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Why do you want to get into open source? Is it because you support the philosophy of open source?

Is it because you don't like your present job and want to work at a better one, and it seems like open source work would be more pleasant?

People who can make a living doing open source are rare, you have better chances of winning the lottery than making a non poverty living writing open source code unless you can make yourself a super star.

The only solid way to do it is code, code code. Write software people will use, that not only works well but which has quality source code. Share it, support it, work with others to make the software even better.

Write something people need that is otherwise very expensive, like a CAD package for a specific need, or something that is a niche no one has addressed yet with really high quality software.

Note that the above relate to software you create.

If you just want to work maintaining open source software, you can get a job working with it somewhere that uses it extensively... not too hard these days, lots of places that make set top boxes or embedded devices use Linux, Android is still partly Linux.

If you're thinking of making a living by writing open source software but you haven't already written a well liked open source package.... I suggest you adjust your expectations.
What about just “apping” is that a word? On a business trip earlier this year my colleague told me (in English) “I’ll meet you down at the bar after apping with my daughter.”

Now that I think about it I’m not sure if “apping” implies texting, voice call, or video call. Lol
My original comment said its not okay to steal from a company even if you don't like that company. Your post is a lot of words about why you don't like that company. You don't directly address my claim that its unethical to steal from a company even if you don't like the company.

And then you make a weird point that software can be unethical (e.g. phising software) and this somehow applies to Doordash. Just to get this straight, making peer to peer scheduling software used for deliveries is unethical? And because of that, its okay to steal from their investors (including many US investors and pension funds)?
+1 althought I'd replace "why is this thing free" with "what am I paying with"
I don't know why but white on black premade theme given here is just horrible for my eyes. The text burns into my eyes and then anywhere I look I can see the blurry text lines.

I code using a black on white editor but could I guess handle non-white on black themes if the non-white color wasn't as bright.
It's not only names that are localized, but also file formats. If you export a CSV in an English speaking locale, you won't be able to use it in a Latin one.
The US benefited from Free Trade and rose to prominency vs the UK so the idea that playing by the rules will not get you anywhere is pretty wrong.
There are a variety of reasons IMO:

-- Many of those making these comments are probably WFH with some level of normalcy so they don't really see how and why a lot of people are anxious to open things back up.

-- In the same general vein, they see a push to reopen as part of an agenda that puts "the economy" over people for the benefit of Big Business/The Rich.

-- They think there must be a near-term technological/policy fix if only the bad politicians would stop messing things up.
Wet markets is a too general/vague.

Wet markets exist are all over the world with similar setup like the one in China.
Locking services is one thing, take as an example Xiaomi which started as an Apple copy. Right now it's a multibillion company. If copyright exists on China soil this company wouldn't exist at all and it will not take shares it has now. This is very basic path for many Chinese companies, yes, once they reach some volume they start to follow some rules since some grey area countries might ban them but till that moment they enjoy absolute freedom.
Where I live, one company has taken over all meal delivery nationally. After destroying the competition, this company had started raising prices each year. They ask for a percentage (13%, rising each year) in an industry where the margins are already very thin.

They money grab got a lot worse after they pushed out all the alternatives and just like with Google, everybody has to play by their rules or they'll be mostly undiscoverable for a large portion of the general public. Their delivery people are still underpaid, but by increasing their percentage of the bill they take for themselves they're now turning a profit. It's gotten to the point where companies are not even allowed to lower their prices when people use other delivery systems (or the restaurant's own personnel) which are cheaper.

The company only got this large because they could afford making losses for many years. Now other companies such as Doordash are trying to cut into the market as well, using hundreds of millions of foreign cash flows and putting business owners under even more pressure. Had there not been a company doing this since 2014, Doordash or any of its competitors would have taken the market regardless.
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The fact that you seem to think C is blanket superior to C++ means that your programming abilities aren't very good. There are many reasons to choose C++ over C, especially if those two are your only options.
It just means "we can't take pharmaceutical companies' profit away when it's the biggest goldmine they've seen in the past century". They were fine before COVID, they'll be fine without profiteering from it.
There's a great wasm-crypto library out there, and while its authors are doing amazing work, there's much more effort put in WebCrypto by a lot more people.

There's also an option to compile some e.g. Rust library to wasm, and use it, but it could hide some exotic security vulnerabilities that arise only in this narrowly-adopted use case, so it's a pretty high risk.
> - financed with debt products guaranteed by the government

Provided by the government, not guaranteed.
Perhaps to bury the argument ;)
He busted out the old hand crank projector of course.
It's not really the stick market that's causing this, since few of Softbank's investments have IPOed yet. (The WeWork bubble, in particular, started deflating when they tried to list it.)

