skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For clarification, you're not referring to "contributing features [you] needed" or fixing bugs on the clock as funding? That's probably a nice thing, unless nobody needs a particular feature except the people who fund you at an hourly rate, but it's not "funding the FOSS" you use. That's when you give someone money. You can't eat features and bugfixes - without the rug-pulling you're decrying here.

FOSS is licensing, not religion. Rug-pulling a project from people who are enjoying using it isn't "anti-FOSS" IMO. This may not apply to you, but for all the contrast that OSS people project between their pragmatism and Free Software people being insane religious zealots on a jihad against money, OSS advocates seem to imbue a lot of flaky new agey spiritism into what FOSS is or isn't.
Misra C
I know a community you might like.
We haven't seen a photon ring yet, and when we do, there won't be that much information in them. Perhaps after technology has advanced another 1000X...
I, for one, thought he was hilarious. I wish he were my dad.
As with anything important that the powerful can’t easily make money or increase influence by, it will only get their focus once it’s a red hot emergency.
The biggest difference I've found is which apps you can use from the Google Play Store. Calyx supports microG, which allows you to access the Play store via front-ends like Aurora. It also works with F-Droid, as mentioned below.

I also notice things like push notifications work just fine with Calyx, and not on Graphene, which I think is due to microG and/or Firebase.

I think there is some additional hardening that Graphene does as well.

If your goal is the most possible privacy and security, I'd go with Graphene. For a much-improved privacy, mostly non-Google experience, where you can still use Maps or your bank's app, I'd go with Calyx.
I know this article is about his cat-training program, but I can't resist the opportunity...

Even if you are not a jazz fan, listen to his record Mingus Ah Um. It is mind-blowingly brilliant. There is just nothing quite like it!
noDRM's post on MobileRead: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4187904&pos...
Biggie-er.
Yard -> Gard/Jard -> Garden. Mind blown.
The Mediterranean diet study [0] is correlation analysis, not causation. As in, the purported vicious cycle may not exist, but both may be symptoms of something else.

I skimmed the 4h/night study too. [1]

Not sure whether it holds up. People eat a little more if they sleep half as much. Maybe people generally bad at avoiding hunger cravings, and more time awake means more giving into cravings?

"People consistently eat while awake" wouldn't be a good paper, I guess.

(I have to ask whether the purported 20g more fat is a typical amount for a meal, 8g more saturated fat. That's butter, lard, cheese, cured meats.)

EDIT: I looked at the Fiber intake paper too [2]. The dataset from the origin study excludes so many people (such as poor sleep quality people?) I wonder who is left:

> Some exclusion criteria included shift work or any work that required frequent travel across time zones, metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, smoking, and eating disorders, sleeping disorders, or neurological disorders. Further exclusion criteria included the use of medication, including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and other medications for insomnia. The presence of sleep disorders, excessive daytime sleepiness, and poor sleep quality were also exclusionary, and were assessed with the Sleep Disorders Inventory Questionnaire, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, respectively.

Not to say this is p-hacking, but excluding people who report poor quality sleep seems very odd for someone recommending diets to improve sleep.

The author also says stuff in there like "Clinical studies have shown that sleep restriction leads to increased energy intake, energy intake from snacks, and intake of energy-dense foods." yet their citations are both correlation analysis.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231522/

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142720/

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702189/
He got banned on GitHub for what he did to his GitHub repos. I don't see how that's bizarre.
I am responding in good faith. It is possible that there is a genetic component, but isn't prevalence of paraphimosis about 1%[1] for males over 16. Some would say circumcision for such a small gain is not the best trade-off.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459233/
I think you're reading that a bit too literally.
I'm not the author, see their writeup here: https://qntm.org/wordle
So, why would you need all the crypto if an authority provides you the value?

One day people will get that crypto is an implementation detail raised to a cargocult status.
You're intrinsically working with thousands of developers with any ecosystem like this; some of which you'd likely never hire in a million years.

It is what it is. How would you fix it?
Hello from Philo!

We were seeing drops of a few minutes each day, but as of December we've gone days without even the slightest interruption. We had to really work to get Dishy to not have any obstructions, but since then it's been great:

https://pics.rickosborne.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01...

We also have Ukiah Wireless, point to point microwave, as a backup. I use it for my work uplink as it has more stable upload bandwidth than Starlink. And when we had those really bad storms over the last few weeks, Starlink definitely struggled more than microwave.
Unless I'm missing something, the data for long-term impacts of COVID infection are still coming in - and will be coming in for years. The data we've got to date is for a definition of "long" that is somewhat short.
Another way to look at it - under what system are they (claiming to be) suffering?

