skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it in the sense of a "public utility" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility
I'm struggling with the framing of all of this. I think it's clear that the author doesn't want to be involved with the realities (as unfortunate as they are) of maintaining an OSS project. There are very real issues with entitled or abusive users that have been well documented.

What I don't understand is the expectation that the money would just flow upon publishing the software with a permissive license. It sounds like a lesson learned the hard way that most people won't pay for software if they don't have to, or if they don't have a vested interest in the project succeeding. Products launched with OSS cores or with some value-added services model for revenue generally bake in some kind of monetization plan. Relying on "If I build it they'll pay me" seems a bit misguided, even if it can work under some circumstances.

The conclusion that OSS is just about people not wanting to pay any money is also problematic. The world runs on OSS, and that's arguably a good thing for a myriad of philosophical and practical reasons. The bad behavior that also happens to be an unfortunate reality doesn't negate this. The sustainability worries are real and need better solutions, but the answer isn't to abandon OSS. Even if it's the right choice for OP, his situation doesn't warrant broad conclusions, and seem less an indictment of OSS and more a misunderstanding of the playing field.
> This public issue on the nut.js repo ...

Personally speaking, if that user had posted something with the same attitude on one of my projects repos they'd have been banned from the repos of the entire org.

Pretty sure I've only ever had to do that twice before, across a lot of years.
The hard part about starting worker owned co-ops is financing. We need good financing systems for them. People/firms who are willing to give loans for a reasonable interest, but on the scale of equity investment in tech start ups.
it is not just that, and cheap decks with laggy carplay/AA unfortunately prove that some processing happens external to the phone
> getting compressed into the network

The idea that neural network weights are compressed data is a distressingly common human hallucination.
> Is this simply an endemic issue in the software space?

No. It’s everywhere. I don’t know if it’s a societal thing, I suspect more innate. Though individual cultures may modulate it to different degrees.

The lower the price, the less valuable it is and the more people are willing to make jackass demands. You want respect? You have to charge enough.

It’s sad. It’s amazing open source exists as successfully as it does in spite of that, though I suspect in many cases it’s a byproduct of selfish corporate self-interest in hiring developers.

Software may just be (or seem) worse due to the anonymity. People are way more willing to be jerks in a text box or to an email address than on the phone or in person.
Or even more terrible, open the image full screen with no way to close it until it feels it has been open long enough to close on its own. maybe show some sort of timer counting down, and then before dismissing itself, it opens the App Store listing for the app. it'll be very convenient for the user as no user interaction will be required for any of this
It’s nothing to do with the reliability. It’d be like finding out that Apple had shipped a laptop based on Dell internals - whatever the results, it’d indicate something tectonic had happened in Cupertino. It’s just not something the company would have even considered a decade or so ago.
Price of four plane tickets for your family?

I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely.

4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom minimum $60 a head to basically anywhere, $180-240...

Hmm
You know, I often wonder if I'll ever receive an encouraging or somewhat kind response on this forum. That's probably a lot to ask from the internet in general. But could you elaborate on what reason you mean? You mean learning how the software works, or just because it's free?
How many MPG does your car get???
I understand some their complaints, others seem like typical support questions. It's inevitable and regardless of making money, it's going to happen. People suck at reading.

But, I can't look past the AI art used to generate the YouTube thumbnail on the main page. I'm sure some artist wishes they could work on an art full time, and still be able to pay their bills just as you say you wish about your software.

No one wants to pay for anything, including you.
According to the Wikipedia article about the train, it's now the same speed Brightline is targetting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train

>After May 2021:

>Cruising speed: 300 km/h (186 mph)

>Average speed: 224 km/h (139 mph) (duration: 8 minutes and 10 seconds)

The bigger issue is likely:

>According to Chinese media's report, however, due to the huge costs of operating and the lack of the passenger flow, Shanghai Maglev Transportation Company would lose 500 million to 700 million RMB every year
I don't know about that - my Subaru head unit crashes a lot more when I'm clicking around in the Subaru programs, and it very rarely crashes when I'm clicking in CarPlay. My feeling is there are bugs in the Subaru provided programs, and very few bugs in the program that launches CarPlay and gives it control of the screen (probably because that is a very simple program).

So it seems that the more features I use via carplay the less it crashes. It's not perfect, but it certainly helps.
The true story of Japan's samurai city that chose art over war
The SEO spam domains could be blocked or de-prioritized by google. However, these SEO links generate significant income for Google via advertising.

When OKRs are tied to revenue, no executive is going to sign off on a change that reduces it
You do need to develop a very thick skin in OSS to be able to thrive. You need to learn to just block those issues+people, both in the repo and mentally. I'm a nobody, but still some of my projects got a bit popular and I felt the heat, e.g. one of them was a CSS library which was very "beginner friendly", so people came constantly to the Issues to ask help with their CSS and how to do their job (not about the library)* so I decided to remove the Issues tab in Github. This lead to someone opening a PR insulting people.

