skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a professional full-time open source maintainer and developer, initiatives like this bother me a lot.

The work we do is worth much more than $20/hr.

Ideally I'd like to see open source developers in stable, tenured positions that pay fair salaries with benefits. Anything that normalizes the idea that open source should be funded on tips, patreons, or spare time goodwill is embarrassing to all of us. We can do better.

If you value open source, hire people to do it and pay them fairly.
For anyone wanting an easy way of trying it out, I recommend grabbing `zbeekman/nightly-gcc-trunk-docker-image:latest` from Docker Hub, which has the latest version of GCC pre-built (which, actually looking it it right now is 10.0) - also, see GitHub landing page for it[1].

I find this to be the easiest way to try out new GCC versions and I actually use it exclusively for building testing my GCC 9 projects. With just a small wrapper Dockerfile, you can easy accommodate CMake or any other build dependencies.

For example, I have one I use for building CMake projects[2] (see README of same project for example of how to use said docker image).

GCC 9 is great, by the way. One of the best improvements, IMO is that gcov can now print coverage reports to stdout in JSON format which means you can take advantage of parallel computing to generate coverage reports fast. The Dockerfile I linked to in [2] above is a part of a utility I made as a drop-in replacement for lcov and can generate lcov reports at times up to 100x faster thanks to GCC 9 improvements.

[1] https://github.com/zbeekman/nightly-gcc-trunk-docker-image

[2] https://github.com/RPGillespie6/fastcov/blob/master/Dockerfi...
Ah, all right, flagged then. And here I'd been hoping to read an interesting discussion on basic disputes about brain function.
Well, the alternative is to let people talk about "Funding secured" on twitter, which would certainly be more interesting. ;)
portable TVs were like magic. well, so was the GameBoy for that matter. that feeling of technological magic was unique. I wonder what the equivalent would be for today's kids?
Powering a lightbulb for 432 years? Sign me up.
It's also how Marcus Licinius Crassus made his fortune.
I remember those. I also remember thinking, "hmm, 'Mustang', the first name that comes to mind when you think quality audio gear. /s" IOW, having never seen one in the flesh, I assumed it was a cheap version of the Casio handheld TV (one of which I did have) tacked on to an even cheaper tape deck that would just as soon eat your tapes as play them. Combine that with an eye-watering price, and I took a pass when it came install a new deck.
This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
U.S. Added 263,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 3.6%
> the consumer demand for the goods those companies provide is unlikely to go away.

There wouldn't be consumer demand if the companies in question hadn't covered up the damage that they do. You can hide behind 'consumer demand' but that really is just a meaningless term, practically speaking, through what is almost a total control of the major press outlets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch), and rabid advertising, the consumer can be manipulated to like or dislike anything. Especially if you suppress certain details like "buying oil is killing the planet". It isn't like the companies in question didn't have 40 years to diversify into sustainable energy sources.

You argue against the state having control, but at least if that were the case the state could have enforced a gradual tapering off and eventual stoppage of these types of energy. Unfortunately we no longer have the time to do that.

In fact, you are using exactly the same arguments that the oil industry used, to cover up climate change.

See: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Privately, these companies did not dispute the links
between their products, global warming, and ecological
calamity. On the contrary, their research confirmed the
connections.

and

Nor did the companies ever take responsibility for
their products. In Shell’s study, the firm argued that
the “main burden” of addressing climate change rests
not with the energy industry, but with governments and
consumers. That argument might have made sense if oil
executives, including those from Exxon and Shell, had
not later lied about climate change and actively
prevented governments from enacting clean-energy
policies.

> People consume energy and it's unlikely that we'll be able to reduce our usage meaningfully in the near future.

The only reason people consume unsustainable energy is because the alternative is expensive, and people are not paid properly enough to be able to afford such luxuries as a clean conscience.

See: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/80-percent-of-us-adults-face-ne...

The gauge defines "economic insecurity" as a year or
more of periodic joblessness, reliance on government
aid such as food stamps or income below 150 percent of
the poverty line. Measured across all races, the risk
of economic insecurity rises to 79 percent.

and

It's time that America comes to understand that many of
the nation's biggest disparities, from education and
life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly due to
economic class position," said William Julius Wilson, a
Harvard professor who specializes in race and poverty.
The question I have is: Would the plane have crashed if the plane was a non MAX 737?

