skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've worked on the design for over 20 years AFAICT. Even tho Starship will enable bigger and better telescopes, if there's a repairable problem and it is within reach, would be odd to just bail on JWST when the whole design/build process of the next gen will likely be a very long endeavor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#His...
Why blame web3? Proof of work (Bitcoin specifically) is the entity pouring lighter fluid on the planet. Bitcoin isn't even part of web3.

If we want to realistically reduce CO2 emissions by cryptocurrencies, displacing Bitcoin and other proof-of-work chains is step one. Thankfully this seems to be happening. Check out any chart of BTC-ETH. With power-efficient proof of stake coming next year I'm hoping we can reduce the incentives for anyone who's thinking about starting up a coal power plant.
Good trick here.

The article starts about how only 3.4% is spent on kernel development, which is a fair complaint. Then the author picks some other stuff totally unrelated to the spending breakout to complain about, including diversity efforts, for which there are no spending breakouts.

Spending on these may be 1/100th of a percent for all we know, but the author claims at the end that despite not having spending breakdowns, that this is a fair description of the Linux Foundation, based on their annual report:

“The Linux Foundation is dedicated to social justice activism, climate change, and vaccine passports… while occasionally using Open Source software.”
Bitcoin is well over a decade old.
Syrup: User-Defined Scheduling Across the Stack
There is. Rizin also has some interesting improvements (like mew save by serialization of state instead if command sequence) which is nice since it initially looked like a CoC fork.
This is outrage porn trying to push an anti-diversity, anti-inclusion agenda. The Linux Foundation supports literally thousands of open source projects that are not the Linux Kernel, most notably Kubernetes. This is in the report that the blog post author linked but willfully didn't bother to read. The actual report (PDF): https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_A...
Slow. So awful for going back and forth that I stopped doing it. Smaller display than I’d like. I have special hate for the touchscreen kindles, I really prefer my 1st hen kindle to the current version. Actual forward and backward buttons.
This is a bit ridiculous. It's called the Linux Foundation, not the Linux Kernel Foundation. The Linux Foundation is for the open source community in general hence why not all money ends up being used for coding the kernel. It's not even being used just for open source code, it is no secret at all that the open source community is more than just code.
They spend 6 million usd on the linux kernel. Just because you throw more money at a problem doesn't mean the end result will turn out better.
For now we only focus on touchpads. I think that if we're successful in delivering touchpad improvements then we will gain credibility and trust that could be useful when working on other input devices.
The real reason for many subscription models is to juice more revenue from users, charging over time allows for a higher price with less sticker shock.
I have more trouble finding exactly what I'm looking for using Google, for me it started going down hill when they removed the Plus operator (and no quotes don't work the same).

Also, Yandex is much better for reverse image search (similar images).
EDIT: After reading the report[0], I have to retract this comment. This article really is taking things out of proportion. ~55% of donations go to other open source project support, a combined 20% goes to community training, tooling and events. It seems only 7% goes to admin and while only 3% of funding directly goes to the Linux kernel, it seems this grossly misrepresents the Linux Foundation's contribution to open source.

While I also have issues with the "Diversity Olympics" that most American companies seem to play on, I am re-assured after reading the full report. I also understand that DIE initiatives are "intellectually fashionable" even if the fundamental morality of DIE is questionable, but I can't have too many complaints if the core mission is not put in jeopardy - which I really can't conclude from the report.

I am leaving the original comment up for reference

[0] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_A...

Original comment:

What a travesty. Honestly, I don't even know which organization I can support if even the Linux Foundation isn't contributing its money open source technical excellence.

I guess directly supporting open source developers is one way, but now there is the question of who to fund. Is funding for open source and/or charitable software a lost cause? Do we have to just accept that open-source software is fundamentally a volunteer effort, and will never allow a person to eat or pay rent?
This is a terrible article by an author who makes a living off of clickbait headlines.

3.4% of its money goes to Linux kernel development.

This is because they really don't have to hire kernel developers. Other companies do that for them. There are a handful of kernel developers employed by the Linux Foundation, but there doesn't need to be a lot, because there are already enough kernel developers hired by every other major corporation on the planet.

GKH at one point said the entire reason the book Linux Device Drivers hasn't been updated since Linux 2.6 is because they already have enough kernel developers.

