skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The numbers I had in mind were averages:

> on Bandcamp Fridays, an average of 93% of your money reaches the artist/label (after payment processor fees). When you make a purchase on any other day (as millions of you have, with more than $1 billion now paid directly to artists), an average of 82% reaches the artist/label.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update
> The issue with this “loophole” is that it allows a company to promote itself as free and open source while cutting off SaaS competition.

Cry me a river. Start with the fact that I only publicly post software that I'm at least notionally willing to support. If you demonstrate competence and ask nicely, I might have other software to offer just to you. ;-)

On the software that I publicly post I generally use an Apache license. I use the AGPL on a very specific and unique piece of software where I want to maintain architectural control: show me a use case which can't be pushed right or left and we can talk.

In fact, I give away examples for that software in a separate GitHub repository under the Apache license. The principle is simple: if you substantially transform the data separately from my software, you don't need to give your transformational workings away to the data consumer as long as you do it separately from my software. Shift right, shift left; here is effing how.

I would be surprised to see my AGPL product exposed to the internet (even with a proxy in front of it). I don't want it modified and exposed to the internet as a cheap hack by self-serving sociopaths who figure they're justified in "by any means necessary" by their high salary, I would view that as dilution and AGPL is preferable to having to contemplate suing for disparagement when the inevitable shitstorm happens: if you're going to expose it to the public, I want to see the software. Expect me to read it and comment on it publicly.

So internally you shift left / shift right, and the people working on it have access to my source code: what's the problem?

> While the downloadable version is open, the SaaS version is closed off from open source collaboration, innovation, and competition.

This is blatant sociopathic projection where the author's own intent, or that of their owners, is transferred to the Other and then disparaged. In any case if they did a SaaS version it would be closed off from such collaboration.

The author isn't going to spend their own money and is not the decisionmaker so declaring "negotiate a licensing or support contract, or pound sand" is a waste of time.
This is a big part of what made me start using linux. On windows, there's a new way to do basic stuff all the time and they screw around with menus that work perfectly well just to have something new.

That means that any tutorials will quickly get outdated and you can spend half your mental capacity just keeping up with this crap. The amount of times I googled how to do something in MS office, clicked an article from half a year ago and found that one of the options it mentions doesn't exist anymore is too damn high.

Things are nice on linux, especially the CLI world. You learn a little program once and use it for decades without thinking about it.
> People clearly don't understand how LLMs work -

Of course not. Most developers don't understand how LLM work, even roughly.

> Humans do the same thing all the time. Of course it's not always correct!

The difference is that LLMs can not acknowledge incompetence, are always confidently incorrect, and will never reach a stopping point, at best they'll start going circular.
GPL is decades old. The fact that this has never happened makes me think you're wrong.

And as another reply you got said, GNU also thinks you're wrong.
Strictly speaking, we already do. We're taxing carbon-based fuel quite a bit.

All it really does is make things more expensive though. You can say that such things are funding social services, but, realistically, all of government is funded by an unfathomable amount of debt, so raising taxes, or creating new taxes, isn't likely to change much of anything outside of increasing how much debt is available.
This comment caught my eye - because I'm using Chrome too.

Is there a way to enable hardware accelerated codecs in Chrome + Meet?

(I have no idea what that means, I'm just quoting you)

I checked my Chrome settings and "Use hardware acceleration when available" is enabled for what that's worth.
Lack of soil is not a cause, is a consequence

This type of tree seeds itself very generously, if we don't see regeneration is because the return of the forest is blocked forever by grazers (aka cattle).
LeBron James is also underpaid, at least his NBA salary. That's why he chose his team based on whatever would be best for his "brand" so he could make real money.
Any reason it will work out better this time than it did the last time outsourcing was the new big thing? In my anecdotal experience this is just a rehashing of the last outsourcing craze with a new crowd and will end up the same way.
Hey @behnamoh, maybe you are referring to the community post pre-release? It is still very much live here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894403!
As we released MemGPT this morning (including discord bot, and on Twitter), we took the community feedback to emphasize more on the context length in the title :) Thank you all for the feedback and keep it coming - we are listening!
concurrency With 3 it's Things Hard.
Isn't the pre-IPO / pre-acquisition playbook to cut staff lower than the optimum level to show profitability?

But I'm spitballing here, anyone know more about whether Bandcamp was bloated?

Bandcamp was shown to be profitable quite recently. Hard to justify slashing staff in half with that in mind.
Couldn’t come up with enough new things to add to user profiles to justify 700 engineers
How to Start a Cooperative
So the government has boosted demand for groceries, thus causing them to be more expensive?

