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I'm not 'boxed in' with anything except an extremely acute understanding of the magnitude of the crimes WE commit in OUR imperial wars, started by fascist oligarchs who have decided that cultures they deem inferior shall be met with our military might. You, on the other hand, do not seem to have an understanding of this magnitude, at all.

You can do nothing about Russia's war criminals, until you do something effective about YOUR OWN. Following OUR OWN war criminals into yet another facetious, illegal war on the basis of lies and propaganda, instead of DEMANDING justice for their victims, is just pure evil.

WE have been murdering millions of people in OUR illegal wars, fought far beyond our own borders, at a rate far, far more detrimental to world peace than anything Russia has been doing. Russia, fighting a defensive war on its own 2000-km long border with Ukraine, is in NO WAY comparable to the heinous human catastrophe we have caused, by way of the machinations of an out of control military industrial complex hell-bent on what are fundamentally racist wars in .. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia ... Yemen. And many, many more theatres beyond the range of civilian observation.

>We don't want to live under a Russian version of Jim Crow laws like 35 years ago.

The world does not want to live like Americans do, either. We've seen the bankrupt families living under the bridges. We've seen the addiction and the war crimes and the crimes against humanity. We've seen your for-profit prison-industrial slavery system. We've seen the weapons you drop on innocent people while ensuring your own children have no future.

We've seen the network - a thousand of them - of secret bases the American empire has built in order to give itself a place to torture and commit further heinous crimes against humanity.

We saw what you did to Julian Assange and the many others who came before him, attempting to right the heinous injustices of your military industrial complex and its vile, evil intelligence services, usurping sovereign nations across the globe for the purposes of the misanthropic oligarch class that rules you, through your military junta.

Your hatespew of Russia is noted as yet another form of cowardice. Spend a trillion dollars on diplomacy per year, instead of murdering innocent people every twenty minutes, as you have done for twenty years, and you might find that the rest of the world is willing to play with America, again. As it stands, the USA is losing the respect of a majority of the nations of the world, whose citizens do not cowardly shy away from observing the results of American war crimes, which are committed in your name whether you have the temerity to confront them, or not.

You are merely propagandizing for war. I demand you start making peace, American. The world tires of your excuses for the death of millions of innocent people. The moral imperative you claim is a dire fallacy.
Can you compare Workmode.net with Flown.com?
Perhaps all of life is just elaborated procrastination. We stumble onto the stage, busy ourselves with something and then we’re gone for eternity.

But building something and sharing it with others: if it is procrastination it’s quite productive procrastination.

I still recall when a young dude thought the knowledge management at CERN could do with a bit of elaborated procrastinating… and we got a WWW out of it.
It still adds entropy. You're thinking of uniform entropy vs just entropy, but the former is easy-ish to produce from the latter, for example by using hash functions.

Also, it's obviously a stunt - you are probably much better off measuring decay of trace amounts of natural radioactive isotopes. But it is not without merit.
The idea of "dark ages" is a myth (pun with the username intended), but if anything it applies to the early medieval age, which is exactly when anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe was... not very common, since persecution of Jews started later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism
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> Do you think that if Ukraine was not being courted by US that it would've been invaded like that ?

Invaded? Probably not. Becoming a second Belarus? Yes. Overall it would have meant a Russia - NATO border closer to me. I prefer an Ukrainian - Russian NATO border far, far more.
> maybe the CEO compensation should be adjusted accordingly?

This is outside the domain of unpaid moderators’ unless the CEO’s compensation is threatening the company’s survival. It clearly is not.
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Dunno about long term, but docker made a bunch of money by switching up the docker-desktop licensing.

It's a bit different though, since it was already on a proprietary license, and they just changed the terms.
Welding melts the metal to be joined, and joins it with a fillet of the same material.

Soldering does not melt the parts to be joined, it just melts the solder, at a much lower temperature.

Brazing is the midpoint of these: joining with dissimilar metal, without melting the parts to be joined, but at a relatively high temperature.
They're not defending the CEO, it seems, but rather shift the blame onto volunteer mods who put in the hours into sustaining a commercial platform rather than joining a "community-run" one.

Which isn't making it a better argument, since there are many reasons why online communities form where they do, and "community-run" platforms aren't necessarily an option.