I don't think so, but I'm open to being proved wrong.
In that case the root cause of the two crashes is Boeing trying to save money.
>No company will be foolish enough to build a business/service that relies on another entity,

It's an airline operating at an airport. That operation is already inseparably interwoven with number of other organizations - including the government - just to move a tube full of people from point A to B.

>much so a government organization that is not known for building highly scalable services

In that case, it's good for them that they have such a highly predictable load target. Airports have a fixed number of gates and a maximum number of planes ATC can smoothly get into the air in an hour. There's your upper bound. Flight plans and ticket sales set the normal band and refine the performance target. Load can be well understood, and they have lots of visibility into future demand changes.

>This is a crucial part of their process

It's a pilot program. As much as I doubt they'd let this system ever be a single point of failure under normal operation, an experimental system certainly has a fallback plan for boarding.
Mark Shuttleworth doubles down on openstack
That's not really true. Day rate for a decent SE contractor is about 400/500 (but ofc they don't get that, as mostly private contracting is rare).

But the big thing I disagree with is "most"... the perm industry in the UK is strong!
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
> Something happened in the last twenty years or so that increased our polarization.

I'd expand the timeframe to 30 years and say the biggest contributors to this are the rise of neoliberal politics combined with globalization leaving a lot of working class people "behind" while corporations made ever more and more profits, combined with the rise of the Internet where the most outrageous content gets the most clicks/likes/eyeball-time with next to no institutions to provide as "quality filter".

Stuff like antivaxxers, flat earthers, "great exchange of the white people" and other conspiracy bollocks was relegated to physical mailings of fringe groups naturally limiting its distribution, nowadays the reach capability is in the millions for everyone.

In addition, countless fuck-ups (aided by propaganda) demolished trust into journalism and experts in general, which led to the erosion of fact-based viewpoints as the base for democratic discourse.
Re: "the right to be in the country", there is no such right.

U.S. citizens do have the (pretty sure only legislative) right to obtain a U.S. passport, which may be presented at a port of entry. Entry may not be denied to someone carrying a genuine and current U.S. passport, though they might be immediately imprisoned upon doing so for unrelated crimes. Entry of a U.S. citizen by other means, however, is just as illegal as a noncitizen overstaying their visa.

Re: "no answer", I had been operating under the assumption that we could take the entire history of the United States prior to April 2018 as evidence that there are other ways of doing things. A variety of solutions were employed prior to that date, with only one solution being employed after. This is sufficient evidence that other approaches are indeed possible.

If the argument is that all of these previous solutions were in fact illegal, then I'm not really qualified to have that argument. Most legal scholars seem to disagree, though.

The backlog is indeed a resource issue. Resource issues are evidence of demand for resources. Demand for these resources is driven by the need to process immigration cases. The backlog is therefore evidence that cases were being processed.
The voting method breaks down entirely when you consider strategic voting by groups, and multiple-repetitions game strategies.

100 players would form a voting cartel, and each member would spread their votes out among all the members' favorite issues. Reneging on the cartel's rules means that the entire cartel retaliates on the next vote.

So each party has exactly 100 issues in their platform, and no individual voter can do anything to stop them.
I prefer to share this article that came before the book since it's a quicker read:

https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet...
Pick your poison. I live in a state with strong term limits on the state legislature (MI), and it has huge problems too. The large turnover means a dearth of institutional experience. So much of legislative power depends on the few legislators who are strong and smart enough to wield it. One thinks of Henry Clay, or Ted Kennedy, or Robert Byrd, or Mitch McConnell. Regardless of your thoughts on them, they were long-time legislators who cared about protecting the power of their institution and were wily enough to do it.

The power to make laws is going to go somewhere. If the legislature won't or can't accept it, it'll end up in the bureaucracy (admittedly a huge problem with out non-term limited national Congress, though for different reasons), or in the case I'm familiar with, by executive fiat and outside groups and lobbyists.
it just happens that i dont want to download and install matlab on my computer (which is company provided) and i'd rather work on python if there is an equally good course.

not what you thought though.
You're absolutely right, I was just pointing out in your post you believe that governance via violent extremists is good, but governance via land-owners (wealth) is bad. How do you reconcile that: is there any underlying principle behind your belief? Should we enshrine violent tactics into law as a Good Thing or should we, as a society, oppose you and your kind with all our might?
> weird

Term limits already exist for other positions. It is not a strange concept.

> roundabout

My problem is not with "money in politics", it is with career politicians.

