skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been wondering about this, whether this is not simply a shift of the problem? Let’s assume we get into a world where we pay for open source. Who would we pay? The maintainer I guess. What about the contributors? When the maintainer(s) receive financial rewarding for the code, will contributors receive a part of this as well? And how would that be divided?
Added some more details!

Already discussed on HN:

- Tech demo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179730

- Underlying tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32167704 (no mention of Stable Diffusion there… as it wasn’t out yet)
What do you think the motive is here if not to slow down climate change?
I'm hearing you say "a large catalog of services can be hard to navigate" (true), "dependencies can be hard to manage" (true), and "dependencies can be hard to migrate away from" (true). What I'm missing is how these considerations make a platform a villain.
Yeah buying a car is not possible for many. The minimum wage is around 5500 try. An entry level car costs around 850k try now. More than 60% of the population works at minimum wage. So you have to work for 154 months without having any expenses and saving all your salary just to buy a car. Car prices are much higher than europe because of exorbitant taxes. (We have 175% tax on cars, same goes for phones, alcohol etc.)
> Many of these incidents are covered up

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This vaguely conspiratorial comment about things "they" have done is a problem.
>But even those non-tech people should have some USB-C cables lying around at this point

This has got to be one of the best tech people response to a non-tech people question ever.

Most non-tech people living in Apple's ( or more precisely iPhone ) ecosystem simply dont have any USB-C cables lying around.
People still haven't figured out to never click anything in that top ad section in search results?
Said yes to... what? That artificial neurons can do something useful? Because those weren't a thing when they were scienceing it up.
What surprises me is that Amazon's market cap is back to a pre-covid level.

The market things the whole Covid thing after all did not boost the value of Amazon?

And neither does all the newly printed money? During Covid, the monetary base doubled:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Self Development as a Meta-Skill and the Answer to Complexity
You are a fool if you believe this
Again, [Citation needed]
Nobody sells 4 year old 'old new stock' drives in bulk. Just to make a point first Hitachi from the list:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E939BFY?tag=synack-20&linkCode=...

"2M hours MTBF rating & 5-year limited warranty"

Product Warranty: For warranty information about this product, please click https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+GyVRorWS.pdf [PDF ]

"This Limited Warranty applies to new HGST HDDs purchased from an authorized HGST dealer by the original purchaser for normal use and not for resale."

"To determine the warranty period for your specific Product, please visit www.hgst.com."

hgst.com? sure looks like legit 5 year warranty for this new drive! What do the customers say?

> Do not buy from Quiet Day Shopping - USED drives
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021
Verified Purchase
Purchased 2x OEM Bare drives, sold as new. Received 2x beat up drives used for > 2khrs according to SMART logs on the drives. Lots of wonderful SMART errors on the drives as well. Had to pay $15 to ship them back. Very damn annoyed. Do not buy from "Quiet Day Shopping", you will not receive new OEM bare drives, but will instead receive used and abused garbage. Really, don't purchase drives from this page. You're unlikely to receive what you want.
Another awareness-raising site by Tijmen Schep, also creator of Social Cooling [0] among others.

[0] https://www.socialcooling.com/
Some of these are amazing. Specially - The answer to any question is "Who wants to know?"
Not to defend Google but this has been against Ad Words terms for as long as I can remember. It’s surprising they found a way to evade auto detection for this.
I’m a biochemist, and it drives me nuts how much the public worries about glyphosate but not really any other herbicides. Glyphosate may not be perfect but I’d worry more about almost any other type of herbicide, most of which are absolutely nasty.
None of this is true in America
I have oftened pounded the stupid out of people like yourself but I find that it’s a big circle where we start over again, after you’ve lost on every point.

HN should note that many people believe as you do and that’s why it’s unlikely to get better before it gets much worse.

A million Americans unnecessarily died from Coronavirus. That should have been a wake up call.
Not calling anyone it. Just trying to figure out what's going on with the itself and they/them malarkey.
Great to see this progress. This is one of the projects I'm happy to sponsor.
Why would anyone vote for the commissioners? EU is not structured this way, we don't have a supreme leader or something of that sort and everything is decided through elected or appointed by elected people from 27 different countries.

We vote for the EU parliament representatives and they recommend commissioners to the council and the council appoints. A bit like the UK, where they don't elect a prime minister but vote for parties which appoint the prime minister. Notice how UK went through a couple prime ministers without an election?

If you want to shoot for technicalities, in the USA people don't vote for the president but electoral college that happens to elect a specific person but they might choose not to.
The website mentions that it is "not complete" and that "the intent is to develop it into a full-featured language".

