skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of wrong assumptions here but the most egregious of them all:

> If your closed software demands $1000 from my pocket but I can make do with a free and open source alternative, I will choose the open one.

Sorry but software purchasing decisions aren't simply based on cost and never will.
Why not both? We had nuclear plants in the US downstream of dams that had to be refitted after Fukushima because they realized they could lose backup power from flooding in a dam failure and potentially lead to meltdown.
The first example in that doc is Sublime Text. "Unfortunately the only thing going for Sublime was that it was first-to-market with a few novel ideas, most notably multiple cursor editing." That was clearly written by someone who hadn't used Sublime.

Then Github is mentioned as making money from the data they collect. You need to understand Github is Microsoft. From our perspective they make money from the enterprise agreements for security and code analysis they offer through Github. That is what pays for people's free use.

Finally, the article closes with Word and Excel being useless. As much as I dislike those programs, they work. None of the free alternatives can share files without there eventually being unfixable file format problems. When working with your boss, you need to use the same program in order to share files. None of the alternatives work.
Yes, this is my gripe. Man, the 2017 Macbooks that removed USB Ports and brought in the touchbar (which to me, is pointless) were just a big misstep. I could buy an equally capable Windows laptop for 1/3rd the price then.
This isn’t even what I was talking about. This is barely one step above cinder blocks. You still have to assemble individual pieces manually and then fill them with concrete manually.
lmao, this would be apocalyptic.
I’ve had a few different mechanical keyboards and they’ve all felt … OK but not great. I bought a Unicomp Model M relatively recently and it has been awesome. Really appreciate the feeling of the keys. Would get absolutely crucified in an office setting but at home, it’s been a real treat.
There is a reverse transition to monetize the open-source versions with a hosted-service also. Lot more products being built "in the open" these days.

Anyway, it is kinda interesting to see that it doesn't take long for copies of a new tech to show up. Zero-to-one seems sporadic, but immediately we see the market replicate it.

Recently seen with something seemingly complex like DALL-E. Didn't take long for the comparables to crop up. Some of them must be open-source, I am not aware of that aspect.

Apple Airpods was another one. Almost within a year, there were other earphones available in that form-factor.
I think we keep talking past each other.

> Once more: that science cannot explain something is NOT evidence for any other random unprovable explanation like the existance of a god.

Which is why in Islam we have three sources of truth: observations, logic, and the honest news. We have established that Muhammad, Prayers of God be upon him, existed, and the Quran is preserved, and the authentic Hadiths are preserved. He performed miracles, and foretold events, some of which only came true in the past couple of decades (more at www.provingislam.com). As such, we trust what he brought forth to us.

> I would btw like to ask you: would you agree that some parts of Islam might be wrong or do you believe it is 100% correct?

I believe Islam is 100% correct. If I don't, then by definition I am not a Muslim. We don't get to pick and choose what we like and don't like. Of course, you're going to have to mention exactly what you mean by "some parts of Islam", that's quite a vague term.
> There is nothing for doctors to identify as 'wrong' besides the subjective feeling of fatigue.

Wrong [0]. Yes, it's complex, but doctors also know how to read, and they're honestly better at it (when it comes to medical texts) than you are.

Honestly it's just stupid how many people insist on self diagnosing long COVID. "Beyond the limits of our current medical understanding" is, unfortunately, idiocy. It's the exact same logic anti-vaxxers would use to refuse the vaccine. You're making the exact same mistake.

In general, you do not know more than your doctor. Stop pretending like you do. EVERYONE, both sides, just fucking stop.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...
Fair! Although I've never worked with a shop that was not-Oracle and migrating to Oracle. Sadly, there's the long tail of places with existing, business critical Oracle use.
I think this is a self-aggrandizing myth that is common in forums like HN with lots of programmers and designers:

- UI's usually do not improve. They "improve" by making subjective changes for the benefit of the maker (often at the cost of the user).

- Platforms are constantly shifting when they are owned by corporations. At first, businesses will penetrate the market by creating a competitive platform. Once their platform has reached critical market share, they will switch to milking their users who are now trapped due to vendor lock-in. This forces users of proprietary software to constantly jump ship in order to get a good deal.

- Features sometimes expand, but most apps will reach a point where it no longer makes sense to add additional features. In the free-software world, we generally try to make an ecosystem of programs that work together: if a single program is too complex, its features may be divided into several smaller programs. In the corporate world, a single program may be bloated and expanded long past the point at which additional complexity will serve the user- so long as developers can continue to invent new ways to extract money, data, etc from their users.

- New vulnerabilities may be uncovered, but generally vulnerabilities are only added when the complexity of program increases. Vulnerabilities don't just appear out of nowhere. If you write a program, it doesn't just become more vulnerable over time just by merit of being old.

