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I think we have got open source funding all wrong. The thing that makes open source great is that, in parallel, half a million projects are ticking along from which we are learning what is good, what is bad, what is the future of our art. It is education. It is research.

We look for 100,000 individual solutions to making rent while FAANG are just sitting there with a quarter trillion plus in cash waiting to benefit from the best everything that emerges from this massive, free R&D pipeline. Take the best ideas, hire the best programmers, copy the best software, adopt the best practices. From top to bottom you could probably find 10,000+ open source contributors across their stacks, and to enable that open source software required even more contributors, and influencing it all was the previous generations of contributors.

I think the best solution is FAANG pay it forward and support the entire opensource R&D pipeline that enables them to hoard so much money. Between them they hire more people than there are open source developers so it's ridiculous they cannot support them all. It's a security issue that they do not support them at all for the most part, like with OpenSSL, like with injecting ads into node modules, like with selling modules to be repurposed as malware. We haven't even found the stuff compromised by state agencies yet.
Brexit is starting to pay off!
Shallow Syntax in Deep Water
Oddly enough, England hit one of the WHO's vaccination targets (95% of five year olds having received their first MMR vaccination) for the first time ever just a couple of years ago. Not just since Wakefield and co (though they certainly didn't help) but in the entire history of the vaccine.
It was a thing for about a week.
+1 smaller fridge

Changing how I eat greatly reduced my food waste.

Now eating a lot of bulk foods with high soluble fiber. Porridge, beans, lentils, seeds. Instapot for the win. Uncooked (dry) stores very well.

All my excess produce goes into smoothies, also greatly reducing my waste.
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If you are familiar with other projects in this space, would you mind sharing? I'd be interested in following their progress.
Why simply not to buy less, exactly as much as you will consume? Here at a bakery around corner I simply buy fresh bread every morning.
The websites delivered non-persistent jailbreaks. Rebooting the device removes the jailbreak.

Please read the original source at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20835223
'Modular housing that grows with your life.'

Like a giant kit of Lego, maybe?
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The first car painted with the world’s “blackest black” is deeply unsettling
Seems you may be right, but how would you calculate the "chip selling price" for a chip inside a hard drive? It's not clear to me what the royalty charge is for a company like WD.
If the godfather of modern food science says it, I'll believe it. I freeze lots of breads, but rarely wind up using them as bread. More often they get cut up for breadcrumbs or bread pudding or stuffing.
TL;DR is that it's "unwilling by way of almost unable".

The cooperation needed between telcos, who already have overly complex and archaic internal systems to manage themselves, would be almost impossible to coordinate.
...we bought the rights to distribute in a huge package with dozens or even hundreds of shows, and apart from a few special-interest titles (GoT, TBBT etc.), demand for English-language programming is pretty low. We're certainly not paying double price so that a few thousand users can watch one of their favorite shows in English.
At this point, if you ignore all the evidence that points at long term effects on cognition from marihuana consumption, it's more your conscious decision rather than lack of data.
I'm a student and have been through the struggle of applying to hundreds of companies just to land a single tech internship.
I've built this site to help simplify the entire process and save a lot of time.
I'm always impressed by Google's Project Zero team, but I'm also impressed by abilities of the implementer(s).

What's interesting is that (for most of these cases) I find that I can understand the process of the reverse engineering, but I am completely stupefied as to the process of the initial implementation. I understand finding relatively superficial vulnerabilities (e.g., an SQL injection attack [1]), but I don't understand how these vulnerabilities are found when they are so many layers deep.

If anyone has an insight I would really appreciate it.

1. https://xkcd.com/327/
I don't even mean the watching the crops or livestock grow. I mean the actual work part, too. Planting row crops is legit the most boring work I've ever participated in. It is less than mindless.

And that seems like the most active part of that game. Maybe if the physics were wonky that would be funny, at least. But this is one that I can't wrap my mind around.
Honestly I don’t think there is any innovation in the appliance space. The companies take the same components slap a new face plate on them or a led display and sell the same shit at different price points. In 2019 I’m still not sure that you can get a PID controlled oven or fridge and that should be trivially easy to implement.
> I’ve spent over 3,000 unpaid hours over the last four years maintaining some popular open source packages.

> Maintainers do critical work which enables companies to create billions of dollars in value, yet we capture none of that value for ourselves.

