skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t have to be a reality. But people let it be.

It’s only a reality because that kind of behavior is widely tolerated enough, or at least not met with harsh enough pushback, that it continues to drive away good contributors and cause burnout.
I guess it depends on how much equity you own as to what is better (to your first paragraph), and how large the paycheck is (to the 2nd paragraph.
It's mostly naivety. There are a lot of people who really don't understand that people are doing something without getting paid, as a side gig, just to be helpful. They just don't get it. An uncle, who is a totally decent human being otherwise would complain loudly and bitterly at folks who ran kids sporting events when things didn't run smoothly. At the time I didn't think much of it, until I was an adult and saw the adults running things things in their spare time despite having families and jobs etc. Just being good people. This uncle was just a very naive person, it's like he thought these people's entire existence was to run kids sporting events.
I wish I had gotten to the comment section earlier because the top-level summary of this article is simply incorrect.

The majority of the revenue of the Big 5 publishers may come from celebrities and repeat best-sellers. But the majority of the profit comes from the un-anticipated best sellers: books that the publishers offer low advances but end up going on to vastly out-sell expectations. While some of those books may have ended up in the "anticipated top selling books" category identified in the trial, the point is that their eventual sales are vastly greater than anticipated, for whatever level was offered.

This means that the rest of their publishing business is absolutely not a "vanity project": it is the business of publishing itself. The reason why these publishers have a backlist (older books that earn a profit long after release) is because of the unanticipated best-sellers. The trial data makes it very clear that publishers (and authors) are actually better at pricing the very high-end books and therefore the profits are typically less (because authors have more leverage to get a fair price in their initial negotiations).

So TL;DR: publishers hope to find promising, but under-rated, authors who may potentially go on to become best-sellers. They continue to fund the books of such authors (despite generally not making a profit) because the few that do fund the rest of the business. But (ironically) once such authors are actually established as best-selling franchise authors, those very same authors' ability to negotiate drives profit margins down, which drives the endless search for fresh talent in the publishing industry.

I feel like I finally need to complete my own analysis of the trial results, because I don't think this is well understood.
Unlikely that these are mockup screens. The clock (top left) shows that this would be atleast a working prototype app.

The 3D map view is intriguing, I wonder where they are sourcing those from.
> super depressing middle section

That's IMHO Stephenson at his best.

> It was a relief to see how the humanity was able to survive and adapt.

Could be, but the execution of that was very lacking. The story arc, characters just don't cut it. Additionally, I was particularly disappointed at the genetic determinism, which Stephenson surely knows is extremely dubious. I suspect that the only reason he wrote / included this part into the book is the allegory of the seven Eves.
I vaguely remember the yelling "opt out" in the early days of the porn scanners, but I don't think they do this at most airports any more.

I think you might be taking the agents' reactions more personally than they are intended: I'm sure that the TSA agents aren't necessarily happy because you're adding a task to their plate, and in busy airports they already have a lot going on, so it's understandably visible that they're stressed. But every one I've interacted with has kept it more professional than an eye roll.

Remember, the agents themselves are just not-all-that-well-paid workers. They aren't the cause of the problem.
> And all large cities have all demographics.

This is just a misunderstanding on your part of what "demographic" means.
That’s victim blaming.

“They were unrealistic and should have known they’d be personally attacked, it’s their own fault for being weak”.

Really? How about no one should be treated like shit for proving free software to you?
Aren't the details of algorithms usually secret? E.g. my understanding is that the primary value that Tik Tok brings to the table is their recommendation algorithm.
It may have been somewhat sensationalist and over the top. But it was also very authentic, and freaking hilarious. Much more entertaining to read than if it hadn't been snarky and catty.

So no don't go for pure sensationalism. Go for authentic voice and humor coupled with hard facts and sound arguments. That's what makes it powerful.
It screams Asperger's to me.
I think that has changed? You can now send components to them that don’t exist at lcsc?
I did an astronomy tour experience at a high-end home setup in San Pedro De Atacama. That area is really special and I'm glad people are trying to save the things that make it great.
If you want to coordinate a software project with multiple people, you need good people skills. Open source projects with an unstable core contributor very often fail or get forked into a clone by their community, it's just the nature of the thing.

