skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify Model for Open Source
Today I watched this excellent video on yet another open source horror story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15DP5zqnYE.

It led me to ponder how other ecosystems like Spotify, Youtube, Twitch, and others incentivize creators and create a path towards a sustainable lifestyle.

Why isn't leading a massive project like FFMPEG as lucrative as being a successful Twitch streamer or Youtuber?

I realize this isn't a novel idea, but could a GitHub or equivalent entity solve open source sustainability by providing revenue sharing based on metrics like dependent projects or total downloads?
>Unemployment ranged from 5.40% to 10.4% in the 80s and is 4.2% now.

That's because of an increasing number of magic tricks the neoliberal governments (which includes both Rep and Dem, and any major party in Europe on the last 30+ years) have agreed on to make it appear so. Makes them appear as having done their job (no pun intended).

Things like not counting people giving up on job hunting, and especially avoiding any qualitative comparison, and counting any kind of shitty precarious non-job as a job. Hell, if it isn't the case already, I'm pretty sure "Uber Driver" and "Amazon Mechanical Turk signee" will also sure count towards reduced unemployment.

>The US of the 60s and 70s was so choked by smog and industrial pollution

Yes. And still the US had less CO2 production, less plastic waste, and more sustainable lifestyle.

You're taking a by-product of 1970s car exhausts as if it's a permanent given.

We could go back to 1960 levels CO2 production, less consumption (e.g. no fast fashion, less fast food) and so on. And we could do it without giving up modern exhausts, hybrids, and electric cars.

>Forrest coverage was lower, and numerous species that have now recovered were going extinct, like the bald eagle.

2022 really doesn't want to start an argument about extinguished species with the 1960s.

>The 1960s sucked

Not the experience of most who lived through them and herald them as a great age, or even many who didn't live them, and still consider them so.

>there was political upheaval

Far better, more progressive, and forward looking political upheaval than in the last 10 years...

>the Cold War, the Cuban Missile crisis, global spanning totalitarianism, frequent political assassinations

So, business as usual. Though I'm not sure what bearing exactly the have in this conversation. We can have the positive things I've mentioned about the 60s (which were about levels of employment, consumption, sustainability, etc.) without the "cuban missile crisis" and "frequent political assassination" and so on. Those are historical incidents. The things I pointed at are things we can adopt or not.

>Jim Crow, and on and on.

The 60s was the era that got rid of the last of Jim Crow laws.
What if that's the case? What if me replying to you is nothing more than some atomically basic mechanism of statistical inference and randomness? Your entire perception of my personhood could be based on a sense of verisimilitude without significant reasoning to set me apart from a transcendant spirit.

What then? Would you be less forgiving of my mistakes if you knew? Would you be less proud of work we collaborate on?
Which some would see as a partial argument against lockdowns.
I wasn't speaking about optimism, but just the general culture here. I am fine with vegetarianism or whatever, but making me feel awkward and imposing that on others is bothersome. "I feel like eating meat is immoral"... while I am eating a sausage pizza. I should clarify, he wasn't a proper friend, just a co-worker.

They don't want a brighter future. That's the message I am getting. In some ways that's pessimism, no?

One more anecdote - I had a someone from work come over to help me for moving furniture. He goes "Why do you want to have kids? Do you really want to bring them into this world?". It's this pervasive sense of pessimissm that emanates from this culture. I am pretty convinced.
i assume that the immunity you get from having O helps damp down cases of D
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Coloradan here:

I have Omicron. Already caught the virus in February 2021, good old OG Alpha Covid, which resulted in mild symptoms and loss of sense of smell for 7 months.

My only symptom is a mild runny nose, nothing else. I WISH I had colds this mild. We have a new virus that is endemic in humanity. We can choose to accept it, protect the vulnerable like we do with flu, and get on with our lives. Or we can continue to allow the news media to enervate us with non-stop panic, and choose existing over living, while fucking over kids to protect older adults.

