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After a new-years eve terrorist attack in Europe a few years ago, a former colleague (who was in a different country) told me she “would now never go to a public space for a new year celebration”. But she drove a car to and from work every week day. We over estimate the risk of things we have no control over, but as soon as we have even a little bit of control, we underestimate the risk.
Such a business model exists and it's extremely well proven, and it powers the majority of major open source software: build a proprietary product or service, and open source any component that is more of a cost than it is a unique selling point of your system.

Do you need a faster compiler, or a better OS, or some cluster operator just to get your widget factory working? Don't build those in house, instead find others with the same problems and create an open source project together to work on them.

But don't try to sell open source software. It's essentially impossible to do that, it has been tried time and time again and success is rare, and huge success is basically unheard of (RedHat being probably the one single exception).
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Bird species uses symbolic gestures
I have ADHD. I don't medicate because I don't want to.

Do I still struggle? Yes, a lot.

For me, I keep getting stuck down rabbit holes despite what systems I put in place to avoid it. It is a constant whack-a-mole.

My theory is that people with ADHD are just more creative. Their brains are designed to explore and push boundaries.

But the invention of internet, smart phones, social media, online video is simply too much for a brain of this calibre. Our brains evolved in the natural world, and we live in an extremely unnatural world now.

But one thing I found about the ADHD community is that they feel like meds are the only answer, to the point they get angry when people criticise them.

> Wow

So I genuinely am interested in what is "enough".

It's incredibly difficult to get anyone to tell you what they tried and to confront any alternative hypotheses. They take it as an affront.
If you are on firefox use reader view to read the article if the page is not rendered.
Birds flap their wings and maneuver differently. They don't fly the same way.
I always thought he passed the test there, and the guys that just mindlessly shot failed.
Angry art; an expression of self; a f u to the f uers.

I hope you make a few bucks.
Just because people want to make money off something doesn't neccesarily mean they deserve to.
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Perhaps Tunisia and the USA would choose different target values, to better reflect their own circumstances.

What is a better measure?

More importantly, how would you address inequity?
I didn't say I never use it, just that it's not always the core feature. This will depend heavily on your field, but in my past work, the features that were way more essential are: scripting (+ IR lifting), xrefs, CFGs, labels/notes (in a persistent DB).

In my experience decompilers will totally ignore or fail on certain types of malicious code, so they mainly exist to assist disassembly analysis. And for that purpose, they save us an incredible amount of human hours.
huh well I'll be damn I thought this had already been resolved back to the mailing list it seems.
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Which is not inherently surprising.

Developers need a salary to pay the bills. Let's say that covers the first 40 hours of the week.

Those who are searching for significance outside their day job offer free labor as their "hobby". Maybe 10 hours a week?

For projects that want to move forward with some velocity it makes sense to make some of that development into paid day-jobs.

As projects get very large, there's a fair amount of overhead in just "keeping up". That erodes the 10 hours quickly. Further reducing the time to contribute.

So where is all this cash to pay employees coming from? Certainly not end users (as anyone who's tried funding an OSS project from users knows.) No, it comes from commercial companies (MS, Amazon et al) or venture capital.

This is the cognitive dissonance that underpins OSS development. The very people OSS treat as the "enemy" are the people funding OSS in the first place. As much as say RMS rails against big tech, Linux and the rich Linux economy system only exist at the level they do -because- of big tech.

Of course, I painting with a broad brush, and there are exceptions, but the point remains. It's turtles all the way down, and those turtles are not funded by users.
At some point during the past 10 years or so, the world realized that document databases are actually a bad idea, and relational databases can do the same job better with just a few easy-to-implement QoL improvements (such as JSON operators in SQL).

Meanwhile MongoDB's creators thought this was a great time to make Mongo non-free software, presumably with the goal of making a quick buck from cloud operators.

The result is pretty much the landscape we are seeing today, with Postgres reigning supreme, and even SQLite being experimented with in server setups, while Mongo is on life support and MySQL not far behind.
https://www.wired.com/story/ageism-haunts-tech-workers-layof...
Dinking > Acetylaldehyde > Acetate, so this article confused me. Isn't acetate what renders imbibing Spirits toxic?
if you buy stock, but sell before others realize, then may be? If you could sniff out the quality momentum/inertia that the company is deriving revenue from, and sell shortly before it starts dropping, you'd have made profit.
Is there any evidence this actually works? My understanding was that "prison as a deterrence" was largely ineffective.
Even the basic content from textbook is not real mathematics. the daily work of mathematician is very different to calculate some interesting things.
> but I think he sometimes acts as though he is a model of how to live a healthy

I think he more often tells listeners that x is the findings and suggests behavioral changes. Its hard to count the number of times his message comes across as "model your protocols after me".
There's a server side component--a public key tied to the private key on a device you control. That public key is also tied to the website that you register the passkey too.

