skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For such a small-scale project, I suggest you seek out the corporate users of your project and offer consulting / development contracts as a freelancer. This can be on a per-ticket basis on their side.

If it turns out that they have real use cases for your software they should be glad for the offering. Make sure to either request a high rate, as you are the leading developer and leading expert for the software. This high rate basically pays for further development (as a kind of training or investment into your offering).

If they don't have a use case, code quality might not be as important and you can thus justify to scale down your involvement until such use cases appear.
You'll soon be able to turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB display
https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/41750
PUBG Mobile surpasses 1B downloads worldwide
>My new idea is that the install fest could allow the devil to hang around, off in a corner of the hall, or the next room. (Actually, a human being wearing sign saying “The Devil,” and maybe a toy mask or horns.) The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers in the user’s machine to make more parts of the computer function, explaining to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree (unjust) program.

I'll disagree that this is "cringe" (which is a word that I hate, unrelatedly), it's actually pretty funny and probably a good way to communicate their message while still conceding the compromise, in my opinion. But that's mostly a small disagreement and obviously not the main point of the article
meh - civilization wins, and civilization requires intense cooperation.

the logic:
1. win = you pick: military, economy, etc (arguably)
2. winning economy/military = specialization, complex R&D, infrastructure, tools, etc = requires cooperation
3. cooperation = subverting personal desire for greater good.

Sure, on a short term basis offensive military/etc efforts can overtake collective ones, but the collective has a massive R&D advantage.
> Fossil chat is designed for use by insiders - people with check-in privileges or higher. It is not intended as a general-purpose gathering place for random passers-by on the internet. Fossil chat seeks to provide a communication venue for discussion that does not become part of the permanent record for the project. For persistent and durable discussion, use the Forum. Because the conversation is intended to be ephemeral, the chat messages are local to a single repository. Chat content does not sync.
Prediction: By mid-2022 there'll be a glut of containers. All the publicity around the present shortage will induce manufacturers to ramp up capacity. But that takes time. The short-term pinch will evaporate by the time production ramps.

I wonder if there's a good systemwide way to handle this problem.

Airlines use "irrops" -- irregular operations -- teams to handle big weather events, to get their airplanes to where their passengers are waiting. I suppose ocean shipping has similar irrops protocols. But the grounding of the Ever Given in the southern Suez Canal indicates that shipping irrops teams ignore actual weather events at their peril.

See Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline.
How does this compare to https://tidelift.com/?

My impression is they're fairly similar at first glance: companies can pay open-source funding to one central service, who redistribute to each of the appropriate individual maintainers & projects behind the scenes. I'm sure there's a bunch of practical differences in the details though?
but with individualism we can form a better collective.

however it is harder to do, takes longer to get there, and there are some tough patches on the way.

because quality takes time and effort (and always encounters failure along its path). it's just more expensive to do things that way.
"Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.” — Andy Warhol
Are you any good with Python? :)
Office Source Code Art?
I am looking for the website that makes art for your office with your source code.

I think I saw this on a hackernewsletter a while back.

Does anyone have the url or name?
Yeah, I was thinking of that film as well as Elena by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDu9Ta1JWc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_(2011_film)
You're presenting this very misleadingly. Kanken 2 is basically comparable to something like an SAT; it covers what people are expected to have mastered by the end of high school (reading and writing, incidentally). As such it's odd to say it "requires 12 years of schooling" as if that proved something about the language.

Kanken levels beyond 2 are a different matter; they cover words that aren't in common use, and are more akin to learning trivia for the sake of learning trivia.
i was so shocked when i found the open letter project trending on top of the github chart.

i have a feeling that stallman promotes other stuff that many people don't really like, and they managed to cherry pick one thing about marvin minsky and focus all the fire on that. rms is some sort of bernie sanders with a technological brain. like aaron schwartz, he's pragmatic, and that is dangerous.

frankly, i just won't trust anything trending now as aaron schwartz's name was taken from the list of founders of reddit recently and reddit has gone... well there are threads and forums about that too.
We all know that many people have both opinions - what matters is the content of the opinion. If all you're interested in is whether an author falls on X or Y side of some touchy decision, you're doing yourself a disservice (and doing others a disservice by implying they too should only care about that).
> so many of them are white-label goods these days, each sold by many fly-by-night brands

I don't know the Polish market, but I'm not sure what you mean by all these fly-by-night brands. For white goods, you have Samsung, Bosch, Whirlpool, Zanussi, LG, Sharp, Siemans, Miele, etc. Did these go away or are not available in Poland? Do you guys not use Pro Test when researching white goods?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Consumer_Researc...

