skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the end result of you-do-you ethics.
Heads up that this app is extremely obnoxious and upon launch installs itself in to your startup items for zero fucking good reason.
"Open Source" doesn't win, period, because it doesn't compete with anything. Open Source is not a business model or a product. It's an engineering widget. You can use it to build a product, or you can use it to make a jig to shore up an uneven table leg. Nobody cares about the license or whether they can read your code. They care if you build a product that solves their problem.

You know why companies use Open Source, for the most part? It's free. Not because it's better than the non-Open Source alternative, because very often, it is not. And not because they can read the source code, because companies need a working product much more than they need the ability to write their own patch for a bug. And not because of some feel-good notion of sharing with a community. It's just cheap and plentiful. Which is great, for the consumer. But it's not easy to build a company on a free product.

For the most part, Open Source products win by either being A) cheaper, B) Freemium, C) "Source-Available", D) being the incumbent, or E) a better product.

Sometimes "a better product" really does win out, if a product is able to provide features competitors don't. But incumbents have had the time and resources to establish lots of features, a solid track record, and lots of support and integrations, so not going with the incumbent tends to be a bad idea. People prefer Source-Available when it's completely free, and Freemium if it's not completely free. All things being equal, cheaper wins.
"But agreed that an explicit --help should print to stderr."

I think you meant stdout here, not stderr.
this is true but it's also worth noting that people who are going to take a moral stance about this kind of thing are not going to last in those positions. this fact does not absolve jerry at all, of course.
"Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse and other illegal activity"

In the 18-29 age range, 30% said yes.

I agree with your sentiments but we have already lost. You just have to enjoy what we have now because it won't last forever. Someday everyone's entire life will be filmed and watched over by AI. To me, that is absolutely obvious at this point. If that was not going to be the case we wouldn't be where we are now.
FedEx's New Robot Loads Delivery Vans Like It's Playing 3D Tetris
fyi i get a cloudflare bad gateway error when using icloud hide my email
Embrace (use Chromium in Edge), Extend (acquire Chrome once it's broken up from Alphabet), Extinguish (kill Chrome and Edge then reintroduce Internet Explorer)
You are still getting sued.
lol even the HN user didn’t get the humor
I don't think liability payments are that common. As someone who helps in analyzing software purchase decisions, it's certainly not something I hear people bring as a major factor.
Earning that much from like your mid-20s, yeah, probably.

[edit] or, hitting that level more like in your mid-30s but not having kids, yes.
> For some, this might be a tough pill to swallow. But a for-profit business exists for profit.

No, a business usually exists to provide some useful good or service to its customers. FedEx delivers packages. Apple makes phones and computers. Etc.

> Definitionally and practically. Profit is what allows the company to hire employees, grow, and sustain itself—it is quite literally what funds ongoing development

That's gross profit. Regular (net) profit takes operating expenses (including R&D) and other business expenses (interest payments, etc.) into account.

It is certainly possible for non-profit businesses - as well as public benefit corporations - to fund R&D.
Ah bummer, every command i run need to be backward compatible with Bell Labs first release
Agreed, and just increased the interval, actually doubled it.
Powerful explosion has occurred near airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
It collects on top though. Fleur de sel is made that way i believe. You arguably dont need to get all the water out of there as long as you have a steady stream of water with high salt content coming in.

Much of the price of that is coming from not breaking the formed patterns during harvest.
Probably the only thing they could do to fix this problem for good is to basically not include any modern equipment at all.
sounds exactly like overwatch 2
This is such a cool tool! I just posted a JD there, just used 1 min. I like it
Cyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian localisation takes the piss out of Russia's war
This makes no sense. Inflation should hit old people the worst. They aren't exactly getting promotions and parking their nest eggs in high risk investments...
What I hope happens is that a few people with actual power are caught on camera by one of these things, and feel their privacy was violated, and then consent laws around recording in public change as a result. The ones we have are pretty old, and not ready for the future that is already here, let alone the one that is coming. I'm not holding my breath for this, it's just what I can imagine being the best outcome.
Those help but they are definitely not required. CS is fundamentally a game about first aiming skill (which you have to train) and reflexes, and then with skill becomes a game about strategy and map knowledge. Obviously at the highest levels you're not getting very far on a $5 mouse and a 60FPS monitor but you can get about halfway up up the ranks before it starts being a problem.
For War Thunder he can be a spy-war
Nonsense. If someone is sitting in front of you and they are texting, the camera is pointing at you.
What's the failure rate in small- vs mid- and large-sized companies? Is it really any different?
Ads is shooting low. You want your code to be in the network driver in the kernel for every packet received or sent.
But no Mac version anymore, apparently. Bummer for the people who were playing Global Offensive on Mac yesterday.
Which were gutted, abated, and rebuilt from the frame up.

