skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you cannot afford an attorney, look for a company that offers domain name insurance or a domain name warranty, if you have an issue like this with your domain name, your legal fees to defend the domain are covered.

I've never heard of that before and all I can find trying to search are sites about the `.insurance` TLD.

Anyone got any links to some examples?
Right? At my company you're actually required to use at least specific amount of PTO every year, like around 15 days I think.
Engineering is not about whether someone "can code", but whether someone can _engineer solutions to problems_. Has this person demonstrated that through the projects he chooses to put on display (and advertise as signal for his ability) on Github?

This is also what a lot of those engineering interviews are trying to ascertain, in a quantitative manner. I couldn't care less about someone's degrees or ivy league schools or Github projects (in isolation). These are all secondary -if that- considerations, problem solving ability being primary.
At the very least, it's unsustainable to maintainers as people, because many are burning out (I have no data, so this is an assumption).

As a result, it's also unsustainable to other coders because the OSS ecosystem grows replete with broken and stale code that is no longer maintained and which creates cognitive cost to ignore/prune.

Both might grow in a non-linear fashion, which would be really bad news.
If your -45 had core memory, the bootloader could be toggled in one then left in place for subsequent reboots after power off.
There should be a process for project planning other than "a manager was in a meeting and agreed to it." That process should not require people to show up in meetings.

This brings up my overall view that being technical can often make a manager take short term shortcuts. That works right until it no longer does and then you have a broken team and culture and processes. Not thinking technically means you are forced to implement good long term processes and not keep monkey patching things. For example, if the managers keeps making these decisions in meetings then senior engineers will wonder how they can have their voice heard except by going into management.
Open Source maintaining critical projects and not receiving funding is by design. It isn't right or good for the ecosystem but that's how it is.
Compressing Hegel: Why Intelligence Is Compression
Hmm.. I don't really have this problem. When I wake up, I definitely feel like time has passed, but I wonder if it's for different reasons than you're expecting.

For me, I usually will wake up once in the night, and fall back to sleep quickly. This adds to a sense of time. Also, waking up in the morning it's distinctly more cold, I feel distinctly more groggy, etc. I definitely get a sense that time has passed...

But if you're asking if I am ever aware that I'm sleeping and conscious of the minutes passing by? No, never. I fall asleep, time passes, I wake up (but, unlike you, I do feel like time passed...)
Isn't this something already accomplished by Sourcetrail (a FOSS tool!) with much better UX? It's unfortunate that it is now dying.
The church of Janco :).

I recently grabbed it and was surprised to read he was the one who coined the concept of “bilan carbone”. When that guy says nuclear is an option, green parties should really listen.
Show HN: CASA – Container administration made easy
The privacy advantage is not giving extensions access to what domains you are browsing. The extension declares a static list but doesn't know what did/did not match.

Because if the extension knows what URLs you're accessing, and can send that data somewhere, that's a major privacy concern.

So this makes sense and seems good for privacy. But if it breaks uBlock Origin significantly, that seems like a very bad thing.
Coding less. Building less. Trusting YAGNI but trying to build flexibly.

Discussing options more. Killing BS efforts earlier. Testing on paper, breadboarding.

Thinking more about things before I build them (see Rich Hickey’s Hammock-driven development talk)

Ultimately, slowing down and doing less.
I'd check the specifics of this very carefully with a domain specialist lawyer before making a counter offer, especially one involving setting a large price.

One way to make a very weak case that an already-registered domain is being used in "bad faith" against a trademarked entity a bit stronger is to argue that the owner of the domain made an unsolicited request to the trademark holder for payment...
You want to calculate the number of orbital intersections, and space them out to avoid collisions.
Contexts doesn’t really look maintained
That defintely seems best, especially if underground any, but the footage shows a lot of shredded solid brick walls (footage from the Kentucky one, not the Illinois):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMAmxP5cgs

Cinder-block with metal reinforcement is a level beyond brick though.
From the link you posted:

> After discussing this with several content blocking extension developers, we have decided to implement DNR and continue maintaining support for blocking webRequest.

They're adopting v3 but not removing this critical use-case.
Thanks, I am getting the sense that the price floor for these features is relatively high. That's why I'm thinking it will be cheaper to buy several bluetooth-enabled mini-receivers. Only one of my rooms has five speakers to drive; the rest have just one or two. I'm not looking for super great sound (I don't even know what kind of speakers they are) — I just want to be able to send sound to different rooms from my phone.
Same here, no vertigo before in my life - had it for both doses, longer the second time, still not 100% recovered. I even voluntarily filled in my info on the Pfizer side-effects page, but didn't hear anything back. Did you manage to find out what exactly goes wrong with the inner ear after the vaccine?