> My further impression is that the people who manage the servers (either the authenticating-you server or the supporting-auth-for-you server) will be able to configure allow/deny lists for each other.

I haven't seen that in the specification. Every host is assigned one or more public keys (again, corresponding to private keys kept in the device), and I don't think there is a common identifier that could be shared between different hosts.

Attestation is not required and seems atypical outside of enterprise use cases. I haven't seen it used at all for consumer use cases.
My advice to all academics in STEM is, just write the main body of the paper exactly as how the orthodoxy demands. Use the style needed to get the paper accepted. Then, add a supplementary or appendix of the paper that is written for the human graduate student. Put in worked out examples, further details on the proof. Most times, it will just get through, and you will have accomplished your goal.

If the journal demands you remove the appendix or supplementary, just remove it from the published manuscript. Then add it to your ArXiv submission.
Pretty disappointed to not find sources for the compiler yet, which is the part I'm by far the most interested in. Hopefully that will follow this release soon!
Huh, for me as a malware analyst previously and a reverse engineer in general, decompilation is the most important part of such tools. It's all about speed, pseudo-C of some kind lets you roughly understand what's going on in a function in seconds. I guess you can become pretty fast with assembly too, but C is just a lot more dense.

Regarding reliability, I would say that Hex-Rays is pretty reliable (at least for x86) if you know its limitations, like throwing away all code in catch blocks. Usually wrong decompilation is caused by either wrong section permissions, or wrong function signature, both of them can be fixed. It can have bad time when stack frame size goes "negative" or some complex dynamic stack array logic is involved, which are usually signs of obfuscation anyway.

It was less reliable 10 years ago though.. Also even now hex-rays weirdly does not support some simple instructions like movbe.
Although the frank meaning of "E2E encryption" is that a message is encrypted on the sender's device and only decrypted on the intended recipient's device, that is never ever what big tech companies mean when they use this term.

For one, this would remove companies' ability to support lawful interception, which puts them afoul of American law.
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OP's "cannot be used for bezos yacht" problem is about discriminatory licenses. If you don't care that eg Amazon can use your software, there is nothing at odds with what OP sees as a problem (discrimiatory licenses that violate points 5 or 6 of the OSD[0]).

[0] https://opensource.org/osd
Can there be enough HN for a day?
The data comes from users of apps like this positively lovely one (note the permissions): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actiondash...

Are you suggesting that bot farms install this kind of thing?
Maybe the old ideas of publicly chopping off a hand for theft were the best. One way or another it will prevent car theft. Even if simply by making it hard to drive a stolen car away hands-free.
> It's about maximizing individual management KPI

so you could argue that those people setting the KPI is either incompetent, or they themselves benefit from such a KPI (at the cost of the company going down).
Consciousness is the constellation of your past experiences transforming reality into your next experience.

Every major consciousness theory out there fails because it does not account for how a consciously experiencing self is created. You cannot explain away consciousness without explaining the self.

And there is a theory that offers a model for both (not my own!). Our book Journey of the Mind discusses this. Here's a blog post discussing both https://saigaddam.medium.com/conscious-is-simple-and-ai-can-...
You don't strictly need training to use it, but training is still strongly recommended if you want to know how to use one effectively and have the best chance of survival.

At a minimum, you need to know how to perform CPR in between shocks (or if you don't have a shockable rhythm). Ideally, you should know how to perform good CPR. The higher end ones will coach you on performing CPR, but that's definitely not universal.

Not to mention you need to figure out pad placement, possibly shave someone's chest (if they're excessively hairy), and delegate calling 911 to someone.

When seconds count you don't want to be spending minutes figuring all this out.
yeah i certainly questioned that myself. it would be a very bad outcome for people to rush to implement things that aren't ready and maybe having the position at all will put pressure on the people to start "accomplishing" things vs viewing it as a research and development position.
> Such a business model exists and it's extremely well proven, and it powers the majority of major open source software: build a proprietary product or service, and open source any component that is more of a cost than it is a unique selling point of your system.

