skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been harping for years to anyone who would listen, Open Source is not a business model [0].

If your motivation for doing open source is money, you're doing it wrong. You'll be much better off just getting a job (and GitHub stars can help with that!).

We all know "build it and they will come" and "follow your passion and the money will follow" don't really work in the real world. You have to make something people want and convince those people it's in their best interest to pay you.

Open source can be a part of a larger strategy to earn a living (consulting, customizations/open core, relicensing, books/talks/seminars, etc), but yeah, GitHub stars aren't money.

[0] https://blog.senko.net/open-source-is-not-a-business-model
> "VR gaming makes regular gaming obsolete in many ways."

Far from it. VR is just a new type of game. Regular display technology is too good now. From ultrawide to laser projection, to high density mobile screens, to folding screens... ALL getting better and cheaper. Above all, the friction and ergonomic shift of VR is too great to expect obsolescence to come knocking on regular gaming's door.

His idea for the mobile phone to be replaced with VR/AR is crazy. Phones are little hubs in our hands, with amazing cameras and nice screens for flicking through information with your finger. Agreeable ergonomics for our brains to absorb "chunks" of content or information, about the size of a phone up to tablet/A4 paper size. Something in our brains likes the compartmental properties of a page. Like since humans started reading and writing. The "size" of a virtual bubble or layered world floating in front of our faces, isn't tangible or agreeable enough for daily driving brain activity IMHO. Great for after hours fun though!
> Muphry's Law

I'm going to assume that was an intentional misspelling to prove the point.
there's a great youtube doc about everything being remixing which i highly recommend

https://www.everythingisaremix.info/
The ideology that punishment is a form of retribution, with the primary aim being to inflict as much suffering as the subject has earned through their crimes, rather than to produce a change in behaviour, is what leads to the US having the world's largest prison population and world's highest incarceration rate but having far more violence that other countries at a similar level of economic development and no significant decrease in violent crime.

It doesn't work on a nation-state level either - they tried the harsh punishment route after WW1 and it led to WW2.
At least phones don't transform to paperweight once an algorithm running inside a server of a mega American corporation deems you unworthy.
Not mentioned in its own thread; Tumblr recently relaxed (but did not eliminate) some of its nudity guidelines very recently (the imposition of which had negatively hurt the site's engagement to say the least). Seems they're really flirting with their old user base. Some comments on this talk about zero days/session stealing being a problem.
>may

There’s no precedent. Disclosures are always worst case scenarios

And again, will anyone please read their fucking balance sheet?

Liabilities of $105bn, $101bn which are deposit liabilities vs. $101bn of customer assets.

Even in a worst case scenario depositors get a <4% haircut.

THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT FTX DID
I can understand too, but I won't even dig into your code when I need to pay you first. Shouldn't you pay me too for opening the pull-request, because "I did your work"?
GitHub is also owned by Microsoft.

Playwright is Open Source - the worst thing that will happen if Microsoft will kill it - you’ll be able to use the latest release until you find some replacement.
Have you tried that on any kind of music?
I’ve been a mod for less than 3 months, someone just needs help moderating. Not sure if I agree about power, majority of users in our sub are kids and they can get wild if not moderated.
The banks issuing the loans weren't the victims of the fraud, either. They were making money hand over fist repackaging and reselling those shitty loans.
The decline of plant mineral nutrition under rising CO2
In Reddit's case, I think it was a result of American culture and media in general changing to be more political. Late night television and Twitter experienced similar changes around that time too.
I suspect this may be true.

I know someone who hoards many things at work... and also has 99+ tabs open at once (don't know the value of '+')
Usually it's just simply old fashioned fraud.
IMHO, the saddest part is that people keep falling for it, and/or knowingly selling out others to it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin won't attend G20 summit in Bali, officials say
The former is actually being used to run businesses and as long as the currency is not a demurrage currency, you are going to have to accept inflation as the thing that keeps money in circulation.
Binance loans customer funds too… maybe not to themselves but it could still come crumbling down
> Fortunately for investors in public companies, you can mostly sort out the crazy people ahead of time

> By inspecting the growth mechanism of the company. Amount of leverage, yield on investments relative to risks, assumptions about future growth, management commentary etc.