Office building floors are concrete, usually. You cannot dictate where plumbing goes. Drain pipes are ruled by the iron fist of gravity. And down is technically in your downstairs neighbor's space.
The other decent one (Knot Guide) has now put their knots behind a subscription.
Check out the pictures of the brine discharge diffuser at this desal plant in Western Australia: https://www.watercorporation.com.au/Our-water/Desalination/P...
To be clear, even though this article is about visibility for astronomers, you are saying that light coming through your 'black out curtains' is the same as black smoke from burning tires coming into your house?
> "Program like the cowboys of old west" (I've no clue what that article will be about but)

Probably about doing things without modern sensibilities of safety precautions, skipping normal testing procedures to fix an issue quickly, editing the live production server, stuff like that.
Best example of we've tried nothing and we're out of ideas
Marco here, CTO at Kong (the parent company of Insomnia). You will see some of my replies in the GitHub issue where this conversation is taking place.

I want to clarify a couple of things:

1) Insomnia can still be used locally in any version prior to this one. The data is there, and can be used.

2) Insomnia still has a local-only mode (Scratch Pad) that doesn't require any account, that anybody can use. A collection can be imported into Scratch Pad for API debugging purposes.

3) There is an onboarding step that clearly states what's going to happen and that allows the user to export the data. We also don't migrate any data until an account is created.

4) Data is not migrated in the cloud when collaborating with Git Sync, which is a capability that allows us to use Git as the source of truth. It is also not migrated without creating an account.

5) When migrating to the cloud, data is fully end-to-end encrypted (E2EE). That is the case for free accounts as well, not only premium plans.

6) Any organization that is serious about security can get in touch with Kong to pass the security compliance assessment and use the cloud like they most likely do with any other vendor.

7) We will even further improve clarity with a new minor version (8.1) that makes all of the above more clear (how to export/import etc).

What's not seen in that conversation, is the large number of users that wanted a product that allowed them to collaborate better, without losing their data, and sync that data securely across multiple clients. Which is why we tried to strike a balance between convenience and feature-richness (cloud) but still provide a local option for other users (Scratch Pad).

I can assure you that we didn't wake up one day and choose violence :) Ultimately, I am also perfectly aware that we can't make everybody happy.
I use https://elephas.app/ to do this. Comes included in Setapp
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
Is the Quest's success more about ignorance of its relationship to Facebook or is it more about it being a low-priced entry VR set for a market segment where privacy doesn't really matter at all to most people? I don't mean that to be dismissive, I'm genuinely not sure if I can make a strong case in either direction. But if the success boils down to "my kid wants a VRChat headset, who cares who makes it", I'm not sure that attitude will carry over to a product category with more social implications.

I don't personally think that the Meta branding is distinct enough from Facebook to pull that trick off in the way that WhatsApp or Instagram does, but I'll admit I could be out of touch. And I think Facebook's continued success has a lot more to do with inertia and lock-in than a lack of general consumer privacy concerns, but I could be projecting there.

I just think my instinct is that any of the social backlash that Google got over Glass is going to be hugely amplified for a Facebook product regardless of whether or not they hide behind the name Meta and that backlash seems likely to shape the narrative and how people find out about the product. But :shrug: maybe I'm wrong.
And never, ever recommend me a movie with Tom Hanks in it.
And their icon is a vulture.
By https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/largest-cities-by-populat...

Somewhere over half of Americans live in cities. Not just grad students and media
Agreed but lets keep in mind that graphical UIs involve significantly more effort than CLIs. In the case where you shoerhorn an ai to be your primary UI I would bet this is as hard if not harder since you typically have to code around significant limitations of current llms
Typically you'll have to put in all new electrical and plumbing, because the existing office level capacity is no where near sufficient. You'll have to completely redesign HVAC and ventilation as well since you can't have an entire floor be one climate and you'll need exterior ventilation for showers/cooking/laundry that aren't a consideration in an office. There might not even be enough space between floors to accommodate those things.

Then there's other code considerations like windows and fire exit distance requirements that become harder to meet once you start adding walls.

If you have to move all the floors, walls, utilities, elevators, and exits, how much of the original building are you actually leaving intact? Often times, even after doing all that, a conversion still isn't viable because there's just too much floor area and not enough windows to make any layout that isn't a 10k sqft single room studio viable.
I love this guy. I ran across him trying to self teach about embedded electronics and his site is one of the best I’ve found both for interesting projects and good instructional examples.
Yep, true user identification will have to fall back into meat space very soon.
"Chinaman" strikes me as a term that's only offensive to non-Chinese.

Although 中国人 Zhōng guó rén = China person, Chinaman is close to literal.

