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15 years later, and Linux Power management still doesn't work on laptops, among many other things, that's why I switched to mac.

U can still run linux in the cloud, where it works well.
> I'm not sure which world was better, the old PC world where rootkits and other similar malware had free reign, or the modern "trusted" world.

Indeed, I would choose the old PC world, though I concede that most users would not. The saddest part of it is that they aren't mutually exclusive and shouldn't have to sacrifice one for the other. You do lose a little bit of "security" by trusting the user (and therefore anyone with physical access), but this is something I think the owner of the device should get to decide. If it's not configurable, we should be very clear about the fact that when you "buy" it you're merely renting with no specified return date.
To be very cynical, to ensure that only large companies can enter this market. If you're a sole proprietor making a chat app, this fine for filling out a form wrong ruins your life. If you're X, you can ignore it basically consequence free. Thus, only X can be in the market.
German here. You mean the German education system that has been going down the last 2-3 decades? Are you even aware that the German tax system is redirecting tax income from smaller companies to richer ones (e.g. if they soon introduce "reduced electricity prices" for some heavy industry companies)? Are you aware that the system taxes employees relatively high and companies and capital income pretty low with thousands of tax exempts? Are you aware that government service cost are skyrocketing because they didn't reform anything in the recent 2 decades? Are you aware they poured ~4bn EUR into "digitization" of government services and nothing's working?

The whole system has been broken by corporate lobbies and unethical politicians who just wanted to be voted for. Now tell me about the great social system in Germany that is worth all the tax money.
I agree that the laws are over-reaching, but not to the extent that you suggest. The Wikipedia article that you cite notes that these laws take one of two forms:

> (1) contract-focused laws that condition the receipt of government contracts on an entity certifying that it is not boycotting and will not boycott Israel; and (2) investment-focused laws that mandate public investment funds to divest from entities involved in boycotts of Israel.

Neither of these are bans on "personal boycotts". They are penalizing corporations which boycott Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#cite_note-6
Looks like it, Starbucks has a tendency to suddenly close stores in areas where unions are attempted. Doesn't seem to matter to them if the store was doing well or not.
Even regardless of the Texas two-step, these corporate/LLC shenanigans don't really work well for individuals. That's what makes this dynamic especially galling. As an individual you can certainly create the entities, but in the event of any significant suit it's very likely the corporate veil will get pierced based on reasons of you being personally involved in operating the company, undercapitalization, or lacking complete separation from your personal activities. It only works when you can hire patsies to do all the actual work, while remaining at arms length from the details. Technically those patsies can themselves be held individually liable for their own negligent/harmful actions performed for the LLC, but the point is that they're mostly judgement proof or members of the attorneys' guild, so lawyers leave them alone.

(also nit about the article - the terms are "limited liability company" or "corporation", generally not both)
This has been brewing for a very long time, and he's by no means the only person or even the best person making these points.

Open source dates back to the 1980s but really took flight in the 1990s with Linux, Linux distributions, and the mainstreaming of the Internet. Back then it was mostly a movement for software freedom and openness in contrast to closed source software like Windows and macOS. While it obviously didn't displace closed source software, it definitely played a huge role in preventing the Internet from being "embraced, extended, and extinguished" by Microsoft among others.

Without the open source movement we might be using the Microsoft Enterprise Internet with IIS as the only viable web server and NT as the only viable server OS. Imagine that hellscape. We also wouldn't have modern cloud, single board computers with reasonably open software, and loads of other things.

Yet the world has changed radically since the 1990s. Today the major form of closed software is cloud SaaS. SaaS usually runs on top of open source software but in terms of openness and freedom it's a profoundly more closed model than old-school closed source. SaaS is the ultimate in closed. You get to understand and control nothing, not even your own data in most cases.

Against this model open source software is offering zero resistance. In fact it's helping facilitate this ultimate lock-down of compute by providing free labor to SaaS companies. That's its primary role now.

I've seen this situation developing for going on fifteen years, but it seems like it's difficult to get the open source community to even consider the issue. The mentality is completely stuck in the 1990s.
You're talking about new houses here though. Not the gigantic existing stock (which also has seen its price rise).
Thanks for providing this info.

I do use gitlab-ce at home for my personal projects and think it's awesome.

I would recommend it to work in terms of its features for code management and build pipelines.

But I just cannot see any of our product management team wanting to use this for Roadmap/Epic/Task tracking at all. Its far too technical and too close to the code, both of which are things they have neither the time, interest or skill to interact with. Management are comfortable with Jira (and some of the extended Atlassian suite), as it hides the technical stuff away and allows them to focus on the management data.

