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Show HN: Tea protocol, our $250K open-source grant
tea (https://tea.xyz) is shaking up the digital world by addressing the long-standing issue of inadequate compensation for open-source developers. Solving this issue is more urgent than ever, which is why we have decided to deploy $250K in grants ahead of the launch of the protocol. This initial stage aims to support maintainers of open-source projects that have a material impact on the open-source software ecosystem and a teaRank greater than 30 ahead of the tea Protocol Incentivized Testnet.

Don’t know what teaRank is and unsure if your project qualifies? You can check your project’s teaRank here (https://tea.xyz/rewards-for-oss-contributions) and learn more about what this represents on the protocol here (https://docs.tea.xyz/tea/i-want-to.../learn-about-proof-of-contribution/what-is-tearank)

*The Unsung Heroes*

Despite forming the backbone of the internet and modern technology, open-source developers like Max Howell, the creator of Homebrew, have historically received little to no compensation. This discrepancy is particularly stark when compared to the massive profits generated by corporations built on open-source software.

*The Urgent Need for Change*

The lack of proper incentives has led to decreased motivation and potential abandonment of projects, posing a threat to the very infrastructure of our digital lives.

*The tea Protocol: Empowering Developers*

The tea protocol strives to establish an environment where open-source contributions are not only acknowledged but also appropriately rewarded, ensuring a sustainable future for the unsung heroes of the digital world. Central to the *tea* protocol is its vibrant community of project supporters and vulnerability reporters, who are incentivized to actively participate in identifying and addressing software vulnerabilities.

tea's $250K grant is a step towards a future where open-source developers are celebrated and rewarded, marking the beginning of a new, more equitable era in open-source.

If your open-source project meets the requirements mentioned earlier such as it having an impact on the OSS ecosystem and having a teaRank greater than 30, then we would love to have you apply for the grant (https://wkf.ms/48UDBLy).
my dad bought ACO when it first came out (we sold that first ed. for a reasonable amount of money after his death) and i read it at the time, i was about 10, and thought it was brilliant.
I think its an interesting discussion to have personally.

I don't tend to think about the scale of companies in terms of number of employees. I'm often very surprised at how big or small a company is, especially based on their perceived size.

I also think this is a good forum to have those discussions on. Many people here either work in tech, have worked in tech before, and maybe have solved similar problems at similar scales to other companies before.

It's only natural to look at a company that seems to employ 10x more people than you expect and wonder "what the heck are all those people doing"
Not great. His predictions for the outcome of the Ukraine/Russia war were way off, and I haven't seen a mea culpa video for that just yet. There's a good debate between him and Ian Bremmer somewhere that highlights the flaws in Zeihan's thinking. I don't know what his motive is, probably likes, subscribes, money, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsVR9Hl2oQ&t=482s
Armbian 23.11 Release Supports New Boards and Adds New OS Builds (2023)
You won't hear me object to punishing executives harsher for crimes they've been directly responsible for.

One does not preclude the other.
Neovim has an RPC API specifically designed to allow GUIs to render it outside the terminal. Neovide isn’t treating it as a generic TUI.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/ui.html
Criminal restitution cannot be discharged via bankruptcy (at least in the US, but I assume it works the same in Canada).
And there's the moral blackmail. Tell me, how does Meta "profit from human misery"? Do they take a cut from sex-abuse sales, deliberately turn a blind eye to it, and it represents a significant fraction of their profits? Or do they just imperfectly enforce bans on it, and to them it's nothing but a liability for their ad sales?

> And no, the end goal is to not allow companies to profit from human misery

So says you. But the end result will be a panopticon. Good thing government and corporate oppression are solved issues, so there's no need for impractical things like privacy or freedom anymore.
I always like this Craig Venter / Bill Clinton anecdote:

VENTER: [Clinton's] genome is obviously totally unique, but all of our genomes are. There is this three percent difference. We got an honorary degree together a few years back. And he was the speaker. He said he learned from me that he was 4 percent Neanderthal and that explained all the problems he had in the White House.

