skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a feeling that there's a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a "passion" for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.

I think you're absolutely right. For me (he said, ironically, whilst responding to a post on Hacker News) it's just not that healthy to spend even more time sat in front of a computer programming away than I did at work.

As it happens nowadays I don't spend that much time at work programming so this does tend to make me more inclined to do so outside of work. But everything has to be in balance: I have family, I have friends, I have other interests. I need to spend time with family, with friends, and pursuing those other interests, otherwise I start to go nuts.

So no: I do not have a plethora of OSS contributions, nor will I ever have. My side projects aren't OSS and, at present, I have no intent to make them OSS. I'd need a motivation that I simply don't have in order to do that. Moreover my side projects are things that I find fun, that probably aren't very generally applicable, and that some would see as frivolous - but I deal with enough serious business at work.

In any case the thought of entitled internet randos getting in touch to demand free support because I've written an OSS library, module, or tool that's accidentally become somewhat popular and is now included in other modules and is used by corporations around the world who make tons of money in some tiny part off the back of using it is deeply unappealing.

Not that if you want to spend your free time on OSS there's anything wrong with it - far from it. If you love doing it then have at it and more power to you. But we need to dispense with the idea that this is for everyone any more than photography or collecting vinyl is for everyone.
Yawn. Are people not tired of cancel culture yet?
I don't really follow Apple news, but I do remember this:

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

> On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.

> It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slow and it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.

> Because it does this using the internet, the server sees your IP, of course, and knows what time the request came in. An IP address allows for coarse, city-level and ISP-level geolocation...

> Apple (or anyone else) can, of course, calculate these hashes for common programs: everything in the App Store, the Creative Cloud, Tor Browser, cracking or reverse engineering tools, whatever.

> This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city.
So what measure of relatively little in your mind would yield it not to be spyware?

In my mind, no phoning home, and open-source at the very least. So to me, it's spyware indeed, because as you just said yourself, it phones home.
I just did the same - no contributions to Tor from me. As I mentioned in a different comment, I also just uninstalled Firefox.

Slightly off topic, I have been hammering my friends when they start spouting off cancel culture. I am considerably to the left of most of my friends who are democrats so I don't think it is political. Too many people judge written or spoken words based on who said them, rather than the content.
I haven't heard this before - how does that work?
no, it doesn't need to be adversarial and that's not how I see it.

companies are merely a tool for extracting wealth. it's not a family. it has no emotions. it doesn't care about you, because it's a tool. so leverage it accordingly.

this doesn't mean you have to be nasty with people or unpleasant in any way.
> The ‘15-minute city’ idea hit the headlines when Anne Hidalgo made it one of the driving issues of her re-election campaign. “The concept of a 15-minute city, in a nutshell,” explains Carlos Moreno, professor at the Sorbonne and scientific advisor to the Mayor of Paris “is to design the city within a distance of 15 minutes by foot or by bike to enable the six main urban activities for living in cities: to live, to work, to supply, to education, to health, and to enjoy.” After Anne Hidalgo’s election last summer, the wheels have started turning to bring the idea to life.

https://eurocities.eu/latest/parisians-will-live-within-a-15...
Revenge isn’t really his thing
>I believe there is a significant chilling effect in regards to speaking out in the defense of Richard Stallman

Sorry? What chilling effect?

People are coming out of the woodwork to defend him. Most of the comments on most threads on Hacker News defend him. I can't think of anyone more vigorously and vociferously defended by the tech community except maybe Aaron Swartz.

If there's any chilling effect at all, it's in the other direction. It's impossible to disagree with the countrvailing narrative that Stallman Did Nothing Wrong without being called a bigot who hates neurdivergent people, a witch-hunting SJW and a traitor to free software. No one is even willing to concede the possibility of disagreeing with Stallman or his positions in good faith.

Meanwhile, only thing anyone suffers from defending Stallman is surplus karma.

Edit - yep.
I checked one of those citations, and wow....

> I expect that Sudanese law defines "rape" to exclude rape by the husband. That's comparable to US laws that define "rape" to include voluntary sex with under N years of age (where N varies). Both laws falsify the meaning of "rape".

https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#14_May_2018_...
ASML only makes a few machines every year, you can't just buy them off the shelf

IMHO banning sales of ASML's product to China is chest thumping protectionist nonsense - if you're worried about the rise of China's military then you should be tangling their economy up more with that of the West so that they have more reasons not to go to war rather than driving them to be self sufficient.
Everything in JavaScript is passed the same way, whether primitive values or objects. Trying to graft a distinction between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference on top of this single passing method is unlikely to do anything other than confuse people learning JavaScript.
> I've never heard of a business offering a stipend or remote assistance subsidy of any sort to their workers to cover any of this

I switched jobs during the pandemic. My previous job offered $25/mo extra to help cover utilities, $250 to cover any wfh purchases and let me borrow any office supplies, including monitors, chairs, etc... Although this company instituted a 20% pay cut for 3 months which made that all seem very silly.

