skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes a bit beyond OSS; try doing anything important in life and you'll be a target sooner or later. Jealousy is a powerful force; ignorant mobs are powerful forces and there are a lot of evil opportunists in the mix. People really need to get a little more cynical at a young age. Everyone should be doing things because they think it is in their personal best interests. People can still be altruists, but it is important to understand that is a personal belief in what a local optimum looks like and it can't be seen as a noble sacrifice.

I thought this dev's attitude was fairly healthy. Try something, see it didn't work, start charging.
I won’t buy without CarPlay either.

But if Android Automotive runs CarPlay, I’m not sure how much I care. And I’m a huge fanboy.

I’d like to be able to use Siri to control the temperature and a few other things. And taking over the whole screen could be nice.

But Apple is such a control freak about things I have a hard time seeing most car makers agree to it. And just about every industry Apple has touched has learned the lesson that Apple takes things over. Car makers clearly already dislike the fact that CarPlay is so popular, I don’t think they want to give Apple MORE leverage.

I find the idea of Android taking over the industry a problem (monoculture = bad, manufacturers are clearly not up to it themselves). Apple could be a hedge. But they’re not a play nice company even when they should be.

They haven’t learned humility again after losing it during iPod/iPhone rise.
"The lower your prices, the more entitled the user base you seem to draw." Not literally, perhaps, but with a wider net you do catch more of the louder, more annoying or insulting voices. I've seen this repeated too many times already (RIP FairEmail).

Is this simply an endemic issue in the software space? I can imagine a great deal of people thinking it's not worth it to financially support a project or plugin they rely on because "I could make that myself in a weekend if I wanted to" and using that rationalization to justify being rude to the project's maintainer. Or perhaps the true believers in open source think that people should feed themselves on ideology rather than bread. Is there something else going on?
Yeah that’s something they’d want you to pay for.

I totally get why CentOS was useful. I was briefly involved with Rocky when it first was getting started.
Jared Boone is what you would call a x10 hardware hacker :) He was the co father of HackRF along with Michael Ossmann.

Here demonstrating early prototypes a full year before HackRF Kickstarter, including ridiculously cook huge spectrum analyzer [HackRF update with Jared Boone, Hak5 1417.1 - Hack Across America 2013] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l42mZ7BDB9A
Sorry if I got your hopes up. I edited my comment to be more accurate. I didn't realize 2014 only applied to the Mazda 3 and it's 2016 for the other models.
Oh that's pretty smart
using English has been tried many times in the history computing; Cobol, SQL, just to name a very few.

Still needed domain experts back then, and, IMHO, in years/decades to come
I would like to report that this emotion and experience completely disappeared after I ported my business workstation over to Ubuntu budgie. Not only does my computer crash a whopping 80% less, but it also uses 30% less memory on average.

The main challenge was that I have to run my CAD software in a Windows VM. Ironically though the solution is more stable than running the CAD software on bare metal!

I can definitively say that being free of Microsoft anxiety is very sweet, and worth far more than any effort I had to spend to do the porting. It has radically improved my computing quality of life.
Why do people get so bent out of shape over issues? I just ignore them on my repos, every once and awhile I may see if there's anything interesting.. But who cares what people demand, they can make them all day long but guess what.. You don't have to do anything about it! Open source has always been about scratching your itch and good luck to the next person if they can use what I made. Either way if you don't want to do open source that's great too! Good luck and thanks for the fish
"no political will in the US to build publicly-owned transport"

There's little faith that public projects have the expertise to actually get it done and make it work. It's hard for me to imagine the federal government succeeding at that for any reasonable cost, and I suppose you could blame some of that on partisan bickering. But I also can't imagine California succeeding for any reasonable cost, and it's a one-party state, so there's no excuse.

At the end of the day you need some people who actually know how to do the job rather than just argue over plans and subcontract twelve levels deep. My guess is that Birghtline found a few such people and that's their competitive advantage as a business.
The value proposition has never quite gotten clear. There's some places where things have gotten better, with opennic and various firmware expectations. The chassis and power supply specifications are pretty generally usable.

But in terms of actual computing hardware? Hell no. Meta and others keep releasing system designs every year or so, but they're deeply abstract designs. None of the hard engineering work is provided; it's largely abstract requirements that do practically nothing to ease system design. The hard work of building a motherboard still has to be done de-novo; it's just extra difficult for it has to meet difficult constraints too.

