skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story the essay paints is that for "open core" to be profitable, eventually the company will have to make the "free" version basically unattractive compared to the paid one. It is described as basically a "freemium" model.

So what is the difference between this and if it just weren't open source at all? I see the marketing benefit to the producers of having people consider it "open source", even though eventually they'll be locked in and have to pay for the value they want.

What is the benefit to the consumer? Real question. I'm not certain there is none. Perhaps the open core being truly open source, at least other developers can look at that code as a learning resource, or even fork it into something else? (Note that requires it being really open source, that is legally forkable under a really open source license that will allow it to achieve a life of it's own. Entities trying to do "open core" where the core is licensed under a non-OSI-approved license... we could talk about that). I could be persuaded that makes it better than if it were just proprietary license altogether? Anything else?
Because that is what you would care of if you try to bring your wealth offshore.
Correct. It’s a way to “cycle the elites”. A healthy society will always include an elite minority. But to remain healthy there needs to be a way to circulate the elites so that those that should rise have methods to and those that should fall get their spot taken. Trying to engineer this around arbitrary things like sex or race can’t work because those people don’t have what it takes in the end.
"Not being messed with" won't fly with anyone who values the rule of law. You don't have the right not to be messed with as you are bound by law.

Minding one's own business really doesn't say anything, and opens the door to the inevitable question of when does your business end up becoming my business? Which usually happens once I can quantify your externalites.

Now, I didn't downvote you, you're at least trying; but think on those. Then you'll be well on the way to understanding why we can't have nice things.
There are ways to avoid having buses stuck in traffic. Dedicated lanes for public transport, getting more people to use public transport rather than cars, and so on. So I'd say it's more often than not a choice in planning if it's convenient compared to using cars or not.

(There's also the problem of less developed systems often being less convenient, and because of it not having the funding needed to expand due to low usage)
After The Whistle Blows
How relevant is that figure when Intel CPUs universally outperform that by leaps and bounds?
Employers used to have standardized tests for all sorts of things. The tests enabled a lot of upward mobility for people to pursue occupations that did not require college degree. If you could show aptitude in a test and had at least a high school education, they'd take you on and train you and you'd have a nice career.

However, certain groups sued saying that "equality of outcome" is more important than "equality of opportunity". They argued that if the outcome of a test showed intersectional differences, then the test must be biased. They succeeded in pressuring the various trade groups and industries to get rid of the tests or be sued into oblivion.

The trade groups that offered these tests realized it was just easier to require college degrees as a proxy instead of having their own specific tests and having to deal with these pressure groups. This is why many occupations these days require a degree when it seems like that should be unnecessary.

This slammed the door to upward mobility for many that the pressure groups were claiming to try to help.
Maybe. But that’s not how it has worked in the past. In other cases capital controls like this cause international businesses to not trade in the currency and to instead demand other currencies to settle accounts, causing more capital flight.

There is an example in the article of an investor with money stuck in China. They won’t be doing as much investment as they would if the currency was liberal for instance.

The western currencies dominate foreign trade for lots of reasons, but the biggest by far is that they are easy to move.
Interestingly the ticket the OP owns will not disappear and can still be monetarily beneficial in some cases.

While the 49€ ticket is cheaper and has (way) more reach the "VBB Umweltkarte" has some additional benefits.

Like:

- in the evening (20:00) and on week ends you can take an additional adult as well as a child along for free

- it's not person bound so you can pass it to other people

This means that e.g. for a family of two parents and one child a single card is enough to cover all weekend family trips and when the child is to old to be covered it also normal has a "school ticket" which I think is free since some years(?).

Similar there are still other tickets of relevance, e.g. a ticket to be able to take your bike on the train (in areas where it's allowed and a separate ticket is needed).

But by itself I agree, especially for people crossing regional boarders in a unlucky way this ticket is a blessing. E.g. if you live close idk ~30min by care close to Berlin you often would have to get a Berlin ABC (or BC) + 2 regions ticket which is just supper expensive to a point where many people will not even consider it and just take a car. But this isn't because it need to be that expensive but because they have no lobby behind them which negotiated better tariffs. This was shown e.g. by Potsdam universities which negotiated a Berlin ABC + "ALL regions and cities in Brandenburg" ticket at a normal student ticket price.

Anyway I love it.
> Where you go to school still greatly affects how well you are likely to do on standardised tests. Better schools can easily bump students up 2 or 3 grades compared to poorer schools...

Neither SAT nor ACT are measured in "grades", so it's not clear what you mean to say here.
This would affect switched outlets in the US, too. When we install light switches in the US, we usually only use a single pole switch that breaks hot, not neutral.