From TFA, some Open Source contributors are burning themselves at both ends and they should not be reduced to selling paintings on street corners to make ends meet. I'm not arguing that just anyone should be able to earn a living by writing any code and licensing it permissively, but there are some utilities which should be funded that are not, and their ability to obtain funding on their own should perhaps not be the one deciding factor in whether they survive.

In my day job, I frequently insist that programmers are bad at estimating, but they persist in asking for fine-grained estimates and making their business decisions based on them. If the success of a programmer team or product team depends on each individual programmer on the team's capability to always make estimates correctly, then the effort is likely doomed. This is a foundational idea of Agile. You can prove this empirically with enough experience; programmers should focus on making their programming skills better, not on precision time accounting and making sure that to improve estimation to become more accurate. Those things have value, but working software is more valuable. A programmer skill level may be completely orthogonal to the programmer's estimation skills, and many of us may not have the capacity for improving both at the same time.

Similarly, the success or failure of an Open Source project may depend more on the maintainer team's ability to market the project as a product and derive revenue from it.

So, how can we make this easier and more efficient, without forcing everyone to become better at it, individually? (There may not be an answer, but you haven't really taken any time at all to explain what makes Tidelift "not even worth discussing" in your view.)
Yes, this developer has 100s of libraries most of which are just code snippets. That was part of the criticism here, it looks like this guy is trying to take advantage of jr devs without providing any real value.
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in VLC media player
I've work for a debt collection company.

Typically, they do not handle their own phone numbers, their vendor for the dialer does. This is entirely dependent on the priorities of the vendor.

Due to the FDCPA, we are unable to give out the reason for our call as that would inform any 3rd party that the person we are calling to speak to is in debt.

The agents on the front line are scripted to advise them that we are calling in regards to a personal matter, or in response to the letter they received.

This gets even worse if your company name includes "Collections" or any variation of that, as they cannot give out their company name in that case unless prompted (UDAAP requires them to answer direct questions not about the loan in a straight forward way).
I have found French door style refrigerators help. I especially like counter depth ones as they aren’t very deep.
In a hypothetical world you are really right. In the real world, people survive measles thanks to vaccines, while it wasn't the case just 100 years ago. https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/measles/dis/

Now, you can have all the most interesting 'pharma is bad' arguments, facts are facts. You don't have to go out and worry about catching measles. The biggest worry is "oh shit, will I catch the train?".
A lack of understanding of varying viewpoints (~stereotyping) magnified by the internet resulting in social polarization seems like a more serious risk to me.
What I see in my day to day life is that OSS is generally behind paid systems. I use a bunch of software that I feel annoyed by because they are not as good and are not developing as fast as expensive proprietary alternatives.

Something that can really boost OSS community would be really good, but all I see in the market today are attacks on OSS. For example the recent amazon-mongodb debacle where a proprietary system is stealing money from an open project.
How do you think those companies identify numbers? I'm guessing they see if any of their other users have the number saved.

Of course they could still be doing shady things with people's contact lists beyond that...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190731183556/https://www.atlas...

in case the original stalls
Ask HN: What is the minimum hourly rate to be non-exempt in California in 2019?
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/dlsemanual/dlse_enfcmanual.pdf

Page 50-2

Employees in computer software fields will be exempt from the overtime
requirements* of the Orders if they:
a. earn forty-five dollars and forty-one cents ($45.41) per hour for each hour worked,
to be adjusted annually by the Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR) on
October 1 of each year to become effective January 1 of the following year by an
amount equal to the percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index for
Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. This adjustment will be posted on the
DLSR website annually, and.
b. are primarily engaged in work that is intellectual or creative and requires the exercise
of discretion and independent judgment, and
c. meet the duties test set out at Section 2(h)(ii) of the Orders, and
d. are highly skilled and proficient in the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized information to computer systems analysis, programming, and software
engineering within the meaning of
No mention of the actual means by which it is being re-introduced... Lax immigration (not PC to say so though).

Plenty of reasons not to trust big pharma and governments... They lie, cover up, and only look out for their own interests. Those who blast anit-vaxers are gullible people.
Doing open source without utilising the the code in some form of paid product is a foolish thing to do.

The entire computer industry was founded on people writing software for the joy of writing software and giving it away for free. 90% of software available through the early 80's worked this way. We called it "public domain software."

