skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, I haven't read a lot about this, but I would be very surprised if the Spacelifts of the world could not work out a licensing arrangement.

The actual license at https://www.hashicorp.com/bsl says "provided such use does not include offering the Licensed Work to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products." To me this sounds like a self-hosted version of something could still work with terraform, and you just have to provide the binary yourself vs. it being pre-packaged. IANAL; it would be pretty shitty if they started going after products that support terraform as a tool that way.
Seems to be KDE on top of FreeBSD?
Even if we ignore the open source purists, restricting commercial usage still violates the popular libre software guidelines like FSD and DFSG:

* https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#fs-definition - FSD

* https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines - DFSG

It violates freedom 0 of FSD!

The problem with that is that a lot of non-profit organizations that do use libre software cannot use your software because it violates one of the fundamental requirements of libre software guidelines: No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor / The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). So such software become automatically disqualified for non-profits that want to run themselves on libre software.

I know it is your software and you are totally entitled to release it under any license you want and make money off it. Nothing wrong with it. But I'm hoping you can see why this is a problem for those who want to use libre software who are also entitled to ignore your software and keep looking for something that is actually libre.
And those companies try their hardest to keep it that way.
I had the same thought. Elastic was a real legal entity too, and clearly they didn't have recourse...

There are a number of errors/incorrect info in this blog post. I don't mean to be critical, but I hope nobody is looking to this post for advice because it has some bad advice (such legal recourse, what different licenses achieve the objective of protecting from the concerned case (GPL doesn't)).
> If what you say here is accurate, that's all very good news.

Ummm. Except for the part where basically a few players will have a monopoly on online advertising. It's really a slow return to how TV advertising and etc worked.

> continues to be at war with people who don't want to be tracked

How so? There are infinitely more privacy rules and safeguards than there were a decade ago. Let alone the amount of tools like AdBlocker or Ghostery or Brave or etc.

Keep in mind that the awareness of your online presence is probably growing faster than your actual online presence.

In fact, just like standard of living, it's easy to lose perspective of just how fast our entire idea of privacy has changed. 100 years ago, hotel beds used to be shared amongst strangers. Within our lifetimes, books with every person in town's name, number, and address used to be delivered to everyone's home.
I read this as “we would have a way to prevent competition,” which is good for them but not users.
> custom language

Vala wasn't a custom language for elementaryOS, it already existed for years before the first version of the OS (and i think the first version didn't use any Vala code).

It most likely used instead of Objective-C because its object system was built on top of glib's gobject system and elementaryOS used Gtk and a lot of other glib/gobject-based libraries. Using Objective-C would mean they'd have to base their UI on GNUstep and GNUstep wasn't as polished as Gtk.

Remember that while they used macOS as an inspiration, it was never elementaryOS's goal to make a macOS clone.
Are you certain the barrels are made of polypropylene?

Bic pens are composed from polystyrene in their barrels for example, being the most sold pen in the world I'd take note and carefully research whether you've been looking at the materials list for the correct part.
4. ~~Senator~~ (lobbyist) writes a law specifically targeting foreign entities and continues to allow big data broker to collect data.
But that’s paternalistic; you are disallowing me from doing what I want with my data. I should be allowed to sell it to corporations in return for services, knowing full well they intend to sell my data to others. That’s what makes my data worth the services I receive in return!
I'm no linguist, but I do study it as a hobby. As far as I'm aware, linguists are not generally in the business of making ridiculous claims like "this language is older than another." The concept of "age" for a language for something as fluid as language is fundamentally flawed.
I guess I'm out of the loop; I thought they stopped posting them because the game officially released, and they were going heads-down on the expansion.
It's inevitable, isn't it? Especially with computers, if you advertise something as "unlimited" people will consume unlimited amounts of it, then you find that has real costs.

I'm surprised to hear that Chia is still going, though. That was one of the worst excesses of the crypto boom, driving up prices of storage for real users.
How to Calculate the Hours Worked Using Excel
Ask HN: What are the best books on floor plans and interior design?
There are tons of books on designing interior spaces, but which ones are the gems?

Like, Life and Death of the Great American Cities, but for where I should put my bathroom: who is the Jane Jacobs of interior design?
Yeah, this is dumb. Gotta study your notes and things you write down. Most people don't have the raw IQ or photographic memory to get it first try.
If you dig deep enough anywhere you'll probably find water eventually.
But MIT is even less restrictive for a competitor.