I don't know what the perfect solution looks like though, and I also haven't spend the time to exhaustively try all the competing products either.
Not as much as you think it does. Most of the land is in very undesirable climates. A good chunk of Ontario and Quebec is part of the Canadian Shield - very hard rock not suitable for agriculture. The land suitable for agriculture is where people want to live as well.
And people have to go where the jobs are. Which is primarily in a small handfull of cities. This isn't the 19th Century pioneer days anymore.
Well, its consumer level price https://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-Gigabit-Ethernet-Router-RB76...
You got it in one, spot on. The coarse will put an edge on a blunt instrument but you won’t be able to strop it. The fine hone isn’t aggressive enough but will produce an edge you can strop to a razor. I carry both, with the coarse blue on my keychain.
Weirdly, their standalone savings offering through Marcus is offering 4.40%. I don't know why the Apple Savings is not competitive. When Apple Savings was first released it was slightly higher than Marcus (for about a month, then Marcus changed to match).
> But I think that is the largest failure of Core CPI to the point it makes it almost worthless.

It's not: if policy was determined on non-Core, then one month the Fed would have to raise/lower rates, and then the very next month it would have to do the opposite.

The point of Core is to removed the gyrations of commodity (traders). See Chart 1 of:

* https://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/200...

The red line is whipsawing all over the place. You want to set policy on that?

Paper from the Bank of Canada on the topic:

* https://www.bis.org/publ/bisp05d.pdf
> Is this a known issue with Google Meet?

it's a mix of things.

from what i remember (when i used to use google meet for work):

- meet seems to work worse on firefox than on google chrome

- if you're doing any kind of video, you need to make sure hardware encoding is enabled and being used by firefox. otherwise all video stuff will be done on the cpu (slower and uses more power). look into the vaapi configuration and intel-gpu-tools

hardware-assisted encoding/decoding can do a lot of difference on cpu usage and battery life.
I’m skeptical that a 10-year-old MacBook is pulling 4-6 hours with the original battery.

Your experience sounds par for the course!
"CEO predicts that his unpopular gambit will pay off"

In other news, water is wet.
I’m not a 5 year old, I’m an old guy who has a job to finish. That said, it depends what you want to get out of AoC. for me, the prize is to learn something by solving the puzzles, so I probably wouldn’t plug the problem statement into the llm directly
It is as of yet unclear if software will reach that long term profitability. Video games certainly can have it though. I've purchased copies of games which were coded before I was born. Tech is still a young and growing industry where we find new use cases every day. As this slows and as software is perfected this may change. If someone designs the perfect email app it may just be able to run in steady state for decades. We haven't seen that but it may be a reality at some point in the next two decades.
> or why he’s so against the idea in general.

Maybe because fully remote simply doesn't work? Covid was a forced event and people coasted for an year on the relationships build in office until Jan 2020. Over time as people moved on and colleagues one has never met in person showed up, things started fraying.

Also, I believe there are some companies who can be fully remote but that has to be in the DNA of the company culture, right down to how we communicate and collaborate. Very few people have skills to rewire their communication habbits and so they go back to what has worked previously for them.
There is also gefs https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf with the other thinking about porting it to OpenBSD.
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Clearly any part that can be used in the construction of a 3d printer will need to be fingerprinted as well.
ECG Capable low-cost smartwatch with an SDK
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We would be really grateful if you could provide us with some information.
This is exactly why I have Spotify rather than bandcamp. It finds music I like, regardless of musician effort. I found more new musicians in the first year of Spotify than decades before.

It’s a loss for everyone if good music goes unheard.
> Perhaps not, if the union is not yet recognized.

That's incorrect. Most of the rights afforded by the NLRA actually apply regardless of whether or not a union exists; a union is simply a formal structure for exercising those rights.

In this case, firing employees could be considered retaliatory action. Retaliatory action is illegal regardless of whether or not the union has been recognized (in fact, it is illegal to retaliate against employees for supporting a union even if there is not sufficient support for the union to call an election).
Good value for patients who can't find/afford a doctor, then.
> Says Linux Foundation's OpenTofu adoption "tragic"

Yeah, for them, not for the community that they tried to fuck over.
This does happen.

