skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example for me is soldering irons. I bought a crappy $5 weller and used it for some time, and I never enjoyed soldering. When I used a nice one, everything changed. I bought a $100 iron and now I enjoy it quite a bit, and I feel like my electronics skills have suffered because I could have been a lot more enthusiastic about soldering if it wasn't always such a chore.
Difference is yahoo had arguably one of the worst CEOs ever: Marissa Mayer where as Microsoft has a wizard: Satya Nadella.
I vehemently disagree. The duplicitous play would be to create a competitor and cheat by throttling TT, spreading falsehoods about TT, and banning TT to get Americans to use it instead of TT. Paying China fair market price for their company is the cleanest play there is.
China has actively banned major US companies like Google for a long time now. It's clear that they've never been interested in 'playing fair' and this is the first time the US is actually standing up for its own companies and security concerns. I'm no Trump admin fan, but I do support taking a stand against the asymmetry that's happened for a long time now.
> It requires more effort than you could ever imagine.

Unfortunately that applies to pretty much everything. Of all the things in my life, I only even know how to provide the raw materials for some of them. And I could probably replicate a lot of the software given time.

Modern life is a series of miracles and all of it requires more effort than people imagine.
I agree, any morally conscious founder should build in extra safeguards to stifle the bad edge cases and launch only after pretty thorough testing. Even an immoral founder who wants to avoid bad PR would do so.

Ideally all creators to be as thoughtful and careful as you. But we all know 1) there will be plenty of builders will build and launch regardless of how ready the app is, 2) users happily use whatever's engaging, convenient, and low-cost, while ignoring problems with privacy, security, and whether the product is net negative for a % of users (see TikTok, Twitter, Whisper).

If the technology is here, then the products will exist, and regulation isn't going to come in time to stop it.
Wasn't social engineering involved? It could simply be a numbers game. Twitter is no doubt probed daily by attackers and one managed to get through.
This was phone-based spear phishing, social engineering. There was no exploit.
How does Abine differ from Privacy.com? I can't tell but from the pricing page I get the impression that you have to pay to use abine.
The fact that you can still talk about them as separate is what I mean. It isn't some MS brand Xamarin. It's still Xamarin.

Github is still Github.

Of course Microsoft played a part in the progress. Try to be more generous with your nitpicking.
Why does that matter? The bitcoins were sent by the owners of their own free will. No one’s private key was stolen and no coins were double spent. People were tricked into sending an address bitcoin. That is on them, and they should learn from it.
Ahhh I do miss my Lumia 920. Solid hardware and a refreshing take on software.
Some people might even quit their $100k+ jobs if they had a $40k UBI.
If my government marks Turkey as a no-go zone due to escalation of tensions, I can't have travel insurance whilst in the country. Therefore, it's either a big risk to be their or it gets skipped over.

Something the cheap Turkish resort package tourist cares about when their luggage doesn't show up at IST.

Edit: Something worth noting, the Eastern side of Turkey within a few hundred kms of the Syrian border is already a no-go zone.
What about when NSA wants to build a backdoor in encryption standards? Who is at fault then?
> do we not see value in the fine arts?

We could simultaneously see value in fine arts but also not see value in a four-year full-time program with a heavy accreditation component in the fine arts—and certainly not as a gatekeeping requirement for jobs that have nothing to do with the specific subject being studied!

If anything, if we wanted to promote these subjects to more people, we ought to make learning about those subjects more flexible, less stressful and less expensive. (It's not just about the direct costs, either—even a free full-time program comes with a massive opportunity cost that most people can't afford.) It seems like the only way to make that realistic would be to decouple signaling and career accreditation from the education itself.

This is much easier said than done, of course, but I think just mentally separating the different aspects of a college program—education from signalling—is crucial for understanding what's going on and how it could change.
So expensive companies pay You for people viewing the content. https://clipwatching.com/
There is also handemade.network. Maybe that's something for you.

https://handmade.network/manifesto
I wonder what sort of machine those folks were plugging it into? If it's their general purpose work issued machine, shame on them, but I can't believe the FBI doesn't have a high and low side networks. How many plugged into the high side? How many plugged into the "this is my email and timecard" computer?

I have a Chromebook running arch[0] that has a borked network adapter than I use to plug weird things into/use as an airgapped box I can reset in about 5 minutes. I'd have no qualms about plugging anything into that

[0] BTW I run Arch
> Unfortunately, as someone else in the thread has mentioned, the ways of monetizing OSS misalign the incentives between user and developer, and they haven't really been very successful anyway.

Many ways of monetizing it don't misalign incentives. As a user, I don't value support less just because software is more reliable; on the contrary, I trust the software in higher-value contexts because it's reliable, and in those contexts I need the support more. I don't value "host this for me" less just because the software is easy to install and configure (because I still don't want to be the system administrator if I don't have to). And "please develop this feature for me" has great alignment of incentives.

