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>What’s the point of open source for consumers

faster iteration and development and more competition means more innovation and cheaper prices and more choice for consumers.

The primary benefactor of open source has never literally been the consumer because only an exceedingly small niche of people makes use of the source directly. The biggest benefactor is the ecosystem as a whole.

For consumers the great thing about open source has never been that they can run make in a terminal. It's been that people can run make in a terminal who can then produce products for consumers.
My wife doesn't like thr taste straight out of the tap, so she uses a Brita filter.

Personally I can't tell the difference, but she swears it's different.
> you dont try to modify reality to fit the model

Well sometimes you do, McDonald's exists not because the food they provide is perfectly nutritious and what a human body needs to remedy hunger. I already concede that capitalism does distort reality.
Because the way they would have to do it is by offering people something even better in return. In a voluntary trade both sides end up better off, because both sides get something they want more than what they give away.
Alternative DNA testing products are also superior (do more tests for less $)
I had a job where I telecommuted one day a week. On the days between, I helped people with problems, went to meetings, planned, etc. I could get a little code in every day, but any deep work would often have to be queued. I’d plot, scheme, research bug fixes and workarounds. Then on my remote day I would code like hell, all the stuff I’d planned out in the previous week.

On average, I got almost half of my code for the week done on that one day.
There are competing philosophies on Wikipedia, deletionist vs inclusionist. Overall the inclusionists tend to win more than they loose, but the deletionists are a source of resistance to overcome. Some deletionist decisions have been decried as anti-intellectual, but they also contribute to the density of quality, so it's hard to say they're evil. More like neutrals with an incentive, but from the perspective of the self-ascribed "good" inclusionists, the vector between inclusion and deletion points toward evil, and is thus forever frustrating.
Also makes me wonder how many pages are not viewed because instant search result was sufficiently informative.
I'd settle for support for X years.
China closes all movie theaters in response to virus outbreak
Yeah, macOS and Linux have never really done long-term healthy platform maintenance, so apps tend to decay quickly into buggy messes that don't work.
I haven't done this specifically but it seems like a perfect use case for a smaller separate service. You'd probably submit jobs through an internal API (REST, gRPC, pick your poison) or through a job queue like Celery, if they're slower operations.
I am not a moderator, but if you prefix your submission with "Show HN: " then it will appear on the Show HN tab: https://news.ycombinator.com/show This page is designated for people to show off their projects.

You should probably link to the videos on your project's website as part of the documentation. You could also make your Show HN a text post and link to the website and the tutorial videos in the body. However, I'd say that merely posting the videos on the website for people to find is more natural.

These are the rules for Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If you re-remember to flip the switch back. I was SHOCKED that my Apple Time Machine backup of my encrypted drive after restore was NOT encrypted!
Billionaire Wexner refuses to reveal scope of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged theft
> But your face is expected to be on show (obv exceptions aside)

Only in cities where pollution isn't a major concern. Any time I'm in Bangkok I'm wearing a mask most of the time that covers everything from my eyes down, and nobody bats an eyelid.

I feel like masks also got a lot more common during the last SARS outbreak, and in other countries it's normal to wear a mask when you're sick.

I think what I'm saying here is: be the change you want to see, and start wearing one[0] as much as possible in your day-to-day life outside / during your commute / whatever, to normalize it?

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=N95+mask+fashion&iax=images&ia=ima...
These are speakers that play music. There is nothing „to keep up“. The network is still the same, the codecs are, everything.

It’s ok if old products don’t have new features. It’s not ok if old products don’t work anymore just because the company feels like it.
>why did you write this?

It looks like satire to me. If soheil is serious, I don't know what to say.
Looks great !
if we punting extensions... I could never "find" text on a web page... Ctrl+F just highlights the text that is usually not enough for me to actually find it.. It needs to BLINK

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blink-find-finding...

This extension makes your CTRL+F actually blink
Yang campaign is actually seeing exponential growth. Thus the increase in smear articles.

The establishment is running through mental gymnastic excercise to rationalize these results. Thus them calling all supporters bots
They're actually pretty transparent in their annual report [0].

