skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "100% compatility in every region" is definitely one hell of a claim for them to make. I think I also saw some emulator issues with Mario Kart 64 where one of the track billboards was actually showing a real-time 3D scene, which didn't render in some emulators.

If they can pull it off, it would be a massive achievement, even though I personally can't think of a single N64 game I'd actually still want to play personally.
Around here (near Seattle) they are having to explain why the foam floor mats behind the counter used for anti-fatigue were removed as trip hazards, but only in stores attempting to unionize...
OSS and free is used by big tech as predatory pricing to kill or make unviable most of the competition.

Many things out there could be medium or big sized companies if Big Tech did not kill their business model by offering a good enough solution for free in order to drive the customer to other products/ services.
It would make sense if the alleged exploit targeted the sender, no?
It was, but GitHub has basically removed authenticated access via https
non-German living in Germany, I couldn't agree more. When I complain about this, Germans usually reply with 'then go back to your home'.
At Protocol 2023 Protocol Roadmap
Probably the only place on earth companies are fleeing even faster than Germany.
> If a single manufacturer steps out of line and lowers prices, they will carry more volume, and therefore more revenue.

How will they do that? Every one of them is production-constrained right now.

> Manufacturing costs do not increase when subsidies are introduced. EVs, as a result, have higher profit margins.

Now you're getting it!

> Therefore, this will result in enticing more firms to enter a more lucrative market, resulting in more EV sales, which really, isn’t that the goal of subsidies in the first place?

Sure, but it takes 5-10 years to design a new EV and spin up a plant. Will the subsidies still exist by then? (Probably not, because we are in the exponential phase of the EV adoption curve, so the subsidy will quickly become unsustainable).
RE: all of the drawbacks mentioned, especially those along the lines of "what would happen is that companies will avoid it entirely, and write their own instead"

Isn't that.. the point? If I were to licence something AGPL that is what I want to happen. Folks can use it freely but only I may use it commercially (with the option of licensing to businesses who also want to make some cash off it)

Am I just being dense?
sounds easier to upgrade signals than redesign roads
What's interesting is that early on he talks about when you watch TV the "Words and pictures are synchronized." - then both the Bible quotes and his quoted story have a rhythm, rhyme and alliteration in which to do the same.

I found myself half way through the passages and I've stopped paying direct attention.

He's re-writing our view of the universe by hypnotizing us.

Like any good magician, he's told us the trick, right at the beginning. Like Romeo and Juliet or the opening song of Frozen - and we immediately forgot it - and then we were tricked anyway!

Mr. Dick, I see what you did there.
It's been this way forever, don't expect a fix. Battery management, sleep, suspend, monitor wake, and even CPU throttle is fundamentally broken compared to Windows or Mac. Hours of time can be invested to make it work, but then it will just break again randomly.
Fascinating reaction. It's not surprising but it is nonetheless disappointing.
Yup. The fact that they even mentioned this shows their true motivation behind the piece. It’s not that OSS is bad, it’s THAT OSS is bad (for us)
I agree with your point, but note that Rust does have an ugly way to do it:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.i64.html#method.wrap...

I'd rather just put `-fwrapv` on the command line that clutter my code with crap like that though.
I'm beginning to think so myself. The cracks are beginning to show from decades of poor management and de-industrialization. What does Canada make? Its mainly resource-extraction.
> Childcare is severely underweighted as well.

Childcare is the average amount spent by all households, not only by the households which have childcare expenses. I spent essentially $0 on childcare now that my kids are old enough to stay home alone if my spouse and I go out. I expect to continue to spend $0 for the next 3-4 decades.

> Housing is underweighted in rents and overweighted in owner equivalent rent.

About 2/3 of Americans "own" their home. The owner-equivalent rent also happens to be about 2/3 the sum of (owner equivalent rent plus rent). That is not an accident, but rather is causally linked.
> Google is not using its own technology to detect known child sexual exploitation videos on some of its services – Gmail, Chat, Messages.

That's weird. A short time ago, someone got their entire Google identity removed without recourse because they sent a picture of their sick child's genitalia to their family GP.
Counterpoint: I've never had a question moderated as duplicate, and I've been using StackOverflow for 15 years.
It seems like there are a crop of new major OSS projects that are thriving, particularly direct to user projects like: Godot, Krita, multiple projects in the fediverse, activity pub, mastodon space.
> You get to understand and control nothing, not even your own data in most cases.

Well said.
Where's this same vitriol directed at Amazon, Google, et al.?

They've built huge cloud platforms on the backs of open source. These are highly profitable machines that siphon up so much free labor and give very little back. Instead we attack HashiCorp, whose entire product is going to fall into disuse over a fork of the very thing they built. Why is that?

