skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the promise of a couple hundred bucks would really be all that motivating at 11:43 pm, with your new baby sleeping nearby, after a full day working at your software engineering job?

You have a new son and a partner that need a lot of you right now. Those PRs and bug reports can wait. The time you have all to yourself right now is extraordinarily rare. Use it for you.

That said, I do agree with the premise of the post.
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> I keep reading from project leaders like ESLint’s things like “if only they paid $1 each…” as if that made any economic sense at all. If they paid $1 each, you would not hand thousands let alone millions of users.

From another angle, if I gave a dollar a month to every Free Software program or library I used that month, it would cost me thousands of dollars a month. Obviously that isn't realistic. I have donated to projects before but those products need to individually make the case to me that my donation is needed. Expecting users to donate to every project they use by default just isn't realistic. Most projects won't get donations from most people most of the time; that's just the way it is. Developers should be at peace with this before they decide to personally commit themself to a project.
Because they covered news that I thought was interesting to the community here. Is there a problem with this article?
I'm on the same boat, so I built a marketplace for devs to charge for our software. Blueprint here: https://github.com/poss-market

Long story short: I recently put the marketplace down, because I lack business skills

If any of you is able to help with business side of the project, please reach out - mail in my profile
I tried two different emails: nothing arriving in my inbox to complete the sign-up. Not an encouraging first step. I'd love to see what this is about.
Well, biogas exists. I mean, someone could try to turn waste into biogas at scale. AFAIK Germany is the country that produces more biogas and they are far from having it cheap or at scale. In fact sometimes they just turn crops into energy...
Probably the only way to make it reliably foodsafe without a lot of postprocessing would be replacing the parts frequently. It's possible to perfectly merge the layers by printing with 100% infill, burying the part in fine grained salt and then remelting it in an oven, but that takes time.
The Hypnotized Society
> All of the people who demand things from the maintainers are. Very few of them are willing to sponsor or pay consulting fees. If you give up they complain loudly, and then often pay a contractor to do the work they wanted.

Ignore them. I mean, it's not like they're paying you. Scratch your own itch instead.

I'm probably being dense, but I'm still not seeing a problem. I think if we dig, we'll find non-monetary incentives that open source authors are a bit shy about admitting to. Otherwise why hold on to the project at all? If you're not being paid, and you think you should be, and that's the only reason you're building the thing, just stop building it.

Open source isn't unsustainable. We've got decades of evidence of that.
(2021)

EFF had a slew of articles about the evils of MV3 2019 - 2021. Since then, nothing. Has subsequent development proven them wrong - or right? I don't really follow this space closely other than as a user of chrome extensions (in Vivaldi).
Every country has "lots of space to put solar panels". Except maybe city states that are all skyscrapers. But for now there's no shortage of space where you could put solar panels without them being in anyone's way. Put them on every roof, over every parking lot (where they help keep cars cool in summer), over ever bike path (where they help keep cyclists dry in the rain).
> But like, it's 2023... Having that requirement isn't a hard sell.

I know several people who are on a shitty data limited connection. Their internet becomes basically unusable after a windows update tore through it.

Hell the company I work for still hasn't found anyone willing to replace its ancient line with anything remotely modern and the multi connection + mobile network workarounds we have going breaks down the moment there is even a drop of water in the air.

2023 just like the years before it is a year where the network providers don't give a shit about decent service.
I agree, it's a muscle you have to keep training, but it does become easier over time imho :)
In a sense, subtraction and division don’t really exist as full fledged operations on the reals anyway. They’re just convenient notation for additive/multiplicative inverses.
Exactly why I'm so excited about it! And so confused by the apparent outrage on display here for it. How is it morally wrong for me to be able to do that?

I'm trying to understand it but so far all I can see is gatekeeping saying that my music isn't music if I used AI to create it. Judging by the comment paraphrasing pastor Niemöller I'm apparently a Nazi sympathiser for wanting to use this tool.

What in the world is up with that?
Are open source developers really motivated by money? Sometimes exposure is all they need
Open Source could be BETTER
Why do people deserve to spend their money on digital products which make them happy?

I think a better question to ask is what makes you think they don’t?
I spent 3 hours writing this message ... that is, I started 3 hours ago, paused that immediately, then went and did other things for 2:59:30hrs, finally I came back and finished typing this textual masterpiece.

She's a successful inventor & youtuber, good on her. the product is not bad actually, a great impulse buy (gifting), just not for me.
Made this repo yesterday based on a previous GPT I helped build at work to manage changes to a database (https://chat.openai.com/g/g-A3ueeULl8-database-builder). Please let us know if there's anything that doesn't work or could be improved!
I can't count on one hand how many times I've pressed reject on the Apple Care advertisement in the System Settings on a MacBook Pro. It always had a message something along the lines of "You'll never be able to get this deal again..." a few days later it always popped up again.
> Surgery is not done on minors.