(As an aside, the earliest version of the word "hacker" that I can remember was when people would take public domain programs, "hack" out the original author strings, then redistribute the program as their own work. The definition of "hacker" has gone through about five permutations since then.)
They mention this in the article:

This process could also account for the classic “cross-modal” finding, first reported in 1929 and replicated around the world many times since, that people tend to pair a blobby shape with a word-sound like “bouba” and a spiky shape with a word like “kiki”.
deepl.com works way better than Google translate. At least for German => English

I doubt you find much about alcohol consumption in this law since in Germany you are allowed to drink in public at 16 years old (14 with your parents)
I think this "A Road to Common Lisp" is a very good introductory guide

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
I've found that putting them in the fridge JUST before they're ripe and pulling them out a few hours before you need them is the best way to go.

That, or mashing them up ahead of time and freezing. Avocados freeze very well due to their specific make up.
The entire advertising industry is scum. I worked in it for two years and wish I never did. That's a sin I now atone for by discouraging younger developers from making the same mistake, using the harshest language I think dang will permit.

It doesn't matter if there is no telemetry (and if this were to be normalized, there would eventually be telemetry. Such are the economic incentives in the ad industry. When it's possible for telemetry to exist, advertisers will desire it and some engineer will eventually decide to profit from implementing it) Advertising is propaganda inherently contrary to the interests of anybody subjected to it. It's rife with psychological manipulation. FM radio ads have no telemetry, but can anybody seriously deny that FM radio ads are sleazy as fuck?
You're saying things work fine for you, but it doesn't follow that they work fine for everyone else. Maybe there are larger Go modules out there than the largest one you've personally built? Or people with slower network access to Github? (Consider China and Australia.) Or maybe they're anticipating that there will be larger Go projects in the future?
Apparently. The author doesn't even seem to understand how all corporations have legally binding NDA's and intellectual property rights have changed since the 1960's.
Didn't mean to trod on anyone's toes. I think interbase (from which firebird forked) was the first successful/important database system to use MVCC. I just mentioned MGA because that was how I first and commonly have heard MVCC described. I guess David Reed was the first to come up with the idea even if he never implemented it. But I doubt that Postgres ignored what Interbase had demonstrated as being feasible and successful in practice.
It disingenuous to ignore the parent's very next sentence, which recommends cooking food properly. It's estimated that the majority of raw chicken sold in the UK carries campylobacter, and a major factor in making sure it doesn't poison you is cooking the chicken through. No one is recommending eating raw meat and using your nose to tell whether that's OK.
What if the people who are being pushed out have been pushing other people out this whole time?

Is there any actual evidence that ever happens? Citation very much needed.
Yes, because it's wrong. The measles is a live attenuated vaccine, meaning that in some extremely rare cases it could be transmitted and can cause minor symptoms. This is of course tested for and monitored, and current vaccine technology allows vaccines with a good safety profile.
For those that have been in the computer software industry for a long time, when did the minimum hourly rate become effective? What was it like before this was enacted? Was this a good change?
I think that's revisionist thinking. I wrote software through that period; I remember it as expensive and closed. The free stuff was exceptional because it was free.

Come on; Linux started in 1991; Stallman was an unknown and just beginning his ministry in the 80s. Corporate software dominated everything, including the IBM PC which was the flagship of Silicon Valley. DOS wasn't free; software for it was for sale everywhere.
For more context, in case anyone is wondering what I was trying to communicate amidst the torrent of downvotes.

Feross is a meaningful voice in open source. I've admired him for a long time, and still do. He's written some thoughtful posts in the past about FOSS specifically, hence the specificity of my comment (see his post from 2010 here: https://feross.org/stallman-stanford/).

Reading his justification for the "funding" experiment (here: https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/), I was struck by the fact that he didn't address an obvious slippery slope in his argument for what he was experimenting with, namely,

"For the record, funding had absolutely no tracking, no data collection, and no code from untrusted third parties. It was a console.log with some fancy formatting. Think of it like a newspaper classified ad. We just print it and hope that maybe some folks will see it."

I don't knock his attempt at experimentation with funding models for FOSS developers; however, there's an ongoing history lesson we're all living that serves as a cautionary tale for where ad-funded monetization models can go. Considering corporations are largely involved in FOSS today, could the normalization of monetization of FOSS with the wholly positive intentions of rewarding those who have dedicated their time to developing FOSS software, not evolve into a model wherein for-profit companies use this as a backdoor to monetize their FOSS contributions? For example, imagine compiling Kubernetes and getting an ad for Google Cloud services. Or compiling the Linux Kernel with features committed to the kernel source primarily by Google and getting an ad for a Chromebook as part of the boot sequence.