How did more money get into the hands of consumers aside from that one-time $1500 paycheck?
> time has somehow shrunk to the point of near disappearance

"The Magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873. Their splendor lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city. In those days, the only public conveyance was the street car. A lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window, and the car would halt and wait as she shut the window, went downstairs, put on her hat, found an umbrella and told the girl what to have for dinner. Too slow for us nowadays, for the faster we are carried, the less time we have to spare."
Terms of Service can be rejected by not using the service.

Everyone in here wants to have their cake and eat it to. The proper channels are political, but half the folks here want to have laissez faire government and also the free to violate contracts they don’t like.

I get it, but it’s not actually a sensible way to run a society.

It’s not something I’m going to fall on my sword over, because I’m actually very sympathetic to privacy concerns, it just rings a bit hollow when we’re talk about the convenience of YouTube verses more open alternatives with less content.
PeaceMaker Game
"PeaceMaker is a game inspired by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The game gives players a chance to play as Israeli and Palestinian leaders and work for balance and mutual understanding between nations."
I'm just floored by how talented the guy is. Amazing channel.
I knew my great grandmother well, played games with her into my teens, she was a little over 100 when she died.

She grew up on a plantation, had sharecroppers and knew many civil war veterans.

A lot of people think of that era as ancient history.

It really hasn't been that long.
Food stamps are just inefficient money. Print too many of them and you'll cause inflation too.
this seems to goes against almost everyone's experience and my own

-maybe we're bad at tracking calories from a decade or longer ago?

-eating too much and not knowing it?

-inactivity?

-stress du to family and job causes subtle changes that lead to weight gain

-change in gut bacteria?

-increased skin, organ, bone, and tendon/ligament mass? (non-muscle lean mass)

Some people balloon after the age of 20-30 or so, like during college or after. Look at your facebook feed of friends or family. this is way worse than just a few percent. Are scientists comepltelty oblivious to this for what is obvious to so many others?
I guess the lesson is to never open source your code? Or maybe to not trust "open source" and demand GPL?
I feel like it's been improving with them offering more ways to discover music that sounds like what you heard but not the same artists.

But yeah I still feel more can be done. Their new Hi-Fi package is supposed to have more options too.
Not just that - also "She completed her studies, but was not awarded a degree because of her sex; Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948."
I worked in way too many places that wouldn’t let me use AGPL and it was then harder to procure vs something totally closed source.

Don’t ask me how or why but then I went to work at a vendor and encountered similar experiences
> But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction.

What divisiveness? Most news I hear about unions paints them as a negative without backing anything up.

> We need workers’ rights for everyone. Not just those who are in a union.

Agreed, but we have to start somewhere. If unions are able to push for some type of labor benefit, then good for them.
Its a profitable category?
> ...the US budget deficit will rise by...

That is not what the article says. The article says the debt will rise each day. Think of the deficit as the 1st derivative of the debt, or the rate of change. If date is increasing at a constant rate, then the deficit is staying mostly flat.

So, the article is saying something like "John is running away from us, and will get 5 miles further away every hour", and you're saying "John is running away from us, and he gets 5mph faster every hour".
From that article

Prices rose on average roughly sixfold over 150 years. This level of inflation amounts to 1.2% per year compounded

Prices have risen far quicker than that since the Nixon shock. Perhaps the reason we haven't gotten upset is that most people don't remember the value of hard currency?
Hard to say its the most appalling. Two more appalling omissions are Lisa Meitner for nuclear fission, and Chien-Shiung Wu for parity violation, since effectively others were given the prize for the work and their contributions overlooked.
I have a kid. I love him dearly but it has completely killed my will to do most things. It just sucks so much time out of our life. Add that to some medical problems I have been having and it’s misery.

I used to enjoy hacking around in the evening, checking out new tech, rooting and flashing phones, overclocking computers, etc, however, now I literally don’t feel like doing anything.

Kids are hard.
If "near" is a couple of hours that seems far better. Rather than spending 15-20 hours a week commuting you pop into an office once or twice a month, costing an average 2 hours a week, perhaps avoiding rush hour too.
I didn't neglect that, I didn't write it

I think it is very interesting to wonder how effective this would be

there are many circumstances where it becomes more apparent that a party isnt representing interests relevant to that area once someone is there, especially since some places would require residency for 7-8 months before being eligible
to vote there

I don't care about the outcome, I navigate a lot of countries, but I’ll sell things to partisans, they’re very emotional and deeply invested in the outcome
There's a second wind to this story in the Mastodon replies. It sounds like the LLM appeared to be basing this output on a CVE that hadn't yet been made public, implying that it had access to text that wasn't public. I can't quite tell if that's an accurate interpretation of what I'm reading.