Sadly, this is not true. See for example this paper on 'gender-affirming' mastectomies, where the cohort included girls as young as 12 years old: https://journals.lww.com/annalsplasticsurgery/Abstract/2022/...

Also this article from Reuters on rates of 'gender-affirming treatment' in children, from health insurance data, which shows that girls as young as 13 are receiving 'top surgery': https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...

There have been cases of minors getting genital surgery too. For example Susie Green, who used to run the Mermaids charity, is infamous for taking her child to Thailand on his 16th birthday for penis inversion surgery.

> Predatory men have absolutely no problems finding opportunities to predate on women.

Exactly, any male who disregards women's boundaries and imposes himself on a female-only space is exhibiting predatory behaviour by ignoring the lack of consent. Those males who call themselves women are no exception to this.
One of the frustrating things I have found about my social anxiety is that it seems to reset every time I take a break from being socially active. There have been periods of my life where I spent every other week traveling and talking to people, but put me at home for a month or two, my anxiety is as bad as it ever was.

The simple common sense solution is to maintain regular relationships, make it a habit of calling people, but that’s where my depression makes things rough.

It’s annoying, I am not saying my life is particularly difficult, especially compared to others, I have family, friends and a good career, but this stuff in my head does get annoying sometimes
But are they really spam? Reporting legit emails as spam is like sending in false positives, right?

Because to me, spam are those fake invoices by someone pretending to be Shein / Temu / Amazon.
Sorry, I'm having trouble with the email provider so will email everyone manually for now :) Hope to get it working asap!
Oxidation is a project to integrate Rust code in and around Firefox
Thanks for the feedback, will fix!
Well why don’t you explain what you do mean, then?
> Basically, he went to a therapist and they told him to confront himself with increasingly uncomfortable social situations. It was horrible but he managed to do it.

This does sound like survivorship bias, because you hear about the success stories where people successfully confront their issues and overcome them, not the people who fail miserably until they can no longer keep trying that approach. You also don't hear about people who fail and feel worse because the only things they've heard are success stories and that make them feel more broken.

Edit: perhaps using "survivorship bias" (it also originally said confirmation bias, it was early, my bad) is too strong of a suggestion here, it's just that people will react to different situations differently, not every approach will work for everyone and if nothing else, it's nice to remember that.

I went through that in university, decided to go to a tabletop game evening with complete strangers, had a breakdown, went back to the dorms and cried. Tried going to a few other hangouts, same outcome, feeling worse every single time, not better, which lead to lots of negative thoughts. I guess it might have been committing to doing too much, but the people were pretty chill and I still couldn't do it. Same with things like random small talk.

I guess I was lucky enough to have a group of friends that I opened up to and eventually got better at certain social settings - nowadays basically everything work related and things like giving presentations is a non-issue, where I feel like I have a "goal" and the terms for that social interaction are well understood, versus freeform interaction with strangers, that I've never handled well.

> After a few months and many more challenges, the therapist told him: "Do not, under any circumstance, accept isolation again. That will drive even a sociable person into introversion. Avoid it like the plague. There will be minor set backs, but we are now all equipped with the knowledge and techniques to overcome them - along with the memory that we've conquered it before." Every time we face the fear, and decide to go through with it anyway, we become a little bit stronger.

Some people get stronger, others get worse. I'm not saying that this isn't worth a shot, it probably is - but also consider seeing a professional who can advise on different things to try, identify patterns of thinking that could become an issue and how to address those, or possibly even certain medication should your brain chemistry need a little help to function better. Possibly even multiple healthcare professionals or different types of medication (if needed), until you find something that actually works for you.

Guess this is a bit of a vulnerable moment, but at the same time I don't entirely buy the expectation that exposure therapy of this sort will work for everyone and always, or that people should go in believing it will. The advice of gradually ramping up seems good, as does actually trying to do something (anything) about it, though.
I didn't find any details on the new pricing structure so in the article...
And at least in England, trespassing is not even a criminal offense afaik, just a civil one - and the owner will have a hard time winning that case too, without very explicit signage.

Unless one helps himself to the house contents, or does other Bad Things, walking through unlocked dwellings will get you at most a slap on the wrist.
This is not specifically for Sweden, but if for some reason you want to imaging a single unit that produces continual output (which is not a desirable operation mode for any grid asset in the modern world), then imagine a solar installs distributed over a geographic areas with 18+ hours of storage at the desired power output. That's the overall design. People don't build that way but they could if they wanted.

