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Ask HN: Use after license expiration protection schemes
What are some good solutions to prevent businesses from using your software past termination of a licensing agreement or past a trial date?

Specifically, this is in the context of software that is installed on linux servers for which a monthly licensing fee needs to be paid.

Some ideas I had myself:
- reduce reliability of software past certain date
- use a licensing server with the software connecting to it to check if it is allowed to run
- keep some type of secure date or time counter which is checked

Curious what scenarios you've had yourself in your startup dealing with customers and how you've handled this.
Who exactly do you think gets abortions? When and why? Because this is another obvious lie we hear from the Trump's campaigning: “They will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month and even after birth.”

93.5% of abortions happen before 13 weeks. 0.9% happen after 21 weeks [0]. Since Texas' trigger laws have been put into place, the maternal mortality rate rose by 56% [1]! In 2022, there was an 11.6% increase in infant mortality! Before that, across the years 2014-2021, infants death fell nearly 15% [2]. On top of this, 4 pregnant women have died because they couldn't get the care they needed and and again, women are finding they can't get certain medicines for chronic diseases because doctors are afraid to prescribe them. If you respect these lives, I would invite you to consider what is happening in the real world alongside your thought exercises about cells.

0 - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7209a1.htm#:~:text=....

1 - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-...

2 - https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/health/texas-abortion-ban-inf...
You actually can, by working the incentives. For the first three years of Biden’s administration one could show up, be apprehended, and be relatively certain that they would be released into the country, where you might be housed and fed.

Under later Trump and Biden’s current policy, you are released into Mexico.
> I thought their point was that Mozilla doesn't...?

If their argument that Mozilla has failed at everything, then it's ridiculous. If they want to evaluate Mozilla overall, then that includes both Mozilla's successes and failures.
Copy the link and open in a new tab.
Compared to Trump the Democrats are amateurs at messaging who seem to have no clue how to talk to the average Joe or Jane. Instead of using the Jan 6 riot to attack Trump's "law and order" image, they choose to frame it in terms of "democracy".
Also federal government will continue to weaken under Trump. Its primary domestic power is by acting as a big hose of money, if that dries up then what does it matter? EPA, NLRB, all the executive offices are basically gone already anyways, and it's not like they've even had teeth for the last two decades. Strong blue states enacting their own agendas aggressively, independent of and unassailable by the federal government is a way more achievable goal IMO, especially if the alternative is to pin everything on being able to sufficiently turn out the entire blue coalition one day every four years. I can make a difference at the county and state level, and I have lots of opportunities to do so. My heart goes out to people stuck in red states right now, but at the end of the day some things are within my power and some things are not.
It goes well beyond fresh produce.

Over that time period in Canada, I've also seen a 2 to 3 times increase in the unit price of many other basic grocery items, including dried pasta, rice, bread, canned goods, bags of frozen vegetables (peas, corn), meat, and so on.

The government-reported inflation numbers are well below what I've experienced and what many people in Canada I've talked to have told me they're experiencing.
> Personally I don't support the rape of children, but more than half the voting public seem to be "just fine" with it.

They're not just saying they're "just fine" with it. They are enthusiastically voting for it.

We have to come to terms with the fact that very clear, consistent campaign themes of cruelty and selfishness won over a majority of voters. Deep, country-wide introspection is needed.
A Political Misdiagnosis
one partisan event I found in a quick web search (can't vouch for anything):

from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2143741/fact-che...

On Thursday, Brazile released a excerpt from her new book on Politico’s website. The excerpt explained how the Hillary Victory Fund, Hillary for America, and the Democratic National Committee signed a Joint Fund-Raising Agreement, which gave a significant advantage to Clinton’s campaign.

“Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised,” Brazile wrote. “Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.”

“The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical,” Brazile notes. “This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.”
Barring a stunning discovery that will stop putting the responsibility for NN intelligence on synthetic training set – it looks like NN and symbolic AI may have to coexist, symbiotically.
Yes, the Pandora's box is about to open and show us how bad we've had it, by showing us how much worse could really be.
Goal #1 is just an instrumental goal to goal number #2. Socialists underperform moderates in general elections. Hell even Kamala, a terrible candidate who just got trounced by Trump outperformed Bernie (who has literally everything going for him) in his home state by a slim margin. Where as a moderate like Dan Osborn without the backing of the party outperformed Kamala by almost 14%.

Americans don't want to pay European style taxes even for European services. And our public sector is far less efficient than Europe's so we wouldn't even get European level of services for that taxation rate.
I am indeed very worried about all these illegal immigrants taking our very important jobs.

