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> mostly in the dwindling twilight of their cognitive ability

Have you actually read SCOTUS trial transcripts? Because they come across as incredibly sharp people to me even when I don't agree with their views.

> A lot of modern psychology suggests they can't.

Actually there are psychology studies examining professionals who have to deal with bias (scientists, judges, etc) that indicate that the competent ones tend to slightly over rather than under compensate.

> Law needs a larger tool chest that can make argument based not on precedent, but on what exists right now in American society.

How is that different than legislating from the bench? Isn't updating laws a job best reserved for the legislature?
Full disclosure: I work on Yahoo Mail, but I’m not speaking for my employer.

Yes, this can happen after 12 months of inactivity for free accounts. Policy: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2018.html

For context, Gmail has a policy which allows for deletion after 2 years of inactivity: https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/

I’m sorry the service didn’t meet your expectation, but for others here who are curious, there are some options for keeping email storage active! These days there are paid Yahoo Mail accounts available which retain email for as long as you have the subscription active. (Or you can log in once a year with a free account.)

You can also use a IMAP app to save a local archive of all of your email. This works for all accounts, even free ones! More: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN5033.html
> Why is it open source software if the goal is make money off of it? The problem is devs shouldn’t feel like their hobby became a job, they should stop maintaining the code if it becomes to much of a job, or commercialize it. Have a fork that is private and monitized with extra features.

Why isn't it? Did Linux stop being OSS when Linus first got paid for developing it? Plenty of devs would love to do the same and make a few dollars from their hobby project!

> What if the performers suck and detract from the passerbys park experience? Are they entitled to compensation for indirectly listing to music they didn’t want to hear in the first place?

I made top level post re: these questions[0], but I'd make a few addendums to the article:

1. a packaging service for FOSS should always be free for non-commercial use,
2. for commercial use, the pricing should not be on a per package basis but priced for the service of packaging the packages and the pricing should be modest,
3. substantial portion of which (>50%) should then go to the FOSS devs based on their install base,
4. this should except the standard installation, which should receive a highly reduced share.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961092
No one is entitled to much in life. But people expect many things which they aren't entitled to. This is normal, and does not mean there's something functionally wrong with people that expect certain things.

I expect my neighbor to not flip me off every morning. Am I entitled to it? No, not really. Being an asshole is not illegal. But I would probably still complain about it. Does that make me entitled?

What you need to do is manage expectations. Which... this is one way to do it.
No. Don't be childish.
The biggest US government expenses are the military and overcomplicated inefficient social programs (Medicare, food stamps, Social Security).

Moreover, the logical extreme of this argument is to just not have a government at all. I don't need bridges because I don't drive. I don't need the fire department because I am careful. Etc. It doesn't make sense, and the truth is that some things either best administered centrally, at scale, and protected from market forces, and/or the inefficiencies of central planning are still better for society as a whole (even if not for you) than the alternative outcomes that would arise if you rely on various market-like systems.
What’s the point of loading a page in 500ms if the real problem people are dealing with is a glut of content and fierce competition for our attention.

I wonder if a slower web might be a better web in many ways.

Reduced page load speeds increase engagement. What if I want to decrease engagement with the internet?
Only a supervisor thinks you make a train faster by putting in progressively more train stops.
Because for the purposes of the article, it just doesn’t matter. The point is to stop distilling data down to a single point, regardless of what math term you want to use.
I think MA is probably the state with the best "bang for buck" in terms of what the government provides per dollar of taxes paid.

NY is comparatively insulting to reside in, because the government is so wasteful/corrupt there and is therefore capable of providing so much less (not to mention its legendary ability to stall legislation indefinitely).
"Only someone who is so privileged as to have never been physically assaulted could think that it doesn't cause life long physiological and psychological damage"

Depends entirely on the degree and nature of the assault. I was beat up badly at school at least a few times, I'd dare suggest if anything it made me stronger, and certainly can't think of anything likely longterm damage it's caused. But I certainly don't presume it's the same for all kids.
Bullshit. In 1995 people were creating desktop UIs order of magnitude more complex than today's anemic webapps, without any of the braindamage-inducing stuff that's happening in web UI development.
This article is music to my ears. As a Feedly user of 6+ years, it's everything that I've felt and more. Thanks for putting into words the frustration that's been building up inside me for a while.
Wait, what? They were saving it all before?
In more recent times (especially post COVID), by the time both of you are competent enough be independent he will be earning as much as you for 1/3 cost of living.
> why open sourcing your project in the first place if it is not to have a benevolent ear to potential contributors, in other terms to create a community?

one reason: providing code that others may learn or benefit from even while you recognize that you won't have time to manage a community.
I considered something like this last night as I stay up to 6am working on a new UI library. My conclusion was in part because it's easy. The goal is well defined. I got the first widget working thought I'd call it a day (a night) but then it was so much fun to just implement the next widget mostly because very little design iteration is needed. The problem being solved is well known so each thing to tick off my UI lib was only a few minutes. Next thing I know it's 6am.