I still love and respect OCP. The Evenstar work contributed, for example, represents a very high flying state of the art cellular system that could should & ought totally revamp a large chunk of what we do, if we had any sense, but the conservative large-industry demand side isn't picking up this possibility. Theres so much interest & possibility in so many places. But almost never is the real good stuff given away or really detailed. Google giving away 75% of the work for a extreme efficiency DC-DC converter, STC (switched tank converter), is the best OpenCompute seems to be able to deliver, yet requires custom systems to use. More typically they just specify demands & provide no path & no help to getting there: we want this, build it, and in that case the competition remains deeply proprietary & guards it's offerings closely.
Yes! Make money!
I think this is awesome, but I do not see the use case: Why would anybody register on my site to publish his or her gists? I would love to get my gists from Github published under my site, but for this case I would prefer a static site generator (hugo, jekyll) with a good theme for gists.
The cost of COBRA is whatever your plan's premium was plus an optional 2% administrative fee. So yeah, you're not getting your employer's subsidy but you're not paying two premiums.
There's rarely tort relief for torture, even less so in Russia repblics.

If Ramzan Kadyrov is properly serious about this declaration then it'll firmly remain a citizen's problem until the next great leap { forward | backward | sideways | down }.
Page is only 50 and doesn't have any health issues that I know aside from his vocal cord thing 10 years ago
I know it requires both sides to support it. My car originally didn’t but a later update to my car enabled it.

I don’t know when the first car got that, it’s possible it simply didn’t exist when yours was made. Or maybe it did and they just didn’t bother? I don’t know.

My car doesn’t have the version where it just shows Apple Maps, which I would love. Instead the next turn/etc. is clearly being sent to the cars operating system because it gets displayed the same way the cars internal navigation stuff does on the screen behind the wheel.
Somebody indeed built a unicorn from similar kind of project.
Nice find! Better pricing than Replicate, too.
I totally sympathize with not wanting to work on something that has become neither financially nor personally rewarding. I think the "early access" subscription model is a good, fair one, and I hope it succeeds.

> I also always believed that if you ever started a project that is valuable for companies, they would support you in return

But this just seems incredibly unrealistic. It's not remotely the norm for small open source libraries.

Omar Cornut, developer of Dear ImGui which is used by pretty much every AAA game studio, said he recently lost his biggest source of income. If he's having trouble getting stable sponsorship, I mean, good luck.

https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/1767233486996254928
> a very extreme example

It's not very extreme, it's literally any time you deviate from their prefab - so any truly custom UI. The size of shadow (corner radius, font-size, etc.) at different steps are hard-coded in Tailwind, if you want something else that's up to you. In terms of colors (text, background, etc.) they have a default palette, colors like "slate", etc. but anything else is up to you. So - most brands.

> Tailwind makes box shadow easier

Easier sure: What it does is give you the abstractions "shadow-sm", "shadow-lg", "shadow-none", etc. in fact a total of SEVEN options for shadows.

That teaches you something - how to apply up to seven types of shadows! But you would be a lot more powerful of a developer if you knew how to do more than that. This doesn't teach you a foundation for understanding box-shadow or learning anything more - I think your point about learning is not valid.

I learned CSS in 2003 from Myspace profiles and Dreamweaver - visual IDEs are great for education, so don't get me wrong here, I'm a believer in what I think you're getting at, but Tailwind aint it (for that).
I've built a product in this regard - specifically for fine-tuning and deploying said fine-tuned models.

You'll need GPUs for inferencing + have to quantize the model + have it hosted on the cloud. The platform I've built is around the same workflow (but all of it is automated, along with autoscaling, and you get an API endpoint; you only pay for the compute you host on).

Generally, the GPU(s) you choose will depend on how big the model is + how many tokens/sec you're looking to get out of it.
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I understand the sentiment for this article, but I disagree with the part about using open source mainly to avoid paying for software.

I use open source because I like having the ability to learn how it works. If I can't know how a program works, I can't have control over it. It is not my tool, I am its user.

I also just like learning how technology works in general, and non-free software is generally difficult to share the source code looking from the perspective of a company. Also in my experience, open source software is generally a more fun experience when using it. It gives me a sense of freedom in an increasingly restrictive world.
fyi Dafny is written by Microsoft and used by Amazon: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-we-built-cedar-with-auto...
I think it's an interesting take around the scheme I've seen IRL: we have various religious missionaries around and some people figured out that they can be coaxed into performing free manual labour (i. e. gardening work) because they can write it off as a 'good deed' and with the hopes you'll listen to their spiel afterwards.

I could see it as a burnable source of labour, not as a means of pushing a values system though.
You pay for maps on your phone?
If it had been another person then it would have been appropriate to hold that person responsible. Individuals don't get free passes to do unethical acts just because corporations exist to take their liabilities. It's still beneficial to make examples of them.
ah, not familiar with UK stuff, thanks for the heads up
I was referring to specific people who use the computers to look at Pr0n, which does not at all indicate whether they are homeless or not.
It's the same principle that spy agencies rely on. A spy agency cannot survive one compromised spy rolling up the entire spy network.