My father is a rabid viewer of MSNBC, lacks mathematical or critical thinking skills, and doesn't read much. The result is he has been in a constant panic since the virus hit, and has isolated himself from family in a manner that has been detrimental to his health. This despite being vaxxed, boosted, and recovered from a mild post vax delta breakthrough infection. He still thinks the virus can kill him, and cancelled Christmas Eve plans for 5 of us to go to his house. The media has polluted his brain with irrational fear. His shitty physician (where I grew up is a dirt poor rural county, and the MDs there are the dumbest i've ever met) told him that "there is no natural immunity to COVID, it doesn't exist." Utter nonsense. As if my immune system (I wasn't eligible for the vaccine in Feb 21) fought, then cleared the virus from my body with some mysterious, unidentifiable mechanism that is completely unrelated to how it clears other viruses.... just unbelievable.

The virus was deadly because it was novel. It ceases to be novel when your immune system acquires memory T-cells, even if you no longer have active antibodies present. If you are old enough, or have a deteriorated immune system, the lag of producing new antibodies can be very problematic with the other strains of COVID, which is why boosters are so crucial for high-risk groups.

The data is now this:

People in their 70s who are VACCINATED have a lower death rate from Omicron than they do from flu. (If they aren't vaxxed, this is obviously not the case.)

See the New York Times, which is a very hawkish paper on COVID, for that specific stat:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/briefing/omicron-risk-mil...

FWIW, David Leonhart is one of the only journalists at the NYT who seems to be remotely literate in data and statistics writing about COVID. That newsroom is essentially filled with people who haven't studied math since high school, despite their degrees from Columbia/Yale/Harvard journalism schools. And boy does it show.
They're tourists in an area where they're uncommon. Outside places where they are very numerous, people always treat tourists well. It's simple, really.
I think it is very useful, for example, I would not know "uvm handler" was unlocked without this issue. May not be a multi-page zine, but it has nice and useful I can look into elsewhere when I have time.

So I do not need to keep track of multiple sources for OpenBSD. Just this and the OpenBSD Journal
The original promise of Java was cross-platform user-facing visual apps. (Which is why Gates was scared of it.) This promise certainly failed to deliver.

Instead Java is now Cobol 2.0, but nobody lost sleep over this fact.
> Someone owning a car without using it to generate income

The point is you're just _making up_ the "fact" of people not using their cars to generate income.

Cars depreciate when you drive them, people recognize their value as capital, the IRS recognizes their value as capital.

You're idiotically trying to pretend that they don't count as capital. For no real reason either. Just because you said something stupid before and you can't admit it.

> market makers, which is about as valuable a service as it gets

LOL!!
Maskers and vaxxers are the real insurrectionists.

Fake virus. Fake vaccine. Fake politicians.

We are coming for you. We will utterly destroy the Democrat/CCP Party. We will ensure the democrat party is forever buried in the annals of history.
Is https://aboutfeeds.com/ an answer to #2 and/or #5?
It's really absurd that this has to be stated in writing! If a "friend" would cut you out of a portion of their life because of something as trivial as what smartphone messaging platform you use, well, I have some bad news for you...
> I think of Kotlin as what would happen if a Java developer looked at Javascript and asked "okay, but what if this didn't suck?"

I think you mean "what if we took C# and put it on the JVM"? /s

Honestly, C# has had most of the features Kotlin "adds on" to Java for years, even decades.
> Since when can you not drink on a plane?