When I order food delivery, get in an Uber, and drop off my laundry at the wash and fold I want an under-educated American!
Archived link: https://archive.md/KjjwJ
How does the exact same argument do not apply to Republican voters in e.g California, New York or Oregon?
I think a case could be made for “It” being a quasi-name and therefore a different word that is spelled the same or, because “it” is a pronoun it only counts when it is used to refer to the thing that the title itself refers to.
The charisma of an old, demented moron? He failed as a public speaker even before he got this old, I have heard non-native 5 years old speak better than him.

Plus he is spineless, lying, rapist.. well, sure it is a kind of a charisma. One fitting for some video game villain.
It kind of makes sense from a certain angle.

Trump is a known quantity - people know what they are getting with him and have made their peace with him being how he is.

People expect more from Democrats. Harris would get dinged for saying things that Trump says, by the same people who are fine with Trump saying those things.

If that seems irrational and hypocritical, well, that's how people are, regardless of their politics.

Another model of how to think about the candidates is that human beings make decisions based on how the person or thing in front of them makes them feel - and afterward they come up with post-hoc rationalizations as to why. Even smart people do this. To some extent, we're all lying to ourselves about this.

So it makes sense that this time around both candidates ran campaigns focused on emotions, instead of policy specifics.
Theodore Roosevelt was well known for monopoly-busting. It is something the president can influence and the U.S. has a dozen major monopolies that should have been busted long ago.
Hmm, any time frame for when Linux (.deb,flatpak) binaries will be available?
They impeached him. Counter to Republican's rhetoric, the Democrats can't force the DOJ to press charges in a timely manner, but the DOJ eventually also pursued charges. So they attempted to fix this with:

1. Impeachment
2. Congressional Acts
3. Independent action from the Department of Justice
4. Individual states attempted to get him off their ballots for treason

How about you describe what they should have done?
That's an oddly narrow focus!

Nintendo appears to make the musical elements of its work a priority and it's good to see it escaping the game console into live performance -- following in the footsteps of both show tunes and movie music..
Oh hey, all time high, right on schedule.
I fear more what comes after Trump than Trump himself.
The reason why Swedes allow it to continue is of similar reasons why people allow human trafficking in construction. It occurs in the background where it is not seen, it reduces costs, and makes people money.

If human slavery was a net-loss for countries then it wouldn't be historical popular. Be it building roads, railways, bridges, buildings, harvesting or picking fruits, those are not things people in general want to see prices increase. People who talk about illegal immigrants being a net-positive on the economy never talk about that aspect, in the same way that those being against illegal immigrants do not want to talk about increased costs. Even people who talk about human trafficking do not want to talk about human trafficking in construction or food production.

At one point the police even announced (as part of a political move in order to get more budget) that they would stop investigating construction places for human trafficking since just going to a single construction place would fill their work quota for that year, and thus everything else would had to be put at hold. Everyone who work in construction are fully aware of the open secret that a large part of all work is done by illegal workers that do not pay taxes (or minimum wages), do not get safety equipment, and is not limited by regulations that exist to protect workers. Sweden is far from unique in this aspect.
Not sure that's an easter egg? That's been the pronunciation for 25 years.
>The limbic system won.

The limbic system always wins.

"The mind is always the dupe of the heart." (La Rochefoucauld)
Trump seems to be a refutation that the candidate is only chosen by "The Donor Class". He was nominated twice despite efforts of monied interests, not because of them (it's my understanding the money didn't go to him until it was inevitable that he'd be the candidate).
And hyperbole like this is why democrats lost in such a devastating fashion.

+ the fact that they had no brand power and marketing. Trump in a garbage truck is great marketing.
Now Trump in 2024 is even older than Biden when he assumed office in 2020. I doubt Trump will be calling the shots for all four years.
Huh? The "car crash" in this analogy is "losing your job", which has nothing to do with your health profile.
they are required to follow laws in their normal every day job. for instance they must also be concerned when they prescribe narcotics or other controlled substances but that doesn’t paralyze them.

so again, if they can’t handle the job and know when it’s appropriate to give an abortion and when it isn’t then they need to quit.
Did you even listen to the video clip in the article?

> It’s true, because we have to get the vote out. Christians are not known as a big voting group, they don’t vote. And I’m explaining that to them. You never vote. This time, vote. I’ll straighten out the country, you won’t have to vote any more, I won’t need your vote any more, you can go back to not voting.