It's a "big culture problem" in the same way profit maximization is the destroyer of modern businesses. Everyone uses Open Source software; annoying teenagers, political dissidents you disagree with, state actors, and businesses that will ignore your license (cough Tesla cough). If you don't rise above it, the the world isn't going to change according to your whims.
There are plenty more reasons than that - check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#Controver... for more info.
I'm not familiar with those cases, but it seems to me that if such rules go in favor of "agencies only get to clarify where explicitly allowed" then there will a lot of undesirable consequences. Assuming legal ambiguities remain, with less administrative power, there will be less clarity! Less clarify on application, administration, and enforcement.

Perhaps the courts will have to step in clarify? But this won't solve the administrative issue. If agencies don't have "agency" to do their jobs well, that would be ironic.[1] Perhaps Congress will be motivated to write better laws?[2]

[1] I'm deeply suspicious of efforts to undermine agencies under the cover of "only Congress makes law"... I suspect is it often a guise of undermining the laws one party does not like. Or, sometimes, even as an effort to undermine the idea of regulation at all. The latter point is hardly hidden -- it is central to a lot of right-leaning rhetoric which seems to boil down to "regulation bad, freedom good". This level of reasoning would have Milton Friedman rolling in his grave, as some regulation _provably_ helps reduce market failures. (And even center-left people typically want markets to work well.) But I digress.

[2] Hah. The idea that we would give Congresspeople and their staff even more responsibility to specify laws _without_ an associated increase in their competence for those areas where the law applies strikes me as foolhardy.
ChuckMcM, I just wanted to say, I really appreciate the long view you bring to HN discussions. When you've been in tech for a few decades you start to see predictable patterns. History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
US Government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
While Tesla does have a $10/m plan, you still get basic Internet without paying for it... Tesla's free is better than any other company's paid subscription.

That said, $10 is far too much for what it is, should be $5.
> 4. Has an audience that is demonstrably more likely to pay for software

The flip side of this is that I've noticed software written solely for macOS/iOS is often more polished than many of the most popular FOSS projects written for Linux.

Obviously I don't have any expectation of software provided for free, but as someone who makes a living developing software I do find it funny how much reticence there is among other developers to pay for high quality software.
It's kind of a root of trust problem, isn't it? I think the algorithm for checking proofs is relatively simple. All those fancy tactics boil down to a sequence of rewrites of an expression tree, using a small handful of axiomatic rewrite rules.

The trusted codebase becomes that checking algorithm, along with the "compiler" that translates the high-level language to term rewriting syntax. Formally verifying that codebase is a rather circular proposition (so to speak), but you could probably bootstrap your way to it from equations on a chalkboard.
I think that there is a very unhealthy dynamic to modern open-source software. I do see a future for free software but I'm not really sure the way it is today with liberal-licensed software will be sustainable outside of what will essentially by corporate properties. We really need to be thinking more about how we can secure computing freedom and less about how we can get famous or create consultancies or whatever by getting lots of gh stars. That system is actively getting gamed as hard as possible and it will get worse.
Agree you have to mix qualitative with the quantitative, but the best metrics systems don't just measure one quantity metric. They should be paired with a quality metric.

Example: User Growth & Customer Engagement

Have to have user growth and retention. If you looked at just one or the other, you'd be missing half the equation.
The tractors wars continue! An interesting documentary about the battle for tractor supremecy in the early 20th century between Henry Ford (Fordson), International Harvestor and John Deere. At one point one camp did corn and the other did wheat so they left each other alone.

Tractor Wars - Iowa PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgtHQUi8AvQ
They are trying to be a middleman between you and the internet.

It’s analogous to a TV and monitor manufacturer saying they are no longer providing non-wifi inputs, app side loading, or supporting screen casting from local devices.

Then the manufacturer would charge a monthly fee for the monitor to keep working.