The issue is that their ads are slightly misleading in that they hint that they might have to pull the plug ("we depend on donations [...] we need your help [...] time is running out in 2019 to help us") even though the time is running out in 2019 part is because they're running the ads during the end of the year, not because they're running out of money. They spent 46 million in salaries out of 120 million in revenue, while the hosting expenses are one of their smallest line items at 2.3 million.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...
My stereo is from 1973 and the Raspberry Pi I have connected to its inputs can play Spotify just fine and will get updates for much longer. Or I could plug my phone up. Or a more consumer friendly device like a Roku. Or a bluetooth module that pairs wirelessly with my phone. If and when I do decide to update the Pi is a single device that costs $40 or so instead of having to do that much per speaker. Sonos devices just aren't worth it, they're insanely overpriced and provide little to no real benefit over any number of other options that separate out the stereo from the thing that plays music.
Stunning naivete on display here
It seems stable at this point. I've dropped using anything other than eshell & vterm in Emacs.
That is good advice. I really should document it but only use go now and then for various reasons and never seem to enjoy updating, don't really have a horse in this race. It just feels so clunky, which was my original point.
Do you want to consistently change it for an extended period? You'd be better off changing it for small periods of time when you don't want to be recognized, and you can stick a stone in your shoe for that.
The twitteraudit service says they determine if an account is fake or real as:

“Each audit takes a sample of up to 5000 (or more, if you subscribe to Pro) Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower. This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends. We use these scores to determine whether any given user is real or fake. Of course, this scoring method is not perfect but it is a good way to tell if someone with lots of followers is likely to have increased their follower count by inorganic, fraudulent, or dishonest means.”

It seems that the service would determine a lot of plain lurker accounts as fake. (And I’m a lurker on Twitter who almost never tweets and has a really low followed/follower ratio, so I would probably get flagged as a bot. Actually I think Twitter flagged me as one before, because my account got suspended once even when I didn’t really post anything at all, and I heard someone being unable to see one of my comments) Most bots have probably evolved a lot from simply lurking and following, so I don’t think the service provides an accurate picture of bots on Twitter.
Evolving Publication (2015)
Yes, exercise absolutely helps, but a person with ADHD is much more likely to exercise if they have been prescribed medication. Without medication they will likely just stop exercising at some point, because they "don't feel like it today" and then forget that they were supposed to exercise every day. Then 3 months later they remember for a moment, commit to exercising again, but that only lasts for another 3 weeks.
Prism is pretty amazing and seems woefully underutilized:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilligy....
The problem IS durability, not the physics but the functionality just because the company decided to stop supporting the main function for the customer: playing music.
I live outside the rust belt and my 2012 Civic has been paid for the last 5 years and trouble free. No repairs outside of wearing parts like shocks, brakes and a serpentine belt which was replaced even though the techs told me it didn't need it. I was just worried that 140k miles was enough service out of it. My ongoing service has been 5k oil and filter changes plus tire rotation. I've never missed that service. Take care of a quality car and it will last outside of the rust area of the US. I fully expect to keep this car until it starts to have electrical issues, if it ever does. In my experience once a car starts down that road it's time to move on.
What language? Is it a game?

I've been wanting to try that ever since I saw a video of someone developing an FPS in Common Lisp while playing it at the same time. They would modify the bullets and the way they made collision, then fire after each change to see the effect.
On the other hand though there also are people who are in a rut and get stuck in a negative cycle that affects them - I was there for the middle 4 years of my 20s and slowly have started to pull myself out with help from family and friends.
Both options need to be explored of course but I think some people worry doctors go straight for the medicine cabinet. "When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" kind of thing.
> I think the portrayal of the lawyer's lifestyle is a little exaggerated, but I agree with the larger point. Pay and work conditions are determined by social status as much as anything else and in the US, at least a lot of it (perhaps not the Bay Area), lawyer is a higher-status job than most. ... "Free pizza and snacks" does feel pretty infantilizing.

You point to two pretty important reason why lawyers continue doing what they do, and why the career path remains attractive compared to engineering, even if lawyers ultimately earn less.

1 - In general, as a lawyer, your perceived value goes up over time (gray hairs are money-makers). Whereas, in general, as an engineer, your perceived values goes down over time.

2 - A lawyer has a sense power. The legal field requires them to be independent (they are beholden to their clients, but not anyone else) and also knowledgeable on how to navigate (or manipulate) the system of rules that society has put in place. This provides some sense of power and agency. Today, even though many engineers probably "know" more about how individuals or society is manipulated, they generally work for major companies, and even those that do not don't have the incentives to properly bring such injustices to light.

If engineers were somehow incentived (i.e., make money) from outing perceived technical injustices, I suspect they would quickly eclipse lawyers in both compensation and stature.
Polls have outdated models that don’t accurately reflect the age of social media. Prior polling models don’t work with the changing environment. For example most the people they poll are in landlines and 65+ yrs old.