This platform isn't "community-run" either, and yet the parent commenter is participating here (and thus is "the problem" too), so I think they should get off the high horse.
Considering his novel Rainbows End is about a very sick author in his 70s getting brought back to the world by modern technological breakthroughs in the mid 2020s, I feel like we’ve let him down in some way. Maybe he knew he was already sick, even back then, maybe not. Your meticulous and inspiring level of detail will be missed.
I don't know why, but watching flights in this app calms me down just like watching fire does.
If you think we are raping cows when they are artificially inseminated, I hope you are equally horrified by natural animal sex. Everything from penis spines to traumatic insemination, to dolphin rape gangs, and worse exist in animal sex. And the there is oven nothing resembing consent asked or given. Its humans and bonaboo and thats pretty much it that who do it nicely most of the time.
2010 called, they want their social graph back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1atb6ac/reddit_has...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/reddit-says-its-made-203m-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/ftc-investigating-reddit-ove...
Neither wikipedia or Internet Archive are fully protected from someone tampering their databases. And while I want to believe that they have security sorted out, it demands me to blindly trust them. I like and use Wikipedia but I do not trust it 100% (not because of possible tampering but simply because of the way it is assembled).

Giving access to the corpus as a reward is great but the problem is that very few people will actually want to use it :). On the other hand slow access time should not be the problem for those few who care. Maybe the best combination is to continue using fast access systems (like existing digital libraries) and then slow systems only for confirmation.

Curation wiki-style might not even be the main issue at the beginning because a lot of things are already pre-curated. Like old radio recordings or newspaper archives. Curation will become a nightmare with modern media like twits…

Changing people’s minds would be great, but I am afraid AI is evolving on a much shorter timescale. :)
forsure. I think it was like top 3 recently. i dont know if the numbers came out but the deal with google to let them use data to train their AI had to be a pretty penny tho.
I think OP's point is that AWS have the resources to reimplement all the differentiation you can try to add with an open core model like Redis tried, which makes the whole attempt at open core useless. Therefore the choice is either to try to partner with AWS like Grafana Labs managed to do (only ones I'm aware of), move to a license with restrictions on them reselling your code, or accept defeat.
I think an important question here is: how exactly can TSMC afford to pay $50k for people with these skills? And why is that impossible in the US? I think this comes down to relative cost-of-living differences: the US is just too expensive to live in these days. Taiwan is not a super low-cost-of-living country by any means, but the US has gotten ridiculously expensive compared to most other peer nations, and this means it's pricing itself out of the market with anything where it needs to compete.

Personally, I think America's reliance on cars and its suburban layout is a big part of this. Workers in Taipei don't need to own a car to get to work, and the overall infrastructure cost per capita is much lower.
Show HN: IsDown.app – Monitor all your vendor status pages from one location
Hi there! I'm the founder of IsDown.app.

A bit how it started. Some years ago, when I was on call, I found it hard to keep track of all the different status pages for the services we use, so I started to play around with the idea of aggregating them all into one place.

That was the original push to create IsDown. Over the last years, we've started monitoring thousands of status pages and added many features and integrations.

We currently support integrations with Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, Pagerduty, Opsgenie, and more. Companies can send outage/status information to where they are already doing the monitoring.

One of our most popular features is users can control which notifications they receive. They can filter notifications by components (when they only care about a specific component/region) or by status (when they only want to be notified about major outages). Since each vendor has its own playbook for releasing status updates, some can create a lot of noise.

There's still a lot to improve. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Thanks!
> 2010 called, they want their social graph back

Attention sells ads. A social graph is something else. About as relevant as yelling about AI potential. Maybe it’s there. But again, a separate argument.
Or could it be related to the farmer protests?
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Isn't this an exceptionally high compensation even among American CEOs? This makes him what, the second highest paid CEO after Sundar, twice as well compensated as Tim Cook? For Reddit estimated at 6 billion? It's not obvious from the article but is this a one time thing stretched out over years?
Good, most value in OSS is being syphoned off by the mega corp cloud vendors which contribute nothing back to the maintainers of the OSS products they're charging rent for.

That's not a sustainable relationship for a healthy OSS product, mega cloud corps rake in most of the profits whilst the organizations maintaining them have to handle the burden of increasing customer support issues and developer wages.

The SSPL aka "Free for all, except cloud corps" License should be more common place.
I wish we had an online space for talking to people with these concerns. Its much different for a single guy - he can make his 100k savings last years, specially if allowed to go back living with family.
The problem is the entire stack has to be released under the SSPL.

Which means if you want to offer it as a service, you can't use it on GNU/linux, since you don't have permission to release it under the SSPL.

edited to add: this could easily be remedied by simply requiring the entire stack to be published under either the SSPL or an OSI/FSF approved license. Such a license (somewhat ironically) probably wouldn't be approved by the OSI/FSF, but it would solve the main issue with it. Although I also suspect the people using the SSPL consider this a "feature not a bug" of their psuedo-open-source licence.
which is incidentally why the entire place is a barren content wasteland these days, full at first glance but quickly becomes apparent it is just astroturfed to shit, with every comment thread being bombarded by various companies and political groups' pr goons or LLM powered bots trying to sway public opinion.
They?