What I'm guessing is they had external contributors so the thing was about getting them to relicense under MIT.
For me, my ears response faster than my eyes in some cases. I think someone else pointed out that when there's a bicycle ringing their bells on your side, your ears will catch it first then you use your vision to confirm it.
Window Maker does not use GNUstep or Objective-C at all, it is all written in plain C. In fact the UI toolkit it uses (developed for Window Maker itself) is called "WINGs" for "WINGs Is Not GNUstep".
This is amazingly ironic to post given that the original launch post of DropBox on HN famously dismissed the business entirely by comparing it to rsync+ssh.
Only 18.5% of the players got the "Finish the game" (launching a rocket) achievement on Steam

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/427520/achievements
> not on the customer to decide what a reasonable interpretation of the company's offering is. It's up to the business to inform the customer clearly.

Clarity is in the eye of the beholder. This is why we have reasonableness standards: it's impractical to specify ex ante every term of a trade to infinite precision. Most people understand the intent of the term "unlimited" here, and given the fraction of accounts affected, this seems fine. (Also, until this announcement, it was unlimited. They're just discontinuing that. Unlimited doesn't mean unlimited forever.)
I looked at OP's account. No comments at all, and every submission leads to his own website. Many of them marked as [dead]. I thought this was strictly against HN guidelines?
I saw this hit Mastodon yesterday. It was retooted[0] by someone from a retrocomputing instance that I follow.

Hacker News is incredibly fickle with what gets traction here; some days you'll have the site chock full of "US government trying to ban E2E" stories and other days they'll be sleeping on the exact same thing. I have a suspicion that HN is split into two audiences:

- Hobbyists, that use the website at random times of the day and get very worried about legal compliance and governance changes

- Businesspeople, that use the website when they're off work and don't care about any of that because they know they can just lobby away the things that hurt them specifically

Depending on which group is using the site at the time, HN's systemic biases change dramatically.

[0] Not the official name anymore but I'm the kind of person who specifically mods the CSS on their instance to bring back "Toot"
Private equity firm Veritas makes a takeover offer for BlackBerry
Other than being theoretically or intellectually interesting, what value do things like “untouchable numbers” have in the real world (or in any practical application)?
An FTP account where?
The article is confusing.

The difference between MIT and GPL is that MIT favors immediate users who are developers, and GPL favors end-users. These interests are always in tension, and one of them just be chosen as favored.

In both cases, the original authors are giving up their rights for the benefit of users.

So no one has standing to attack the original authors. If you use the original software, you can enjoy it either way. If you are in business, MIT is better for you. If you are a user of an intermediary, that's for you and the intermediary to deal with, no the original author.

If you are afraid of the intermediary being evil, than go directly to the original source, or find a GPL or MIT(!) intermediary.
Great, people leaving should be a good incentive to make the US more appealing to people we want here doing stuff!
Yes it should, so many places use it when they actually just mean "until our costs start getting overboard since we didn't account for more than 0.0000002% of people to use above X limits", or with so much fine print that they should be forced to make that fine print regular print.

It's a nasty tactic, and gives people the wrong expectations and in turn ruins markets to all start using such terms to offer "competitive" unlimited tiers.
Can we agree Congress of USA should debate and pass a war resolution?
Seems like an unpopular opinion, but I am in the same boat.

A few years ago I got a job where I could listen every morning again after a few years without. The virtue signalling was so intense that it came off almost like a comedy.

To be fair though, I am talking more about the local affiliate station (WNYC) than NPR itself. However, NPR still doesn't stray far from the core demographics of their member stations.
I'd assumed it was a quote directly from the original thread. I wonder if anyone can find it.

(see also "less space than a Nomad. Lame")
>”Warming of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation”. Nature Communications. 2023.

The what now?

How did they typo that? Are they one of those rare people that don’t use zotero or something and write citations by hand?

Also, the title of this video is completely uninformative, and the description wasn’t too great either.
Environmental cost of using and washing a teapot is likely higher than that of using a teabag and brewing directly in the cup.
Multicloud Is the New Norm
> What could one provide an infinite amount of?

I don't think that I'd parse "unlimited" and "infinite" in the same way.

Some things are naturally limited by rate delivery, and advertising "unlimited" seems fine. e.g. I don't see a problem with advertising a phone plan as having "unlimited" minutes, rather than specifying a limit of 10,080 minutes per week. The number of minutes are not infinite, but neither are they limited by the carrier.
From the SSL world we know that encrypting compressed data can lead to vulnerabilities in the encryption. Does that nog apply here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME?wprov=sfti1
I was wondering this literally yesterday... are there any current methods for filtering out microplastics? Currently I just have a filter within my fridge for drinking water... but I take it that doesnt do much
Breaking big problems down into small ones is part of the process, yes, but only once you are well-versed in the problem space. The guy who rewrote this:

1. Is proficient in C.

2. Understands Playstation architecture and development better than the original programmers of the game. (Although Psygnosis had far less time and hindsight on their side.)