>My problem is with the other half of the equation - the virtual restaurants.

Virtual restaurants are used by actual restaurants - not just ghost kitchens. Maybe you don't see it in your area, but actual restaurants do it for a few reasons:

1. Delivery companies limit the delivery distance based on the items on the menu. e.g. sushi must be fresh so you must order it from places close by. Curry keeps so you can deliver it further. Therefore to make sure most stuff is available at a distance, a restaurant can offer a subset for long range delivery.

2. Branding isn't [only] for you. Delivery companies will offer a discount from the eye watering 30% for exclusive listings. So if you setup a virtual restaurant - a few menu changes, and, hey presto, this is an exclusive listing with a discount.
Because we're human beings, and it doesn't matter how right you are if nobody can stand having you around. I'd wager that a group of "average" researchers that can be respectful and get along is going to get more done than a genius that nobody will work with because they're an ass.
Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial
The writing here is just bizarre.

- The use of the term "Ducked" instead of "searched" or "looked up" which is clearly forced and I guess trying to promote DuckDuckGo.
- "Brew.SH" The program is called Homebrew and it is odd to capitalize the website like that. I have never seen someone say Duck.COM.
- FFMPEG should be FFmpeg
- photos.app should be Photos.app like Terminal.app that he mentioned earlier.
- macOS is capitalized a different way literally every time is used.

For any one of these I wouldn't have thought twice, people make up new capitalization for names all the time. It seems to give the writing a condescending tone (helped by comments like "command line for non-Appleonians").
Well, they would have to use proprietary libraries. Which isn't all that uncommon now either.

As a programmer I'm immensely thankful that most problems can be solved with some MIT licensed thing that gets rubber stamped by legal so I can bypass all the corporate bureaucracy involved in buying proprietary licenses.

I also suspect proprietary enterprise libraries would share a lot of the bloat and confusing interfaces that enterprise application software gets, since us the users get cut out of the feedback gathering process.
Yes, the way I understood this is that customers can contribute to projects more easily. If you don't have any customers / users willing to pay then you don't get any money.

As for your situation, put a notice up on your project that you are willing to fix bugs / code new features for a fee? If these companies use your library they might be interested in sponsoring your work.

If they are not however, then I don't think there is a way to fund your development.

As for incubators etc., they are probably not all that interested in a BitTorrent implementation, considering how many are already around? Unless of course the library provided some value nobody else does.
While this is a good article, it does omit Stallman's opinions about age of consent, which is a huge sticking point for many people.
Nike Statement on Xinjiang
Monster builds 'cursed' USB-C port that works differently if you flip the cable
ripgrep author here.

> Note I'm not saying that grep can't be improved - but I am saying that it would be better to PR those improvements into grep itself rather than creating a new and incompatible thing. Or fork grep and ensure that the improved version is fully backwards compatible.

This kind of thinking is just so incredibly myopic. Like, whoever said compatibility is the most important possible feature? What if "improvements" aren't possible without breaking compatibility? Then what do you do?

Like, I get that it's fun to play the "old man yelling at clouds" role. But this takes it to another level.

> Because I want to write scripts with the minimal possible support overhead.

My goodness. Then just use plain old grep! ripgrep is not grep. It's like a grep. It cannot replace grep in every circumstance. It never will and it was never intended to.

Just because someone suggests an alternative doesn't mean they are suggesting it as a replacement for literally every possible use case.
The problem is that projects by big companies are often encumbered by their business decisions. Companies rarely find privacy profitable, so it's usually the first feature to get rid of, but if they use or need an open source tool that respects privacy, they may pay for it.

Funds from tech companies won't alone make open source development sustainable, but it'll help.
I studies Japanese a bit in France a long time ago and was told that spoken French includes all the sounds of spoken Japanese so that a French speaker should have no problem pronouncing Japanese, apart from the accent.

This is in contrast to the endless trouble French speakers have with the English 'th'...
That is what seemingly means yes. What is your point again?
If the government wants to default on its debts it can generally just do so. People lend money to the government because they choose to trust it for various reasons.

If the government decided to say tomorrow that $100 bills with serial numbers AB1234567000-AB12334567999 were counterfeit and should not be accepted, what do you think would stop them?
> Stallman is not exactly what I would call a shining example of the human race, and unsuitable for any sort of leadership position in particular

But here's the thing: He DID become a leader, mostly because of his confrontational nature and strength of conviction (which is how most leaders for change do things - they step on lots of toes). He DID lead these organisations (rocky or not - doesn't matter) and they DID become a strong force in the software world. To call him unsuitable for a leadership position is just ignoring history and his ability to attract followers.

