skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'll nibble here -- I would describe myself as a Socialist, and I'm happy to have an open conversation about the question you've asked. (Unless your question was rhetorical and not intended to be a discussion.)

Can I start by asking you what type of Socialism you are most concerned with?

Socialism is a very broad term with different meanings to different people.

For example, I am a Socialist who is against autocratic rule. I believe the Soviet style communists (the countries you mentioned) weren't much better than other contemporary autocrats and in many cases were far worse. There are other Socialists who believe that any hierarchy is bad and should be removed. It's a very diverse community of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and a wide variety of beliefs, only a small minority of which believe in totalitarian or single party rule.

I support, for example, democratic workers councils, federation of guilds, and other such elective methods of leadership. I just happen to also believe that labor entitles you to a share of the profit of that labor, rather than investment wealth. I'd love to live in a world where every company was a workers-coop, and we reduced our profit motive and increased our work comfort motive.
I don't know what it says about me (maybe that I'm a people pleaser) but I've had motivational ruts in the past be completely unblocked just by someone for whom I have some regard asking me for help. They say "can you make a tool that does X" and all of a sudden I'm deeply motivated, working for days or even weeks like I'm obsessed. Once sufficient motivation occurs, in my experience the creativity and productivity parts just tend to follow. It's not an unpleasant experience, but kind of a weird mechanism. I wish I could harness that to do stuff for myself, but that seems to be much harder.
Because most people don’t understand finance.

If I need to fund an initiative - I could do it one of three ways - income, debt or equity. Is that not an accurate statement?

How many companies now “fund” their compensation with a mixture of income from their business and equity. You’ve been stretching definitions this whole conversation to make it fit your initial wrong statement.

This entire conversation started because someone believed the old wives tail that Microsoft saved Apple by investing $250 million to pro it up or to “fund continuing operations”
> Does that work for individuals?

Could a lawyer comment on Texas two-stepping a trust?
They don't receive it directly, but the Federal government gives it to local PBS stations, which then pay NPR for the content rebroadcast rights. Because the money is now passing through multiple pockets, you can say the federal money isn't directly going to NPR, but local PBS fees amount to about 1/3rd of NPR's revenue.

If the 1% number NPR touts was real, they should advocate for the disbandment of CPB so their independence would be undisputed, but they live on that money so they don't.
the link and title of this suspiciously changed. @dang
>Could this be considered a strike breaking action?

"Strike breaking" is a different epithet, you're looking for "union busting". Nobody at Bandcamp is on strike.
That's answered in the GPL FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#InternalDistrib...
I'm inclined to agree. And I'm more inclined to believe that they and companies like them are responsible for false narratives surrounding AGPL than I am to believe that it's a long con by the cloud providers to get more free work for their cloud services. Vendors of AGPL software have a much more concrete and proximate motivation for exaggerating the effects of AGPL than the cloud providers do.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901488
Exclusive look inside Nvidia's AI supercomputer [video]
> According to the article, $1 in housing in 1999 is equivalent to $1.86 today. That's... incredibly hard to believe. The Case Shiller is up over 300% for the same time period.

Case-Shiller is index of homes-as-an-asset buy prices, the housing component of CPI is housing-as-a-consumed-service rent prices. 1999 was pretty near historical lows for the buy:rent price ratio, today is just off the all-time high, so, yes, now:1999 for buying a home as an asset is very different than now:1999 for consuming housing as a service.
Well that's kind of the point, get the companies that pollute with impunity out of our communities. Things like oil fields and refineries take up so much acreage for the amount of people they employ, and many are still situated adjacent to homes.
> Success to me looks like a lot of real users paying a lot of real money. SO never really had that.

Or you follow the lean engineering model, like Whatsapp did. Millions of users paying a $ each are still millions of $, and Whatsapp prior to FB acquiring them had very very low operating costs - similar to Stackoverflow by the way. Both engineered their systems to run on incredibly low resources.
so around 21 years of people using this license and no one knows clearly what it does?

Such a situation can persist indefinitely if nobody wants to go to court.
>I do think it's funny you seem to value "more hours worked" as a measure of entitlement on a website that's literally all about "working smarter not harder"(what did you think a "hack" is?) but it sounds like you're more invested in evopysch nonsense and 2010s era pay gap discourse so I don't see any point in continuing this conversation.

You can't quantify working smarter. It's a vague term.

What we do know, (and you know this as well you're just not thinking critically) is that over a large population those that generally work more hours get more done and do better across the board. That's a statistical and data driven metric. Not some hand wavy "work smarter" bullshit.

What are you implying? that women are smarter than men so of course if they put less hours in their smartness suddenly makes up for the stupidity that is men? Come on.