One strategy the acquiring company will use to sidestep it is enacting an internal reorg, where staff are assigned to new roles they may not want to fulfill, passively encouraging them to find employment elsewhere.
The experience does vary widely with the State, but the process in the US is generally pretty easy and forgiving when you are a small company in my experience. In some States they were friendly, helpful, and accommodating when I made mistakes or didn't file some form I didn't know I needed, they understand that happens. California is the only State where I found the process to be consistently hostile.
Ask HN: Would UBI result in catastrophic population decline?
Why have children if you can live on UBI and not have to work?
i have heard of people who earn no income. they formed a corporation that owns all of their property. the person does not have a job, but the corporation is hired. the corporation pays for everything. this seems like something that would allow for that kind protection from debt
Yes. Steam recommendations used to be absolutely superb. Now they're just "good," with a lot more "crap" baked in.
Can neural networks count digit frequency?
It was bad for a week or so here in Kansas. Like you could see the haze easily against a building/tree 1/4 mile away.
Out of compliance banks have actual consequences.

You can do compliance so badly as a bank that in a single day your entire business can be taken away from the owners/shareholders and given to a different bank to operate. Literally overnight.

Twitter regulators can fine Twitter for bad compliance to the tune of approximately a nickel.
I mean the proposed mitigation is just common sense and should have been enabled (i.e. the feature disabled) anyway.

Generating a "link preview" involves invoking some sort of browser engine to some degree, so "has a zero-day vulnerability" is virtually guaranteed to be true, whether or not you have a report of a concrete exploit.
So long as power management is not a central core component managed by the kernel, this will continue to be a problem on Linux. Apple hardware is untouchable for battery life precisely for this reason; they don't use bigger batteries or have a significantly lower TDP than anything else. It's just tons and tons of clever little hacks implemented at every layer of the OS that sum up to a seamless experience while maintaining optimal power usage.
It is also lopsided in favor of employees in SV or other tech hubs. They can command high salaries at a mediocre talent level simply because they have no competition.
> dark time for fans of the Mac

can't agree. yeah you were expecting them to go under each day, and OS-development slowed to a crawl (7.5.x releases seemingly dragged on forever).

but things were moving in the right direction, technology was exiting and the future even more so.

compare that to now, where things have been moving in the wrong direction for decades now and each day there is more lockdown, surveillance and user/consumer-hostile nonsense.

the past's future didn't turn out freeing and exciting, but boring, depressing, restricting and homogeneous.
Same here, push push push.
In the Culture, those are the people who join Contact/Special Circumstances, so they get what they want too.
The video + meet thing sounds like you're not using the GPU very well.
Wow! There is a whole roster of woman scientists that were denied a Nobel Prize and this one seems to be the most appalling one! And I had never heard about her before. I knew about one other though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell

The discoverer of the pulsar, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to two others - her PhD supervisor and an astronomer.

–

I want to admit: when I clicked the link to the Wikipedia article of Cecilia Payne I expected some really minor quirky historical figure – not the literal discoverer of the sun’s composition.
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This is nonsense.

If a company calls you up and says they are uncomfortable with your license, surely that's a tremendous opportunity. You can negotiate whatever you are both comfortable with.

If a company doesn't use your software, makes money some other way; doesn't email you support questions, so they cost you nothing, gosh, isn't that okay too?

I don't see what the big problem is with the AGPL.
did they use the hacker tool known as View Source to see the invisible metadata?
Something they are actually competent doing, I suppose.
Ask HN: Best ways to use ChatGPT (or your favorite AI tool) at work?
what use case and what percent of your time is it actually saving you?
> Now you could try to sell your shares to the other two founders before trying to move, which doesn't exactly simplify your life at this point.

Just curious, could you just give it away for free or do they also have some value that will be taxed even though you didn't get any money?
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Hacking charges are reserved for teenagers sharing copyrighted works.
The Open Innovation model described in the book by Henry Chesbrough was super charged by Open Source. I think moving out of the open source model is a mistake that would make things move slow for the ones not playing it. Nowadays, when I think in software that I have to build with and have no access to source, all I am reminded is the bureaucracy of dealing with licenses where a much preferable approach is to have payments for support disconnected from this. If this is really some way things will go, I wonder if someone will make standardized drm for software libraries. Honestly, I hope I don’t have to develop with these things.
I mean, HashiCorp is one of the companies leading the charge on that, are they not? They chose to stop using open source licenses for new versions of their software. That’s certainly their prerogative — they obviously decided that being an open source company didn’t fit their business model — but don’t then turn around and blame the Linux Foundation for picking up the ball that you dropped when you couldn’t make the numbers work.
Look at the github/reddit/etc discussions around getting variable-length vector extensions like SVE/RVE properly supported; all the libraries are designed for x86 semantics, which are the way they are to make them easily implementable in C.
You can get a business registered in Delaware in under 30 minutes by filling out a handful of forms online. If you don't want to do even that pay some service like Stripe Atlas $200-500 and the entire process will be down to minutes. There are still plenty of hurdles in running a tech startup in the US but bureaucracy is not one of them.
for spinning on a chair no less
There seem to be a lot of companies like Babylon around these days.