Hopefully, next, the CEO acts surprised when reporting the resulting massive drop in shipments.
Microscaling formats for machine learning: https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-microscaling-forma...
New rail lines get built all the time.

The recipe is really simple: don't do megaprojects. Individual projects must be of appropriate size for the level of government that is making the decisions. When there are several projects of similar size in the pipeline all the time, the government can develop and maintain the expertise needed to build the infrastructure.
Just a thought: I think patents do tend to favor the little guys. Coco cola has never had to patent their recipe, as it's a trade secret. I believe ASML and TSMC don't patent some of their technology, since it's a trade secret. They don't want to patent it, as that would reveal details. Also, iirc, if you can patent something that is shown to significantly improve on a previous patent, you can get a patent for that.

That's not to say that patents can't be abused—they certainly can—but it can give a smaller person leverage.
this is very common. lots of companies around (e.g. cadence) that sell SIPs as synthesizable RTL for easy integration into chip designs (and lots of hardware companies buy these SIPs).
Weird take... AI art is cheap or free, but that doesn't mean anything at all in relation to how you treat the person providing the service.

You have failed to understand that the value of the service is fundamentally different, providing open source software costs a human effort.

Providing art no longer requires the same amount of human effort, if AI is acceptable, so it's not at all comparable.
Haha! I just got done chastising someone for exactly what you accuse me of.

No, I'm not blaming the person for quitting because of the jerks. There are two narratives in the article: one is the dilemma of how to put food on the table as a developer, and one is about the abuse and criticism from people who pay nothing and expect everything.

So no, I don't "blame" the OP at all. No one should treat others rudely online, and OP had to deal with some awful stuff.

My comment was about the dream of an all-FOSS world and how that clashes with buying groceries for a lot of people.
That was the point they made.

In their colorful thought experiment, if all our writing/printing ink faded in short time periods, all recognizable civilization would disappear. Seemingly small changes can result in radical impact.
Entitlement.

Imagine if OSS went away tomorrow, not even all OSS, just the supplemental developer code specific tools. Suddenly 90+% of JavaScript developers would no longer be able to do their jobs. They wouldn’t even be able to pretend to write deliverable code. Careers instantly killed.

Nobody thinks about that. These free helpers are just assumed to be required and always available, completely taken for granted. These things are just presumed to be absolute necessary and unavoidable. God forbid those OSS devs don’t do your jobs for you too, or at least just provide a bit more custom help.
I’m learning LLM and AI. And I’m building a multi-modal full stack LLM chat agent. And I got very fascinated by it. [0]

Using semantic-router for dynamic conversation routing, and LiteLMM for model providers.

It was lots of fun to learn and build. I will be adding function calling support (tools use) for the models to have it more capable, like an agent, in the future.
Getting drunk off that AI kool-aid aren't ya
For context, I started an open source project that is arguably 10x more popular than Nutjs (20k stars on github vs 2k). I also gave up on maintaining it, but others stepped in to take care of it so it's still running.

The parallels between open source and bolshevism are interesting. I'm not a history expert, but this is just how it appears to me.

- Contempt for property
- Pitches itself as a movement by "the people", ends up being a tool of the powerful (e.g. Microsoft's use of open source)
- Punishes the producers by destroying the economics of production, rewards the stooges
- Creates a high-low alliance between powerful and unskilled, drains the middle class
I've always found the diehard linux/FOSS crowd naive and abrasive simply because it seems to totally ignore reality. If you're good at coding, and you enjoy coding, you probably want to do it for a living.

Not as a second job, not as a side project, and certainly not as a charity case that just flat out will not sustain you.

There are precious few things that have the adoption and support linux has, and a lot of that is very much a "right place, right time" thing. The fact that I've seen plenty straight up vilify a coder for daring to want to, you know, make enough to support a library full time has always struck me as self destructive. I'm sure many great coders have given up and moved on to paid projects doing boiler plate because inventing new stuff gets you chewed up and spit out by the community if you monetize.
I once bought a GM vehicle. Never again.
Both can be useful. GDP numbers can give you an idea of how difficult or easy it would be to raise the necessary tax revenue if push comes to shove.
The point is that some people will be priced out of the labor market because they are only allowed to exchange their labor at/above a set rate. If your labor is worth $10/hr because you have very little job experience, you will be unemployed in a jurisdiction where the minimum wage is $15/hr.

