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> A majority of the value created by modern software ultimately comes from free and open source software.

> From this perspective most VC investments aren’t about creating value but about strip-mining FLOSS projects and communities. The scale is for extraction.

As with so many things, I find this analysis suffers for using metaphors about the physical world with software. Strip-mining is a loaded term because it uses destructive means to acquire exclusive access to physical resources, in a way which leaves literally less than there was before, and which can be literally lethal to a literal biological ecosystem and literally toxic to physically proximal human communities. "Extraction" in the literal sense of pulling something out, when dealing with physical material means that others cannot have what you've pulled out; it's gone.

A company (VC-backed or otherwise) that starts from OSS tools (operating system, languages, build tools, application frameworks, etc) to build their own offering doesn't (need to) remove that value in a way which excludes anyone else from enjoying it. To the contrary, building off the OSS ecosystem can make it healthier, if for no other reason than they are cultivating more engineers that know how to use these tools. "Extraction" is not the right metaphor.

The issue of adding proprietary features to OSS projects I think we should acknowledge as diluting value, not subtracting it. If the choice is between project development being discontinued at time T with core feature set F, vs continued through time T+K with extended feature set F + G + H where H is proprietary, but G is not, users who won't use the proprietary features may still benefit from G, and are still better off with continued development -- but we must acknowledge that it's at a slower rate than if H had not been added. Communities should evaluate whether diluted support is worthwhile, or at what point it should be considered abusive, or at least separated into distinct companion projects.
This would feel much more genuine if there wasn't a thick layer of advertising around it. Look at us, we sell services. Here is a list of our partners.
> ice bream sandwich

That amusing typo sounds absolutely disgusting.
The question is: What is their value add? What is their moat?

People call Mc Donald’s a real estate fund and feel smart about it, but their moat is in fast food, no matter how they realise their earnings.
Do they also issue allocations as part of membership? I didn't mention them because I'm not aware if the same "free" allocation is made in those RIRs.
Yes, that's what's happened.

I was using this example to illustrate the disconnect between the market (which was trading oil like some immaterial stuff) and reality (oil is definitely a product you need to store properly, plus oil storage is not infinite).

In fairness, because it occurred during COVID, i.e. a really abnormal situation, this is a bit of a weak example.
World’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship rescues sailboat
This guy was famous for posting these photos flaunting how much money he was wearing. It blows my mind to think someone could be this open about doing this
I used PyPy extensively at a previous employer. The use case was to accelerate an application that was CPU-bound because of serde, which could not be offloaded using multiprocessing. PyPy resulted in a 10x increase in message throughput, and made the project viable in python. Without PyPy, we would have rebuilt the application in Java.
You can't really provision a defined benefit 30 years from now. And i def wouldn't trust you to. Not only that you have to ensure that no one else comes along in the next thirty years and messes with it, or the company tanks or a million other things that could go wrong

If you provision it you might as well give me a 401k where I have discretion over the funds. Or give me money I can use for my own healthcare in the future.

The only people defined pension benefits is shady business managers that don't care and want to get away with cheaper labor costs at the expense of the future which he won't be around to see anyway
We've added Paypal this way on our service (dreamlook.ai, "Stable Diffusion finetuning as a Service") and it was incredibly smooth.

The setup took maybe 15min, and an hour later we had already received our first PayPal payments.
It takes time and effort to prepare such a document for public release. Government agencies produce all kinds of reports which are of minimal interest to the public. Making the documents available on demand via FOIA is a reasonable way to ensure that time and money isn't wasted.
Ask HN: Why did Google fuck up Analytics with GA4?
I have yet to find a single person who is not appalled by the new Google Analytics interface.

Not only that, they also offer no way to import your old data into GA4.

Not only that, the API is also gone. All software you wrote for it is down the toilet.

Not only that, but the data trickles in with a god-knows-how-long delay now.

A quadruple "fuck you" in the face of every long-term user.