>> @bagder it’s all the weirder because they aren’t even trying to report a new vulnerability. Their complaint seems to be that detailed information about a “vulnerability” is public. But that’s how public disclosure works? And open source? Like are they going to start submitting blog posts of vulnerability analysis and ask curl maintainers to somehow get the posts taken down???

>> @derekheld they reported this before that vulnerability was made public though

>> @bagder oh as in saying the embargo was broken but with LLM hallucinations as the evidence?

>> @derekheld something like that yes
Corporations aren't people. I'm gonna keep calling it Twitter because "x ceo" and "ex-ceo" are phonetically identical and makes listening to podcasts very confusing
As someone who has owned 2 Miataii in their life, 100% agree. Current is a '91 NA in British racing green! When I'm getting hammered by the work / grind, I'll make sure I at least drive it to and from work for a few days -- still doing the thing I need to do (painter; partly seasonal type job with natural world time-frames... nearing soon!). Provides a bit of lark in the day and reminds me to stop stressing as much and to literally and figuratively enjoy the wind in my hair.

But regardless of "buy a car", put some effort into a thing you've always wanted to try to explore, no matter how "pointless" and explore it -- the point of life is to live it and we're all so willing to fall into our own filter bubble of life -- very realized at 'mid age' (41 here, really starting to appreciate birds and cars going slow by my house...)

Find YOU, no matter how unproductive financially / whatever metric that may be!
Right tool for the right job. I used to say OpenBSD is great for routers and firewalls, but honestly it's so left behind in performance and Linux has gained so much with eBPF that Linux is looking like the better option now.

I used FreeBSD on my desktop way back in 2000-2008 but today after 9 years on Fedora it seems like the stoneage.
I can add a use-case for that. I'm trying to read Joe Dispenza "Breaking a Habit of Being Yourself". The book starts with Joe Dispenza views on a quantum nature of our world, and I see that the author knows about quantum even less then me. Moreover he tries to make me to believe in something similar to Philip K. Dick, except everything unexplainable is explained not by references to Holy Spirit, but by slipping a word "quantum" somewhere in a sentence. He kinda believe in a magic world where you can change the world by thinking hard about the desired change, but instead of "magic" he says "quantum". Sometimes he uses word "quantum" twice in one sentence.

It was bad enough so I was fighting my desire to stop reading the book and to never try it again. I persisted because his bullshit was far outside of his supposed area of expertise and I thought he could become better when he gets to a point. But then Dispenza refers to a study showing that you can change past with a prayer: if you pray for a random sample of patients from a decade ago, then this random sample does better than a general population[1]. Then he refers to a study showing that people can unwound DNA by a force of mind[2]. Dispenza starts his book by asking a reader to keep an open mind, but there are limits of mind openness, and if you go beyond the limits then what is the point of having a mind? Am I ready to break a habit of being myself and start believing in bullshit?

After I'd found [1] and [2] with a search engine, I searched for Joe Dispenza. He is not a neuroscientist but a fraud[3]. I think I need to make my fraud detector more sensitive. But the point is: if I had an AI summary, I'd probably never wasted my time trying to read the book. Though I'd better get from an AI not a summary, but a chat, so I could ask questions about the book and get answers (was it a butler who did this? lol).

Btw, reading Philip K. Dick I noticed that I can read through such a concentrated bullshit without fighting an urge to stop wasting my time. I'm still thinking what is the key difference in my attitude to different authors. For now I think it is about my expectations: Philip K. Dick started with a question what is real, and so I'm happy to give him a license to talk some bullshit, while I expect from a scientist to have beliefs compatible with science.

[1] It is not the paper he refers to, but it is about it: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-ethics-of-joke-sci...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8686570/

[3] https://nesslabs.com/the-rise-of-fake-scientists
As someone who grew up rural and has spent most of his adult life in cities, IME people change when going rural → urban, but don’t going the other way. Those who “change” after going rural tend to be those who previously straddled the fence in the city.
Netflix just ended their 25 year long DVD by mail service. I subscribed to it a good chunk of that time (it was comparatively cheap), but didn't use it much over the last decade, because I'll admit I'm a dopamine fiend who likes that quick fix. But:

> Outliers are bad for business.

That's pretty much the takeaway here. Art (or anything really) that inspires, or is even more than about one sigma out, is not profitable. Sure, it's what you want, and you want to be erudite and trying to fill that final level on Maslow's hierarchy, but that doesn't guarantee quarter after quarter ROI for shareholders.
1) Canada accounts for 0.5% of world population, but 1.6% of food production, consuming 0.6% of food worldwide. They are self-sufficient.