> However, it's really hard to foster an ecosystem when companies who extract millions of dollars of value from FOSS don't feel like they need to give back.

You're a lot less likely to get paid for software that's under an all-permissive license (e.g. MIT or Apache or BSD). It's unfortunate that so much of the ecosystem has settled around permissive licenses; with such licenses, your best strategy for making money may be "use the software to get hired somewhere or to build reputation for consulting". There's a reason companies love permissive licensing, and subtly (or unsubtly) discourage copyleft. Strong copyleft gives you more options to monetize something, either now or in the future.

That said, I also do agree that there need to be more good ways of funding Open Source.
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>XML parsing, XSLT transforms, SVG rendering, database access, OpenGL scenegraphs, networking

Off the top of my head there is libxml2, libxslt, librsvg, libgda, libclutter (and now GSK with GTK 4). Networking is included in the gio part of glib.

Unfortunately there are no good gtk/gobject-style libraries for generic gamepad input or chart rendering as far as I'm aware.
Beeping Prick !
But that's not actually the law, is it? You could certainly bring a civil lawsuit (and so could Twitter users), but I haven't committed a crime.
I have absolutely zero faith in our ability to execute on the consumer side with this type of product. We couldn’t even make an also-ran Twitch competitor, despite literally owning one of the major consoles and being the platform for 99.99% of all PC games.

Minecraft was a good acquisition. Xbox, by and large, has made good acquisitions. But the rumor isn’t Xbox is buying TikTok, it’s Microsoft.

I would argue that with the exception of Xbox, Microsoft doesn’t have a strong consumer play and I would further argue it doesn’t need it. The re-emphasis on developer tools (GitHub, WSL2, Windows Terminal, Visual Studio Code) and productivity (Office 365 and M365, Power Platform) has been a boon for the business. Pure consumer pursuits like Cortana or Windows Phone or Groove Music have not worked.

We’re not a company that has social in our DNA. GitHub and LinkedIn are acquisitions that are run with various degrees of autonomy, but even as independent entities, neither was ever social the way Twitter or Facebook are.

When you talk about brand value for Gen Z, I understand what you’re saying, but I fully disagree chasing that potential value has legs. How many times has Microsoft tried to be “cool” over the last 45 years and how many times has it failed at it? Microsoft is at its most successful when it stops trying to chase trends and be cool and just focuses on the stuff it is good at.
Their commitment to accessibility certainly is much deeper than just marketing, and I’m very skeptical that the resources they invest in it are repaid in full.
~$1K per terabyte
Last year the founder of Shazam told his story at a conference. That‘s a hit app. The effort that went into it is mind boggling. Far more than ever could possibly go into a single hit song.
yeah that could be part of it too. i have no insight into how families with young kids decide on computer purchases for families to be frank. and i don’t know if public schools provide laptops for home use either, but if everyone is at home then you’re going to need a device for every kid in school if not otherwise provided.
This is such an American perspective. Happiness doesn't have to be your #1 goal, or even in your top 5-10. The article seems to undervalue the idea of making a positive impact in the world or lasting change. It seems to conflate achieving goals with the idea that you'll move the goal post, and that's necessarily bad (e.g. the Sisyphean concept). Personally speaking, I much rather have a long-term positive impact on humanity than to be happy but a blip on history's radar. I should be so lucky. Many choose to value their own family's success over their own, or their community. Others dedicate themselves to noble causes with high potential fatality risk.
For what it's worth, I don't find the ML switches on my Advantage 2 nor the rubber domes on my Advantage 1 particularly offensive; if you are using the function keys constantly then your viewpoint might differ.
On top of this some systems are not only sensitive to initial conditions but actually generate randomness (or destroy order, depending how you look at it), such as class-3 cellular automata.
It's actually a recent phenomenon to rely on anonymous sources as a matter of course, and the stories end up being wrong all the time. E.g. NYT reporting on WMDs leading up to Iraq war, the Guardian's report that Manafort visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy (and a gazillion other Russiagate non-stories)...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/public-editor/the-risk-of...
You can very easily become better than 99% of humanity at a topic by diligently working through an advanced textbook. That’s not genuine expertise but it’s not nothing. A community of practice is necessary for true expertise in mature fields but you can get a long, long way with a series of textbooks.
The take-away about forgiveness I carry is that doing wrong things has a life-long burden. No amount of self-forgiveness can rid you of the burden of remembering you did a thing you have strong negative emotions about. If you did a stupid thing to yourself its a 'virtuous circle' but when you do it to somebody else (and, I did) then you carry a burden of your impact into another autonomous entitie's life.

I really regret what I did to them, and I regret what it did to me too.