Why waste your time like that? Just buy an index fund.

> Unfortunately for investors in FTX, they had no visibility or regulations/protections against their deposits being stolen

Even more important, short sellers couldn't correct the price, I guess?
I have seen a lot of SEO content spam, and this article does not come across as that to me.
Am I the only who feels like these stories are the Boogie Nights of the 2020s?

Unreal.
Thunderbird has had native CardDAV support for a while now. I’ve been able to ditch Cardbook (although the latter has more functionality).
Behind FTX's fall, battling billionaires and a failed bid to save crypto
I think he's limited by the technology of our times, but I'd still agree with him that this is _the future_ (not sure how soon), and they probably want to be at the forefront when that happens.
Coinbase has those assets listed nice and separately but that is unlikely to hold up in bankruptcy court.

SEC specifically forced Coinbase to disclose the following:

“ "Because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings and such customers could be treated as our general unsecured creditors”

“Deposits” legally are a banking term
and coinbase is not a bank.

The money given to Coinbase is more akin to a gift card balance. Starbucks segregates customer gift balances on its balance sheet but if they go bankrupt gift card holders are in line with other unsecured creditors.
If they plan to go public ever, its pretty much an inevitability, at least if US market incentives stay as they are. Cable isn't venture capital funded, and they're rife with profit maximization.
Another Electron app, no thanks.

One day all of them will join XUL and MSHTML on a retirement home.
Would you please explain it to those of us who didn't experience this? What was it like before, what changed, and why?
Size and weight has been going up over time: https://i.imgur.com/2fOAFqI.png
There's no evidence we will reach the mythical lightweight glasses any time soon. I believe that is needed for VR to be accepted on a scale similar to cellphones.
Still somewhat useful for ransom ware.
If even porn failed to make it really mainstream...
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Has anyone found anything similar (self-hosted or local on device) - but for text generation?
I believe vergence accomodation can still be a problem, even if the focus is fixed at 60cm (close to infinity). If an object is up close in the virtual world (say 20cm), it's still stuck at a focus of 60cm.

I believe Nvidia demoed a solution for this at SIGGRAPH ~4 years back. Liquid lenses were employed to change the lenses focal length based on the content and user gaze.
That's charitable, but leads to a new "how many manhole" questions - how many programmers in NYC will write fizzbuzz on a whiteboard this week?
That's a very naive view of utilitarianism.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_utilitarianism
really, content creators should be banned from creating markets like Netflix (and eventually the other way around), but that would require the regulation to not be asleep at the wheel.
US couple sentenced for plot to sell submarine secrets
I don’t pr unless it will be obviously taken without first opening an issue. This prevents me wasting time testing and writing code.

If someone is going to just close these questions, then I will drop them as it’s not open source I want to be a part of.

I am okay with paying for software. not okay with paying to find out my feature request will get denied
- Feel acceleration of a vehicle

This is wrong, I know of a project where you sit in the backseat of a car, put a VR headset on that's connected to the car. There is a driver and you are on a special track in real life. Acceleration is real, but on the VR thingy you are elsewhere. Not sure if it was ever released.
It is very hard to imagine how life was back then. And it was only 20 years ago!
Not sure if this was sarcasm, but during the transition from Dotcom Boom to Dotcom Bust, it was a bit of folk wisdom that if you saw a Dotcom rename a stadium, its shareholders best start selling and its employees best start job hunting.
"The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead." - Mr. PeanutButter
If it was GPL it could use GPL code and legally there would be no debate.
I totally agree for things that would normally be described as support (e.g. feature requests or low quality bug reports), but a lot of things aren't that.

Personally, if I submit a bug report or PR to an OSS project (which admittedly doesn't happen very often), it's almost always because I think the time I've spent investigating the bug/feature could benefit other users of the project.