My new company is doing practically the same thing, but without the pay cut and is much less strict about the type of WFH purchases.

My commute was only ever a 10-15min bike ride, but Ive personally benefited greatly from the WFH switch and my productivity has been through the roof. I definitely agree with you that maintaining some space to meet and work would be nice.
> "He regularly and repeatedly makes comments about “the dishonest law that labels sex with adolescents as ‘rape’ even if they are willing.”

I'm a gay man who is into older men.

When I was in highschool I intentionally sought out men in their 20s and 30s.

Cross generational relationships are a sexual preference and can be just as fulfilling and last just as long as any other.

Sometimes the younger person has more money and is the one paying for everything. Really. I should know. I've been that younger person. It's really just like any other relationship. We laugh, love, and have deep meaningful emotional connections.

These antiquated stereotypes of a mustache twirling abusive old pervert preying on the naive country bumpkin has to go.

The vast majority simply aren't like that. There's creeps, sure, but there's creepy people everywhere.

A 17 year old in love with a 30 year old shouldn't come with secrecy, shame and judgemental speculation. I had enough of that when I was young.

Let us emerge from the shadows. We've been here all along.

RMS is saying there shouldn't be prison sentences for love. Abuse is a relationship dynamic, not a function of the age of the participants.

Hit me up if you want to have me fired over my sexual orientation as well, email info is on my contact page. I'll mail you my manager's info.
Sexual Harassment can mean anything to these usurpers.

What it probably means is a big, fat, ugly nerd tried his hand at flirting. Didn't go so well. A little bit of awkwardness for both parties ensured. End of story.

Long Live RS!
That’s a fair point. A comment [0] in a parallel thread points out a third possibility: that Intel believes x86 is on its way out, and they’re attempting to pivot before their only significant revenue source dries up.

I hope for the semiconductor industry’s sake they really are getting 7nm back on track this time, and that this new manufacturing business will be competitive. Perhaps that’s unrealistic to expect given their track record lately, but at least Gelsinger seems to deserve more confidence than Swan.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568598
Man I been looking at diving into Go for a while now, time to go in headfirst. Really appreciate your contribution and I feel the exact same way about wanting to give back to the community, one day I'll have something of value to offer!
Well I for one wish I’d known about this (specifically constexpr.js) sooner. I like to develop sites with TS, but generally prefer to ship as little of it to the client as possible. There are a few solutions for this but most have some kind of compromise or another. It’s good to see another contender out there!
Please read this to get another point of view on the calls to ostracize RMS. It has facts, quotes, and givies analysis from Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU.

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
More people alive spending money helps the economy.
Why stop there? Replace it with "infrared radiation corresponding to a blackbody temperature of approximately 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit" and it's 100% supported by science.
ASML EUV machines are the combined result of basically everybody in the business except maybe Canon and Nikon. Motorola, AMD, Micron, Infineon, IBM, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, lasers and plasma physics from LLNL.
The software engineering book by Dr. Pankaj Jalote.
But that 500kbs sound just feels warmer to me (on my laptop).
I hope RS rapes all the SJW's and gets them pregnant. Then maybe they could produce something useful for the world.
Cyberdelic
A Chromium fork too. Meh.

Albeit a neat skin they put on it, I'll admit.
Sorry, just seeing this now. In my scenario, it's number of vesseils available for charters. So you pay so much for first vessels and some more for additional vessels. Companies with more vessels have more revenue so they can pay more.
Isn't that the primary difference between an addiction and a dependency? Something can be done/used regularly that would be considered a dependency (e.g., coffee), but only elevates to addiction-level severity when said behaviour becomes problematic.
I switched to brave on desktop and mobile and couldn't be happier. They're willing to try and push new boundaries if you're into the whole crypto domain.
Tha car slows down by using its electric motor to generate electricity instead. So actual brakes are only used for really heavy breaking. I see the same effect in my PHEV which uses its electric motor to regenerate power - after a year of ownership the brake pads are like new, there is no wear on them at all.
Admittedly, my views on this come from the limits of my own experience - as someone who writes (and sometimes rights) software, I highly prize uninterrupted time in flow. I suppose writing and other such similar pursuits would work very well on an work environment that was isolated.