But I know for every AH like that, there's thousands or millions of people who do benefit of using my software, so I try to keep it up. I do work fulltime so now I have little time to do new projects, but still keep up with the PRs and occasional small improvements in existing ones (e.g. adding types definitions, or moving to ESM).

* IMHO the move that happened where newbies stopped trying to learn how to properly ask questions in SO since that community didn't allow homework questions or low quality and started going to the repos of the projects they used to ask those very same questions
I suppose the first line of defense is a QR code URL. I don't think anyone really enjoys typing long codes.

After that there's ECC. A few extra bytes for a reed-solomon code will fix a lot of issues.
>You should do a better job updating your documentation so that people do not waste their time like I did. This change to closed source was announced where, exactly? All of your READMEs and documentation sites do not mention this. Very easy to be confused and very disappointing to me that this went closed-source.

>Not only did you sell out, you also removed all the old versions that were released under an open source license so that others couldn't continue to use out-of-support versions. DISGUSTING.

>tl;dr get off GitHub and npm entirely if you want to do the closed-source thing, kthx.

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This is a comment on an issue from the OP's project. A comment that was factually inaccurate from the start.

This smarmy piece of... well, this person has the nerve to use their full real name, full real profile picture and associated email addresses and blogs, to make such a self-righteous, entitled comment.

He looks to be a young guy, maybe anti-social and doesn't realize that "telling it like it is" is sometimes "being an asshole". I hope he matures.

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edit to respond to gertop: (I got throttled by the system)

I mentored a guy one time who had absolutely no polish. Absolutely no sense of social self-awareness. When I met with him at one of bi-weekly meetings, he mentioned casually how he told his boss his internship "kind of sucks" and is boring.

I patiently tried explaining to him that there may be better ways to express one's interest in other areas of the department without slighting the boss's own team and mission. If he were capable of looking someone in the eyes, I'm sure he would have stared at me blankly.

There are people for whom interacting politely with others is wholly an unfamiliar concept.
They pity you when you fail - "What an idiot, everyone knew it would fail."

They resent you when you succeed - "They got lucky - I could have done that!"

You just need to do your own thing. You must find validation within yourself.
Does Your Startup's UI/UX Need a Unique Point of View?
Why would you wait so long?
GNU has a really concept called the GNS for Gnu Naming System. And what it was was that each human or org would have their own tld directory, and we could navigate the web through other actors, and they could pass trust for zones on to others. So, for example, I could resolve the same page as somepage.ninjaa.site or someotherpage.adept.site. This way you could create a trusted internet by just trusting the published link tld directory of people & institutions you know.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9498
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet
Time for a code of conduct writeup specifically for non-contributors?
> Latin (and all Romance languages French, Italian int al): SVO, German: SOV. English: SVO. All of them are complex enough that word order can be re-arranged and the meaning remains and often enhanced.

Latin is definitely not SVO. Those roles are marked explicitly enough that they can occur in any order without really causing any problems (and in poetry, they do), but to the extent that an order applies to Latin, it is SOV.

This is one of the features that is felt to result from simplification. As you note, Romance languages tend to be SVO. It's also true that Mandarin is SVO where other Chinese languages tend to be SOV. And that creoles tend to be SVO even when every source language uses some other order.

So the theory does float around that SVO order is in some sense more intuitive than the others, and that's the reason for its appearance in Romance, Mandarin, and creoles.
It's supposed to run at 220mph, which is significantly faster than the project described here.
> a setback in its yearslong effort to improve consumer privacy on the internet.

Not entirely sure these are the words I would use to describe Google’s years long efforts with regards to the web. Eroding consumer privacy with invasive tracking comes more quickly to mind.
I’m not fussed with top speeds. Average travel speed that takes into account waiting for the next departure is a more practical measure. A high speed train that stops in every town has a lower effective speed than the top speed suggests. A high speed train with hourly departures instead of every 30 or 15 min means you wait more.

And of course high speed means higher cost. The average person is very price sensitive on transportation costs.
I think that’s a part of the problem. WAY too many projects/people are tolerant enough of abuse in issue trackers/mailing lists that this kind of behavior seems common.

I suspect a LOT more bans would really help with the average tone and amount of contributor stress/burnout.
I use nixpkgs on MacOS, is nix-darwin is a different project?

I love Nix but it probably has too many rough edges for the typical homebrew user.
But if you plan on making a library for corporations to use, make the license clearly defined and don't use AGPL (it's like the legal form of hazardous materials to most corporations).

