skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You both feel right to me. We've found a vast amount of really important& exciting technology come from unhindered & unencumbered open sourcerers, people enjoying buding great things.

And I agree with you, that these people as their software ascends in use & importance, need support.

The term professionalization is dangerous to apply here though. There's a lot of baggage & constraint, power/hieraechy dynamics, employer/employee relationships that are no fun, are against the spirit of the thing. To have this vibrant, radical, free spirited altermative, & to turn around & try to consume the spirit of the thing, digest it into the the dun, boring, mundane mediocre shit-show world is a sure & sad way to wreck the thing. Yet these people deserve & need support somehow. Finding innovative ways to support those doing vast social good without binding & restricting them, without entailing them into your projects & curtailing their potential.

That all said, at this point, we just need to start funding these people far far better, step 1. These concerns about whether professionalization see destroys our golden vibrancy are abstract when so few (& only such select industrially useful) projects garner any support at all.
YouTube was losing over a billion dollars per year for a long time. It is going to be tough to take them head on as a direct competitor.
It's not an animated pie chart, but you can look at the complete data here :

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1flUGg6Ut4bjtyWdyH_9e...

Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
Redistribution from creditors to debtors is good. And it's not that stealth given we're talking about it.
I found this video very interesting, on the same wavelength as Dimond

Facts about Africa's Geography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fof9xZA7dpg
welp! time to forget about Vimeo... forever that is...
Google hangouts is going away because Google is making yet another chat product. There are Easter eggs in Google hangouts. You can find them by looking at JavaScript.
> And yet the company had a painful/useless onboarding process.

I don't see any evidence it was useless. It had some parts not useful to the author. But it's ridiculous to expect a tailor-made onboarding experience that comprehensively and exclusively touches on things you personally need to know.

Nor did I see anything other than the length really that painful. Oh no, the author was asked to type in front of people on their nonpreferred keyboard and was clumsy about it (returned to several times)! They were bad at using the internal directory tool and felt frustrated! The clock gave them anxiety!
I've added a marker to the centre of the circle. Thanks again
metacafe? the true indie tube
Sure, but it’s for legal responsibility. I’m talking about marketing, i.e. lies/false promises and/or error inducing landing pages regarding the reality of the project. It was not general point about all OSS projects, but to point a difference between projects that are part of a dishonest business strategy (company or personal) and “classic” OSS.
For larger objects with a larger subtended angle, we are probably seeing the union of the Fourier transforms of each “pixel” (I’m not sure what the smallest element would be, in this case).
Definitely agree here. I've seen this firsthand in crisis ranging from car crashes to service outages. If nobody has a definition of success in these situations, then everybody is going to be chasing a soccerball like a group of toddlers and nobody is going to score a goal.
What is the YouTube alternative, then?
mitmproxy is explicitly intended as an interactive MITM for debugging: "your swiss-army knife for debugging, testing, privacy measurements, and penetration testing".

What you're talking about here was never a goal. And being in Python means it's much easier to extend, which is also greatly useful.
Check out bettercap
Yeah that's why people like to underestimate that paying for YouTube makes sense.

Being able to provide that mich storage and video transcoding and traffic is not a cheap thing to do right.

Even yt reduces video resolution for less watched videos.
I haven’t left the industry but do live rurally and have considered getting some sheep for personal cheesemaking. Do you also shear them on any regular interval? Is that even necessary for any reason? If you do, do you sell the wool? I’ve seen it going in farmers markets for quite high prices, although I’m not familiar with the processing requirements.
Put another way - this comes out to $0.12 per view for a 2 hour video (assuming low views per video).

Considering the cost of bandwidth, you can't get that much better.
Which makes them basically meaningless as questions.
I've been thinking of a definition of strategy for quite a long time alongside a friend and colleague. We opted for the following: Strategy the link of useful choices which need to be taken to reach a new desirable state starting from the current state.
I admire Switzerland's system, where the people can petition for a referendum to delete any law they don't like.

This forces the politicians to negotiate with motivated minorities before creating new laws.

Instead in the U.S. we allow rich people and corporations (who are not voters!) to give money to politicians. In most other democracies this is illegal and considered to be corrupt.
Is there any benchmark against squid proxy in regards of cpu and memory usage?

Anyone has expiernce with it or can recommend something else?
I'm sure everyone who worked on Rust have their own "goals" with the language, that also changed over time. The language and ecosystem is now big enough that there isn't a single reason for Rust existence anymore, there are many.

But according to the OG author of Rust, the elevator firmware where he lived crashed often, so: "I'd been sad about software and thinking of doing a language for a while, but "elevator can't even go" just seemed so pathetic.". Hence Rust was born. See https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/1492634815748739077 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30321747
Sorry, but I have to disagree. It IS elitist, the sort of law that a detached lawmaker would make, with no concern about its impacts on regular people. Again, do we outlaw beef consumption, road trips, flying, older cars, leaving the lights on when nobody's home, more than 2 kids...? All these things contribute to air pollution, but we don't want them to be illegal. Yes, even if it means worsening climate change.