This is pretty different from your characterization as a finished experiment.
A BOT tag is a great idea. They should also add the option for authors to disable BOT replies in their threads. Best of both worlds.
Can you prove that? This "less red tape" is brought up constantly but is that the case for all situations ?
This is outrageous. We need to find a way to stop Google. Google invades our privacy. Google holds us hostages for more money. Now this? When is enough is enough?
It is extremely sad how the sciency or tech media largely ignores the demise of computer scientists and engineers who contributed a lot to the field. Most of them face a lack of recognition outside their immediate co-workers in their lifetime as well. The foreshadowing of Dennis Ritchie's death was the most flagrant one that comes to mind immediately.

I know that many great scientists and engineers have unfortunately been left in the depths of history, but I also believe that the people who contributed to the foundations of our modern digital world should be known by outsiders as well.
This is a valuable effort for portability. I had no idea `source` was not POSIX compliant but `.` was, or what flags `grep` doesn’t support on macOS.

But it is ironic that the script uses `echo` to show a message that `printf` is preferred to `echo`. I guess what is meant is that `printf` is preferred to `echo -[en]`.
I wasn't aware the nuke plant went down, why did that happen?

My understanding wasn't that our gas supply wasn't winterized, but that with residential heating usage, the pressure in the lines was too low to safely turn on the auxiliary powerplants. Apparently it is bad if instead of leaking tiny bits of gas out of the pipes, you start leaking tiny bits of air in...
Weakest growth. Crazy. Apparently growth needs to growth. Every year. More. Very sustainable, I'm sure.
> No, autism is not related whatsoever to the lack of empathy!

Also mentioned below, but https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-mirrors-a-... would suggest exactly that it is related (or better, lack of empathy and autism are concomitant). You do have to consider the role of mirror neurons in empathy to make the connection.
Yup, at biggest, this slowing of the rate of growth could be some kind of market saturation being approached, but it will take many quarters to establish such a trend.

More likely just a completely ordinary variation, with some headline writer desperately trying to hit his click numbers...
Other source says: (ap) "South Korean officials say dozens of people were in cardiac arrest after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital Seoul."
The mapping of Vulkan to Metal should be fairly direct and efficient, since the architecture of these APIs is very similar. The question is whether there are any important edge cases or bugs that need addressing, or whether the Zink + MoltenVK combination is just missing some optimization work.
> The tradeoff is that they put three "phone home" operators in your solar controller, and reserve the right to shutoff power back into the grid for their own reasons.

The ability to push any substantial power back into the grid always comes with that.

Consider Hawaii's solar options: https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/products-and-services/custo...

> Customer Grid-Supply Plus (CGS Plus) systems must include grid support technology to manage grid reliability and allow the utility to remotely monitor system performance, technical compliance and, if necessary, control for grid stability.

> Smart Export customers with a renewable system and battery energy storage system have the option to export energy to the grid from 4 p.m. – 9 a.m. Systems must include grid support technology to manage grid reliability and system performance.

> Customer Self-Supply (CSS) is intended only for private rooftop solar installations that are designed to not export any electricity to the grid. Customers are not compensated for any export of energy.

---

Having too much power on the grid can be as damaging as not enough. There are systems that take longer to power up and down and corresponding issues with environmental regulations.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/10/20/the-high-s...

> But as large as the dams are, their margins are minuscule and operating them takes unerring foresight and subtle management: let too much water fill reservoirs and a rainstorm might flood Portland; keep the reservoirs too empty and you’ll parch farmers. Send too much water over a dam’s spillway and you’ll suffocate fish with dissolved gases; send too much through its turbines and you’ll overload the electrical grid.

> ...

> It’s also brought about tension when the BPA hasn’t been able to change its output. Both wind and hydro generation are subject to nature at the extremes. In May 2011, with near-record snowmelt swelling the Columbia River and spillways at their limits under environmental regulations, the BPA had to keep the Columbia’s hydro turbines spinning. It told regional wind power producers to curtail their output by 6%. The producers howled, and in June the BPA ended up the subject of a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. At issue is what happens when too much electricity is on offer. The enormous supply of hydroelectricity during spring runoff can push electricity prices to zero—the BPA gives away electricity to local utilities for free when it’s forced to produce more than it wants to. Since wind producers enjoy production subsidies, they can push rates below zero, effectively paying other utilities to switch off their generators. Last winter, the BPA told wind producers under its balancing authority that it wouldn’t pay negative rates to them during high-water events.

Making sure that the water doesn't go over the spillways in a hydro plant during a spring peak to avoid killing fish means turning off power from other sources. In that example, it was primarily wind
It's important to note, that that methane will be used by the chemical industry and not get burned, it's more efficient to burn H2 directly.

In Germany there's also plans to repurpose gas plants to burn H2 during Dunkelflaute. I'm curious if that will pan out.
Hydrogen can be stored in underground reservoirs, like solution mined cavities in salt domes and spent natural gas fields. The cost is as little as $1 per kWh of storage capacity. This is the great advantage of hydrogen over many other storage schemes, which have a much higher cost per unit of energy storage capacity.

