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The thing is, I don't really want to do a clause-by-clause, point/counterpoint "Chapter And Verse Citations" argument.[1]

It's why I focus on the goals - they're clear and well-understood.

And, to be clear, I was mostly on the fence about this (my open-source projects tend to be a mix of BSD/MIT and GPL) since around 1995. For my FLOSS experiments/projects, I'd pick a license based on the goal of the project: Popularity? Maybe BSD. Community? Definitely GPL.

I changed my mind recently (started about a year ago, completely changed about 2 months ago). It's become clear that corporations (not all, just enough) are simply scavenging of the effort of others.

Looking back over history, the BSDs were mined extensively by corporations, who then never gave back.

Compare with Linux, which was adopted extensively by corporations, and forced to give back.

The latter had more valuable progress, faster. The world got better stuff, not (for example) some Apple shareholders.

If the BSD-type licenses really did further progress in the field, we would have seen it by now. What we do see is massive progress, almost all based on Linux, funded by corporations themselves. We see new research and novel ideas coming to Linux first.

My outlook now is: Make your project GPL and keep it that way via copyright assignment using a CLA.

The argument along the lines of "Corporations are hesitant to use GPL stuff" doesn't make sense to me. If some corporate wants to close off their changes to your GPL project, then fine - they can pay you for a license to do that!

The counter-argument that "it's an additional barrier to track every little thing that you use from Open Source" is an argument I reject: that's the cost of doing business. Businesses can complain all they want that the charity they are getting is too costly to manage, but the fact is that it's still less costly than going without.

FWIW, I operate as a business. My code is now either closed source or GPL: no in-between.

[1] Such arguments devolve eventually into a wall of text that few read, and of the few that read, even fewer are convinced.
There are mods that fix this by allowing you to build things using resources from nearby containers automatically, among other quality of life tweaks. I really wish I had known about them before I finished the game as the endgame would have been a lot better. I probably would have explored more of the base building part of the game.

Still an incredible game.
This needing to be a third party extension (which if we're being honest, will probably be broken / abandoned eventually) seems like a damning indictment of Gnome.
The Bun team is really good, and Zig is a productive language.

But there's also the simple fact that when you reimplement something, it's always going to be easier and faster than it was to write the previous implementation.

You know from day one what the baseline of the project will be, and can skip all the refactoring steps the predecessors had to do in order to implement new features. You also know what worked for them and what didn't. And what users liked and what users didn't use and ended up being code rot, so you can prioritize accordingly.
We will probably mine antimatter near the sun, where energy is virtually free.

It's as much an energy source as anything. You would also spend more energy than you got out if you tried to mine coal in your backyard.
It's part of why "just build the damn homes" might be a simple solution but I feel like it could just work.
Once we're at teenagers, then it's still - did you raise them to be aware of the world around them? Did you give them the tools to evaluate safe and unsafe online activity?

A kid doesn't accidentally end up addicted heroin unless they have exposure to heroin. Child grooming predates encryption and the internet and relied primarily on trusted people convincing children not to talk.

No amount of decrypted internet traffic will protect your children from unsupervised in-person access by strangers - worrying about what they do online as a black box of whataboutism -- and again, it's the parents, not society as a whole who has that responsibility.

Are there evil people? Yes. Are there corporations that are interested in you being addicted to their products (Oxy, Alcohol, Nicotine, Meta) -- yes.

Do you need the right to inspect what I send to my wife to protect your children? No.

I'm sorry that teenagers are hard, they always have been - that's a hard part about parenting. The hardest part though is that you raised them to make their own choices - and this is the final exam -- did your kids make good choices. You don't get to put that responsibility on anyone else, you raised them, you gave them the tools - and at some point, they will make a choice without you. If you believe the only way for them to make a good choice is to be able to surveil every aspect of their lives, then I hate to tell you what will happen when they stop being children.
I'm not trying to excuse them, I just had similar questions and googled around a bit and those looked interesting to save the next person a couple minutes! I also shamelessly sorta use my own HN comments as a brain dump sometimes for myself in the future.
> You don't need ASI to fold laundry

Robots are garbage at manipulating objects, and it's the software that's lacking much more than the hardware.

Let's say AGI is 10 and ASI is 11.

They're saying we can't even get this dial cranked up to 3, so we're not anywhere close to 10 or 11. You're right that folding laundry doesn't need 11, but that's not relevant to their point.
Apple is abusing people, there is no f way an Apple extremist fanboy can claim the next sentence is not abuse

"Developers are not allowed to inform the users that they have the OPTION to say pay less for a subscription directly on the official website"

I know Apple fanboys prefer to use Apple to pay for Youtube or other subscriptions even if is more expensive but how can informing the user that he has an OPTION is allowed.