- Server bills usually need to be paid because people have inserted themselves as middlemen. If the internet was designed in a way that did not require paying a racketeering fee for DNS, PKI, etc. then we would see a lot of decentralized alternatives to "essential" services.

It's hard for me to entirely put into words how flawed your statement is. If you have time, you may want to check out a book called "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by David Graeber (https://libgen.gs/edition.php?id=5852679). It might give you a new perspective on the software industry.
The truth is, that's all you can say with certainty. That we don't know. Anything else is conjecture. Sometimes it's more wise to know that you don't know
> This is simply a very utopian claim and just isn't going to happen. One example is Microsoft Office which has been replaced by Google Docs / Office Online, etc and little to no-one installs LibreOffice directly.

Well the world changed under LibreOffice's feet when the browser became a strong enough platform for office products. There is a lesson here: open source is slow, so don't just chase the present because it will become the past by the time you are viable. I can remember when some of the FSF's highest priorities were developing free software versions of RealPlayer and Flash.

Someone else on this thread already mentioned that what open source software does best is infrastructure, and I would add libraries to that. It definitely moves too slowly for cutting edge, modern application development unless a corporation is backing it.
Art teacher here. Pencil sharpening using a knife is a highly underestimated component of drawing. In my drawing class, pencil sharpeners are forbidden.

TFA does not seem to address in any detail the knife itself. Most hobby-style knives are too bendy to use safely. They also often break in such a way as to present the sharp edge on the wrong side. Can’t count the number of cuts I have received in that way. By far preferred is the Stanley-style knife blade: thick and non-bendy.
Now I see that "throwaway" probably didn't mean "the amount of work done" but instead "the amount of money spent on work done".
The people running the prisons give money to politicians, judges, sheriff's who are elected and make and enforce the laws.

In one instance 2 judges were being bribed directly to sentence juveniles to maximimum sentences cutting out the middleman and directly selling minority children into slavery like it's 1822 rather than 2022.

You actually don't see the moral hazard here?
Empowerment vs. Entitlement
Unglue[1] tried to do (roughly) this for books, but seems to have stagnated in the recent years, unfortunately.

[1] https://unglue.it/
How is $13B at all a reasonable liability number for the whole industry?

That's on the order of only the reactor cost itself. The reactor owner may even get compensated instead of the population since some have done leaseback schemes with the operator.
Sadly, I think folks in SV have other priorities (at least ostensibly). You have to give up seeking gold to find life's other treasures, or something :)
Any keyboard that supports QMK (wired) or ZMK (wireless) will be Mac-compatible, you just have to replace some keycodes in the firmware.

QMK keyboards: https://qmk.fm/keyboards/

ZMK keyboards: https://zmk.dev/docs/hardware

Note: I'm not 100% sure the ZMK list is up to date as it's under much more active development and new keyboards get support all the time since almost any keyboard that has QMK support can get ZMK support by swapping the AmTel-based Pro Micro for a nRF52840-based nice!nano board.
I don’t get it though. What’s the payoff, marginally better comfort and typing speed or is it like having collectibles to own and show off? Personally, sure a mechanical keyboard is a little more satisfying to type on but who really cares.
I've recently switched from using cherry silent reds to blues and wow what a difference! The blues just feel amazing in my Vortex Race 3 keyboard.
GP would seem to be approaching justice from a deontological point of view.

As opposed to conseqentialism, in this view, if the laws are made in accordance with agreed and lawful procedure, they are just.

Most people skew towards consequentialism, but not all.

1. https://pediaa.com/what-is-the-difference-between-deontology...
> Inside our observable universe? Yea most likely. We can't deduce that the same hold true outside the universe.

Which is why we rely on the honest news. Prophets like Muhammad, Jesus, and Moses Prayers of God be upon them all proved that they came with a message. They performed miracles, and their character is well known. It's basically an inductive proof.
Wow, this is the very first time an article on this topic has been written. Or, maybe I've never read anything about this topoic before.

I think that this topic should be repeated over and over and over again, everywhere, all the time. Just in case someone didn't get the message.
You answered none of my questions, and continue to vaguely claim being capable of remote viewing, or similar supernatural ability. If you don’t intend to engage in honest dialogue, please don’t post.
Wow. I have never before been jealous on account of a pencil sharpener.
The article linked there is a pretty good analysis of the obstacles to challenging it in federal court just by virtue of the action occurring, but it doesn't foreclose all possibilities. (And it's not obviously illegal to me, but that's irrelevant to the standing question.)

Imagine this scenario: A loan servicer neglects to adjust the amount a student loan borrower owes based on this action (or views it as illegal and intentionally doesn't adjust it), and bills the old amount.