Since the pandemic started you can't drink alcohol on planes, at least in the US (I realize this was happening overseas but I suspect that rule is not just the US). I've heard a flight attendant say it's a $10K fine for drinking on a plane now but I don't have confirmation/sources on that, I just know all US flights include a no alcohol announcement since the start of the pandemic. Vaping is also illegal on planes, having nothing to do with the pandemic, for the same reason as smoking (shared air space).
Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic
Slotted, a signup sheet app. Launched in 2013. Biggest users are:

- college professor office hours

- comedy open mic

- pizza ordering

- covid testing

- misc one-on-one meetings

- potluck parties

https://slotted.co
Yet it is predominantly the unvaccinated who are overwhelming hospitals with more severe cases. In NYC it is something like 15x difference -- 30 per 100000 unvaccinated versus 2 per 100000 vaccinated people wind up requiring hospital care. Those may be small numbers, but with omicron clearly being both more contagious and evading prior immunity it rapidly becomes problematic.
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Yes, that's one of the many ways quote marks work.
Big companies sending executives of smaller companies to jail over arcane laws is a thing.

Being fully compliant is very hard. Or requires lots of bribes or both.
(one of the authors here) it was written in Typescript from the start! Typescript eliminated a bunch of type confusion errors when developing the kernel, although the need to marshal data across a MessagePort means we have to do some casting and lose some safety.
Mathematics Is Imprecise (2013)
It was an honest question. I don't understand it. But wait, are you saying people are doing this deliberately to prevent others from taking their work?
That's a good thing. The market is very good at empirically validating research. It helps filter out the chaff and ensure research is useful. Better than academia wasting years on concepts like the "semantic web" where nobody can even agree on what it means. Academia is under attack from many political directions right now, being able to show useful output will help it thrive in the long run.
Well, a panic arose on Twitter when conservatives discovered their crashed smart TVs started demanding the sacrifice of children... must have been all the daemons possessing our computers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/p4v7q3/the...
That is some world-class victim blaming right there. I've taken a screenshot of it and put it in one of my presos as an example.

I successfully coach 'impression' with my employees all the time. It's usually something like "you say 'um' a lot when you speak and it can distract from an otherwise great presentation; lets work on that" or "let's see what we can do to improve your business writing so your message is clearer". Sometimes it's "you need to practice better hygiene", "lets find a better way of expressing your opinions than calling your coworker a 'fucking idiot' in front of the team" or "your behavior is objectively creepy/offensive". Usually, when made aware, an adult will make an effort at least to improve; but there's always someone like you who says "everyone else in the world is the problem, not me...I should be able to do anything I want". And then you start managing them out the door.
I think that is the problem with modern day's Web Dev. ( Sorry )

With Cloud and SaaS. They are so abstracted from Hardware that their knowledge on basic hardware and server, everything from CPU, Storage I/O and Network are close to zero.
Java RMI services often vulnerable to SSRF attacks – research
Sorry about that (but congratulations anyways). But we have an old but explicit criteria that Best Student Papers are not included, as the Best Paper Awards we list have to consider every accepted paper as a candidate.
I'm interested in chatbots for learning foreign languages. In that scenario I really don't care how dumb the conversation is, just that it's grammatically correct.

Does anybody know of such a service?
Here's the thing: take home assignments typically come near the beginning of an interview process, even before one progresses to an on-site (or equivalent). Understandably, very few companies give a take home in place of the entire on-site. But, a take home generally doesn't get you out of any part of the 4-6 hour dog and pony show. Which would you rather do: 30 minute recruiter chat + 60 minute technical phone screen with a human + 4-6 hour on-site, or the same process with a "1 hour" take home that actually ends up taking 4 hours in place of the technical phone screen?

Incidentally, I have the same criticism of TripleByte. Sure, they get you on-site with companies faster, but their process takes a significant number of hours (essentially equivalent to its own on-site), and it doesn't get you out of any part of the prospective employer's on-site.
The converse is equally true: most people don’t use RSS because the largest content platforms prefer to deliver monetizable algorithmic suggestions.
At times I wonder if the EU decided that fines were the way to get a portion of the pie of all the American tech giants. They seem to be very effective at transferring the wealth periodically
I come from a rural environment. Sometimes it was literally about corn. But yeah, most often it was about mechanical stuff.
I stopped reading at the end of that obviously fake anecdote, how much credibility can the rest of the article have if they actually believe that story.
None of this has ever made me jealous or bothered me because I don't respect it. If I'm at a get together or a dinner party and someone tells me they're into crypto, or running startups etc, I don't care, I feel bad for them. "Making money" is not a passion. I have respect for things that existed 2000 years ago: namely craftsmanship whether its leather work or art or writing or music etc. Someone having a fat bank account doesn't bother me at all.
With remote work, geographic arbitrage can work both ways.
Myself: At a non-FAANG FAANG tier company. No, odds are more likely I'd fail.