Is the same with apps, EU protects the user right to own your device, if I want to write a script and run it on my device I should not pay Apple to give me the permission and on top of that have Apple decide for me what I can and what I can't run. What's next Apple protects their users by not allowing browsing websites that did not paid Apple to get an approval of "safety" and "Appleness"
When Teamviewer started blocking connections because of exceeding the limits, I switched to https://www.helpwire.app/ which runs smoothly on both Windows and Mac. And it's free.
it's very sad because it's sort of so near but so far kind of situation

It would be valuable if it could do multimonitor, but it can't. It would be valuable if it could run real apps but it only runs iPad apps. It would be valuable if Apple opened up the ecosystem, and let it easily and openly run existing VR apps, including controllers - but they won't.

In fact the hardware itself crosses the threshold to where the value could be had, which is something that couldn't be said before. But Apple deliberately crimped it based on their ideology, so we are still waiting. There is light at the end of the tunnel though.
It's absurd to expect people to adjust their communication timing based on each contact's preferences, when the recipient can simply adjust their communication devices to block and filter messages/calls according to their preferences. That way each person only has to do the work once, compared to having to remember each of maybe dozens or hundreds of people's preferences.
>Note also how typically the ads are the most fascinating parts of old media, be that newspapers or even TV recordings. All while contemporary arts are universally seen as annoying.

Ads are all annoying, contemporary or not. The old ones are only interesting because they're novel, and you're not watching them every day. You can see the same thing by traveling (or better yet, moving) to a foreign country and watching the TV ads there: they'll be interesting or entertaining for a few minutes, but will quickly become annoying after the novelty wears off.

Ads in old Computer Shopper magazines are interesting to people here because they're interested in computers and computer history, but they're not interesting to other people. But again, after you've looked through an old magazine full of these things, you'll tire of them.

As for ads being more interesting than "old media", that depends on the media. If it's classic old movies like Hitchcock thrillers or whatever, then definitely not. Movies like that are interesting and entertaining to watch even today. No one in their right mind wants to watch 2 hours of nonstop TV ads from the 1950s, by comparison.

Other stuff, it really depends on your interest, and how useful the information is to you now. Are you just satisfying curiosity about history? Or trying to solve some kind of problem that requires historical knowledge? Whatever you're researching is probably more interesting than the ads, though those might be interesting on their own too, to an extent.
You're not as loosely coupled as you think [video]
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Actual article: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/apple-issues-very-serious-un... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725545)

And some more recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681920
Excellent indeed. Thanks for posting. Deserves its own post, I would say!
I classified ~1000 GBA game roms files by using their file names to put each in a category folder. It worked like 90% correctly. Used GPT 3.5 and therefore it didn't adhere to my provided list of categories but they were mostly not wrong otherwise.

https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/20f24e80cfe962d26af5315e...
The writer? Or the person editorializing the headline? :P
I should do whatever I find useful. Voting for unknown electorate funded by involuntary collected money it is not.
There are also collars that monitor temperature and gait analysis to identify infection and hoof problems. Cows get automatically segregated at milking time for inspection. A monitor is also available that goes over the tail and monitors when a cow begins calving and alerts the farmer, traditionally farmers would wake up every hour or two to check on cows that were close. Successful farmers have always always on the cutting edge of anything that can increase margins or efficiency, they have to be it's a tough business.
This stuff is spreading, Japan is next, probably India , Apple is sucking as much as they can from the users, if you are from USA spend your energy protecting Apple abuses in USA, I would try FUD, like show how better USA iPhone users are now with their special ports, with their wall garden etc.
Their instinct is to stay put, which means they don't run when the tractor comes.

A drone flies over the field, maps where the fawns are staying put, sends a message to automated tractors to reroute.

This is probably the most "feel good" application of drones. That and detecting landmines.
Well, if a community is working well and everyone knows and supports each other, then there is no need for police. The crazy ones simply get early help. But the way things develope, neighborhood watches will likely be more and more common. (pedos are just one motivator)
I feel every admin panel I’ve built over the years, including recently, have been “mildly dynamic”. only enough jquery to be usable by other staff.
World's Oldest Deep Sea Shipwreck Discovered in Mediteranean
Any other Cal Poly folks around? Always seems like we're underrepresented compared to the Stanfords of the world.

I wasn't even a CS grad (I tried to but CP wouldn't let me switch from physics, one of their less endearing policies) but being there in 2001, 2002 was a really cool time. I remember when the email went down and my roommate commented "just SSH* in and use Pine" and for some reason something clicked right then - "oh yeah, you can do a whole lot more without the browser than with one". I feel like that mindset was there when I was doing a coding exercise for a job a few years back and figured it made sense to just open a socket with netcat instead of building a whole REST API - it was fun (if non-robust!)