Sure this is all a bit dystopian, but I'm surprised someone as thoughtful as Feross didn't address the possible unintended consequences of his experiment, even if his original intentions were in no way nefarious.
This is just really generic advice that most people would come up with themselves by thinking about it for a while. I feel like this a constant problem with these advice blogs. I've learned so much from books like How to win friends and influence people, feeling good, meditations, etc. Yet I rarely ever see that advice repeated anywhere, they just go for really low hanging fruit and not a lot of thought is put into it.
I thought the exact same thing reading this.

Average healthy sleep time is 8 hour a day. Even if it's less for some, this professor can be disturbed when he eats ? When he is in his shower ?

Seems strange to me.
> But you also left developers with really hard to use dev tools based on a fork of gcc

Yep. Sorry about that. Not that it was my fault. Anyhow, I guess my belief is that a similar company to CSR could put RISCV cores in their chips now, which would avoid the problem you describe and some of the problems I described with using ARM.
The four nations are Albania, the Czech Republic, Greece and the UK.
Plus Congress makes the laws, which basically allows them to change the status of the FED to whatever they want.
Indeed it would be nice to see a more definite and representative source for income. I wonder, since the process is more complicated, you should now include both the line engineers and also the people working near minimum wage to make the parts for these cars. Did Ford make most of its own parts? How much was off the shelf, and were there industries that existed solely to make parts for these cars?

> For one, far fewer households today are single salary. Say what you will about whether this is a good or bad thing, but I think it's probably more appropriate to base the numbers on an "automotive household income" if that's such a thing.

How many households had two Model Ts, and how many households today have two cars?
It took me (us as we are a family now) to get a good system to manage food.

With a few exceptions, like going on vacation, I never throw away meat or fish, it's not that hard to manage, if I don't eat it within 1-3 days, I either freeze it, salt it or boil it. What you can do with what product requires a bit of experience, for example chicken must be boiled, pork and fish can be salted...

It's much harder with vegetables, because they are not all equal, you might keep an egg plant for a month and another one for a week. I highly recommend fridges with a vegetable compartment that monitor humidity and keep temperature just above 0°C, you can keep a salad in good condition for weeks in it.

For milk derived product, I think the date on the product is a big culprit here. You can eat yogurt weeks after the "best by" date. Same for cheese. The good thing is that it's easy to tell if a yogurt or cheese has turned bad. For cheese we don't eat quickly, I use a vacuum pump with a hard container. There are also some little tricks like putting old yogurt in front at the height of the kids.
>, why is it so alarming to think that these maintainers might think of a clever idea like this to make a couple thousand bucks? [...] But instead of attacking the guy for trying, I really wish the discussion were focussed on how the community of open-source consumers can contribute back to the open source ecosystem

You're (possibly unintentionally) distorting/diverting the issue. Nobody is criticizing open source maintainers for trying to get funding in an abstract sense. (We can all agree open source maintainers need income.) However, if the concrete implementation of trying to get money is unwanted and unexpected ads, then the correct focus of discussion is the criticism of that ad delivery method. The succinct version of this is: "The ends do _not_ justify the means."

As hypothetical examples...

- If Pi-Hole maintainers get the "clever" idea to get funding by changing "doubleclick.net" from returning "127.0.0.1" to the ip address for "BuyPiholeTShirts.com", people are going to criticize that "ad". It doesn't matter if Pi-Hole volunteers "deserve" more money, the correct focus of criticism/discussion is the sneaky ip redirect.

- If the maintainer of d3 Javascript library (https://github.com/d3/d3) decides to embed advertising such as "Try LINODE for 30 days!" in "README.md" and inside the source code comments of every js file, the correct focus of discussion is those ads and not whether the maintainer needs money.

The methods of soliciting funds do matter.

So far, socially acceptable ways seem to be Patreon, or getting hired by FAANG, or grants, etc. The "clever ideas" like NPM console ads are not socially acceptable.
People almost never reboot their phones. I rarely reboot.

So if you don’t tell me I need to reboot my iPhone, I won’t.