Other close people I've asked before:

A, at Google, got in 10+ years ago. Told me she would not pass the current interviews.

B, at Google, an aquihire, 5+ years ago. Told me he would never have gotten in the front door (leetcode) way.

C, at Netflix, got in 5+ years ago. Told me odds are he would not pass if he were interviewing today. He says he is in a very interview un-ready state, and none of his realworld experience working at Netflix would help him pass his team's interviews.
They're competing to infect the next hosts in the chain. With two present, the one that can get itself passed on more often wins overall.
I've seen the coding questions we ask candidates... whether or not i would pass would depend 100% on which question(s) I was asked.

Something relevant to the work I do all the time? yes, I'd probably pass.

Something about some data structure or algorithm I haven't needed to use in four years that i now have 30 minutes to implement in code? I'd likely fail.

When something comes up in my actual job where i need to solve a problem i'm not familiar with, i first do some research on the problem and learn/remember what i need to know about it and related algorithms/data structures before doing any actual coding.

i certainly do not "immediately write code as fast as possible" when presented w an unfamiliar problem.

if you must ask candidates to work on coding problems, i believe that you should give them 3 or more problems and let them pick which one to work on for the actual "coding test" part of it.

Then maybe have a conversation about the other problems to get a sense of how they would think about/approach them w/o actually making them write code.
I'd like to think I'm someone who would fight to live, as is being discussed in this thread. But at the same time, in a situation like that where I'm completely unprepared to be shot at, I think immediately collapsing is probably the right strategy. If I keep struggling to escape I'm just gonna get shot again.
I don't think we can model it accurately, but we can look to other viruses as examples. The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is still only about half as contagious as measles.

https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/what-is-r0/
Well you can look at this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q...

(it's recent data, from NY, so - likely a lot of omicron)
So your position is a company should pay the same $ for the same job, no matter where the person lives?

Why would I ever hire someone that lives in SF/Cali/NY?

In fact, why would I hire someone that lives in the US?
gaikai was doing this in the early 2010s for zero-day game release demos. java in the browser, streaming video and audio from servers, relaying back game input events.
It confuses me how different the rules and "truths" are all over the world.

At least when I caught Delta I had a sore throat and a runny nose to start. That was it for a couple of days.

There was an outbreak in my children's school so the family went to get tested.

It was only after that I got a cough and fever (and positive result). It wasn't until about day five I noticed I couldn't smell.

Public health where I'm at says basically everything is a possible Coronavirus symptom. They list headache, sore throat, runny/stuffy nose, congestion, fatigue, muscle aches, nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea, inability to smell, and pink eye.
I had to interact with one today.

Garbage company didn’t pick up my garbage. Chat not told me I didn’t have service (I did), then told me I had recently paid them (now I have service?) then told me they couldn’t help me…

Probably one of the most common inquiries and it just failed.
Yes that is correct, it was a typo :(
Polar signals develops Parca [0] which is another eBPF observability tool, and Isovalent develops Cilium [1] which is built on eBPF as well. Genuinely curious if there are differences, or if eBPF only allows for specific observability functionality and each tool has it all.

[0]: https://github.com/parca-dev/parca

[1]: https://github.com/cilium/cilium
Honestly I hope that one day it is gone for good but until then an endemic situation would be somehow better than a pandemic one.
I didnt say that clearly and hoping for a, also, bad situation is not the best thing to whish for but after 2 years of pandemic I am whishing for something less bad….
To actually answer the question: because immunity from one transfers to the other.