I vaguely recall systems meant to help automatically register you for classes as soon as they became available, and even used their touch-tone based class reg system at one point.

Anyway, ramblings. I ended up with a physics degree and going in to tech anyway; I wish they had just let me switch.

* Hell, it might even have just been telnet. This was back when you could browse all your dormmate's media libraries and we shared freely, even unsecured wifi was common for a few years.
Not really, it's just a solution to the need of complex apps and the need to support the ability to load pieces of the app without having to download and install it like a native app.

Native apps can do similar things with dynamically linked libraries, and there's a lot of complexity when it comes to compiling native code.

The web bundler tooling really isn't that complex nowadays, especially with Vite. It's one file usually 10 lines long. It can use SWC and LightningCSS, written in Rust. They're safe, fast, and require minimal config.
Making AI Safe May Be an Impossible Task
Where is "there"? Texas is a fairly large state, spanning ~11 degrees of latitude.

The climate in Houston differs from that in Arlington, for example.
Until recently, we manually checked fields before mowing in order to flag fawns.

Now it's done by drone (and IR makes for good contrast).
Tertill cuts weeds but the ai is “if object is tall and firm enough to trip my bumper, turn”
Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
I recently switched back to Firefox after being a Chrome user for a long time and I noticed that a Youtube live stream I was watching kept breaking. I would reload the page only to find the stream lagged and then stopped working completely over and over again. When I loaded it in Chrome I still had occasional lags but the stream never completely broke once.

This morning I was trying to edit some photos in Google Photos and I noticed that if you apply a few filters it stops working as well. The first few edits work okay, but after 3 or 4 filters the edits no longer apply.

Can't help thinking it's Google either deliberately breaking things in Firefox or genuinely not caring. Reminds me of tactics Microsoft used against competitors in the 90s and 00s.
> Children are smart enough to learn that they should not share names, ages and locations with strangers on the internet.

I'm old enough to remember when that was the norm.

But it's been along time now since Facebook etc. came along, and they spent the entire time since then insisting on a real-name policy and asking us to give details of our age, our location, which school we go to, and post a continuous stream of photos of ourselves.

> Also: Children are a lot smarter than AI, which is allegedly the super-magical protection against child grooming.

By what measure are children smarter?
> but suffers from “i am genius and you are an idiot” syndrome

But he's still nowhere near as unhinged as the rabid AI bullshittery shitting up the airwaves for the past year

Not a lot of room for nuance when the subject matter is this polluted. Typical HN convention of preferring nuance to outright dismissal is bad at filtering BS
Oh. I also should have checked for that. Thanks, I will probably give it a second try then.
I don't want to use Android. My software ecosystem lives on iOS. It's also much less nice from a UX perspective.
For me, SSI will always be Strategic Simulations Inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Simulations
This is mentioned all the time but the cost to get a driver's license in Germany is incredible high. And even after spending a lot of money on training, most native Germans fail the exam the first time. Then, like you said - there are rules and very stiff penalties in place for after you get your license.

Americans would simply not put up with this.
> I definitely need LLMs for one critical thing: search that works.

Hmm, that seems weird.

> Google has become clogged with outright spam and endless layers of indirection

So.. the problem isn't search, it's that Googles ad business has destroyed googles search and created spam to try to get ad clicks.

I switched to Kagi a few months ago and I'm much happier. Most of the blog spam is just gone, and the things that slip through I can nuke.
This is a nice feature. There is nothing wrong with letting people switch between windows from the same application.

There is still no reason why you cannot have both CMD-Tab switching between any window and also an option to switch between windows from the same app?
Did you heard about the opinion of HN about Dropbox ?
The thorny problem of keeping the Internet's time (2022)
I like this and agree:

>Bush was preferred to be glue behind the scenes for the most part.

re. associating with something like Edison does the light bulb, I ageee there's probably a lot to that. In ny presentation above I demonstrate what historians unanimously agree on that Vannevar was the single most pivotal individual to set the conditions for justifying initiating the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer gets the popular credit, but Vannevar was kicking off the feasibility studies for fissile chain reactions long before Oppenheimer enters the picture.

But people don't want to be associated with such a destructive invention like they do the light bulb, right? So any would-be propagators of their impact narrative have to wrestle with that moral quandary as well..
Until there is an interface for it that allows you to effectively touch type (or equivalent) then 99% of jobs won't be able to use it away from a desk anyway. Speech to text would be good enough for writing (non technical) documentation but probably not for things like filling spreadsheets or programming.
1) If you are comparing people's behaviour to Genghis Khan, don't expect positive social reinforcement. The man was a calamity clothed in flesh, we could do without anything like him happening ever again.

