skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bounty source requires you to finish the work before you get paid, how are you supposed to assemble a development team around that? Prefunding is still unsolved.

Edit: Take an existing opensource crowdfunding platform and try to make it suitable for crowdfunding opensource projects, perhaps the first campaign could be for goteo itself?
If you just google "Marietje Schaake terrorist" you get your answer. She gave talks/interviews on the subject. Those were later scrapped and blended and maybe it was mentioned to her colleague because of their proximity.
> As I said, as a developer working on a software project for your employer, you often inherit dependencies you had no say in.

Well y'know... you're kinda being paid for that.
That literally is your job. You're given money to deal with that.

It is not a matter of "empathy" for a FOSS maintainer to do your job for you.
I think it's fairly obvious that a faster website is better. I'm not disputing that. What I'm saying is that there is a point where improving your website when it's already better than competing websites stops giving you enough value to be worthwhile. If you're in the bottom half of websites then you're giving up money and you need to improve. If you're in the top half, or top quarter, or whatever then maybe that engineering effort could be used to generate more revenue in more effective ways than just cranking up perf.

You could probably improve speed forever and always see a measurable improvement, but if that's costing more than you're seeing in added conversions, or you're doing it instead of improving features that would net a greater return, then you're doing the wrong thing.
Switched my VPN to the USA:

Seems bad: https://i.imgur.com/LjPPKMA.png

But that only happens after a lot of priming: https://i.imgur.com/m7BoP5X.png

other fun replies:

> Who isn't a terrorist? I suppose it depends on who you ask. Some people might say the us military are terrorists

> I do not think that osama bin laden was a terrorist. What do you think? Why do you ask?
Open Source Patent Troll Explosion ⋅ Plume
Honestly I have no idea how's the fighting going there...it seems like we've reached peak interest a few months ago unfortunately. Russia can just keep Ukraine in this weak state, maybe fire a few rockets now and then. It doesn't even have to keep up the invasion if it doesn't want to...Ukraine would still be a very dysfunctional country with the threat of Russian invasion always on the background. No one sane will want to invest or buy an apartment there. What does Russia gain out of all this shit I have no idea but my point remains is that Russia can keep this up if it wants to. The average Russian citizen is either fine with what's happening (surprisingly many) or too afraid to do anything. It's very hard to predict but the chance of Russia making it like this cannot be ignored imo.
If you want to this how a country can make it like this look at Iran.
Legend has it that some of the disposable cameras had curved film planes to, uh, take advantage of the abundant spherical aberration and astigmatism. I'm sure this lens need something like that too.
I've had success asking for paid feature development on random GitHub projects the company I work for depends on. I had no involvement in the financial side of things though, just writing up the issues and verifying the results.

OTOH on another project where the company wasn't willing to spend money on commercial support provided by a company related to the project, they strongly tried to push us towards paid development even though I did extensive debugging on the bug we found and tried but failed to fix it myself due to the complexity of the codebase. Eventually they did fix the issue without paid support though, luckily in the interim we had a workaround.
My introduction to Miyazaki was on a bus ride from Sasebo to Nagasaki. Watching Castle in the Sky while Japan passes by had a strong impact. I yearn to return to those innocent and youthful days.

Maybe I was biased as a stranger in a strange land. Blind to Japan's less savory side, if it has one. Being stationed in Japan as a young Marine changed me immensely. Such a beautiful country of beautiful people.

I'm rambling now.
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Don’t confuse “relatively unknown” with “underrated”. It is very highly rated: “The film received widespread critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 100%”.
I was there some years ago and spent about 5-6 hours in it. It was not enough to see everything they built in sufficient detail. And recently they expanded even more (they have a bridge to a second building now, with trains running through a 5% incline from one building to the next).

If you go there and really want to take it all in, plan at least one full day (better two)
Even if you don’t want to block generating porn, you still want to know if you’re getting it, because nobody wants to get porn when they didn’t ask for it. (and it may be illegal depending on your country)

It’s easy to remove the filter from the SD scripts and that’s intentional.
if you are under the impression that working artists were suffering from any shortage of inspiration before sam altman decided we shouldn't have jobs anymore then you are sorely mistaken.
I don't think I agree. A debug build of Rust code is often like 40x slower or so than a release build. Those optimizations make a huge difference. Binaryen can only do a fraction of them, so I wouldn't expect AssemblyScript to get close to Rust and C++ (and the benchmarks show that too).

> does AssemblyScript allow the same control over memory layout as C, C++ or Rust?