Naturally they'd align with a competitor system, most likely the most prominent one

Tbh, though, from my brief reading of the subreddit in question, I don't think it is particularly politically charged or cohesive. Sounds more like a lot of people with aligned complaints gathering to, well, complain

Curious to see whether this will extrapolate from the US to other places, too
It’s really interesting to hear this - because I spend a lot of time in rooms with emergency managers who ask “how can we meet people where they are to get the message out?”

What you are describing sounds a lot like an emergency weather radio - if you live in the US and don’t have one, please get one. It is reliable, fast, fault tolerant and easy to “tune” for the alerts that are relevant for you. Also - they carry non-weather alerts for terror attacks or other events.

Something similar for the digital space would be amazing . It’s an idea that was knocked around when FirstNet was created in the 700mhz space, but never really had legs.
What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa? (2021)
I concur.

The author of the packages wants to use the fact that there are so many downloads to justify their position that they should pay him. The only reason the downloads exist was because he gave it away free.

If the author had started by charging a license fee, they would have close to 0 downloads. Someone else would have made a library to wrap strings in ansi-escape characters and pull random values out of data packages assembled by the Perl community.

The author does seem to be having some sort of mental health crisis at the moment. I hope they get the help they need.
I don't think anyone is confused about why people prefer permissive licenses. People enjoy benefits without costs or responsibilities, unsurprisingly.
An unfortunate solution because it might be the right one at the cost of maintainability and repo size
Of all the awful legal takes I've seen on this site, yours is an early contender for best of 2022.

> No warranty means he isn't liable for any behavior of the software at all.

Somebody should tell all those computer virus authors, all they had to do was not include a warranty, and they're untouchable!
N.N. Taleb: Claims That Violence Has Dropped Are Not Statistical
This Mysterious Computer Could Prove Time Travel Exists
I don't get the worry about the NP complete problem of tiling a finite area.

Yes, of course, if you allow arbitrary adjacency rules then tiling is going to be NP complete but the goal here is to generate realistic tilings then it's reasonable to assume that if you have a compact connected region that obeys the tiling rules and any square there is some tile that is allowed to be placed in that square.

I mean this is how the real world works. You don't have holes in reality so if it's possible to have a part of the world that looks like such-and-such there must be a valid description of the stuff next to it.
Mercury excitation produces many more wavelengths of emission that are harmful: http://zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu/articles/lightsources/mer...

A single wavelength emission from a far-UVC led source is therefore safer.
What a silly policy. Who but the most short-sighted possible person would quit after only two weeks on a job? That's not enough time to know if it'll work out and $5,000 is less than the monthly take-home pay for many software engineers.

Wait until six months in, and offer three months' salary. Then you'll see who wants to stay and who doesn't.
Reddit's right to moderate what content they host isn't under challenge here.

The problematic behaviour is advocating for a ban on the discussing these ideas.
> hardly anyone else will

That's a democracy. Not a problem.
Not at the moment, but the migration should be pretty straightforward if you don't use the more elaborate color functions from `colors` (e.g. we don't have things like "zebra").

If you use `require('colors/safe')` and only use the basic colors, then Chalk is more or less a drop-in replacement.

If you use the property values (e.g. `"my string".green`) then you'll need to change that to `chalk.green("my string")`.
Google found out something similar the hard way. It first programmed the cars to follow the rules strictly, other drivers didn't like this as they didn't act like other drivers, so they relaxed some of the rules.
Damn't I didn't mean compact connected. I meant that if you have a convex region you can extend it. Obviously, non-convex regions can raise problems (e.g. maybe tropical rainforest can't transition to tundra in the space of a single tile). But it should work with convex regions.
> In time, I expect to see COVID will have reduced the antibiotic resistance seen so commonly in hospitals, because of the routine deep cleaning regimes now employed and routine wearing of facemasks by all inside a hospital.

I’m a bit confused. For the first part, do you mean “increased antibiotic resistance” (not decreased) with the increased deep cleaning, which cannot really be perfect in an environment that has so many illnesses around? Or are tou saying that the deep cleaning is so good that all germs are killed and thus there are no chances of mutations surviving and spreading?
This is what the folks working on WASM/WASI and related projects are trying to achieve.

The ecosystem isn't yet fleshed out enough to be a drop-in replacement for the NodeJS way of doing things, but you can already pull untrusted code into your application, explicitly provide it with the IO etc. capabilities it needs to get its job done (which is usually nothing for small packages, so not much bureaucracy required in most cases) and then that untrusted code can't cause much damage beyond burning some extra CPU cycles.

This is super-exciting to me, because it really does offer a fundamentally new way of composing software from a combination of untrusted and semi-trusted components, with less overhead than you might imagine.