I hate Trump as much as anyone, but deliberately misconstruing every word he says is part of what cost Democrats the election. People saw through it.
Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire.
One of the more insightful things I heard in the last few days was this generation of politicians got a lesson in how toxic inflation is politically. And inflation wasn't even that bad, but it felt bad.
The request may have been to take a 24 foot segment and cut it into equal nearly 8 foot segments. Measuring all at once lets you avoid the last piece being notably shorter.
I wouldn't focus on Trump in terms of per capita GDP.

During Trump's term, per capital gdp went from
$58.2k to $64.3k, a 10% increase.

During Biden's term, it went from $64.3k to $81.7k, a 27% increase.
This will sadly be the end of FCC/FTC and all the antitrust efforts that were graining steam over the last few years.
> no more than “lav” should match “law” just because the first part of the letter “w” looks like a “v”.

Well of course not, it’s double u, not double v… so maybe “lau” should match “law”!

(That’s one thing French got right. Dooblah vay, double v. (Is there are proper French spelling for that pronunciation? Like how h is aitch in English.))
There are thousands of Buffets, Stans, and Jims that don't exist.
It's definitely still a thing at least in some states.

And takes up to 3 days as it's more work then processing the normal ballot votes (especially if the normal votes are done with voting machines).

but is quite unlikely to change the outcome with how things look by now.
New Zealander here. I hope that now with Trump in office that USA will go back to the moon in 2025-2028 :).

Hope more high income manufacturing jobs are created for the working class and they build a bigger middle class.
If true, their media diet betrayed them. This outcome was obvious.
For some reason I’ve not heard this argument 8 years back when Clinton lost. At that time the fact that she won popular vote was used to critique the electoral college. Maybe at that time republicans stayed at home in the blue states?
It's also okey to not share the feeling that the other person on the internet is having. Just saying. I would even argue it's mildly impolite to dispute the feelings of other people when your have a different vibe about the situation.
you should be able to use this: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.... let me know if that does not work.

All our binaries are listed out here: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2....
The man must be reminded that he did not demand more than two options. He did not demand a system that guaranteed more than two options. He allowed the Excrement Party to bring forward feces as it's candidate, and he allowed the Bark Party to bring forward manchineel as it's candidate.

The man is entirely responsible for this situation he finds himself in unfortunately. Also, if the man selected feces the first time round, and suffered for it, then maybe the deadly poisonous bark is the only other logical choice, if only to stop the torture?
>If the mission is to collect or mine asteroids, that would change everything. All the above assumes some other purpose -- for example, Mars surface mining.

If we had the ability to mine mars, that would change everything. But this is precisely why I'm suggesting that a station in space might be superiour to any mars base. A station doesn't have to be near mars, lots of locations, asteroids and points of interest are closer to us than the surface of mars. Even going to mars will be easier if you have the station first.

>there's no justification to use orbital solar with the attendant high capital costs and conversion losses

Are you talking about orbital solar for a non-existent mars base? A space station can have 100% uptime of their solars cells without the problems dust brings. Mars is the one with conversion losses if they need to store any power for any length of time.

>being able to live below the surface in any of the existing lava tubes as protection

Radiation protection is just a cost figure for a station. Converting lava tubes into something we could use seems like a herculean effort without even knowing any safety aspects. You're just limiting your own space on a dead planet.

>artificial gravity

We could spin the habitat. It would be easier than testing lava tube methods of engineering.

>Remember that Mars surface temperatures regularly drop to -100F overnight. Temperature extremes would also be an issue in a lava tube, but with less severity if the site were carefully chosen.

Stations win again as we've already solved this.
Repealing Roe v Wade is a great thing, not a terrible thing. Highly contentious issues absolutely should be left to the states to decide, not forced upon them at a federal level.
DNC was worried that Bernie would be nominated.
I can just see them snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by calling this thing something stupid like "Switch U" or "SwIItch" confusing the hell out of consumers again.
I guess he has been playing the long game then right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.
>He said that the financial industry and the military–industrial complex are funded at the expense of the American middle class; that the U.S. government is dominated by corporate power; the Environmental Protection Agency is run by the "oil industry, the coal industry, and the pesticide industry";

>In an interview with Andrew Serwer, Kennedy said that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. had become too great and that "the very wealthy people should pay more taxes and corporations". He also expressed his support for Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax plan, which would impose an annual tax of 2% on every dollar of a household's net worth over $50 million and 6% on every dollar of net worth over $1 billion.[147]

>Kennedy attacked the operations of former CIA director Allen Dulles, condemning U.S.-backed coups and interventions such as the 1953 Iranian coup d'état as "bloodthirsty", and blamed U.S. interventions in countries such as Syria and Iran for the rise of terrorist organizations such as ISIS and creating anti-American sentiment in the region.

