skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't own the open source software you write, so you don't have the right to make demands of its users beyond what the license stipulates. That companies can make billions with your software and not owe you so much as a cup of coffee is not the dark side of open source, it's an expression of the same freedom that allows you to fork and reuse any FOSS software under the same terms.

If you want to require payment from anyone who uses your software, use a proprietary license and charge money. The "fair share of revenue" in free for free and open source software is correctly "zero."
TL;DR: "In conclusion, individuals who have laboratory-confirmed symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection
are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who
have not been infected before."
Hmm, not really. See, for example, Clash, a Haskell compiler for synthesising hardware circuits, or Cardano, a massively distributed software system realising a cryptocurrency.
Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers
The exact same restrictions on free speech disproportionately impact black activist groups who might not have the same corporate backing as many right wing think tanks or organisations.

The only thing restrictions on free speech incentivise is conformity to the ruling party's policies and there is an implicit assumption here that the democratic parties values are really the correct ones - which many people of colour will dispute.

The moment the Republicans take over (which they will inevitably considering how few campaign promises Biden has so far delivered), they will turn this on groups like BLM and the Antifa movement in general.
Axiomatization up to a unique isomorphism is the way out of the circularity.

Actors have been automatized up to a unique isomorphism.

See the following:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

* https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003
Do you provide her with a form 1099 at the end of the year?
I think you're right, but also the developers you speak of are on inflated salaries, brought about by their proximity and similarity to people who do need to value efficiency and cleverness. Run of the mill software developer won't be a good job in a few years once employers realise this.
I see how my wording horrifyingly misrepresented the meaning. I only mean the resulting supply issues. Not the actual flood.
How about the insane entitlement that many devs have when it comes to open source? Getting bombarded with requests and angry emails from people who demand free support and bug fixes can burn anyone out.

I think Github can be a positive force for change here. Redesign the UI to encourage donations, to encourage people to get involved in project work, to write less hostile issues, etc. If devs and designers can weaponize UI to create addiction, anxiety and FOMO, maybe we can use the same tools for good for once.
> It follows, therefore, that economists are stupid and couldn't possibly think of everything they did.

There are times when perspectives from the outside should be considered and be given the dignity of a credible response. Even though that appears to be happening more often now that a microscopic virus has thrust a grand social experiment upon us, it has been all too rare in the past. It is also worth noting that software engineers are far from the only ones going unheard when speaking up. Many outside the discipline have done so when the reality of economics didn't reflect their reality.
Lessons we learned after raising $6.3M from 50 investors
The point of open source is people can use it freely. A better project, which hits the right spots will naturally attract financial and technical support, both from the companies and the community. It is really just a free market, where the best projects survive.
I make an effort to not say "I am X" but "I prefer X". I think it helps me automate decisions as pointed out above (I just have coffee in the morn) but does not make it sound or feel like any weighty major life decision, and therefore might make me feel slightly less predetermined (on occasion I might prefer tea!). Similarly, a younger me considered myself smart, now I prefer to think of myself as someone who is pretty good at using logic. Being able to say: "you can too!" seems more productive than saying "you're dumb and just don't get it". It has also lead to succesfully questioning some of my own preconceptions (why would I exclude myself from logical analysis?), while being criticized for 'being smart(ass)' feels more like an attack.
Goddard was not publicly funded.

The Langley prototype fell into the Potomac like a sack of wet cement, and cost 20 times in government funding what the Wrights spent on their entire R+D program. Langley clearly had not solved any of the problems necessary for controlled, powered flight.
> Democracies ensure that - politicians will act to ensure the interest of their supporters.

Will they? I think they are more like adults promising sweets for breakfast to children if they behave (vote). Not really in their interest if you think about it.
501 and 206 are really disturbing.
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Simple price anchoring mixed with entitlement, I'd say. Not unique to business owners at all, but extra aggravating when it's an employer.
Google fined €220m by French competition watchdog over online advertising market
I was assuming that at minimum the forms would be fully macroexpanded first (though macrolet is its own problem there). I also have the sense this might be easier in some Scheme dialects, but I don't know any of them well enough to say (thus that's part of my question).
> [This] form of self-hate projection is a well-known problem for abusive parents/teachers, but damn I never knew it was a problem for adults.

... I mean, I kind of get the point you're making, but the way you formulated it contradicts itself.
It's a sliding scale. There's better and worse, but no-one's making open software systems which are generally available to be evaluated, updated and fixed, and the hardware side isn't much better.