> more difficult to implement

Forgive my laughter, setting a term limits is way easier than your abstract idealism of removing money from politics.

> antidemocratic

Everyone can still vote and is still emancipated. The America after the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution is no less a Representative Democracy than before.

I'm all for honest and open discussion but it is clear this is not one of them.
Not sure they have anything left in Manchester now. They moved to London decades ago, and sold off the Evening News sometime in the 00s. I think MEN was the last significant presence. If anything remains I expect it's a minor operation.
My Experience as a Whistleblower
And people complain that ranked-choice voting is too complicated for the average voter...
Wow, you're assuming that the neuro-diverse can mimic these signals so much better than sociopaths that any citizen will cheerfully hand them a (false!) "yes quite empathic" sticker. And that they can do so at little cost! Not so and not so. The usual result of this strategy is that in return for their heroic efforts, the neuro-diverse person appears "very plastic" and falls heavily into the "uncanny valley." This can result in extremely intense antipathy to them.
>OK symbol hoax

I haven't heard of this, what is the hoax?
Formidable employee here: To be quite honest we are compensated very fairly for our industry already and this program is not meant to ‘provide a living wage’ by any means.

Instead, this is a ‘fair nod’ at the work some of us feel compelled and motivated to do after work hours.

Not saying your perspective is wrong, just hopefully providing a bit more context about what this program means for someone who uses it.
I think you mean to say authoritarianism not fascism. Fascism tends to be authoritarian but dose not have to be.

Here's a great explanation on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQbFgszFaZg
You may want to search for "shunting puzzles", such as those here: https://www.transum.org/Software/Shunting/Puzzles.asp

Every time my model train interest rises, I consider setting up a small layout for puzzles like these.
I've actually found that books priced on the Indigo website will be more expensive in store - I went to purchase one that was 50% more in store. What a shocker that was.
From https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2755844

> g Likert has never done; engages a higher level of thoughtfulness; attenuates extremism to expose deeper insight; and predicts behavior better than Likert at high levels preference intensity.

Basically extreme views and polarization are poorly weighted in large populations and this can be _exposed_ by QV.
Nothing in the abstract or longer explainer contradicts those quotes, whether you consider them "cringey" or not.

"The authors show that the 14C methane signature is relatively constant through this abrupt methane rise. They use a mass-balance calculation to show that this could not have happened if the rise was caused by emissions from geological sources, including hydrates"

"Natural geological methane emissions are expected to have been higher during the past than in modern times12, and so the authors' estimate of emissions 12,000 years ago can be taken as an upper limit for today's climate system."

The closest is the caveat that modern warming may go warmer, and thus further historical analysis and modeling is needed.
Capsacin can be addictive
Disclaimer: I work at Formidable. I have never used my Sauce time on anything related to Formidable open source or clients.
Streaming video on the internet without MPEG's patents
I don't think you need to be an expert in "psychology, intelligence research (a sub-field of psychology), and/or economics" to understand this paper. I read it and it was easy to follow. It also has nothing to do with intelligence research or economics.

My biggest issue with the paper is that he uses a log-log plot ("to reduce skewness"?) and then does a linear regression on that (and we all know everything looks correlated on a log-log plot).

Also the resulting correlation is claimed to be very strong, but I think that psychologists so rarely see any correlation that "very strong" to them is "there's definitely some correlation!".

He shouldn't have been fired though.
You could argue that it's people their own choice how much they work - which is true. But sometimes this can become determinental to their health. I'm onboard with this idea to be honest, it sounds good!
There's probably an infinite set of such powers inside any neighborhood of zero.
Take a look at Scuttlebutt [0] which works on very similar principles of authenticated log replication.

Also note that Lotus Notes [1] has been doing all this replicated encrypted app platform stuff since the early 90s.

I am working on a log-centric bitemporal database at JUXT which I think intersects with this problem space as well, see my recent tweet relating to the article [2].

[0] https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170228160130/www.kapor.com/blo...

[2] https://twitter.com/refset/status/1124311089943019521
I would say Nokia 1110. The iPhone 6 comes close.
so just ask michael&noah https://mobile.twitter.com/asknoahshow/status/11107491891919... #asknoahapp
You've edited your comment so many times my other reply just gets more and more off-topic lol
Clearly we need to elect another Democratic president to spur the market on.
> Realistically, we can't pay people full engineering salaries to do random OSS.

