skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is paramount is that risk needs to be reduced, mitigated, transferred, avoided, or even sometimes accepted. Risk must be managed. That is why some companies want to own the OS project, and others want to pay as employees the prime contributors.
At this point we're hopefully past insulting people who did what everyone else did and instead looking for the larger patterns and lessons learned.
But the house could be bought quicker with bonuses from work for example.

Those extra down payments are worthless now..
We aren't ready collectively to confront these types of truths about the new way of life we have slowly settled into over the last 10-20 years.
If it's the case shouldn't it be much simpler today?
it's interesting how optimistic long term visions conflict - if you really think autonomous cabs will become widespread then by implication you are also saying that car sales will be drastically lower. Tough to be serious betting on both.

The math of "you'll pay more for the car but the car will go out and make money for you as a robotic Uber" sounds like a pyramid scheme to me; if too many people do it, it can no longer work.
If I find in 10 years that the next pack of replacement heads does not fit with my current razor handle, I'll just buy a new handle. Doesn't matter.
The War Against the Atom (1977)
It kind of boils down (for me) to choosing a strongly typed functional language and relational database by default, justified by the theory behind those.

I can be convinced, by myself or others, that a particular project calls for something else.

Because I'm familiar with them and satisfied with the tools my defaults are F# and SQL Server.
I got a discord account banned recently, and they wouldn't tell me why. My guess is that it has to do with my using a weechat bridge rather than their garbage client. I have to do the same for slack and for signal (which, by the way, is terrible even with signald), because they too have garbage clients. I have a much better experience when just using plain IRC.
As a Model X owner who rarely engages Autopilot for this exact reason, I concur. The number of times the car has suddenly started braking for no good reason (clear weather and good road conditions, few cars around) is way too high.
Oxford, the inventors, were originally willing to give the invention away for free. It's the central contention of the article we're discussing. How can you omit that from your argument?
To me, it's the language I use when I want to have fun.
Love this concept. I’d really love to see this taken to the next level to create an email powered social network. You’d really just need a client that could parse the data.
Hm. I wonder if what's happening is that the very top of the market is falling out. There exist apartments for rent in the tens of thousands per month range in Manhattan, and it totally would not surprise me that if you wanted a place to live with a large family, it's no longer interesting to do that in a skyscraper by Central Park.

If that were true, that would explain why the median rent is down 22% - the top end of the curve got lopped off - but I'm certainly not seeing rents down even 0%, let alone 22%, in my range!

(That would also line up with the article's claim that 80% of groups looking for homes are 1-2 person groups. The 20% is quite profitable.)
> But using tech to improve speed of policy should be a thing

I’m going to push back against this. What problem are you actually solving that requires technology? Some would argue policy making should be purposefully slow and intentional to better understand the effects of said policy.
I wish the Mastodon ad campaigns on Twitter would focus more on the digital sovereignty benefits.

It seems like all anyone takes away from federated protocols is "it's more secure" in some ambiguous way.

On the Signal topic, I've been put off talking about the security concerns of centralized vs decentralized lately as everyone seems to interpret this as "US X NOT Y".
Thank you - I'm going to check it out. I also had a look at Lemmy recently which promises better fediverse support in the future. Is there a link to a live example? Didn't see one in the README
We’re living in a golden age of ignorance
The main business proposition of open source is that you can create a larger market. This is hinted at in the article by saying "easy distribution", but it isn't really discussed.

The goal of open source is to create a market for the product that is 10x or 100x bigger than a proprietary product would have. You won't ever capture 100% of the market. But if you capture a fraction of that larger market you still come out far ahead of the proprietary product in which you capture close to 100% of the market.

Probably there are some products for which the market is finite or open source won't make it bigger, and for those the scarcity based viewpoint of this article makes sense.

It is also worth noting that Red Hat has shown that open source doesn't require distributing your product for free.
Another note is that many companies today take an open core approach to try to gain some of the advantages of open source without all of the downsides.
I mean, they were cautious before the first time they ever hiked rates that high, which would make sense; very few people are going to put their neck on the line for novel policy.

Now that we have pretty much direct cause and effect of what such a rate hike in the US would do, we probably wouldn't spend a decade and a half waffling on it.
do kids hate the beach? I feel like 'relatively meager compared to HN' could be low 100k and that would be plenty livable, 2-3x the household median income at non super fancy beach towns in the east/south US.
Why Twitter is completely wrong on handling fake news and misinformation
If LEO space were priced as real estate / property and assuming there are currently little restriction to zoning. SpaceX is about to own most of it.

I am thinking of it like a Game of Monopoly but SpaceX currently has anywhere from 5 - 10 rounds of head start if not more.

Interestingly once you start thinking about it. If TSMC were blown up by CCP. Samsung and Intel would caught up to their progress and volume within 2 years time.