Also polls are politicized now.
I program slowly now, and only program in my head and on paper. Only when I am 100% sure that I have something I can add as a small step to a larger working goal do I touch the code
Did you copypaste that guy's name, or did you type the whole thing out? Did you have his comment out in a second window so you could look back and forth to check your spelling?
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I went to a small record store just the other day and they were selling fancy brand new turn tables that I could have bought. They also had a bluetooth module, and even a very fancy device that had 2 RCA connectors on one end, and a 3.5mm jack on the other so you could plug up something called a "phone" without even spending all the money on wireless. It's amazing how audio, for the longest time, just worked and I didn't have to think about it. When you keep things simple and standardized it pays dividends for years.
Yes, and setting your status to "in a meeting", "away", "code sprint", etc. is helpful. These are things that could be automated, I'd consider that a better approach to the problem.

Let people know subtly you don't want to be disturbed unless it's important, otherwise you will be.
It doesn’t have to be that low friction. Generally you can maximize the effectiveness of your short term memory while in flow state. Part of your brain is smashing away at the low friction parts, the rest is strategizing, prioritizing.

There were times before I accepted that “massive refactor” is an oxymoron where I would keep some very complicated task lists in my head and manage to recall nearly all of them. Day to day? I can’t remember your name twenty seconds after you’ve told it to me, unless I work at it.
It's unlikely that the author knows much about DF.
The final conclusion, is missing the third possibility which DF has managed to achieve.

There are so many procedural permutations that it's effectively an innumerable number of (often clunky) combinations which lack much structure.
But what if it did succeed?
2014 was a long time ago.

Scott has retired. The better alternative to his suggestion was noted right there in the comments. Rules of 3 or 5 concern only designers of a library, and if you are designing a library, you may ignore them now.
It can be barred for reasons of national security if it is nt espionage. And first amendment challenges would only matter at conviction. A person in the US having filmed a missile shot at a plane could be arrested like may have happened in Iran.
That's interesting to hear about ADHD causing mood
swings/anger/irritability and the stimulants doing
away with them. Is that a common trait of the illness

For me, absolutely not.

The stimulants made me crankier and more high-strung.

However, sometimes it was a net improvement in my mood because I was getting my stuff done and therefore my stress level was lowered.

I use modafinil now which is less effective for the ADHD but also makes me less cranky.
Don't do it. Find someone else, who is at least as much or more enthusiastic about starting a company to work on a product.

Building a product is hard, building a company is harder. There will be lots of ups and downs, so what you don't want is to end up "try to convince to continue working on it" them again every 4-6 months.

Find someone who will convince you.
Eventually you will end up avoiding those close people by essentially any means necessary. You'll think of some excuse to avoid doing it. Sometimes sitting out in the cold street feels better than having to go home and do the task that has to be done. That $20 is eventually going to be lost as is the closeness to that person.
Out of all the services listed here, yours looks the best. I’ll try it out once I start my new gig in a month.
So you think they took the public relations hit of arresting the journalist but intentionally arrested some random person? Why?
It may happen once wine supports running 32 bit applications on 64 bit wine
Summary: author retired early with his wife, with a total of 3 million in assets. Their 240k passive income stream isn't enough to afford their life in San Francisco.

Sounds like a marketing article for his personal finance blog. Article wasn't worth the time IMO.
Nice link! This is gameable. I think it’s also possible to lie to close ones and find justifications, but it’s more difficult.
I copypasted first, then started writing :)
That’s because most of the indie developers use Unity, and in there you can release a Linux binary in the click of a button (you don’t even need to have a Linux OS, cross-compiling is supported out of the box)
Child Process and Worker Threads in Node.js, a Hands on GUID
How many startup people have actually read “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel?

Yang has gone from 0 to 1 and is going to see exponential growth as Iowa gets closer. All these articles are people who have a distorted views of reality and chalk up his support as bots in order to fit their world view. The most likely reason from my observation is bias against Asian American men in leadership positions.
This is my impression too, but I wonder how much is selection bias.

I think a lot of times ADHD is spotted because a kid is bright, but underachieving. There's a glaring disconnect between potential and performance... could be many reasons, many of which aren't ADHD, but it grabs teachers' and parents' attention.

But, what about a kid whose intelligence is not above average? If they are underperforming, would it be so obvious? I wonder if a lot of folks with ADHD in this category are more likely to go undiagnosed.
> Before going down a road that involves powerful stimulants that have a high likelihood of abuse or misuse -- the danger is that they're fun, and one develops a tolerance, just like other similar illegal drugs -- it might be worthwhile to investigate a mediation practice, or other exercises to improve your attention. If you're already high functioning its likely not as bad as it seems.

Sure sounds like advice to me. You're not just throwing this stuff into the ether for a purely academically interested observer.
how do you devour a whale? One bite at a time. I don't think there is any purpose to being caught up in theoretical discussions about privacy. Privacy is won by extending the real rights of people piece by piece and sustaining that effort for a long time. There is no one time, root cause fix that holds forever in a democracy.