Why can't you?

Professors get paid full professor salaries to do "random research".

Doctors get paid full doctor salaries to treat "random illnesses".

I expect if you looked a bit closer, you'll find that "Random OSS" is maintenance that makes the entire ecosystem possible. Would love to hear from some of your engineers what they are doing to earn that $20/hr.
Biodiversity crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn
Well, they did have "sources say" in the title not the small print. There's some speculation here that "someone planted this story as a means to discredit the journalists" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/28/paul-mana...
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Secure Connect, an open source encrypted contact form, from tutanota
Adding onto this, guns also last more or less indefinitely under normal usage and a proper care regimen (which, granted, not everybody follows).
What about that is "?" x4 surprising to you?
I work for a company launching an Open source board where companies can post jobs for cash works-hub.com/issues
A lot of us in this industry are very fortunate to have high salaries. At the risk of sounding crass, $20/hour is not much money to me. So this is really just a show of support. I'm going to donate the money anyway. (disclaimer: I work at Formidable)
The technique still works and works excepionally well.

I only use a bayes filter (I use bogofilter) and out of some 15k spam e-mails and 150k ham e-mails I received in the last 9 months or so, I've seen like ~10 false negatives and around the same number of false positives. That's way better than gmail can ever dream of, where I always had issues with automated messages ending up in spam. With bogofilter, the training is always explicit, and otherwise the model doesn't change, so I can be sure that when my automated messages pass, they will always pass, and don't randomly stop passing "just because".

I started with a big archive (around 100k msgs each) of SPAM and HAM for the initial training. I learned from the early days of using e-mail to archive my spam, for the eventual training, since my first Linux job involved setting up a DSPAM installation.
The biggest of these mistakes, in my experience, is mentioning in a public forum that you use MySQL.

(Disclaimer: I picked between the two at random and only continue to use the thing I picked because I now know it well and it is adequate for my needs)
Does this mean we go from virtual machines (i.e. VMWare) to kubernetes & containers in data centers?
Something similar to RanchOS
I wonder if they’ve tested/considered a “pay what you can” subscription model.
Doing neither is even less profitable.
Ask HN: What operations of your Engineering/IT department do you audit?
Countdown to Live Satoshi Nakamoto Unveiling
Deeper Dive on Oculus Quest (Review Roundup)
The book Hackers has an entire chapter on the TMRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club engineers (students) build early track switching systems using relays and mainframes (later I think it was transistors and later microcomputers). This let them experiment with all sorts of train routing algorithms and those students often went on to influential positions in the telecom and computing industries.
Yep, that exact feeling is one of the things that provoked me to write the comment.

Then there's also the social aspect of it all. If you're working with a team of 10 people and 8 of them are contributing to projects that help the company because you're all on the same mission of "rainbows and unicorns are amazing, our company is the best" then there's a tremendous amount of social pressure to keep up with everyone else because otherwise everyone thinks you're not on the same page and you get outcast. Once that happens for a while, that's when you get burnt out and resent everyone you work with.
Wait, what? If you show that you're willing and able to take responsibility for what you did, and engage in compensation as needed, no one will be offended. Indeed, many will be favorably impressed because this is not something that antisocial people do often - as a rule, such people tend to be highly entitled, and have trouble with the whole idea of engaging in a successful negotiation with others. There is no quicker way to encourage the stigmatization/patronization of autism, than allowing the term be used as an excuse or a get-out-of-jail-card for bad behavior!
>How many guns does one need?

Need or want? Like any other hobby your limit is your budget.

There are guns that exist for no other reason than the lulz ("hundred dolla problem solva" I'm looking at you). Historically inclined individuals could spend a fortune just collecting variants of one specific niche of firearms from a particular nation and time period.
Social Media Censorship Makes Division and Radicalization Worse
Hours are self reported using the same system that we use for logging client work.
Remember, this is one of those situations where you don't have to outrun the lion - just the other guy. But here, the other guy has advantages over someone who's neurodiverse.
Asking every autistic person to outmimic sociopaths (with fewer diverse traits) who dedicate their lives to such mimicry is asking the impossible. Psychopaths aren't rare, violent psychopaths are rare.
If I'm paid for open source, I'm going to lose any motivation to work on it more. The reason why I contribute to open source projects is BECAUSE I want to contribute for free.

Put money in the deal and I'm no longer doing this work selflessly, but for self-interest instead.