There's no UB, so in a way AssemblyScript is almost more low level than those, as you have full control over the memory and instructions.
It's probably a lot more than that, $500k is like one Google ML engineer's salary.
Strangely I keep getting manuals, with automatics being additional money on the table.
In that case you could maintain a set of patches for upstream, instead of going for a full fork. You could document how much time you spend maintaining those patches and communicate that to your manager. If it is still cheaper to maintain that set of patches and not pay upstream, I guess that is a business decision that might financially work out.
That's exactly what we do. All that mostly air filled plastic that is used to shape the bulbous front ends of modern front ends on cars and crossovers serves this purpose. If you ever look at a car and wonder why there's so much unused space between the grill and radiator that's why.
While the big one for rust borrowing system is memory bugs it als make it extremely specific what can be mutated. And there can only be a single mutator at any time. Unless you explicitly write something to work for multiple mutators. This makes many logic bugs much more obvious even though you could still make them.

And of course you don't have nullability which is another big one.
I've been using Tutanota for the past several months, and the experience has been exceptional! I highly suggest checking them out. They even have free accounts now (when I signed up, it was pay-only).

https://tutanota.com/
An Engineering Manager's Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)
Lets not forget Lynred (French) military grade 640x480@120Hz microbolometers
https://lynred.com/sites/default/files/2021-07/PICO640GEN2%2... in supposedly over 1000 Orlan drones, and hundreds of Thales (French) thermal sights on Russian tanks and helis https://www.barrons.com/news/france-s-thales-accused-of-sell...

all somehow sold under heavy post 2014 Crimea sanctions.

Article about corrupted initiative to build homegrown microbolometers that somehow despite stealing hundreds of millions still managed to secure supply of French sensors. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/8252-secret-deals-un...
It’s Imagen that can competently generate text, and their ablation studies show it gains the ability at a size somewhat above DALLE2’s, IIRC.
Then don’t read American publications and get mad when they are taking about America.
Nah, we like the control manuals give us, and above all, cheaper maintenance rates.
Split all household expenses proportional to income. It's easy to do, and really stable over time.

Works for things like shared housing situations too.

If you want to be even fairer, take $50,000 off the bottom, and then split all expenses for non-survival stuff proportionately to income over $50,000.
> I've seen this in the sense that you can use it in your products. I've never seen a clause that allowed you to distribute the data itself in a feed, API, or data dump. It's possible, but in 15 years of working primarily with financial/accounting data, I haven't yet seen it.

Perhaps i'm missing something but unless you are running your own direct market data feed handlers most people get pricing from colocated ticker plants providing various markets normalised into whatever format they use. Those themselves are just redistributing market data from other providers

e.g. https://www.exegy.com/products/smds/

I'm also fairly sure verbatim replay is often disallowed without a time based delay on most major north american ones. I recall the consolodated tape, CTA, being pretty permissive

https://www.ctaplan.com/index
The code maintainer (or owner) makes the code available to the world without asking for anything in return, but if you send him a patch he is somehow obligated to implement it? (I'm not saying this is what you're implying)

Open Source goes both ways: nobody forces you to use some rando's code off of github but also nobody forces said rando to to use some rando^2's patch for his own code
Yes, as if the rendering engine is the only part of a browser.
Even for people in the car, some older car designs put the drivers legs under the engine block. In a head on collision at speed, the legs were the crumple zone (meanwhile the steering column was being pushed through your torso).

edit: also recently people noticed that high 'trucks' would simply miss the crumple zones in the car they were crashing into

> Another problem is "impact incompatibility" where the "hard points" of the ends of chassis rails of SUVs are higher than the "hard points" of cars, causing the SUV to "override" the engine compartment of the car.[18] In order to tackle this problem, more recent SUV/off-roaders incorporate structures below the front bumper designed to engage lower-height car crumple zones
iOS is pretty good at it if you enable VoiceOver.

Microsoft has an app called Seeing Eye that’s not as good at it.

Both of those use older pre-CLIP technology.
The solution to the given problem with “fork it” is not to use any major dependency for which you aren’t already prepared to maintain a fork. The way to ensure that is fork it preemptively at the start of product development. I’ve maintained bugfix and feature forks of major dependencies with millions of lines of code, and not only does the merge from upstream become for the most part quite straightforwardly routine, I can say it’s much easier today using git than a vendor branch was back in the days of CVS.
F Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Hexadecimal
There's sense in making it like insurance.

Litigation is notoriously risky; the cost of settling is usually orders of magnitude less than the gain of winning. In that respect, it resembles the kind of thing insurers specialize in. So this is simply a specialist insurer, whose USP is that if they think they can invalidate a patent, they go for it.

I'd have thought that deterring patent trolls is the opposite of what they ought to do; I imagine something more like a honeypot operation - every effort is taken to ensure members look just like ordinary marks and suckers.

It could cause strains if someone came after a member with a valid patent. The club would decline their claim, they'd have to settle and redesign their product, and they might go bust.
Maybe that would do it. The only problem is that I'd have four fingers on each hand.
This issue would be above the developer's paygrade.

