skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just installed Chromium instead of Chrome on my linux workstation. Heck, you can even deploy your own private cloud locally with FOSS.

It's all a spectrum, with free learning material everywhere. Yes, some of thr licenses and agreements are less free, but in truth, never before have so much been available. You can break that golden cage. What you put attention on matters.
Of course it is worth it. You can make very good living as remote-guru-consultant with total freedom. All while making similar money to FANG employees (counting stocks, high cost of living and taxes).

OSS developers do not have to be unpaid doormats. If I would be log4j dev, I would probably just wipe out all JNDI related functionality from project. Companies who need JNDI for backward comparability, would have to pay for support.
I did the same but to an Air 16gb. Much cheaper, mostly faster and doesn't have the quirks I had with the 16". I had it replaced 3x and it's was still shit; overheated and 3x just completely died... It was the most expensive computer I bought in since the 90s (Sun or SGI were more expensive) and it was a total horror show. Apple did give me new ones no problems but they never worked well for me; fans always on and burning so hot that it was uncomfortable to work on. This new air is really fabulous; always snappy and it does not heat up at all. It's actually a bit too cold.
Well not me - but a friend was on intensive care for about 3 weeks... Said he can't say much as everything was a blur and that he was in constant pain and wished he would just die - has recovered fortunately without any long covid...
> IME people who write bad comments never write worthwhile ones

It takes a lot of expertise to extract which information (mostly the "why", sometimes a reference you used while coding) is actually useful as a comment.

I also think you need to come across comments that helped _you_ understand other code to learn what good comments are.
I find thins point of view equally absurd as all the abuse on maintenners of Foss.

It is standard for production code to rely on third party libraries. Not just standard, but the opposite is considered bad thing - you are not supposed to implement everything from scratch. If you do, you will end up with more bugs and issues. There is nothing, absolutely nothing in development last 30 years that would say "it is bad to use open source libraries".
If your code block does not fit in the window, it's too long. You don't fix that with a comment. You should break it apart into smaller units.
If it's not worth it to you don't work on it.

If you do OSS because you want others to use your software but you're afraid to charge for it then just stop. Of course you'll be disappointed. The whole point of OSS is you put it out there, others use it, fork it, add to it, commit back, and because of pooled efforts now the software is better.

No one owes anyone anything beyond the terms of the license. DHH recently wrote a great article about OSS which seemed to be inspired by recent discussions: https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-won-t-let-you-pay-me-for-my-open...

The best way to get paid for OSS is to use it for a real product. Ie. Make something beyond just code.
The reason is that trolls like to post links to shock sites or a google search for something terrible. Even worse, you could get rickrolled.
Read again the proposal.

A top level thread scans the opcodes only to solve this, with no decoding and no writing, thus progressing faster in the stream than the child chunked decoding threads it progressively spawns.

Not as quick as a format with a chunk table, but faster than naive single core.
Creators and artists are making money hand over fist all over the internet. From educational courses to music loops. And copyright plays a big part.

But the humble software library developer is on another planet. For them its sponsorship or nothing. Otherwise their work wont carry the virtues of "free" and "open".
I had to come back to this thread to say thank you for this recommendation. I just started reading “Defying Hitler”. What an amazing book! It is so well written that I could read it to my five-year-old. Really a deep dive into history from a first person perspective.

I am also reading JFK by Logeval, which describes the same events as seen (or unseen) from the outside of Germany. Being able to watch events unfold from those two perspectives is just fascinating.
Interesting to see VS Code gain more users each year whilst other popular editors/IDEs lose users.

Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more/less devs of each "group" are deciding to participate.

Side note; I decided to move from PyCharm to VSCode and honestly, I am starting to miss PyCharm. Yes, it's sluggish to boot but it handles Python so much better: better inspection, highlighting, better Git integration (3-way merge!) and better tooling all round.

I find myself having to mess around in VSC's settings.json for far too long, scrambling to find the relevant extensions documentation because god forbid you include all the keywords somewhere easy to find in the IDE! And to top it all off, there's currently some annoying bugs with error highlighting in VSC that make it a pain to use.
When people talk about salaries, I feel they always just talk about SF.

I was an SMTS at Salesforce (also not HQ) back in the day on $150k~ total comp, which people in this thread regard as junior pay; and that was on my initial stock grant, never got to find out what my refresher would have been.
Too late, already skipped Toyota dealerships when I went shopping for my car.
I was astonished by amount of people who have strong opinions on quality of log4j ... and apparently don't know what logging library does, don't know why projects use libraries and generally don't seem to know much about development ... while writing in development forums.
I read recently Chinese law required them to disclose the bug to the government within two days of disclosing it to vendor and that's why Alibaba was punished.