If the borrower pays the higher amount, they may have standing to reclaim the overpayment under the argument that it was validly canceled. If they are not in the same state as the servicer, diversity jurisdiction might allow this to occur in federal court, and this overpayment is probably sufficiently concrete, particularized, and personal to generate Article III standing.

If the borrower pays the Biden-adjusted lower amount, then debt collection efforts may start and there may be a credit report impact, when with correct servicer implementation of the cancelation no debt would be sent to collections. There are all sorts of opportunities for standing to be created here, such as if a federal or state debt collection statute is violated by the servicer or if the borrower has another financial consequence (like a refused or higher-rate mortgage) from the inaccurately reduced credit score.

If any of this manages to land in state court, standing requirements can constitutionally be weaker anyway depending on the requirements of the state constitution.

So, we'll see, but it can probably be tested in the courts somehow, unless the Administrative Procedure Act rules somehow preempt any other lawsuit at all from using "Biden's action was illegal" as an argument in the service of some other cause of action.
I don't know why people do this so often on the (english)internet. People will write off all religion, while obviously speaking from the perspective of Christianity only. People have bad experiences with Christianity, and then decide that Buddhism, Jainism, Daoism, and Shinto are all a scam. It's a strange fallacy that people should know better by now, it's just straight up a sweeping generalization.
> unfortunately we were ignored in favor of "experts" who suggested we should let a virus with unknown long-term side effects rip through the country.

What expert was suggesting that in 2020? As I recall, we shut down schools and restaurants and basically everything else we could for more than a year, except for very limited re-openings (e.g. outdoor dining, in the dead of winter) months later.

We couldn't shut down everything because people need grocery stores to get food!
The table is questionable.

Firefox isnt an alternative to netscape, its literally a fork.

Why is 7zip the alternative to winzip and not gzip?

Etc
I would imagine resin printers would be far superior for key caps compared to FDM.
This heavily depends on a course, and courses are different between pairs of languages.

E.g. learning Spanish from English on Duolingo is very natural, the course is built the way a baby learns a language, by practice and suggestion, with few small bits of grammar info strewn along the way. According to reports from my friends, learning Spanish from Russian on Duolingo is a completely different experience, all based on memorizing large amounts of rules before any practice even begins, and it works really poorly.

I assume that learning languages on Duolingo is all about building a chain of good courses based on languages you already know by the moment you consider another one. (Only partly joking.)
By his metric, I "read" fifty books every time I go to a bookstore.
Build and run Linux kernel and small Busybox userspace
Last I checked it was a run loop with a delay and it didn't support low power mode :(
But otherwise it looks great.
I remember I read one book when I was a child that promised to raise your IQ by reading pages of a book within seconds like you're looking at an autostereogram. LMAO! These crooks, I tell yah.
I feel like there's one area where open-source cannot universally replace closed-source: complex products that need to be extremely polished. Some people might be able to swap, but not everyone. An example is the desktop: I've used Linux for over a decade and still do but I recently added an M1 Mac and the hardware+software is just so much better for certain kinds of content creation. Video editing is another. I've tried a dozen video editors and while Shotcut is one of the best open-source ones, it's blown away by Davinci Resolve.

Raw photo editing is another area. Open-source has achieved some success here with darktable, and I personally use that, but it certainly can't (easily) replace some closed-source alternatives for everyone, especially in some more commercial photography settings.
It definitely has that same conspicuous consumption vibe.

I guess these at least these have some actual scarcity?
I personally have some knowledge here as one of his companies was in my business. Grandiose claims, that if real would have made his company a market leader, but sold off to a desperately naive buyer. In a sense it was a dress rehearsal for Tachyum.

Maybe I’ll be proven wrong in a year, maybe Rado will be on to home fusion reactors after foisting Tachyum’s shell on Intel? ;)
https://archive.ph/Hj4q8
It’s the logo of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. And Japan is all in.
Oh you know what the OP could do? Two-for-one: install solar panels while simultaneously operating bouncy castles around the perimeter of the roof. So the kids beg for their parents to install solar so they get their bouncy castles for a day, birthday maybe, the synergy being that solar panel installers can fall off safely because there's a bouncy castle right there breaking their fall (I've fallen off 3 meters onto school gymnastics mattresses, it's amazing), so then you get first off no deaths from installing solar panels, meaning you get the best ratings for human death for any electricity source (it's mostly people falling off roofs, hence the bouncy castles), you don't have to transport that much weight (bouncy castles unlike bulky mattresses are just plastic balloons you can fold), it's an event and a sales thing that should work, gets people thinking. Gets the littlest people thinking. And plus it's a line item, you don't need as much liability insurance and harness shit, which is crazy expensive and often impedes the job completely, or compromises it, everything takes a lot longer and you need more experience, can't get unemployed guys off the street like the Alphabet Soup agencies in the Depression, just telling broke guys under 25 hey pick up a shovel and come along, dig holes because you're a man and you can get work done with your hands and legs and arms and feet and back.