What about us?

What's stopping us from passing punitive and progressive taxes on their scope 3 GHG emissions?
Not to mention the waste of resources, manufacturing a bunch of computers to be used for a short period of time to create an ad to sell the same computer, before being relegated to the corner of an office to gather dust.
It is security theater and a marketing stunt. Why not just use a hardware-backed random number generator?

For example this has passed NIST SP800-22 and SP800-90B [1].

As far as I can tell, cloudflares DIY lamps/pendulums are not NIST certified.

[1] https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/product...
On YT you will find a lot of interesting videos about Must Farm. E.g. a BBC docu from 2016 and "Making Must Farm".
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You just provided free content (a brief opinion piece) for publication on a commercial entity (HackerNews, run by YCombinator)...

...which, according to you, is a "bad idea all around", since you exploit yourself and harm others.

So, why are you acting against your morals and judgement?
Based on discussions of some accidents, pilots often ignore inertial navigation systems at which they rarely look today, and sometimes forget to set the known good location before flights (which does not depend on GPS, as airports don't move).
> Cloud hosted instances are the primary business models for a lot of projects.

No one is entitled to their business models, no matter how noble their goals.

It's quite simple: if you believe in the ethos of Free Software, you need to be prepared to the possibility of other people taking your work, doing modifications and even profiting from it. That is the whole point.

If you don't want "evil corporations" from taking your code, then keep it closed and say it so. But don't be dishonest with others when you say that you "support open source" while not ready to walk the walk.
$193M compensation to lead a business to unprofitability is a problem. Period.
Doesn't sound like the CEOs problem; he isn't there to make personal sacrifices to make the company profitable and I don't think anyone would pretend he is. If anyone should be making that observation it is whoever signs off on his compensation.

Although the compensation package won't cash so the situation isn't quite that simple.
Many people complain about that number (not necessarily on hackernews, but there are some comments like that already) without realizing that most of that value is based on the stock price and not cash. Depending on how the IPO fares this $193M value can turn into $1M or $1B+ (both extremes and very unlikely to happen).

He got around $1.1M in cash.

> According to an SEC filing, Huffman got a salary of $341,346 in 2023 and a $792,000 “incentive” bonus. In February, Huffman’s salary was raised to $550,000 with the bulk of his $193 million compensation package tied to stock.
I don't get it - they want to sell hardware. Microsoft v Linux v MacOS aside, why don't they care at all? I can understand Linux might get a little ... fickle. But why weigh into this? Put all your energy into drivers for all, and sell more product.
Because the AGPL left more ambiguous the scenarios where the user would be compelled the open source their work that used the AGPL licensed work: this unfortunately led many people and organizations to rule out the use of a AGPL software. Google and Amazon in particular are known to have these carte blanch rules in place.

While an open source maximalist might be happy with that ambiguity, if it impedes the use of the software and hence the chance that a broader community of open source will thrive, it arguably backfires... SSPL aims to make explicitly clear that it is in context of building a public service for the software that the copy left provisions of an expectation of open sourcing occur.

The theory is that this allows the software to be more widely used and for the community to benefit when a public service open source project is maintained
What your link points to is the BSD license, so yes, he owns the copyright but also gave everyone permission to use and modify the code as they see fit.

There is nothing that prevents anyone to use this code in combination with proprietary code and sell the resulting project for money. If he didn't want that he would have chosen a different license.
WebGL is inherently a vector-to-raster technology, it’s always backed by a pixel buffer. One might argue that even PDFjs works this way with its calls to the canvas API.

What are you trying to do? Why is webgl the key here?
Pretty wild that a CEO can make that sort of money while running an unprofitable business. I can't imagine thinking so much of myself that I would value myself at 100s of millions. I wonder if there's some sort of pathology behind it.
Can't come soon enough. These huge corporates think they can act with impunity in an anti-consumer and anti-competitive fashion and ignore regulatory oversight.
But it is theatre.
A single £0.01 Zener diode can generate vastly more guaranteed (by quantum mechanics!) randomness, without all the possibility of failure, entropy leaking etc.
From what i know germany has banned plenty of pro palestinian protests.