For my use cases, it's generally much faster and easier (at least in the short term) to just fork a project and make whatever change I need locally, than to wait for it to go through review/merge/release in the original project.

Another commenter has pointed out that they make exceptions for certain types of contributions though, which I guess would help with this.
I wonder if advertising revenue drives this sort of thing. Maybe like history channel getting lots of alien shows.
Strangely enough RAI doesn't need to be excessively volatile. It just happens to be the least volatile cryptocurrency in existence.

I wonder why that is...
EasyPrivacy gets a lot (most?) of the CNAME-cloaked stuff even on Chrome and MV3 because of efforts to detect and incorporate the subdomains into filter lists. AdGuard's public DNS server watches for CNAME cloaking and the subdomains get pushed to a list [1]. Or one could set their DNS to AdGuard and get the CNAME blocking in real time without filter list updates. uBO on Firefox is of course the more flexible solution but along with cosmetic filtering, this kind of thing would make it hard to notice the difference between a really good MV3 blocker and uBO on Firefox.

[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers
That is in a sense what JIT caching with PGO feedback loop does to a certain extent.

As for mobile, this isn't far off from the whole set of hand written Assembly interpreter, JIT with PGO data caching, AOT compilation on idle with the PGO collected data, sharing PGO metadata with other devices via the PlayStore, that Android happens to do since version 7, and refined later.
This is amazing! Finally a use case for using all that compute power on the phone
The point of stablecoins is having an USD equivalent currency that isn't subject to US financial regulations.

As said by sibling, trading crypto for crypto is still a taxable event in a lot of jurisdictions.
In principle, a greater number of future lives matter more than a lesser number of present lives. The principle itself seems sound to me.

The problem is you can't actually be certain those future lives will come to exist. One assuming they will, and being so confident in their assumption that they deprioritize the lives of the currently living based on it, is hubris, but only because it over-estimates one's powers of prognostication.
When google started, they were having difficulty staying solvent until they added ads, even though they had a better product than the other search engines. Its a space that's ill-suited to market solutions.
We add data-test-id, data-test-name, or data-test-value attributes (depending on the case) to our elements, and selectors are rock-solid.
I‘m not good in JavaScript, but reading the code, I wonder if this implementation doesn’t have an issue with truthiness in the second array. For example if you zip([true,true],[false,false]).

The minimum length approach seams to be the better one. (Without having it run anywhere.)
I recently started trying not to be overly dismissive about all the new stuff that is trending or picking up traction. I like tech, I make living off it, yet I'm one of those that happily move to 70's and use paper and pen instead. Now,instead of trying to shoot it down immediately, I at least try to understand what's going on and how different groups could benefit of it. So far it seems to be a positive thing.
Am I the only one who uses a desktop mail/calendar client?
Bitcode is dead because Apple got fed up to keep maintaining their own fork with guarantees that regular LLVM doesn't offer.

Since 1961 plenty of systems have used bytecodes as executable formats, the most sucessfull still in use, IBM and Unisys mainframes and microcomputers.
I mean, learning a hypothesis doesn't work isn't for nothing?

And unlike previous entries in the series, iirc, during gameplay the soundtrack reacts to the player's progress rather than just being there in the background.
“Unexpected” – Scientists Discover an Anti-Aging Mechanism
You are being downvoted but the point you make stands: there are a lot of people here who will jump at the opertunity to proclaim that crypto's only use is a ponzy scheme. That claim is not only objectively false, but they way they usually phrase it also preemptively shuts down any chance proponents of either side coming closer to seeing how this tech is actually used.

Whether it be war, tyranny and unjust sanctions, crashing economies, or just avoiding the arbitrary and often unjust fees, rules, seizures, and bannings imposed by private payment networks and services like paypal or visa, humanity will always need way to exchange cash. I for one am glad crypto (as a means to transfer funds) exists, glad it will continue to exist, and will continue to support it in any way I can.