Now I read they have to give it to the government first.

Big difference. Which is the truth and how do we know?
Software needs to be maintained to be useful. Proofs don't.

So for many, it is not the same.
That's absolutely amazing!!
I'd really love to find out how much of the m1's performance is due to the advantage of having a custom architecture designed to make Apple's refcounting mania actually perform well. I.e. somehow run all their arm code in a way that emulates the M1 instructions on a regular ARM chip with similar clocks, cache etc... probably very hard to do. Maybe you could patch a binary that came out of Apple's compiler to not use the new instructions? The atomics they use to do refcounting definitely have a measurable performance impact on x86.
The entire thing seems incredibly half-assed e.g. they're testing a 64 cores CPU on single-threaded workload (literally the only mentions of threads is that they "disable multithreading"), they repeatedly harp on the server being "over 50k" but the CPU is 5 so I can only assume most of the 50k are in the

> 1 TB of eight-channel DDR4 memory

which you apparently need to... bench hashmap lookups?

The mac's pricing seems pretty bullshit as well as the lowest price to get 64GB is $3500 (Max with 24 GPU cores, and a measly 512GB SSD), which does not qualify as "around $3000" in my books.
https://tcd.uchicago.edu/projects/value-of-health-insurance-...
Uber, on one hand, is exploiting drivers naivety and funnel their money to the investors. If people calculated the amortization of their cars they would see how their real income is far below minimal wage -- there are many blog posts analyzing this.

On another hand by creating and valorizing "gig economy" it has become an excellent tool in furthering the rollback of everything organized labor have achieved in a hundred year plus.

Your point...?
All of this was already discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29658977
It ain't called The Red Centre for nothing.
So offering people with no means to pay another way to access the service (in exchange of something quite worthless to them, their "data") is now exploitation?
The vaccines seem to lose strength with time so if you refuse to take the subsequent boosters, you are in effect an anti-vaxxer.
A misleading and inflammatory dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29658342.
Nitpicks:

>How a DDR5-powered MacBook.....

LPDDR5, which was correctly labeled later in the article. LPDDR5 is not a variant of DDR5. Hence the title DDR5 powered is inaccurate.

>Cores have massive L2 blocks for a total of 28 MB of L2.

24MB + 4MB. Only 24MB is shared between HP Cores. There is also an additional 48MB of System Level Cache on Max ( 24MB on Pro ). So in reality the cache difference on Mac system is the reason for most ( but not all ) of the performance difference.

>Printing was done via the 5N TSMC lithography standard.

N5.

>Memory bus was upgraded to LPDDR5 and claims up to 400 GB/s of bandwidth.

On Max only. The Pro only has 200GB/s. As the previous headline claimed with both M1 Pro/Max. Agains this is probably nitpicking.
People are not obligated to maintain their open source software, though. In fact I would expect most open source software to be unmaintained.
... By those who visit the advent of code subreddit.
Is the bias perhaps on your side? There is a big world outside the US west coast.
All these discussion about comments miss the most important point of why we need comments: To aid us in understanding the code.

My only rules to write comments are:

- Add “why” comments when you write the code

- Add all the other comments when you read the code, and don't understand
Setting aside the fact that Threadripper is not really a server CPU, it tops at DDR4-3200 when it comes to memory support. Considering the custom build, it seems the most likely option. (As in, why would it use anything slower for no good reason?)
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Tesla market share is still minuscule. And I think GM and Toyata have been executing making cars just fine. We will see where Tesla is in 50 years, the jury is still out.
Oh man! I've been a lifetime member for ...wow, two decades indeed!, and I have saved hundreds of your pictures. These have been my favorite desktop backgrounds almost exclusively (although I now make some generated art which sometimes is worth showing/using).

This might not be your cup of tea, but if you had facebook (even though I don't like them, this is how it's done) and twitter where you post one image every week or month, it might grow like it did for Alexander Jansson (https://illustratorcentrum.se/author/alexander_jansson/)
I am not being cynical either, but have you read this thread? Or any thread on books on this site? 90% are SF/fantasy or books about CS (90% written by American/British authors), most (not all) people in tech have very mediocre taste in literature and in non-fiction books outside of technology. You rarely would see here people recommending Orhan Pamuk,Javier Marias, Dino Buzzati,Amos Oz,WG Sebald or Naguib Mahfouz, just to give examples of very famous novelists totally ignored here. For every 100 mentions of total mediocrities like Mark Manson, Ryan Holiday or Simon Sinek you would be lucky to find 1 mention of people like Ha-Joon Chang,Leszek Kolakowski or Peter Sloterdijk.
Should we consider all our data as important as our medical history and sexual orientation? And also as important as an actual organ, as the OP was implying?
A colleague is working on the same project with an Air 16GB and doesn't complain. It's crazy that it doesn't even have active cooling and can be used for serious CPU intensive work.
The 16" model was a big Apple failure. I had to use it in clamshell mode with an external monitor because having the macbook open with an external monitor would make the macbook run a lot hotter and the fans would spin much louder all the time. That was a pretty well known problem with the GPU and they never fixed it (probably some HW issue).
You don't need to maintain anything, you can just drop it and go do something else if you prefer. Maybe someone will pick it up. Maybe noone. If you maintain something you chose to maintain it. You have no obligation to continue maintaining it.
Veronica decides to die.