But I do try to exercise my empathy and recognize for some endeavors it's is useful to collaborate. I just wish that people wouldn't attribute intrinsic necessity of physically close collaboration where it is not warranted.

My purpose or activity, even after I'm financially independent will be writing software, something I can do without having to be in close contact with people I am working with, and I in fact am much more productive when I'm not.

And honestly, even at 40 hours a week, I still have a lot of time in which I've formed my best social relationships. My coworkers are nice people, I just have shockingly little in common with them outside of work.
While I can't really speak to this particular objection, it would be patently absurd for Reddit to be required to be compliant with all laws in all countries, that's just inane and a completely losing battle.

If a specific country outside of where Reddit's servers are hosted has a problem with it, then they're welcome to ban it.
He's obviously an animal, devoid of all reason./sarcasm
I quit caffeine over a year ago after drinking a lot of coffee (coffee = coffee, espresso, latte, etc). By a lot I mean easily 1-2 coffees before work, 3-4 coffees during work, and another 1-3 after work, every single day, for years and years. This was just because I enjoyed the flavor, not for energy. Eventually I just got tired of how much time I was spending on coffee: if I wasn't drinking coffee, I was basically waiting for the next time I felt like drinking coffee.

Quitting was no issue. I had some light headaches for a day or two but otherwise just went cold turkey overnight. However the relief from just disallowing myself to drink coffee has been incredibly liberating. For me it's been equivalent to sugar or dairy: I really enjoy consuming these things and get no bad effects from them, but quitting is beneficial from the sheer time savings I get.

Anyway, the point is coffee isn't necessary for energy anymore than rice is necessary for a meal. It's all cultural. I spent a long time waking up at 4 am, going through a full day of work, exercise, socializing, etc and having no problems staying awake or going to sleep. Western culture places a high cultural emphasis on coffee (like other things) so we think it's important, just like some hispanic and asian cultures tend to place a high emphasis on rice and so people from those cultures think it's critical.

It's all just habits and it's almost always possible to break habits or learn different ones. If you feel like coffee has a net negative impact on your life, try quitting. It's not necessary at all, and you might enjoy life without it
Timur is a really fun guy. He also wrote and maintained the (since quite famous) kernel patches and userspace utils for Nexus7 devices to allow USB host mode and charging simultaneously. The hack itself was modest enough but it since enabled a whole new world for DIY in-car entertainment enthusiasts, providing the modding community with a simple and affordable way to fully integrate a working tablet into their cars with USB DACs, DAB dongles, back-up cameras, etc - which was pretty slick stuff back in 2012-2013.
Regenerative braking where the braking charges the battery, rather than just converting the speed into heat.
I went down that rabbit hole for years and I’m convinced voynich is a hoax and unsolvable.

I’d love to be wrong though.
>I am going to use this to poke fun at my vegan relatives when they attack my decision to continue enjoying bacon, steak, and tendies.

I was with you until this part.
Focus on the problem more than the solution
A plethora of women have come forward, with their stories of sexual harassment and manipulation by RMS. (See links in other posts; e.g. the first link in the open letter's appendix.)

This isn't just about him describing a "sex trafficking victim" as "entirely willing", and hence not a victim of "sexual assault". This is wrong on so many levels.
That's an excellent point; I'm skeptical, however, that many companies will successfully make a transition to remote-first, if they even seriously attempt it.
I go totally cold turkey every year for ~2 months and have for years (more than a decade). It's a fascinating experience each time, as close to a reset as I think you can get without hard drugs. I sleep better but feel more weary and tired without coffee. I no longer get serious withdrawal when I stop drinking it.

The happy medium for me, and YMMV, but I find now that half-caf is quite satisfying and less sleep-disruptive.
Fortunately that's been tracked to one specific chemical which can be replaced much more easily than getting rid of cars.
Wealth can be created - the best companies create wealth and everyone gets a share. In that environment being petty over things like demanding a company pay for your WFH office just comes across poorly (imo).

I wouldn't want to work with someone going on about that. I personally find it tedious to work with colleagues that complain about things like that.

Good companies do care about their employees, because doing so enables the company to retain good people.
Can someone please explain how it is possible to license a database of such sort in the first place? Pretty much all file types have some documentation on how to identify them by reading specific bytes, it's not like the folks from freedesktop invented those methods. On top of that, having the DB licensed under GPL would mean that every line of it is also under GPL, thus forcing the same GPL to all libraries out there that do even a simple PNG check using a magical byte check?

I'm really curious to understand how it this licensing works.
What is with this confidence interval? I’m wondering what kind of uncertainty would result in an interval where potentially 10s of millions of lives are saved by burning fossil fuels.