Compare to SpaceX AFAIK There are currently nothing remotely close to SpaceX's offering within 3-4 years time frame.
Meh.... This has a real "I'm 14 and this is deep" vibe. Like a teenager who thinks their dad is a loser, and that the real men are the guys at the bottom in tough blue collar jobs, or at the top in power suits being Wolves of Wall Street. Insights like this can be fun, but they're for the third beer with your buddies, not for writing down.
Huh? They’ll pay sales/use tax on the purchase of your used car as well.
I know that makes sense. I guess I just never realized how many people exist who have that sort of wealth. I know income and wealth are separate things, but making over $75k puts one in the top 25% of US earners.
IIRC for humans it's like 1 death per million miles driven. I believe Waymo is closing in on that. Not sure if Waymo handles the variety of conditions though. Musk and Tesla seem very flippant in their marketing.
In fairness if it does indeed do what's advertised then there isn't necessarily a need to continue working on it.
This is a post about running an open source company. In other words, you have to worry about your prospective customer's lawyers objecting to your product just because it is in part AGPL. You could just upsell with a different license; but from a business model perspective that makes the distribution channel of open source irrelevant.
I this that with this approach you will forever be buying electricity from those who are happy with a 10-15 year financial plan.

There is nothing wrong with it, but i dont see how your expectation of a 98%?safe investment paying for itself in 5 years is justified.
One line of reasoning: China has ~3x as many people as US, so if we want to keep up with them, we'll need 3x our current intellectual manpower. So we need enough AI to make up the difference.

This having been said, there's no substitute for luck. Even Sun-Tzu ( author of "The Art of War"), when discussing whether skill or luck was best, said that he would prefer luck. Problem is, you can't count on luck.
Tesla (and Comma.ai ?) seem to be the only groups that find Lidar unnecessary for L5 self-driving.

There is another group who find Lidar unnecessary for driving: humans.
10% annual yield is great for an investment.

In real terms, the S&P 500 price return was about 3.2% p.a. since the peak in 1968, 5.2% since 1988, and less than 3% since 2000.

Real total (ie with dividends) return p.a. over a decade has been between -4% and 17%, with an average of around 7%.

As things stand currently, I'd not plan on more than 6% total return in real terms over the next two decades.
Question about Anti-Dilution
Let's say that you have a captable with multiple share holders, divide to two groups: group A and group B. Now the company has decided to issue new shares. The decision was made to have these new share dilute the two groups differently: 25% of the shares will dilute group A, 75% of the shares will dilute group B.

There are two clear scenarios to do this:

One:
a. Issue 25% of the shares, perform anti-dilution for group B so they remain in the existing ownership %.
b. Issue the remaining 75% of the shares, perform anti-dilution for group A so they remain in the existing ownership % as following step a.

or, two:
the exact opposite - first issue 75% and do anti-dilution, then 25% and anti-dilution.

My question is:
Does it matter in what order this is done? Whether it is as in scenario one or scenario two? Is one scenario better for Group A and another for Group B? Or is it exactly the same?

And a bonus question - can this be done in a more fair way? Perhaps, at the same time? Or use some other mechanism of anti-dilution (value based? something else) to make it more fair?

Thanks!
Usenet over UUCP worked just fine, with UUCP serving up email too on the dial-up batch syncs.
Oh good god, I hope nobody on HN takes this seriously and that they can read between the lines that this a joke.
I think the bigger problem is that it's too easy to copy after somebody has done the digging work, so journalists are not incentivized anymore.

I tried to pay for journalism, but usually I get lower quality material than what I can read in HN comments for free.
I think "Commoditize your complement" comes into play here. Yeah, if your core offering is free, you're going to be fighting to make money. But you can get huge value if you open source otherwise proprietary parts of your stack.
Home alarm tech backdoored security cameras to spy on customers
>FOSS short circuits this gatekeeping function

There are other ways past gatekeeping:

* free trials

* money back guarantees

* free as in beer solutions

Open source goes one step further than those and says "you don't just get to use this, you get to own it" where "own" means change as you like.
Oh I forgot, I stopped caffeine too. That helped I think, I just drink decaf now.

But yeah simply deciding to start each night is the stupidest yet most effective thing. I think it’s easy to forget this as sleep sort of feels like a non activity vs. say working out or reading etc where deciding to do the thing is obviously the first step.
Agreed. Where to draw that line is the debate. For kitchen knives there is a similar problem. As cold as it is the data is the best measure.
$6B, It’s not so far behind[1] and that before exiting, and I don’t know how much founders retain vs GitHub founders.
But what if would be less, not everything has to be about market valuations.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/15/gitlab-oversaw-a-195-milli...
Yeah the "whats my monthly" being about the same doesn't quite capture what's happening though.