Still, regarding the study, it appears that taking the booster would be the better choice, considering most of us will catch the omicron variant at some point.
The addition of (from COVID) in the title actually made is mean something different than what the details say--I interpreted the revised title to mean 'masks worn protect against getting COVID', as 'from' indicates a direction, where all our data has historically been protects against transmitting it.

Discussions about masks in headlines in this period is implicitly COVID-specific or related without having to say from/to/or-anything-else.
> The US Navy has never had a major nuclear accident for a reason.

The Air Force, on the other hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
Open source software is free to take is a practical measure as much as anything. It's because having the left-pad package surrounded by a paywall would suck, and would create all kinds of weird incentives to mess with both the software and the ecosystem. And we absolutely want an ecosystem where one person makes left-pad, and someone else builds on top of that and in the end you have React, or whatever, and that doesn't work if everything is an app store.

We (programmers) need to explain this to the money people somehow. No company I've worked for in my 10-year career would have been able to exist without open source. They would have had no product. If you're extracting significant value from this ecosystem, you should help fund it, even though there isn't a toll booth on the way in.
Israel is effectively forcing everyone to be at the 4th booster by now.

Guess how things are looking? Ready to take the 5th booster shortly.

Lol, “never again” and Nuremberg code are just words easily forgotten.
Was anyone under the illusion no one died when the tornado reduced half the building to scrap? I'm still not sure what the purpose is. If someone actually affected or connected to someone affected comes here and shares, that's different. Otherwise, it's not clear who it's for. "Performative" is overused by jerks who think everyone is as cynical and calculating as they are, but this seems to be a rare case where it actually applies. I don't see the purpose in this action you suggest. It seems like you went off on /u/voidfunc for no good reason.
>But! Maintainers need to be legible to the big company department that approves and processes those invoices.

I imagine this could be a hard sell to people who just want to build some cool software and maintain it. Setting up an account, okay, that may be possible, but that's not the end of it. Companies pay invoices FOR something. That something means contracts, potentially about substantial sums, that means getting legal support to navigate said contracts & obligations.
IANAL but I am an internet plumber. Happy to provide expert witness that e.g. Hover, owned by Tucows, has a toggle for whois in their domain admin dashboard but it does nothing: I cannot turn whois on even if I want to.

Having, or publishing, an email address does not mean I care to, choose to, or will in fact receive email sent by you; or that I will display or treat it in the fashion you desire.
Just a side not but I love the styling and writing style! It was a pleasure to read.
Demo: https://knrdl.github.io/casa/
It's hard to build most buildings to handle a big tornado. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Hospital_Joplin is a concrete hospital that took a direct hit, the building is standing but it took very large amounts of damage and that's a beefy expensive building.

Was at my friends house in texas a month ago who had a storm shelter in the garage, it's a 1/4" steel box that is anchored to the ground and has the GPS coordinates etched on the inside since if it does it's job there may not be anything around but GPS to tell you where it is.
Obligatory Ian Malcolm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0
Yes it's in a bad state and unsustainable, especially with the recent (and welcome) focus on security these days. I wouldn't consider it broken however, that's implying an unrecoverable state. There do exist sponsored projects in the open source world which have been running successfully, though those are few and far between relative to the number of 'Nebraska' projects.

Those outliers aside, consider the alternatives. The first one I can think of is to put trust in closed source software, in many cases written by MAMAA. We have enough historical evidence to know that represents a nightmare scenario that we should actively be working to get away from.

That's why I agree, we should be trying to make the open source ecosystem sustainable. What I think we'll need, as a bunch of normal users, is a way to present these cases to our $workplaces, to get the funding or sponsorship in place. And an easy way for companies to do that, which slots in with their own practices.
Careful license choice and intentionally crippling things such that they are objectively useless unless you meet the exact needs that I have.

I've kind of given up on elemental-ircd and left it unmaintained and archived, but I would probably send a job application in to that place if said unicorn startup happened. A few people have tried to take over elemental in the past, but as a whole the IRC ecosystem is on a downturn so they don't last long. It's a complicated situation though. At some level I'd be shocked that they managed to turn that pile of shit into something usable!
I think the author eloquently articulated the reason why I still enjoy vinyl (despite not having bought any in the past decade, I have 300 records from the preceding decades):

