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Exploring the Challenges of Open-Source Sustainability – Your Thoughts?
Hi HN community,

I've been reflecting on the complex and often underappreciated challenges faced by open-source software (OSS) projects, particularly in terms of sustainability, funding, and community support. A few key questions have been on my mind:

Sustainability and Monetization: How can open-source projects develop sustainable business models without compromising their core principles? What innovative monetization strategies have you seen or can propose that align with the ethos of OSS?

Dependency and Corporate Support: Given the heavy reliance of big corporations on OSS, what can be done to ensure they contribute fairly to the maintenance and development of these projects? Should there be a more formalized expectation or framework for corporate contributions?

Licensing Challenges: How effective do you find the current open-source licensing models, especially in terms of commercial use? Are there ways these licenses can be adapted to better protect and benefit OSS developers?

Community Engagement: What strategies have you found effective in building and maintaining a strong, active community around an OSS project? How can OSS projects better manage and leverage community contributions?

Comparison with Proprietary Software: In your experience, what are the key advantages and disadvantages of OSS versus proprietary software, particularly regarding innovation, quality, and user engagement?
> Privacy though, is another matter that never gets benchmarked,

One of the reason I never connected my Neato is that I had no interest in having a map of my flat uploaded to the company's servers.
Even if you know you aren't a good driver, you would still carry around the idea that it was your own fault for not being a better driver. Its really the level of personal agency involved (and the sense of that agency being taken away) that causes the brushing aside.
Tell HN: Major Discord server (Valheim) just hacked
A group of people have managed to completely own the Valheim Discord server of over 50k members. They've created a fake new server for Valheim and are linking to a 'brand new video game' download on WeTransfer.
Needless to say I look forward to the post mortem. This is a pretty bad incident.

Here is what they posted: https://imgur.com/a/GmQBkgc
Plenty of monopolies. Take your pick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_E...
Why do you equate this to police being underfunded?

They just care about other things way more. Like people writing mean things on the internet.
On the one hand, I hate my (the UK) government and using laws like this to spy on people is totally their modus operandi.

On the other hand, I don't think for a second Apple have pure and benevolent intentions here (or anywhere, for that matter)
Completely unhelpful perspective, no one has experience feeling hungry or building food budgets before they were born or had the responsibility to earn money for buying food.
Aside from the song as others have pointed out, it's also easy to enter because you press keys in a diagonal pattern, wrapping around the keypad... hard to explain, just look at a phone and you'll get it.
I may not like CATO overall, but I do love me some informative flowcharts.

I've seen a few like this over the years, and pretty much all of them agree that the system is painfully convoluted. (Or else all of them have failed to depict its true simplicity, which seems like quite a stretch.)
To me it feels like Cyrillic cursive has at least as many differences from its printed counterparts as Latin has. For example, д is written like a g, б kind of like a d, т like an m. The last one is especially confusing because м also exists.
> Should it though?

Yes, it's a plane not a person. We can learn from it, and Earhart won't care.
Even more bizarre, then, that EU regulators can tank American deals
Meta doesn't have an AI "product" competing with OpenAI, Google's Bard, etc. But they use AI extensively internally. This is roughly a byproduct of their internal AI work that they're already doing, and fostering open source AI development puts incredible pressure on the AI products and their owners.

If Meta can help prevent there from being an AI monopoly company, but rather an ecosystem of comparable products, then they avoid having another threatening tech giant competitor, as well as preventing their own AI work and products from being devalued.

Think of it like Google releasing a web browser.
I [attempt to] keep two vehicles maintained, for just myself, on account of one of them always malfunctioning.
They could get together, form and fund a new company that provided unified access to all games/teams, and then distribute revenue fairly to themselves from that. IIRC that is what the MLB did with BAMTech that was acquired by Disney at a valuation of $5B
If more people are killed by installing and maintaining lifeboats than are saved, then why wouldn't it be reasonable to disagree strongly with the status quo on life boats?

They didn't argue that the maintenance is bad because its expensive. How could you miss that point? You literally quoted it in your comment:

> > ... dangerous ...
I think the question of whether field lines are real is more of a philosophical (of physics) question so it usually falls outside the scope of introductory material on E&M. However, some texts like Purcell and Morin do kinda take a stance on whether fields are real: "since it works, it doesn’t make any difference."
you mean basically the exact same information that you can get by going to an assessors website or office (in the USA anyway), and looking at the property record card they publish when setting your tax rates? Not to mention when you apply for a building permit, with plans - that all becomes public information.
A new TB-03 from Roland, which is a digital clone but quite nice sounding, is only $400.
Something like meta.com/our_own_tech_handles_this
Very cool!