I couldn't find a LICENSE file or other notice on the repo this author was referencing.
So, in the spirit of "feedback in case it's not intentional": I can't tell if that's a joke piling onto RFK Jr., or whether it's a turnabout aimed at the parent commenter.
I'm pretty sure a touchscreen is cheaper than buttons, or at least awful close. You'll still get some buttons, unless the car maker really hates you, and hopefully something to turn for volume control (which may even work most of the time, if you're lucky).
> to get high-speed trains running from Merced to Bakersfield by 2030

Isn't that going to be the world's slowest "hi-speed" train ?
> Most people do not (cannot?) use English that precisely.

No one can, which is why any place human interaction needs anything anywhere close to the determinancy of code, normal natural langauge is abandoned for domain-specific constructed languages built from pieces of natural language with meanings crafted especially for the particular domain as the interface language between the people (and often formalized domain-specific human-to-human communication protocols with specs as detailed as you’d see from the IETF.)
1024 fp16 macs is pretty good but the 128b vector datapath is weak sauce. on the other hand 2MB SRAM is legit. i wonder how many tiles (i don't think it's in the post).
can confirm that this is true in a fractal fashion, in every vertical
I replaced the head unit on my car from the same era with an aftermarket Sony XAV-9000ES unit that has wireless carplay support. It takes about 10 seconds to connect after powering up the electronics but is otherwise seamless. Full steering wheel controls too (volume, next/prev track, pause/resume, mute). No car info, but the car is old enough to have a proper gauge cluster.

There are also dash-mounted "carplay screens" that are both much cheaper and much easier to install but lack integrations/require hacky solutions to get, say, audio out.
How does this even make sense? This bill would be perfectly happy selling TikTok to Meta even, it's not killing social media it's just telling China to GTFO.
Stephenson is just very inconsistent. Some of his work is real treasure, some just meh. He's famous for building fascinating worlds, getting some action going, but then not being able to deliver a satisfying ending (e.g. Snow Crash, Diamond Age).

Anathem is for me his only well-rounded book where he delivers on all fronts.
That is exactly what Kagi does. Kagi Small Web [1] was initiated to surface small personal websites in search engines again.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
I don't think Mitchell has any shares still. At least I could not find him listed on insider transactions. He made billion with B when it went IPO and most likely cashed out near the top which coincidentally is when I bought (facepalm).
Symantec comes to mind.
I disagree. Open source shouldn’t be limited to those with thick skin willing to take heaps of abuse.

This is a big culture problem driving a ton of good people away to avoid annoying jerks who deserve to go.
I've had differences of opinion with open source developers and maintainers. But, it costs nothing to be polite, especially when they are giving away their work and asking for nothing in return. When differences of opinion are strong enough, one is always free to take one's ball and go home. Forking or writing one's own alternative are both viable options. Fighting the maintainer is not.

Thankfully, my own open source projects aren't popular, so I don't have to deal with this level of self-entitled behavior. In other projects, when I report issues, I try to include a patch or PR that fixes the issue. If the maintainers are willing to work with me, I'll evolve this patch into something that they can merge into their project. If they are not, well, I can always maintain my own patches. Demanding that they fix an issue or launching insults -- even when certain toxic maintainers start this behavior -- isn't helpful to anyone.

I'm sorry the author was burned by bad experiences, but I completely sympathize with this decision.
I'm underwater on it too, was hoping to at least only take a 10/20% haircut. Where'd you see the price?
I know Prabhakar. He was my manager at Google Research and he tried to recruit me to Yahoo in 2005, but I went to Google instead. This article stinks of hatred and misunderstanding about how Google works. It's possible that Prabhakar bears some responsibility for the decline of search experience, but it sounds over the top to assign all blame to him as a manager.
220 miles per hour is nothing to sneeze at.
Didn't Samsung and Apple have a tiff over the shape of the phone? "Rectangle with rounded corners"
My theory is that Tesla want to strongly encourage people to use the in-built navigation that works very hard to ensure you don't run out of charge.
Your comment is entirely false.

It takes just over 3 days to travel from the Bay Area to NYC. The price is $281 [1].

Now if you throw in some rooms, you are talking about first-class travel that includes all meals free. You need to consider how much money a few days of hotel and restaurants would cost, so the comparison is complex. Also the room cost is not really per-person unless you are traveling alone.

[1] I looked up the price for June 11th.
Start learning how to accurately prompt ai's, and have valid and constructive conversations with them. This replaces 80% of the need for search, and gives you a number of valuable things search could never provide including valuable and constructive critiques and analysis. If you think that you can't do this with llms because they are just parrots that means you have not read the latest papers on prompting and meet update your beliefs on the capabilities of llms like gpt4. These things do effective critical reasoning, with increasingly low rates of hallucination.

To reduce the anxiety of search, use AI enhanced search to filter through the dross and find both meaningful search terms and results.