To me, what it provides to humanity far outweighs the negatives.
Compare the Stripe layoff to the Meta one. The severance terms are very similar and I think the Meta offer is objectively better, if only slightly depending on tenure. Both the Stripe founders and Zuckerberg are both "taking responsibility" for the layoffs but without any resignation or personal financial burdens outside of just share price. This has basically zero chance of being a decrease in operating costs until well into 2023. Stripe and Meta seem to be on par with one another as far as how they handled their respective layoffs other than the Meta leak.
> ... so many on here will have adjust their expectations to reality.

Define reality. This has been my experience for the last 10 years, and frankly, it's been the experience of a number of folks I've seen laid off and fired from similarly situated companies in the last few months.

Could that change? For sure. I'm talking about the situation on the ground - today - from personal experience within the last few months. Why are we attempting to optimize today for a reality that does not exist right now? Let's cross that bridge and adapt when we see what it actually looks like.

> And yes even those that feel secure in their jobs currently...

Speak to some FAANG employees. I'm not sure any of them have ever felt secure in their jobs because these companies operate with very little fat and aggressively prune ranks every 6-12 months.

> ...will eventually see a paycut in some ways.

In a hypothetical future, yes it could happen of course. Has it happened yet? No. It hasn't. Should we find ways to cut our own pay now in advance of a reality that may not materialize? Not in my opinion, no.

I thought part of the point of this place was to share what's happening in our industry right now in addition to doomer projections.

An average Netflix employee is responsible for $2.6M in revenue. $2.375M at Apple. $1.6M at FB and Google. $920K at Microsoft. [1] Now adjust that down to just the engineers. At NFLX, that's $6.5M in revenue per engineer. These companies would be nuts to hire anyone other than the best and to pay for it. Even in a world where they reduce headcount they will see attrition and they'll need replacements - and they'll pay for them. If that changes, let's revisit.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/217489/revenue-per-emplo...
> what they're doing is _at best_ tangentially related to improving UX . . . You can spin that as the company just improving the experience so that people want to keep using it, but fundamentally it is intentional psychological manipulation.

So we agree that ab testing is good for optimizing toward a numerical objective. You then seem to think that either:

A) There are simply no numerical objectives that correlate with good ux or

B) Every software company ever is optimizing toward perverse incentives by which they take more money from their users while making their products worse

It’s probably B that you believe, and this is such a myopic and paternalistic view. There are a couple cases where it’s a problem, eg cancellation flows. But this problem is orthogonal to AB testing (try cancelling your newspaper subscription in 1994). AB testing is mostly just trying to improve the rate at which people sign up or buy something, and in this case, your objection hinges on the hidden premise that people are idiots.

> Within a university, research with human subjects is required to pass an ethical review before it is allowed to proceed. Given the scale and impact of the research conducted by Facebook on its users, it is entirely reasonable to hold them to the same standard.

One man’s ponens is another’s tollens. See: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
Is it me or do the costs seem a little punchy? The heat pump monitoring system is 646 GBP. At local electrical prices, I'd have to save nearly 6 megawatts to see any kind of return.. and that's just on hardware cost, not including install.
There is no C or Assembly in IBM and Unisys mainframes and microcomputers.
Technically the title is correct since Google has deprecated PageRank for years. But it doesn't looks like the point of this article since it uses the majority of its texts on criticizing ad supported search business model in favor of subscription models which PageRank has no business at all. You can use PageRank (or not) regardless of the business model right? I'm still not sure what it is trying to achieve by bringing PageRank to the table. If you substitute "PageRank" with "Google" then it actually makes more sense though.
That was my quick reaction as well... I think it would need something like the python example below, where you first check the lengths of the two arrays/lists, and then iterate over that, and not directly over the length of the first list.

iter_limit = Math.min(ls1.length, ls2.length);
for(let i = 0; i < iter_limit; i++)...
Must get awkward when the PR from a member of the collective comes in with a tonne of issues though? They are paying so may feel entitled for it to be merged.