I'm angry at AWS - it's literally just open source software run at scale. None of the infra and software behind AWS is open, though, so Amazon gets to lord over all of it and soak up all of the benefits.

I see it hard to attack smaller companies when the giant is in the corner taxing all of us and making fat margins.

Small companies struggle. Big companies have all the advantages, and we're giving them a pass.

Ugh. I don't get this.
Netflix's cloud gaming service begins tests in U.S.
I think it’s at least as good as Blade Runner. Definitely worth a watch.
IANAL nor am I a Tax Advisor, but from my understanding transferring the shares for a value for obviously less than the fair market value would come under scrutiny because the tax authority could interpret this as a way of evading income taxes for the founders.

We've had a similar situation happening and it took quite some legal fees to ensure we had all answers ready and in writing before the tax authority would start to ask their questions. It's a complex situation.
> Indeed, I would choose the old PC world

So welcome to the world of GNU/Linux phones, which currently has Librem 5 and Pinephone.
That and there's probably an element of wishful thinking. "I built this nice thing, and they promised me they won't mess it up."
Seems easier to do this than to rebuild every intersection in the world.

And many roundabouts still need lights because lights prevent gridlock which roundabouts do not do.
I used to use them too, but they closed their EU store so Bandcamp is the only option for me now. Yes, Apple and Amazon might also be options, but I haven't ever done business with either and I don't intend to begin.
Well, first of all, it’s transactional. I have no particular affinity for any given service I use. If another service comes along that has enough upside to overcome the momentum of switching, I’ll definitely do it, and I’m sure you would too, and maybe that will annoy the company. That goes the same for the company; if they have a chance to cash out, I’m sure they’d take it. And maybe that will annoy me.

But the bigger point is that you conflate selling to a bigger company with more resources with “f[ing] their users,” which is just naive.
To me the biggest advantage of WFH is that I can choose to live in an area that fits my lifestyle and needs. If a company says "you can work from home but be near the office so that we can call you in whenever we want with zero notice" then that isn't really a remote job. In fact it is the worst of both worlds, because you lose the flexibility of being remote as well as the community and perks of an office.
That's why the product itself should not just be the technology stack (as GP might allude to), but something larger. In the case of Bandcamp, it's the relationships, community, trust and integrity that makes it what it is, and another massive company won't just be able to create those things by throwing random employees at the problem.
Doesn't Samba only support Kerberos as part of a full Active Directory deployment? Switching to Kerberos authentication is not just a matter of flipping a switch, it drastically raises the minimum required infrastructure.
Can you provide an example of a Rust HTTP routing library that can generate a compile-time error for overlapping routes?
They shouldn’t have gone all OSS if monetisation was their goal. It’s their own fault for thinking they could build a base off open source and then monetise it later.
The title is misleading.

> He said the Linux Foundation’s adoption of Open Tofu raised serious questions. “What does it say for the future of open source, if foundations will just take it and give it a home. That is tragic for open source innovation. I will tell you, if that were to happen, there'll be no more open source companies in Silicon Valley.”
That sounds reasonable indeed. But competing against the commercialization efforts is just so vague. It’s also a huge turn off for enterprises, they are already afraid of the GPL, I think enterprises will not touch BUSL code.

It’s nice for self hosters perhaps. But I for one am always thinking about how I can commercialize my self hosting skills (and have been somewhat successful here and there).
Telling that this has 7 points and no comments. Sort of proves the author's thesis that start-ups have fully integrated this and their business culture will be a dominant business culture in 10-15 years as they become medium and large businesses.
... if you want the whole pie.

The open source business model works if the service you provide is to sell consulting, implementation, certification...

If you want the whole SaaS pie then why are you going open source in the first place? To have the community develop the ecosystem for free for a decade making an SaaS business viable before you pull the rug?
Yup. I've been on the receiving end of something like this in my small company. We were contracted with a large corp to develop a new control board for one of their products. As we were finishing up, the corporation decided that they wanted out of the market the product was for. So they spun-off that division into its own tiny company and immediately bankrupt it.

That was the first and only time we had to have our lawyer write a client. We got some of our pay from them, but certainly not all.

In hindsight we should have been worried when all of our contacts in that company were jumping ship.
My biggest gripe is continuously changing interfaces. You've sold me. I'm a customer, I'm using your thing. Why do you want to make it difficult for me to memorize my use of your thing? Moving menus and buttons around all the time is craziness. I don't have time, cognitive capacity, or interest in finding new ways to do the same functionality from before.

Things do need to change over time, I get it, I create things too. Sometimes new functionality evolves and has to go somewhere, sometimes you find a previous design was bad and there truly is an improved layout that will help most. Fine. Those sorts of states should converge quickly so I can memorize and dedicate it to muscle memory vs having to actively look and think all the time.
Bandcamp was profitable at least until their sale to Epic.
Look, I'm a big fan of OpenBSD (and use it myself), but journaling filesystems are many decades old at this point, and they have very clear advantages. One is not to have to sit through an excruciatingly long fsck after a power outage, with a real chance to lose data. This is not an esoteric scenario.

