skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one person who is full-time has a very different salary:

> we settled on $11,000 per month as a baseline salary for working full-time on open source

The people getting $2,000 per month are part-time:

> a "part-time" rate: we could initially afford $2,000 USD per month.

It is also explained that if possible, they would go full-time and the salary would then be raised to "the full-time rate".

> Our hope was by announcing this plan and continuing our fundraising efforts, we would be able to increase the budget and raise them to the full-time rate.
In this case the problem would actually be solved if the project was a bit more capitalist and charged money for usage, no? This isn't capitalism failing, it's Burning Man gift economy type stuff failing.
>I had a powerful craving for a kebab, at like 0400 when all the kebab shops are closed, maybe a coincidence, but maybe not

to be fair, you could have scheduled your shot at a different time so the kebab shops would have been open amirite
Up to a point, all resumes are reasonably well written. Now if you are filtering the top 10% of these resumes based on writing.. you are likely to get people who at best are good writers and no different from other candidates' resumes you rejected.

Do you want good writers? Maybe, but not everyone. I honestly do think the importance towards grammar and "writing" in resumes are overstated.
Many of us have preexisting immunity. For that population, the marginal benefit of vaccination is zero. People should be informed about the risks.
“Two killed in Autopilot crash”

“A Fatal Crash Renews Concerns Over Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ Claim” (Wired)

“2 Killed in Driverless Tesla Car Crash” … “no one was driving the vehicle” (NY Times)

“Tesla on Autopilot crashes in Texas” (driving.ca)

“Tesla crash: investigators ‘100% sure’ no one driving car in fatal Texas incident” (The Guardian)

Reporters have a duty to verify their sources and information and not report on rumors or hearsay.
That code can only boot to a serial console. It is a start, but it will not produce a usable linux system in any way. It doesn't even touch drivers for the GPU/NPU/Bluetooth/WiFi/etc. By the time they can produce a minimum usable system which boots with a display, keyboard, headphones, usb, ssd, and trackpad, the M1 will likely be end of life. M2 went into production two weeks ago.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Apple-s...

You'd need to buy one now, speculating that someday the Asahi work will produce a barely usable system on a laptop you can't even buy anymore. Considering the 2016 macbooks are basically unusable with Linux now 5 years after release, I don't have a lot of hope the M1 ever will be.

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
Are you suggesting people who can't get vaccinated should quarantine forever? And how would vaccinated people know they're vulnerable?
> It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it.

I genuinely believe the Hyperion saga (Dan Simmons) has produced greater novels than Dune.
Also, I don’t think implying an Hollywood movie series wouldn’t have existed if not for Dune is a sharp argument to praise how influent it is.
I wonder if the community would be a better source of funding than corporate donors? Something like Gitcoin.

Not sure if anyone has any data on this...
Capitalism represents a solution to the tragedy of the commons: Privatize it. You guys are interpreting this as a takedown of capitalism when it's the exact opposite. Capitalism represents a solution to this issue. You might not like that solution, but this circumstance just goes to show that naive attempts to reinvent capitalism are unlikely to work.
True, I guess if a big company used it they probably could fund it from pocket money, rather than spending more money on switching. Sad that people have to write a "we're running out of money" blog post to make that happen.
The typical FB engineer works 50/hr a week, eats 3 meals a day there, and is stressed out. Their life IS Facebook.

Source: extensive discussion on Blind from FB employees and personally know 5 of them.
> really hurts its usefulness.

Well, since I don't know what country you hail from, I am going to speculate, but my bet is it hurts its usefulness for you, but very probably not for the government that publishes it and uses it to demonstrate how "effective" their policies have been.
What about voyager 2 lifetime ?
Humanity hasn't sent any probe having an extra-solar system target since 1977??
If so, this is extremely sad and distant space exploration will die and 50 years will be lost.
I attribute this mediocrity to the anti nuclear/RTG lobby at NASA
All (confined?) energy is equivalent to mass, even when that mass isn’t in the form of elections and quarks.
I’d classify it as a public goods problem. The difference is rivalry in consumption. You compete over fishing grounds but you don’t compete over use of Babel. It makes a difference in user strategy too: with the tragedy of the commons, your personal marginal gain is higher than the individual share of the social cost. This leads to overconsumption. In a public goods problem, you fully benefit without contributing. As a result, you maximize utility by not contributing. There is also an incentive to understate the the utility you derive from the public good in order to avoid being forced to pay, making it hard to estimate the utility generated by the public good. It’s also called the freerider problem.
This is another issue with the passion hypothesis that Carl Newport coined. It makes one blind to other opportunities where the pay and the treatment is better. You aren't born with passion, you just love doing things that you're good at. So why waste precious time and be miserable at these awful companies in this awful business.
I was going to give a similar comment here. I get that this is more common in the US compared to Europe or asian countries, but I'd expect that 5-6k a month would be a far more reasonable salary. You're not in open source for the big payout I assume.. And then again, 2k just to help on the side, that's about minimum wage here for full time employment.
I concur. After a lifetime of Audi, Honda, and VW cars I can honestly say that my Model Y has made driving fun again. I actually look for reasons to drive now. If friends and I are going out, I'll offer to drive everyone. Need something at the store? I'll get it! It's actually kind of ridiculous that pleasure I get from driving now.
Transpilers are bad. They add to the already giant mess of unnecessary JS tooling.

How much of them is really needed, and how much is there just for webdevs to show their "street cred?" Not a lot at all.

Not only the debugging is breaking down because of them, but they often introduce bugs on their own which are very hard to find.

Framework authors force involuntary decision to use transpilers on people downstream, and everything suffers from that: "feature A breaks with transpiler B 1.2.3," but because end users simply don't use them, and thus don't file bugs, devs don't know that either.
What are your thoughts on abortion
That is completely antithetical to my experience as mail server operator and someone who gets a lot of spam.

Nearly 100% of spam is plaintext, a small fraction uses badly designed HTML that barely displays in the client.
Even if those 29 million weekly downloads were all automated it would still imply 29 million users have setup automated jobs for building software with Babel.
> we settled on $11,000 per month

I think I spot the problem.
> Unless I was flush with cash, I probably wouldn't donate from company funds if I were an entrepreneur.

I specifically budget a small amount (~$100/mo) of company cash for this purpose. Some of it's donated to OSS, and some if it goes to pay for low-cost freemium products where we don't necessarily need the premium features but want to support the team[1].

I stole this idea from someone else so I know I'm not the only one, but more entrepreneurs really should do it.

1. https://mailsac.com/ is a good example where our usage would fit fine in the free tier but we subscribe anyway.
Your boss is not your end user. The way your boss interacts with the emails you send is not the way your end users do. Optimising for your boss is not how this channel should work, though I appreciate there are a lot of bosses out there who don’t understand this.
You have been able to buy ARM windows/ Linux/chromeos devices for years now. What makes this one more important?

Neither this or M1 are market leder in raw performance or power efficiency either.
Here are some disease names that are still frequently found on death certificates such as malaria fever, yellow fever, dengue fever, bloody stools and many more
While I agree with your general point, I still think crowd sourcing open source projects is still doable. All we need is to centralize it.

I work for a very small startup that uses hundreds of big or small open source projects. And we never pay a penny for any of them.

And I don't think I can go to my boss and ask for a meaningful contributions to any of these. We are not profitable and there's no reward for that contribution.

However, if there was a way for me to subscribe to micro payments for a few projects, given some easy trivial incentive, we definitely would've.

I can easily subscribe to $5/m payments to like 5-10 projects that we use. Would've meant nothing for us. But economics of scale would've kicked in for them.

Allow $1-10 monthly subscriptions, give the backers a badge or something they can use when hiring. Maybe show a badge next to their usernames on github or whatever. Maybe show a badge to the issues the backers create so they get a sense of priority. slowly you can build a small habit of people/companies subscribing small amounts to projects they use.

If there was such small incentives I would've immediately subscribed $5/m to following project:

* Nodejs

* Postgres

* Node-Pg

* Rabbit MQ

* Grapesjs

* Esbuild

* Webpack (Which I badly need to improve it's killing us
everyday)

* Dokku

* Metabase

* MJML

It's in my company's benefit for each of these to survive/thrive and keep improving. I am afraid that once/if some of them stop that'll hurt us. $5/m and potentially getting some attention from maintainers (in smaller ones) if we had issues would be enough of an incentive for these all.

The incentives I suggest:

* Badges on Issue tracking on the issues created by backers

* Badges next to usernames on Slack/Discord/Irc/Whatever

* Badges on Github profiles for backers

An example: Docker. They started rate limiting their free tier, asking for $5/m. I don't care about the $5/m at all. My biggest problem with that change was not the $5/m, but the time I had to spend on our different tools setting up auth environment variables.
I might be biased since I don’t have a CS degree, but I consider having a degree in the humanities a potentially more positive signal than a typical CS degree. It could indicate that the candidate is able to learn programming and software development on their own, and are interested in the field enough to “switch” careers despite being in an apparent disadvantage.

In contrast when you screen resumes you invariably come across people who apparently managed to get a CS degree without learning anything. They won’t be dissuaded from applying to technical positions but if one doesn’t have a CS or related technical degree they probably have some confidence in their own ability.

There’s also a factor where some employers simply pass on resumes if the candidate does not meet strict degree requirements. This also increases the average quality of the non-CS degree holder a bit.
Wouldn't say that is entirely true. Germans prefer HTML mail that amounts to simple rich text, ie bold and italic fonts, possibly some color highlighting if you're really daring. Pure plaintext isn't that well appreciated.
> Elon also said

A man who uses his celebrity status to pump cryptocurrencies in order to enrich himself and the companies he owns has no moral standards and no credibility.
So, $9,000 ($9,450 per autotrader) in 1990 is roughly $18,000 ($19,000) in today’s dollars by most inflation calculators. (I realize we are skirting dangerously close to tautological money value conversations here, but having lived and paid for things in both years, double seems close. Maybe a little under-reported, actually.)

So, if someone put a new car on the market for $18,000 with the (lack) of features of the 1990 ford mustang, the poor reliability, louder interior noise, no bluetooth, dim/unsafe headlights, it wouldn’t sell. It wouldn’t sell because you can easily purchase a used 2015 Ford Mustang in good condition for this price. Approximately 0% of buyers would prefer a 1990 mustang to a 2015 mustang.

Cars have added an incredible amount of value staying at or near their inflation-adjusted prices in the last 30 years. wireless audio, navigation, safety features, performance / efficiency tradeoffs, reliability are all miles better.

Combine these features with very low interest rates and increased interest in financing, and actual prices are similar-to-better today on a monthly basis.

A new 5 liter mustang costs maybe like $36k right now. Average mortgage rate in 1990 was 10% (!). Assuming car loans were 12%, then a 5 year financing of a $9,500 car would have been $211 per month in 1990 dollars, or $422/month in today’s dollars. New mustangs can be leased for as little as $300/month, purchased for $400-650/month.

So, these prices are not wildly out of line with 1990s era prices. And, maintenance costs are vastly lower as well. All that to say, Tata motors is doing less well than tesla, toyota or ford, and I think that’s likely to continue.
What you're describing is the "real" Internet, which peaked somewhere around 2007. Everything was pushed about as far as it could be in that direction.

The problem was (almost) no one was making money off it. Online advertising, as it was originally done, was a joke. Most of the early internet was based on ideals of quality, community, and freedom. None of these make much money.

So people started hunting for what DID make money, and they discovered data harvesting and targeted advertising. And like a cancer, that unholy pair devoured most of the web. Information really WAS power, like all those breathless articles and hacker manifestos in the 90s said. Power and MONEY. And the new masters of this realm have dedicated themselves to taking as much of YOUR information as possible. They need it, like Elizabeth Báthory would have needed the blood of virgins if she was an actual vampire and not just insane.
I wrote a file sharing utility that works in the browser. If I want increased personal automation I put it into that tool. For something like convert a string to all caps open the browser developer tools and simply:

myString.toUppercase()
Estate in arrivo, cosa mangiare per mantenerci freschi
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics worked on studying systems where the tragedy of the commons does not hold and determining under which conditions[1] such arrangements do work. Adopting open source to that system seems like a very difficult task to me though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Design_principle...
> Though you are technically correct, I just don't think this is a constructive attitude.

I’ve worked in email for a decade, you do what you can with the tools you've been given. An email will never look perfect everywhere and while I agree with the general sentiment you’re talking about regarding folks learning proper email code rather than relying on tools, I also think the quality of emails sent is substantially higher now thanks to those tools.
You already so many MLM companies, why would you think that it is the only one? Also, insurance edge risks. Πhat's why you take it. A better way is a mutual (is that the english word?), but it is too much communism for America!
Unless you have a background in immunology the sources are probably not terrible useful to you.
All @timecobot notifications disappear after a few seconds and do not clog up the general chat
From what I have read, the antibodies are usually the least robust part of the response system.

The real immunity comes from the T cells which will create new antibodies when needed, and may adjust those to variations in the strain.
Have the government bail them out by buying them out, then collectivize the company.

If your company is too big to fail, maybe it shouldn't be controlled by profit-optimizing external shareholders and reckless directors. If it isn't too big to fail and can't get a loan the usual way to pay for the ransom (or better: data recovery), just let it go bankrupt like any other company making a costly mistake.
yes, or do you think a poor person who has no choice other than to rent in such a location has the same rights as others in modern America?
because now you have to sort out 'real' knowledgeable authors from this carpet bagging

I don't believe that's difficult. You can almost always differentiate real books from the grift-type ebooks by looking at them by publisher. Big difference between serious non-fiction publishers and print on demand titles.
So it will emergency break on the highway if something flies in front of the car? Sounds dangerous and unlikely.
>Politicians will never win votes by promising to reduce govt debt.

So, in other words, the only way to govern is through demagogy ... what a terribly cynical view of the world.

I also believe it's historically inaccurate. I know of at least two countries for which it is: Singapore and Switzerland.
The tooling behind the approach has been built as a set of python package named Mara. It is available at GitHub:

https://github.com/mara/mara-pipelines

And additional packages can be found at the Mara org:

https://github.com/mara
Rome, which is founded by the creator of Babel, just raised $4.5m - so either the current maintainers of Babel are not doing a good job fundraising or their work is not considered as interesting as these guys who are creating a new unified toolchain.
Vaccine refusal is more partisan than racial.[1]

[1] https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us04142021_uscd43.pdf#...
Fission is not anywhere near E=MC^2. That would be matter/antimatter annihilation.
Another way of looking at this scoreboard is as an approximate inverse ranking of webmail client security and leak vectors, with Gmail stripping far more dangerous elements than most webmail clients.

This is actually a great tool to find vulnerabilities in various webmail clients such as ProtonMail and Hey, just compare the HTML or CSS features they do not yet filter compared to Gmail, then do a search for "[feature] + exploit" to see how a feature could be abused, and then submit a bounty report.

For example, there are alot of good reasons that you may not want your webmail rendering SVG images (mXSS, appcache poisoning) or allowing CSS variables or imports.

And I'm pretty sure the list supported by Gmail could also be narrowed down further. There are some fantastic bounties lurking in here, just waiting to be discovered.
PortableApps makes this especially easy. Nothing ever touches your main system files, each instance of the browser is quarantined to its own folder.
This is on point and similar to my experiences in game companies.

That said, I'm in music/audio, and from my side of the fence there seemed to be a sort of higher respect from management for programmers (and to a certain extent, art) in that they really tried to slowly ramp up their crunch and not keep it sustained for too long. In my experience, the truly crazy crunch tends to be borne by audio and QA.

Audio is hardcore, Naughty Dog being the most hardcore (but they wear this as a badge of honor and everyone who works there knows it before going in).
So with a nuclear fission reactor NASA could make an immortal space probe!
It's very sad that this isn't a project.
Eh, in some markets trademark genericisation would mean that someone searching [BrandName] might genuinely be looking for any product that fills roughly the same function. If I google "Blu Tack" I don't care if I get the stuff made by Bostik, and I don't even know what the generic term for that product __is__.

Maybe you could argue "well, that's the reward [Brand] gets from insanely successful organic marketing and/or being first to market", which I suppose has some merit, but I don't think it's inherently unethical to market at brands in that context.
It's a nice initiative to burn BNB as an Individual can't do all it alone.

It also motivates to invite new people into the network with its referral scheme/chain
I think it's pretty good deal
Facebook and Twitter are implementing features that warn you when you're about to share an article sight unseen. HN should do the same if you're about to comment without having skimmed the article.
Seems like its actually worse then what I read. Basically says they would be screwed if they had to deal with a battery fire on a highway.
> There is no other way to run the world today under democratic regimes. Politicians will never win votes by promising to reduce govt debt

That's not true. Macron in France was elected ( was second in the first round, and against the far-right candidate, which was profoundly terrible and got destroyed in the big debate, in the second round, where everyone flocked to him to avoid the other winning; so take "winning" with a grain of salt, although his party did win 50+ in the parliamentary elections a month after the presidential ones) on a platform of reform to make business easier, stabilising the budget, cutting unnecessary or overextended government expenditures, privatising some government-owned enterprises and investing the leftovers ( without a deficit) at improving the economy, work prospects for young people, startups, key industries, etc. Considering his work history in banking, then an advisor to the previous president, and later financial minister, doing roughly the same things, it wasn't just empty talking.

Of course that went away when the pandemic hit, and he said multiple times, and i quote, "whatever it costs". It would have been fundamentally stupid on his part not to go back on his platform and leave everything go bankrupt and broke.
Our economic systems weren’t invented. They’re all hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks. Every economic theorist of note is well aware of that and they always have been. Everyone who has tried to build a new complex system from scratch has failed. Usually they’ve failed completely but occasionally they’ve gotten something functional at the end, but not what they designed.

I’m reasonably confident every economist knows people give stuff away for free but it’s certainly been true since Adam Smith, whose Theory of the Moral Sentiments is chock full of psychological and philosophical insight.
First sale is only for consumers right? I mean it wouldn’t apply if you’re doing it multiple times for profit.

Honest question, I really don’t know
Plugging, my own site, https://calcula.tech. It's not meant to compete with something like Atlas but I like to think it's great for napkin math, even though it's still quite early in development.
Neither are empires.
> Yeah, I don't think anybody looks at cover letters

Oh, you should see the negative responses I got when I posted that the last time on HN. Some people are absolutely pro-cover letters.

One interesting theme in some of the responses, though was: "I always read cover letters if present, but it just occurred to me that I disqualify candidates based on the content of their cover letter, so in some cases those that didn't submit a cover letter are at an advantage." Essentially, the more you talk, the easier it is for people to rule you out.

So a cover letter could give you an advantage over those who don't supply one, but it also could disadvantage you. On the whole, I take it as a net neutral at best, and so why spend the time?