skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"We first estimate the supply-side value by calculating the cost to recreate the most widely used OSS once.

We then calculate the demand side value based on a replacement value for each firm that uses the software and would need to build it internally if OSS did not exist.

We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist."

If programming is "theory building" [1], then OSS is sharing our theories of how to program computers. It makes sense that sharing our ideas is more valuable to the aggregate economy than keeping them secret.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
I've also found through experience that it's helpful to tailor your management style depending on the person you are managing.

I worked with a person (in the same work position as me at the time, so I judged he was giving an honest opinion) who said that he strongly prefers managers who give specific and detailed instructions for tasks, instead of leaving most of the specifics up to him. If I remember correctly, this is the opposite reaction to that of a sailor mentioned in a book's anecdote. The author mentioned giving a command to a sailor for something that the sailor was likely going to do, but realized after the fact that the instruction reduced the sailor's autonomy, and thus eroded his job satisfaction. However, my past colleague would have reacted differently and wouldn't have minded—he likely would have even appreciated the clear direction.

So, some of the ideas of the book do not apply universally to all people. A person in a leadership role should instead adapt one's communication style—while still acting with respect and fairness to each person—depending on a team member's preferences and personality. Having a direct conversation with a person about their preferences, in most contexts where you are viewed as trustworthy, can be useful if there is uncertainty.
I learnt to program using those books. Although I swear there's a few titles missing.

I remember one of them being more about computers in general rather than programming and having this two page illustrated branching "flow chart" of a humourous choose your own adventure game. My first go at programming something from scratch was implementing that on a borrowed TRS-80 Model III before I finished saving up for my own computer (a ZX Spectrum later on). The code was just one long linear list of conditionals - Just PRINT, INPUT, IF/THEN, and GOTO. I'm not sure it even really used variables hehe.

There was another one on Computer Graphics too.
Buried in the story is that Ridley Scott hired 200 nazis to play the part of the audience... I had no idea.

SCOTT I couldn’t afford the cast that I wanted, so I employed a whole bunch of National Front — extreme rightists who all had their heads shaved and tend not to have a job. I had 200 National Front in the studio. I think they were grateful for the work and had breakfast, lunch and dinner, and they got paid a bit.
samply is pretty sweet. It's been my go-to for Deno work for the last year or so.
Chinese hacking campaign aimed at critical infrastructure goes back five years
What does the pmtiles protocol provide to help update the tiles in place?

That's the challenge with the osm.org feedback map, you need to quickly update the small fraction of tiles that very recently changed, while hopefully not processing the remainder.
People stop having kids when economic forces work against them. It doesn't matter how the forces were put there. At least it's not like it was in Adam Smith's time, when the downward pressure was a result of children failing to reach adulthood. Thanks to birth control and modern medicine, people can decline to have children when they know the conditions are not right.
I would expect so, but the integrated motor controller might not let you do that. The power MOSFETs and motor windings should be able to handle it. It's all heat dissipation, and this only lasts a fraction of a second.
Similar experience.

Really bad timing for some other life events that took me out of and brought me back to the market now.

I’ve stretched my network. All the companies in it are laying off or have frozen hiring. Connections themselves are unmotivated and/or trying to find more secure jobs, too (are they out there?).

All my close recruiting buddies that have landed me lots of interviews and roles in the past have nothing.

I have significant experience. Doesn’t seem to be helping. I’ve never experienced anything like this. Even in 2008, when I only had a handful of years under my belt, I found a new gig pretty easily.

I’m trying to figure out how to adapt to… whatever this is, so I can figure out the meta game and escape it. So far, no dice.

I wish you the best, along with everyone else in this boat.
The most promising AI smart glasses are from a brand you've never heard of
When I saw the title of this post I mis read as it being about Adam Osborne. He published computer books starting from ~ 1975 . https://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/367-adam-osbo... I used to use a Osborne 1 at work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Osborne
Anecdata: I am 31 and have 3 young kids. They have 0 cousins and, on top of that, 0... second cousins? Cousins-once-removed? Whatever the one is for my cousin's kids. My kids are my grandma's only great-grandkids. And I have... 6 cousins.

On top of that, at my last job, on my team of 15, I was the only one with kids, and only 1 of those 15 engineers were under the age of 30. At my current job, my team is 8, and again we're all about 30, and nobody is even thinking about kids at all.

It baffles me. And it's also a bit inconvenient that nobody else at work has such pressing obligations, it makes me feel bad (though not too bad at this point) that I *have* to log off at quittin' time, sharp, to go relieve my wife of some childcare and make a family dinner.
I really want to buy one of these eInk tablets but the thing that holds me back is I want seamless sync of my notes and pdfs with something like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox - whatever. I don’t want to be constantly emailing myself files
Researchers develop and test the first unmanned forestry machine
People stop having kids when they choose something else. Yes, career for one.