OpenBSD will be better once it adopted a journaling filesystem, until then nobody claimed it's "bullshit".
The framers of the Constitution have put lots of work, suffering, blood and lost lives to make it happen in first place, they didn't just talk about it in newspapers and saloon tables.
> Text PDF's entire business relies on interpreting the AGPL as being as viral as possible [0]:

This page is just even more nonsensical than TFA. This is not "an interpretation of the AGPL that is as viral as possible", this is just a custom license that tries to masquerade itself as the AGPL. For example, the following term is batshit insane:

> When using iText Core/Community under AGPL, you must prominently mention iText and include the iText copyright and AGPL license in output file metadata, and also retain the producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using iText.

Yeah, no. If it was really AGPL, no one would forbid me from just removing all the watermarking code AND THEN publishing the non-watermark version to whoemever I wanted to.

There's a friggin reason 4-clause BSD is considered incompatible with the GPL. The advertising clause doesn't fit into any of the additional requirements that the GPL allows you to exceptionally introduce. A watermark is even a stronger requirement.
This will help all the of the corporate tools like concur. You will have to have software to track all of this. To track supply chain emissions you are going to have to have a chain of logging that is trusted.
USD exchange rates affects the earning statements more than ChatGPT (which has about 1.5% queries of Google search iirc)
This does not match my understanding. The AGPL does not include any linking exception, so if I include a 500 line JSON parser in my 5 million line app, and that JSON parser is AGPL licensed, then all 5 million lines are considered to be "based on" the JSON parser, and all 5 million lines must be made available under the AGPL. This is true even if I don't modify a single character of the parser. Am I wrong?
It's also essentially a public admission that OpenTofu REALLY worries them, instead of just something to sit out or combat by making a better product.
Inflation and cost of living index. The economy is in a recession.
Making websites into single page applications / dynamically javascript powered separated the frontend and the backend, and made the backend significantly easier. But it made the backend easier by pushing a ton of those previously backend concerns to the frontend. And then we wonder why the frontend is so complicated.
Ahhh how did I miss that!!

That is amazing. Goodbye gorilla mux.
I think it's the amazon/meta/google/walmart effect...all$ going to those. The realization setting in that the US economy is increasingly going to be dominated those handful of firms, among others. Unless you own those, you will miss out, hence selling. This is why so many people recommend index funds in order to minizine the likelihood of missing out.

Also, retail losing business to Walmart + Amazon and maybe Shopify. it's not so much that retail is dying but that the $ is going to fewer firms.
That's... good? The so-called "loophole" with dual licensing allows the original company to make money without being undercut by competitors like Amazon/AWS, who can win because of economics of scale, without investing much in the product.

If some company like Google doesn't allow AGPL-licensed software, that's fine. I guess it serves its purpose, forbidding leeching?
AGPL would be my default license for new OSS projects I produce, but without copyright assignment of contributions, alternatively licenses are difficult.
If children receive payments as well it would create an additional financial incentive to have/adopt/foster children beyond current tax credits, food stamps, and guardianship assistance.
It's not at all as simple as a "rational choice". It completely depends on your objective. Why did you start the business in the first place?

If it was to make a few mill and never have to work again, sure, sell.

If you wanted to build something bigger than yourself, work with great people, feel accomplished, then why sell? How is that few mill going to get you those things?

A lot of founders regret their first sale because they realise they didn't want a cashout, they wanted to build something awesome
If they're full, it's a good thing. If we could get just 50,000 people to leave CA and go to a few swing states like PA and OH, it would be the end of the Republican party as we know it.
Is there any reason to expect that these additional costs won't be passed onto California consumers? All the physical industry is moving out of California. Intel's last plant was moved out around what, 2008 (?). What do we think is going to happen? There is no magic. Companies raise prices and/or move out to the more favorable locations, including overseas (e.g. China, Vietnam, Mexico).
> Imagine laws requiring the firing teachers because they choose not buy Israeli shampoo or whatever at home.

By all means, do not imagine laws in this case.

Read about a law, a lawsuit, and an amended law that have already been recorded in our history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Koontz_v._Watson
AV1 or HEVC: The Next Big Codec Decision
I don't really see that being a feasible attack vector for any attacker - you can't really control who's gonna buy the tampered-with thing, so it can't be a targeted attack (unless the buyers are all high-value victims, in which case, don't resell; otherwise, add a random delay on reselling), and it's gonna be much more expensive than alternative methods for a non-targeted attack.
Could superpowered plants be the heroes of the climate crisis?
Agreed. Spotify is a terrible alternative for the musicians.