Right now, batteries deployed on the grid cost $300-$500/kWh, and typically LFP batteries are designed to last for 5000-7000 cycles, and will have warranties for 15+ years. This places the cost of storing a MWh at between $42/MWh and $100/MWh. Solar costs vary based on location, but range from $20/MWh to $80/MWh. For places with high seasonal variation, sizing the install for daily storage, using the seasonal minimum of input, in some areas might double or triple the cost for a particular season. Nuclear costs vary widely by construction competence, but in the largely incompetent west costs are going to be far north of $150/MWh.

So for most areas, most of the time, solar+storage is going to be far cheaper than nuclear. But low insolation or high latitudes might make solar+storage more expensive than nuclear.

In the future, nuclear's prices will continue to rise very slowly, and solar and storage prices will continue to plummet at ridiculously fast paces. This is why solar and storage are winning.

For industrial processes that need heat, the storage options become even cheaper. And if the industrial site can be put somewhere with half-decent solar insolation, then the solar power can be directly connected without going through the grid, which means looping off that $60-100/MWh that utilities charge for the very very expensive grid transmission. We are just at the start of industry realizing what is possible with distributed renewables and thermal storage, and there is potential for drastically cheaper energy for energy intensive industry that be built at new sites.

This is why solar and storage are "winning" even if nuclear might be better for Sweden. And with the ever increasing deployment of EVs, people are going to be parking multiple days worth of their home's energy needs in their garage. People will soon realize just how cheap storage is, and how perhaps even their vehicles will act as grid storage, even if it's only though charging at selective times when energy is cheaper.
DNS-level blocking is very easy to circumvent.

Honestly, the reason most ad-blocking works is because publishers haven't bothered with banning it. And that's because power is concentrated with Big Tech that makes a lot of profit already.

E.g., by blocking ads on YouTube, people are now surprised that there's no alternative left, and now Google can milk those users, too.
If an individual were not the maintainer for a project, they would not be receiving demands from users of that project. The only reason they receive those demands is because they choose to be the maintainer. If they step down from that roll, all of the expectations go away.

If the reason you're doing something is for money, and you're not getting money, then stop doing it. It's that simple.
Side note: donations are kind of difficult in a cooperate environment. Once I request that the department donates a modest amount to an OS project. We had to call it a 'license fee' internally. Paying it fine - donating is not :)
Maybe unfair to ask you (but thanks for the helpful answers so far).

Is there a check for "this distribution comes from the official source"?

Let's say some state actor compromises taaem's desktop computer, and changes the url in the manifest to (say) https://xn--githb-bjg.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/downloa... (that's a unicode lookalike ս in there, which in github at least renders without expansion as "github.com" - HN is smart enough to expand it), or something equally nefarious. CI's not going to catch that, right? And nobody's actually paying attention to changes?
I don't think solution for that is dropping perfectly capable people on the interview.

There should be process for clarifying tickets with the team because you don't just drop tickets on developers "out of nowhere" and expect them to ask questions especially if company culture is "drop the ticket on dev let him figure this out".

Someone has to either make ticket written in detail so you can drop it on dev without dev needing to ask questions OR make refinement where you get team to ask questions to have input from multiple people because single person is not able to understand all the details of the system.
I wonder if, society-wide, the best way to allocate resources to free/open source software would be just reducing mandatory work hours. Say, if the average ~ 8h per day were reduced to 7h or 6h, how many of those freed millions of person-hours would be redirected to hobby software projects?
"Controlled danger"
Oh, that’s interesting!

I had one too - I notice it start to come out when I am very tired/very overly caffeinated or stressed. I think it’s only me that notices just because I am hyper aware (which probably emphasises it more in my head).

I slow my speech down too as I found it was my brain running faster than I could talk and I didn’t know how to get the words out.
This is a very critical reply, and for what? Throwing "just not for me" at the end doesn't negate the 95% of the message that's unnecessarily harsh.
I very much relate, I also feel like I have friends and family that care about me, but the anxiousness keeps coming back from time to time. It's hard to beat it completely.
Is there a problem with this article? I often see news shared here from a variety of sources founu or funded by questionable characters such as a the Daily Mail. I saw no issues with the content of the article before sharing.

You can read about it also in the San Diego Union Tribune (the case is going through San Diego courts) here:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2023-...

Or on Yahoo!'s Complex:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pornhub-parent-company-r...

If either of these articles are not acceptable I can post the news again.
I'd like to see some form system where you keep track of what you actually use. Apportion money appropriately and you can make an annual / monthly / weekly payment and it gets distributed in a somewhat sensible way.