2) Violence != anger [0]. I don't know much about him, but Ghengis Khan could have been an extremely calm person. It is hard to build an empire that large and win that many campaigns for someone prone to clouded thinking which is a point in favour of him being fairly calculating.

> What emotions do you really control?

3) In terms of what gets expressed? Nearly all of them. Especially in a written setting, there is more than enough time to take a deep breath and settle.

> We expect men to suppress this emotion.

4) As an aside, I advise against suppressing negative emotions if that means trying to hold them back or something. That tends to lead to explosions sooner or later. It is better to take a soft touch, let the emotion play out but disconnect it from your actions unless it leads to doing something productive. Reflect on it and think about it; that sort of thing.

[0] Although maybe I should not that angery violence is a lot more dangerous than thoughtful violence; angry violence tends to be harder to predict and lead to worse outcomes.
If you release software under a license then that version of the software is bound by the license.
That is funny, because of all the problems with LLMs, the biggest one is that they will lie/hallucinate/confabulate to your face before saying I don't know, much like those leaders.
Sorry, but in every example of vertical farming I've seen, there's nothing that actually works. Nearly all of the farms and companies I've visited and been exposed to use a lot more water and energy (in all forms) compared to a conventional farm. The only appeal I see are for places with limited agricultural land space such as Singapore or the Netherlands, or arid regions such as the Middle East or Central Asia. Even then, it's much cheaper for most of these places to simply import from abroad.
For what purpose? If you just want to know your respiratory rate, respiration belts are simple and very effective. You should be able to MacGyver your own with limited electronics skills: https://www.instructables.com/Quick-and-dirty-Respiration-Se....

> To what extent is a microphone in your glasses + footage of your chest rising and falling enough?

I'm sure a skilled computer vision engineer could make this work, but I'd argue it's the wrong approach. Lasers might work as well, but I think your best bet is radar. I know there are companies making doppler radar-based systems for tracking respiratory rate. Can't dig for them at the moment but here's an article about the method: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172641/.

By the way, heart-rate variability correlates strongly with respiratory rate. As far as I understand, this is because inhalation raises your blood pressure which increases your heart rate. Using a pulse oxymeter, you should be able to extract respiratory rate from the raw PPG data. Should be effective if you're otherwise healthy and reasonably young. HRV decreases with age and illness. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34024811/
Good to know. As someone with only mild interest in window managers, my first thought was that this will probably be obsoleted by the coming feature GP refers to. So GP is right, your explanation on the product page would be useful for at least some of us.
As the stock market prices now expected future growth, architecture had to justify rising stock prices by promising future scalability.

It was never about the actual workloads, much more about growth projections. And a whole lot of cargo cult behavior.
medias favored einstein instead of bohr ? or was it that einstein papers were more pivotal ?
I genuinely hope Stonehenge will survive the attack unharmed.

But you are not going to get attention for your cause without making a big fuss. Have you considered the possibility that they are just right in what they say?
Why? It is an emulation of a feature from other OS; why it should be indictment of Gnome? Gnome is perfectly usable without it. This widget is only for those, who are so used to windows-ism and cannot let it go.

Similarly, there is dash-to-dock extension, which emulates a feature from another popular OS. It is also indictment, that Gnome doesn't have macOS-like dock in the core? Is it an indictment of Windows shell, that is doesn't have such feature at all, neither in core nor in extension?
I take your point but living in a London flat I don't have the room for multiple high resolution displays. Nor are they very portable, I have a MBP rather than an iMac because mobility is important.

I do think we're 4+ years until it gets to the 'iPhone 1' level of utility though, so we'll see how committed Apple are to it.
A “multi-terabyte dataset” is something that fits into a single machine, and can be loaded into Clickhouse in a few minutes.
> how could an entire rogue airliner not be traced to within sqm's of impact/landing

Because nobody is looking. Umbra doesn't provide realtime global coverage, any location is only visited once per week. The chances of a specific location being captured right as a rogue airliner is flying over it are basically zero.

I also wouldn't be surprised if it didn't record any data over the open ocean. The vast majority of it is just waves, and nobody is ever going to pay for petabytes of empty images, so why bother? Same with capturing airlines at all: they are essentially always image artifacts, so I would expect them to be deliberately filtered out quite early in the pipeline.

I wouldn't be surprised if the US military had the capacity to track airplanes from space. But tracking every single commercial airliner, on the extremely remote chance that one of them goes rogue over a remote ocean? Not a chance, it'd be extremely expensive and provide zero strategic benefit.
Tall poppy syndrome and a HUGE piling spoonful of cultural cringe.