Thanks to birth control and modern values, Western people can bring themselves to extinction.
Some people might realize that the degree they started is not what they expected, or it is way too difficult for them, so they will either move to another degree, or drop out of university and go to a trade school or similar.
> Finally, and one of the biggest issues with RSS, is that it's not very intuitive to non-tech savvy individuals.

Back when Google reader was a thing this wasn't true. Your browser auto-themed and provided subscribing options for your configured reader. It's a true shame that Firefox gave up supporting RSS out of the box to match Chrome's stance on the subject
So how do these tax write offs actually work?

I'm assuming that when the film is produced, they spend money to receive an asset, no different than e.g. buying a machine.

With a machine, they could write it off over time, or (I assume) they can delete the movie/scrap the machine to immediately book the remaining value as a loss?

If they don't do that, I think a machine is valued according to the purchase price and written off over X years. How does a movie get valued and written off?

There's a good argument for banning write-offs for salvageable assets that are scrapped (regardless of whether it's machines, inventory or movies) - I've heard the tax impact argument made for the destruction of still-usable assets too.
I think they'd just patch the original music back in.
Tons of expensive little tools to obsess over and endlessly debate online.
All evidence suggests that people stop having kids when their society gets richer and better educated.
I spent a lot of time looking for a digital notepad, and the RM2 was high up on my list. I ended up buying a Supernote recently for exactly the reasons you mention in your post. Remarkable just come across as a really shitty company with a really shitty (and inexplicable) approach to software for their platform.
It's all pretty crazy. My wife has quite a few brothers and a bazillion cousins. I have a sister and several cousins. We're the only ones of her family and until very recently the only ones in my family to have a kid (and just one). I think the population is maybe going down harder in the US than we think. It also took us like 2 years to conceive.
Appreciate the response. Wow, not going to happen. I am a (self deprecating) script kiddy. This is overkill for me. Everything you said was over my head. On a positive note, I don't feel bad for failing to figure it out.

Business Idea- I would pay 10-15 dollars per month for a managed hosted Immich (or similar) instance. (I "own", you manage) Minimal processing, minimal sharing (no social), but big storage.
I have never understood how this is a "bomb," western cultures are so good at distancing the elderly, nobody will notice if conditions in care facilities become worse. How exactly will all of the unsupported old people overthrow society? By selling their IRAs? Will China's over-working-age-population get a second wind just long enough to take down the Party?

I think realpolitik has so permeated our way of thinking that an impending moral crisis or holocaust can only be brought into discourse as a nonexistent threat to stability. If there's any explanation for why people think an inverted population pyramid is an economic crisis, it is that their hearts are in the right place.
Japan has embraced everything West starting 1868.

China outright banned having more than 1 kid and people aborted girls en masse. This one I grant an exemption.
Contents of Charles Darwin's entire personal library revealed for first time
This is again "slippery slope" thinking. Just because it's possible to go to an extreme - and this is possible in everything humans do - that doesn't mean we don't go somewhere along the line.

We have laws to ban poisons from food, but we don't ban junk food altogether. We have laws to cap the speed limit, but not at 30mph on a highway - etc etc. We pick a spot on the spectrum.
Could we not just skip the 30 years of copy right protection or whatever
it is now and just release it to the public domain?

No money will be made, but if people should want to they can view it.

I am sure Internet Archive or some organization would be willing to
host such movies, and not make any attempt at making a profit from it.

Even better would be to turn all the assets that went into the creating it
into the public domain as well.

They should be able to say
"Well this movie is total sh*t and we want a tax write off, once it is
all done and we have recovered that money we will make it available to
the public (at no cost to us))

Is the problem that if anyone was allowed to watch it,
they may conclude that the movie had potential and thus the
tax write off is not made in good faith?
They’re still GOOD to the target audience. You just got older.
Does this still work? This post from a couple weeks ago was saying they were down. Was this a temporary outage, not a removal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446

I like the idea of moving some of the channels I actually like to RSS.
Waiting for a selfhost options with feedly pro features.

Web scraping (limited) for sites that doesn't have RSS.

Filters through dupes.

AI priority filters to for specific topics/subjects.
On the flip side the artists and engineers in the Western Entertainment Industry dont complain about Tax subsidies, govt grants and advantages they have in terms of access to capital, cheap outsourced labour to do boring or dirty work etc. that artists and engineers sitting elsewhere somewhere else dont.