Omicron is basically a self-administering vaccine that is preventing Delta from spreading as easily.
If Colorado passed legislature requiring cars to have better emission requirements, nobody would sell cars in Colorado.

If California passed that same legislature, every auto firm would update their cars to meet those emissions standards.

Which is exactly what happened.

When you're a big enough market, the cost of dropping you isn't worth the benefit of non-compliance. NYC is huge, and has a lot of jobs that people commute in to - which would all be affected by this.
Rhode Island Defends Using Covid-Positive Staff over Unvaccinated Workers
Yep, especially Omicron.

> This is the first evidence to show us that the rate of reinfection with Omicron is high—3 times higher than Delta. In other words, infection-induced immunity is not doing a great job at stopping Omicron.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-updat...
The Web0 Manifesto
> The protection of the law with the freedom to contract completely protects people from the oppression you speak of.

Except it doesn't, and countless wars, terrorism, and other violence and oppression whose root cause was to exterminate "the other," including Jews, Christians, Gypsies, homosexuals, Rohingya, Tibetans, Uighur, Sh'ia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and others have demonstrated otherwise.

I'm through with this discussion.
Keeping the peace means enforcing nonviolent interaction and providing due process for conflict resolution. Liberty isn't the same thing as prosperity/economic power. They are different words for a reason. You can be very poor and very free, or very comfortably enslaved. Liberty is fundamentally your relationship with those who can use legitimate force against you.
> I just can't have fun without alcohol.

Sounds like an alcoholic to me.
I still have an IRC chat bot (eggdrop module). It sounds more interesting than some of the bots I see today and which are supposed to be the result of intense ML engineering.

I guess the tricks did not evolve much.
I haven't used anything with GPT-3 first hand (chatbot or other use cases) so reading this article was one of my first exposure to it. It somewhat surprises me that a chatbot powered by GPT-3 doesn't seem that much different from the SmarterChild of AIM in the late 90s / early 00s. That was 20 years ago.

Short of any real break-through in AI, I feel that a chatbot just isn't something most consumers want to use.

A few years ago I bought into the chatbot hype for a while (the Facebook Messenger API opening up for building chatbots was a major catalyst for that particular hype cycle; that was when I was into it), and explored a lot in building one and other AI services that helped build one. It was quickly apparent that for the most part it's simply an iteration of the "answer machine navigation tree" that 800 numbers already had, just in text form.

There was a widespread notion at the time that users wanted chatbots for reasons like wanting to speak in a human langauage with a company to get what they need and solve problems as well as having context from chat history. I think the industry has confused the mechanism (the chat) with the intention (speaking with a human). Consumers prefer a chat sure, that's because they don't want to waste time being on hold on a phone (anyone who has called customer service at any big org or the gov't would know); but ultimately their intention is to speak with a human that can solve problems. When problems arise that require speaking to a human, that's usually not something a bot or a program could solve.
That would only be the case for the piece that collided though right? The side that wasn’t part of the collision should have retained its age information. Also, presumably Theia didn’t bounce off but just merged with the moon being formed from the piece of Earth on the opposite side from the collision that got ejected, right? So at most half the moon surface should be from the collision and half of it should have the age of the Earth?
Sten isn't prevented from earning an income. He's potentially less likely to get a job for which he isn't a good fit. Perhaps that means he'll get another one instead? That pays more, so he can eat even more expensive food? I don't think it does much good to speculate about further downstream effects.
Most of NY times content is non interactive. The reason why they don't want RSS isn't because RSS sucks, it's because everyone is trying increase user retention time in their apps to make shareholders happy.
A bit of a sidebar this was basically the plot of The Last Ship. With infrastructure of the world crumbling how do you distribute immunity without the manufacturing infrastructure.

So yeah I'd put it in a 'last ditch Hail Mary to save the world' type of plan...
Americans haven't yet begun to understand the full impact there.