If idling is such a big problem, legislating adaptive technology (auto on/off) is a better solution.

If it is really about the billions of underprivileged humans and animals suffering from climate change, we need mass mobilization on the scale of the Manhattan Project or bigger, across multiple coordinated nations... not hunting down people who idle their cars more than 2 minutes. It's just the sort of thing that's neither necessary nor sufficient for addressing climate change, yet with a big social cost (distrust), which makes the working class hate environmentalists even more. It is the exact kind of elitist regulation popular in the 90s and early 2000s that caused a huge cultural backlash and created the climate divide we see now. It's not just regressive but counterproductive.
By that definition, every price change is a redistribution of wealth (which is technically true).

The question is whether it's intentional, and it's impossible to imagine the people in charge of every world government would be enraging their citizens by creating inflation.

Simpler: people saved money during the pandemic at the same time as supply chains were disrupted, leading to high prices.

Every government in the world has the same problem.
These people must have been incomprehensibly adept at stilt walking, can you imagine using them everyday for work over decades? The closest thing we have today are circus performers, and even then I imagine they spend much less cumulative time ambling around on unsteady ground.
I’ll concede this point in specialized areas: these companies are able to pay top of band for ML researchers and data scientists. 10 years ago I’d have agreed that G and F had the best. But now, knowing many many engineers who work there, my anecdotal and very subjective assessment is that they don’t exactly demonstrate an advantage. Especially if the task is pure ( non leetcode ) development of a software product, I would even go so far as to say they’re at a distinct disadvantage.
I mean, the example with the Saudi app is “just different”. It is you who are assigning a certain connotation to it. For example, Saudi culture may value keeping women safe and maintaining social cohesion, and this is a great example of fusing technology to fit a culture. Additionally, Saudi has a lot of cultural diversity that is easy to miss if you only look at the advertisements or news. Many of those in Saudi may not even find the use of such an app to fit their culture, and agree with you.

Anyways, be careful of using an example as a cultural judgement of society. It’s important to practice cultural humility. judgements may reveal more about the one doing the judging than the one being judged.
> imo we should just be avoiding WW3. Everything else is secondary. Maybe that means Ukraine is not defendable.

I have to point out that this is also a Kremlin talking point, the idea that we should just let Russia have Ukraine because otherwise Russia will nuke the world, is literal Russian propaganda.

> the people who seem to be getting us closer to nuclear war are also the ones yelling "you're carrying water for Putin!" whenever anyone asks a question.

It's not "whenever anyone" asks a question, it's specifically when people who have steeped themselves in conservative media are saying the same things that the Kremlin is saying, almost in lock step. I understand you don't want to hear that your words are aligned with Russian propaganda, but that's what I see happening right now. The sentiments you are typing to me are the same sentiments I have seen for weeks coming from the Kremlin. My belief is that this is not organic.

I'm not calling you a Russian agent or anything, because I think I laid out clearly in my original post how you're getting to these conclusions. Obviously you read Greenwald, but are you also consuming the American conservative media that is being re-broadcast without censor on Russian state TV, because it's that on-message with typical Russian State TV broadcasts? If you are that would explain a lot.

And as far as the specifics of Putin's psyche not mattering to you, well I think it does. Because if you believe that Ukraine should surrender and that would be the best for everyone and avoid WWIII, you're tacitly making a judgement about Putin's psyche; you believe that if he gets Ukraine he would stop invading other countries. Because why wouldn't he, he's not crazy, right? Or maybe he is and he won't stop at Ukraine. If that's the case, surrendering Ukraine would not only not avoid WWIII, it would make it more likely because Russia would be emboldened and enriched. How you feel about that question speaks to how you feel about Putin, and what I understand from your comments to me, is that he's rationally attacking Ukraine for legitimate reasons that will be assuaged by ceding the country to him. Which, I for one, don't agree with.
Sharing can also be detrimental to general well being, depending on circumstances — what is being shared, by whom, and with whom.

For example, in many non-individualistic societies, if one is to come upon some extra wealth, in manner of for example successful hunt, bountiful harvests, or good government job, one is duty-bound to share that extra wealth with others in their clan or tribe. This disincentives trying hard and increasing productivity: if, through increased labor and investment in fertilizer you can double your yield, but then only get a small fraction of that gain for yourself, why bother trying in the first place? In fact, it might be better investment to obtain higher status in your clan or tribe, so that others will be bound to share more of their wealth with you.
> Seems like you just discovered doing micromanagement of people's time, and that you love practicing it.