You may not like him as a person. You may be creeped out by him. You may dislike a lot of what he says and does (and really, who doesn't?). But removal without due process flies in the face of everything that makes us civilised. The normal process is to issue warnings/rules with consequences, and then implement those consequences when they're ignored. This is how we do things fairly - a shot across the bow first. The alternative is mob rule and capricious, changing ex-post-facto justice, which has time and time again been demonstrated to never end well.
Lack of a direct messaging/email feature is one of the major lacuna of Git hub. In that light may be having some sort of integrated channel is a good thing.
This is due to a missing package. Some distributions are not well structured and removing one package may lead to these errors.
LFP is already there, vanadium phosphate will need to show itself to be superior to at least it, which is already superior both cost, and capacity wise.
It’s worth reading the piece that inspired this one [0] too, through.

[0] https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-academic-bullies-clai...
in that recording the eagle was just chatting not in an aggressive attack mode so its not a screech sound
Apple Faces Silicon Valley’s Second South Asian Bias Lawsuit
> Multiple banks now basically require you to have an android app.

It's nice that you can boycott them and use those that don't impose arbitrary technological restrictions on you, right?
The Paraquat Poisoning Problem
I don't get your point, but I'm pretty sure that several GNU/Linux repos contain the version of Unity that pinged Amazon's servers to name an example.

Where do you draw the line between spyware and legitimate feature?

Where do you draw the line between malware and unintentional faulty code?

Review time is a scarce resource, and a bad actor will always find a way to bypass automated checks.
I didn't put a (2020) in the submission title as the post was only created 6 days ago. Did I miss something here? I'm sure it was editorialised for a reason but I can't figure it out, sorry if I'm being stupid.
I am a C# dev. As much as I love working on Linux, how can I contribute to Linux itself. Gnome default userland killed the last C# based apps years ago when I remember right. All meaningful work (stuff which goes upstream) is in C++ ... a language where I have no joy writing code in.
My issue with taxes is that whenever there’s a funding problem, the knee jerk reaction is to increase taxes rather than make the government more efficient. In business, the pressure is always to be more efficient. As a result, the government trends towards bloat, inefficiency, and waste. And when someone suggests (gasp!) eliminating positions rather than raising ever more tax, some people think you are a heartless jerk, rather than an advocate for prudent and frugal use of limited funds.
That's an interesting observation! Definitely creates weird incentives.

It seems incentives also depend on the nitty gritty details around how you are billed which are not defined very clearly. Granularity and timing, whether you pay for part months of storage etc.

However all games aside it does seem like if your own egress were free (or much cheaper than 0.01) it would be most efficient to send your data directly to where it needed to go, yourself.

Then you'd only be paying $1 for the backup.
I lived downtown Toronto for several years and I had to replace my car battery three times because I drove it so infrequently that they died. I understand that living downtown isn't an option for everyone, but I strongly believe we can build dense "city centers" even in the suburbs that offer similar conveniences with larger units for families.
A link target of "#todo" suggests, that they are not finished yet.
Don’t straw man. The comment you’re replying to is referring to using free software exclusively. If you avoid all non-free software, including services that don’t share their source code, then you will not have to deal with any adware or spyware at all if you don’t wish to.

You’re really just supporting the FSF’s arguments against non-free software.
Most Fossil projects are on the smaller (smallest?) side, apart from 2-3 outliers. They certainly don't have a dedicated IM channel, and they certainly don't need it... except when they do.

I could see this as a useful feature when you need to chat with contributors once in a while in a less-formal way than issue comments.
The Fake Alien Invasion in 1938 that didn't cause a panic and other deepfakes
No magic is needed. In a world where everything is free software, almost no spyware would happen. And the "almost" is because nobody can watch everything every time. But the most used software will be thoroughly reviewed.
Seems like the right time to roll out this old gem:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
I’d like to remind you of this excellent post, that you made on your own blog in 2019:

https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GP...

The FSF is the last bastion of free/libre software, and it’s very close to being overrun by the corporate interests.

The activist strategy, of which you are very well aware, is for one or two “well-meaning” people, without any technical chops, to manage to insert a code of conduct into a project. At that point, any “offense” that is perceived to violate the CoC becomes more important than any technical merit the project might have. This is enforced by mob justice, as we’ve seen in the last couple of days.

The leaders of these projects often have strong personalities and have a decades-long paper trail that can be mined for purported infractions.

Next, the founder is attacked and forced out and the activists own the project.

