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I'm not talking about fair share of the profits - the OSS project, I hope, has no profits.

Babel, in particular, is a project that's primarily interesting to software development companies. It's not consumer-facing software like Signal or Firefox or GNOME or whatever. It's not the logic for a self-driving car or a pacemaker. It's a tool that's for software developers who want to write in one version of JavaScript and have code run in an environment that expects another version of JavaScript.

I would agree with you for things like Signal or Firefox - that while there's theoretically a monetary value for me being able to use them, it's difficult and weird to pin down that number, and it's a social good to have them available for free.

But there's a very non-theoretical monetary value for companies that use Babel. They can develop software x% faster, and they pay $y per unit time to develop software, so the value is x times y. It doesn't even matter if the company using Babel makes any profit: their costs are lower because they use it.

And, corresponding, Babel isn't a social good like Signal or Firefox. It doesn't make the world a better place on its own. It makes the world a better place insofar as people using Babel are trying to make the world a better place and they can do so faster. (Or it makes the world a worse place if people using Babel are trying to make the world a worse place.)

So it's up to the people using Babel, all of whom have significant engineering funding, to make sure it continues to exist and work. And they should be doing so on a scale commensurate with the cost savings they get from Babel. Which is to say, they will do so, provided that the danger of Babel not existing is real, and the possibility of avoiding that fate with funding is real - it's in their rational self-interest to do so.

Or, in other words, the framing of "funding sufficient to keep a project alive" as "fair share of the profits," and the idea that closed-source software companies can reasonably expect "profits" and open-source projects used by those companies cannot, is itself the crisis. We have no way of talking about funding apart from profit. Either we need to come up with one, or we need to admit that the only way to solve the open-source funding crisis is giving up on open source.

If we can't figure out how to employ more than one person on Babel when its users' rational self-interest would be to fund it to the tune of many millions of dollars a year if they had to, is it any surprise Signal is pivoting to cryptocurrencies and Firefox is pivoting to VPNs?
Cloth masks are largely for show in protecting you from other people. They are still highly effective in preventing your aerosols from getting out into the air. Even though COVID is airborne, it comes out of your mouth and nose in liquid droplets that then dehydrate and become airborne. If they hit a cloth mask on the way out, they'll be trapped.
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The frequent re-positioning might suggest a lack of footing.
Maybe if Blue Origin actually did something other than try to impede their competition[1], who actually is doing something and actually has products to sell to the public (satellite internet) and private companies (cheaper space launch with reusable rockets), they'd be in the news more and people would be talking about it and the envy would go away.

I hear the name "Blue Origin" maybe 1-2x a year, and it's usually in the context of something SpaceX'ey - not some new revolutionary new thing they did. I hear "SpaceX" at least several times a week. That's a problem. The average person on the street has likely never even heard of Blue Origin, or know what they do, while they most likely have some idea of what SpaceX is and does. There is a tangible excitement about SpaceX.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/amazons-kuiper-responds-to-e...
its not exactly true though.

happiness is related to the society you live in and your biology ... and other variables. its entirely possible that you can be both "objectively worse off/more stressed", which is generally considered to be a cause for unhappiness and still feel that the children were the best decision of your life.

its a complex topic and i dont think anyone can realistically generalize it.

there will be people that are actually unhappy because of them while still claiming happiness, as well as people that were unhappy until they finally had them.
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The humanity organism does not have feelings.

People have feelings. Humanity does not.

But if you're going to give it feelings, a far more likely outcome is that a life-ending meteor will not hit the earth, and that the humanity organism would be much happier if it didn't waste its efforts on chasing a fairy tale, instead of fixing problems here, on Earth.

It boggles the mind that people worry about planet-killing meteors arriving over geological timescales, when the real danger - sustainability - is staring us in the face today, and needs action now.
One of the points that keeps coming up in these conversations- and is cited here as evidence - is that there are no documented cases of casual transmission from being near someone outside. While I don’t on principle dispute the conclusion - citing a lack of evidence of something that would be incredibly hard to find evidence for is not an effective argument. There are a huge number of cases where the actual source of infection is completely unknown and in the cases where tracking and tracing succeeds it is based on asking people who they interacted with, so the set of people you walked near in the street while infectious are almost certainly never going to be found and documented.
The fact is we don’t know - it seems unlikely but there is some amount of existential uncertainty about outdoor transmission and given the fact we want the outbreak to end sooner rather than later being overly cautious doesn’t seem like a terrible idea to me.
I think there's quite a few young people here. Like you say, there's no many other tech forums. That's why this one is popular and why people come here.
If the company puts too much emphasis on the free coffee they provide, it's a red flag. It means you will need it.
Look at these TVs that cost $3000 in 1997: https://www.cnet.com/news/are-tvs-really-cheaper-than-ever-w.... You can definitely get a better TV now for $300.