Myspace and Mp3.Com used to be the road map to how sites should be run, but venture capitalism and publicly traded companies ruined the entire ecosystem.
Israeli Merkava Tanks Appear with 'Cope Cage' Armor
80's or 90's open source? There was no effective internet. There were only BBSes and Compuserve. FOSS took off in the 00's.
I destroyed my back working without mats in the resturant industry. Every winter I get back pain and have to use a cane for a few weeks. Use mats if you are going to stand somewhere 8+ hours a day kids.
There is nothing inherently wrong with HashiCorp's license. What IS wrong is building a product and community and accepting contributions based on an OSS license and THEN changing that license when it no longer suits them. The reality is that whether it was HashiCorp, Elastic, Mongo or any of the others that have gone down this path, if they had just started out with their BSL-type license they likely never would have become successful and none of this would matter. Instead, they achieve success with an OSS license, then demonize their community and other companies that comply with that license but take away some of their revenue opportunities.

I have been involved in OSS companies. These risks are all well known when the product is starting its life, and yeah it sucks when someone comes along and does a better job monetizing the product you created. That said, it is just so disingenuous for these companies to whine about it later. Do a better job. Build a better product and service. Find ways to add value you can monetize. Do not blame your community because your VC-funded company is not hitting the numbers they want.
Technically possible, but Bandcamp is like Myspace was, and like Purevolume was before Myspace. It's the default place for small independent artists and labels to post and sell their music.
I'd guess you're just not shallow enough to derive enjoyment from surface simulation.
Does anyone else find that self editing a linear memory evokes images of the theoretical Turing machine with its infinite tape?
Core CPI isn’t headline CPI. Its an additional measure that is published alongside the headline CPI; the removal of components with a high non-seasonal volatility [0] is thought to potentially make it more useful in providing early indication of changes in longer term trends; literally no one presents it as a better measure of current inflation.

[0] the components involved also have a high seasonality, but that can be addressed via seasonal adjustment, but the high non-seasonal volatility means that fluctuations in those components can drown out early trend indications in ways that seasonality adjustments can’t compensate for.
No. And neither is Twitter, Facebook, or Threads. Anyone can replicate all of these apps in a weekend.

If you’re talking about the difficulty of attracting a bunch of paying users, building trust in your platform, working through payments and fraud, then yeah it’s monumentally hard and takes a long time.
Is this one ok with you?

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

It also claims that IT job growth outpaces most other industries
That would depend on what you mean, but I'm pretty sure the answer is yes in any regard.

From an artistic perspective it is still beautiful and might be even more beautiful than some modern more digital animated movies. From a science fiction perspective it is still as fictional as it was upon release. I don't believe we are any closer to cyber brains and thus not any closer to showing how ridiculous the interpretation in the movie would be to some real world equivalent.
thanks for the suggestion. I haven't used agent forwarding myself. I read a bit in the manual, and this seems to have a problem if the users I'm sharing the machine with have `sudo`:

> Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host (for the agent's UNIX-domain socket) can access the local agent through the forwarded connection. An attacker cannot obtain key material from the agent, however they can perform operations on the keys that enable them to authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent. A safer alternative may be to use a jump host (see -J).

> Run ssh-add in your terminal session before doing your push/pull dance

originally my comment was about gpg encrypted files. also I suspect any kind of agent would expose privileges of my key to others if they have sudo.
You don't need Govt administrators to manage the money with means-testing etc. It just gets paid out to all citizens. This is why Finland govt employees voted against their UBI pilot project. They saw the writing on the wall.
Instead of paying bureaucrats to manage the money you just pay it directly to citizens.
>> The fear is that a company could be forced into open-sourcing software that was not intended to be open source.

> wikipedia says agpl was brought in 2002. so around 21 years of people using this license and no one knows clearly what it does?

The fear referenced here isn't about what the license does. The fear are the unknowns about how it will affect business operations in the future after building a business around a piece of code with that licensing obligation attached to it.

> you can use unmodified AGPL code alongside proprietary code, all you have to do is put the license file up there.

You cannot. AGPL only has one linking exception, and it is for code licensed with GPL.
The essay is wrong. I'm at least glad that the essay contains a disclaimer that the author isn't a lawyer. Because actual lawyers I've talked to disagree with the essay.
I wasn't quite as bad for me, but every once in a while, after a power outage (or the very, very rare kernel panic), I need to get out the laptop and the serial cable to manually fsck my headless server box, because the automatic fsck wouldn't continue on its own.

It's pretty annoying, to say the least. But OpenBSD is such a fantastic system overall, I keep using it, and just wait for them to adopt a journaling filesystem. (And have good backups.)