If you look at the graphs, 68.8% of their expenditures are on project support and infrastructure, separately from the 3.4% going to the kernel. The LF is responsible for a lot. It's not just the kernel; there are thousands of things in Linux's ecosystem.
Like that one episode of TNG where they wake up all the people from the nineties, but it's one guy who keeps asking Picard how much BTC is at, how the blockchain is doing, etc.

edit: https://youtu.be/XQQYbKT_rMg
Exactly. Unfortunately the little guys don't decide the winners and losers so they suffer as they must. You saw it in the end of the 90s with the tech bubble, and in the 1980s with personal computing. I doubt anyone would agree the best technology won during any of those periods. I mean, would anyone consider Windows, for example, the pinnacle of OS tech? Or even today, bitcoin and ethereum the pinnacle of blockchain tech? When a small group drives most of the investment and decision making, you end up with a lot of collateral damage. It's actually sad since there are likely really technically great blockchain systems out there that will just die in the wind, and it will have nothing to do with the system's quality.
I left cybersecurity, specifically application security, because it felt like screaming into a void with no one listening. Well, once in a while the void would scream back about deadlines and deny problems exist. It was very demoralizing to work hard to not only identify vulnerabilities but also to filter out false positives and come up with remediation and education plans to correct and prevent future vulnerabilities only to have that work ignored and tossed aside. As security debt grew and grew, I myself grew concerned that if a breach happened, my purpose would be to be the fall guy despite the amount of evidence I had showing I did my job but was ignored. So I left and am looking for a new path, probably in data visualization.
Most of those pitches are not important.

>Were you ever been concerned about opening your personal email (controlling numerous online accounts) in the same browser where you go to random websites? Actually, even when the browsers are different it can be a problem on a monolithic OS!

Mozilla has containers that people also barely use.

>On Qubes OS, you open those things in separate VMs, isolated with hardware, not software. It’s often better 2 than physical (air-gap) isolation. Recommended by Snowden.

It runs VM, this is not isolated with hardware. https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2019/03/05/qsb-048/

>Are you tired of remembering tens of complicated passwords, or using a password manager? On Qubes OS, you can save all your passwords as plain text (in a dedicated offline VM) and copy them into the necessary fields (in other VMs) whenever needed.

Password managers are fine, why would someone tire of them?

I don't think you are pitching it correctly, if you want to succeed at selling Qubes, remember most people use laptops, the amount of ram required to run Qubes and the battery drain is not worth it for the performance hit. It would be much better to sell it as an OS on a remote computer that uses Xen, there are huge problems like audio quality, slow loading, and I would never recommend it as a mobile device OS. Most of the benefits are done with less resource intense methods, and learning a new OS for most of these features and mainly drawbacks is not a good pitch. I think it would be great on a remote device with your computer as a thin client, but it has very little day to day practical use.
Apple Releases Android App to Protect Android Users from AirTag Stalkers
I don't think it was a mistake at all, it's just a simple marketing tactic. You just add a version number to a thing and then everyone who was part of the old thing will feel like they're missing out.

Most of cryptocurrency marketing works that way, throwing jargon at you until you feel stupid for not understanding why it is supposedly so revolutionary. And once the thousands of marks who have already been roped into the scheme discover your comment, they'll be all over it to protect their investment and you'll feel very alone.
Your app shouldn’t be talking to randos injected from the outside. This is trivial.
> the electoral college votes from being counted by the joint assembly.

By protesting or by....insurrection?

> Whether you feel it was an insurrection or not, can we at least agree that it was an attack on democracy? These protestors may not have been armed, but they were threatening and intimidating as they chanted things like "hang mike Pence" and "where are you Nancy?".

As much as the BLM damaging the federal building in Vegas was an 'attack on democracy'?

That's a sensationalist interpretation.

It's most likely average people doing emotional things while angry and things got out of hand, not some organized conspiracy.

It's your ideology that wants to look for reasons to demonize them instead of just be understanding of them.

If we looked at everyone more charitably , even people we disagree with, I think we would advance much farther as a species.
It's not at all that a properly spelled sticker gives assurance that it's not counterfeit... it's just that a misspelled sticker is such an obvious sign of a potential counterfeit that it's basically the #1 thing that any counterfeit/suspect items program teaches people to look for. Most people working on counterfeits don't speak English so it's very easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through, and on the other hand they're rarely made by the genuine manufacturer which usually has a process to check for this kind of thing even if the engineering work is done in a non-English speaking country (most of all that the logos usually come from off-the-shelf art files from the marketing department, so no one's even typing the name to make a mistake).

Almost any corporate or institutional counterfeit or supply chain security program will explicitly teach you: if anything is misspelled or shows other obvious mistakes, hold the part as a suspected counterfeit. It's a pretty good quality indication.

So of course manufacturers do genuinely make spelling mistakes sometimes, but this context makes it a pretty embarrassing and serious thing to do. It's like your bank misspelling their name in an account notification: sure, in some extremely theoretical sense it doesn't mean anything, but in practice they're giving you exactly the signal that everyone tells you to check for to identify phishing, and it raises questions about their processes that they let it slip through.
I mean, if it's the same product, more or less an Apple Watch you have to strain your eyes to see, I expect it'll have the same lack of customers, even if Apple invents it. Maybe with less backlash.
I’d argue there’s an underlying value in tokens like Ether that is similar to paying for compute power and storage on AWS. I’m not saying the price right now is correct, but that there is an intrinsic value.
Super exiting.

