an additional VPN that promises not to work with law enforcement because that's obviously not shady, similar for using DoH from cloudflare (thanks mozilla for making that the default), etc. The Internet is becoming such a weird place.

I get annoyed when people block Tor, but at least that's somewhat understandable as there is no concept of abuse email addresses to reach out to. Blocking not just ISPs that don't play nice, but an entire country? Multiple? As the first thing you do, before a problem exists? In-sane.
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In Germany, the main function of LNG long term will be to smooth the transition of households from burning gas for heating to using heat pumps. As LNG is expensive, people who can will switch sooner than later. Also, rolling out heat pumps is going to take a long time and some people will be dependent on gas for as long as that is going to take.

A secondary role for LNG is to power gas peaker plants when renewables fall short. Mainly this can be done with existing gas plants. There's very little need for building more of those. Also, coal plants remain popular for this. Before the war the plan was replacing coal with gas plants. With current gas prices, that plan is out of the window and we're now looking at increased speed of the rollout of wind, solar, and batteries instead.
why do you disregard South Africa like that?
The voluntary safety reporting system is well-designed IMO, with some details here: https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:43:::NO::P43_REGION_V...

It’s administered by NASA (not the FAA or NTSB) and I trust them to do what the program claims. I’ve submitted a few reports over the years. One received follow up from a program administrator to ensure they understood the details*. None of the incidents were subject to any FAA follow up, so I never had to test the immunity parts.

* This was a case where the Automated Terminal Info recording was advising pilots to remain clear of a local MLB stadium by reference only to the name of the stadium and not any navigational data to help find it.
Companies either want you to be technically proficient or to support the hierarchy. You need to suss out what kind of company you work for and act accordingly.
Docparser has been on the market for years and has a solid customer base, despite the rise of more sophisticated AI-powered tools for data extraction. The switching cost for customers is relatively high in terms of the effort required.

As for the use cases, we have all kind of it.

For emails, our customers parse submitted forms and leads to Google Sheets and CRM, extract booking data from Airbnb confirmations, exporting Etsy orders to Trello, extract and filiter HARO queries.

For PDFs and scanned documents, we have businesses parsing invoices, receipts, quotes, contracts, business cards etc.
Your comment itself is a conspiracy theory though.
Question 1: composability (pick only what you want to use), code transparency (you can know exactly how Lago works, so that you don’t use a black box for billing), and the ability to customise our API to your edge cases
Question 2: we focused on building a user interface for the merchant, and an API for the back-end. We’re working hard to add the customer portal (that the merchant’s customer sees when they manage their account) now!
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You are wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug
Static typing only leads to devs trying to press the real world in stupid arbitrary categories.
The US' foreign policy is to disrupt and steal as well, even to allies (the NSA engaged in industrial espionage on the Germany company Siemens).

Moreover, DDoS attacks orginating from the US are sometimes greater than Chinese originated attacks -- as recently as a year ago [1]

Also don't forget that some of the sketchiest providers on the internet are American, who routinely ignore abuse reports. NameCheap's abuse reports are almost never actioned, happily taking cash from scammers and spammers.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-attack-trends-for-2022-q1/
Apparently George RR Martin, from A Clash of Kings.

Edit: Apologies, should have been in response to the sibling, rather than the parent.
Right, but it was after the invasion of Georgia, green men in Donetsk, and the annexation of Crimea? So 3 wars started in the span of 10 years and the guy returns because things are cheaper than in the west.

Well, I hope he enjoys his beloved home country now. He will have to stay there for quite a while.

Edit* looks like he does indeed enjoy it. Good for him.
https://twitter.com/roman01la/status/1625254253156528147/pho...
I fear for children of the future, they may end up thinking the internet is just a corporate mouthpiece.

Sites like this will be just a memory.
There’s also a paper, well worth a read: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0057...
Ask HN: What do you think about Exploratory Testing?
Fun fact: how many digits get lumped together in a digit grouping is not universal and varies between different languages and cultures globally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_groupi...
Live by MIT license, starve by MIT license.

This is not the type of FOSS ecosystem that Stallman wanted to achieve; it's the ecosystem that big business wants: people work for free and profits multiply and accumulate at the top. That is what MIT licensing fosters. If you want a different world, use a different license model.