But yeah, British outlets do have switches directly on them. And fuses in all their plugs—awesome stuff.
There Are Only Two Ways to Bring Peace to Ukraine
Cool idea, I have some medical ai applications
You just gotta tell a good story
When is China going to "acknowledge the truth about climate"? When it finished building the hundreds of planned coal power plants? This BS is all a pure geopolitics show with obvious traitors in power of western governments.
> So the value of open-core is that companies can get locked into a product without knowning it and without you doing any real sales effort.

I see the obvious value to the people selling the software!

Is there any value to the consumer, or is it basically just a trick?
Polish gov websites - for example www.gov.pl itself - try to run Google Analytics / Tag Manager on visitors' devices. I've opened a case with local GDPR body "UODO" (part of said government) but they wouldn't do anything. Case dismissed.

GDPR is only as good as local government's interpretation and approach.
Mosaic worked quite differently than browsers today
I had a Rage 128 in 1999 and easily gamed at 1024x768 - and ran Windows 98 at 1600x1200!

For years it was so hard to find LCDs that came close to the resolution I had on my CRT for a reasonable price.
Reddit Asks Court to Protect Users’ Anonymity in Third-Party Piracy Lawsuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiR54FPQiCs
The whole point of lossy compression is to lose numerical information in a way that doesn't lose visual information. Computing the amplitude of the numerical loss is not very relevant, since it's the visual loss that matters (and those two things are only weakly correlated).
> This is why food companies in the UK use niacinamide (vit b3) in fortified food, the UK food industry wants that soft feminine look in the population!

Here I am thinking it was to prevent pellagra.
> Standardized tests remain the only criteria totally in the control of the student. You can study for them and objectively do better, become a better applicant.

This view ironically makes schools and education irrelevant. Why even send students to school, if test scores are "totally" in the control of the student?
> They send their children overseas to overpriced universities, and are allowed to justify buying luxury cars, and other school related expenses.

And real estate.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/wilful-blindness-1.6136088

Organized Crime in places like Vancouver smuggles drugs into Canada, the funds are laundered in casinos and real estate, and the money is transferred from the Wealthy in China to OC in China, and the wealthy investor gets clean cash and houses in Canada.
Could be all of the above, but for at least a year I have been reading how the real estate bubble that's underpinning the Chinese growth economy is starting to pop with the potential to bleed into the banking system, e.g. [0]

If this happens, and is at bad as some analysts say it could be, then the model propping up the CCP effectively ends [1] and they'll have bigger things to worry about than re-unification or tariffs.

0. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/07/17/a-real-estate-and-bank...

1. https://zeihan.com/the-cutting-room-files-part-6-the-future-...
Conservation of Ignorance: A New Law of Nature
Well, on the one hand, student applicants want to feel that "I am not a number, I am a human being."

And admission committees put a lot of time and effort into trying to discern qualities that go beyond some numbers of the page to admit a qualified but diverse student body (for reasons both good and arguably bad or ineffective).
The US seems to be particularly weird on this.

In the UK I know people with iPhones and people with Android phones. The cost of them are usually not that different, people have stuff like the galaxy flip phones that are 1K+.

But everyone uses SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram/etc so this manufactured problem just doesn't exist.
I’m sorry to hear that, that sounds really hard. Are you talking about this stuff with someone that can help you?
The price structure for Interrail and Eurail are different which makes them tricky to compare. They in some countries don't even include the same trains.
Or just buy/hold/sell a stable coin like BUSD, USDC, or USDT to minimize your market risk.

Please no comments on how “Tether is a scam”, blah blah blah.
If you can afford it, following the intrinsic motivation may be exactly what you need to do.

Sometimes I'm in the position where I want or need to do something even though I'm dreading it or am not excited about.

A few things have helped me when that's the case:
1. Coaxing myself rather than trying to crack the whip.
- Finding what's interesting about the task
- Thinking through how it might be made interesting or easy
- Thinking through whether I can automate it away
- Starting on a tiny piece without committing to finishing it right away
- Lowering my requirements on quality for a first try to basically zero
- Developing a habit around the task with a reward like a streak or a check mark
2. Writing out my thoughts
- Why do I want to take on this task?
- Why don't I want to take on this task?
If I can drill down on both of those maybe I can come to some kind of resolution

Anyway, a lot of what works depends on what's broken in the current situation. I think that sometimes your desire to avoid something is right and sometimes it needs to be worked around. But in either case it can be at least heard with thoughtfulness and compassion. There's probably insight in the feeling that you don't want to miss out on.