- JWST costs ̃$8.8B USD, about the same as aircraft carrier, or Large Hadron Collider and it goes into a rocket!

- JWST has 344 single-point-of-failures, 80% of them related to deployment. Mars landers have significantly less If I remember correctly.

If each single-point failure has 0.0001 failure probability, the mission fails with 3.4% probability.

If each single-point failure has 0.0002 failure probability, the mission fails with 6.6% probability.
Unfortunately, the same is true of a lot of charities as well.
I still remember that one, I was at school 80 kms away when it blew up. Quite the boom given the distance, but nobody scared, just heard a large bang.

Most launches were at night, and we could watch the trail of flames pass by but 501 was launched during the day. Impressive to watch how wrong it went, how fast. There's even still the dude saying "all parameters and trajectory normal" literally as the thing explodes.

Good times and nice memories.
Freedesktop Gitlab Down
I think it's more likely Google's new Fuchsia OS will displace Linux for most desktop use (and maybe more than just that) than that Linux will get its shit together and ship a GUI layer good and cohesive enough to compete. And I write that as someone who used Linux desktops heavily (and, for long stretches, exclusively) for about a decade.

It's, what, BSD licensed? Open source, but not GPL-alike Free Software. Still, that's pretty decent.

I reckon the only way that doesn't happen is if they pull the plug (quite possible) or they shift to keeping the GUI layer proprietary (also quite possible).
You can produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. Burning it is the reverse.

Burning synthetic methane is carbon neutral.
And I've had a HN account for over 8 years... precocious little scamp aren't I!
No it is not. You might find it simple, if you don't compare to places that are easier.

First you need to file all the paperwork. Then you wait. Once you get approvals, you can't do anything without a bank account, and opening the bank account is a lot of trouble too, because they want to triple check everything.

From zero to operational is a long way, and with lots of legal liability along the way. I have a company closed for 15 years that still counts as a liability to me when I try to do anything, like renting an apartment.

You might be right in "opening" paperwork only being kinda OK. But you certainly can't do it like the original poster, that codes for a week or two, opens a new business and move on to new projects in series. (Yeah, not every project of his is a new company, but IIRC the larger ones become new companies).
> I can vaguely describe in a sentence the gist of an article I've read, or an image, and the proper result will usually be in the first page.

I can never do that. What I remember is so far from the wording used or how Google identifies the image that it never comes up. I end up scrolling back through my history trying to do it from the page title or domain
Linux is free, so no need to pay for it.
Ask Google, Facebook, or better yet Samsung. Apple has no direct competition in the premium phone segment and consequently takes 70% of the entire industry's profit share, despite only 15% in global unit sales.

Not everyone thinks Apple's profit should come before America's national or economic interest.
Arch is not a good goto if you don't want to spend a lot of configuration time
there's a whole bunch of other nasty stuff in ticks unfortunately. my dad got Rocky mountain spotted fever (fortunately treated with antibiotics before it became terminal), I had some weird 11-day fever, there's the lone star ticks with alpha-gal etc. Ticks are such bad news.
GPT-3 open-source alternatives: GPT-Neo and GPT-J
Some people lack the emotional maturity and respect for other human beings.
Yes! I have used Hyper quite a bit and been happy with it over the years. This feels very similar and I will definitely be giving it a shot. (At first glance it already seems more fully-featured and polished.)
http://www.lukecall.net/e-9223372036854592298.html

(Following the instructions in the GP comment.)
How is generics not a big enough change to warrant 2.0?

Edit: I’m impressed generics aren’t a breaking change! I thought this changed Interface{} to Any as a breaking change
I found Circa to be an amazing way to consume news. News was written in the most boring way possible, and it would have bullet points for news stories along with sources for each bullet point. As much as I like reading full articles to get all the nuance, there's just too much information to consume. Circa seemed to be the sweet spot between brevity and information density that I need.

I've been hoping for something like Circa to pop back into existence, but unfortunately I can see why it's not a profitable venture.
Adversarial interoperability is the only solution.

Make the new networks compatible with the current ones, even without their authorization.
sexual advances have always been inappropriate at work.
> What people are really excited about is the exchanges and the on-ramps and off-ramps, which have nothing to do with the blockchain or cryptography.

Isn't that like saying that what gets people really exciting about beer is the euphoric feeling after consuming it, which has nothing to do with the liquid itself?