The more immediate cause is that many of their companies are not profitable, which investors were willing to overlook because they were enticed by future profits. But now COVID is wreaking havoc on the whole economy, and these companies don't have any sort of path to profitability within a foreseeable timeframe.
That’s wild. I had no idea that the original feature of WhatsApp is a feature that I have literally never even looked at and forgot even exists lol
>But then, why not have this be defined by the client?

Because client defaults usually suck.
And Terraria just put out a patch with 40 pages of content notes. Lots of rebalance, new content, graphics updates, and QoL updates. It's a good time to jump in and the game is $10 on steam.
It's premature to take for granted that a paper brain emulator can exist in principle.

Take something else less...emotionally laden. A black hole. Could we model a black hole on paper? If so, we ought to just be able to drop a computational particle in and see exactly what happens at the singularity. Except we can't -- the whole reason we call it a singularity is because we get divide by reality errors if we try to compute it.

But I would argue there's a different problem. A black hole is the most computationally efficient method of calculating itself. Any method of accurately emulating the black hole on the Planck level is going to take more energy (and mass) than the actual black hole. As a result, those pieces of paper would literally collapse into an actual black hole long before they could properly emulate the black hole they were modeling.

Which isn't to say that the brain is anything like that but the point is, it's not a foregone conclusion that we can construct a completely accurate emulator of a physical object.

Finally there's something of a category error in making the claim that pieces of paper can be sad. A paper emulation of a bar magnet would not itself be magnetic. In the world of the emulation it would produce an output that would model magnetism, yes, but that's the extent of it. Our paper brain emulator, if it were constructible, would produce output that would be a model of sadness in the emulation, but it would not actually be sad.
Sure. This is a thing regardless of language and framework. Point is, there exist some of them that are quite forgiving and don't give you a 150+ ms response time out of the box like Rails does for a number of projects I inherited in the past.
They're certainly eager to push ads for conspiracy theory websites at me, even though I've never watched those sorts of videos.
I expect them to be more impartial than a multinational for-profit company whose stakeholders care about little other than their bottom line.

Pornography and hate speech have plenty of legal precedent. And if I'm honest, if it's legal in a given country, why shouldn't it be available?
I have experience across Germany, Switzerland, France, Greece.

It is not the legal minimum, usually around 22, but you can easily negotiate it.

Back home, in Portugal, 25 days.

Ah, and if manage a position at a research institute like CERN, you can up it to 45, because usually they close around Christmas and it doesn't count for vacations.
Exactly, there isn't really a right answer.

In my case: I want Danish, if and only IF the site is a Danish website. If you're not a Danish website, I would like English, even though a Danish version may be available.

Of cause that bad advise for many sites, because basically my request is that sites like Linkedin or Facebook just drops localization, but that's not what my mom wants.
Last week I noticed that my credit card number had been stolen. But only for UberEats, I had tons of UberEats transaction of $30-$50. It's not my UberEats account that was stolen because I logged in in my account and I had not ordered anything. So looks like there's a market to get those stolen CC and use it to order a bunch of stuff from restaurants. Perhaps you're right, it's to order things that can be resold (wine, etc).

And because it's the pandemic, i'm sure lots of people wouldn't notice those extra charges to their credit card right away because they already order through those apps. I haven't used UberEats in a year so it was easy for me to notice.
> videoconferencing would more commonly use 320x240 or 352x288 which has 1/4 the pixels, and H261 or H263 instead as the codec.

Modern videoconferencing solutions (WebRTC) usually use 1280x720 and either H264 or VP8. Some apparently use HEVC. Also most modern processors and SoCs come with hardware-accelerated codecs built in, so most of the work related to compression isn't even done by the CPU itself.

> I'm not familiar with Zoom as I don't use it, but it's very likely you're not actually receiving and decoding 16 separate video streams

Yes you are receiving separate streams.
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A couple years ago I built a compute server from old parts like this. I looked at old Opterons, but ultimately went with Xeons (4x E7-4880v2) because of HyperThreading, even though they were a bit more expensive (I think I paid $90 per CPU). I was super excited that I could build a 60 core/120 thread computer with 12 TB of disk space and 512 GB of ECC RAM for under $2k.

That excitement lasted until I actually got the parts and built it. Heavy iron like this should not live in your spare bedroom. The 4U server chassis weighed about 150 lbs fully built, and it made over 95 dB of noise. The noise was so bad I couldn't leave it on overnight, and only powered it up to run code for a few hours at a time.