This isn't a strawman, it's called common sense.

>Except that's not true, is it?

You ask, so I answer: It is true. There are enough exceptions that someone can construct a counter argument/research paper via miscellaneous examples but the general majority across current cultures and past cultures that men take on the bread winner role.
Hah. Oh, man.

I've been struggling with work a lot lately and I think kid issues are a huge part of it. We've been having some serious behavior problems with our 7 y/o and it's taken A LOT of mental energy (and lots of actual time doing research, calling doctors, etc) to deal with.

I've been burnt out, tired, and just have no desires or interests lately and it's because all of my and my partner's energy is spent dealing with this.
There are many, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Andorra to name a few
> That revenue might be split between a few hundred thousand companies.

That’s not how power laws work. Over time, many niches will be created but usually it starts with one big winner taking it all. For example, first there where many half baked solutions, then there was Netflix and now we have all kinds of streaming providers, many of which are trying to find a niche such as Apple-owners or Disney fans. Similarly, we first had an iPhone and now small phones, big phones, tablets, touch laptops etc etc.
the ports often dont work (or require a rodeo-size production to get them to work). A couple of years ago I installed FreeBSD, went to ports and did a "make install clean" of vim, and it wasted 10 minutes of my time only to fail on some arcane package's compilation. I asked for help and was told that "ports are not the OS, contact the ports maintainer for your pkg", technically true, but they tout their ports as this awesome, universal collection of amazing software. (the real workaround is for common packages like vim, you use "pkg install vim" and it installs binaries). The beauty of ports (if they worked) is that you can do cool things with the USE flags (this should be familiar to Gentoo users, my mind is drawing a blank though for a concrete example to explain this to someone unfamiliar).

Recently I tried to install prolog on OpenBSD-7.3, it failed even from pkg. I didn't want to waste my time on ports, so I just wiped the OS from my machine (running neofetch takes a couple seconds, which gives you an idea of how slow it is, however if I ever needed a very secure machine (such as an SSH bastion or anything internet-facing) I wouldn't hesitate to pull it up again.

FreeBSD is almost usable as a desktop though. Only thing keeping me is audio wont work over HDMI/DisplayPort, but I totally understand they don't have time to fix all that hoopla. A pro OR a con, depending on your POV is that FreeBSD support really expects you to put your big-boy pants on when you ask for help. They get (justifiably) annoyed if you dont RTFM and concisely lay out everything you tried to do to fix it. For various reasons, the Linux ecosystem is way more tolerant of SO-style "how do I do X on linux" type questions.
Build video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzEd50uzdF0
For the tech world, fixing monopolies is easy — just make adversarial interoperability fully legal. Sure, it already exists now, but my understanding is that as far as US law goes, it's in a grey zone (other places, like Russia and some EU countries, have better laws about this). Then the situation will fix itself. Whenever a popular online service enshittifies, it would quickly get reduced to its infrastructure and lose any semblance of control over its UX because third-party user-respecting client software would start popping up.
I prefer the term confabulation. To the AI the made up thing isn't necessarily irrational. It's in fact very rational, simply incorrect.
For per core performance, it surely is.
Presumably, some of the engineers going through midlife crisis can buy the cars they work on. :D
I have those mats in my kitchen as a normal person who only spends at most a couple of hours in there a day.
Confabulation seems better aligned to neuropsychology, as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
> the _absence of a carbon tax_ already causes costs we don't see yet

We're talking about CA here. A single, albeit large, US state. As we see from emissions moving from the west to China, if CA imposes a tax then carbon emissions will just move somewhere else. The absence of a carbon tax in one US state likely has little effect on AGW. I would argue that interfering with market based production location may cause even more emissions as shipping costs may increase.
So at the Nurburgring, when they have endurance races, they use aircraft as “satellites“ for sending data from cars, such as onboard video and telemetry. Most race tracks can just use regular signals but this track is huge and wraps around a mountain, so you’d need either thousands of repeaters or the aircraft they currently use.

You guys should try and see if they could use your tech, it seems a perfect fit and might be good fit for marketing for both sides.
Why isn’t it good for the country?

Are you implying not having access to semiconductors built elsewhere or goods built elsewhere wasn’t a net positive for the US?

The idea that software development was immune to this inevitable change is nonsensical.
Heheheehehe!!!
And sleeping. Really sleeping enough, every day.
This is false. Nothing about the AGPL treats commercial use any differently than non-commercial use.
Sounds like burnout.
Take a vacation!
Your premise appears to be that financial security leads to a lower birth rates. The inverse would mean that financial insecurity leads to higher birth rates. I don't know what weird narrative you are telling yourself that makes these two things related at all. My intuition says that financial security would lead to a higher birth rate, but isn't there a whole field of science that studies these things? You know there are more than 300 journals devoted to economics (a field of science) and probably just as many to sociology (a field of science).