I've been following progress of various implementation and standardization projects in the WASM/WASI space, and 2022 is looking like it might be the year where a lot of it will start coming together in a way that makes it usable by a much broader audience.
I agree to a point - the past is a good source of inspiration in how to raise a child, since it's been so long and we're all the results. But what's your take on slapping a tantrum-throwing child ? Something I think was very popular before and is still in the nativist cultures you describe (and I fondly remember my father solving the problem that way and me learning the limits and feeling I deserved it eventually) that is now hard to do without feeling you cheated or did something wrong.

I know I did twice in my daughter's short life, to show the limits (like she was hitting me violently for some random tantrum and would not stop whatever patient approach we tried so I showed her that was totally out of bound by giving her a nice slap - something my dad swore by) and she started telling people around about it and instead of support for the parent and "you probably deserved it" for the child like I had as a child, people panicked as if I was a child molester so I won't do it again (and actually found distraction strategies that we both find hilarious now and disarm any tantrum so... probably was wrong not to try harder indeed)
It can be a challenge working with in-house PR people, that's for sure. It's basically impossible to hire science communications people.

A friend of mine has a science degree, is a best-selling NYT author for science-related humor books, and applied to a Science Communication program at UC Santa Cruz. They rejected her because their intent was to take journalists and teach them science, and not take scientists and teach them journalism.
There's now a keyboard as in wordle, and a writeup by the author:

https://qntm.org/wordle
Folders have tabs, keyboards have spaces
Is there any project or organization that forks non-corporate packages and verifies updates? Rouge developers and hackers will continue to be a problem. If such a project doesn’t exist, would you use it? And ultimately would you pay for it?
> But if I upload an image to Wikimedia Commons, it's no longer "my" image and Wikipedia has the right to keep using it even if I want to change or delete it.

It's the license you choose that gives people that right or not. It has nothing to do with which site you upload to.
I'm sure there are. I was responding primarily to the last sentence of 'tjs8rj's post. Given the circumstances surrounding the creation and early growth of the subreddit it's rich to say that Marxist discourse has ruined it...
Guess with the "Silicon Valley" series wrapped up, writers gotta still write.
Amen.

Another way to put it is that a chicken was once an egg, so even if "the chicken came first," that chicken was once an egg.
Actually, the chicken and the egg one is the least subjective on the list. There is only one correct answer. The egg came first. Its called evolution. At some point, a chicken like creature laid an egg, and the egg hatched into what we know as a chicken. A chicken like creature didn't transform into a chicken while it was alive.
Got any references? Any links? How many of these projects have failed because their moderation failed, because Greater Fuckwad theory took over?

This is pushing into far off frontier territory, but I see few real options about it, so I'll lay down my cards. We need social web protocols[1], as a groundwork for innovation, for trying different things, for different folk making ongoing progress towards their own success. That diversity is the only hope we have of revealing greater wider paths. It doesn't have to be these particular protocols cited, but open, interoperable social is the basis where we can start to formulate ideas of moderation & response. You've made a lot of gesticulartion that we've tried a lot, but frankly, I have a hard time pinning down any of your various "we've tried this, it's no good" naysaying shitthrowing to any particular sites, and just one site failing seems to mean a lot to you, but it means very little to me. I don't see that you have even the faintest remotest appreciation for how much exploration & possibility is open. This attitude that connectivity is all a-priori doomed to fail is shit, is weak, is cowardice. Fuck this x1000. I don't think we've started to try, your protests give me no evidence to the counter.

(editor note: why you got downvoted on your last reply is shit. downvoting is such a stupid plague. nothing you've said is bad or wrong.)

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/social-web-protocols/
I actually do this, on occasion. (Not 100%, and not to a degree I'd say "yeah, I'd've caught this colors/fakers thing." But enough to say that I've seen a decent sample.)

There is literally, on average, no difference in average quality between commits on FOSS projects, and commits on projects we pay external entities for. Some paid projects are just crap code, and some FOSS code is extremely high quality.

I've had to roll-back / hard-pin dependencies from both low-quality FOSS & low-quality paid projects because of commits that — once you find & read them — are just bananas.

(I have no idea how to solve the root problem here, honestly.)
But why though? If I do the same to a repo I own, will I be banned? What if I introduced a infinite loop in a library I maintain? Just because the library was popular and had millions of downloads, doesn't mean it must be treated differently.

People cannot argue that it is open source with a license which expressly doesn't have any warranties, and then cry foul if the author deletes it for whatever reason. If it was that important, you should've had better processes in place.
You need a swivel chair and a one meter radius of empty space. You need to touch-type, and you can't use a mouse (you point your head instead). You have to learn a system of hand gestures.
But if you can adapt to the constraints, a VR workstation allows you to bypass limits like Fitt's Law [1] so you can work "at the speed of thought".
Just like vim or emacs, VR is slower and more difficult at first.
But in the long run, using it provides an advantage, and so it will be used.