Why did Google do this?
You can run your own server, but if you use someone else's server you have to follow their rules, whatever they are.
This was the content of the final lecture of a linear algebra class I took. It was magical to learn about the explicit formula for Fibonacci numbers found via eigendecomposition.

One funny trick that brought some realism to the lecture: If a and b are the golden ratio and its conjugate, then f_n = a^n + b^n. But since |b| < 1, you can just do f_n = nearest_integer(a^n).
The Eddiot's Law of Pulse
Both do, as does a large firewall maker (Juniper, I think). They keep certain aspects of the secret sauce back but upstreaming changes is enlightened self-interest as they don't have to apply a long series of in-house changes when an upgrade to FreeBSD comes out (Bryan Lunduke had an interview with a FreeBSD maintainer where this was discussed -- I'm not finding that on YouTube though).
It's not just that wind is unreliable, it's also very low energy density. You'd need a lot of sails to haul a small amount of cargo. There are applications using kite sails to supplement combustion engines, but that's just an opportunistic mitigation.
And a lock handle that kills your kid in an hour or your money back.
I want to fly from LA to NY with these amenities. Will Emirates fly me there?
That's fair. It's got to be both for balanced individuals. But how many really are balanced. Anyone with a nin-linear CV can tell a story of how they had to come up with ways to make it appear more linear?
You clearly have your own pre-existing gripes with the BBC, which have very little to do with this story.
Fedora is particularly bad at what you describe. It's basically just impossible for somebody who isn't already in the system (or doesn't know somebody who is already in the system) to get into the system. Between hard to find documentation and requirements like, "just join the mailing list and ask for people to sponsor you" (which nobody wants to do when they don't already know you) you have to really want to do it. I could have easily maintained several packages that I built, but after sinking 4 hours into it (building the packages only took an hour or so), in the end I just threw them on my COPR and called it a day. I'm not going to spin my wheels trying to jump ridiculous non-technical hurdles and try to navigate needlessly opaque processes.
Interesting graphic, bland and unvoiced conclusion

You're also missing a lot of details. For example, Milvus and Zilliz are actually a little different, check this out for more details: https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench (of course run it on your own stuff, don't blindly trust companies just because their product is open source)

Also if you want to throw some more comparisons in their checkout elastic search
Cool article, thanks for sharing :)
Very true. There is some positive news. Most books could be said to be "trash", but book publishing is still important. The same was said with blogs: "Oh, most blogs are about people having breakfast." But, I remember Joel on Software, Scripting.com, LRC, and Mises Blog that all had such a positive effect on me. So it is with social media:
- people are meeting and getting married via Instagram.
- I have chatted with Ph.Ds on Twitter and Youtube, even though I have no college degree.
- I helped a UI/UX designer have lunch with Alan Kay. All of it via Twitter. That is something that will never happen to me because I am not in the same "league". He later casually mentioned he had lunch with Ted Nelson. (Sigh! That will never happen to me.)
- And lots of people here probably have an anecdote how one-thing-led-to-another that made life a little bit happier.
Jeff Tucker would probably say, "It doesn't matter if 98% are narcissistic hunters/gathers. That 2% can change The World and Your Life." (Of course, you would say it more eloquently.)

At least this is what I say to myself when I get depressed we are living in the 21st Century World and people care more about letting men inside women's bathrooms than the fact the US and its "allies" just bombed the Nordstream pipeline that will have a negative effect on millions of Europeans... and how I will be downvoted (2718 currently) for posting this. But, at least you are not alone "uhtred".
I'm not an expert on this by any means, but from what I've read about the four-color theorem, essentially all of the insight in the proof came from human mathematicians. Mathematicians figured out an ingenious way to reduce to the problem to carrying out a a large number of tedious computations, and the computer was used only to carry out those computations and thereby complete the proof. This seems quite different from a computer coming up with a proof by itself.
The article mentions at least 2 million Ethereum, which is certainly liquid enough to be a couple orders of magnitude above $10 million.
Every time I read about space engineering, I'm amazed by how contingencies have contingencies. It's so much careful planning and rigor compared to my world. I can always re-compile, re-deploy and regularly realize that my job is not life or death.
Ha thanks, I love a good argument.