There is also the per-power cost of charging and discharging equipment, but that's independent of per-energy capacity cost.

I don't believe the oxygen is kept. Even if it were, O2 is very cheap. Liquid oxygen is the second cheapest industrial liquid, after water. Maybe it would make sense to store O2 underground as compressed gas also, for use in Allam cycle turbines (which would prevent NOx formation and even recover the water of combustion for reuse.)

In fuel cell mode you're consuming oxygen, not purifying it.
Texas also has tons of natgas and it doesn't travel well without more infrastructure so any power source competes. The irony is that solar (disclaimer: I'm getting solar in Texas) is pushing against a string global warming wise, because you're basically just saving energy that could have been bled off from flaring off natgas anyways
One of my friends/clients buys 'quality checked' scripts from Code Canyon, they're complete shit. Like even a beginner programmer wouldn't shit out this kind of garbage.

I've made more fixing them than the 'developers' have made selling them.

It's very lucrative for me, but I don't think it'd be viable as a full-time gig though.
To make twitter less dependent on big advertisers, Musk should make it easier for individuals to advertise on twitter. Many derive some direct financial benefit from twitter - for their career, for their business, but don't bother to use twitter ads. If twitter added a "promote" or "boost" button to every tweet, maybe that would change.
Maybe his house won't be effected by climate change?
There are very large funds that focus on tech. And since tech has gotten so big relative to the market, even if a fund doesn't specialize in it, they still have to understand it.

Since they have so much money at stake, they have an interest in understanding it. Not doing so will cost them their jobs.

"Understanding" is "in the financial sense" of course. They mostly care about the volumes of money going in and out, and expectations for that.
> or the beginning of a paradigm shift

Could just be reaching market saturation.
I beg to differ and say that requesting better documentation is fair, and it goes without saying that maintainers don't need to fulfill these requests, as I don't think that these requests are driven by an inexplicable sense of entitlement or unfairness to OSS maintainers, but instead a desire for more knowledge about the projects and since no one knows the codebase better than the creators themselves, it becomes obvious that you turn to them for answers to your questions or technical problems that you might face.
IMO checksums more or less offer a false sense of security for users if they're stored/shared on the same page/domain as the download, since it'd be trivial for a bad actor to change them if the files are compromised.

Linux mint, for example, the attacker updated the checksums for the ISOs on the page when it was compromised https://www.infoworld.com/article/3036178/lesson-from-linux-...

I don't really have a solid solution to this, besides searching the checksum on google to see if it's listed anywhere else as a soft 3rd party check
I’ve always worried about the energy density of batteries. They’re explosive enough as it is, imagine if it was 10x worse. I’ve always hoped that we’d transition to synthetic fuel - fuel like diesel is surprisingly stable and safe.
Many companies have buggy code bases that need fixing or refactoring. It's essentially a one time job and once the heavy lifting is done, for an employed Dev the job changes a lot. So working on legacy code bases would work but maybe also offering to refurbish/consolidate

Probably some companies would be happy to offload the risk of a complex refactoring
Weird how this idea is only getting traction now that Elon owns Twitter, and not when they were censoring everything right of Mao.
Because the government regulates, subsidizes, and mandates these forms of energy. It does all these things because renewable energy is more expensive and so they have not been sustainable, financially, on their own in the free market. Therefore the government, and by extension those who lobby the government for this, are compelling people to spend more for energy. Whether or not this is justified is a different question - but regardless of justification, this is why it's political.
Yeah that's my experience from a long career as well. People never appreciate what can't be seen. And if we make it more visible we get lambasted for "writing bugs", sigh.
Now, what I meant is Reddit director of content was transplanted from Atlantic council which had these politicians as board
Here [1] is a great visual I believe they should link to. no animals were harmed in this video Trail guide was ready but kept everyone safe including the grizzly.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZqRbpb5gg
Those that have also figured that ad block is essential nowadays.
I wouldn’t be worried for most BRICS. Their coalition is growing because the world sees the hypocrisy of the west. And even the legacy western media is reluctantly capitulating to that fact.

https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-90-percent-world-isnt-follow...
Especially since a lot of work has been put into Zink already. Zink is basically the general case of migrating an OpenGL game engine to a lower-level Vulkan-style API.
Because the tech in question has been developed for several decades and you still haven’t been convinced it’s a great investment (waiting for price to get lower). We’d be much further behind without public funds/tax incentives.
I agree. More renewables = more natural gas consumed. Case and point: Germany. The proponents of renewables on large scale are usually fossil fuel companies or groups funded by fossil fuel companies [0].