(LAUGHTER)

CLINTON: It is true, you know. [...]

BURNETT: So, you're the maximum Neanderthal?

(LAUGHTER)

CLINTON: I don't know, when I'm told -- Hillary this wasn't surprised.

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ebo/date/2015-09-29/segment...
Actual picture: https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ce22c2aa039f3eb9b0018...
You keep assuming ego. No ego is required to make sure people are put through the same hiring process.
With their bigger brains larger lungs and stronger bodies too expensive in the ice and snow. We the budget model had an advantage but in this time of plenty some neanderthal clones would give us a run for our money.
The state can be re-imported like this:
```
a = (insert JSON output here)
window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.elements = a.elements; window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.discoveries = a.discoveries;
```
> How responsible a person should be for the unintentional effects of their actions.

This is already enshrined in law as "negligence" and "reasonable person". It's not helpful to hold people responsible for not considering every possible outcome of what they say, including perspectives that aren't well known.

For example, I'm bipolar. Almost every media representation of bipolar individuals is reinforcing a stereotype that is actively harmful to me. I don't think the average reasonable person would be aware of this.

Bipolar is not limited to mania and depression. I call it the grab bag of issues. My brain went to the grocery store of mental illness, stuck out an arm across a shelf on aisle 3, and swept everything into the cart, like a snow plow clearing a highway.
Not to comment on AI, or the merits of television as a medium here, but specifically on the drop-releases of entire seasons of shows.

I do not want to retain the context of some show across weeks. If I'm going to watch something, it will be all in one go, over the course of some reasonable time period that _I_ define - that may be a single day (transatlantic flight, for example), or may be a single week.

Typically for the streaming services that don't release all episodes at once, that means I won't even start until the complete season is available, and almost inevitably will get so annoyed by the service that I will just cancel a subscription to it.
The movie name is formed from DNA letters on purpose.

Anyway, the main difference that distingueshes sapiens is the poorly grown face, and there is no known reason why people should evolve an ungrown face.
"globally"
Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models
> Until they moved to redhat...

Does anybody know why they switched to RedHat ?
Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google?
To hear Burgess talk about his book, one would never realize that it is a comedy.

The book is extremely funny, darkly funny obviously, but still uproariously absurd and filled with set pieces that possess the structure of comedy. The subject of humor is usually Alex’s misfortunes and the consequences he reaps from his terrible choices. He is a sort of George Costanza figure painted in shades of ultraviolence.

Burgess behaves as though he thinks he has written a very serious book. Of course it is possible to create a humorous satire that also has a message, e.g. Veerhoven’s Starship Troopers, but whenever I read Burgess’ commentary on Clockwork I am left with the sense that this isn’t what he was trying to do. Which leaves me thinking that he, like many creators, doesn’t actually understand why his creation was good.
The process that they designed. This means they can change it and the excuse "I am simply following the pre-determined process" will not work.

Clearly, the process (of cutting technically incompetent people while letting through the technically competent ones) is not working properly; that alone is fireable incompetency ("You had only one job and you failed at it!").

Another fireable thing is that HR does not understand that they are under the CEO, they are implementing the CEO's vision, in the way he envisioned. But instead of that, HR is indeed ego-tripping.
London rents are finally falling for the first time in two years
You mean the place that lost half its revenue, is down 70% on valuation, and its team unable to release any meaningful updates or maintain platform stability?
Cool, interested to know if anything changes in the current climate. Maybe indirectly via outsourcing/contract cuts like andy99 suggests
Okta to lay off 7% of staff, about 400 employees
Yeah true, maybe could be done with heuristics though - in nearly every case, there's only one single blinking block, which is the cursor. However, not everyone has their cursor configured to blink, and there are cases where there are other blinking blocks. Not sure how to deal with that...
I had the Linux kernel and some simple user-space tools like busybox running on an embedded platform with 512 kB RAM and 2MB flash back in 1999! Those were fun times. To be honest 512 kb was possible but very on the limit, I think the product we launched with it had a few megs of RAM eventually. We had to invent a journalling flash filesystem as well in order to make it work in practice, something that didn't exist back then either. But Linux then was really a breakthrough compared to the horrible mess of embedded OSes that were needed otherwise to handle TCP/IP, filesystems and multitasking.
And regardless of that being true or false, we should preserve E2E encryption.