3. Is apparently quite familiar with 3D game programming and techniques in general, and how/when to use them.

4. Already had experience reverse-engineering parts of the game previously.

5. Had the free time to undertake a project of this scale.

So it's not something any random dev can just snap their fingers and decide to do. It's a case study on the intersection of experience, preparation, and luck.
Yes. It's Zellij. Thanks! Honestly though, I have lost count of the number of configuration languages on a regular Linux desktop.
how often is the data being appended or modified? You might consider a blended solution with the most cost effective on prem-disks w/ no durability or backup, then writing any additions to cold storage which is cheap. The only time you need to access that is (hopefully rare) restore scenarios.
Presumably, what technically-minded Mac users who might switch want and what projects like this are aiming to achieve is to have a high level of consistency and "one piece design" not just on the user-facing half, but also under the hood, and the various BSDs have more to offer in this department than mainstream GNU/Linux distributions.

It might be worth looking at one of those Linux distros that swaps out GNU userland/toolchain in favor of BSD equivalents wherever possible though.
>The drawback of building commercially on top of open source software using GPL is that the copyleft aspect can put some people off. Not every person or business wants to have to expose their code for every minor change or bug fix they may add...

That's the entire point of copyleft licenses. Businesses want to benefit from the community without giving back.
Despite these concerns, Texas and Florida are gaining population and firms while California and New York are losing population and firms.

How might this play out over the years ahead? What might this mean for the long term prosperity of these states respectively as capital (human and material) shifts from blue states to red states? Will CA and NY maintain their entitlements and policies as their tax base moves out? Will FL and TX eventually turn blue and this happens all over again?

It's a lot of questions, but trying to leave it open ended and as unbiased as possible.
For anyone also wondering, that last quote is from here: https://opentf.org/#why-fork
Over here it's sand, sandstone & clay, but I can't even dig a big enough hole to plant a bush without hitting rocks the size of my head. To anyone wishing to drill into the ground like this, good luck!
> This "consistency from repair to repair" is largely a myth used to fool gullible consumers

Components don't always fail in isolation. When they do, they can cause damage up/downstream, like if a cap shorts to ground. It's very hard to detect partial damage. That's what drives module level replacements.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

What are swipes?
Tree comments would be good without reordering from upvotes or whatever. The first child is the first one posted. Since I want posts to be ordered by recent activity maybe comment trees should be too.
"Live"? The article says "linear". Listening to a recording being played over some one-to-many distribution system is not "live".

Is playing a recording "linear" or "on demand"?
Yes the case. The camera-damaging vibration comes from the motor, not the road.
> Entering a restaurant that has salt on the table is nothing like me entering into a written agreement for unlimited salt from a salt distributor

What in Dropbox's terms of service do you think they're violating with this move?

Buying unlimited storage for common use fits into the paradigm of the not needing to be stated understanding on what unlimited means to a reasonable person. If you want to get more precise, the terms and conditions specify that Dropbox may, at its discretion, take various actions.
>I can't remember the last time there was something actually worth listening to on "live audio".

https://kexp.org/

>... whereas live audio is sort of a crap shoot.

Crap shoots can be fun, though!
They could I guess, but with that they'd be abandoning support for all their previous versions, too. Plus it's software, there are a great many options here. I won't get into the nitty gritty not to spare everyone else the gruesome details but I'm not going to be losing sleep over this just now.
Haha! Blast from the past! Billions of dollars and users later. Good to know why builders don't always make great business people.
Agreed. Everyone is overthinking it, and spending their brain cells on the wrong thing looking for that one panacea.

Wanna get fit: watch what you eat, burn more calories than you intake, exercise, probably minimize alcohol intake.

Wanna learn stuff: intake new information from a reliable source, write it down (in anything), reprocess the information in your own words, and review often enough for you to pick it up.

Anything I'm missing?
It seems I’m only one of a few people who finds this area to be promising. Given that mental health care is expensive, that many people suffering are isolated with no one to talk to, and that talking to someone about your issues, whether or not they are a medical professional, is beneficial, I don’t see why this shouldn’t be pushed further. In terms of risk, as others have said, the Internet already exists filled with bad advice and TV has tons of poor medical content. Our apps and media have been hyper optimized by commercial interests in ways that are bad for mental health. Building these resources is the right thing to do, in my opinion.
The author talks about several very different issues: (1) him switching between GPL and MIT, both of which are open source licenses, (2) Hashicorp switching to BSL, which is not an open source license (by the OSI definition), (3) Red Hat providing sources as per GPL requirements to paid customers only and stopping to provide it to the whole world (there is more to it when you remember how red Hat started, why CentOS appeared, how it they were bought etc.). There is only some superficial similarity between these two (as the author says, nobody objected when they switched from GPL to MIT).
Nice video. Appears to go against Betteridge's Law of Headlines since it does reverse climate change in the area (if climate change was making it drier).
Yes! After a bit of playing around, I can follow Rust reasonably well... but only with an IDE, which I've never used for C or even really for the bits of Java I wrote. I understand that many more experienced Rust developers are similarly IDE-reliant.