Compare what happens when you get a raise or a small windfall and try to pay your mortgage off early.

I'd pick "small amount, high interest" over "massive amount, low rates" if that were an option.
See Deltachat.
> This is a real risk

It's even a risk to Waymo because, despite being responsible about it, Tesla made people either scared of autonomous cars or forced out legislation restricting it.
Have not tried this myself (yet), but you could consign with Masterworks. It's a platform for "securitizing" art investments that's gaining traction. Best of Luck ;)

https://www.masterworks.io/consign-with-us
So 4kWh/t is used to desalinate 2 tons of seawater that turn into 1 ton of freshwater and 1 ton of brine?
Apparently I'm not the only one trying to load this page;

Text-only cache link (full wouldn't load either):
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Eh061j...
While climbing the middle ladder, something snapped in me, or perhaps covid accelerated the process.

A year or so ago, I was working on my undergraduate thesis project in deep RL, I had been working on the project for 8-9 months at the time. Due to covid, lack of support and computational resources from the university, I was behind, and making progress was difficult.

Shortly after I submitted the thesis, I felt an eerie disillusionment with the absurdity of the middle class, and whatever we are all doing, the pretentiousness, how we are all stuck in our own little bubbles where we find ways to feel special and 'serious' about things, how we focus and advertise the niche-ness of our field, and how we all advertise our lives in social media and so on.

Sam Esmail put it greatly in the first episode of Mr. Robot in Elliot's monologue on what in society disappoints him so much [1] and concludes that the reason is that we are all cowards, we are looking to be sedated. Which is absolutely true, capitalism feeds on that, bought something?, bam dopamine rush, got a promotion to the same shitty position but with more responsibilities ? congratulations, another dopamine rush. Buying overpriced sushi and eating it with that chopstick skill you have mastered, another rush. Sharing our lives on the internet bam rush, and you know what, of course we need to share pictures with our friends, it's the contract, we scratch each other's back here, and the funny thing is, it is never enough, and it will never be enough [2].

Deep down, we all know that the world is utter shit, but living in these bubbles allows us to pretend that it is not so bad, because that is easier, it allows us to live with the situation instead of taking the roads and demanding that things change, if anything, why should we demand a change if "it's working for us", if whatever we have gives us a dose big enough to forget but small enough to function? Heck, even if we start fixing the world, Machiavelli argues that given the opportunity, the middle class will bring it back [3], because the new state of affairs will not enable that kind of detachment.

The problem with this disillusionment is that you aren't willing to be sedated, not anymore, you realize how shit the world is, how everyone is pretending and is unwilling to accept it that we are not in control of anything.

But what the f do I know. All I can say is that I have seen and experienced the 'Michael Scott' behaviour from the people the author mentions, but again, I live in my own little bubble.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/flibber/mr-robot-101-elliots-monologu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_adaptation

[3] In "il prince", when a new prince conquers a region with the help of aristocrats, if he changes the norm, he needs to squash any chance of future opposition as the previous norm worked for the aristocrats and they will try to revert back.

Edit:

I must have hit some nerves. Sorry for telling the silent part out loud, Michael.
There's possibly "companies with FOSS products" that arne't "FOSS companies".

For instance, I know people that work for heroku that work on open source (and are primary maintainers in some case) on company time -- but heroku is obviously not a FOSS company.

Or, in a comment below jedberg says 'At Netflix our ethos was "if it's involved in infrastructure, open source it, if it's related to movies, keep it closed.' -- nobody would call netflix a "FOSS company".

In the original wave of open source, this was the position of most contributors to open source I think. Work on a thing on company time that helps the company achieve it's goals/business, but is not the main focus of the company.

This seems to be less and less the case. Because companies are more ruthlessly focused on the bottom line, and don't think they can afford to have anyone working on something they don't own or that might help a competitor? I dunno.

But this change has a lot to do with the current apparent sustainability problems in open source.
We've done this at my current company. We have a closed source, commercial offering. But our client libraries, our documentation, sample deployment scripts, and other supporting libraries are open source.

We get some contributions.
Well there's the Matrix Email Bridge: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/matrix-email-bridge
FSD rollout is purely driven by Elon’s ego. He’s addicted to fame and power, and that comes from image he created of himself being an Iron Man. I’m pretty sure he got to a point where he believes in it, and thinks he’s invincible and can solve any problem, because he’s so much smarter than everyone. Stock bubble making wealthiest man only helped to solidify that.
Even so, they’re still dangerous. No one in car crazy America is going to put their kids on an Apple motorcycle and run through rush hour traffic where everyone is watching TikTok videos while driving. Even the wind noise, debris hitting you, and weather considerations alone make it a no-go. Losing a wheel usually means going down. 99% of people strongly value that they will walk away from a crash fine with great probabilities. That simply cannot be said of 2 wheeled vehicles like it can be said of crumple zone air bag equipped 4 wheeled vehicles.