“ We estimate a global total of 10.2 (95% CI: −47.1 to 17.0) million premature deaths annually attributable to the fossil-fuel component of PM2.5.”
Meh, beginners are going to spin their wheels when they get to the point where they're trying to build anything, especially using a web/mobile/desktop client framework, because that's 99% of what software development is.

Don't feel to bad for them, that's our entire craft. `while(true)` and sorting algorithms are not.
Yeah I saw that, but I didn’t see anything that he did specifically.

It seems he said some things that one might disagree with which is fair enough but saying it’s sexual harassment seems like a stretch IMO.
Are you reading my mind? I even blogged about it :) https://stribny.name/blog/2018/11/writing-test-cases-with-gi...
FED could just print even more money to pump stock market.
Whatever credibility the FSF achieved after the Stallman resignation is gone now. Sad.
Obviously horrible if true, but what's the evidence?
Even in places which are pretty decent about green sources like the UK, most populated areas in the country have very dirty electricity - rated at about 250-300g/CO2 per kWh produced. In terms of emissions per mile driven, that's worse than some modern petrol and diesel cars. Yes, you can purchase green electricity from your supplier, but it doesn't change the fact that the electrons going into your car are not from a clean source at all.
The letter got posted yesterday and flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558348), which is probably why it can't be posted again, because of HN's dupe policies. But it was also posted basically immediately when the site was created, when the list of signatures was much smaller. So there wasn't any meaningful discussion of the list of folks who signed it, because they hadn't signed it yet.
> from overexertion trying to be "passionate" about his job.

This phrasing captures the issue exactly, imo. The split is between someone who is "trying" to be "passionate" about their work, versus someone for whom that's just an apt description.

It seems like the discussions around "passion" tend to ignore that distinction. I think the problem could be alternately framed in terms of intrinsic/extrinsic motivation without losing much. The passionate developer is a proxy for someone intrinsically motivated by the act of constructing software, vs. extrinsic motivation, which would be something like salary.

So if someone is trying to be "passionate" about their work, that will not convert them from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic (in most cases!), so of course it's seen as empty.

The surgeon question can be restated in these terms too: prefer a surgeon who's driven by saving lives and refining their expertise in this particular mode of doing it, or a surgeon driven by salary?

(Of course this is a simplified/extremal statement of the problem, and a false dichotomy if taken literally: basically everyone is somewhere between those two poles.)
Is this cancel culture?
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Neither your comment, or the other 2 have any bearing on the reality in which i live and that i know many others also live. The cities we live in are hundreds, if not thousands of years old. The idea of that a 15 minute city has any bearing on real life is sadly laughable. I'm sorry to have to say so, but it's true.
Not even that - WebRTC obfuscates your IP via intermediary servers.
What you claim is counter to the intended uses of the tests and their very definitions. One measures innate flgeneral intelligence, whereas the other measures skill or acquired knowledge in a specific area.

Then show me some sources to support your argument, because repeating false statements doesn't further your point either.

https://www.theclassroom.com/intelligence-tests-vs-aptitude-...
Svelte itself is a compiler: It compiles the `.svelte` files into (readable-ish) vanilla JavaScript that runs directly in the browser.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) 3.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
A virus spreading to a pandemic level is a stochastic process. If you have enough people vaccinated, then there aren't enough carriers to push r over 1 even if unvaccinated people are catching and actively transmitting the disease. Doesn't matter at an individual level, but the restrictions are a societal issue due to lack of capacity for care and treatment.
The author also drastically overestimates the capabilities of cloud vendors. CDN and edge have been and will continue to be great business (as you well know) despite pundits predicting their sublimation to cloud subsidiaries for over a decade. For one, capacity planning a public cloud is a lot different and a lot harder than cdn/edge. So the cloud vendor must then act a lot like a cdn/edge, which none have shown any competence in doing. There's a reason Amazon still uses Akamai, Level3, and others for their own Prime Video. CloudFront is a joke in comparison to any prime CDN in terms of network breadth, latency, and overall support from the vendor.
You're right, TickTick is another tool in the space. We are trying to provide more speed through our keyboard shortcut and console but the idea is the same indeed, to have tasks and notes.
“ I'm not fully aware of what he did, and to what extend he hold on to being a "misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety". Hence I look fwd to a defense.”

You don’t know what he did. But you look forward to seeing his defence...?

One of the large problems of cancel culture is people, like you, who jump on the bandwagon without really knowing the context or what the person actually did.
Except nations are a completely made up concept by groups of humans, rather than a deep survival drive of the individual when pushed into a life or death scenario.
tl;dr the author doesn't care about the freedoms that copyleft provides to users and assumes the same is true of everyone.