A hundred years of global commercialization has proven the "self-regulating systems" idea complete garbage. We've seen food prices increase across the US and Canada far outpacing inflation under the guise of "supply chain constraints", while those same global industries are cutting workers and seeing record profit.
One of the techniques for escaping a rut is scoring a goal. Achieve something. Say "I made this!". Solving someone else's problem is a perfect opportunity to score.
How is it tautological? Anthropomorphic climate change is driven by the global emission of greenhouse gasses that have very little direct effect on air quality. These standards are for regulating local emissions of substances that negatively impact local air quality.
I use conditional includes for this, but I also add a single letter describing which Git identity I'm currently using to my PS1 so that it appears before $ in my shell prompt. This prevents me from committing code with the wrong identity, in case I'm using a git checkout that's anywhere not covered by the conditional include rules.

I use Starship (https://starship.rs) to manage my prompt, and wrote a short script that only runs if I'm somewhere in a git repo, and if so finds my Git user's email and looks up the corresponding letter in an associative array declared in my ~/.config/starship-zsh/.zshenv:

git_email=$(git config --get user.email | perl -pe 'chomp if eof')
letter=$STARSHIP_GIT_USERS[$git_email]
echo -n $letter

It's installed like this:

[custom.git_user]
command = "ZDOTDIR=~/.config/starship-zsh /path/to/the-script-above.sh" # set ZDOTDIR, makes zsh load the .zshenv file
when = "git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>/dev/null" # only run if we're in a git repo
format = ' $output'

The .zshenv file contains the STARSHIP_GIT_USERS variable and its values, with a `declare -A` since it's an associative array.
I'll add that you might go to a doctor to get various levels checked. Thyroid levels can cause something similar. You might just rule that out first.

Otherwise, post pandemic I was in a similar situation. Some combination of time off, reduced load (stress), more sleep, more exercise, better nutrition all finally added up to getting me out. Good luck.
They also tried building aircraft carriers out of ice in the 40s. Doesn't mean it was a good idea.
> HashiCorp is seeking a monopoly on hosting Terraform

HashiCorp is trying to see an upside to the thing they've put a lot of effort into building. They're seeing lots of other companies -- including Amazon -- use it to enhance their own bottom lines off of HashiCorp's hard work.

These companies pose an existential threat to HashiCorp, and the HashiCorp stakeholders are getting nothing in return.

Free repackaging lowers the fitness of HashiCorp as an organization and cuts short HashiCorp's growth potential, resulting in lower revenue, less hiring, and more competition -- all of which ultimately inhibits HashiCorp's growth into a well-rounded company with a rich set of offerings. They're effectively being knee-capped and fenced in by low-margin competition.

Meanwhile you're eating for free.
I think that with UBI in place, a lot of poverty would be caused by parents who don't want to work.
How about Silicon Valley developers being outsourced to Missouri?
This is just one step in a series of future legislation being planned in many developed countries to price carbon from imported goods.
> it was recognised as an orrery

I didn't say it wasn't recognized, I said it took a while to understand the mechanisms.
Because it gave them easy stories and instant validation. So many stories written which were "a bunch of people on twitter said this and I want to write about it."
It wasn't that long ago that I could package silicon with a little
quartz window.

Anyone who remembers old-skool EPROMS will know what I mean.

When doing my VLSI course at UCL in the 1980s we all had to make a
"chip". Mine was a 16 bit counter with ripple adder and accumulator.

And we had them fabbed (yes probably unbelievable in this day and age)
and had to test them on the lab bench!

BTW I'm not talking about FPGA here. We actually had a class visit to
the fab-plant and put on bunny suits to go into a level-3 clean area
and look at our UV masks in the projector room.

So, obviously to save money, all the class had a little bit of silicon
real-estate and some shared tristate registers that we could access
our design through with our own address space.

Now my point is; that when the chips were delivered we were all super
excited. We looked at our silicon through a high power bench
microscope. Everyone had signed their name (initials) in silicon next
to their plot on the die. I remember marvelling at the smallest
writing I had ever done in my life!

So, here's part of how you make semi-secure hardware.

Hardware you can actually look at using a simple lab microscope, no
need for x-rays etc.

Just sample randomly from the wafers and have those packaged in
quartz, while 99% of the rest are normally packaged in opaque
resin/ceramic. Make the randomly sampled wafers available for public
inspection.
Oh I was talking about iTunes. Now we’re both learning something new :)
I can imagine (years from now) renting one of these from the home improvement store and only paying a bit more then the "bricks" and adhesive to build a building.

I wonder where this will take tiny houses.

I wish I had the capital to build the equivalent of trailer parks but with tiny houses near where people work and go to school.
They don't? Employers cannot fire striking employees. Or fire any that may look like retaliation for union activity.

> And to forbid employees from working elsewhere

That's simply not true.