Sure, it is the commoditize your complement strategy [0]. But that doesn't help get complex open source products to market, it only helps with tooling.

Maybe you are right and there's no way to directly pair the freedoms of OSS with the capitalism of VC backed startup.

0: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
The internet to me and to most of the people is the 10 first search results for the various terms we search for.
The problem is that big OSS database projects have teams of paid developers working on them and they want to make their money back. You can do this by offering paid support or a hosted offering. Having someone like Amazon take your product and build their own hosted version really cuts into that revenue.

Now, Redis was AFAIK pretty much just written by antirez and maybe it could have stayed that way, but even exceptional individuals clearly want to move on eventually and you'll likely need a team of maintainers. Distributed data products are complex and need people who contribute more than nights and weekends.
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Here's a detailed discussion on the history starting with "There’s no good evidence that kamilos — supposedly meaning ‘rope’ — was ever even a real word in ancient Greek.": https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/11/camel.html

And of course if you are wealthy then putting a camel through the eye of a needle isn't hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461089
I made a headless bank.
Pretty big nothing burger, nothing here is really surprising.
I wouldn't say "Mongo is on life support" – it's actually a very successful business growing 30% YoY on a massive scale. Yet, I agree that the license switch has definitely damaged their long-term ecosystem.
> I feel like I’m missing something here.

Maybe just overcomplicating things.

Being 'conscious' really just means being sentient, having some sort of awareness and ability to sense and react to things.

Then there is having a 'consciousness', which is more than just being conscious and generally refers to having some degree of self-awareness.

Your macbook doesn't fit into either of these categories, and certainly isn't conscious. Nor is fire, or a virus.
I'm not complaining, but isn't this self-promotion? I'd love do something like it myself when I release my next app. I'd think that I would be attacked for doing it.
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There needs to be hostages or barrels that you shouldn’t shoot because you’ll die.
I'll be on two 737 MAX planes going back and forth to Vegas in a couple weeks. Yay!
Interesting, thanks. See also Fnoord's comment elsewhere in this thread.
One or two years ago I've written a small blog post about the number 37.

Yesterday the traffic on that page exploded. I am sure it's related to the Veritasium movie.
Yeah. The biggest thing most people miss is that the question your asking is in No way at all profound. You are asking an extremely mundane question that only appears profound as an illusion.

What you are dealing with here is in actuality a language problem. You are contemplating and asking about the intricacies of a specific vocabulary word. It is an arbitrary sounding word with a simply arbitrarily vague definition surrounding it. Who cares? This is a linguistic problem not a philosophy problem.

You think you're asking about something metaphysical or philosophical? No. It is a language quirk that's actually a trap. When you debate with someone about what is "consciousness" you have fallen into this trap. You believe you're discussing something profound, but no. What you are doing is debating about some arbitrary definition of some arbitrary word. When it goes into the details it's all about delineating what group of traits is conscious and what group of traits isn't conscious and this is not at all interesting.

I think in reality this concept doesn't exist. We think it exists because the word exists. When you read this sentence you really need to think deeply about what I'm saying here. A lot of people miss it when I say the concept doesn't exist without the word. In fact, the word is so ingrained with their psyche they can't differentiate the two.
> Steve jobs saw the GUI, and Ethernet, and object orientated programming, and laser printers, and office software, and yet Mac is famous for just the GUI. Others would run with networking, programming, MS with office and do on.

In the 1980s Apple adopted/commercialized:

GUI -> Lisa (later Mac) Desktop

LAN -> AppleTalk (NBP lookup eventually influenced mDNS)

OOP -> Object Pascal (still exists in Delphi/Lazarus); arguably HyperTalk (messages/events/handlers)

Laser Printers -> LaserWriter

Office Software -> Lisa Office System; MacWrite, MacDraw, MacPaint

And of course Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint debuted on the Mac.

But your point is well taken - PARC alumni (and ideas) did not only land at Apple; for example, most of us have probably used Ethernet, Microsoft Word, PDF (derived from PostScript), etc.
Best option to gain traction with a thrown together Bubble app?

Take the $500 and buy an existing social media site.
>Looks like an IDE more than a notepad.

AIUI

There's the editor embed-able component, kedit.

A basic editor based on it, kwrite.