>Putting aside the fact that your example isn't actually an insight

So put it aside then, and think of your own better analogy. It changes nothing from the point I was making.

> the "insights" produced in therapy are supposed to lead to change largely on their own.

No one has believed this in a long time.

> I prefer to solve my problems instead of trying to trick myself into thinking they're not what they are.

So do I but sometimes things break, permanently.

I can't bring dead people back to life, if I'm injured or disabled by an accident I can't 'fix' that, but I can find a way to change how I relate to that unfix-able problem. This goes beyond re-framing, of course.

As to childhood experiences and trauma, they are real and often elicit means of coping which later become ingrained habits which can cause dysfunction later on.

Therapy can help you recognise these (insight!) and then start you on the long slow path of unlearning them so they don't cause you problems anymore.
> "Lo barato sale caro" which translates to the "the cheap becomes expensive"

99% true with some very few exceptions. I remember Evan Davis' on a BBC podcast called "The Bottom Line". In said podcast he was interviewing various business people.

One of them was the CEO of Primark.

Over 'here' (in Europe - in multiple countries) you can see MASSIVE stores (I haven't yet been on a Primark store that was smaller than a football pit (per floor - typically two floors - lower for women, upper for men and kids), and they have shockingly low prices. I haven't visited a Primark outside Europe yet, so I have no opinion about other regions.

So.. back to the CEO.. he was responding that their low prices is not because of low quality, but because they never spend a dime on marketing, and thus they can use these savings to improve quality and lower prices, and then went on to challenge the journalist to remember/find one (paid) advertisement.

At that point (5? 6? 7? years ago) I also tried and for the life of me I could not remember ever seeing ads on the Tube (London underground), newspapers, bus stops, internet (but I block 99.9% of them).. anywhere.

So yes, 99% true but then I have a black long-sleeve t-shirt Cedarwood (Primark product) that 5 years on is still in great shape and I do wear it a lot, while the respective H&M don't go past the 2 year mark.
> Home ownership rates for those under 30 at least have fallen considerably in many Western countries

Yes, it seems the under 30 crowd would rather go to college/university instead these days. A degree can cost about as much as a modest home. Almost nobody attended college in the 1950s. Hobbies always come with tradeoffs.

> And yes urbanisation has increased but not that dramatically.

15-20 points, at least in the USA. That is quite dramatic. If today's cities saw 15-20% of their population leave for rural areas, prices in those cities would drop like a rock.

> What hasn't really happened though is any significant new cities forming

Very true, and fantastically increased farm profitability since the 2007 time period has driven farmland values through the roof, which has made it much more cost prohibitive for cities to expand like they used it do.
The funny thing is that this policy is one of the few things keeping WebKit alive, if not Chromium would become the only usable browser engine (and Firefox but people would probably stop supporting it if it was the only alternative browser)
I'm worried about adversarial training data
Also, regarding the comment in the report about it being geo related, I am in central EU, but I tried VPNing to the USA and same result.
>Is it fascinating the risk of a nuclear weapon detonation by December 31st of 2023 is accessed to be around 9%?

That tells you all you need to know, but probably not in the way you think.
>And the chance of 5 random people producing something compared to the 1 you know is a huge contributor is exponentially lower too.

When a customer presses a button to book a taxi ride, they don't care whether the underlying database query takes O(log N) or O(N^2). As long as the price is good and they get a response within 3-5 seconds, they're cool.

This works for the absolute majority of real-world projects. Technical excellence has very little impact on the revenue, compared to other factors (product/market fit), so people making business decisions don't care about it.