I think the point of this article is that the TV you could buy for $300 in 1997 you can't now buy for $30. So the 10 times increase in quality hasn't allowed a 10 times reduction in cost of living.
Musk will be lucky to live till he's Bezos age given all the heavy drugs he does (it's the world worst kept secret really)

Also Musk will not make much money from SpaceX because like everything he's involved in the margins are terrible (molecules and atoms don't make money).

His net worth has balooned because of his ability to sell an ever improving vision of the future and constantly moving the goalposts, but solving climate change is becoming a crowded trade socially speaking.
Politicians and central bankers are coming to the show and they run circles around him with regards to social competence and speaking abilities, so he'd not even get the glory .

Kamala Harris will be remembered in the history books as the 1st female POTUS , the politician who also solved climate change and landed humanity on Mars, while Musk would be left with a very low margin business and no social recognition, and no narrative to propel the stock.
all the main controllers work by running a reconciliation loop constantly, what are you talking about?
> taken over by politics spam

Not in my experience. You just have to subscribe to subreddits that don't have a political tilt. On rare occasions some subreddits go dark or sticky something political, but I'd hardly call that a take over.
This is where anecdotal evidence is difficult - hard evidence that we can reference points to the contrary and supports my reply. I have further anecdotal evidence I could cite, but it's not trustworthy.
> I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is much more intelligent than I am.

Just wondering - what exactly makes you think so?
Apple makes sure that JavaScriptCore can safely run untrusted code, but they don't apply that same level of security to their native API.
"Well paid CEO" and "CEO making hundreds of times more than their employees, and increasing their compensation at a time when workers are being laid off, seeing pay freezes and drops, and just straight-up dying of COVID" are....not, shall we say, quite equivalent.
Thank you so much for sharing your personal connection! I really relate and wish I'd had more mentors growing up too. But at least we can change that for future students! I look forward to hearing your feedback and if we're lucky maybe even having you volunteer with us :)
Will this support the open source gateway?
I think Disney's control over copyright law has been greatly overstated because it makes a better story. Yes, they lobby in favour of longer copyright. But they're spending a measly ~$4 million per year on lobbying (total, not specifically on copyright) [1].

The boring truth is politicians in Congress were in favor of copyright extension (at least in 1998). Two reasons given were: 1) copyright industries give the US one of its most significant trade surpluses, and 2) the European Union had recently extended copyright there for 20 years, and so EU works would be protected for 20 years longer than US works if the US did not enact similar term extensions.

I fully expect the copyright on the first Mickey Mouse cartoon will expire in 2024.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/678813/disney-lobbying-e...
Have you reached out to them? I'm not affiliated with them at all but it seems like they really want to provide good customer service and offer a 2 year warranty on the DOT.
>> They used to produce most of stuff by themselves, because functional market requires good roads and a lot of people

Do you have any data that supports it?

I think it is fair to say that at least in Europe both Western and Eastern from onset of Middle Ages people living in villages were actually able to travel to the adjacent towns and to yearly market fairs. That wasn't a daily trip of course but I do not see an issue of farmer exchanging some bags of flour for some clothes once in two years.

>> And if course, if you are buing it, you need to produce a lot more food, so that you can sell it or exchange it.

Well, yeah, that's generally an intention when you are a farmer :) Also farmers were serfs often and had to give up some part of what they gathered.
Choose your poison, US intelligence or Chinese?

Either way it is irrelevant. People put on TikTok what they want the world to see. The importance of the app for any sort of intelligence is vastly overrated - Facebook would be far more useful as people expect relative privacy amongst their friend group.
It seems a common trend that software engineers think their high salaries are something they can take for granted forever.

I prefer to think that we are riding in a bubble that can pop any minute now. This line of thinking allows me to be more responsible with spending and save more for rainy days.
In a particularly ironic situation, I was trying to log in to my bank's website on a computer from a distant international location so I could pay the credit card bill and, since it was a new browser, the bank required 2FA via my phone in order to log in. Of course, I could not receive the SMS, so could not log in, and could not make the payment.
Explain to me how it is not "horribly irresponsible" to charge people money for a product you don't deliver, but it is "horribly irresponsible" to call them out on it.