The power of the project is diminished and the corporate interests benefit, whether or not they are behind the activist take over.

The key is the GPL. It’s the most important thing Stallman has done.

If he is eliminated, the pressure will be to move away from the GPL. The corporate takeover of the web will be complete.

Please continue to support the GPL. The FSF needs rejuvenation, not elimination. It needs to return to its roots.

Hopefully, Stallman has learned to be more respectful and accommodating to his own (genuine) supporters. Otherwise, the war could be lost.
Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021? Part 1
The hell? It's unimaginable to me that places wouldn't accept a 50 EUR bill... Sure, the delivery guy complains a bit if you haven't told them beforehand you need change for it, but any shop is fine to accept it. 100 is less common, though still probably okay, even a 200 will mostly get curious looks, though for a 500 bill they'll need to copy your ID.
Text says “depth”, I read “spaghetti”
Actually, the closest thing in media library regard is Quodlibet, and its under active development.
Implying that the only musicians that tour are the ones on the Billboard 100 is a little disingenuous. There are countless "traditional instrument" bands from genres like indie/folk all the way to blackened death metal that are constantly releasing music and touring.

Also, love it or hate it, modern country music is extremely popular in parts of the US, and that's (mostly) traditional instruments as well.
The links are to 6 patents and talks by Mary Lou Jepsen. She won't publish scientific papers until everything is protected by patents.

[1] https://www.openwater.cc/technology

[2] https://www.openwater.cc/events
>but with individualism we can form a better collective

I don't see this, even slightly. Could you please flush out your thoughts a little more to help me understand what you're saying?
I would rather make 1k a month and work on something I like on my terms than to have a stressful/meaningless job around the clock with unpaid working hours all around. There only so much shit you really need. And you need time for your friends/loved one. You'll live poorer but longer.

Edit : This is not a fantasy about poverty being more genuine. Poverty makes you die sooner. My point is a life spent running after money and positions is a meaningless life.

Edit 2: I may have a bias here since I live with under 1k a month, under my country's minimum wage that is .
This is long, but a good read, and two things stand out for me as priceless.

On "air-gapping" yourself in a command chain:

> For more than a decade, Cuomo has adhered to the maxim of his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, who counseled: “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.”

On lying:

> As journalist Masha Gessen, writing about President Donald Trump, another son of Queens, pointed out in their book “Surviving Autocracy,” there is a category of lie not intended to persuade or deceive. “It is the power lie, or the bully lie,” they wrote. “It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it—while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show ‘I can say what I want when I want to.’”
didn't click on it since the title already reveals the conclusion. I've met RMS in the 90ies on a FOSS / Linux conference and he should have never been there considering his lack of manners and social skills. He is such a strange human being that I ended up building him into my Tech-satire.

I don't think he is any more or less creepy than hundreds of others socially awkward computer scientists that I met over the decades. The difference is he has a position of power which he should never have for hundreds of reasons (not alone that he isn't good at it). He is the type of person who if I'd employ him I'd value him and protect him by keeping him in an off-site basement lab where he wouldn't even be allowed to open the door for the pizza delivery.

It's a huge problem when you're the public face of a movement and are also a mysogynyst. But this whole situation of wanting to cancel him speaks more about the FSF (who doesn't see a problem of bringing him back on to the board) and the other extremists ("blue haired social justice dweebs on twitter who hate him because they notice he is equally socially inept as them but has more power than them).
Did consulting, yes. Two concerns:
1) Some guys want IP on improvements to the original codebase
2) When I work on client's problems, I have less time to work on the original codebase, so the earned money is not exactly reinvested into the project, which is the primary point of donations.
I think we should separate telemetry from spyware. It is not close the same. We all have telemetry is our cars, yet nobody is making any fuss about it. Even in software engineering profiling database queries or active memory is not something anew and I don't recall we had any problems with that.
Kudos to Open Collective (for this, and for existing in general).

The article doesn't go into detail, but it also appears to streamline the workflow of requesting money from an open source project's perspective.

Each fund[0] appears to have a "Request Grant" button, which is great, as it'll mean maintainers will hopefully have a curated list of contactable organisations if they need funding for a specific initiative.

The barriers to entry here are extremely high: a few days ago I was looking into corporate sponsorship for a non open-source-related event, and after a couple of hours of Googling I was mostly unable to find contact details for relevant companies. It's definitely a natural barrier to entry which will be reduced with experience, but it will gatekeep a lot of interesting projects where organisers aren't experienced in fundraising.

Reducing this friction for Open Source projects should allow the money to much more easily go to where it's needed.

[0] Example fund: https://opencollective.com/indeed