On the other hand, I think it's a mistake to treat these feelings as the only thing either. Often even strong feelings are temporary and situational and getting better information or just letting time pass or building up a feeling of success from small wins will let the storm move on.
Isn't that about the fuel and not the vehicle?

If we manufactured diesel out of wood or algae, the same cars would suddenly become very green - in case of algae cultivation for fuel, you can reach carbon negativity (the process net-decreased carbon in atmosphere).

This is likely more green than building battery electric vehicles with large capacity. Batteries are great but cars don't need more than 100km of charge. Longer trips should be on bio-diesel or bio-gas.
Politics seem to be incapable of stopping technological progress... at most it slows it down a little, in some parts of the world, while other parts race ahead.

As more parts of the world improve technologically, economically, and in terms of education, technological progress becomes even harder to stop.

Mix in the virtually limitless promise of riches and power that strong AI brings, there's just no way any government anywhere will be capable of preventing strong AI research from racing on. In fact, every government will see it to be in their own interest to get there first. Same with every billionaire.

There's just no stopping the race to develop a wish-granting machine.
> ..there's no turning permanent magnets "off. " Their magnetic fields never change, so when they're not being powered by energy in the stator winding, they're generating energy in those windings, which creates drag. This is why some EVs powered by multiple motors either use a clutch to decouple and idle a permanent-magnet motor when it's not needed, or they fit one asynchronous AC induction motor (which suffers no such losses) and one permanent-magnet motor.

This part is really interesting from a physics energy (thermodynamics?) standpoint.
I wish I had marked the calendar to commemorate the day we turned off the last of the Cobalts at a data center I worked in from 2003-2010. We had a suite that was almost entirely dedicated to them, rows of racks with nothing but Cobalt, thousands of them. Customers were so attached to them that they were happy to continue paying 1999 prices for hosting, so it was difficult letting go of those fat margins.
What's up with freaking programmers of all the people in the world thinking they're in a position to give far-reaching life like this? Of course my perception is biased because this profession is overrepresented here but these kinds of posts keep popping up from time to time and reading advice on how to live your life from someone who spends all their time in front of a computer screen is so cringe. Even the wikipedia (lol) source he cited on "Ego depletion" has an entire section questioning the external validity and reproducibility of that concept.

From https://oliveremberton.com/about/

> Not naturally in tune with people’s feelings and reactions

Yeah dude, I wonder why. Go write a blog post about it.

https://oliveremberton.com/2013/how-do-i-figure-out-what-to-...

That photoshopped picture of Bill Gates holding a potato is genuinely funny though, lol.
I think what really did it for me and my friends at that time was we could have a better graphics at home that what was available at most arcades at the time. Need for Speed 3 was the killer app for us, Playing over a DB9 serial link or directly calling each others house (and arguing about who was going to call who because the ringers were still on in the parents bedroom and the pickup was after the 1st ring).
Alot of software is written for single instance data, thats the way IT has evolved, so whilst clusters are in their infancy, the market perhaps hasnt evolved enough to recognise their benefits, and the laws would need to be upgraded to be consistent across borders.

But you do already see instances like this, like window machines distributing updates to other local window machines. A great way for MS to offload its bandwidth costs onto users, whilst saving itself a packet or two.

So maybe the market has recognised the virtues of distributed systems, but they are not how you envisage them to be?
Exactly, we're seeing the time horizon shrink rapidly. There have already been numerous threads ruminating on the fact that even a few months of not paying attention will result in you lagging behind in this technology. I can't wait to see what happens when state space models are developed further[0]. If the prompt and output length can be increased significantly then large chunks of the work of building software could be offloaded to these tools.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14052
If you're only interested in money laundering USDT is not a bad choice even if it is a scam.
It's not stupid. It's bold and almost risk-free. The US aren't the only people allowed to do proxy wars.
WebP was supported in Chrome about a decade before it became widely used. It was even already supported before the format was even finalized: lossless and animation were added after the first (lossy-still-only) WebP support was enabled in Chrome.
For shared non-production environments, I’ve always been a big fan of Mailtrap.io in this space.

Same idea of faking delivery but puts it in a location where non-devs can access and review it.

https://mailtrap.io/
There’s no amount of test prep that will get a “stupid child” to a 1500+ on the SAT.
Well, I think it was taking a swipe at a particular brand of insincere feel-good corporate bullshit marketing that was fairly prevalent at the time. Faceless conglomerates trying to manage their image such that they appeared to be benevolent world citizens—not ruthless plunderers.