Yes there's edge cases, but at the moment there isn't really a good way to spread my money around.
Firefox still sucks though.
That’s only part of it (China is eating and will continue Germany’s EV’s lunch), the other part is energy prices. Like it or not, cheap natural gas from a certain country was the backbone of a competitive German industrial economy. Can’t make an Bosch appliance or VW with solar power that can compete with Korea’s LG or Chinese brands. Energy is EVERYTHING.
Right. So 11 years. Versus a couple weeks. I think you're proving my point.
Thanks for sharing your hack! I made a chrome extension for myself and others that want to try it out. Would love your thoughts! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blink-effortless-fo...
Is DNS blocking effective because it’s hard to not use DNS at scale, or because advertisers don’t care about the very small portion of users using it?

I’m asking because it seems to be a flimsy defence, even if it’s currently working well.
If you want to consider the energy balance of food production then every country runs 99% on renewable energy as plants collect solar power at a scale that absolutely dwarfs everything else. Even a very low estimate of 1,549,600 km2 of crops * 1% efficiency from photosynthesis * 15% capacity factor is ~2,000,000 TWh / year vs 27,000 TW from electricity. Add in forests providing lumber, grass feeding cattle, and plankton feeding fish etc and the numbers get much larger.

As such total energy balance isn’t a particularly useful metric. Instead we use subsets of total energy such as the electric grid and 100% renewable is perfectly valid in that context.
This isn’t to say that social anxiety is something you can just get over, but I attend Toastmasters. It has helped me significantly with keeping the social anxiety in check - regularly meeting a large group of people and speaking in front of them (and getting advice/ help along the way)
1000 stream per year per song. 2/3 of all music will be demonetized. There’s very successful artists with lots of songs in their back catalogs that don’t hit that threshold.

And pointing how low the royalties are is not a valid argument for not paying artists anything!
> Up until then the pi were more like a microcontroller with a UI layer atop.

This is not my area of expertise but from my understanding and reading, I would dispute that, strongly.

The Pi 1, 2 & 3 all run the ThreadX RTOS on the GPU as their "firmware" and the Arm core(s) are started by ThreadX:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

Now ThreadX is owned by Microsoft but it wasn't when the Pi was designed and built.

I love your turtles allusion but the Pi never was a simple or clean (or FOSS) design.

The Pi Pico is, relatively speaking, but it's not really a Pi.
Renaults Zoe also seems great, I see quite a lot of them on German streets.
Emacs becoming an OS is not a meme anymore with this. Now EMacs becoming a Starship.
A nonprofit asking for donations because of <good cause>? What is the definition of a charity then?
>Reading less news does not shield you from the real world.

The news isn't the real world.
Most complex, unique, value producing things have a path to monetization for the builder of the thing. If the money isn’t there for the builder they are either not leveraging their relationship to the thing correctly, or the thing does not have the value the builder may think it has.
I agree with you that what I'm saying is that maths is ultimately a kind of language that we use to describe the world. I wouldn't agree with calling it "just" language or "like English". It's different in that consistency is strictly enforced, such that simple rules can lead to rich emergent structures. That's what I was getting at with the game of life metaphor.

So, if you follow my argument, the fact that there are prime numbers is not 'intrinsic to mathematics', it's the other way around -- we use rules that lead to rich structures, because those provide useful, consistent abstractions to talk about things. Prime numbers are among those rich structures.

To respond to a sibling comment that seems somewhat related -- The fact that we can calculate some physical constants with high precision is not a counter argument to that. What we are doing is fitting a mathematical abstraction to data; once we have done that, we can find more physical truths by assuming consistency and performing logical inference. The fact that a constant can be calculated then just means that we have a consistent theory for the physical structures from which that constant arises.
Let me just copy-paste it for easier access:

- Your company's perspective: Pay for the software to receive reliable products from trusted vendors

Business receives reliable open source software that is maintained on a daily basis, features are constantly developed and they receive a support from open source creators

- Why?

It's cheaper to pay a few (dozens / hundreds / thousands) bucks each year for a library, tool, component, etc instead of build it on your own, maintain, test, take care of security updates, do customer support

- Yours (open source developer's) perspective: Get paid to build, maintain and support your software

You as a developer make money by selling licenses to your open source software

- Why not free open source?

Because you still need a day job and do your open source after hours. Thousands (millions?) of companies make millions (billions?) dollars each year by incorporating your software in their products or using your software in their ecosystem, but you are left with $0 profit from it

- But I want my open source to be available to regular people for free

With poss market license it remains free for non-profit/personal/scientific users, if you choose to. It's just MIT License slightly modified
correction to your correction…that $40 million will mostly end up in the hands of the record labels that have pushed this change.