Maybe, the day after UBI is implemented, everyone quits their jobs and buys a hammock and no one procreates anymore, but I don't think we're at risk of finding out.
LOL

Nobody in security had any input in this.

I predict this will be exploited in days to wirelessly hack iPhones that are in check luggage and being moved by shipping companies.
> Does that work for individuals?

It does. You can't spin off your liabilities, but you can get rid of all your assets, then declare bankruptcy and get rid of your liabilities.

A contractor did that to me: He gave all his money to his wife, declared bankruptcy, I got none of the money he owed me, and he lived off of his wife's money.

You can, for example, place your house in an irrevocable charitable trust, with a rule that you can live there rent free till you die. Things like that - you need to get creative, but you can move all your assets to places that are not "yours" but that you still benefit from.

Google "Transferring Property Before Filing for Bankruptcy" - it's important to get the timing right, if your transfer the property too close to the bankruptcy they can take it back.
My stuck in a rut was even more cavalier. A KTM RC390 sportsbike. Mazda Miata doesnt cut it for me.
How do you know? Faeser is not known to be fond of our constitution.
In general, I think this is a good idea. For me, I recently took a 6 week long sabbatical (our company offers that after you've been there a number of years).

I was hoping to feel recharged and energized after, but for me, it didn't help. Mostly due to having to deal with some mental health stuff with one of our kiddos. It's been exhausting.
A TV specifically? Maybe once a decade. But, what if it's a new computer, or a new couch, or whatever? Substantially more often. Their minimum threshold is only $250, although items are specifically elibile, not automatic. They'll happily do the 12 month deal on a $399 iPad mini, for instance, just to name one thing I spot checked).
Or just "highlight text"
I don't think I consider myself a "great engineer", but I've gone through similar feelings and I see a few issues here.

I think the way we get into this industry is a doubled edged sword. A lot of us do this because we love computers and software. The upside of this is that it's easy to stay motivated and move up. A lot of us probably grew up as black sheep in our communities, and are now being handsomely rewarded for our efforts. It's very validating.

However, I think there is a dark side to this validation. Eventually, some of us begin to see our self worth in our output. On top of that, there's always pressure to learn new things, because if you're not keeping up then you may get left behind. This is easy enough in your early 20's when you're full of drive, but real life responsibilities pile up with age, and it gets harder and harder.

I can't say for sure if you fall into this category, but I know I did, and I realized two problems.

1. I saw my self worth in my career. In general, I needed external validation to feel happy. This is not sustainable because sometimes you're working on projects that you know are bullshit, and sometimes you screw up. If you ever bite off more than you can chew or get stuck on a project you know is stupid, it will burn you out.

2. I needed to turn off the computer. You say that you desperately need to get out of this rut, but the rut isn't the problem. The fact that you think you need to get out of it is the problem.

Turn off the computer. Stop coding for a few days outside of work. Go outside and don't bring your phone. If you are on public transport or something and you have the urge to check your phone, pull out a book instead and begin reading.

It may sound counterintuitive, but all of this is way more productive and inspiring than desperately trying to escape a rut that was created by your own mind prison. You need to unplug for a while. You are most likely burned out.
The llm has neither of these, so neither is more correct or incorrect than the other.
Isn’t it latest node *and* advanced packaging?
Thank you for your response. Based on your comment, you seem to be operating close to the idea that economic value comes from government dictate. If this is the case, I suppose there's no reconciling our respective positions. (And no problem with that, you're entitled to your opinion)

My belief is that all value is subjective in nature. Economic value is not a property of nature: it's just subjective. A thing has value in a trade not because some authority says it has value, but because everybody values what they receive in a trade more than what they give up.
Does Google make their GPL modifications available?

If so, my argument does not apply to Google, but may apply to other big tech companies. I mentioned Google only as an example--a place holder for any big tech company.

It seems any company that hosts modified GPL code can't stop their employees from just walking off with it and selling it.
Jeez, some of the comments here are somewhat disturbing. At this point I'm beginning to wonder: is anyone actually OK?
The same of 10y ago
Django
Postgres

if it needs more
Redis
RabbitMQ [even tho more Kafka nowadays]
React
Why do we need to increase productivity to make this work? When productivity increases by other means compensation doesn't increase nor do hours decrease. That productivity gain is happily eaten up by the company. This looks like a case of companies wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
> SongTradr needs demonstrate that Bandcamp wasn't financially viable

That's provably false.