That is opposed to say, today's brand of insincere feel-good corporate bullshit marketing.
Yup.A good read regarding this:

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/14/will-europes-pr...
I'm personally scared that not only are the bots going to get good, they're going to be everywhere, imagine how 2024's election cycle is going to go with image diffusion, deepfaking, voice synthesis, and text synthesis in the equation. It really makes me wonder what the hell we're in for.

It is also super frustrating as someone who does writing and community management to be warned that I may have to totally radically change a lot of approaches to try and filter out AI spam. This part is very annoying. I think the blogspam problem is going to get much worse and we're going to end up with awesome lists for trustable blogs or whatever.

I just hope we don't end up having to lose tools like Stack Overflow in the wake of this technological revolution.
Did people not try the nvidia driver back then? Even as a casual user at the time it was miles ahead - but it wasn’t open source
Yes, coffee brightens the morning
This seems to hint at a more fundamental difference in approach.

The grandparent comment is saying that the conductors should check for student IDs to validate that the passenger is travelling with correct authorisation.

Your comment indicates that because they have the ticket they are automatically authorised to travel.

In the U.K. as an example, if you’re travelling with a student (or other form of discount) ticket but cannot produce the corresponding ID card proving this, in effect you are not authorised to use the ticket and thus subject to a penalty fare, or a fine. This makes it so that eligibility must be validated simultaneously with inspection.

Not verifying eligibility at the same time as inspection means that an ineligible user may be inclined to obtain a ticket from an eligible user.

Different systems, different attitudes.

(Of course in the U.K. a flat reduction in ticket prices across the board would ameliorate the likelihood of this occurring in the first place, but that’s secondary)
And a plug for the 7 day rouge like challenge which just started

https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2023
> Am I supposed to infer from the style of those few sentences whether the book is going to be good?

Well.. yes. It's obviously not the best way but it's clearly better than inferring from universally positive blurbs that you get otherwise (hence this article). Have you ever seen a blurb "this book is okish"?
The same debate has been going on since ELIZA was first introduced. The difference between arguing about a text generating model and one that inhabits a virtual world or can interact with the physical world is huge.
The original source is available, and the Haiku devs specifically has license to use it.
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)
You don’t need to mention that you are in the top 50% to make your augment stronger. You should probably even actively avoid saying it so that people don’t think you’re relying on selfless reasons, (hey everyone I’m the nice one in the room) to further your point, because others may not feel that way about themselves.l, at least not to random strangers in the bottom 10%.

Anyway, making more money is just a measure of one’s ability more or less (not a causation but a strong correlation). Therefore to the extent that one works harder or provides more value to others and is rewarded for it by increased earning power, they should not be punished for it by an arbitrary tax on their transportation needs.

I think it might make sense to create countries or places where people in the bottom 10% live with minimal conveniences, a place like Thailand when everything is cheap.

In additional to above requiring everyone to pay the same amount creates equality and most likely moves technological innovation ahead that much faster because everyone feels like they are getting value for their money and more likely to spend even more on improvements.
The process cannot be carbon negative unless you sequester the algae somehow. All the carbon the algae captures while growing will be released when they decompose.
This will work for some languages, but I very much doubt it'll work for at least two of the three languages mentioned (C# and Java) because even their native images often contain some kind of embedded runtime inside the executable.

I think you can compile both C# and Java to native code entirely (without a self-contained runtime) but it's not the common way to deploy executables written in those languages.

That said, I'm sure there are ways to get these statistics out of a .dll/.jar as well. Reasoning about them may be a little tough as you have no idea if the code will be JIT'ed or evaluated as bytecode until you run the code, but raw bytes on disk shouldn't pose a problem.

Worst case scenario, you can just dump the disassembled bytecode (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11345034/how-many-bytes-... or https://stackoverflow.com/a/6574882) and start counting. Provided you don't add any native calls, of course, then you'll need to add objdump's transformed output as well.
More utilities are rolling out time of use rates to encourage consumers to use electricity during off peak hours.

Even if you don’t have a direct financial incentive, it’s better for the environment to shift your usage to off peak times. The duck curve comes to mind.

Since heating/cooling is the largest share of usage, I try to run a schedule with good setbacks and pre-heat/cool during before peak hours. I try to do laundry during the day and run the dishwasher at night after peak hours — morning would probably be better but our dog hates it.
> almost risk-free

Wouldn’t the article indicate otherwise?
How would anyone teach themselves a language without having access to it?
I remember it like that, too. It wasn't a product war, it was a war of court battles. Creative had more money and was able to chip away at Aureal through litigation and caused their collapse.
I had one the 1st Voodoo cards, it was a Diamond. When you ran a game that supported it you could hear the mechanical relay switching from the regular video card to the Voodoo.