Amazing book about what it means to be crazy. How to live an authentic life. Written in a funny and easy to read way. And it has the most important quality of any book IL really like. It's short and to the point haha
Or you need a bigger monitor ;-)
String theory predicts the existence of supersymmetric particles, predicts the exact number of dimensions of our universe (something that by the way no other previous theory is able to do). Correctly predicts the Black Hole thermodynamics (Hawking radiation, BH temperature and BH entropy) from microstate counting and gives quantum corrections to the semi-classical formula. Predicts a bunch of higher and higher energy particles in a tower whose mass ratios are well defined. They are essentially higher energy excitations of the fundamental modes of the string. So on and so forth.

All this is testable and falsifiable, if we had the technical means to access the energies that are relevant for Quantum Gravity. In the meanwhile, scientists can keep trying to derive lower-energy consequences of the theory or devise smarter experiments that can allow us to test the consequences of the theory at the energy scales that are applicable to us.
Many also make money with open source software, for example a classic approach seems to be to offer consulting services around your product, or hosting.

WordPress and ElasticSearch come to mind, both made a lot of money.

You also get people adding to your product for free.
I am not an English speaker, but everything that ever went into my code was always in English, including names of variables, types, etc. Programming languages are in English and there is something that irks me in having another language mixed in.
Unfalsifiable. You're basically saying "they're adults, so if they do it they must necessarily get value from it".

Myth of the rational maintainer, if you will.

In real life, people get (mentally) stuck into suboptimal situations where leaving would make them happier all the friggin' time.

Bad jobs they should have quit. Bad partners they should have broken up with.

Why not bad open-source projects they should have stopped maintaining?
It is absolutely baffling that people plain refuse to understand that getting a disease is a prerequisite for spreading a disease.

Therefore, it is crystal clear that vaccinations help reducing the spread of the virus.

As long as we are in the topic of conspiracies, how about the idea that the original spreader of the virus (China) and its allies is making it worse by spreading seriously harmful misinformation in English?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd
Yes, and there are some great take-aways that I didn't know I would get when starting, like connecting to very smart people and learning a lot, as well as being accepted as one (maybe) in the community of those.
And my observation points out the logical effects of that provision.
If anyone wants some interesting correlational data on life expectancy vs. wealth and health expenditure per capita ourworldindata is a good source. At a country-level the correlational relationships are weaker than many people think.

- Costa Rica
$14k GDP per capita (2018)
$1.1k health expenditure (PPP 2011)

has a higher life-expectancy and healthy life-expectancy than

- Saudi Arabia
$50k GDP per capita (2018)
$2.5k health expenditure (PPP 2011)

Overall, there is a weak relationship between wealth and health expenditure vs. outcomes beyond $30k GDP/capita and $1.5k expenditure.

Many Europeans and North-Americans would expect significantly worse health outcomes using the system of Costa-Rica, Barbados, Uruguay or Turkey, but the data shows similar aggregate outcomes.

Of course there are more complexities in understanding the individual data-points.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-v...
He picked the least worst of Trumps transgressions, by quite some margin.
Are you asking the wrong person? I personally believe their fair use argument is both morally wrong and legally dubious (but I am not a lawyer). But my only point which I bothered to make in my comment above was that if they violate licenses (which I suspect they do, but am not sure of) they violate all licenses except outliers like WTFPL. So picking a licens which does not permit Copilot is trivial (assuming copyright law restricts things like Copilot).
Submitted previously as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29646949 but didn't get traction. Clearly it needed a punchier title.

There's no suggestion that China gets any first say on 0-days. The law in question re reporting is at http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2021/content_5641351.htm and states that you must immediately notify vendors of security flaws, and then the MIIT within 2 days.
Comments explain why the code exists. When you write a comment, you see sometimes that the code is not necessary.

Not necessary and removed code is the best code.
But the parent is? Han Chauvinism actually is an academic topic you know. It's not any denunciation, it's a fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_chauvinism
right!?!?

Yeah I take your point. €6.5m still seems too low to me to disincentivize though.
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I made a website that to share with friends through a series of pictures and videos.
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I think TicketMaster would just be the one that sells the NFT initially. Most of those fees they charge are in there for a reason.
I can strongly recommend the book "The Scout Mindset" by Julia Galef.