>That's great. Then they should actually stick with it i.e. reward the 1 that's been contributing rather than gamble on something that might not work.

Business is always a gamble. You don't know how the market will take your product before you launch it. You don't know what the competitors will do, how the sentiment will change, let alone global events like the COVID money printing followed by an interest rate squeeze. It's like you are trying to navigate a ship in a storm, and the mechanic keeps telling you how he can shove coal 5x faster than others and hence needs to be paid more. Except, you never need it that fast, and need to have 2 onboard anyway, in case one gets sick.
Here's my $0.02 (again. Apologies to those who've heard it already.)

First, let me proclaim by bias: I'm a Free software fanatic. I do not ever want to run software that I can't read and, if I want to, modify. I just won't do it.

Open Source doesn't make sense to me and never has, becasuse you have always been able to give away your code.

The entire point of Free software is to avoid or even prevent closed proprietary software. That's why the GPL is "viral", eh? That's the whole point. Free software started when RMS wanted to fix his printer and Xerox said, "No."

Now we have companies like John Deere that use computers to lock out their own customers from fixing their own tractors. We have car companies charging to unlock heated seats and extra acceleration. Printers that lie to you about how much ink they have left, and brick themselves if you try to use cheaper unofficial ink. Etc.

You can be in charge of your computer, or you can be a peasant in someone else's fief.
The thing that usually breaks on my refrigerators is the plastic shelves. They just don't seem designed to last more than 4 or 5 years at the most. I'm not sure how to filter for "has shelves that don't decompose when kept cool."
lol @ mastdn.social
It´s missing the most feature-complete for vectors database, the vespa.ai. I highly recommend.
Also, technically bcrypt is not a general hash algorithm, but rather a password-hash construction. Where SHA1 and MD5 are primitives that can be used in arbitrary crypt constructions, bcrypt is already a construction specialized for passwords. You wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) hash a file with bcrypt.
Cerebrus wafer

Google TPU

Not that these are for the average buyer
That's basically the UK and I haven't experienced a problem with indoor air drying. I would give some basic guidelines though. It's the sort of things that you don't think you need to tell people until you see what they do...

- ideally machine washed with a significant spin to remove water. Air drying hand washed items that are sopping wet is a lot harder - might take 4x longer

- hang in a room with decent ventilation and some active air flow. Trying to air dry in the equivalent of a cupboard would be doomed

- hang fully spread out with decent space between the clothes. Drying time will be significantly extended if densely scrunched together with pieces touching. Buy multiple racks to get enough hanging space.

- don't put used wet gym clothes in a laundry bin to fester. If you aren't washing them immediately, hang them up to dry first and put them in the bin later
Based on other commenters, it seems like PayPal was widely preferred as a payment mechanism in Europe, so Stripe had to offer it to remain competitive.

That competitive pressure isn't nearly as strong in the US, and Stripe would be loath to be sending money to their direct competitor if they don't have to.
Pixel Art Eyes Design
For example, if I'm deciding right now whether to fund a mine for one of the materials needed to create this supposed superconductor, knowing how likely it is to be real helps me make a better decision or hedge my investment.
This is a pretty interesting read. There is definitely a similarity to crypto currency here as well. Wonder why the SEC does not categorize airline points as securities and come after them...
FTX Lobbying and Donations
Awesome.

Something I noticed in the plot where you can add points is that it's not actually using the continuous version of the transformation to interpolate the paths. It looks like the points are being linearly interpolated between integer powers of the transition matrix. Once you've got the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, you can easily raise the transition matrix to fractional powers to get things like square roots and show halfway points. I think if you interpolated that way then you'd get smooth spirals towards the golden ratio line, instead of bounces (keeping in mind that because one of the eigenvalues is negative you'd end up with complex numbers requiring a projection down from 4d to 2d...).
Um, it's not a "different view," it's denial of settled science and actual physical events occurring right now.