One could reasonably posit that Germany lost WW2 because they used Enigma for important stuff, and when Enigma was compromised, their operations were compromised thru the end of the war. For example, Enigma was the cause of Rommel's defeat in Afrika.
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So you want them to Sherlock Homebrew?
Not really. The engineering roadmap of large public companies optimize one thing: stock price. Gone are the days of working on features that benefit the user. That’s called enshittification
Eh I get it. TBH I think this is a generational divide and we’ll have to agree to disagree.
That's great for you, but its the reason that vast swathes of corporate folks use OSS, and they are terrible citizens of it as well.
Large discussion yesterday [0] (746 points, 300+ comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
> There is no self-reflection of its information; it does not know what it knows and what it does not.

Simply tell the LLM to self-reflect and estimate the accuracy of its response. It can only "think" or self reflect when generating each token, and you have to explicitly tell it to do that. It's called "chain of thought" prompting.

"Which episode of Gilligan’s Island was about mind reading?
After writing your response, tell me how certain you are of its accuracy on a scale of 1 to 10. Then self reflect on your response and provide a more accurate response if needed."
I would never consider buying GM. I was, in the past, a UAW shop steward.
Your claim:

During that in-between period while you are waiting for the
non-compete to expire, you aren’t covered by health insurance.

Is completely untrue. You have options for health insurance, including remaining on your existing plan via COBRA. In some states leaving your job may qualify you for an ACA plan. Forgoing health insurance is a choice, not a given.
LLM's can self-reflect if you simply tell them to self-reflect. Typically they are trained to be frugal and shoot out quick responses without self reflecting. Each generated token costs money. Just tell them to think about their response. That is chain of thought prompting.

"Which episode of Gilligan’s Island was about mind reading?
After writing your response, tell me how certain you are of its accuracy on a scale of 1 to 10. Then self reflect on your response and provide a more accurate response if needed."
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SnazzyLabs bought their case a few years ago for a hackintosh project and did not review it favorably.

They send you a bunch of flat panels of metal you have to bend into shape yourself, and are supposedly very flimsy and can be easily bent even once the whole thing is assembled. They didn't even punch out the screw holes so you have to bore your own holes and screw through them manually. The USB-C port on the front uses a 3.0 header instead of 3.1. And it can't even fit a small formfactor GPU.

https://youtu.be/WOMeETfRQkE?t=418
> There's no tense, no verb ending, no conjugation, zero of any of that stuff in Chinese...

This is plainly untrue. Speaking for Mandarin:

1. It's necessary to track tense in negative-polarity sentences because past-tense verbs are negated differently from present-tense ones. Technically this is accomplished by using an auxiliary verb, though in many cases that verb doesn't actually appear in the sentence where you're using it.

2. There are three aspectual verb endings, 了 (perfect), 着 (continuous), and 过 (experiential).

3. Verbs are inflected for possibility and impossibility, so that 动 is "move" and 动不了 is "cannot move".

> I finished the Chinese grammar in less than a week lol

Right.
Depends on the company. I know a lot of regulated companies that will happily pay for libs if it means they can "offload" the maintenance of them on whatever regulatory questionnaire they're filling out. For these companies, every dependency is either something they have to maintain or have a contractual relationship with the maintainer.
I can almost feel the drops in my hair. But for real this is so cool
C++ vtables need 2 levels of indirection. See the asm or decompile it with ghidra.
First the vtable field, and then the method field.

Of course you have to worry about pointer chasing, when you can easily avoid it. Either via a switch to a single indirection (by passing method pointers around) or inlining with final. Or other compile-time specialization.
Yep. All my code is online, but if you want support, pay me. I put this in all my repos:

because of repeated abuse, I no longer offer free discussion of this software. so unless you have paid up front, do not:

post an issue, post a pull request, message me on Discord, email me
It feels like everyone learned the new word "enshittification" this year and is just using it in any context possible.
Summary of your comment: You didn't RTFA.

edit: My point is, why be so harsh on someone learning a lesson about FOSS? It's like an old dad picking on their son for getting hurt when a girl dumps him. "Well son, that's life, silly".
It what if I’m in FSD mode? /s
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Developers choose packages. Executives or even managers are so far removed from the process, can't expect any monetary support from those who control the money.
That is not a contradiction. There are lots of ways to "ruin" a company, making all the people who interact with it more miserable, while still making that company "successful".
Bittle has a tiny body, but it has strong and fast servos for running and even backflipping(check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRE-sp05ia8&list=TLGG0bKEfuY...). We custom-designed our own high-quality servos which are half of the prices of any comparable servos.