When the rest of the world looks at them, propped up by an extremely unequal playing field engineered by the financial class, there is nothing Fair to see.
same, I find monocraft much more readable and having spent hundreds of hours in minecraft might have something to do with it
This. Nearly everyone is confused.
How do you know it's late stage capitalism?
Link to catalog: http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Scalpers provide value in the same way that any rent seeker provides value.

If you assume that the only way to make a profit is to provide value, then by a tautology anyone who has the ability to command as profit provides value.

The alternative is also true.
By your own share, it only held a "war-like" definition in Middle English. Its original latin etymology and current definition describes the skill of devising/designing/inventing/producing solutions.

"Genius" shares the same root.
It's absolutely insane to me that this is allowed. Music artists should have a right to charge for their work, but not in a time-limited way like this when the thing being created is timeless.
We are all just trying to make a buck.
Children are massively more expensive, and less useful, in richer societies. I don't think anybody in Japan would be allowed to provide for their children the standards of care provided in a country with a growing population. As for the second point, if you are a farmer in a country with little physical mobility, your children are your retirement savings. If you live in America, your children are future employees of a company ten states away.

I read a statistic somewhere that it costs $2M to raise a child. Considering that it's considered a horrible imposition to ask your kids for money, or even to ask them to take care of you, it's easy to explain why urbanization, industrial development, and education, work against population growth.
I'm 50 this year, and I've been playing Minecraft since beta 1.0 or so.

I recently started playing again, and boy has the game changed in the last 5 years or so. The caves and cliffs update made exploring wonderful.
I'm comparing Lightsail standalone.
Its death can be from sites deciding it’s no longer worth supporting, when they do a redesign. I can see this happening if a bunch of young front end devs are put in change of the full redesign.

I’m currently on a project where the front end has all the control and none of them seem to know anything about computers or tech in general. It seems like they all went to an 8 week boot camp and got a job. It has been very frustrating.
> Many people believe that banning disliked things is not what laws are for

Surely some laws are for exactly that? Like: murder, rape, theft, etc?

I'm taking your statement a bit out of context, and I don't have much involvement in this overall issue being discussed, but that statement on its own seems pretty off to me.
How do you hire for team fit when people leave, or change teams voluntarily or through reorgs?
The RadioLab episodes about Zoozve are great fun
> Western people can bring themselves to extinction.

Sounds like pearl clutching with bated breath.

It's a long way to extinction with many chances to stabilise before zero.

The only options are not continuous growth or death.
> The lack of a backlight was surprising

This is common across electronic notepads. The lighting adds a thickness to the screen that would mean the input device would hover over the “paper”, instead of writing directly on it, which would be offputting.
Superforms 2 for SvelteKit has just been released
BASICs string handling is an underrated treasure of early programming languages. Notably MS-BASIC and relative.

What folks take for granted, without really knowing it, is that the MS-BASIC system was a rather early system with built in garbage collection.

Consider:

A$=“Hello “
B$=“world.”
FOR I=1 TO 10
A$=A$+B$
NEXT I

We just take for granted that this will just work, but there’s a bunch of junk created here that eventually needs to be cleaned up.

This is in contrast to the HP style BASIC that used dimensioned strings. This was much simpler and just needed work buffers that were readily reused.

MS had some notoriety about bad performance when things got too tight. But it’s cool to know there was this nice little bit of tech buried in 8K of 6502 or 8080 from the late 70s.
Zeihan (geopolitics celebrity dude) talks about this pretty often. It goes hand in hand with urbanization. When you're on the farm and especially when child mortality is high...you have lots of kids as they're needed for work. In the big city, kids are just a costly burden, so people have a lot less. All the countries that jumped into urbanization are in this boat. China, South Korea, Germany, Italy, and Japan are all in a really bad spot. It's not that they just ran out of kids...it's that they ran out 30 years ago. It's in this decade that they start running out of working age adults and shit starts getting really screwy. There isn't a known macroeconomic model for when the population pyramid is inverted and there is no money at the top to invest in new tech (it's all being used for them to live off of) and not enough people at the bottom to work or drive consumption.
i never even thought about niagra on a folding phone, that actually sounds like it'd be great! i've been using it on a "regular" phone for the past year or 2 and honestly now i'm curious how it feels on a fold, and what kind of extra features the extra real estate could give. temptin me to go buy a folding phone next upgrade around :D
It's a lot more common for people to watch a 10, 20, 30 year old film than to play a video game of the same age, especially in a way that results in revenue flowing to the original creators. A perpetual license for the in-game music is a waste of money from that perspective.
>I also got lectured by senior management for exposing them to liability since I didn’t ’go through the whole process’.