After I did this my search anxiety reduced back to the level it was around 2012-2014, when Google had an effective search product. The quality of life improvement on search alone has been profound. But when you add in the fact that gpt4 can also help with communications issues, conflict resolution, and understanding my own complex and sometimes baffling emotions, the quality of life increase has been far greater than anything Google search ever gave me.

Please consider upskilling with llm assisted search and analysis skills.
Well if your goal is "freedom" all-around then it would make perfect sense that sometimes that would lead to regulations that prevent things and other times it would lead to regulations that allow things. In each case the regulation does whatever is best for people's freedom?

I seriously can't understand how anyone could be opposed to this. Laws that help people and protect them from people who have power of them are... good. That's what laws are for.
Nailed it. Particularly the fact that as valid as OP's situation is, it isn't necessarily indicative of FOSS as a whole.

They basically say it in their article: They grew up on the koolaid (no offense, so did I) of how awesome Linux and BSD are, and the GNU principles that closed source software is unethical, to be avoided, and so on.

It seems the harsh reality of "Not everyone can be sustained by a nonprofit foundation" has arrived.
Are you thinking of the Shanghai maglev?

It is pretty impressive and they're looking at building an extension. however oddly its operation speed has been significantly reduced from 268mph to 186mph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train

The basic problem is that Maglev is on average more expensive to build and operate
and cannot (unlike ordinary high speed rail trains) ever operate on ordinary (non high speed) rail track.

It's also still pretty experimental, the Shanghai one is operational and high speed, all other operational systems are either low speed or experimental test beds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev

Regular high speed rail is a fairly routine thing and all the parts are well understood.
Our previous car was totaled in an accident and it was a choice between an ICE vehicle or an EV. Chill out.
Typical PRC HSR is 200-220 mph but routes are getting speed upgrades. Infra wise, expensive elevated tracks designed for trains to operate at high speeds unobstructed. Seperate from ground traffic so no worrying about hitting cars and most importantly people. Brightline has highest death rate due to suicides. Someone crunched math of Brightline death per unit of track relative to PRC, if PRC HSR network wasn't elevated theyd have 30000k deaths per year. IMO more important consideration.
The whole system remains a disaster, just slightly less of a disaster than it was.
CoreData is an object graph and persistence framework. It is more like an ORM toolkit than like a database engine. Indeed, SQLite is one of the possible 'backends', but it is not limited to SQLite. It also supports XML, binary, and in-memory stores out of the box, and you can also create your own if none of those suit.
The criticisms were telling though, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and many others claimed he had a rich mans agenda, seeking fame rather than improvement, paying for buildings and not books, maintaining segregation rather than open access, paying for bricks was "cheaper" than paying taxes, etc.

Not undercutting the role of libraries, just pointing out that philanthropy from the wealthy can be a mixed bag of indirect control and agenda pushing at times, wrapped up in tidy looking tax avoidance multi layered "charity" arrangements.
this stray quote on some thread struck a nerve and stuck with me:

"just because you are weak, doesn't mean you're a victim"

sometimes a tiger initiates a fight against a deer, and wins.
sometimes it initiates a fight against another tiger, and loses.

the initiating tiger does not get to claim high moral ground in either case.
> I would suggest that choosing "see" when you mean "watch" is a vocabulary error, not a grammar error - you picked the wrong verb, but didn't use it in an ungrammatical way (eg wrong tense or mixing transitive and intransitive or getting subject and object the wrong way round).

Have you tried doing this? In general you can't swap these verbs without the resulting use being ungrammatical. The problem is that "watch" is durative (it takes time) and "see" is punctual (it takes no time).
Isn't some of this due to different use cases? The need for the German government to have a train from Berlin to Bremen makes sense in a way that probably doesn't matter if you're not living in Germany, but having a train that connects on the various borders in a compatible way is harder to fund and requires all the other countries to generally agree to do it at the same time.

The likely outcome of a whole-EU train system is something like the US system where Amtrak generally hits the major population centers, but leaves a ton of the US behind because when you talk about Federal priorities, a train from Denver to Dallas isn't a huge priority compared to LA to SF or Boston to NYC. Obviously the EU system would fare better because it's starting from a better base, but it's emblematic of the tradeoff between bottom-up and top-down planning and investment for something like this.
You said the reason you're using open source isn't because you don't want to pay for software.

He's saying the reason corporations use open source IS that they don't want to pay for software, as OP said.
And if you STILL disagree, see the third amendment! If you're a soldier, in my house, I guess.
Not quite, you pay a lot more because it's not deductible.
"Instead of building a custom command processor, Intel uses Movidius’s 32-bit LEON microcontrollers. LEON use the SPARC instruction set and run a real time operating system."

Your Intel core now runs two ISAs and three OSs. Managment engine runs Minix (and used to use the ARC isa).