Panic charged me $24.99 for a full-featured code editor. I would like a full-featured code editor or I would like my $24.99 back. It is not "horribly irresponsible" to expect what one pays for.
This article has a limited perspective. People have different skill sets, and valorizing one skill set and demonising another is something that is not very helpful. You as an engineer may want to say that your skill set is the most crucial one and others are worth less, but you know what? Other people are going to do the same to you, and often with more success.

For example, UX and design is now quite valued, and frequently you hear UX and design guys disparage engineering. Is that something we want to encourage? It's better to encourage making rational decisions about what skill set you need and who is best to supply them, so we are all judged on our merits and not based on self-marketting. Idea-generation is useful in a lot of contexts. Personally my best ideas have often been to figure out a way where we didn't need to execute a bunch of difficult stuff that the execution types were about to take on.
it's really not complicated: tell the public as soon as possible what is known and be honest with them about what isn't.
Probably because it descends from Music.ly, an app known to be used mainly by tweens and predators looking for tweens.
The Rust approach of having all indexing being unsigned has been extremely annoying for programming algorithms which need to do interesting indexing patterns like walking backwards through an array while indexing into another: the fact that “i >= 0” can no longer be used as a loop condition is quite exasperating. It means other more complicated indexing or looping approaches need to be used, and when showing code to coworkers (mostly mathematicians), they puzzle over this for a while before asking “why not just use i >= 0”? It’s not just this case - doing index arithmetic in general is vastly complicated by the fact that it’s difficult to detect idx < 0.

I think unsignedness on array indices is one of those places where the “make invalid states unrepresentable” mantra has gone too far: yes it’s nice that theoretically the whole 64-bit index space is addressable from a byte array based at 0, but in reality -1 is just as stupid and invalid an array index as 2^64 - 1 for pretty much every use-case. What we gain is negligible; what we lose is a lot of sensible code for dealing with index arithmetic.
Huh? FAANG has give much more than 10% returns...
EDM is what I ascribe to as the sort of commercial stuff at big commerical festivals like EDC usually in the USA, encompassing US dubstep/brostep, electro house, a lot of trance. Really hyperactive and obvious, no subtlety, all about getting that big fucking drop or that dirty bassline. Tends to be extremely commercial and hugely about superstar DJs and conventionally hot people posting their outfits on Instagram. Like, brooooooo. David Guetta, Aviici, Excision, etc.

Not denying it can't be fun if you're fucked up enough, but it has completely and utterly lost any semblance of being a counterculture or challenging or underground. Not my vibe at all.

I know "EDM" has a literal definition but this is what I mean when I'm talking about it, hope that helps :)
I have one, the speed is indeed the selling point. You can slowly insert the thermometer and find the coldest point. It is also so fast and easy you can use it where you would never bother before - such as checking to see if you microwaved your food enough.
Yes, but are there any political philosophies that advocate the adoption of elements of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle?

I mean, sure, you can speculatively postulate that HG-like egalitarianism is possible in non-HG societies. But that goes against the overwhelming mass of evidence.
You can send a PR with 1 million lines of code, or 3 lines of code.

You can send PRs updating typos in documentation, or PRs affecting the core aspects of a project.

You can send 100 PRs full of tech debt or 1 that makes the thing run 100x faster.

PR counts suck as a way to measure work.
For some crazy reason Photoshop users are so crazy loyal to that product they're willing to pay for it. I'm totally guilty of this, just yesterday I needed to scale and crop an image and I had to download the whole Creative Cloud installer to my new laptop and install Photoshop. I'm positive I could have done this in a number of different tools even built into the OS, but for whatever reason I'm just hooked on Photoshop.
Yes? I just punched up the front steering assembly for a 2020 Honda Clarity PHEV. All I need to do is click this button to have it shipped to me. Reasonable automakers make more parts than they need and ship them to warehouses worldwide to support their customer fleets.

Here’s the whole battery pack assembly for my Honda. https://www.hondapartsonline.net/oem-parts/honda-pack-assemb...
Actually, I think HN skews younger. The previous polls demonstrated this [1], this is an old link but I think it holds up.

Also 'young people new to the job market' will probably always have a major mismatch with respect to expectations and values, it's probably been that way since the dawn of time.

It took me 2 years just to get my head straight in a 'basic way' to even start to understand the professional world.

Though I don't think it's fair to characterize any generation as 'lazy' though, that's not the right word - although Millenials are the first generation to not consider 'hard work' as a characteristic of their generation - this is an old data point (10 years old) which could either indicate a generational value shift - or - simply the fact that people of a certain age don't have that virtue (or don't think of themselves as that) but by the time they are 30 then their views and values shift etc..