I think the same is true of 3D libraries. The real work of making an app that does 3D is not the 3D engine, it's everything else (UX or GameDev). The 3D part has well known goals and solutions so it feels like you're making a ton of progress, ie, it's fun to make. Much easier than deciding harder things like which features your app should have and how they should work.
Your example is anectodal, hence basically worthless.

There is a lot of inefficieny in the market, some of it inherent, some of it due to artifical constraints like location, but over time those tend to naturally get normalized. What I'm trying to say is that if it really were better for software to be built in Vietnam for 10% of the cost, that would just happen.

It may be that companies have not figured out this neat trick or it might be that there are some inherent issues with developing software based purely on the cost.
Ahhh of course :D
True. But not enough people care, it's rather the opposite.
I don’t really understand the complaint. If you don’t like the CNN website, don’t go to CNN or use CNN lite, which has been well documented on HN. No one is forcing you to visit the site.

Also, blocking webfonts is trivially easy at this stage so if you have specific complaints then you can take matters into your own hands with little more than a flip of a setting.
I think because the moral of the story is the same, which is the airforce switched to customizable controls to support the range instead of over focusing on a single “average”.
Does Ryzen actually support ECC though? I bought a first gen Ryzen and couldn't get ECC ram to boot on it, and the reviews I read periodically of new Ryzen CPUs and mobos seem to indicate that it's still hit and miss.

I'd love for it to be plug and play.
How long ago was that? Are you guys still in touch? Because it seems to me that recently developer salaries in Poland matched or even surpassed those in Austria :)
Records by amateur genealogists, economists upended conventional wisdom
In fact, I did see this with a friend who was in arbitration with a giant tech company. Supposedly, arbitration is a cost-savings over litigation. I'm sure it is, but that's a little like saying chlamydia is better than syphilis.
Except there are companies/roles where those values would be just fine if not desired.

The assumption that all gigs have a rigid culture they're selecting for and programming for is defeatist.

If those things are your values -- and not just contrarion reactions -- why would you hide and compromise them instead of finding a role that matches who you are and what you want in the world? It's not often entire industries are privileged enough to behave this way, but it has certainly been the case with SWEs
>> grown in the dark

> brilliant!

Please let go of my leg.

And how much of a saving is being "more energy-efficient" than zero-cost sunlight?
I discovered that recently as well and was very disappointed. I understand why this happened from Yahoo’s perspective, but it sucks nonetheless.
> a time when white men lived, on average, to the ripe old age of 38

That is a meaningless figure. Those that survived to adulthood had similar lifespans to us.

> I'm tired of treating anything the founding fathers came up with as sacred.

This is a common refrain from people who want to change things as they see fit against the wishes of those who disagree with them. If there were broad consensus to change the law as written then presumably the legislature would vote to do so. You are attacking the credibility of the institution rather than admit that something like half of the country doesn't share your views.
> Law is about persuasion...

Yep, we have an adversarial, common law system. So we measure our lawyers on their ability to manipulate regardless of the moral or social outcome. I don't think this is a facet of law in general, so much as a legal system that hasn't grown past ~1790.
That's funny, they claim to have been doing this all along. And yet somehow these are only tentative plans being explored now?

I wonder what we were paying them for before.
Cost of living in Poland is not actually 1/3 of Austria, the difference in cost is much smaller than in salary. But it's true that the more senior you are the less geography affects your wage.
Just this afternoon I was with my father looking for a way to backup all of his emails on his yahoo account.

I was looking "naïvely" for the button to request all of his personal data.
I didn't find one and there's probably one somewhere I'm guessing.

I resigned myself to set up Outlook on his computer and make a manual backup.
> we notify people when we comply with government demands, unless we’re prohibited from doing so

The interesting part here is about which cases intrinsically mandate a prohibition.
Everybody has to put something in their weekly report, and so the website gets a couple KBs larger every week.
Yeah, my personal Skylake Xeon (W-2140B) iMac Pro is by no means bad, but it's not amazing either. The company M1 Pro MBP is notably faster in both single-threaded and multithreaded tasks while sipping a fraction of the power. If the iMac Pro weren't mostly silent (which I would guess, most used Xeon workstations are very much not) thanks to an oversized heatsink I would've traded it in for something better already.
Just did a quick Google, looks like plugins for this exist on both Firefox and Chrome!
Ah, my bad. The reference to API made me think they're replicating RSS via the reddit API. I was not aware that RSS feeds are so rate-limited, too.