Feature request: I have really struggled with turning the thing costing me money off in AWS.

If, with the right master credentials, I could consistently and easily do that somehow, that'd be a 10x feature. If you made that use-case free, you'd get tons of installations from people who desperately need this in the top of your sales funnel.

edit: This used to say "in your app" and that wasn't quite what I want, so I changed that language, but jedberg's objections in the comments below were, and are, valid concerns with what I was stating and any implementation.
I wouldn't say she was mocked, I would call this harassment. You don't stop having rights when you become a celebrity. I also don't believe it's safe to assume this sort of thing will only happen to celebrities going forward.

I think you know the difference between imagining something and publishing something, and that you're being facetious.
One of the worst side-effects of COVID is it gave all of these companies an excuse/opportunity to charge much more, and then when COVID was over they were like...let's not roll anything back and see if anyone notices.
WD40 is a brand. The do sell a dry PTFE (Teflon) lubricant for locks, among other things.
Yes, but they won’t be. Any such trial would make the institution look bad. If there’s anything you need to know about academia in the USA, it’s that they fear losing face more than Communist Chinese party members.
fb.com seems like a reasonable choice.
Did I read the same article as everyone else here talking about price controls?

Cause that isn't what I got from it; term negotiated and contracted prices aren't "price controls." The suggested fix here is industry standard practice in many other business-to-business markets where the buyer selects a seller based on not just on how much they are selling it for today, but how long or for how many units they will guarantee the price for. Which is what is being talked about. AKA food supplier negotiates a price and guarantees it for a year.

So, its not a bad plan. Forcing the supplier to manage their costs vs. just passing them on at will gives the supplier an economic interest in suppressing their own suppliers and increasing their delivery efficiency. It pushes some of the price risks away from the individual consumers, who don't have much individual purchasing power.
> I find sell by mark downs

This is by definition not scalable, so your experience has nothing to do with the experience of typical families.
NativeScript is not react-native
Price control is very half assed, what needs to be done is nationalization of the supply chain for food.
Did you finetune a model?
Their own?
Oddly enough, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, which are among the few sources of news of events in the 600-1000 period, spends considerable ink on describing unusual actions of flocks of birds. That and ecclesiastical events. You do get the occasional account of wars, kings, land deeds, etc. but the frequent mention of birds is odd. Perhaps they were seen as portentous?
Need to differentiate between food and snacks. As article says wheat and eggs price are down, they ARE food, that means food price is down. Pepsi is a snacks company
With my remote work now, I am strongly considering downgrading to becoming a one car family. Said expenses would be the biggest reason for this.
I beg to differ. True, many fences are easily overcome by adult humans, but most fences are not designed with adult humans in mind. Most fences are intended to keep animals in or out of an area. In more urban areas that may extend to small children. In high security areas, fencing may be just one layer of security, but it is certainly more than just "suggestive". In any of these cases, the fence is useless if it has a gap that can be exploited.
I think a 'pay what you can' model could greatly aid OSS monetization. It keeps the software free for those who can't afford it while encouraging those who derive significant value, especially companies, to contribute financially. This approach respects the open-source ethos and promotes a fair contribution system based on the user's capacity.
That may be true, but it's largely irrelevant. The ML framework in use has no bearing on whether or not you have the data required to reproduce the model being trained with that framework.
January 1 1970 has been my birthday since I was a 10 year old in 1995, so it never really crossed my mind that some people put their real birthday.
OK, got it... I suppose that's reasonable, but depending on what you're working on, I'm not sure seriously reducing the debuggability of your project is acceptable. For the kind of work I do, I need a debugger.

I would also argue that keeping it so that you can always easily run your project "REPL style" from a debugger exerts a very favorable downward force on all the complexities that make large projects hard to maintain.
How does this app compare to Mnemosyne?
I wonder if this could be changed some if Apple allowed some different pricing models. I've never pushed an app to the app store, but I imagine it isn't granular enough for this. But if you could offer 3 price points. One price point for the software on each platform then perhaps like a bundled price point. Say, $5 for the mac version and $5 for the phone version. But $8 for both platforms.