If it wasn't for the exchanges and on- and off-ramps then cryptocurrencies wouldn't exist at all. Potentially spending it one day is the only thing that makes the crypto world go around.
i see 7.8% overheads and the rest as program work which is actually pretty great for an ngo. this piece reads like someone opportunistically skimmed the annual report for provocative headlines to promote their own brand.

skimming the toc for the annual report, i see loads of relevant linux support efforts that go beyond just the kernel.

i'd buy this argument if actual kernel devs were complaining, not someone trying to build readership.
Yes, the best case scenario might be an extremely mild disease that gives everyone natural immunity to more virulent strains. But half as deadly with twice transmission rate is kind of a wash, in the short term right?

But if R > 1, eventually everyone gets it and has their lottery ticket drawn, so increased transmissibility just speeds that process up (unflattens the curve). With the vaccines, R was < 1, so it would have petered out. That scenario looks out the window.

I think its a little early to be making confident predictions. Lots of potential confounds, e.g. while hospitalization rates have been lower in South Africa, I believe that the demographics have skewed younger than in previous waves too.
Yep, just like the dot-com era. Were 95% of the funded ideas complete bullshit? Yes. Did a bunch of them make craploads of money and create a world that nobody imagined fifteen years before? Also yes.

I wouldn't be surprised if blockchain/defi/other web3 blah fails at 95% of what people are trying to use it for, and destroys 95% of the wealth that people gamble on it, and still changes the world and makes a bunch of people rich. I also wouldn't be surprised if people find uses for it in the plumbing of the conventional financial world in some invisible-but-consequential way.
Fiat money is thousands of years old, your point being?
Wow, there is a lot of hate for what is a pretty cool project. Yes, Electron isn’t great, but Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a pretty decent term and is cross platform, which is actually a big deal for me. It allows me to assign “copy on select” and “paste on right click” which, a few years back, many other term apps decided I didn’t want or need anymore. It’s sensible about a bunch of other stuff, and allows me to easily transfer files from within the same terminal. It’s also simple to define jumphosts etc.

Yes, a lot of that can be done in different config files, but in Tabby it is right there, no sweat.

Every now and then the HN comment section reminds why I don’t engage that much anymore in the Open Source community. It used to fun and cool, now it’s all… nasty.
This is the smartest way to do it.
Loading/unloading the heads when moving to the next platter would be the dangerous/slow part. It's easier to keep all the heads flying, and move them in parallel.
It's not a breaking change.
I agree, and chimed in with a few comments to a similar effect.

What's especially frustrating is how shortsighted the Malthusian "degrowth" response is. It honestly feels like people don't realise that "the West" is just one billion people out of eight and its carbon impact is shrinking both in relative and absolute numbers. Therefore any measure that might work have to be acceptable to the developing world. In fact, I'd say we need to introduce the MAP test: can you convince Modi, Assad, and Putin to implement your proposed measure? If you can't, bin it, we don't have time for it.

The only general approach I can see working under that test is tech. We "just" need to make low carbon options more economically attractive, and then it'll happen automatically. No amount of Western self-sacrifice in the name of degrowth, no amount of high minded rhetoric about "overconsumption" will do that. US becoming an eco fascist state and going to net zero overnight will barely move the needle.

But it's so easy to forget about that in the tiny bubble of Western eco activists.
AFAICT, its usage is not restricted to generics. It seems to be suggested to use anywhere you would use interface{}.

For the release announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29556646
YouTube: Facebook makes money with ads for Human Traficking
It's a german show with english subtitles (you might have heard of Boehmermann with the "Erdogan Poem Scandal" a few years back).
Usually not exactly my kind of humour, but usually pretty well made & researched.
Obviously not the best source. But I was not sure if any US media outlet has covered these topics recently.
" Some of the men who work at SpaceX hug women without consent, stare at women while they work, and interpret every company-related social event as an opportunity to date (or hit on) women in the office. I saw one woman pressured into dancing with a male colleague in front of other male employees. "

I was with her for the butt grabbing incident but that part sounds absolutely insane. Either you have blatant sexism incidents, or you don't, and then you resort to spin random stuff into a drama.

Of course in every "slightly less professional settings" there are annoying people with have annoying behavior such as being insisting to dance. But that's not "rampant misogyny" ffs.

Add to that the whole environmental thing when you work at a rocket compagny, and sending a message directly to elon musk shows a level of entitlement that lightyears (pun intended) over the top for a random employee

"While there are solar panels on campus, any attempts to make new buildings and infrastructure sustainable (LEED) are deprioritized in favor of expanding the factory as fast as possible."

No kidding. Even if the compagny had positive cash flow you'd have to fight for it, but now you make a drama while the compagny is still running on investor's money. You're just not fit for a corporate environement...
It's not just semantics, but it seems like a hard concept to grasp for those who are not affected. And even those who have it, when they first learn about it.