Then the more fancy editor program, kate.

And the IDE, kdevelop.
I could see it.

It seems to me that, at least when talking about crimes that harm others, criminality isn’t curable; the kind of person who cause others harm isn’t just going to stop because someone told them “no” or gave some kind of punishment.
> I was playing with the idea that there is not "the" arrow of time, but instead "my" arrow of time, something arising from my biochemistry maybe.

> Under this lens, the obvious candidates for consciousness are the ones whose arrows of time are all pointing in the same direction--because I can communicate with them (this is why most humans believe that humans are conscious).

None of this follows for me. If a being has its own arrow of time surely it would be based on decisions it would make, and conscious beings would not all have their time arrows pointed in the same direction simply because they were conscious.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I even went back to some of his episodes to hear his messaging and I cannot see where these reporters are getting this from.

I'm thinking this is some kind of bias by these "journalists" who just want to tag on to whatever is trending right now. I really wonder how many of them actually listened to his episodes or the things he says, especially about alcohol.
And that's also how DB companies try to monetize. So a hyperscaler offering this directly really undermines your entire business. In the past you could offer a Enterprise version with support, but with the move to the cloud that market is shrinking and Amazon is eating the new market themselves
Maybe ETH should focus on solving their scaling so the layer 1 doesn't cost arm and leg to do transfer on. Layer 2 becoming expensive as well and people already talking about Layer 3.
What, you don’t think the postal court run by the Post Office will rule against the Post Office? Come on, there’s only a small chance of being sent to Rwanda in a crate if you file a case against them, hardly worth worrying about.
Religion is another category that seems to have all kinds of social benefits the left is uncomfortable talking about.
Hence incarceration.
I don't care about age, 50+, blue jeans, black tshirt, sometimes with a Mario print, hoodie when it's colder. I dropped the pink chucks though.
Do we need to "FIX" opensource? I am being serious here. It seems like people aren't getting it. Open Source is about openess and the ability to modify. Yes, people can lose money to cloud provider hosting but why does an Open Source project need to make a lot of money?

I say alot because its not like they can't still make money. They can still consult, they can still offer support or hosting but because theyre not making millions they want a "new" license.

Its stupid. you solve the itch then your done unless your doing maintance. people making open source software like paid software, constantly adding new features and changing things to justify their existance. You dont need millions in devs if your just solving a core problem.
Time will tell.

What I’m saying is that it is not possible they will both integrate AI and have a simple perpetual license as they claim.

So… you can decide if you think Canva will bring AI to affinity, and base your judgment on that.

> I think at this point you're just looking for things to be mad about.

Looking at your comment history I’m not sure you are an unbiased commentator.

/shrug
Doesn't Redis Labs employ paid contributors? Does Amazon donate their contributions back to the community?
And that, kids, is why you should use certificate pinning when developing mobile apps.
Users voluntarily install an app that spies on them because they want money. How is this news? Maybe it's news to the people who never installed the app and maybe the methods that were used were interesting but if it was voluntary even if the users didn't understand the technical means but did understand what data was being spied on and collected I don't see the harm.

These are also the same methods that companies use to spy on their employees. There is a vast number of firewalls that do this automatically. Companies absolutely have the ability to deploy trusted certs on every device that is within their control. This includes when people link their personal device to their company's email portal and it requests all those permissions to control your phone.

I have no love for Facebook but it seems they were being more upfront about what was going on then your average corporation does with their employees.

Google runs their own app check study that you can be a part of. When part of this program you will install an app on your phone that takes screenshots of what you're looking at on your phone and send it to Google. You are paid for this. Google even sends you a pixel phone to do this on and request that you use it as your normal phone. And while it does attempt to not take screenshots of some apps that are considered private it absolutely will grab those screenshots on accident at times.
I feel copyleft licenses look more favourable at this point of time. What’s the value of more free/business friendly licenses if you can’t guarantee that the same license will apply for all the future releases? Looks more like a bait and switch policy.
I make a fraction of that, so don't try apply it to me.
None of them. The article (the title) is political propaganda that people like hearing. They can blame all their problems on the rich.

The article even says:

>Since 2020, the wealth of the top 1% has increased by /.../ 49%.

>Middle-class Americans have also seen a rising wealth tide, with the middle 50% to 90% of Americans seeing their wealth increase [by] 50%.

What really matters is absolute wealth, specifically what goods and services you have access to.