More on the subject, for anyone curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/4u9tj8/rss_feeds_upda...
I'd assume something like: double your income, rates go up by 20%.

That way you are still incentivized to make more money.
What if I want to shop for my groceries without waiting 10 seconds for Costco's app to load and then NOT have the "Grocery" button jump up half a page just as I'm about to tap it because a deals section below it just got finished dynamically loading?
How would you recommend playing this game today to someone that has never played it ?
At the risk of violating your diktat in your last sentence -- Would https://www.mtailor.com/ meet your expectation? They don't have subscription, I think. But they keep your measurements, so you can reorder from the app. I ordered a shirt a few years ago when I lived in the US, was happy with the fit and finish. I have moved out of the US and so haven't used them recently though.
I've (sadly) wasted so much of my life chatting with these people.
Quote from article:
Armed with the genealogists’ data, Boustan and Abramitzky have methodically dismantled the myths that have grown up around past generations and revealed some surprising truths. On the whole, immigrants struggle, fail, succeed and assimilate at similar rates. And the ones who assimilate fastest and whose children improve their lot the most are often the ones who faced the most contempt upon arrival. The data reveals there was nothing particularly special about Ellis Island immigrants.
Thanks for your hard work!

Any plans to add `cargo rm/remove` in the future? Or modifying the features in-place?
> Should harming people with words be separate from harming people with actions?

I don’t think so, so let’s treat the two cases similarly. We can forbid harming people with words without forbidding words altogether, just as we do for cars, knifes, hands, etc.

Context matters. In the right context, said in the right tone, “Yeah, beauty” can be quite an insult.
It was maybe 15 years ago, but today instead of Poland it would be some poor Asian country. My point is that it's not just that Europeans earn less than Americans, they also earn more than other regions. If you want fairness that also applies to people under you, not just people above you.
You recognized him, right? It was a little ambiguous from the prose

Edit: You say "we discovered" so presumably obviously yes you had to lol
So my read of the second and third groups was that the companies are being competitive against the top of that range (vs the first group that is just benchmarking against local peers). If I'm competing to win a competition, it doesn't matter how low the lowest performer is. It does matter who the highest performers are.

So I feel like you may have just read the definition incorrectly (granted article could also have been more clear).
Exactly. And you’re not using that control very well.
I think the point of bureaucracy is spelling things out so that "anyone can do it" in lieu of hiring talented competent people who cost more. The goal certainly isn't to have a fast or high quality process.
> the area under the male height curve that is not under the female one.

It's not obvious to me. Yes the height of the male graph is lower, but is spread wider.

> It’s just the sum of the excess number of men of a given height over and above the number of women of the same height.

It's simply that the female histogram covers part of the male histogram.
It's a bit confusing. If I make the graph I will colour the overlapped parts a different colour.

This is not a problem when we show only the bell curves.
We already have the technology to do that. We just don't have the political will to do it.
Warning: Reacting to the title

If funding happens through package managers there will be race to add packages to make money instead of be helpful, not just to get funding for your actually used OSS project. Package managers will get full of SEO spam. Sites will be full of promotions trying to get your to download their package.

Just a guess
My point was that this applies exactly the same for why European salaries are lower than American salaries. It makes no sense but it equally doesn't make sense that Europeans earn more than Asians or Africans. If you want equality it doesn't just mean you get to equalize with the top end, it also means the bottom gets to equalize with you.
This is naive. Even if you can make yourself immune, you can't influence those around you. I barely care about words like "shit" and "fuck" but I can't stand lying because there will always be somebody who falls for it and starts treating you negatively because of it. And that's how harm using words turns into harm using actions.

Of course you can't censor lies automatically. Toxicity doesn't have a technical solution.
Expectations can be set by the license, most of which used for open source explicitly outline that the author is under no obligations.

There's quite a distance between your example and the behavior of most open source developers. Are you implying that those who don't respond to suggestions are flipping you off?
It's nice to virtue signal for the-current-thing and all but what about Google's storage of user data for ad networks?

In comparison, how is Google defending China's citizens from undue "judicial process"?
Remember that cars are far more aerodynamic these days too, so some bugs that would have gone splat 30 years ago now glide over
As per my previous comment i genuinely hope you are right. I also read a lot about russias issues but tend to err on the side of caution.

Just to be clear for russian readers: despite my wish for a russian setback i do not wish ill on russian folks. Like germans in nazi germany, and citizens of any dictatorship, they are the first to have fallen victim.