Doing security checks on men that look arab on the streets. Banning the palestinian flag.
I think that is more that Amazon doesn't want to pay to support anything, and that includes Redis, so I don't think Microsoft paid for an exclusive deal.
wayland is a protocol that uses the gbm api.

amd uses the gbm properly, nvidia is half cooked and previously used eglstreams instead of because they did not like gbm. reality is every compositor just uses gbm.
> "Reddit reported a net loss of $90.8 million in 2023, a narrower loss than the $158.6 million loss it netted in 2022."

I know it's naive but cutting the CEO's (and rest of C suite) salary to normal employee levels would fix that loss down to 0.
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> $193M compensation to lead a business to unprofitability is a problem. Period.

The compensation did not lead to unprofitability—it contributed to it. And we have no evidence by which to claim it would have been worse under less-paid management. (Well, with Reddit, we might.)

I’m not defending the compensation per se. But arguing everyone at any profitable entity should be paid less until the venture is profitable, irrespective of any other facts, is silly. Particularly when it comes to non-cash compensation.
Neat! For a brief time there was that "Honest Android Games" and I've wished for a replacement ever since.
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How can it be used at all under SSPL then? There are no operating systems on which Redis runs that uses that license.
8 hours seems unreasonably long for a p4, especially in 2010
Which probably means he has no faith in the company's stock or else he would have taken stock options instead of taking it all in cash.
what would a for profit sub look like? paid entry? a specialized market place that takes commission? wouldnt it just be like fb marketplace if they did create a sub with profit in mind?
Jeffrey & I build a rate limiter in Ruby:
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From what I’ve read, cryonics seems like a massive scam pulled on rich people. The tissue damage in these frozen corpses is extensive and irreparable.
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Unfortunately, I couldn't find any video of the cloudflare pendulums in action, but this other one [1] gives some idea, despite being human powered rather than battery powered.

Btw, I imagine a camera pointed at a busy intersection with lots of pedestrian traffic (e.g. Times Square) to generate much more entropy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J85gpcjvqzs
Scotland's per capita big name sci-fi writer contribution must be 1 or 2 orders of magnitude higher still.
Look more closely and you'll see that they offer a competing service right next to it... it's about the most anti-competitive posture you can imagine as they slowly corrode their foundation
An NIST certification is a requirement for being secure? Like an RNG with Dual_EC_DRBG - which you could get a certification for.

Some would claim that CMVP, FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria stickers on a black box (HSM) is security theater.
Yes there is a day/night cycle but it also depends too much on the weather on a ridiculously tiny scale to be realisticly predictable. And even if it was indeed predictable, it woud still add complexity to the prediction
I had this problem at $JOB-1 where I had a big fat Dell desktop workstation with an nVidia card in it. I don't remember the model but it was a "pro" grade device: Fire or Quadro or some such BS marketing name.

There were lots of old LCD monitors around the office. As soon as I could, I went dual screen. Then I decided to go triple-head.

Problem.

I found a 2nd card, another nVidia, but it was a different GPU generation. The same Nouveau driver can run it, but not the nVidia driver, and you can't have two nVidia drivers installed side-by-side.

I tried multiple nVidia cards from the office spares pile but I couldn't find two the same generation of GPU for ages. When I finally did, the next kernel upgrade nuked the nVidia legacy driver -- it only supports a certain range of kernel versions.

In the end, a colleague took pity and lent me one of his own cards, an old gamer's card with 4 outputs, 3 usable at once. Perfect.

But when he wanted it back, to sell it, it was back into driver hell.

In the end, I managed to get a huge fat double-slot AMD card from the IT department, with 4 outputs, and it Just Worked™ with a FOSS driver.

NVidia driver versions are a massive cluster-fsck and perfectly good working cards are now e-waste because nVidia doesn't maintain its proprietary drivers, doesn't support more than a handful of GPU families in each release, and won't let you install >1 driver at a time.

I am not a gamer. I don't give a rat's ass about 3D performance or CUDA or any of those toys. I just want a shedload of pixels in front of me, updated quickly, with some screens in portrait and some in landscape. (And a desktop that properly supports vertical panels so I can use those screens in any orientation I want with effective use of space.)
Stock compensation is arguably way more valuable than cash compensation unless you're leading a sinking ship, taxation is much better and you get more power/votes in the company.
This makes very little sense. Air pollution is too local to be meaningful at a country level. Is air quality in London the same as it would be in Cornwall a few hours drive away?

Air quality has increased greatly over time in developed countries so labelling present situation a "catastrophe" seems rather too late. London has been continuously improving in terms of just particulates for over a century, and hugely so:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/air-pollution-london-vs-d...

The UK on other measures:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/air-pollutant-emissions

and that still does not take into account lots of other improvements, including things that have been banned altogether (leaded petrol).
That's because of competition. Royalties are negotiated up front, like any other compensation.