Sure, a Kubota, Belarus, or JCB is better than a Massey or John Deere, but none are as good as they should be.
You have entirely misunderstood me.
The most objective measure of "greatness" we have is money, which comes from people who think something is great and are willing to pay for it.

Sometimes this works well: for example, pretty much everybody thinks Toy Story is a great movie, and Lasseter and Pixar were rewarded handsomely for it. Sometimes it doesn't work so well: for example, Wall Street thinks money is great, so they spend a lot of time and energy figuring out ways to extract more money from people.
Agreed, I would never write such a message. I have zero responsibility toward the users of my open source code, and my license does reflect that fact, unless they pay me.

You're not satisfied with my open source work? Fork and fix it. You can't fix it? Hire somebody who can. You don't have the money to hire somebody who can? Then find other users, do a fundraiser and hire somebody who can fix the code.

This culture of entitlement has gone way too far. Some companies make billions out of some open source project yet never contribute a cent or a man hour back yet you still find engineers from these companies complaining on github issues that bugs aren't resolved quickly enough.

I say this, this might be the golden age of open source now but it's not going to last. Users have become too petty and entitled.
Healthcare costs would be in a better place were it not tired to employment. The problem right now is institutional/cultural momentum, bad leglistlation and how most of the high value customers are already locked down & better milked by the status quo.
In fact, the pattern is that people don't want to spend a lot of money upfront and companies like sustained income.

So given the choice between a $50k tractor which cannot be repaired unless you pay a lot of money and an easy to repair $100k tractor, both farmers and manufacturers will chose the first option. Of course, farmers want an easy to repair $50k tractor, but manufacturers have to make money. And manufacturers want to sell $100k expensive-to-maintain tractors, but competition won't let them.

The system we have now, with all its flaws, is one that suits people the most. We can make laws when the free market doesn't work, for example, we could make $50k unmaintainable tractors illegal, which I think would be great, but it will piss off farmers who will need to pay $100k for their tractors and it will piss off manufacturers who will lose their steady income.

> Imagine today's high-tech world, without the capitalist intellectual property system.

No need to imagine, we have China, and before that, we had USSR. Not perfect examples, especially for China, but these are the real world alternatives to capitalism.
Firefox is not light, but it works perfectly on my 6 year old system.

Midori, Nyxt, qutebrowser are relatively light
This is a good explanation of the famous Carl Schmitt quote, which I didn't found intuitive at first:

“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”
its a human nature to invent stories to justify ones behavior, it gives an illusion of control in ones life...

nah, most people given an _insert_whatever_amount_ per month as UBI would not come back to their job they are _so_excited_ about or _have_found_purpose_ of doing, it just needs a bit of self awareness and reflection to see that
Note the contradiction of big things and small part.

Importance isn’t the same thing as taking up a large fraction of your identity. Suppose you wrote an autobiography, the big stuff like age, religion, or sexual orientation are shared with millions of people. They have huge impacts, but the details are going to be stuff like past partners not simply repeating “I am Bi” for hundreds of pages.

Height is a great example, being 7’ tall, 4’, or even 5’ 10” all impact on every moment of your life. The language(s) you speak, the county you live in, having or not having every significant disease or disability. Education is another big one being a Dr. or a high school dropout again makes a huge difference but again isn’t on it’s own what separates you from everyone else.
A week from Friday could be any day? No?
Xiaohongshu social media account blocked after Tiananmen post
Full translated title: French Competition Authority fines Google €220 million for favouring its own services in online advertising (too long for HN)

The press release is in French, but they usually release an English translation in the following hours. I'll update this comment when they do.
Jane Street does this, traders contribute to code reviews by developers. Though at Jane Street a trader probably has a STEM degree from MIT.
The right of people not engaged in violence to survive police encounters is a natural/inalienable right and a right to healthcare are not similar classes of rights. The former is a "negative right", or liberty, from harm by others (the police), whereas the latter is a "positive right", or entitlement/privilege, to goods & services provided by others.

The Bill of Rights was primarily all about liberties / negative rights, whereas since the 20th century people have started talking about entitlements as rights, when they're not, because that entitlements ultimately must be provided by others (primarily through taxes, but also in constraints/mandates on the behavior of others, e.g., limitations on striking by police or other services, the requirement to register in the draft / Selective Service for men, & eminent domain). Government entitlements typically involve the involuntary actions and compelled behavior of people.
Ollie Robinson: England bowler suspended for historical tweets
OC72 transistor is almost as pricey as it was 60 years ago. I found one for 12.45€. I added loudspeaker to my crystal receiver 1965. Could be better long-term investment than some shitcoin.
Sorry, I don't follow what you mean. The accept header can specify mimetypes and negotiate what the response can look like. So maybe you could stretch it to say "I'm only accepting SHA256" somehow. That might improve the API, but then you're indicating to the API to return 404's more often since it won't be able to find files with that hash.

Maybe there are other things you could do instead though? I'm not sure.
I had a really painful experience with NPM where it was responding 418 and almost no extra info. I had not asked it for a NuGet package.
There's really something to be said for software that is so ruthlessly simple it runs forever without maintenance. Like most of what DJB has written: djbdns still works after all these years... And of course Knuth's TeX.

Maybe people shouldn't start software projects if there isn't a "can leave it here unmaintained" milestone within sight.
I just want to throw my 2¢ out there, as a mid-20's who went to a high-rural-population high school, there's an entire new generation of farmers who have a) accepted that Deere's need constant/regular service calls, and b) don't care to learn how to fix it (or older equipment) themselves. At the end of the day farming is just a business same as any other, it's the same reason why a lot of trucking companies lease their trucks or warehouses lease their forklifts, it's generally cheaper and less of a headache overall.

I've tried to make pleas with some of my old friends who've complained about the locked-down nature of their JD equipment, explaining that other companies like Kubota don't have that same limitation, but the branding is just too strong ("the Kubota might be cheaper to buy, and cheaper to run, and I can easily maintain it myself, but, it's not a John Deere" - actual quote from a SW Ontario farmer)
We've had a perverse incentive in place for fifteen months that encourages people not to work on the bottom end of the scale. Piled on top of all the other perverse incentives that discourage marginal workers from earning extra, unless it is significantly extra.
Google agrees to alter ad practices after France imposes fine
http.cat is surprisingly useful because of the short url. Typing in e.g. http.cat/422 beats any other method I know for quickly looking up status codes by number.
Old tractors are bringing top dollar at auctions (and have been for some time now). IMO, the same thing will happen with old cars/trucks some day. Now, they are mostly hobby cars for collectors and auto enthusiasts, but some day will be widely sought after due to more people wanting/needing to repair them.

Late 80s and early 90s Toyotas will be sold at a premium as will any/all old Ford F-150 trucks.
They want to be able to make adjustments, and fix mechanical issues without the whole thing shutting down and then having to take it to the one place in town that is allowed to touch the thing.

It’s one thing to say oh only the new stuff is locked down, but every part of the vehicle is, something that wasn’t the case a short while ago. In fact they’re digitizing controls and simple mechanical functionality that doesnt need to be digitized so they can abuse their maintenance monopoly.
> What do you think you're saying? The fact that a word has the same meaning in contemporary French that it does in contemporary English is not relevant to whether it had another meaning in the English of three hundred years ago.

It had that meaning a thousand years ago. Nah, 2000 years ago ("regula"). You're saying that it meant something for a millennium, started meaning something else, and then went back to the original meaning -- all in good time to support your opinion. How convenient. And without any evidence. The rest of what you quote supports my interpretation, not yours, which is just weird.
> Himeji has been serving checks in production for about a year and its throughput has scaled up from 0 in March 2020 to 850k entities / sec in March 2021, while maintaining its availability and latency targets over the last year

The architecture seems pretty complex but I guess it's warranted for this level of performance / uptime.
How do I install them on my nginx or Apache?
that is, in fact, the quality of discussion these days, unfortunately...
> If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

Something about this paragraph strikes me as very wrong, and I'll try to articulate why:

I would consider my values as part of my identity, and yet I'd like to think I can engage with someone else in a clear discussion that involves my values. I may have strong opinions about something, but that doesn't mean I'm unable to think clearly about it. I might even change my mind slightly about some thing or introduce nuance into an otherwise-strong opinion as a result of this discussion.

Furthermore, if values are part of one's identity, is Paul advocating that one should reduce one's set of values? This seems negative and possibly even dangerous.
I am using it as the backend for a custom database engine. Key-value is the foundation. When you can transact millions of them per second, it gets easy to try crazy new things on top.
> in particular don't want to pay for it

This is a complete misunderstanding of the problem, also, a false statement in most cases.

People would like to have the option to choose who, when, where and how repairs their stuff. If the only option is the manufacturer - even after the warranty period -, then that's called a monopoly and is guaranteed to result in lower standards and higher prices and reduced availability.