This has zero to do micromanagement. Either your new hire onboards with dedicated staff in dedicated sessions, or that task falls upon the new arrival's team members. The need is always there, and forcing each team to allocate one or two members to do the job that a onboarding meeting does is hard or impossible to justify.

Keep in mind that the blog author talked about SSO and installing software.
A flight I took last week, TLV->SFO went within 20 miles of Ukraine -- it usually flew right over it. Today I'm on the flight back, and I've heard that they will be rerouting even further, and add about 25 minutes to the flight plan.

(Here's the old route: https://onemileatatime.com/el-al-sfo-tel-aviv-flight/)
The Hedge Knight does a wonderful job of contrasting Dunk's pure, steadfast insistence on doing what's right and upholding a knight's duty no matter the cost with the selfish meaningless insanity of the political machinations around him.

I was really excited to dig into the whole series based on how well the author pulled different elements together into that overall structure.

As I worked through the first book, I slowly realized "Oh. This is all about the meaningless sound and fury of political maneuver, backstabbing, and treachery, signifying nothing... along with an overdose of prurience."

What would take me pages to do (and hours to revisit the story) is explain in detail all the things that work so well and come together to make The Hedge Knight's overall effect what it is, and then to explain just how much that element is missing in A Game of Thrones.

I have absolutely no interest in revisiting A Game of Thrones in order to make this point thoroughly and well, so I doubt I'll ever write a full, detailed explanation of my disappointment.
It doesn‘t look like it as it appears that inflation is contributing to wealth inequality. Do you have any sources for your claims?
And a famous musician had parents with the means and ability to purchase lessons and encourage them to practice. I still say the musician should be respected and praised. We can play this game all day. Some will say no one does anything on their own, but I say creating Amazon is an incredible accomplishment worth of praise and study.
That sounds like significantly lower number of hours than a MacOS..?
Nice. I defintely did not mean a "pure LISP," just something, you know -- parentheses-y or similar.
Pretty much all invasions start with taking over resources and the longer they are part of your empire, it will become more integrated it becomes. And in a time of kingship and emperors most regions never got series political representation.

And its also a limited history of colonialism to claim its only wealth extraction above and beyond what other empires would do.

> while imposing an administration with no willingness to co-operate with local population

If anything Europeans because of their limited population had more intensive to do so.

The British take over of much of India was literally a vastly majority Indian affair. The war was fought by Indian troops, supplied by Indian merchants and farmers, it was financed by taking loans from Indian bankers. The amount of British people involved were almost vanishingly small given the size of India.

Did Indians have more control over involvement over India then Greeks did over Greece in the Ottoman empire?

I don't think you can make any generalization that European invasions of other countries were uniquely destructive or extractive compared to world history. There are certainty cases like Kind Leopold's regime in Congo but we can't reduce 600 years of European history to that.
No.

The future of your career is being good at what you do, having social connections, or ideally both.

Trying to jump into a less crowded field is not a long-term career solution, and the blockchain field already has more devs than it needs anyway. It's a gold rush.
So... Uhh... Just Nash bargaining? Or Shapley values result in the same outcome too in this case.
If you "explode with technology and capabilities" while externalizing a lot of their costs to future generations, what other outcome can you honestly expect? The future starts now.
Differential of average IQ by country might have something to say in this regard, but also this is very controversial (even if a meaningful and true contributing factor to differential between national achievement). Of course then the question is what produces this differential? Culture and environment producing some sort of selective pressure perhaps, with both feeding back into each other. Certainly the heritability of intelligence argues this is a biological phenomenon to some degree.
The Bengal famine was, as the name suggests, in Bengal ( modern day India and Bangladesh, not Pakistan).

> That's how the second world war was funded.

That's just a propostreous claim. It's a tragedy that claimed many lives and could have been averted, but it's absolutely not how the war was funded.
An American passport ID number changes every ten years, causing lots of problems when foreign banks (like Chinese ones) try to use it as a stable ID number. Source: personal experience.
I left SRE four months ago to become a VC investing in developer tools. I wanted to see if I can contribute to tech in other ways than writing code/getting paged. Liking it so far!
What is novel about an eight year old research paper on a radar system? The paper/article doesn't begin to describe what purpose the system serves.
ok didnt know that. But honstly I blindly asume that the capacity/cost ratio is still way higher compared to a non Blockchain system with same conditions. Thats generaly the problem. There are many solutions for a problem but there isnt a problem where blockchain and crypto are the best solution. They are mostly on the worse side of solutions....
Well, that just sounds like a pretty sad attitude, especially when it comes to a fun activity like video games. Any games that I work on - please feel free to look up guides(or cheat[0] or use mods or cheese them) if that makes you enjoy them more. I definitely won't judge, and I frankly don't see why anyone would. You beat dark souls by "getting gud"? Great for you. You beat it by looking up optimal strats for each boss and cheesing routes? Equally as good. It's not a competition. There are no medals at the end. The only "lame" thing here is people judging others on the internet for how they play games.