> In a world where the whole philosophy is based on mood swings, limited attention spans, and an expansion pack for everything; putting on a record, sitting down to do nothing else but listen to it? That’s where the real value lies.
While this is true it's also not uncommon for signage to be faulty, i.e. not following official regulations, or invalid unfortunately. Most often at construction sites.
They are just trying to scare you. Many famous companies need to buy the domains from people registered earlier. There’s no such thing as trademark automatically gives right to domain names. Tell them to use their own .net domain name and go away.
It's not clear if iCloud is exploitable. Just the DNS lookups do not prove that remote code execution via ldap is active. In fact, if they are using an up to date JRE, it's not.
I tried to exploit my own apps and could only get it to work when setting com.sun.jndi.ldap.object.trustURLCodebase to true
There is a low risk of heart inflammation related to the Covid vaccine for young males. Is this risk the same regardless of number of booster doses that you take, or does it go up with each additional booster? If it goes up - is the function linear, slower than linear or faster then linear?
Not quite, these texts were indeed stored in the physical churches and mostly written in the language of the Roman Empire because there weren’t enough scholars and scribes to translate to the thousands of new local languages (since the technology didn’t exist to make it practical).

It’s interesting to consider what it even means to say that the church forbid these hand written Latin texts from getting in the possession of those who couldn’t read. This is why most of the experienced Bible since about 1800 BC was experienced through vocal tradition.
I would disagree there are quick and easy answers to the question of whether math is man-made or discovered. What is the qualitative difference between discovery and invention?

Consider the product of no factors being equal to the multiplicative identity. Is that a discovery or a choice made because it is more useful? Is it a discovery because we 'discovered' it was more useful?
> I mean, it's not like you are begging to be paying a subscription to get rid of ads.

Hah, and what, have multiple walled gardens, pay monthly subscriptions for skimming 2 articles 1 a month? Have to deal with the whole payment process? The complication alone would be more that what I get out of it.

Besides, pay what? Most things on the net are crap anyways. You know those SEO cancer, content devoid, webpages? I would hate hate hate for them to get even 1 cent off of me. Most _good_ pages, ones I am truly interested are not ad powered anyway. HN is _almost_ add free. Reddit is pretty annoying with ads, but the content is community generated anyway. Most forums I visit are not ad powered.

I swear, if I could, I would pay the ad revenue myself. I really really am curious how much that amounts to. Can't be too much, I remember reading _somewhere_ that FB has on average 50$/year off of each account. Sounds about right, but maybe my memory was playing tricks on me and the info might be bullshit. Would love to just send 2 cents for each page visited would that be fair? Someone should do a micropayments interface so that I can send some crypto to pages I read.
thank you.

it's a well written article and you got me agreeing with what you are saying. it's surprising to read comments here that start with "open source is not broken" but proceed to repeat everything you wrote in the article...
The most talented developers I have seen were highly-introverted intense guys. You know the type, it's like most of us only on steroids. They could probably be great architects but that role doesn't seem to exist anymore and wouldn't be on the managerial track anyway.

As a side-note, I have no idea why we have "managers" in large companies. I see more and more that a "team lead" is just another developer who has to deal with spring planning and work assignment without much/any difference in compensation. A team "manager" doesn't touch/see any code at all and never impresses me with his technical insights. So other than hiring/firing and 1-on-1s I cannot see them doing anything which would justify the prestige and benefits.
When you look at WHERE everyone wants to put those orbits it does shrink dramatically though (hint: central lattitudes)
The game has a Gift Shop (https://universal-paperclips.creator-spring.com/). I can only imagine the parent comment has this (https://universal-paperclips.creator-spring.com/listing/rele...) shirt specifically.
It would be better to create two profiles in firefox to separate work and personal. And both can be started at the same in two different browser instances if you like.
Stuff like that already exists. Companies barely donate. In my opinion, more packages should require licensing fees from companies.
Not to mention the person in Berlin has access to state funded medical support, a state funded pension, paid sick leave, paid ma/paternity leave, ...

Salaries are lower, but expenses for essential services are simply A LOT less in most of Europe.
You can disable their ad stuff and then it’s not (for you).
Meta: typo in title, "Charlse" -> "Charles". Hopefully the ever-vigilant mods are watching. Thanks.
Did you really have to use "ballgame"?
I don't think it's that big of a deal honestly.

If some guy in Nebraska maintains some library that is very useful and your company relies on it and does not pay him, you're asking to wind up relying on an unmaintained project eventually. If I maintained something extremely valuable and found out a core google product relied on it, I'd stop maintaining it.
This isn't obvious at all to me. Why do you think this?
Very much this. Leetcode is terrible, but the checklist of trivia suggested in the essay is equally terrible, because it's too easy for a genuinely good programmer to simply not have experience with topic X. Or, for more experienced candidates, to not have dealt with that topic for several years and not have the knowledge fresh.
I feel like the examples of log4j and ua-parser aren't that great, because it would be relatively easy for any other similar lib to take their place, as it's mostly straightforward to implement, even though it still takes time.