It is one thing to have such a problem with a laptop or a mobile, because those are relatively cheap items that are easy to replace. But if you have equipment that your livelihood depends on worth tens of thousands of dollars, then this is completely unacceptable.
A couple things. Your first statement appears to be circular, it doesn't answer the question of why an entity would want to invest their money on an uncertain venture when it would just be worth more doing nothing with it. Secondly, I'm not sure what the rest of the first paragraph is in aid of, it seems like you're stating that capital is useful which I don't think was ever in question.

Sure, the article never mentioned anything about deflationary currency, but you were responding to a comment that a deflationary currency would have issues that you seemed to respond in opposition to. If you don't have a stance on deflationary currency, what is your argument for or against?

On that note, I believe that bitcoin fits the definition of a deflationary currency, and having looked up 'stable' money supply haven't found a consensus on what that means. Could you explain how you define that?
Well... your second phrase seems perfect for that job.

(let me try it)

Could you/someone explain what's wrong with simply using the second phrase?

(To be fair, you probably meant that you wish one commonly used phrase wasn't doing both jobs, which I agree with completely.)
Material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity
The flipside to this, is that there is perhaps no longer an incentive to sell hardware with a limited lifespan.
>the claim is that there is no natural process that will result in the double argenine sequence.

I think the claim is that it is very unlikely to happen naturally, and the article makes it very clear. So I wonder why you assume that it claims "there is no natural process".

And the final suggestion of the article appears NOT to be that lab leak is the final conclusion, but only that it should be the leading hypothesis among the existing ones, if one goes by science and science alone.
An interesting parallel is how these similar issues are solved in other engineering domains. In civil engineering you have heavy regulation and accountability. If a building falls then the engineer is responsible and she could get a jail sentence. To prevent buildings from falling there are regulations around minimum requirements, audits, material quality, etc.

Regulation in software "does not exist" as the actual threat is minimal. If your program crashes then nobody dies ('m not talking about rockets). Therefore it always looks like security people always have temper tantrums as there is no meaningful quantifiable risk.

In our org we ended up asking pentesters to get into the systems instead of just giving us an automatically generated report that contains links to CVEs. If they cannot use existing risks to get into the system then that risk is trivial.
A lot of this guy's points are pure nonsense. We can't have a four day week because we need people to work 5 days to serve us coffee? I don't even want to waste my time typing the problems with that statement, there are just so many..
It's true what the author says. Not everybody can be Tim Ferriss or Robert Kiyosaki.

The question rather should be: If you were able to become, would you?

And also food for thought: Do you feel disgusted by lifestyle of the so called lifestyle entrepreneurs? I personally don't, but I sometimes feel it's not my thing. I respect the hard work ethic, as long they don't cheat.
El Salvador hopes to become the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
We do! They are:

- "You have overlooked this obvious thing, you idiot!", and
- "Could someone explain what's wrong with the naive solution?"
This is the same thing as when I get an email from Steam saying "Everything from your wish list is on sale!" and it turns out just to be the game called "Everything" (http://www.everything-game.com/).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Secession_Law
Correct. I can achieve multiple transactions per I/O. I do not believe this actually breaks any ACID properties. Reads and writes are serialized to a single thread for all processing.
> It takes stances on wedge issues by the sole fact that it eliminates any sources its editors do not agree with.||

> > The global warming and MMR vaccine articles are examples; I hardly need to dive into these pages, since it is quite enough to say that they endorse definite positions that scientific minorities reject.

I do not think either of these are examples of bias in Wikipedia. Especially for the MMR article, I am aware of no scientific minority that would take issue with the article. Both articles mention the existence of controversy about the topics. I think it would be hard to provide any unbiased information about actual wedge topics if this counts as biased.

I am not going to make any claim that Wikipedia is not biased, but I do not think it is possible for any encyclopedia to be unbiased to Larry Sanger's ideals without being decidedly leaning to the right.
I don’t think that really happens, anymore.

Twenty years ago, they would have done that, but these days, someone would just write a replacement from scratch (quite possibly, proprietary), or everyone would abandon it, along with their own projects that depend on it.

Most open-source (and closed-source) APIs and SDKs are “Swiss Army knife” projects, with many functions that serve many purposes. Most API consumers use only a subset of the interface, so “rolling their own” is not that intimidating.

I think with all the security problems that we’re seeing, these days, we may be headed for some agency/consortium that validates dependencies (with all the myriad problems, therein).

We may be seeing more “semi-proprietary” stuff, soon.

Not necessarily a bad thing, as I think that anyone that makes money on software should probably pay for it.
These write-ups are not very useful or interesting if they aren't publishing the code, or any research papers related to it. Not sure who the target audience is; very little to learn.
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