I can see some frustration with idea of paying for the app full cost separately. But I think I would be less annoyed if I can pay for both in a single transaction. Even if it wasn't at a discount for the bundle, $10 for both.
We just unloaded our 25-year-old Honda. It was getting to the point where maintenance was difficult because parts were no longer available. So we're officially car-free now. Probably just going to do zipcar or something like it when we need a car. For the amount we drive, there's no way it's worth even paying used car prices.
Sorry for the offtopicness but could you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you some repost invites!
Price controls don't work and have never worked. If the problem is gov't printing too much money, then gov't should stop printing money. If the problem is monopolists colluding, then gov't should go after the monopolists for colluding. The law of supply and demand is not going away
Ah, for amateur content creation people will probably be using the newer iPhones, no? A focus of Apple's marketing has been 'record 3d video on your phone, play it back on the headset'.
The moon is rotating?
I am disagreeing with you about whether that is an important metric.
I wish your pets long, happy lives safely at home.
The US doesn't have a high food price problem so I got no idea where they're coming at this from. People only think food prices are high because the sticker price value jumped up because of inflation. The food didn't get more expensive, your dollars became worth less.
Here's the model on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-70b-hf
It's the quality of data and the method of training, not just the amount of tokens (per their paper release a few days ago)
20 years in + take retirement + also work for a government contractor at 3x+ your former pay rate (while collecting retirement!), can equal a lot of money in a hurry at a relatively young age (say, money to fund a real estate investment venture without risking being penniless in old age).
The car took over from the horse plus train if you were rural (most of the population was farmers), or only the train (calling the streetcar a type of train as both ran on tracks) if you were urban.

Horses work well for trips to town. When it isn't far to town a a horse really is faster, then the horse rests in town all day while you do your shopping. Town is also where the train station was, so if you were going on a long trip you would take the train which was faster than a horse, but you had to get to the train station.
US Farm goods already have very regulated prices and output limits.
To be frank this is nonsense. People in the public eye are miserable so it doesn't matter if they're more miserable? Making lide worse isn't harm? I don't even know what harm would mean, then.

I'm always bemused when people counter with the observation that something is already a problem. Okay? So then we should agree that more if it is also a problem, right? It's like saying the invention of the machine gun wasn't a factor in WW2, because we had already had guns and before that we had crossbows. There was a phase change with the machine gun and things were quite different.

Similarly, if people are able to produce deepfakes at an industrial scale, things will be very different.
Every VR system ships with controllers.

I need to see this in person before I pass judgement. Maybe they'll knock it out of the park. I haven't seen much at all of it in actual use.
wow I love the idea of pre-learning the important words in a show then watching it to kinda cement it in. Really cool.
Fun fact: The Pirate Bay trial ended 15 years ago.
It's too early right now and I feel the device needs to make strides for it to be viable for most. The various youtubers pointing out neck strain issues underscore this. We can't gauge much from early gripes on a low production device that hasn't launched yet.

Netflix's engineering staff is expensive and I imagine they learned some interesting lessons from experiments like Bandersnatch. No need to make bets for the sake of innovation, let things play out first. I'm sure there is some signaling involved for the sake of investors showing they're prudent here.

All I'm saying is - to your point - the market may be shifting to where personal consumption devices like this make sense. It's not replacing a TV so much as a laptop.

For some early adopters the experience may be far superior, and if so, a next generation device that cuts the cost and size in half may be the thing that launches things forward. Like the iPhone 3G.

Or it could be sort of a wash and go the way of the 3d TV craze from 15 years ago.
It’s not just giving up the revenue, it’s also moving the engineering.

How many engineers, product designers etc does Apple employ in the UK? I have no idea.
It looks like there's something similar for the Titanic already, so, not a weird suggestion to make.
I won't "loan" (give) any friends more than a couple hundred dollars.

It might be couched as a loan, but I will never ask for it back... Whether they pay me back or not makes for an interesting measure of the friendship.
Cooking for yourself is cultural. If it's not in your culture you won't do it. Price controls won't fix food prices. Good luck having the government fix culture.
I recall there was something involving Other OS and soldering a wire into the motherboard.
Meta basically got a ton of free R&D that directly applies to their model architecture. Their next generation AIs will always benefit from the techniques/processes developed by the clever researchers and hobbyists out there.
Howland island was pretty far from the fighting in WW2. The Phoenix Islands were not used by the military. All the fighting was to the west or the north (Hawaii).
How many users outside of geeks complain about side loading?
TT;CC

Too Technical, Cannot Comprehend

So... what are we looking at here? How are AI hallucinations measured?

Is this LLMs only or does it include Text to Image?
their own shortener, e.g. fb.me, presumably
I think a big part of it is just because they have a big AI lab. I don't know the genesis of that, but it has for years been a big contributor, see pytorch, models like SEER, as well as being one of the dominant publishers at big conferences.

Maybe now their leadership wants to push for practicality so they don't end up like Google (also a research powerhouse but failing to convert to popular advances) so they are publicly pushing strong LLMs.
You at least got 20 episode seasons you could freely record with DRM-less VHS back in the day
This is my approach:

- figure out what to watch

- subscribe via iOS

- cancel immediately to not get billed after the first month

- watch show

- repeat

If it is just a single movie, rent instead of subscribe.