I work in an "at will" state. Our 3 people are usually on teams chatting about the interview going on and will decide to end it early and not waste everyone's time if it's not going well. We've never had anyone tell us they were concerned about that. What liability was senior management at your company concerned about?
Related discussion: "Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe"

https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151768 (181 points | 16 days ago | 49 comments)
On my team of 15 only 3 don’t have kids, though there is a wide age range (24-55) the ones without kids are in their 30s but have indicated no interest. But only 2 have more than 2 kids (3). One has two of her own and now that they’re grown up she just adopted 2 high school age kids, which is very commendable, (and a huge undertaking) but I don’t really count it in terms of procreation.
Sanitizers only sometimes work on Windows too :)
This is one area where it's wrong. Instead of having 10 or more cousins...it's now common for kids to have 0 or close to it. My kid doesn't know what a cousin is. Kinda bonkers.
> It baffles me.

Frankly, I never really got why people wanted children in the first place, so this turnabout is amusing. Perhaps you can ask some of these people that you are close with as to their reasoning.
This is super cool.

"Computer Spacegames" and I think "Computer Battlegames" were actually the first programming books I ever read and used (QBasic on I wanna say DOS in probably 1994-95 or so?) along with "Computer Programming BASIC for Beginners".
Not so fast, some alpha particles from a distant galaxy strike your memory chips and some bits flip. If the CPU gets too hot or too cold it starts misinterpreting opcodes, branches, etc.

The reality is that computers are comprised of several PCBs running with thousands of multi-GHz signals. So all of the foregoing engineering design principles had to be observed to make our systems as reliable as they are.
> if I were a professional typographer like Matthew Butterick[1] for example, and someone accused me of using Times New Roman when I actually created my own fonts from scratch, I'd probably be a little perturbed.

A closer analogy with AI for science writing would be to accuse you of getting help from a computer to create the new font and not doing it by hand. When you create fonts goal is the font. When you publish research the writeup is important but goal is useful and new results. Because accuracy and clarity of the writeup matters whatever serves that best should be used.

> You can continue using ChatGPT to help you write [2].
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38637667

The example you quoted states the output comes from ChatGPT. It was used to explain some concepts and it did a far better job than I could do for the time it took.

> I'm saying if someone had poor English language skills for example, and they spent years acquiring English language proficiency, they'd probably be annoyed if you discredited their years of mastering the language by simply saying "you're not fluent in English, you just used ChatGPT to write everything".

Will the situation be the same when AI improves so much that it helps writing much like mechanical fonts regularly help our writing today? Say I took years to develop penmanship skills such that my hand writing looks like mechanical fonts. Should I be annoyed if you say “Your hand writing looks like a mechanical font!”? When it comes to science writing should pride be placed in penmanship skills? Should pride be in English language skills? What matters for science writing?

Today AI writing has a mixed reputation. Sometimes the output is fantastic. Sometimes output is fantastic nonsense. To tell someone their manuscript looks like ChatGPT wrote it is likely meant as an insult.

In the future do you not expect AIs will be used to judge writing (like Latex style sheets guide journal submissions today)? Will writing not be rejected unless it meets high standards for clarity etc? Perhaps the best way to meet those standards will be to get an AI to help you? How do you suppose the future of science writing will go?
Those things being disliked doesn't mean a law shouldn't be made about them. They are much worse than merely being disliked, which is why there are laws.
Rob seems to be claiming that RSCs are doing some unnecessary work on client and server. Dan doesn’t thinks so. I’m not following. SOS
All software created by private companies should be created by worker owned enterprises so they aren't forced to hand over the lions share of profits to separate owners. Instead the employees are the owners. They decide how to use the profits collectively and democratically among themselves.
Hence the call for more data collection.

Linked from this paper:

2021, "Neurological complications after first dose of COVID-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 infection", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01556-7

> Overall, we estimated 38 excess cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome per 10 million people receiving ChAdOx1nCoV-19 and 145 excess cases per 10 million people after a positive SARS-CoV-2 test.

2022, "Psychosis Associated With COVID-19 Vaccination", https://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/psychosis-associated-covid-...

> There are case reports of various psychiatric symptoms in both psychiatric patients and patients with no history of psychiatric illnesses following COVID-19 infection that include manic-like symptoms, insomnia, brief reactive psychotic disorders, affective psychosis, suicide, and delirium. A review of the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic estimated that 0.9%–4% of COVID-19–infected individuals develop psychotic spectrum disorders. This report describes a case of psychosis associated with COVID-19 vaccination and superimposed COVID-19 infection.
I realize it’s not the use case in OP, but if each of your machines has a display, Barrier is like a super power.

Also allows copy-paste across OSes.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier