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Ask HN: Got zoombombed in open-source contributor meeting, how to deal with it
I am a contributor to Open-Source software(Jina - an AI search framework) and I am annoyed with how some people make fun of the sheer hard work of open-source developers.

For the last 1 yr, we had made our contributors team meetings public(everyone could listen and participate during the meeting). And this is what happened in our last meeting - While we were sharing news about upcoming Jina 2.0 release in the zoom meeting, some loud racist music starts playing automatically and someone starts drawing a dck on the screen.

It was demotivating to say the least.
Building open-source project is challenging at multiple fronts other than the core technical challenges

- Understand what needs to be built

- Improve that continuously

- Help people understand the project

- Educate people about the domain

- Reach out people who might benefit from your
project

- Collaborate with other contributors

- Deal with issues/PRs

- Deal with outdated versions/docs

- Deal with different opinions

- Sometimes deal with jerks like the ones who zoombombed us

The list is long! Open-source is hard!
Open-source exists because of some good people out there like you/me who care about the open-source so deeply to invest their time and energy for a little good for everyone else. It exists because of communities like Hackernews where we can find the support and the motivation.

I wanted to vent out my negative experiences and wanted to say a big *Thank you* to you all open-source people, thanks to many(1.6k) contributors who made it possible for us to release [Jina 2.0](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/) .

I'd want to know your opinion, how do you deal with such unexpected events and how do you keep yourself motivated as an open-source developer?
It’s a medical facility.
That depends on the kit lens of then and the kit lens of now. There was a lot of variability then, and the same holds true today.

I bought a body only Canon M50 as a glovebox camera, and read the reviews of their 15-45 EF-M kit lens and thought that it couldn't be that bad. I bought a new one on Ebay for $50. It is horrible in every single aspect. I've had numerous 35MM kit lenses over the years, and the Canon leads the pack for pure trash factor. It essentially turns the camera into a toy camera.

The higher end kits from different manufacturers are ok, but those are regular lenses vs designed to be in a kit at the lowest possible price.

Canon and Nikon are going to be in real trouble unless they increase the quality of their cheaper wares and make software that works.
Some palates just aren’t as refined my friend
Interestingly the first wave of social media influencers started with porn videos and drug problems. It’s a flat circle.
Do not feed this troll.
How do they keep people out? The HOA wouldn't prevent someone from "buying in" would they? It's not that there is an interview process, is there?
I worked my way through college as an electronics assembly technician. So I got very good at soldering, and had no trouble at all with the Heathkits. I expect if someone used a cheapo iron, and didn't have someone show them how to solder correctly, they'd have major maddening unreliability issues.

P.S. one trick to save yourself lots of grief is, when done soldering the board, get a nice big magnifying glass. Before powering up the board, go over every joint with the glass. Look for any whiskers, bridges, crummy looking joints, wires too close together, etc. You'll be very glad you took the 5 minutes!
I've also heard that was an average, when at the time infant mortality was around 50%. https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past
Too complicated.
> FTP is no good. There are better protocols, such as HTTP, Gopher, Gemini, Plan9, etc. I had made up a file format for serving directory listings by HTTP (but I don't know how to configure Apache, or to write an extension for Apache, to be able to use it).

WebDAV is actually fine for this use case and supported everywhere (e.g. you can enable WebDAV for a certain directory in Apache, map it as a network drive in Windows, and everything will just work).
Have you heard of selection bias?
> She attributed the mess to one Medici in particular, Alessandro Medici, a ruler of Florence, whose assassinated corpse had apparently been buried in the tomb without being properly eviscerated. Over the centuries, he seeped into Michelangelo’s marble, the chapel’s experts said, creating deep stains, button-shaped deformations

That paragraph could be out of a Rome-themed Lovecraft short story...
I'm a millennial and didn't really have social media growing up. I used Facebook for a little bit in college and then deleted it. It bothered me in my 20s that a lot of social things seemed to be closed to me because I didn't have some form of social media. Even though I had email and text I was somehow treated as if I was asking to be contacted on a fax machine or something like that. It's baffling.

Every time I've even gotten a little bit closer to joining some online community, let alone social media, my anxiety spirals and I have severe mental health symptoms. For my own good and my disinterest I keep off of it for now. Honestly HN is as far as I push those limits!

I can't imagine how this could have been though if social media was a constant throughout my childhood and middle school. It was hard enough dealing with the social fallout in my 20s but I felt like I at least had some degree of choice and control and I feel if I had taken it for granted when I was younger I would have had really severe symptoms growing up probably leading to hospitalization.

Obviously the influencers in that article aren't like me in that regard but I was shocked by the 54% of younger people wanting to make money being an influencer comment, wow! And I do think there's a serious exploitative/mental health factor that's not being addressed here. I wonder how this is going to turn out for those kids later in life. I just can't imagine being under the spotlight and dependent on external validation that much.
I'm very sorry I gave away my H11. (sob)
I’m always skeptical when I hear claims that enterprise software can magically be made significantly better. The fact is that an enterprise is a messy beast that defies comprehension, and the software is just a reflection of that reality.
>There's also an HOA neighborhood near me. Boring as fuck.

HOA neighborhoods is an extension of the phenomenon of paving everything. HOA neighborhoods look like someone paved over everyone's soul.

I think a big problem is that one single thing is paramount in housing: selling the house later for a profit. People get this idea that because their property value fluctuates that you owe them something. Everyone must sanitize every aspect of their lives lest some random stranger get a whiff of it. I can't wait til all this horse shit resolves itself and all these people who treat housing like the stock market are underwater and signing divorce papers.
I don't think that writing a native app using Electron qualifies it as a web app. VSCode is not normally used from the browser, it is downloaded and used more or less fully disconnected from the MS infrastructure you used to download it (give or take some plugin updates).
To be fair you are the one claiming special exemptions and lack of accountability for the police. Maybe you can share some more details on why you think it should be like that, so that we can better understand.
> And instead of creating documents — a sort of heavyweight work product — a lot of what we work with on our computers now are fragments: URLs and meme gifs that we copy paste between windows or chats, a PDF that we download to print out or fill in and email. Data that we copy from one spreadsheet to another. Photos from the phone that we crop so we can upload somewhere else. Video clips of toddler nieces doing something cute.

So this reminds me an awful lot of Apple's OpenDoc initiative from the late '90s. Such a shame Jobs pulled the plug on it when he returned.

It also reminded me a bit of Microsoft and KDE doing stuff with COM/OLE and KParts/KIO, though OpenDoc always came off as way more ambitious than those.
ECMA-234 Application Programming Interface for Windows (APIW) (1995)
Switching costs are very high, so the bar for keeping customers just happy enough to not switch is very low.

In addition, the people buying the software are often not the ones using it, so optimizing end-user satisfaction is not a priority.

In other words, it's software that's built to be sold, not to be used.
Of note: https://shop.heathkit.com/shop/product/most-reliable-clocktm...

On a lark ordered one. It's not the most _accurate_ clock, but rather the most _reliable_. Either way, seems like a fun weekend project!

Thanks for the push to lookup heathkit again (though this appears to be a reboot).
I recently bought a sony a7r IV, expecting the phone integration to be much better than my 5 year old Fuji X-T2, and both are unbelievably slow and painful to connect and download photos. It's such an outdated and bad experience, and the apps are glitchy and connections fail the first 2-3 times.
Unfortunately not. The premise of that book would be an interesting contemporary article, though: the anxiety of needing to differentiate yourself as an influencer while inevitably being influenced by other influencers.
I can't really remember the last time I sweated though, even though I do cycle 30-40 mins a day depending on the season.
The issue is firmly with stakeholders. Complex business practices, needs, and processes yield complex system(s) to support them. Simplify your business process and practices, and you’ll have a simpler system.
Twitter given three weeks to comply with Indian content code
I've also read that while the IJN was quite good at carrier aviation, their lack of long-term experience fighting naval battles and focus on the offensive led to a severe deficit in damage control and efforts to reduce e.g. the risk and severity of fires from being hit, both in operation and at the design stage.
Good story but for some reason has a distinctive...LinkedIn story vibe. I can't put my finger on it.
I think it's in part because enterprise systems are often cobbled together from a bunch of different tools usually, with a bespoke interface on top.

Everyone, every org every human of every size & shape could benefit vastly from better general systems research. Rather than endless applications, we ought be trying to pool our efforts to develop direct manipulable systems that can underpin many apps, & have apps serve as a set of schemas & supplementary (concatenative) tools for the common baseline interface.

instead we're endless mazes of twisty little bespoke passages, all unlike. our knowledge/learnings never ports between systems. we keep trying to build worlds but each time, we over specialize & miss the fundamental reverberations & interaction mechanisms.

platforms like Tim Berner-Lee's Solid propose a common data system. I don't think there's quite enough appreciation for processing & manipulation to make a real threat to enterpriseality, but it's striving for generalicity is well worth paying attention to, trying to find next from.
I shoot mostly around the house (kids), and the Sony FTP transfer feature is a godsend. Images get uploaded to my NAS over my wifi as I’m shooting, and subsequently filed away under dated folders and synced to Photostructure and NextCloud by a small shell script using inotifywait.
what you are saying is just not true. France gave up any claim to Vietnam in 1954. The US involvement was to attempt to stem the spread of communism, not to help the French.
APC makes multiple lines of devices. The lower-end devices are not so great. But the SmartUPS line is solid. No fans or noise of any sort, unless the power is off and you’re draining the battery.

And if you’re draining the battery, then you should pay attention to all that noise and be in the process of shutting everything down safely, so that you can survive whatever caused the power outage in the first place.

The point of a UPS isn’t that you keep running for days regardless of the fact you’ve lost power, it’s that when the power does go out you don’t lose all your work, and you’ve got a few precious minutes to shut everything down safely.

If you don’t use a piece of equipment the way it was designed to be used, then that is all on you, and not the equipment that you are failing to use correctly.

Note that APC is owned by Schneider, a company that specializes in making the really big UPSes of the sort they go into data centers and are used to provide short term power for entire buildings. They know what they’re doing.
How effective are police at stopping crime? Do we have any evidence that giving the extraordinary rights to regular run of the mill law enforcement makes a difference?

I'm not talking about federal agents working on large cases, but the city and county police who often can't be bothered to show up in person to take reports of robberies or assault.

How effective are those officers at using GPS trackers, drones, MRAPs, and other extraordinary equipment to stop crime? If I had to hazard a Gus's it would be not at all.
Why can't they get an id?
Huh? How does sign-in work for people with duplicate ID’s?
And reproducibility goes straight out the window. And how do you even interop this with kubernetes?
Generates high-quality images from text prompts with the 'unreal engine trick'
I've spent a couple years working on B2B Enterprise SaaS. So, why do these systems suck? These systems are made in environments that simply are not conducive to approach software development in a healthy way. From my experience it's a combo of: bad technical leadership, too many cooks in the kitchen, a lack of knowledge sharing, and a lack of alignment.

Bad technical leadership: Basically, everything's a free-for-all. Teams are unbounded to do whatever they want. You end up with a Frankenstein technology stack. Technical debt grows, nobody does anything about it, and slows down your ability to quickly pivot over time. New execs join and are flabbergasted when they can't fix everything in a quarter due to the lack of adequate process instituted in healthier software organizations.

Too many cooks in the kitchen: The lack of standards means re-implementations of product features numerous times, in different technologies, with no awareness across silos.

Lack of knowledge sharing: often times there's supposed to be cross-cutting features that would impact every microservice (eg: multi-tenancy) and you'll have one microservice team implement support, and another one won't. Inevitably, someone will eventually notice and you end up with a support ticket.

Lack of alignment: One part of Product thinks the multi-tenancy feature really isn't that important, but the other does. They lead their engineers to skip that feature.
AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC
It’s not a question I would have thought to ask but if it is primarily basic necessities such as toothpaste, soap, and food items it might help suss out that the high cost of living which has exacerbated homelessness has left many unable to afford to live.

On the other hand, if it’s primarily cough syrup, mixers for alcohol, alcohol, etc it might point towards the addiction element of San Francisco’s impoverished as being the primary factor.

And I’m sure you could, at the very least, postulate on other possibilities. Whether or not the any particular theory holds water may be another matter.
FWIW, as a younger person, I have started to see friends (and myself) shift away from influencer culture as it becomes apparent it's unhealthy. When you see so many influencers quit due to mental health, it starts to add up. My perspective is likely skewed by the social groups I tend towards, but the cycle of influencer culture is so short-lived a lot of us do start to catch on.
That's not effective at all.
Sure, there’s a camera manufacturer involved in making cell phone cameras. What you’re missing is only the small matter of inherent physical advantages of larger sensors and lenses.
> But you may be talking about the ethics of it. We'd have to define what we mean by ethics before really diving into that, but consider - if they were to ask permission, even if everyone involved in creating the game, even if the CEO of the company, were all on board letting them translate it...the lawyers likely wouldn't be. Actually, the lawyers might WANT to say yes, too, but feel it their legal duty to say no - "If we give them the okay others might etc etc and it would weaken future cases in court and etc etc". And based on that the company would say no, even though -everyone involved- there wants to say yes.

I'm talking about the ethics. I think when you're doing something with someone else's creative work, you have to give someone an opportunity to say no. And while it's possible they may want to say yes but not be in a position to do so (for whatever reason), that's ultimately their problem; not asking them because you think they would say no but secretly mean yes is... icky reasoning to say the least.
>Even analytic beliefs are things you believe because you experienced arriving at them?

What about scientific beliefs? Only a handful of people can really understand (or to align with your phrasing, _experience_ understanding) all the evidence there is to support the Big Bang theory. Yet, a much larger number accepts it.

And lemmas? I'm sure there are some lemmas I just use in proofs but have never proved from the first principles.
Read the citation you gave sensing the direct contradiction with the article and the 300M C (over 25KeV) is the reported peak (from the article, "up to" 300M C) while the "stable plasma" at an unspecified temperature was sustained for 70s.

The OP cites KSTAR as having the previous record but at a lower temp. It also says "100M C for 20 seconds" so I'm assuming the 70s number refers to a temperature graph that had some temperature but they had a bump that exceeded 100M C for a width of 20s in the overall time of 70s.
It would be quite a perversion of utilitarianism to say "utility is defined as the pleasure experienced by white people". Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, advocated for animal welfare because utility is about experiences of sentient beings (which animals are).

It is true there are preference utilitarians and various other flavors, but I don't think cutting out animals outside of one's moral circle of concern can really be justified under utilitarianism.
said in another context, which talked about "dumping waste heat" -Surely the whole point of fusion is to extract useful energy, and unless I'm missing some MHD path, the energy it is going to emit we can use is heat energy: these things will drive turbines. Right?

So this "x MW for y seconds" thing needs to be come "z MW sustained forever" if we're going to extract usable energy, to heat steam, to drive turbines.

I mean sure: you can run an awesome laser off an explosion. Its no way to light your room up to read a book.
> I wonder how this is going to turn out for those kids later in life. I just can't imagine being under the spotlight and dependent on external validation that much.

It’s not just millennial who deal with this. LinkedIn is becoming inescapable… not to mention any advocacy for a “platform” as part of a resume
The author is setting up a case for a form of logic programming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming

But honestly that's not going to cut it. The Enterprise is the issue. The software is a physical manifestation of the dysfunctionality of the underlying organization.

It's a symptom not a cause. Glorious tools will at best more elegantly generate similar headaches.
An up-to-date objective AV1 benchmark
Yea. I think so. But, I think people who are stuck in 64 bits forget about 128 bit digit strings being common now.

I am more wrong than right: if you can point to a written spec saying "be not astonished" then POLA doesn't apply. And you did.
One interesting thing about enterprise systems is that you actually have to find out what the client needs. First and foremost to be able to continue running a business, which may be quite complex, with moving parts that can't easily be taken offline while they are overhauled.

In contrast, the vast bulk of software addresses a perceived need -- perhaps as perceived by one individual. The "need" is a hypothetical that is then tested in the market. It then becomes wanted or needed through its adoption. Most non enterprise software can also apply the 80/20 rule and implement features incrementally if at all.

I think this isn't just true for enterprise software, but for software used for disciplines that have a lot of descriptive domain knowledge and arcane methods.
You aren't going to get a decent, fast prime for a few hundred dollars, much less an excellent one.

Apple's low light performance in their new phones is excellent, and they are making huge strides in every area with every generation. A minimum acceptable DLSR with an acceptable fast prime will cost $1k, which is also the cost of Apple's excellent pro iphone that will rival the quality of the former for the average user.
Absolutely! We have been doing so for the last 20 years. Reducing child mortality at the fastest rate in East Africa. Women education is one of our top achievement from those years. Urbanization and industrialization is the only thing that's coming slow.

Life is still not so expensive for the families (essentially men) are still having more babies than they can afford to nurture!

It's a pity to watch.
I believe the radar detected the objects reached speeds around 46000 miles per hour and based on rough estimation would need more power than ten times all of the United States nuclear power to achieve those speeds at an estimated weight of 1000kg. Page 3 bottom paragraph, source: https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/proceedings/proceedings-33...

Considering the fastest known human aircraft currently holds speeds ~7000 mph this is either insanely advanced technology, equipment malfunction, or aliens.