Will the future of VR productivity be open-source projects like SimulaVR? [2]
Or will it all be part of Facebook's Metaverse? [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

[2] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

[3] https://tech.fb.com/connect-2021-our-vision-for-the-metavers...
I remember those protests. I’m an American, but was living in Canada at the time. Some made me nervous- “fuck the Americans.”

I’m very glad Canadians made their voices heard, and their leaders listened.

But those protestors weren’t exactly questioning the (non-existent) evidence, as they were saying “fuck the Americans.”

It reminded me of footage from the Seattle 1999 WTO protests.

It’s better that be said before a war, rather than during. But still not fun to watch.
I obviously agree with you, but setting 3 spaces is so tempting.
unclear: without the presence of dark matter, does this galaxy still rotate the same way as one with dark matter? if not, perhaps this is a disintegrating fragment
tbh he might try not to pay back anyways, but they might close his upwork account, so the payment method is irrelevant here, isn't it?
Which is why you pull through a private mirror that doesn’t respect delete?
I noticed a few years ago that my bank didn't use much in the way of dependencies for their website (possibly just jQuery) - clearly they agree that depending on React opens you up to depending on... who knows what.
It seems like you are simply agreeing that only some autistic people are disabled, and so autism isn’t a disability or disease.

You say people at the “extremes” are disabled, but that’s not true, because there are “extreme” savants who are not disabled.

Nobody is disputing that there are autistic people who are disabled, the claim is simply that autism doesn’t always mean disability.
NeROIC: Neural Object Capture and Rendering from Online Image Collections
Antibiotics need to kill bacteria but leave human cells alive. Deep cleaning can kill everything. It's a lot easier for bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics than it is to deep cleaning.
Working on someone's software that they make no money from isn't "paying" it forward or in any direction.

> it stops being yours, but you benefit from having a huge number of people improve it for you

It stops being yours, but somehow everyone who works on it can say they're helping you. This isn't fair. You don't have to pay for it, but fixing and adding features to the software that you use to make a living can't be counted as charity work.
That's exactly what SBCL does, for example.
Apologies for the naked plug, but I've had so many clients over the years try and fail to get cross-platform apps to work that i'm currently working to try make something that will actually work, freed from the incentives of the big companies pushing eg flutter and RN. It's slow going however... if you think there's a future in this kind of thing, consider asking your boss to sponsor it to help speed development? The idea is to write in a Swift-ish language, compiled to native code on both platforms, and wrap the native components, but do it in a way that learns the lessons from eg RN's difficulties to include a sensible cross-platform navigation component.
(the project is github.com/soniclang/sonic)
There's a difference between stopping to give away your stuff for free and acting maliciously.

If I give away donuts for free and stop at some point, you have no right to complain. If I poison the donuts because you should've really thrown money at me for those donuts that I explicitly marked as free, I think you could complain after all.
Isn't reordering struct members something that compilers should do automatically? Are there scenarios where reordering produces undefined behaviour?
> Should I get paid for my multiple contributions to faker (I don't think I should)?

The biggest thing that excites me about the possibilities for the future of smart contracts is that creators of all kinds could automatically benefit from any work they do.

This scenario, for example: Any company that used faker.js to make a profit would have X% of that revenue feed back to the smart contracts. The creator would probably get the most, followed by the maintainer, then anyone who had a PR approved, then maybe people who submitted good bug reports. All automatically, and all directly in to everyone’s wallet.

Not only would this be an easy way for creators to get paid, it would also incentivize the maintenance of those creations.

And if you didn’t want to get paid, you could simply have funds directed to charity or opt out of your share entirely.
> unless the Debian packager somehow provides negative QA, which seems unlikely

It has happened before. Last time there was anything major was over a decade ago though.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00...
he probably wouldn't make a very tasty meal anyway
Someone else posted: AIRED, BOOTS, PLUNK, CHUCK and that works in 4.

The best I had gotten myself was five.
Now I’m starting to worry for them and their mental health.

Hope they are ok.
> GitHub rarely takes action against accounts

well, this just made the Hacker News front page a few minutes ago :-D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29870151
A FOSS license is generally “anyone can do whatever they like with this code provided they include this copyright notice”, and maybe some other conditions. “Anyone” here definitely includes NPM, so NPM is free to distribute, modify, host, or do anything else they like to your package provided they abide by those terms.
This is so dumb.

If you don't want fortune 500 corps to use your software, use license like Affero GPL, nobody will touch it. Don't put it in MIT.
What are the tracking implications of this? With a fixed IP, ad companies wouldn't have to do any fancy fingerprinting