But there are some things like Kafka, PostgressSQL, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Apache Math, ZooKeeper, the OpenJDK, and all that which are definitely non-trivial and a huge amount of time and effort, and you couldn't just take an extra month or two and have a dev on your team implement a replacement, unlike log4j and ua-parser.

I think those would be better example to discuss, and my impression has been that those things often have a company behind them offering support or offering them as a service that in some ways pays for some real devs to contribute to them, but maybe I'm mistaken.

Like for example, the author mentions working on the GO team at Google, and Go I would consider one of those big open source projects that truly are foundational and would be non-trivial and huge effort to replace. So that shows that the really big pieces do have companies hired and paid staff behind them.
Great story. Corvids are so much fun.
> Uranium isn’t dangerous by itself

Well.. it's not a huge deal but don't eat it. I have a bit of uranium ore on my bookshelf, but I avoid handling it and wash my hands after I do. Besides the alpha radiation, which isn't good for your insides, it's also toxic.
Or they could get a list of deps, and just get their engineers to occasionally keep tabs on a few random deps. Random would be almost as good as systematic if a few companies did it.

Check the security of the infrastructure (is it one guy?), check whether some the code is correct (either randomly or systematically, not just checking the first file you see), etc.

What's the incentive? Well, checking your dependencies is a way to upskill. You learn as much reading code (especially the code you are relying on) as you do writing code, and most of a programmer's job is learning.
I think poster is saying turn _off_ "Automatically install updates" but leave _on_ "Check for updates [Daily/Weekly/Monthly]". That way you at least become aware that updates are available, and can assess them for yourself.
I mean, `npm donate` is a thing, I'm pretty sure. Just need to build it for other ecosystems.
Another way would be to enforce open-source requirements for any public spending including/producing code. You want a city to buy your traffic control system? Open source the code first. You want a state to use your voting machines? Open source your code first. Any public money going should necessitate that software being released as open source.

Not only would this lower the risk of fatally flawed public software projects, maintenance of these systems in the long run would also not depend on just one company with an artificial monopoly anymore. This would also create a healthy ecosystem of paid open source developers.

Just an idea.
We have software licenses and yet every open source project doesn’t employ a lawyer. The solution is probably the same: canned, off-the-shelf contracts. If a company wants to negotiate a custom contract, then the maintainer can decide whether or not it’s worth hiring a lawyer.
Open source always trails professional software solutions. Yet always time after time will eventually surpass it as the bleeding edge moves further. Maybe we can view it in such a way that major companies have become too reliant on free open software. If you want secure software, pay for it. The knowledge will eventually flow down to free software because it's ultimately run by hobbyists. I like the way it is and I don't see it changing because so many are just donating free time to open free software. Maybe something we could do is make open source contributions tax deductible (if we could somehow price it accurately)
may I ask why you would stop maintaining it in this case? aren't you then limiting yourself in your self-expression?
The big unknown in the back of the envelope calculation is the degree of control over each satellite. What percentage of the satellites are uncontrolled? For instance, of Starlink's 1600 satellites, over 100 of them have become non-functional, most of them the unused v0.9 test satellites. However, most of these failed satellites have been actively de-orbited. A few failures are non-responsive and are de-orbiting naturally, which takes about a year.

This factor is much less important at the Starlink of 550km because air pressure deorbits those satellites relatively quickly.

If failure rates stay below 0.1% and orbits below 500km and proper international "traffic control" is implemented, billions of satellites would not pose a Kessler risk, IIRC. At higher altitudes that number decreases very rapidly. Sorry I can't find a link to those calculations.
For libraries defaulting to an untyped interface makes no sense.
Crows are self-aware just like us, says new study (2020)
A banana?
The US Navy has lost/dropped some nuclear bombs too. But what he means is they've never had a serious reactor accident. They've lost two nuclear submarines, but neither was due to a problem with the reactor. Fumbling a nuclear bomb is obviously very concerning, but I don't think it reflects poorly on their ability to run reactors safely. They have several thousand reactor-years of safe operating experience, that doesn't happen by accident.
Pleorma is easier to install and less resource-hungry, so the bar for setting up an instance is lower.
You can get a closer view of this sentiment in action within communities built on open source with distributed governance. Very many communities in the blockchain space routinely discuss how to compensate the development work necessary, and the recurring theme is that people imagine a nonexistent cheap developer:

An engineer with in Micronesia with specialized skillsets.

Try to convince these communities about the need for a well compensated team of people including product managers and designers all making 6-figures and honestly people just don’t believe you. The truth is that cost of living discussion doesn’t even matter, people should be compensated on the value they bring (and in those communities that is very easy to quantify.)

This has wildly slowed down many projects as UI and usability are completely neglected.

Its pretty much only been one year that an engineer in this space can reliably land compensation packages somewhat competitive to a tour in NAAAM