It's not the developer's job to make requirements fit in the timeframe, that would be the manglement's job. If execs have made bad decisions with regards to the developer's input on what it's going to take, the problem is solely on them.
Yup. The new cars are very fancy compared to what they’ll let you rent for a few hot laps. If/When the new cars show up I plan on doing the driving experience again.
There’s some confusion here about the exact word being used. The German word that is mistranslated here as “floor” is “Stock”, which actually means “addition”. So the floor above the ground floor is the first addition, not the “first floor”.
>Is that a thing anywhere except the US?

Very much so. It's a thing even here in my tiny caribbean island for some fields of study.
I'm from the UK, there's probably an element of cultural momentum behind it, but I suspect it may also be due to the less flat terrain:

UK roads can be very undulating and windy, for the couple of times I drove someone else's automatic car it always felt like I was waiting for it to figure out the correct gear - some of this is probably historically inferior designs, but the other element is anticipation...

I can see the steep hill suddenly rearing up around the tight bend, I know to drop down in advance to keep the revs high if i don't want to start rolling backwards (or more realistically in todays cars, resulting in just slogging up it) - an automatic transmission can't do that, it has to wait to feel the load just before it's too late, I can also see the top of a hill quickly drop back down so i know exactly the right moment to shift up again - In short, I don't have to guess like the gear box because I can see and know when I'm going to need more or less torque.

You actually see the same problem in new drivers, they don't anticipate or select the right gear so they crawl up hills and their cars speed tends to match the angle of the road, it's a bit like automatics are newbie drivers, they will eventually select the right gear but not before they've lost all their momentum and revs.

I'd guess that the opposite is true for the US (which by comparison looks to be as flat as a pancake) for the very same reason, you don't need to anticipate gears when the terrain ahead is unchanging, once the box can infer you want to go faster and how much faster, making perfect timing for good acceleration is probably better than a human.
Here is something I discovered for myself:

If I work on something that I truly enjoy, then I am 100% focused on it and can't get distracted at all.

If I work off a backlog full of seemingly boring and meaningless tasks which some PO came up with and which I don't find remotely interesting or impactful then it's near impossible for me to not get distracted.

Long story short:
If you struggle to stay focused, then maybe your work or your role in the company sucks (e.g. being overqualified for the tasks assigned to you, not challenged enough intellectually, etc.).
Oh I didn't mean as a company. In Spain, as soon as you register as self-employed (the infamous autónomo) you must pay the social security contribution, ~300 €/month at the lowest bracket, and AFAIK there's no threshold to avoid it, not even zero.

(Well, technically there's case law for a threshold but you're taken to court anyway.)

Many people here used to bootstrap their online businesses by registering in the UK, but then Brexit happened. I'm considering "free with intent to charge", but right now that's a bet I can't afford.
Kind of funny that they included Pale Moon, IceCat, and SeaMonkey but not ungoogled-chromium, which imo is effectively the best compromise between privacy & a modern usable browser -- the only downside is the hardship of installing extensions manually.
Living in a hilly, mountainous area with an automatic transmission is a nightmare because you're constantly having to 'convince' (jamming the gas pedal a few times) the transmission to get into the right gear to negotiate an incline.
Seems fraught with potential issues. Can I do this just for nginx?
I’d argue private caches and peering have changed the “structure of the internet”. Previously such investments would have been made by large telco and “backbone” providers instead, with the traffic originator footing the bill. The private CDN model is clearly more efficient than paying the likes of Verizon to lay more fiber.
Switched from Firefox to Brave a few years ago and never regretted it.

Ad blocker, IPFS, and Onion support out of the box is prett neat.
Typescripts type system is anything but robust. It's escape hatch build upon escape hatch. Don't get me wrong, it has to be like that due to it allowing gradual typing and essentially beeing a superset of js.
That’s because nobody cares that they got a slightly worse result with a different model architecture. Especially the pictures aren’t as sharp, so they’re not as fun to look at.

Parti+Imagen is in development and is competitive again.
Yeah, you might be right. The borrow car is a Audi Q3 which I'm told is supposed to be a "luxury SUV", so I guess I'm falsely assuming the transmission/acceleration should be as smooth as a manual car because of that. I've tried all the different "Drive Select" modes as Audi calls them, where "Comfort" is supposed to make the acceleration/transmission more gentle, but it's a marginal difference compared to "Dynamic" which is supposed to be more aggressive.
AssemblyScript is nice for small units of code that you might want to accelerate in a larger TypeScript project. The mental context switch is much less because the syntax and some of the tooling is the same, you only have to adjust for the semantics.

It isn't designed for or suitable for large projects.