No amount of forgiveness on their part will end this burden.
Great Products Aren’t Always Successful
But working/usable software takes months ( eg. Billing, authentication, DevOps, ... )

Profitability at least a year except if you can fall back to an existing social network/dev infrastructure, which is also based on a lot of work.

Eg. Only getting a decent ranking in Google could take months.

I'm not sure if it's that easy to compare.
Can't they make custom Arm server CPUs without buying Arm, as the Amazon/Annapurna team and others have done with their Arm licenses?

Amazon paid 350MM for Annapurna, ~ 1/100th of 32B.

For embedded devices, Nvidia already ship Jetson boards with Arm CPUs and Nvidia GPUs.
Yes. There are cellular receptors that recognize viral features (dsRNA &c). The innate immune system is the first line of defense in vertebrates and the only thing that nonvertebrates have, and it's pretty efficient.
I disagree, I think every decision we make is ultimately pleasure seeking (or equivalently, suffering-minimizing). That doesn’t mean we are right about what actions we should perform to optimize our wellbeing, just that how we act necessarily reflects our beliefs in what will make us happy.

Buying a house for example:
We think it will provide us safety and comfort, a place to raise children, etc.

Creating children is desired in itself through evolutionary impulses, and we see that manifested by desire, seeking purpose, leaving a legacy, etc.
Why does it need to be it's own fledgling-sounding thing?

e.g. Win10 has automatic tablet mode. Perfect.
Apart from Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" I think Joe Armstrong summed-up best the inherent problems with OOP as it exists in the most popular languages: "The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."
I'm not that familiar with the details, but it would be more like:

- You owe me $1B in reparations, with $10M payable each year for 100 years

- You can only come up with $8M this year, so I loan you $2M

- You then borrow from someone else to pay me back

Kind of like a rolling credit that is more about cashflow than debt level. Countries like the US were worried that Germany would just run out of cash at some point.
The main question is what should you do with all that application code space other than make the functionality of your core application richer? (adding Unicode is a perfect example - do that and for English language use, the app might seem identical but it's become much richer).

What use would one million, highly functional, stand-alone 8K programs be? What about a hundred thousand 80K programs?

I'd love wholly new categories of software to just pop up. I think about what those might be. But it seems like actually they appear quite seldom. So what else is there to do but throw code at what people use every day, for marginal improvements in existing functionality.
This could be explained by selection bias more than teaching success.
I still use tcl/tk and it's still the best choice for apps of modest requirements, in my opinion.

It's stable (unlike gtk), and truly free (unlike qt, which is also a c++ behemoth). It's utterly simple and elegant.
Can you share the name of the service?
Is it really, though?

in my experience, the mainstream is going for Microsoft Teams, and overwhelmingly so. Any org who has not significantly bought into Slack yet is very unlikely to ever do it, because Teams is now “good enough” and effectively free. Which I guess is why Slack is trying to kill Teams with lawyers rather than features.

Slack has likely jumped the shark.
If a drone pilot flew a drone in would they find and kill the pilot?
Other flight sims are available: XPlane VR

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-11-20-vr-instructions/

There is a presumption that MSFS is the be-all of flight sims. It really isn't. It is the little things that drive a flight simulator, like the selection of aircraft and locations. Will MS open this to user-generated content? How easy will it be to import aircraft or scenery? What about 3rd party realism mods (engine failures etc)? Could it qualify for FAA simulator time? Those are the sorts of thing I look for in a flight sim. Over the years a few MSFS incarnations have allowed such things, just not in the last decade or so.
Stoicism and the Art of Jiu Jitsu.
There is no comparison. College is not a vocational school. Internet is not a library, more like acres of dusty piles of tattered and strewn books. More importantly, it's also a shitty source of: collegiality, constructive criticism, respect for scholarship, access to intelligently-vetted new experiences, and well-reasoned communication.

What I remember most, and consider most valuable about my college years, is not the teaching/coursework. The net cannot begin to compare. Facebook is free.
While these cash stockpiles are private property of those corporations they provide great public benefit, at least to the tech public, as absence of big layoffs at big corporations during hard times makes for much better situation for everybody working in the tech. I.e. those stockpiles are the best guarantee we have against repeating of 2002/2003.
This is complete bull.

Chinese Cooking Demystified https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54SLBnD5k5U3Q6N__UjbAw

Tasting History https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaGKqPZnGp_7N80hcHySGQ

Ethan Chlebowski https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDq5v10l4wkV5-ZBIJJFbzQ

Townsends https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr2d4As312LulcajAkKJYw

All high quality cooking channels that have exploded in popularity due to the sheer quality, and educational value, of their content.
They don't need to support, they just have no right to forbid.
There's a big difference between those two things.