[0] as long as it's not a multiplayer game of course.
Shortsightedness is exactly the problem with daytrading.
This —nearly 10%— is a lot for a one of the oldest and biggest publicly available C++ codebases.

(First real public commit in gecko-dev is the historic open sourcing of the engine in 1998!)

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/3b56a9af51519d2e...
You can do even better than that. IRU could proxy your TLS connection to the identity provider, and you could prove to IRU in zero knowledge that the decrypted transcript verifies that your age is over some threshold, without IRU ever seeing your age, and without the provider having to run a signature service. Then IRU is the one who signs the attestation on your age.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/934.pdf
the supply of money in an economy has nothing to do with how long it takes to do something.
Since Android Nougat I think you cannot install user certificates unless you:
1. Root your device.
2. Add the certificate to the APK manifest.

I'm not well versed in Android changes, this is just the conclusion I came to when Nougat came out and haven't tried it again since.
If there's an easier way to use MITM with Android without modifying the APK / rooting your device, I'd love to know!
> Also, Vista is not regarded as a high point for quality

I dunno

it didn't have ads everywhere, mandatory telemetry, enforced Microsoft accounts or enforced automatic updates
It’s a crisis that leads to positive change.
Thank you so much for this. I can already tell we're on the same wavelength, and I'm looking forward to a lazy Sunday afternoon of reading.

>One interesting thing studying theology/philosophy/... is that my working set of metaphors has somewhat switched.

Believe it or not, I come from a literary background (my B.A. was in literature and I switched to a STEM field afterwards) so I know exactly what you mean. There's always a tension between picking the metaphor that's most fitting and the metaphor that your audience will understand.

On a related note, have you ever read Leibniz's Monadology [0]? It's an attempt at a bottom-up, constructive approach to proving the existence of God. Unsurprisingly, it fails at this task, but I've always been fascinated by how close he gets, at least on the surface. You have to think very hard to see where the proof breaks down; I had to look it up.

[0] https://plato-philosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-...
Pretty sure the airplane will, not the passengers inside.
Convenience is often the biggest enemy of privacy.
Covid-19 antibodies found in 15% of Massachusetts deer tested
I worry that if the majority of open source contributors professionalize, then we're left with something that resembles top-down directed corporate work (and an absence of a lot of the freedom that draws people towards developing free and open source software in the first place).

Proprietary and corporate players are equally useless at securing their supply chains; I don't love that (from my perspective) they're now blaming and trying to coerce open source to become more like them to ostensibly fix the same problems they propagate themselves.

I'm not a security nihilist: I think improvement is possible. But in my experience, not many corporate managers or project sponsors ask for removal of features and reduction of attack surface.
I've been looking to use mitmproxy to capture traffic in a project, but the serialization format is something called TNetStrings [1], which postfixes types and is thus not streamable. There seem to be some efforts to switch flow captures to use SQLite [2] or Protobuf [3], although PCAP would also be nice, I think.

[1] https://tnetstrings.info/

[2] https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/3075

[3] https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/pull/3232
will check it out, its not a requirement but, yeah, would be good unless there is a solid mobile web version.

thank you
I wonder whether YouTube actually makes money yet or even if it does, would if it were standalone (as they can benefit from Google scale and Google infrastructure).
Do you also have this same opinion on Google's Project Dragonfly (Google's censored Chinese search engine)? That is, that people shouldn't have "bashed" Google, since it was the Chinese government "forcing" them?
Unrelated: I just want to mention the clarity of enunciation of people of this era. They spoke with this wonderful crystalline voice that is so pleasant to hear. Similar can be heard in Bell Labs demonstrations and other 1950-1980 clips. I think part of it is the audio processing and low-pass filtering, but I think the accent and our discipline of the language has changed dramatically. In America, many kids today cannot go longer in a sentence without uttering 'like' and 'um'.
i have my Vultr instance running for years

it's probably using less than 10% of CPU or bandwidth most of the time

multiply it by 1000x and you can imagine how much leftover bandwidth there's left for the heavier users (beside they're not selling unlimited, you have a generous tier included and you pay extra for overages)

There's plenty of providers that can match the pricing

I've also worked for a company heavily relying on vultr and they have no problems handing high volume bandwidth (they're not as cheap as Hetzner!)
Xscreensaver has been shipping a wonderful crt emulator that works as a terminal for at least ten years. It’s based on the older “cathode” program.
No. Why would you think that? It goes against everything they have stated and the designs of the software. They are heavily focused on keeping all of that on device.