I don’t want to own movies or discs, because I never consume the same thing twice.
I'm a triplet - seems weird to grow up with siblings that are different ages.

I have noticed my whole life by how much people are excited by it. I'm one of three boys, and many folks treat the fact that we are triplets with an air of mystery. It can be pretty funny sometimes.
FreeBSD bug 276716 – mail-archive.freebsd.org permalink failures

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276716>
I'm firmly of the belief that they are negative value in most cases. Consolidation is an economic and social disaster. It's slowly been choking us out for decades. Certainly I think a corporation the size of Amazon making an acquisition is always negative value.

I think they should be assumed harmful, and burden of proof should be on the acquirer to demonstrate public good.
why would the police be involved in the first place? how is this not a civil issue for the courts to decide? certainly that would be the case in the US.
Food prices didn't escalate, the dollar became worth less because of intentional inflation (needed to offset the massive federal spending spree during covid). Food prices are the same as they were pre-inflation.
> It's not about employers in this case.

In this case it is. The discussion is about how employers have a dream that isn't being realized. They are metaphorical 10 year old-boys drooling over the idea of owning a Ferrari, without the capability to actually buy one.

The only "problem" is that their dream is remaining a dream. Which isn't actually a problem. Dreams aren't supposed to be realized. They are meant to be just dreams. Who gives a shit if a 10 year old can't own a Ferrari? And that is what the parent is pointing out – that the '10 year-old cries' of business are meaningless. Let them dream, but it ends there.

If people of the U.S. want to give truckers more money, they are free to do so, but that is well beyond the topic at hand.
Cesar 3 was also rewritten (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius), and besides the marvelous work from the author that has allowed fans of the original to experience it on modern platforms and further preserve it, it has also invigorated the community and spawned other efforts to further enhance the game.

It’s a shame that many companies do not agree with such an approach for dormant or abandonware properties.
Sad news, I was really looking forward to at least a fitting conclusion to the Adam Jensen prequel arc.
I laughed out loud when reading the wikipedia page:

> Safety

> The Kwid is equipped with rear drum brakes.[23][24]
Someone did a port to a newer Linux base, and upstreaming is in progress: https://github.com/frno7/linux
FSRS has been available in Anki via extensions for more than a year, and recently landed natively. It can be enabled in deck settings with a toggle. https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#fsrs
Willing to bet Amazon would have laid off the same amount or more if the acquisition went through. Source: every corporate merger in history.
Do you have a specific use case in mind or are you going to get it and figure out how you'd like to use it?

I'm sure it'll be great for AR stuff like training people in surgery and things of that nature. AR in education will be amazing, being able to walk through Rome, etc in History classes.
The illusion of control. Most humans are instinctual predisposed to it, and it generally has to be unlearned. It's why blackjack is much more popular than roulette in a casino, even though there is much more room to play blackjack sub-optimally, but effectively zero chance of playing roulette in a way that hurts your chances of winning.
Looking for recommendations for smart heating systems
Could it be either sonar distortion or that the wings were damaged in the crash?

Speaking of which, it looks pretty intact, which means (armchair air crash specialist here) it wouldn't have crashed but done an emergency landing on the water.
It's a direct question for the parent commenter who's going on about how it shouldn't be OK to give individual people shares to convince them to come work for you.

If you get six months into "working" on a project and realize you're missing some core skill, "hire" someone. Call them "cofounder." Give them an appropriate amount of the shares.

It's exactly the same in the end as closing one business and starting a new one that's divvied up the same way.

I'm arguing that being able to give important employees a stake in the company is just good sense, and having to "sell them on the open market" instead is about as inane an idea as I've heard this year.
> We each have a choice.

You really don't though. You can either pay more, or go to another supermarket with a similar scheme. Doesn't really seem cricket, am I really loyal for buying bread or cheese because I needed them and this supermarket is in my neighborhood?
We built a real-time RAG system
Ubuntu does things its own way, and that's only become more prevalent over time. Ubuntu answers aren't always relevant to other distros
> TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse.

Per your link, fatalities per mile drive bottomed out in 2014 and barely dropped after 2010. There's been some speculation that this reversal in safety was tied to the rise of smartphones and a corresponding increase of distracted driving.
I can't think of a segment of user interfaces worse for accessibility than game development. Generally speaking, the game-centric UI toolkits and immediate-mode GUIs are very pretty but completely lack any accessibility hooks, including the ability for a screen reader to even know there is text present. If GNOME switched to gamedev-style UIs, I would probably just go buy a Macbook.