The whole "person" instead of "man" is also a Western fad, since 他/她 tā = he/she is naturally ambiguous spoken, and 人 rén = person/people occurs naturally when gender is less relevant.
Software engineer titles are largely meaningless.

The same title can mean totally different things at different companies.

You typically get "leveled" by a company based on your resume, years of experience, and interview performance. Sometimes companies intentionally under level you to try and pay you less than your fair market rate.
I think we've got another one at Alkimos that supplies another 15% or so right? I think we are projected to have the majority of our drinking water come from desal over the next few decades.

Desal is cheap as chips compared to Water Corp's supply charge!
And it’s a pretty recent thing too since we realised we couldn’t just blindly drain the underground water and the rain had become insufficient for our long term population growth predictions.
Nicely written as his books usually are, but I have two issues with it:

1. It is simply at many points a recitation of events that happen. It tries to delve no deeper into Musk than "a guy with big dreams who pisses people off to make it happen, also had a bad childhood"

2. Many business leaders will use it as justification that the only way to get good results is to be punishing and ruthless. There are certainly aspects that benefit leaders (low agreeableness, highly detail oriented) but they aren't necessary.
They could just skip 3 and go straight to 4. Team 4tress has a ring to it.
> companies who failed to meet consumer demand

What you claimed was a lot more specific than that. Do you have any actual examples of the specific sequence of events you claimed?
Flushes out the accumulated salt?

Sea salt sells for about $3/lb
I often fail at those too. If a square contains a small corner of a thing, but is mostly not the thing, do I check it or not?
Maybe I’m misinterpreting the readme but other DAWs would not need to cooperate if you’re developing a tool to transpile between formats. I think most of the proprietary specs could be reverse engineered.
That's why the system pre rehnquist court was not half bad. Government had a strong hammer in antitrust and much less regulation. The correct solution is regulation very rarely benefits anyone other than the incumbent and instead we need to start recognizing and breaking up monopolies and oligopolies again and cutting back on other regulation. I'm not sure we want to go all the way back to breaking up relatively small gas station chains but we also don't want to be here where amazon/google/walmart/etc. can exist and screw everything up for the rest of us.
That's like, 8 years out of date and even then Totem Lake has never been a bad neighborhood, just a sleepy one. The implication by the poster I was responding to was that Kirkland was somehow similar to South Park or something where it has some sketchy parts.
Honestly the idea of some asshole dead-dropping an armed sentrybot is far, far scarier to me. A couple of giggle-switch Glocks with drum mags, hooked up to a "Blast Anything That Moves" gimbal, would probably be deadlier than the same weight/volume of high explosive. Bullets don't care about the inverse square law.
Thing that will die out 2 years from now:
And yet you had no qualms about making that completely discretionary purchase. You’re doing fine.
I love Caddy and have shilled to everyone I know, so thanks for your great work. I'm keen to hear more about your model, because I think the influx of companies abandoning their open source roots has shown the problems with the current approach. I am rooting for you folks!
I found this site, which seems to collect usage examples (unfortunately no citations): https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/first-rate

Here are a few showing that, when speaking about history, it is normal to reserve terms like "first rate" for the truly exceptional:

"Jonathan Edwards, a very stern Calvinist, is one of the few first-rate geniuses America has to boast in theology."

"For excepting Philae, which belongs as much to Egypt as to Ethiopia, Abu Simbel is the only temple which can be ranked among first rate products of Egyptian genius."

"Pericles likewise is responsible for the epoch-making splendour of Attic art in his time, for had he not so fully appreciated and given such free scope to the genius of Pheidias, Athens would hardly have witnessed the raising of the Parthenon and other glorious structures, and Attic art could not have boasted a legion of first-rate sculptors of whom Alcamenes, Agoracritus and Paeonius are only the chief names."
Have you heard of rewind.ai? It does exactly that but for your computer screen. I find it incredibly useful. Combined with this, the future looks very promising!

[1] https://www.rewind.ai/
What will the GoPro mount solve?

> and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen.

That would be amazing.
Looks like 2020 data? Social security COL increase was 8.7% this year. That’s pretty great compared to engineering salaries in the linked article.
I came across this flipping channels one night. It's the single most disgusting TV show ever. It's "get me off this planet" disgusting. I think somebody took the deplorable basic idea of Tinder and thought, how can I make this a thousand times worse.
For what is worth, on my phone double click on the power button located on the side jumps into camera mode (even if locked). And pressing the volume down takes the photo. Then one click on the power button to turn off.

click-click, click, click.

