Son of a gun! I've been working at SUSE for a bit of a year, and a lot of the positive things people say here still ring true, at least to me.
Readit News$4.99 impulse buy. I bought a pdf to put on my remarkable 2 for my next plane trip. I hope that doing it this way doesn't violate the spirit of using paper :)
This is completely allowed under the apache open source license. I'm not sure why people are so upset about it.
If you don't want this to happen, release software under a different licensing model.
In my experience, issues like this occur when people project ethical standards onto projects when those ethical standards are not embedded in the license.
In my view, if you believe it is unethical for someone to re-license your Apache code with their own proprietary license, then it shouldn't have an Apache license.
Taking a proprietary fork of an Apache licensed code base and creating an Enterprise product around it seems like a valid business move to me. My guess is that the "uproar" is not coming from the original project creators, but from outside community members who consider such things "anti-social" or whatnot, but I could be wrong.
Building any non super short term business on top of a unique, non interchangeable third party service is always a bad decision anyway.
I would argue that there are good business to be built on top of AWS and Azure catering to the users of those services, and very little chance that Amazon or Microsoft would pull the rug out from under you based on their track records.
Why does anyone ever give Google money for anything at this point?
I pay for ad-free YouTube. I also pay for a ton of extra storage in Google drive.
I find the constantly closing down and shifting of services to be a slight annoyance but not really too impactful in my personal usage. For example, moving Google podcasts and YouTube music into YouTube has been a pretty sad degradation. But not really a deal breaker for me.
What I would never ever do is build a business on top of Google. They seem so cavalier about pulling the rug out from under you. I can only imagine if you have for example services running in Google cloud, how they would treat you if you were counting on a service that they thought wasn't worth it to maintain anymore. Shutting down apis that people were using like this just seems very on-brand for them to me.
rickspencer3 commented on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video] youtube.com/watch?v=g1__q... · Posted by u/ArtemZ
What’s the best alternative distro for ML work? I mainly need the nvidia stack + PyTorch
I am so biased this borders on shilling, but may I suggest taking a look at openSUSE Leap Micro? https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/5.5/
We (SUSE) have extensive testing and quality control, if you are looking for something very stable. Leap is the version built out of the same bits as the enterprise version. The "Micro" part means it is smaller, transactional, and immutable. It's built for containerized and virtualized applications. You can install the nvidia OS bits in the OS, and then build a container with libraries.
rickspencer3 commented on AI will shrink workforces within five years, say company execs cnn.com/2024/04/05/busine... · Posted by u/rntn
I wish we were in the Star Trek universe, so this was "AI will free humanity to pursue science and art without economic concerns" instead of "AI will make everyone poor and subjugate."
So it's irritating to me that this is ranking #1 on HN (why is it, btw?) I just pulled the trigger on a large data gathering project using Metabase, and feel a bit hampered by the limitations in terms of charts and plugins... but I considered Superset first, and after a lot of thought I decided that almost everything I've ever worked with that was run by the Apache foundation turned out to be semi-abandoned disasterware over time. In fact I wasn't even sure if Superset was still an active project or if it just looked like one, in the way e.g. no one bothered to pull the OpenOffice website offline.
So now that I picked Metabase, Superset is topping HN for no apparent reason. Why?
I think that there is an active company behind Superset called Preset.
I don't think it's semi-abandoned. I had a brief interaction with the project in my previous job, and I found the community and the company to be reasonably engaged and responsive.
However, it has not alleviated any responsibility from me to be a good coder because I have question literally everything little dang thing suggests. If I am learning a new API, it can write code that works, but I need to go read the reference documentation to make sure that it is using the API with current best practices, for example. A lot of code I have to flat out ask it why it did things in a certain way because they look buggy inefficient, and half the time it apologizes and fixes the code.
So, I use the code in my (personal) projects copiously, but I don't use a single line of code that it generates that I don't understand, or it always leads to problems because it did something completely wrong.
Note that, at work, for good reasons, we don't use AI generated code in our products, but I don't write production code in my day job anyway.