One concern of mine is that even an old tank can cause damage. And as the west is slowing down in supplying weapons to ukraine, the russian army can just keep on sending old crap because in high numbers they will cause massive destruction - as it does in east ukraine. Even one dead ukrainian is too many. And if we dont move fast enough, russia knows that yet again winter will come to its aid. Just that this time it wont be on its land but in our homes. If a push back is not successful this summer there will be even greater damage to our economies. We dont need to hide these facts as russia’s strategists already know it. At the same time that russia is not increasing weapons production neither is the west - how could eu countries since we depend on their resources anyway?

While we figure out how to become better allies ukranians and russians are getting murdered by a bloody regime. Heck we are one US election away from total disaster.
I have many individual pieces of clothing worth more than that. Nice cashmere is expensive, but soooo soft.

A basic sweater from Loro Piana can easily run a few k, but is absolutely worth the price.

Sky is the limit when it comes to outerwear, I’ve paid around $15k for a nice fur-lined coat. Worth it? Depends on the weather, sometimes I have doubts, but then the winter comes.
> Bohr suggested that the most logical conclusion to a gunfight would be a peaceful settlement,

And there ain't been a gunfight for a long time
Maybe never, but nobody knows for sure…
Someone who doesn’t login and doesn’t pay is not much of a customer.
Not really. I'm usually the guy at work advocating that we pay for some service rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. And if I solve some small problem, I push for the company to open source it without a financial and branding push behind it so that other devs can benefit. Not everything should be a capitalist competition.

Patreon and buy a coffee are good models too. And devs are hardly starving to begin with.

I just think some stuff shouldn't be monetized. I on occasion contribute back to OSS too, and it's nice to be able to do that just for fun, as a hobby. Some things turn out better when people are able to detach them from their livelihoods, whether that's a short story or a musical instrument or a small side project. The profit motive ruins a lot.

It's not like funding a project magically increases its quality, either. Then it distorts PRs and roadmaps by making funders de facto product owners. I've run into issues trying to contribute back upstream because it didn't meet the needs of their corporate sponsors. And there will forever be a conflict of interest from that point forward between profit and other concerns.

Besides, the big OSS projects seem to survive fine as is. The small ones aren't making anyone rich and IMO they shouldn't. I wouldn't want my pet weekend project to become another source of financial stress, or have to figure out which lib is best based on pricing models. It sucks the joy out of sharing reusable software.
You can have no node_modules
The complaint is more about the general direction that the web is taking.

It's all well and good saying "just don't use X website", but most news sites have plenty of features that are either annoying or outright disrespectful to the user.

That aside though, somebody who likes articles published by CNN has good reason to complain, because the things they like are being filled with bloat/are annoying to access.
Maybe I don't understand the article, but I assume that any project that did this would immediately be forked into another OSS version and 2-3 bigco maintained versions, and nobody would ever use the original again.

I don't want to have to give my details and current activities to (literally) a hundred different organizations and have my credit card out every time I run apt-get. I can't see anyone tolerating it longer than it took to switch to the fork, which would become the active version. If people are happy to pay, they're going to be happier to pay Amazon or Google than Rando Bob, even though Rando Bob wrote the thing, because Rando Bob could disappear any second.

It's alright to be proprietary if you can't make a living from OSS. You'll lose goodwill and users if you go proprietary, but you may be able to make money on who's left. In order to do that, you're going to have to start over, because all the forks start at the same place you do, and if they deliver better, you lose.

People will be as excited to install these package managers as to install DRM, i.e. not at all. The reason people install DRM is so Netflix, etc. will work. OSS with a million forks will never be as scarce as Netflix content.

Free Software seems to be a kind of acceptance of the low-reward nature of sharing what you write, but says "if I'm not going to get rich off this, no one is going to get rich off this."

So I'll repeat: I must be deeply misunderstanding the article.
> Different time, completely different context. Economics, psychology, and almost all of STEM didn't even exist then. They did not know what they were doing. They got lucky in almost every regard.

I disagree. Technology and knowledge changes. Base human nature doesn't.

It's not about "treating anything the founding fathers came up with as sacred". Nor about the average age and baseline knowledge then and now.

It's that humans are subject to influence. And members of the judiciary - decision makers of the most obvious kind - are especially likely to be influenced if their security can be affected by the passage of time.

Sure, the lifetime appointment does not 'guarantee' anything in terms of judicial independence or judicial freedom. But it does enable a judicial member to make decisions, if he/she wants to, in a manner free from the consideration that their politically-'incorrect' choices may cause them to retire, or be retired, early. And that is a security feature that judges must be afforded, however old they may be, in order to let them freely make decisions that they think are the best possible, whether they subscribe to originalist views or are judicial activists.
They have been saving it for years. How do you think they give so much away for free? By selling the information they collect.