TikTok surely can reach young people for certain kinds of jobs, not doubt. But it's also just a way to try to make money in any way they can.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588
I was hoping with the announcement of the iPad Pro with the M1 chip and 16GB(!) of RAM it meant that Apple was going to give us some way of running arbitrary code inside sandboxes on the device in the next release of iPadOS. (So we could have Xcode, or at the least, Swift and Clang and a terminal). I suppose they probably would’ve told Panic though, even if under NDA since they’ve had a good relationship with Apple. Crap.
It never fails to amaze me how many non technical people - run of the mill (fill-in-a-word) people are on "hacker"news.

The person who said that he was an idea person who executes ideas all the time that it was stigmatized by morons is right.

In programming in particular, coming up with "ideas" and executing them immediately in your programming is pretty much a constant. And it's arguably what hacker, a real hacker, means by definition of word.

My experience is people who don't appreciate ideas are the first to plagiarize them, steal, or cover it up. In fact, its arguably what a lot of current big companies that are stagnating the country are running on. Advice - make sure you have no people in the company you make that think that way. Make it part of the interview - give them an opportunity to say the acceptably stigmatizing thing, and then eliminate them.
It really makes me sad. Apple used a lot of free and open technologies like FreeBSD to build their business, and they created these amazing, small computers. The people that developed these amazing small computers and their operating systems, as kids, likely had some desktop pc that shipped with a language like QBasic where they could learn programming and build things and share with friends.

Kids who buy these new small computers from Apple, not only does it not ship with such a thing, but its not even possible to download or buy a programming environment!

We built computers with brains the size of a planet, they fit in our pocket, and they have been castrated such that they are no good for creating anything, for no good reason.
NHS app ready to become vaccine passport next week
I've never seen fight of flight used with anything but anxiety since it's a fear response. Out of control laughter being included in that makes no sense.

Explain how out of control laughter elicits a fight reflex or a run reflex? Fight or flight is explicitly a survival mechanism.

Maybe a full on panic attack since that generally refers to something that isn't actually dangerous isn't the right word but anxiety/fear certainly is. PA's ARE fight/flight by the way.
It sucks far less than Upwork. The staff and clients are professional for the most part, the clients often value quality work (they actually pay quite substantial rates, it's just that Toptal takes such a big cut). It still sucks, though, to leave so much money on the table, indefinitely, for what amounts to a simple referral - while not being allowed to use Toptal to grow your own network.
TypeScript template literal types and Hasura multiple database support
Trying to abbreviate greek variables ends up causing a lot of issues too. It's common to have both "zeta" and x,y,z in the same scope. As well as a capital and lower case zeta. And maybe a zeta prime, and some subscripts. Unless you plan well ahead, it's hard to be consistent across all parts of the code and be concise at the same time.

Trying to come up with more descriptive names isn't practical as the variables often have very complex definitions, and it'd be impossible to explain in a variable name.
I have had a 300 page, trade sized (6x9)soft cover book in publication since late 2012. Lightning Source/Ingram Spark handles the printing and distribution. It is a very niche title that has sold about 1500 copies with the only advertising a max $1 daily limit google ad that runs only a few days/hours of the week.

Ingram allows publishers (I wear both hats) to set the wholesale cut and whether or not to take returns. Bricks and mortar book stores require you take take returns and give them at least a 50% cut. I never wanted to go there so do not take returns and give a 26% cut, 1% over the Amazon minimum.

My print cost is roughly $5.25 and I clear a little over $6 a copy. I also have a kindle e-book edition available directly through Amazon at a list of $9.99 that nets me $6.70 a copy. I sell print copies about 3:1 over the e-book.

Unless the title is a tome, it can be printed as b&w with a print cost in the $4-8 range. Everything after that depends on your competition (for retail price) and your wholesale discount.

At the end of the day I don't see anyone getting rich on any book sales, print or electronic, that are not best sellers from known authors/celebrities. However, as supplemental income you can definitely make some coin with little post authorship effort whether print or e-book.
I think your getting downvotes with your 'software engineers should manage everything' comment. That's a comical statement to make and comes off appearing as a 'know-it-all', something the CDC appears to be suffering from
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Well, it's more help than they're getting from the US government ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m gonna have to call this a bad example. I’m pretty sure the neocortex is heavily involved when you’re reading comments on Hacker News.