We already had a prototype with 3 degrees of freedom on the legs. But the structural complexity and price would have increased substantially. We are not releasing it at this moment.

You can check Petoi robot joint index documentation at https://docs.petoi.com/petoi-robot-joint-index
It doesn't have to be a universal experience for it to be applicable to some. I have no source to cite, but I know this is not the first blog I've read where an open source maintainer has to step away due to abuse from entitled strangers. To your question, I bet it happens more on one person projects, where the person and the project aren't separated as much and where there is no collective to beat down the bad faith comments.
Osborn’s Law: Variables won’t; constants aren’t.
I tell the TSA agent who runs the porn machine that I want to opt out. Sometimes there's a TSA agent directing traffic before that, so I'll tell them instead.

They usually make sure that they know which of my shoes and carry-ons is going through that separate scanner so I can pick it up after. I end up waiting at most a minute for a male (because I am male) TSA agent to come over and do the pat down. Before they do the patdown, they explain what they're going to do; I believe this explanation is standardized and memorized, though I haven't gone through word for word and checked that. Afterward they'll either swab my some area of my clothes, or (more often) swab the nitrile gloves they patted me down with, and put it in what I assume is a spectrometer to check for chemicals. Twice, the person doing the pat down was a trainee, so the pat down was observed by a trainer and the trainer asked me a few questions, like if I felt the trainee had used too much pressure during the patdown. At that point I'm free to pick up my bins of shoes and other carry-ons, and I'm free to go. Entire process takes 2-5 minutes, most often in the lower end of that range.

During the patdown, some agents will ask questions like where I'm flying to and why. This is pretty hit or miss and I don't get the impression that they're part of the security (though it could be). The impression I get is that it's just making small talk on the most obvious available topic.
Will that segment of CAHSR be able to run at full speed? The plans have changed so much that it's hard to find a good and up to date source, but my understanding was that to save money a good chunk of phase 1 isn't going to be running at "HSR" speeds. e.g. it'll be sharing track with freight trains, and some routes were made windy-er to save money (with the side effect of limiting speeds)
Totally honest question - have there been recent expansions of train lines into cities in Europe? In the last 20 years?

My default assumption right now is that this sort of grand construction is generally infeasible in countries outside of China where they generally don't care who they displace or the environmental damage, and often are building the cities from the ground up in the first place with the trains as a part of the urban planning.

I've been peripheral to a few urban light/heavy rail expansion projects in the US and the consistent issue is that even cities with a lot of urban sprawl are still dense enough that you have to displace a lot of people/businesses to build a new line and the stations around it. It's the sort of thing that's a lot easier to do when the city is young, or the train line got built in an era where you could just force people to sell their houses and move.

I'd be honestly curious if anywhere in the EU has managed to put in a totally net-new line like this outside of existing tracks that included a stop at the city center and various stops on the way into town. Almost every city-center train station I've ever been to in Europe was over 100 years old (even if the building had been upgraded) and seemingly using most of the same lines.
To summarize - welcome to a real world. If you want to do open source you do it for your own sake / pleasure / whatnot. Do not ever expect anything in return. Ignore complaints you do not feel worth your attention as you owe nothing to complainers. They're free to search for the alternatives.
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I think the simple truth of it is that the value of software just doesn't translate to a lot of people's day to day. People will spend tons of money more than willingly for access to streaming libraries full of inane, samey bullshit. People will spend $70 to access the latest AAA game, people will spend thousands on well-tuned PC's, people will spend tens of thousands on cars, hundreds of thousands on homes, with varying degrees of objection to their prices but ultimately, they will swipe their cards, and that's what matters.

And all of those things are different for software. Between freemium garbage that hauls you in only to present a subscription charge to access basic functions of the program, to software utterly saturated with shitty ads, to, frankly, open source projects prepared to publish themselves accessible for free use by all, we have utterly cratered the perceived value of software. And while the last group in that list is certainly head shoulders and cock above the others with regard to ethics, it doesn't change the fact that open source software is loved precisely because it's free. People LOVE it for that, because they get access to software they don't need to pay for, the lions share of those aforementioned people having utterly no clue what goes into making it. Or, worse still, know exactly what it takes and are happy to shove that workload onto someone they don't know, with a side order of verbal abuse when bad things happen.

I don't know how to fix this. If all the open source software went closed source tomorrow, it would be unmitigated chaos. But at the same time, how many of the Fortune 500 right now are utterly dependent on it? How many people's fortunes are maintained on the back of free software they could never themselves make, built by unpaid and abused volunteers? I love the principles of open source software, but I have never in my life written one sodding line of code without a paycheck coming and I intend to keep it that way, not because I don't think the world wouldn't be better if I did, but because none of the people I'd want to benefit would. I think our industry would be better if more people kept to that philosophy.