Many are full of hot air and... actually, that's it. They're mostly hot air. Maybe they think their hot air smells a little different?

If the IPO markets don't open soon, and VC firms remain cautious for much longer, making it difficult for these companies to tap into a new supply of fresh air, which they urgently need to stay afloat, we'll see more of them dwindle to nothing.
BLS personnel don't "struggle" to capture shrinkflation. They are well aware of the issue and always normalize prices by actual weight or volume. Have you read their documentation?
I wish more of the medical field could be made obsolete with AI.

The American Medical Association is a cartel that purposefully limits the supply of medical providers in order to drive up prices, and they're very successful at it. The de facto rationing of medical care caused by high prices kills people who can't afford care.

There's blood on hands, but it's not on the hands of the people who are increasing access to medical treatment.
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This is a dumb title for a good article. In that it makes is seem like he is talking about OSS software. The software that powers the entire Silicon Valley tech empire. Linux and OSS power Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc, right down to your 1-2 person startups.

He's not talking about that -- he's talking about open source software sales model used by companies like Redhat and HashiCorp. The threat here is that you're developing in the open, trying to up-sell enterprise features, professional services, and support. Then you have XYZ startup appear, they take your open-source code, repackages it and then sells enterprise features, professional services, and support. They basically leech off your OSS code and community, provide nothing back, and actively compete with you. It's brutal.
Well no, web technologies have evolved for the better, and browsers enabled that. Security patches have to be shipped. That takes resources to build.
> I’m skeptical that a 10-year-old MacBook is pulling 4-6 hours with the original battery.

It's more possible than one might think assuming usage of Safari with an adblocker installed and few or no electron apps running in the background. MacBook battery life for light usage has been great for a long time; where it fell short prior to the ARM transition was for heavier use cases.
Because they're a monopoly. Finding creators without using YouTube is very hard, at least for me. It's hard even inside YT.

But most creators are exclusively on YT because that's the only choice that matters.

There is Nebula now that does have some nice content, but they're orders of magnitude smaller (plus their UX is very rough) so it's hard to even call them a competitor.

That's why monopolies - capitalism's inevitable end goal - destroy everything they touch. In order to argue "you can choose to not do X" requires the choice part to be true. Sure, we can argue people can completely forego X. But that's basically a nuclear option that even if they wanted to do, will be hard. People will still send you YouTube links.

One example of this is WhatsApp. I hate it and don't want to support Meta, but 100% of my peers use it so I have to use it.

Having said all that, when YouTube starts to price hike subscriptions and/or showing ads even for paying users (inevitable because of profits), I'll force myself to stop using it.
This is a good analogy. Maybe once every few years I'll set up Windows Servers. Being able to use the GUI and not keep a bunch of PowerShell on-hand means I can do it without help, and get on with my day.

Meanwhile I'm happier doing everything on command line on Linux, understanding and learning all its features has been worthwhile. But I can imagine some people just want a server set up and to get on with their day.
The BLS and US CPI moved toward the current system for valid 'technical' reasons because the previous way was agreed upon to be bad:

* https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1982/06/art2full.pdf

Further, there is no internationally agreed upon method for housing/shelter, with pros and cons for each:

> International statistical agencies have unanimously adopted the net acquisition approach for durables, but there is no consensus about the best approach to the treatment of OA in the CPI16 (Table 1). Rental equivalence is the most popular approach among countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development.17 Johnson’s (2015) recent review of the U.K. CPI proposes using CPIH, which includes the costs of OA and is based on a rental- equivalence approach, as the U.K.’s main measure of inflation. Several countries in the European Union have refrained from incorporating OA into their CPI, although Eurostat is currently conducting a pilot study for the euro area based on the net acquisition approach. Australia and New Zealand use a net acquisition approach, while Sweden and Finland—like Canada—are using a partial user-cost approach. No country has adopted a full-fledged user-cost approach.

* https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/boc-r...

Seems like any particular system has pros and cons. Someplace else in this thread someone mentioned that Canada's system for Shelter is better, but even StatCan recognizes limitations of what they use:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/z14p...

And plenty of folks in Canada think like you do: that the official way Is Wrong and Some Other way should be used—often pointing to the US as the way it should be done. And yet elsewhere in the thread someone in the US saying the Canadian way should be the way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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