I do think it's a deliberate tradeoff, having e.g. .push() do something useful for quite a few similar (Vec-like) data structures means you can often refactor Rust code to a similar data structure by changing one line... but it certainly doesn't make things as grep-friendly as C.
> I'd assumed it was a quote directly from the original thread. I wonder if anyone can find it.

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
> There's something abrasive about implying that customers paying and using capabilities of their highest tier as non-genuine.

I disagree. Their website makes it abundantly clear that this product is for employee productivity. The people doing this are well aware that what they're doing is hacky and costing Dropbox lots of money.
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I post lazily and at random on https://www.mondo2000.com/ trying to remember why I stopped taking memory drugs
R.U. Sirius
I like the concept, but would love to hear if it's a feature or some long-term product vision.

It looks like the main business is Environment as a Service.

Do you see ReleaseAI as a new product? Is it related to Env as a service?

Or maybe you are considering to pivot?
This method is for microplastics. The garbage patch is not microplastics.
> But over time, we found a growing number of customers were buying Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases, or even instances of reselling storage.

I don't get it. Those customers are using the subscription precisely to run a _Business_.
Buying and growing SaaS products to a total of $50M ARR
Yodayo is a social network for vtuber and anime fandom to share and create more of what they love. We are close to 1M user and raised $2.4M seed in June 23.
Nice - thank you! Very informative post as well -- I love topology and this looks like a god-send!
I live in Switzerland and my house is build on a rock, some of the foundation is actually rock and not concrete but it's old from 1750. So that drilling technique is not for my yard.

But, this lead me to think, is non rock ground frequent in urbanized area? Is rock ground like my place more like the exception? I'm used to it so I thought it was the norm, but I guess it is not.
Were they wrong?

Would a business using a self-owned rsync+ssh solution now be shopping for yet another cloud service after yet another backtrack on promises several years in?
I like the Apple Music radio stations for this reason. Not the personalized stations, they have 3 live stations: Hits (generic pop), 1 (modern pop), and Country (obviously country).
To be clear, I don't work at Shimmer or any place centered on treating ADHD or helping people with it. Idek if Shimmer's services are useful.

I just want to push back on the notion that 'this is a neurological disorder' is the only acceptable or useful way to think about ADHD.

To your point, I think it's clear that the world hasn't really figured out what ADHD is yet. That is, we haven't figured out the best way to think or talk about it, let alone treat it.

That's why I think it's important to hold onto that label with a light touch, and an understanding that our conception of the problem is likely to change a lot in the future. The 'real core' that we do know about ADHD is in the common struggles of people, situated as they are, who have ADHD-like symptoms and experiences. Those are worth addressing with anything that helps, and if you have those struggles yourself you know you can't wait for an ideal 'final answer' from scientific or other authorities to try to improve your life.

All that said it's way easier to be comfortable with non-commercial, community-oriented efforts of people sharing their experiences and trying to figure out what works for them in an ad-hoc way. Companies offering solutions to people, especially people who fear that their ADHD-ish struggles might cost them their livelihood or are destabilizing their lives, do have to prove themselves trustworthy and effective somehow and there's a lot of room for scammy bullshit with something like this. I don't disagree with the skepticism so much as the scientism and medicalism.
Funny, I've been listening to Essential Mixes since the late 90's and I don't think I've ever listened to them 'live'.
Looks like 500 million ish…guessing the billion is a mistype?
If you take unlimited in its most literal meaning then no, you can't provide unlimited anything. However, I think there's a difference between saying you provide unlimited storage, and a SaaS tier supporting 'unlimited' users.

Yea it's true that if someone tried to truly exercise the latter, for example by allocating several trillions of bot accounts, then for sure you're going to get a call from the provider politely instructing you to desist. And I think that would be reasonable of them, and the marketing should not be considered deceptive.

The question is, does the same logic apply to TBs of storage? Is there anything that distinguishes these two use cases?

I guess the marketing offer of 'unlimited' could perhaps be read as 'all that 99.9% of customers ever need, but if you're one of the remaining 0.1%, you have to pay extra'.

That is to say, perhaps 'unlimited' could be read as a class of user that encompasses the vast majority of cases, as opposed to a literal resource quota. Is this reasonable or deceptive?