> He notes that, according to its co-founder, Ethan Diamond, Bandcamp has been profitable since 2012.

> In addition, Bandcamp charges its customers (indie artists) just 10-15% commission rates as a retailer – and on Bandcamp Fridays, it charges nothing at all.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/podcast/is-this-the-r... "Is this the real reason Epic Games acquired Bandcamp?"

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-is-bandcamp-profitable-an... "Why is Bandcamp profitable and Spotify not?"

This is pre Epic acquisition, and they seemed mostly hands of in their approach.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/11g0c07/its_the_o... "It’s the one year anniversary of Bandcamp’s acquisition by Epic."
The age old game of politicians buying your vote with your own money continues.
So I can't have a private conversation with my Father who lives in another country via the internet, because the only solution we have to unwanted child porn is legal mandates against secret conversations.

Come on, we're smarter than this.

Why FAANG has not already crushed child porn for geolocations that don't want it, is beyond me... shooting itself in the foot and giving Australia ammunition to join in. Why.
> The UI on BandCamp has been vastly outdated for ages now

That's what I like about it. It's essentially what MySpace was supposed to be.
Clock only translates to performance when combined with Instructions-Per-Clock.
Spend the next year making work the least significant thing in your life.

Do a good but not great job at work, and instead focus on doing things like travel or finding a girlfriend/boyfriend if you don't have one. Work out once a day, visit friends in other cities, go on a road trip, etc.
I have a 13900k and can confirm, its basically an air fryer.
It’s not suspicious, the previous title calling it an operating system was extremely incorrect and intentionally misleading to generate buzz. Aka clickbait.
> For everyone that isn't part of that mainstream, the system doesn't care about.

The sad part is, this is exactly why I left broadcast radio and TV and movie theaters behind. With some heuristics and filters in place, this sort of thing was solvable online, but nope, the market beckons, pulling everyone ever forward into its gaping maw . . .
I'm not arguing that the AGPL is bad, I'm just arguing that Google isn't responsible for the false narratives surrounding it. The vendors of AGPL software have a clear and immediate motivation to exaggerate its effects (more commercial contracts), whereas the motivation that Drew posits for Google is a much more elaborate long con. Occam's razor suggests that the vendors are at fault.
Of course they'll just pass the costs onto consumers. California is highly competitive, and competition always means slimmer margins, and slimmer margins mean a business can't eat additional costs and remain viable.
You can download AAC files that are AFAIK digitally watermarked with your Apple ID to prevent piracy, but you can use freely in all your client tools. But they are not lossless. I don't know if iTMS sells lossless music.

However, they do cap the number of times you're permitted to download our collection.
> Presumably someone creating such an experiment does not engage in the prayer with sincere faith and thus can conclude nothing from the outcome.

Why do you say that?
Tanzania is interesting with it's huge amount of bush airports that get a decent amount of traffic from safaris and other local travelers. Trips that take 10 hours on the road can be done in a 45 minute flight.
From my knowledge as an incumbent it is much less but I don't know the exact number.
Just posting this here for anyone like me that had read some of Don Norman's work, but not The Design of Everyday Things, and was confused by a certain differing use of vocabulary.

In his original coining of the term, Normal used "affordance" to mean a thing an object allowed to be done, but some user, usually a human, sometimes another object. For instance, a chair affords sitting by a person. A door handle affords opening.

But in the design world "affordance" is now almost ubuiquitously used to mean some visual hint added to a design element to indicate what can be done with it. For instance, in a UI, you might say that you added an "affordance" in the form of a drop shadow to show a button is clickable (probably a crappy example, me being a non-ui person).

In the later editions of Design of Everyday Things, Norman addresses this difference (perhaps we could say evolution) of his idea and term. If I remember correctly, he does not love this conflation of ideas, but has come to terms with it.
> That means it's your child. A bit insensitive IMHO.

Other way around - give your child all your assets, then retain the liabilities and declare bankruptcy. Then hope your child is willing to support you long term, since you no longer have any assets. Also works with your wife.
"Benefits a lot" is an understatement. Terraform would be nothing today without the countless hours spent by the community writing 5000+ providers for free (Hashicorp themselves have written 35 first party ones).
That's not really true. Users need to share their modifications ONLY IF they distribute copies of the modified work, and ONLY TO those whom they distributed modified works to.

And this is the whole point: that everyone shares in the wealth of free software. And if someone makes a program better, those modifications can be reincorporated into the original work, making it more valuable.

Free software is about computer USER freedom, not DEVELOPER freedom. As a user of software, I want that freedom, and won't settle for anything less. That's why I write free software, because it's the software I want to use.
It doesn't matter. The employees should be made whole eventually