Imagine if windows crippled Netscape by forcing them to use Internet Explorer engine on Windows?

And this is just one thing Apple are doing that is unbelievable they are getting away with it.
That's real snazzy name for a smartphone. When can I preorder it?
Statistically perhaps? I.e. there surely are chemicals and infections which make you more, hmmm, adventurous. Perhaps it might make you more careful and less likely to get shot.
I feel that overestimation of fundamental capability is actually the cause of many morality/safety issues, if not at least a degradation of user experience (automated voice menus).

The big difference here is that TikTok, Twitter, Whisper actually have working technology, in spite of ethical concerns. What I am saying is that the people who want to use GPT-3 for business use case X, Y, and Z probably have not thought deeply enough about the limitations/implications of large language model methodology on specific nuances of X, Y, Z tasks.

Have you considered the fact that GPT-3 can't actually look up any information? Consider the implications of that before suggesting that GPT-3 could be used for therapy.
What VR hardware and flightsim software are you running? (I've got X-Plane 11 but no VR.)
National Defense Authorization Act: Implications for Design Engineers
If it is in fact a source of personal information gleaned from Tik Tok users illicitly made available to China, it may have far more value to the Chinese government than the market value assigned to it.
It is all pattern matching and no conceptual understanding. Therefore, not very useful for business other than to maybe trick people into thinking it might understand something.
Not a catastrophe. Just not a sign of goodwill, when done with such wanton disregard for the user.
The primary value of OSS is marketing. Education is a distant second.
Every finance system that wants to remove your burdens has to arrive at a point where they ask if you permit them to do things with your money without your consent every time, or in every respect.

It can be one-time or it can be repeat, but the third party actor quality here, is really strong.

A ->wants money to go to -> B but money is vested through entity C and the transfer invokes entity D in front of B..

There are events here which are 'do I have your permission to do things with your money, through agents you don't know' which is really hard to remove.

Even TTP intermediaries doing A <-> B introductions have this burden. It feels like its baked into the system than something 'optimising' here has '..except.. you can exploit it' baked-in.
> However, the reality is that many organisations -- including government entities at various scales in my country as well as other essential services -- now effectively require the use of certain technologies in order to function as a normal member of society.

But you can already access these Government services - the apps already work, right? You don't need a third-party-app-store to use them?

So that isn't a reason to change anything.

You want the iPhone to be changed so you can do other things with the iPhone, unrelated to these Government services.
VXG – Connect any camera to any AI
Maybe you're right, I do tend to choose MIT/BSD usually. I think I'll switch to GPL, though I don't entirely agree with your first paragraph (I am less likely to pay for software if I can host it myself, for example, though possibly not by much).
Ban me as well. I’m also a constant defender of CCP by your standard.

How arrogant are you? People like YOU who ignite nation and ideological flamewar should be banned instead
Pandemics exacerbate instability, and there's already more than a few people who believe the administration is illegitimate for one reason or another. Inflammatory language like this pushes us towards a tipping point where some state says "because the federal government murdered our coronavirus victims they're no longer welcome here".

I don't think that's a likely outcome, yet, but the basic presumption that your political opponents aren't out to murder you is a fundamental pillar of democratic norms.
I entered the noun form of a common English obscenity and it caught it.
Uhhhh, are you suggesting you can’t make money making software?
I have used WordNet for 20 years, off and on.

Cool that is was forked and effort put into the new version.

WordNet has a rich set of libraries in many languages to use the data. I didn’t see anything similar on their github repo.
I still don't get why not all cards have two-factor purchases.

Just have my bank or a Visa (or whatever) app send a push notification that I can approve or reject the charge.
Actually, all it proves is that the Amazon store is inferior to the Google Play store.
Extensive discussion, currently #2 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24011939
Google itself is still far from "Full of ads". Where do you see?
This is wrong in two ways. First, the 10 dollar clones are ass, if you've ever tried one.

Second, what the material cost is doesn't matter, at least on its own--a gifted airpod is one that's not sold. The opportunity cost is real, even if the material cost is low.
> i don’t know if public schools provide laptops for home use either

In my area of Maryland they do, and anecdotally I think they also have in at least one part of Utah. But in my area they emphasized that they were for those with the greatest need, not everyone.
There's no such thing as free revenue
That explains something I've wondered about. I have memories of playing something that looked like Microsoft Flight Simulator once with some friends of the family on some kind of Atari computer. I think we were trying to fly under the Golden Gate bridge, as one does. It didn't make sense that we were running a Microsoft program on an Atari computer.
Completely agree. I want a computing model I called PAO, where applications are singular and available across all of your devices. If you're interested in a read: https://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
I agree with you, sort of, but WordNet based systems can be explainable. Word embedding (and sentence embedding, etc.) is great, but like deep learning models is a black box.