So get on a roof and put solar panels on, you can do it! Fall off? Relax! Fall on the bouncy castle, sprained ankle at worst.

And you align solar with the future, which is to say the children.

OP please steal this idea. Please. Never give me credit, I just would love seeing a pamphlet saying "bouncy castle solar" on it, ideally handed to me in an inconvenient time and demanding my attention rudely. That level of success.
The quality isn’t as important as the fit. Even a cheap suit can look good if you take it to a tailor.
There is some context missing there: the amount of power buyers need. So a simplified example:

Buyers are willing to pay $5 to secure 100GW of power.
Sellers are: 80GW Solar at $3 and 20GW Coal at $5.

At 100GW the price is $5 because it's the price that will secure 100GW.
If buyers only needed 80GW the price would be $3.

There is only one market price and it's the price that gets the required quantity of power (as you say).
US Government diet guidelines ignore the climate crisis
DALL-E Diversity Filter completely breaks certain prompts
Not on that list, an actual open-source alternative to Confluence and JIRA, and all of its features/plugins :(

i.e. Agile mode board, sprints, multi-project/issue keys, timesheets/time tracking, source control integration, epics and release management

Yes, some exist, but our experience is that practically none are as easy to use or feature complete as Confluence and JIRA.

(i.e. Not in the way that GitLab could be classed as a feature complete alternative to GitHub)
> in the long run, price tends to marginal cost of production

Ah but this principle applies to commodity markets, where prices rising above the marginal level would prompt an increase in production from competitors or new entrants to the market.

Software is not a commodity though, nobody other than Adobe makes Photoshop, we can’t increase production of Photoshop. People can create competing products, of course, but that’s just a regular competitive market. This is also why movies and ebooks don’t cost $0.

> browser vendors are more or less forced to give it away for free

Yes but that’s not because of the market, the idea of giving it away free was to distort the market. It was done to crush Netscape and it worked. Now it’s done to grab as many eyeballs as possible and keep competitors off your turf. I think it’s possible that we’ll return to paid web browsers when the interests of the vendors and the users are more closely aligned - in a sense Safari and Edge are already there, as they’re both priced-in to their respective OS’s.
Why Google AMP Is Not Good for Your Site
D.C.-area startup wants to solve the public bathroom problem
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32226868
I like my $35 Keychron :)
My suggestion is that you go to a place like suit supply or indochino and pick a fabric you like then have a suit made to measure. This can be done for $400-600.

Most of the "bang for your buck" in men's formal wear is the fit.
ReactOS, and approximately in 1998.
Everything is pointless, depending on one's perspective. One could ask "Why is spending Carmack's talent on developing games meaningful? Why not use his talent to progress bio-chemistry computing and save lives?"

Money, career success, "normal life" will not bring you happiness. Unfortunately, I do not know what will bring you happiness, because it is something very personal, and changes constantly over time. Things that make you happy today, will seem to you pointless after 10 years.

You definetely need to survive to be able to be happy. So you will need some type of occupation to provide food and shelter, and make sure that the activities that make you happy do not harm you, or others. Other than that anything is fair game.

But don't confuse your career with finding purpose. Your career is just a ticket to financial security, aka enabling you to do things that make you happy. If you can build a career doing something that you do not hate, that is great already!
Firstly, I mistakenly wrote (and linked to) “Xbox controller” when I actually meant the Xbox 360 controller.

Secondly, you seem to have missed my point. I did not mean that the actual Xbox 360 controller is the best, I meant that for games and other similar applications, an Xbox 360 controller seems to be what most interfaces are designed for, and an Xbox 360 controller can also be plugged into anything with a USB port, which is everything. Therefore, you can choose to buy any good Xbox 360-compatible controller on the market and use it with most software and hardware.
That's certainly less. I bet Op could get away with 4 to 6 then. Subject in my post has a large 5br old farmhouse style place, also heats house, water and garage off same unit.
I think it's also worth noting that OSS did not 'make' Blender initially - it was a closed-source application. It's a resounding OSS success these days, but had already been 'productised' before the the release of the source.
This is a totally western-centric view of history. Islam had a golden age during which algebra was created in addition to many other great scientific achievments. And it came it hand in hand with religion. In fact algebra was created to help do the complex math involved in Islamic inheritance laws.

And honestly it isn't even very accurate there. The dark ages were called so not because Christianity persecuted science, it was called that because we have few records from that time. The few records we do have, are from the religious clergy.
There are two parallel efforts going on at present for restoring the American chestnut, a backcross effort and a GMO-based approach. This sub-thread is concerned with the GMO strategy.