>In an article titled "Why the Arabs Don't Want Us in Syria" published in Politico in February 2016, Kennedy referred to the "bloody history that modern interventionists like George W. Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio miss when they recite their narcissistic trope that Mideast nationalists 'hate us for our freedoms.' For the most part they don't; instead they hate us for the way we betrayed those freedoms—our own ideals—within their borders".

>Kennedy has advocated for a global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy,[169][170] but has opposed hydropower from dams.[129][130][131][132][133][134] He has argued that switching to solar and wind energy reduces costs and greenhouse gases while improving air and water quality, citizens' health, and the number and quality of jobs.[171] Kennedy's fight to stop Appalachian mountaintop removal mining was the subject of the film The Last Mountain.

>As a "well-respected climate lawyer" in the 2000s,[204] Kennedy was "often linked to top environmental jobs in Democratic administrations", including in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 presidential elections.[209] He was considered as a potential White House Council on Environmental Quality chair for Al Gore in 2000 and considered for the role of EPA administrator under John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008.[209]
If we want to be optimistic, he will cut regulations and probably also funding to our military-industrial complex. For the wealthy, he will transfer an immense amount of resources to us.
sigh more Electron
No offense but I think you're doing monorepos wrong. We have more than 100 applications living in our monorepo. They share common core code, some common signals, common utility libs, and all of them share the same build.

We release everything weekly, and some things much more frequently.

If your testing is good enough, I don't see what the issue is?
News to me as well, but it makes sense at least on the surface. Mars is red because it's covered in rusty iron.
I think you're double speaking here, the majority of the population who were eligible to vote, voted for Donald Trump in 2024.
Have you ever heard him speak?! Quite literally asking, are people just voting/liking him based on static images and deliberately cut to look somewhat acceptable videos? I swear his speech is worse than Biden's has ever been.
We really should fund an anthropological study in the people who overreact to every little thing Trump says. I'm sure there is an entire media niche to go along with these overreactions too. I would read that.
While true, also keep in mind that the iPad Pro (M4) which has no active cooling, and uses only 1/4th the power ... is still faster (single & multicore) than this 9800X3D - and it's also been on the market for 1/2 year now already.
Rap music taught me that being a felon is cool.
If you heard this quote without knowing who said it, you would think it is most likely that the speaker meant “vote again for me”. When a politician says “go vote”, it’s normally implied “go vote for me”.

In context, I think it is obvious that is what Trump meant. People that have been told Trump is a dictator that wants to end democracy obviously won’t approach that quote with normal grace they afford others.
Good luck with your Health Insurance: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/aca-trump-repeal...
> You can check the examples from the TRL library for more information.

What library is that? Thanks!
I’m sorry, but I don’t see the relevance of your question.

Does it somehow make it less relevant to fix a cause of death because more people die of other unrelated causes?

Far more people die in accidents than any other causes of death in the U.S., seemingly only beat by cancer and heart disease. That doesn’t make every other cause of death any less troubling or worth fixing, and it certainly does not mean that one should hold back existing treatments for “lesser” deaths or injuries.

Any avoidable injury or premature death is one too many.
You should the entirety of what I’ve written.

Russia has perfected the art of sowing division and faux outrage. We’ve done it to other countries so we deserve it in some sense.

It’s possible that Russia is better at some things than the U.S.
Your question is conflating multiple kinds of risk. Drugs and procedures that are known to work still do have risks of complications or side effects, but statistically speaking, they are known to work and have known levels of risk.

Fake and/or investigational drugs carry an additional and independent risk of unknown efficacy and unknown potential harms. That additional risk layers on top of the first kind of risk of known complications. Drugs with no proven efficacy can carry additional financial risks too.

This is all why we have drug regulations - to hopefully understand the risks, minimize chances of severe harm and/or death, give consumers informed choice and allow them to assess the risk and weigh the risks against the known benefits. Unregulated drugs carry unknown benefits, and unknown & potentially very high levels of risk that patients have no hope of knowing or evaluating rationally, and that is what the comment you replied to is referring to.

Risk isn’t binary like your first comment implied. We don’t just have risk or no risk, we have risks that are known and risks that are unknown, and we have risks with different levels of harm vs benefit, and we have risks with varying levels of likelihood. In medicine it’s important for the risks to be known, for the harm levels to be low, and for the likelihood to be low. That doesn’t always happen, but if harm is likely or high then it’s important for the benefits to be high (to outweight the risks) and its important for anyone accepting the risk to have informed consent.
isn't that generally what you want? the check mark tells you the commit didn't break anything. if something was already broken it should have either blocked the commit that broke it or there's a flake somewhere that you can only locate by periodically running tests independent of any PR activity.