>Must we repeat it again every five years?

Yes we must. We live in a society where people over and over negotiate how they want to live together, which means that if we advocate for something we have make our case again and again. That is a good thing. In the Mie Prefecture, Japan the citizens tear down a shrine every 20 years because it is the only way to learn exactly how it was built.
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Also: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/04/nyregion/instead-of-a-dam...
The real question is did you copy and paste and searched for it to see if it is actually the same username or did you just guess that they're the same spelling?
Yeah, I don't feel at all bad about cheaters being exposed. But, children that result from that cheating... if you grew up thinking that your dad is your dad and then find out from a dna test that he isn't, that can really shake a person. And it's not from anything the child had any control over.
My symptoms definitely wouldn't disappear but they wouldn't matter anymore. My inability to do anything before being right up against the deadline wasn't an issue for me until after highschool, and my inability to make myself focus on stuff like chores wasn't as much of a problem when I was living at home and didn't have as many chores to do.

If I lived alone in the woods and had supplies regularly brought to me I'd probably be mostly fine. I might sometimes run out of clean towels because I put off doing the washing or something, but in the woods I can afford to skip showering for a while.

When I got diagnosed I argued with my doctor at first, how could I have ADHD - I got good grades in school, I don't fidget noticeably, etc. My doctor then pointed out that even if I wasn't fidgeting in class I had told him that I often just read novels during class instead of giving my full attention to the teacher. He also asked if I did anything that is fidgeting but that people tend not to notice such as biting my nails (yes), or drawing patterns on my teeth (yes!).

He then pointed out that intelligence can compensate for issues with attention, but only so far.

Another thing to be aware of is that I had started to lose my capacity to enjoy hobbies of mine, because despite wanting to do them I'd end up just sitting around, or constantly bouncing between 8 different things.

Back when this was becoming an issue I didn't have social media at all, not even something like a HN account so you can't blame that
> I think that's exactly what Amazon meant here. See the comment someone posted elsewhere in the discussion about PopSockets

I can't speak to PopSockets, but both Tile and Sonos are companies that are small enough to still have a huge amount of runway within the U.S., Europe, and Japan. I would be very surprised if this dispute was because Tile/Sonos were selling their products at a discount abroad and Amazon was threatening to bring that discount into the U.S. The far more likely scenario is that Amazon is threatening to promote cheaper knock-off goods that likely infringe patent and trademark rights.

The reason that Amazon can get away with this, is that enforcing those patent and trademark rights is incredibly expensive, potentially millions of dollars a year. Amazon is smart and knows the cost of litigation, and likely asks for discounts close to (but a bit less) than the amount that it would cost the company to actually defend their rights.
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>It remains to be proven whether an armada of Twitter bots can change anyone's mind about a candidate.

If an army of Twitter bots could change voter's minds, why is it suddenly an illegitimate tactic? How is it different than any other form of political speech? Are politicians and political campaigns only dishonest when presented through new mediums?

Is this a problem with Twitter, free speech or just a timeless flaw within democracy which has been known since antiquity?

I would suggest that it is the latter. Misunderstanding the underlying principles results in the alarmist blaming of social media. This is nothing new, aside from a new opportunity to opine for regulation.
Recalls, I think? But a mailing list ought to be able to handle that.
My Onkyo has Spotify streaming support built into the amp. It's dreadful though - just about unusable because the UX and setup is so bad.

Is the Yamaha experience better?

(Also, the Yamaha MusicCast speakers are exactly the same as Sonos in that they are software dependant, and pre-2015 ones don't get the update to AirPlay2[1]. Not clear if you are talking about this or the amps though)

[1] https://au.yamaha.com/en/news_events/2019/musiccast-update.h...
I like it. Nice high contrast option.
Open source doesn't have to mean without resources. Imagine the big tech companies banding together to build better processors in the open.
So true, the "Paulestinians" as I called them were the first thing that came to my mind while reading this.

There is too little detail of methodology in this article to take it too seriously, but still interesting.
I don't think people are downvoting you for your opinion. The comment as it stands however is completely incomprehensible.
> While Woz was at HP, he wasn't the executive/leader of their personal computing division

Why does position even matter? Ultimately in this industry it's talent and skill that prevail. Woz was at least as capable, if not more, than anyone else working in a technical capacity at HP at the time. He arguably had better business sense than anyone at the company too because they had the opportunity to start the personal computer revolution but passed on it.
I opened two tabs and looked back and forth.
Everyone perceives the world differently. We don’t all have the same senses. This is normal.