But in the long run, it scored 81k on GeekBench 4, which was over 3x more than my gaming PC, and having 512 GB RAM meant my simulations never needed swap, so they ran several days faster even though the memory was only DDR3. It was a fun experiment, but don't buy an old Opteron CPU unless you have experience with servers and know what you're getting into. It doesn't make sense for businesses to build a system with old parts, and a lot of homelab hobbyists are going to be disappointed if they think they can build something suitable for home use.

Also: If you're wondering why I didn't use AWS or other cloud compute, it's because the costs of running a 32 core instance (which was about the same speed as my 60 older cores) would have been over $10k with my usage pattern- $30/hour for a few hours each day for a couple years really puts a dent in your wallet.
> I had a similar experience with drum circles in Toronto, Canada. They were this hippie heaven of people coming together in a park and playing drums once a week in the summertime. Other people would come by and picnic, sit around, dance, hula hoop, whatever.

My brother lived near a big ole drum circle in Santa Cruz, CA and had the same experience. Originally it was a small crew and they weren't a problem. They hung out, didn't get too loud, and were respectful of the properties nearby. Definitely some LSD and other substances floating around, but nothing out of control.

Couple years later it's essentially a quasi-homeless community and lots of problems with litter, noise, and, eventually, overdoses.

See also: Mop Theory & Subcultures -- https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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From [2], SoftBank lent billions for employees to invest. That's incredible and dubious! I've been offered to purchase stock of my employer at reduced prices if I hold it for X time, but never been offered a loan to do it.
Oh, I wasn't aware of the water delivery systems being too old in that many counties, though it does say "potentially unsafe", e.g. one incident was "not building a cover for one of its water reservoirs". Still, it's obviously a problem that's going to cost a lot of money.

I don't know how good it was in rural towns 40 years ago, though. Detroit was certainly doing better, but I'd also assume that testing and requirements have changed since then, so you might still have a similar quality today, but it's not considered safe today.

Whether that's responsible for the political climate, I don't know. We've seen lots of changes in Europe as well and we don't face infrastructure issues of that magnitude and our dying industries are a bit more spread out over the country, so you get fewer pockets of absolute desperation.
You think we all got together and sung Kum Bah Yah after the Civil War? Are you forgetting about the segregation? The Civil Rights Movement? Vietnam?
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>Customers are lazy because inspite of all the talk of supporting local, they are too hooked on click-click-click and ordered.

But it's more than that. Centralisation of food delivery also means centralisation of your sign-in details + address + payment.

In the decentralised model, you rely on each of these restaurants to implement these well and securely. In the least worse case scenario they might go with some login with Google/Facebook solution (which is gross for other reasons). Not to mention the friction (and often sub-optimal sign-on flow) on these independent sites because they lack an army of UX A/B testers.

Last time I signed up independently for a restaurant via their app (because they took themselves off Uber Eats) the food took 2.5 hours to come and arrived cold.
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But automating something that might eat a kid, versus inadvertently blocking an app access very very different. This why no one is tackling a nanny bot --- repercussions.

Agreed on the last part.
That wouldn't win votes (or whatever the dictatorship equivalent is) in the same way as military action though..!
Then you need to realize that you are a special case and not representative of the general public.

Most people who meet each other in real life and want to exchange contact information exchange… you guessed it… a phone number. Maybe you exchange email or twitter handle, but again you are an exception here. So imagine we meet for the first time and we exchange phone numbers. Now I can WhatsApp you, just like that no other account info needed.
> There's also the danger to your platform that comes with angering Chinese nationalists. When Notepad++ added a message to stand up to the Chinese concentration camps, its Github got completely flooded by angry Chinese people and trolls from both sides.

I've definitely seen this kind of thing happen, even on HN, but it's not necessarily organized or paid for like the wumao stereotype implies. Just ordinary
"human flesh search engine" dynamics will easily do that - the West has its 4chan trolls, the Chinese have their angry internet nationalism. The most you can say with certainty is that it's definitely tolerated by the authorities, but then there's no reason why it wouldn't be.
It only works if you have an easy path to monopoly once you price your competitors out. A company like WalMart or Amazon can leverage their returns to scale on logistics to actually price out Mom&Pops. That way, even after the drive the small stores out of business it’s just not worth it for anyone else to try to cut in unless they can also operate at WalMart scale and afford to bleed money for a while until WalMart gets tired of undercutting them.

But there are no appreciable logistical or operational efficiencies in how these delivery services operate. And there aren’t any barriers to entry. The workforce is completely fungible so they aren’t locked in. And just the fact that delivery services are popping up like mushrooms suggests it doesn’t take much to start one up.