It's not only an excellent discussion/lesson on exactly this, it's also an incredibly well written book.
It can be. Firstly if you are very passionate about something it can be a good way to learn about it or even end up pushing the state of the art in some cases, so it can be worthwhile as any hobby is.

But also a lot of companies take it quite seriously now so it can be good for your resume particularly if you are not in the industry yet and want more experience or some references of your prior work. So it can be worthwhile even if you aren't completely passionate about it to the extend you would be content to always do it as an unpaid hobby.

It's not good to assume you will make money directly on your own project or some niche project, but there are lots of established projects which are in demand in the industry and you would be able to make money working on them. I work on the Linux kernel which I started as a hobby and I've been able to take my skills between several different companies and continue working on the same software (although different areas) which has been good for me.

Not to say you can't get transferable skills or relevant experience working on proprietary software and some may prefer the challenge or variety of working on different code bases at different jobs. So proprietary software is pretty on-par in those respects. There are a lot of areas where proprietary software is ahead too so if you want to work cutting edge software in a particular area, open source might not be the best option for you.

As far as getting started, start with working out what you are interested in and want to work on.
Maybe I can give an anecdotal example that is less ambiguous. I have a fair amount of experience with psychedelics. I have had both uncomfortable trips and once what I would characterize as an actual bad trip. In the case of the bad trip it was a normal dosage, less than 2 grams of mushrooms (cubensis), and wasn't mixed with anything else. In terms of effects I would describe it as feeling like you are losing your mind, and you will never be yourself again. I imagined, in an extremely vivid and negative way, how I would be judged - by my friends, parents, society for what was happening in my head. How I would be pitied. For lack of a better word, I understood what it was to be "insane" and I knew I would never be sane again. I was unable to answer basic questions - completely unable to function (I could still speak but was highly confused). Fortunately I had friends who took care of me, changed my setting, and I came out of it after an hour or two finishing the trip feeling fine.

Psychedelics amplify your current emotions. If you feel love for the world you'll feel that 10x or 100x. If you have a panic attack, then it's the same amplification. You are correct that mixing and overdoing it are great ways to cause panic and bring on a bad trip - but bad trips really can happen if your set and setting is off. This is why people talk so much about being careful with set and setting - it is the most effective way to not play Russian roulette as you say. This is why in therapy there is always a guide - it is always in a calm place, and a therapist isn't going to recommend it for you if they see you're in the wrong mindset. But even then its not as if set and setting can somehow be measured to ensure the trip is good.

As negative as the experience was, in some ways I am glad I had it, because it gave me a much deeper understanding of where my mind could go - both positive and negative.
I agree, I would think the same too.

But I think the combination of a social environment where none of your peers have that thought, and being too young/not trained to think critically results in large groups of people just following their animalistic instincts.
Yep. Log4Shell and Heartbleed were nasty security bugs, but imagine living in a world where every single software shop wrote their own logging libraries or SSL libraries. 99% of them would have far worse vulnerabilities. It would be like '90s php cowboy coding.
Classic "don't let perfect be the enemy of good".

Just because welfare cheats exist doesn't make welfare bad. The vast majority of recipients were worthy.
Yeah,we know. But consider the this: your baseline is a shit laptop. Apple knew they were releasing a turd. Maybe even did so semi-intentionally because that would make new chips seem even better.

My personal Ryzen 5800H powered Lenovo doesn't overheat and I haven't heard the fan I over a month despite doing all kinds of lightweight development and browsing on it.

Meanwhile, my fairly expensive work issued 6 core Intel Xeon Lenovo from 2019 sounds like it's about to take off throughout most of the day.
Ah, so LHC ruled out some supersymmetries, but not all of them?

Is there a finite number of possible supersymmetries? So that with high enough energy you can rule out all of them? Or can you just make up new ones with ever increasing energy needed to rule them out?
Crop-CLIP: Search for objects in an image
At least here work language is English comments, jira tickets, code and so on. even when orginal team is fully native Finnish speakers next guy might not.
Exact same issues, I just changed my MB Pro Intel core i9 16" for a M1 Max 16", it's the biggest technological jump I have ever seen and the M1 Max is even cheaper.
Oh sorry, my bad!
Code (variables, ...) are always in english, they are most of the time shorter than german words.

Comments are in my native language, if i am absolute sure, that this code will not be used by any other people.
I have never felt like google search was slow. So I would say they are within the range of acceptable times.
Ironically the maintainers can always say "fuck you, pay me", but they don't, because they know blaming is a good thing.
Some day we will have native browser support for the full URL showing in the status field.