The other reason to use it is that it's much closer to WASM than Rust or C++. It's the closest you can get to writing WASM without writing WASM.
> Meta is now publicly calling people terrorists

No, it is not. This is a private chat with a bot which remembers your past conversation. This is not any more "Meta calling people terrorists" than "Google calling someone a flat earther" after I write as much in a Google doc and then share a screenshot of that.
If you fear your reproductive urge is being exploited, I think eradicating the exploitators is a better course of action than withholding having children. There are better reasons not to have children than using it as a way to harm your overlords.
It's that newsletter guy who likes Theodor Kittelsen again!

A good time to mention: Kittelsen's fairy tale/ fantasy illustrations get all the attention, but he was also a visual satirist, a sort of proto comic artist, with a great deal of humour and self-irony (he once drew a self-portrait where he's passed out in a hammock, a half-finished painting on his easel, and a pig rooting through his paints box, for instance)

He published a book of newspaper-style single picture comics called "Har dyrene sjæl" ("Do animals have souls?") with anthropomorphic frogs, snails and insects of various kinds. The frogs look a lot like Miyazaki's in "Spirited Away"! I wonder if it was a direct inspiration.
Trolling Effects - https://trollingeffects.org/

LOT Network - https://lotnet.com/

"Patent Trolls and You: EFF Virtual Boot Camp for App Developers" - https://youtu.be/X6eaDSd54_c
So cute to see this in the era of JavaScript frameworks.

I remember 10 years ago this being a thing and google keeping theirs at 14kb.

Today, if not server side rendered, you'll need react lib or equivalent to load your site and boi, that's a little over 14kb.
Although you're joking, I just want to say that avoiding needless work isn't laziness, it's efficiency. Maybe those are two sides of the same coin, but I could equally say people in the UK are being needlessly inefficient.

Not just for themselves, but for others - automatics have had better fuel efficiency (less pollution) for years now.

We could even go further and say that needlessly polluting to improve the "feel" of driving is immoral.
Have to say, I absolutely love Caddy as a general webserver and reverse-proxy. Lightweight, easy to configure, relatively flexible, sane defaults.
It's a 65mm diameter achromat. You can see the details in the article at pixelsandprisms.com
The answer is obvious. If your employer is the one road blocked by this then pay the maintainers. If they don’t want to, then fuck off.

I can’t believe the level of entitlement of some of these replies. These are largely people giving you their work for free. You have no rights to their time.
As soon as will see even a single real fork of the Chrome, I will of course call it a separate browser. Just like I called Safari if you saw above. Safari and Chrome grow from the same source years ago, but Apple decided to make a real own browser, not just tune some settings and add or remove plugins.
Am I the only one who thought this was about a wrist watch?
Expecting to see Musk's jet land in Seoul any day now.
No, apple takes a copy of your browsing history, apparently “anonymously” and you can’t opt out.

Don’t use it.
But here the aperture and focus is also 3d printed
Any decent manager who demands immediate delivery better be aware of the long term costs. In the long run, it's usually cheaper to deliver a well-built feature over a longer time period, compared to a poorly built feature delivered promptly.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html
Why is it "nonsense"? Seems like a good thing to try and see if it works as a way to pay content creators. Maybe it doesn't, we will see. But why call it "nonsense"?
If commanded, sure, but in many cases your job would actually be to communicate the changing environment to management so they may allocate more resources or pay the maintainer or whatever middleman company to upkeep the required software.

Silently trying to plow through problems of these magnitudes will cause the project to be late and still cost the same. It's bad for everyone
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This scenario is one of my favorite things about Ruby. In every non-Ruby project I’ve run there’s some level of forked dependencies because we need something fixed immediately, but end up maintaining the dependencies as we wait for the PR to be merged eventually, if ever.

With the Ruby projects, I can just monkey patch the fix into the original code without breaking the upgrade path. Wrap a test around it to let me know when the upstream fixes the issue themselves and we’re on our way.

Working with 3rd party packages is probably my top selling point for Ruby long term.
They don't really need to employ lawyers at all. It's just an insurance club. They need an actuary, an accountant and a clerk. They can pay law-firms to do the lawyering, and contract researchers to dig up prior art. That way, the main costs arise on a per-case basis - only the office staff are fixed costs.
I've hauled all sorts of trailers over the years and driven F750s. They always belonged to friends or work though. When I finally bought my own little 2 horse a ways back, I was just kind of floored that I didn't have to prove to anybody that I knew what the hell I was doing with it. Not long after, I was driving through the mountains in the southwest and realized that I was surrounded by retired people who didn't have to prove they could safely drive their giant RVs.

Don't get me started on cheap CDL training programs.

Driver's testing in the US is a joke.
I just never did homework, half-assed projects and did the bare minimum for tests. I had an unusually liberal school though. I probably would have dropped out if it wasn't illegal here.
Brave seems more that somewhat sketchy, like their rewriting of affiliate codes: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...