Unfortunately, the JS world is effectively built on freeloading, so any licensing restriction is seen as a capital sin against "the community" of temporarily-embarrassed-FAANGs. Meanwhile, actual FAANGs laugh all the way to the tax-haven-based bank, and the lone guy in Nebraska/Russia continues to starve.
I searched for this

That's the point.
Drugs, mining or software?
DDoS don't only cost bandwidth.
I live in the middle of a medium sized city in the UK, and drive late at night a couple of times a year for various reasons (day out in another city, late gig, visiting friends, etc). On pretty much every artery road here, if someone was sitting in the middle of the road and I was travelling at 60mph, there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that I would see them. For example, see [0] - this is a major road within a few miles of Edinburgh that is completely unlit with a sidewalk/pavement on one side.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8891577,-2.9952163,3a,75y,14...
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> That one guy can contribute code that is used on thousands of the top websites worldwide and not one of the numerous multi-billion dollar companies that use his code are even willing to donate an amount equivalent to an average developer's salary?

Well, every multi-billion-dollar company has a mechanism for paying for commercial software. If they need Windows or Photoshop or Solidworks they're more than happy to pay the asking price.

The problem with open source software is the asking price is zero.

Most multi-billion-dollar companies also engage in some charitable giving. They probably use their entire charity budget every year - maybe they're supporting food banks, or earthquake victims, or cancer research.

But getting the Russian polyfill guy out of jail probably isn't a registered charity. And even if it was - there's a lot of charities out there.

Some multi-billion-dollar companies have budgets to sponsor open source projects. Apple, Microsoft, Google and others donate >$125k/year to the Apache foundation, for example [1].

But that money is spread very thinly - how many developers do you think contributed to, say, a basic Ubuntu installation? And plenty of companies don't budget for this at all.

Some open source projects use options like 'dual licensing' where you have to pay to use them in closed source projects (Qt, for example) or offer support contracts or paid add-on products (Ubuntu Pro, for example)

But it's not like Qt are rolling in cash - or that the community had any great love for Ubuntu Pro.

As you'll note, all these options sound a lot more difficult than just getting a job at one of these big corporations.

[1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks
At some point someone will figure out the wire up between the reactive part (thing like "signal") on wasm side and and propagate changes to the effect side to render DOM nodes.
I am French and we have the word "piquant" which means "the painful kind". We unfortunately also have the word "épicé" which is like "spicy" in English, there are several meanings.

I usually resort to saying "piquant" when I want the painful version and "épicé, mais pas piquant" ("spicy but not the painful kind") when I am talking about the flavour.
I didn't find Bjarne Stroustrup in the group picture, what happened?
Great references, thanks for that! I'll add that book to my library and give it to folks when I recommend they learn the VM+execution environment technique.
Who’s to say that a large language model is fundamentally incapable of learning some kind of ability to reason or apply logic?

Fundamentally, our brains are not so different, in the sense that we are not also apply some kind of automated theorem solver directly. We get logic as an emergent behavior of a low-level system of impulses and chemical channels. Look at kids, they may understand simple cause and effect, but gradually learn things like proof by contradiction (“I can’t have had the candy because I was in the basement”). No child is born able to apply logic in a way that is impressive to adults - and many adults are not able to apply it well either.

I don’t think LLMs are going to automatically become super-human logicians capable of both complex mathematical proofs and composing logically consistent Homerian Epics, but to me there is no reason they could not learn some kind of basic logic, if only because it helps them better model what their output should be.
This is whataboutism. Mr. Sharp is hated by most of the BBC workforce precisely because he is the corrupt representative of a corrupt government. Whatever influence he might ever have had on editorial decisions has long gone.
This looks really good!

Now I want a mono spaced Papyrus font.
What code?!

All I see is grey boxes with some small text. Can't bo bothered to work my eyes out.
EULA are pretty irrelevant in court…

Microsoft can no longer claim to be just a search engine that connects between a user and information published on the web since their ai search assistant generates bespoke answers to user questions.

There likely is some liability buried there that can be successfully argued in court in favor of the plaintiff.
But who said the FOSS model doesn't work? It's been working for decades. Having a well-paid, full-time job as an OSS maintainer is what doesn't work - it's the equivalent of becoming a celebrity, not achievable for 99% regardless of effort.
Honestly, a lot of the documentary is a mixture of interviews and CCTV camera footage with a fairly even handed narrative on the top – it, by itself, isn't that shocking and certainly isn't presented in a particularly sensationalist way. I'm amazed by the reaction it has generated. Yes, there's some post-colonial history there and it doesn't look great that it's the BBC that has made it, as opposed to, say, a US or continental European broadcaster. Still, nevertheless, when you see videos of policemen beating up (usually female) students with canes because they've had the audacity to protest, it can't help but make you think.

If you're interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here: [1] and searching for "India: the Modi question" will most likely provide it elsewhere.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dkb144/india-the-mod...
Anything specific? He has a looot of content!
It’s worth noting that many companies such as Apple are diversifying from China due to the overreach of the political powers, but they’re moving over to India where the same thing is happening.

Strange.