That's all I'm saying. Somehow was that lost? I think we may be having what a former mentor called a "Conflicting agreement" or "Violent agreement" :D
Not sure if this is the point you're making, but that is probably due to "Edward Cullen" of Twilight.
So I wonder. If we ever go back to zero interest rates, will companies start hiring like crazy again, or will they have learned?
Ha, that took an unexpected but interesting twist!
the picture is a clue: it is a reference to the Mikado game, where you shall remove one stick after another, without making anything else move

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikado_(game)
Yes, I also have same hard time believing in it, but internet felt snappier.
Isn't that just the same as any other program? If you group your projects into workspaces/tags/virtual desktops.

If your workflow is already entirely terminal-oriented with something like Tmux, then yeah, this won't really fit into your workflow.
It wasn't long ago that 5G was the new shiny thing, and I remember that the flood of ads for cell carriers were constantly saying that they had the newest 5G ultra-wideband tech or whatever. Even the vast majority of my relatives know that 5G is the latest *G thing. Very few people would miss 4 G's.

I hate to advocate for Comcast of all companies, but I'm actually on their side for once. They definitely should've had their employees explain what it meant to people if they seemed unsure, which I have serious doubts about, and saying they have a "10G network" when availability for 10G is very limited is rather dubious, but calling 10Gbps internet "10G" is fine with me.

If we're gonna go after ISPs for shady shit, why not go after Spectrum for not listing their upload speed anywhere, not even for their business plans? Comcast at least lets you see what you're actually buying before paying, but with Spectrum you just have to try it out or do some google-fu to find a PDF listing the upload speed for some* of their business plans, and then just hope that ths speeds are the same on the nearly-equivalent consumer plans.
The nickname actually originated in Westminster circles (where the formula "the honourable member for" is common currency), all comedians just picked it up and ran with it.
A Captivating Summer 2007
Spider Civilization.

I like TFA a lot, but it is very character driven. CoT is a collectivist story, the non-human-centric story reads like David Attenborough is narrating it. I like that part a lot.

The human/character driven parts of the story feel a bit tacked-on and not actually critical to the themes and messages of the story.

I think it is worth a read, and the sequels are more character driven than CoT.
Aren't they doing the same to reviews ? and to Google Maps ?
> But the reality is, nearly no one even does comprehensive OS benchmarking anymore - so there isn't really a good alternative source to use.

Imho benchmarks only get you so far.

If yu are any kind of serious about performance you should do your own testing and benchmarking. Benchmarks from other people should only help you selecting candidates platforms on which to run your own benchmarks.
It is indeed all about the intent and like a dog knows the difference between being kicked and tripped over, we instinctively know the intent. If in our social outrage, we decide to ignore our instinct, then we are essentially just looking for excuses to grandstand our outrage. This grandstanding has the unintended consequence of polarizing a social debate to the point of demonizing and arbitrary adherence on both sides.

It seems that the desire to grandstand our outrage has exploded as we all now have access to our "15 minutes of fame" via our new global social platforms. Like children finding their ability to speak, society as a whole is still in a dadaistic phase. I hope that, with much time and troubles, we eventually learn to speak in a more mature way.

>I think this area and ones like it, involving the question of to what degree people with cultural influence should be held accountable for the unintentional impacts of their influence is really interesting and complex. I don't have much more to say beyond that I find it interesting and nuanced.