And assuming the Google software doesn't decide to lag too much, it's quite quick to, and it reduces how much you touch the phone with dirty gloves.

edit: I should add that you still need one hand free to do so of course.
Your company needs the maturity to manage that engineer. Companies with products have customer success and sales etc and their own engineering management and product hierarchy to translate your end user issue into a software fix. That doesn't happen automatically by staffing and engineer in house. How would a company even figure out the profile they need?
First, that isnt a system of morality.

But moving past that I think you've missed some nuance on morals (or more generally social norms) - they help prevent the degenerate race to the bottom you're referencing. Its upsetting but pragmatic to nullify relative advantage by engaging in shitty behavior, but if you're frequently justifying behavior by citing hypothetical competitors then you're just shitting the place up for everyone by starting that race.
Unless you don't use Windows, then Steam tries to run a Windows binary and crashes. Also CSGO is gone so find another game I guess.
Having a Superman III moment right now. What if I could take a slice, just a slice, of that corporate waste? So small no one would notice. Or was it Office Space? :-D
Interesting post and would like to bring nuance as the founder of an open-source alternative to Retool and Airplane: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

Our enterprise edition is clearly cheaper (between 2-5x cheaper based on customers migrating away from those) than our competitors but we bet on volume and lack of sales team to make it up for it in terms of margins.

There are pragmatic reasons for it, our community/oss edition is featureful and include SSO so there is a temptation for our customers to just roll with the CE and we cannot be too greedy.

One could argue that support should be sufficient since the jobs ran by windmill are critical, but the main strength of a product like this is reliability and since we achieve near 100% reliability, it isn't sufficient. We are not gonna intentionally make our product less reliable on CE.

The other reason in my opinion is deeply rooted with the nature of open-source: software cost nothing to replicate and it would be a shame to have users not benefit from the right tools just so the pricing can extract as much $$$ as possible.

So ultimately it comes down to the tension between being VC funded (and we are but to a much lesser extent that our prop alternative) and the pricing of open-source. I am deeply convinced that there is a compromise that satisfies everyone by having the different force in presence being kept-in-check. VCs want small seed companies to scale to become global companies; customers and users want to invest in a platform they know they won't have to regret later because of rent-seeking or lock-in practices. True OSS helps companies achieve global scale as long as their product is better (which make me agree with the substance of the post, being cheap is not enough) and also ensure that company can never or hardly employ dark patterns otherwise OSS fork of company's product will be too competitive against itself.

Before being a founder, I was among the most skeptical of OSS with VC backing and I really understand why someone would have a hard stance on it. But I came to realize that good software takes not only lots of hard work, but a focus and a dedicated team that is hard to find without a core team that has strong incentives to make something that people want. So I see the future being dominated by companies that fall somewhere in the following spectrum:

1. OSS products that are public utilities and there are enough needs or the project is interesting enough to have a strong core team that doesn't require VC backing

2. OSS products that are more commercially oriented and have values but wouldn't exist without VC backing

3. OSS products that were able to bootstrap themselves completely and are COSS but without VCs

And proprietary software to slowly become extinct as the world of software become more competitive everyday as the potential grow larger and the number of VCs that will fund open-source grow larger (and the ability to bootstrap those businesses also get easier).
No one needs to be convinced to buy a smartphone. They changed the world. People already want them.

VR is not in that position. It needs to prove its utility if it ever wants to escape being a niche.
See also the follow-up article

CD Projekt apologise for Cyberpunk 2077 Ukrainian script's potentially "offensive" references to Russians

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cd-projekt-apologises-for-c...
Use Game Mode on Mac
How many animals get slaughtered every day?
if you don’t own a house yet and now staring at a mortgage at 7.5% instead of 2.5% you’re going to spend thousands more a month in interest as part of your mortgage payment, not accounting for home price appreciation since the low rates of 2021.

so it doesn’t matter if you make $200k-$300k a year in a high paid profession a mortgage these days will require a much higher % of your take home pay than someone who bought the same house at 2.5%
It's the dystopian hellscape that we live in.
They shouldn't have to prevent it.
I'm confused by the sentiment of the discussion here. There is so much talk about monopoly. Yes, Chrome has a commanding market lead, but it is not a monopoly in the eyes of US competition law (EU may be different; I am less familiar). It is more like an oligopoly. Mozilla Firefox is a very good alternative; so is Opera; so is Microsoft Edge; so is Apple Safari; so is Brave. Does anyone know if "Jerry's" change to the Omnibox also applied to Chromium? If yes, then this monopoly argument is even weaker. If Google decides to rollback the change, then derivatives of Chromium (Opera, Edge, etc.) can simply re-apply the change into their own fork. I think all this monopoly talk is almost impossible to win any court case because there is real competition and the core is open source.

Does anyone know if there have been any substantial legal victories against any software oligopolies where the software is substantially open source and the closed source version is free? I cannot think of any.