Do you claim not to believe what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists believe? Do you believe climate science is a hoax? Do you believe that current extreme weather events are just happening by chance?
That's roughly akin to saying "if you have a wrench, you can fix a car", and posting a link to a YouTube tutorial with it.
(I read this as "exit from your fridge". I LOL'ed - what happened that you got inside the fridge to begin with??? :))
Note that this is actually how multi-stage rockets work.
>But not since
>No one writes new win16 or DOS or batch files.

More than you'd think (CMD files are still supported). Fortunately the syntax is too basic for it to be used too much. However, EXCEL+VBScript runs the financial world. Is VBScript a good language? Shell and VBScript have some half-decent insights for their time, but they have remained stuck while programming languages have improved. The reason people write less CMD files - because Microsoft improved with Powershell.
Not sure why this is directed at my comment-- I didn't touch on synchronization.

Yes, locks like mutexes, semaphores, etc. and approaches like atomics, lockfree datastructures come into play when writing multithreaded code. There's no getting around that.

> In my experience, most problems are inherently synchronous with lots of mutable state and complex data dependencies, or inherently parallel with lots of tasks that can run independently. Problems that can be easily parallelized already work fine with multiprocessing!

This is a hot take though-- most problems that are truly embarrassingly parallel don't work as well as you'd think w/ multiprocessing. There's a ton of overhead there and when you do need synchronization steps (eg; in reductions) it can get pretty messy.
Being able to bookmark a Link to archive.org was actually something we wanted to do earlier, but we had to do it a opt-in solution per each link since there might be a website that you don’t want to archive for the public and instead only keep it to yourself.

But note that it is on the roadmap (but not top priority).
I imagine that the twitter clone aspect is a big part of the overall appeal. Journalists are used to Twitter, as are consumers of news content.
When in doubt: choose your kids. Hours in deficit only compound when stability and familial love is concerned.
I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, it was version 3.somthing, cannot remember. Since then my main server/development box has always been FreeBSD (I have a Linux one as well for some software that just will not run). Somewhere along that path i became a Linux admin (and HPUX but that was long ago), starting with RHEL3 (I was using gentoo at home). I have a bunch of servers, FreeBSD, Linux and yes windows. They each have their place.

FreeBSD for me is simple. I have 2 Raspberry Pi 3's with 512MB of ram running FreeBSD 13 and Unbound and a Pi 4 Running FreeBSD and Asterisk. I forget they exist. They literally just keep running, I update them and if needed reboot and they just keep going. You can use mtree to verify the OS, Security is good. But some things like DNS, i do not play with, just let it run (and keep it patched).

I have a full blown Ubuntu Kubernetes cluster and a few RHEL and OEL vm's running various tasks in the lab. Most are the right tool for the job i need it to do.

I have never understood the flame wars for my distro (Linux vs BSD) is better than yours and my license is better (or allows more freedom) than your. They each really do have their places with some expected overlap. I am just happy with the variety that allows me a ton of choices and usually drives innovation.
Yeah but you know plenty of how science gets done if you go do science. The goal of a scientific paper is to concisely convey what novel thing has been discovered. It is not to convey how science gets done.

PhD thesis are sometimes good places to look if you want more of the gory details.

Edit: and if you ever take a physics lab in trying to measure the heat capacity of water or speed of light you learn a bunch about how science actually works.
> The fact that you don’t like the specific rules for e-bikes doesn’t make them a “gray area”.

My understanding is that the rules in NYC governing e-bikes and electric mopeds were very fuzzy until around 2020, but there is still some uncertainty.

Before 2020 most of the delivery "e-bikes" ridden in NYC were technically illegal and were subject to occasional/erratic police enforcement such as stings and seizures despite being about as ubiquitous as taxi cabs. This was controversial when I lived there.

I no longer live in NYC but since then my understanding is that the city and state governments have worked with delivery riders to clarify the legal status of their vehicles but there is still a bit of "gray area" in practice.