Well said and agreed. In our complex social web, the unintended consequences of every nuanced thing we do makes it very hard for the wise to be sure of the societal value of our beliefs and resultant actions. There are very few topics where I am comfortable fully embracing a side.
I'm surprised to see them reference the LMSO leaderboard here.

Did we ever get an explanation as to how Gemini Pro had such a large increase in rating so suddenly?

And is there an explanation as to why people will get a correct answer from this API but Bard will give you hallucinated, incorrect answers?

I think it's very important for Google to be competitive here so my hopes are high, but the Gemini launch been kind of an inconsistent mess.
Trimming the book is one thing, and I agree with you 100% on both examples. Removing the conclusion in a way that completely alters the message is another.
The fellowships of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) provide not only virtual and in-person meetings, but also Whatsapp groups for exactly this: peer support in time of need. https://slaavirtual.org/whatsapp/

In addition, if you join a meeting a couple times, chances are that you will get to know the fellows there and they will have a local, self-organized, non-public chat room as well.
they werent too great period :)
Aversion to electric vehicles as cutting out the floorboards is impossible?
Show HN: FigJam plugin that digitizes multiple sticky notes at once with OCR
> Aren't 'a and 'b sets of memory a reference can refer to?

No, the set of memory the reference refers to is encoded by the reference's bits. Two references with the same lifetime can refer to different memory, and vice-versa. Lifetimes determine when the reference is valid.
Ah thanks for the clarification, I suppose I considered the survivor the superior.
Los Angeles Becomes First US City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination
It could be me not understanding something but:

> Since there is a 25% probability Alice is at the grocery store, we multiply that with the probility of her transitioning to the Planetarium: 25% ∗ 75%

Shouldn't this be 25% * 70%?
Should I take this opportunity to switch to Neovim for once? I've attempted using vim/neovim/emacs, etc. many times but it's just so confusing to me.

Why would I go over the trouble of debugging my editor for simple stuff like having LSP completions and semantic highlighting? It's insanely difficult for me to wrap my mind around vim packages, configs, etc., when VSCode/GoLand/et al. do a pretty darn job being decent editors that you don't need to hack on and just work out of the box.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not throwing shade on vim/emacs, I'm just wondering what am I missing since everyone's been super happy and productive with vim for ages, and if I'm approaching these tools the wrong way...
Yes but to be clear that’s just the vision layers
They’re also labelled, regulated, and liable.
That's not how viruses work.
Google Releases Imagen 2
Yeah strings are very expensive, saw huge gains in my submission after removing them. Parallelization gets the runtime down to 30s , After removing strings you get to around 15s on the eval machine, the rest of the tricks are still very relevant to get to sub 10s.
It sounds like it's not deprecated, they've moved it out of the config file and into a Vim global variable. That's probably meant to be a feature, in order to work with changing color schemes.
My best advice is know thyself.

Most of the "successful" entrepreneurs I know are self motivated and share a burning desire to succeed beyond the confines of corporate slavery.

Some people find corporate life comfortable. They show up every day and wait for their marching orders --- no need to think or act independently. At the end of the day, they shutdown and go home

If you like the "comfort" of corporate life, you are probably not meant to be an entrepreneur.
Trying to make a point about a supposed Historical fact (Luddites were anti technology?) without any historical context is disingenuous.

Do you know about actual Luddite activity and what sources do you have and how do you interpret them? Or are you just making a point in a vacuum about your opinion on semantics?
Sounds more likely that your OS just had less things going on and your browser not as many extensions running as your daily driver browser.
>Whoever said that in Germany people make enough are nuts.

You make enough if you're some senior manager at Siemens, Bosch, Porsche, BMW, DHL, DB, Lufthansa, Infineon, big-pharma, etc. one of these companies who are Germany's FAANGs.

If you're a low to mid-level IC, no.
You're being a little disingenuous. Window Icons exist in Wayland, there's nothing stopping a compositor from adding an icon to their decorations. That proposal is about windows being able to set their own icon.