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/3ffe84d3-6b56-4781-a218-a598d43e8...
Video footage https://nitter.net/theseoulite/status/1586377215457230848#m
Probably because it's another Google project they killed before anyone had even heard of it.
I guess it also depends on the shape of the org chart.

At the time Parag was CTO, did the VP of product report to him? If so, then you can absolutely make the claim that Parag is ultimately responsible here.
It is a very significant step worthy of note in computing history.

The difference between raw machine op codes and a nicely formatted asm
with whitespace/columns is quite a leap, if you've ever programmed
that way.
Much worse...
As outrageous as a site having a leak or being hacked. As for what someone can do. It's simple. Don't use Google.
Massive jerk in Amazon's cloud business as revenue growth rapidly decelerates! Is this the revenue jounce competitors have been waiting for? (/s)
Rust Web Framework Comparison
Meta-advice: When reading advice collection posts such as this one, find the first one that really resonates with you, then stop reading. The brain can't absorb several life-changing concepts within a few minutes of another. After stopping and thinking deeply about one bit of advice and ideally doing something else for a while, you can come back if you want.
Is $1-2M/year all it takes? If so, that's a pretty great ROI.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
When other people rely on your hobby it can be hard to just walk away. There is pride, dedication and the feeling of providing value in FOSS. But if others make tremendous amounts of money based on your unpaid work, and show entitlement to its benefits and free support or development, it is hard not not feel a tiny bit entitled for compensation.
This isn't really the right place to launch into a full diatribe on this, but for anyone who isn't familiar and may be confused by this claim, I want to point out this specifically refers to the default install with no extra services running.

I love BSD based OSes, but I've always found this claim to be a little irritating, because it's far less impressive IMO than it sounds to the uninitiated. It's impressive from the perspective of Windows or Solaris which enable huge numbers of network daemons by default and have both suffered numerous high profile remote vulnerabilities on default installs, but OpenBSD isn't really much different from most Linux distros on this. I'm sure most distros have had more remote vulnerabilities, but not that many. Your average Joe out-of-the-box install of Fedora or Ubuntu doesn't really have any open services IIRC, so an exploit would need to directly target the Linux IP stack, or one of the network autoconfig services if that's in scope.
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022 (Library: OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022)

Until the 1st?
I read through that issue, and it doesn't seem so bad? There is a disagreement, but I don't really see anyone involved being "toxic"?
> The conservatives are obsessed with who's what color and gender, what they are doing in the bedroom or in the hospital, but we don't have to. None of this should matter, not for an engineering job, not for anything.

Tell me again, which side is establishing “affirmative action”?
Thank you, the BBC left that question begging. I was thinking maybe it was some kind of neurotoxin attack, mass hysteria, or something as yet unknown.
What an insane, click bait title from BBC! No mention of stampede!
$15/month.
Texas is, in many places, a wind-swept desert. Texas gets more direct sun because it is closer to the equator. Texas is also 70% larger in area. If it didn't surpass California in total renewables, that would be an amazing story.
Crowds can be extremely dangerous
> lobbying'. That is, the free, democratic, and fully legal, bribery of government legislators and elected officials by profit-driven corporate bodies.

That’s not really the definition of lobbying though. We should try to avoid hyperboles. Additionally, bribery is not legal and that’s not even remotely the form that the vast majority of lobbying takes today.
Given that money is just a promise there are endless money things as well.

We can't define money, we can't define velocity, prices are all relative and what is included as a transaction depends on the definition.

The naive QTM is overly abstract. All we can really do is address the root cause - insufficient supply and competition.
Glyphosate isn't mentioned in TFA. Thoughts on paraquat?
Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
Good post from Phoronix on the topic, also giving a bit of context as to why they're "bringing back" the driver: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-WireGuard-Lands-2022
It's really a nice book and it left me feeling very optimistic about the future. The audio book has superb quality as well if you prefer that. Regarding rereading, maybe the chapter about the multiverse is dense and require rereading, the rest was OK.
Not a typo. Both the process and the notation has been called "assembler" and "assembly".
There’s something to be said for the media alerting everyone in their localities of potential Halloween threats. Every time the media alert us of some new threat (e.g rainbow fentanyl) and it’s a false alarm, people ultimately experience a sort of cry-wolf effect and this results in kids experiencing the negative consequences.

The media ultimately aren’t incentivized properly to reserve these reports to account for these transitive impacts, and as long as we’re consuming these channels for free they end up cashing in on our fears and showing us these reports to make a quick buck.

Spooky in its own way I guess.
What I learned from Donald Trump's business dealings.

If you owe the bank 200,000$ and can't pay it, you are in trouble.

If you owe the bank 1.2 billion dollars and can't pay it, THE BANK is in trouble.

This very very very much applies here.