I’d definitely get one though.
Moderation alleviates those issues and the difference between Mastodon instances and Twitter is that the former can moderate content according to local community standards.

It's wrong to think of Mastodon as a 'social network', it's literally what the name suggests a federation of 'micro nations' with their own rules, more like subreddits than Twitter.
> At their core, social networks are primarily about one thing: Building social capital through signaling.

Maybe for the author.

People also use social networks without expecting or requiring any net social "capital" benefit through "signalling".

Examples:

- keeping in touch with people (privately or publicly)

- inform others about something they may be interested in (without needing or requiring acknowledgement)

- lessening loneliness

- gathering or dispensing intel on a topic

- filling in time / looking for entertainment

I can readily think of many more reasons than the singlular one of signalling to heighten social status. I'm sure that occurs, but listing it as a primary reason cast the article immediately in disfavour for this reader.
It's neat although I'm not sure how 'right' it is.

This is also possibly just a re-articulation of age-old delineations between working/middle and upper class sentiments.

I think the working/middle class are the same ladder though and most of them share the same values in that they are no psychopath barbarians.

The right-hand ladder is actually 2 parts:

The ibankers belong squarely in the middle class rung. They are just workers like everyone else, and frankly, as preformative. Most of them are regular people and not sociopaths.

The difference with some 'banking' roles - is that they are playing in games of 'dealing and leverage' - not so much value creation.

So they're naturally going to acclimate to a different way of viewing thew world. They play zero-sum games whereas everyone else is doing work, or trying/pretending to.

They have access to the 'old money' class and they see the potentiality.

But really - the lower rungs of banking are just upper-class elite.

The 'old money' are not necessarily sociopaths - they are often quite nice people, they vary from down-to-earth to detached to egoist. Maybe not nice enough to give up their money but not necessarily bad people. And living off of a stipend of limited wealth can give a sense of the limitations of money and these people are not wagging their money in your face.

There is a hugely fundamental difference between 'barbarian' like Donald Trump, or Putin, and kids from the Bertelsmann family because those who are 'out of the game' and living off old money are super effete, it's not like they are going to be that important or influential. They are useless and they know it.

I also dispute the morale differentials etc. I think there's some truthiness there, but it's a function of aspiration: the 'working class' have more likely than not accepted their lot while the 'middle class' are competing for surpluses.

Finally, I'm not so cynical. Those 'middle class' people do important things. It's not easy to be a dentist, doctor, write software, manage people etc..
That was the article, but the crash was in March 2018.
I guess what I'm arguing is not the current cars shipped and what Tesla can ship but that the automotive game is a long marathon.

Today's winner can easily be tomorrow's winner. What's wrong with arguing that Elon Musk might not be the all seeing eye and the demigod that his followers elevate him to?

We ARE in the biggest asset bubble in history, that might have to do with skewing the true value of a company that is considered worth more than the top 3 automakers combined.
I think it boils down to having enough free time and money to care about dumb things. Your basic needs are covered, so you have spare energy for various causes and weird hobbies.

I suspect that baby talk is just how you answer to someone you can't relate to. I answer just the same when someone tells me about sports, or their racing horses. It's just what you default to when there's a cultural disconnect, but the desire to show respect.
Cryptocurrency issuing entertainment companies have monetized this pretty well.

They don't have recurring revenue but they don't need venture capital investors either so it doesn't matter.

Open source, campaign, sell, book revenue from sell. If market has formed, book more revenue in the future from selling into liquidity. If market hasn’t formed, hire some entertainers to babysit a chat room and move on.

Some parent companies are monetizing repeat issuances, those are worth investing into because all the shareholders make money. The companies dont need capital and would only offer shares to provide some exposure to the market. I’m not aware of any broadly offered dealflow of a token issuing factory, which is probably why people don't understand or notice this business model.
Bridges require non-stop maintenance, because if users "feel" that their messages don't cross the bridge, they won't use it.
“The Peter Principle” by Laurence J. Peter
"planners used historical climate data ...the water no longer flowed there."

This article implies the water changes were driven by climate change, but it appears the changes were from overpumping the aquifer that fed the surface water.

"The source of the Beaver River is the vast, underground Ogallala Aquifer, which reaches into eight western states. Agricultural and population growth in this part of the country meant more pressure on the aquifer, dropping its water level and reducing the river to little more than a trickle." -- https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2013/03/28/the-lessons-...

That doesn't mean climate change isn't concern, but this example is not caused by climate change, but rather by overuse of a limited water resource.
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