And drag and drop exists in Wayland. I can detach a tab from my browser and a new window appears and moves with the mouse. It seems that proposal was to replace an unstable protocol.
Is there anything newer that isn't absurdly bloated?
Likely also by comparison to FreeBSD 5 directly after it, which introduced concurrent kernel entry (instead of a single giant lock) and was considered somewhat buggy for a while. Or so I am told.
AI are not human artists, so there's no connection to your point and the discussion.
Beyond what the other replies have already pointed out, the most sensible way to deploy PQ crypto today is to use it as part of a hybrid scheme. This way, even if the PQ crypto is broken (either fundamentally, or due to implementation bugs), the scheme as a whole will still be secure under a pre-quantum threat model - so not worse than what you started with, assuming you were using pre-quantum crypto to begin with.
"Very good humans are very good"?

I'm not sure that's actually true, but even if I posit it... "properly trained, well rested, and sober" does not actually describe humanity. You can revel in your moral superiority to the average driver, or you can make the roads safer.

AVs do not need to be better than the best human drivers. AVs need to be better than the average human driver. The average human driver is shit.
Nobody look up Danny Vendramini’s Neanderthal predation theory.
Parts of it seem familiar. But rather than the weird cyclical sort of methodology, it's more like we create a framework for being able to migrate changes piecemeal without requiring a big change. The aim of small incremental changes remains the same but without all the silly redundant work.
https://dosgamezone.com/game/alchemy-5691.html
Nomic Embed: A Open Embedding Model
windows PE is way smaller, boots live around ~250 MB in size. Of course without any namely applications.
One can be paranoid in a completely different direction, like “any quantum computer can’t survive long enough to perform any useful computation because objective collapse theories are right, the whole post-quantum cryptography exists to push implementations with backdoors injected by government”.
> For instance, to ensure there’s a clear distinction between visuals created with Bard and original human artwork, Bard uses SynthID to embed digitally identifiable watermarks into the pixels of generated images.

Does anyone knows if other models do the same thing or not?
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley (2024)
People hypothesized that this was due to the whole bill C-18 news thing[1], but since Google has capitulated and paid off the media, so that doesn't seem to be the reason, outside of maybe licking-wounds spite.

Canada has no unique privacy or other laws that apply to AI. If anything our protections are rather underwhelming compared to most peer countries -- we basically just echo whatever the US does -- so that certainly doesn't seem to be it. Such a weird, unexplained situation. At this point I just have to assume Pichai has some grievance with Canada or something.

Thankfully Google is a serious laggard in this realm. We have full access to OpenAI products, including through Microsoft properties, Perplexity, and various others. So, eh.

[1] - Like, literally, every Google employee/apologist in here claimed it was C-18. C-18 is basically settled for Google, so now it's...checks notes...that some government talking head once said they need to think about regulating AI, just like every single country and jurisdiction on the planet. Add the tried and true "Canada's just too small a market" bit that somehow is used when Google is busy pandering to markets a small fraction of the size.
TBH I feel like Nintendo should "forgive" the amount he owes to them.

- They are realistically never going to get all the money, only a fraction of it before he passes away.

- Even if they did get all the money, for a company the size of Nintendo it's not going to make a material difference.

- They would likely get a ton of press coverage for a move like this, and if they consider it a marketing campaign, could even turn a profit from forgiving him.
Quetta Browser × Perplexity: A step to AI search era
Pico is a microcontroller whose Cortex-M0+ cores lack a memory management unit for virtual memory (considered essential for a full-fledged OS like Linux). But can run FreeRTOS on it...memory usages are 236 bytes for the scheduler, 76 bytes + queue storage area for each queue, and 64 bytes plus task stack size for each task, plus 5 to 10 KBytes of ROM.[1]

[1] https://freertos.org/FAQMem.html
Honestly the Reuters report itself has more content than this post.