In theory they could eke put some advantages to scale that keep out upstarts by using machine learning to optimize delivery routes or something. But I doubt that gets them the kind of efficiency gains they would need to actually turn a profit. From what I’ve seen, it looks like their main attempt to freeze out competition is just coming from flooding your search engine hits. I don’t know how sustainable that is either.
I'm afraid that soon any regulation action will be seen as a death knell for the stock market, and all the monopolies will be judged "too big to fail". Then we'll have regulations not controlling, but cementing these monopolies
But why do you care when it's said that it's written in language X? Does that ruin the story for you? And the potential usefulness of the tool?
This echoes the story told in Francis Su's talk, then essay, then book, on "Mathematics for Human Flourishing". He starts by talking about Christopher Jackson, who is also a guest of the penal system.

[0] https://www.francissu.com/flourishing

[1] https://bobonbooks.com/2020/02/07/review-mathematics-for-hum...

[2] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300237139/mathematics-hu...
It is exactly the opposite of your #2, check out the article.
> helping track down Osama bin Laden

He wasn't "tracked down". He was sold to the US by Pakistani intelligence: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the...

CIA's contribution was to compromise vaccinations campaigns in the region by pretending to conduct one while collecting DNA samples for a confirmation, while the sale was being negotiated.
Every piece of mail must enter the system and be postmarked correctly. The US postal service certainly will not accept or deliver a piece of mail with a "Miami Beach, FL" postmark addressed to the "Sacramento Board of Elections" if it comes in with a batch of Par Avion mail off a plane from Nigeria.

You understand that the standard ML training data for OCR is from the US postal service, right? They've been routing mail electronically for decades.

The election system in the US is ridiculously decentralized, which makes it really hard to commit large-scale voter fraud at the ballot level.
Technically it should not be an issue since Taiwan does not exist on paper and therefore China's CCP should have no problem asserting full control over TSMC operations. At least if we believe the CCP's version of the world.
> So meaning can't just be a matter of psychology.

I disagree.

When the two Oscars talk about "water," they refer to the same object -- an abstract notion of a blueish liquid essential to the existence of life as we (they) know it. They can point to physical objects and tell you that they match their idea of water ("this is water"), but this idea has no relation to the underlying physical and chemical properties of the substance.

The idea was born out of limited human cognition, its meaning cannot transcend that limitation.
"is there still a place for native desktop applications?"

What if your program needs to directly access some kind of hardware, say EDC machine?
Yeah that'd be Finns and Exercise Trident Juncture 2018
Yes, but should Apple be forced to sell it? You can buy a DVD player and a TV from Walmart that allows you to view pornographic and racist content but aren’t forced to sell it.
Not sure about SaaS ideas, but maybe hang out at water holes on topics you're interested in? There's usually a subreddit for even very esoteric interests. There's one called r/onebag where people discuss how to pack efficiently for travel -- I was interested in this pre-shutdown when I did a lot of business travel. Now, not so much.
> I hope this gets rid of the "out-raise your competitors and spend ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous money sinks" strategy forever.

I don't think so. We live in a world now where incredible amounts of capital are chasing returns because of zero and negative interest rate policies. The only solution will be regulation.

EDIT: The more interesting question (IMHO) is what happens when all of that capital has nowhere to go? Is there back pressure? How do accumulators of capital react to such forces?
The OG example is the Meiji era, when Japan went from a strictly isolationist feudal state to an industrialized and expansionist powerhouse in a few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_(era)
Open source means that you can pay anyone you want to work on it. You don't have to donate to the original maintainer. Although if you like the person and they are clearly stressed out and suffering and lashing out at people, it may be in your interest to help them deal with that first, rather than ignoring them and letting the project flounder. If you don't have the bandwidth to give money then that's fine, you can help in other ways. But I don't think it is wise to dismiss maintainer stress and burnout, or view it as a personal attack against you. Unless of course, you are burnt out yourself and need some help too, in which case, there's a lot you could do, but you probably have heard all the generic advice already. Personally I always try to remember that the goal is to see the project succeed, NOT to try to punish someone for perceived bad behavior.
Maybe he changed it, but.. what is wrong with his twitter profile pic? It looks pretty ordinary to me. Am I missing something?
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Great explanation, we often end up writing the same rules in video games.

Any "drone" logic to do with some kind of builder unit or even a literal drone in something like COD needs rules like this.
Are you paying attention to the actions of the modern judicial system in the US that votes along party lines?

You really think that judges with their own religious and political biases and with lifetime appointments “care about you”?