It is not "best for people's freedom" to have that restriction; it benefits some people (those who remain employed) and worse for others (those who are laid off or cannot get a job). And it's good for companies that make tools to automate jobs away (we've seen more fast food kiosks recently).

But the big picture point I was making is that it's silly to wave the flag of economic freedom if you don't actually embrace that concept wholeheartedly (which I am assuming she does not).
Fair move. The world runs on FoSS and most of us contribute nothing. Software should be open-source and free but not at the expense of exploiting the few who actually contribute.
Or you can draw pretty pictures in LabVIEW lol
Why don't we see more general purpose computing environments where the whole interpreter state is persistent and serializable by default? The only ones I'm aware of is R's .RData mechanism, some Smalltalk environments, and solutions at the container/VM level.

What if an interpreter wrote every event down to a variable change to a database-like WAL, making it resumable after a crash? Downside: it would be slow, and there would need to be provision for transaction boundaries and for access to network sockets and other non-serializable resources. Upside: develop incrementally in the Smalltalk REPL style, never worry about the data layer at all, backup or give developers a copy of the whole application state - for utilities or LOB apps of limited scope or complexity, why not?
Recently replaced by Lean, though. At least in Cedar.

https://github.com/cedar-policy/cedar-spec

https://lean-lang.org
Or because they want to charge a subscription for "premium data" which nobody would buy if there was CarPlay.
One thing about the nature of open source software development is that the positive feedback channels are kind of limited. Sure, if someone opens an issue or a pull request on your project that's potentially a positive signal, but it's never a purely positive one. In pretty much every other place people put things they've created online there's room for reviews and comments to help other people decide whether to try something, so if you make something good you can get a lot of people saying what they like about it. This doesn't solve the negativity and entitlement of others, but it likely makes things feel more balanced.

Open source software, culturally and mechanically, doesn't have much room for unqualified positivity.
What does scrubbing mean in this context? Blocking the Shorts?
My open source is a loss leader for a good discussion item during an interview.
or we could demand that users of free software shouldn't dictate the culture of the community and that maintainers don't need thick skin. Instead maybe we should ask that users should be respectful and courteous.
Your point only deepens my appreciation of Japanese (which was already deep). To have two different categories of onomatopoeia is just sensational.
The tooling around the model could be a lot better. The LLM is just a statistical model and the tooling takes the most likely token at each step (or samples from some of the most likely). Instead it could say "There are no high-probability completions here". Or you could give it a list of actual episode titles and it would select the most likely one.
A lot of open source is commoditizing your complement, moving a project out if a company to reuse or monetize it, or a recruiting drive for talent or customers (i.e. marketing). Of course it's rarely said out loud so it is unsurprising when we get confused. I've been there.
> Totally honest question - have there been recent expansions of train lines into cities in Europe? In the last 20 years

There's a lot of ongoing extensions, but into existing train station.

Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21

https://www.zvv.ch/zvv/en/about-us/projects/in-betrieb/cross...

https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company/projects/german-speaki...

(Switzerland has bunch of those since they typically expand capacity with 20-30y horizon)
Amen!

OSS is often sponsored by major corporations, for example React JS is essentially a Facebook product.

Creating something like Nut.js for free isn't sustainable, the author needs to eat after all.

Desktop automation is very very hard to do, people aren't usually automating this for fun. It's folks working at companies.

If it's free then you just have a free tool to use, and maybe you'll donate out of the good of your heart. But your not going to ask your boss to donate.

When it's a paid product you have to just tell your boss we need to buy a license.
The general critique is: McKinsey over-optimizes on short term profitability over meaningful, longer term, harder-to-measure values. Your framing drops the most important aspect of the critique to make it sound contradictory.
Ask HN: Is it fair to bundle TikTok ban with other aid bill
I'm not familiar with the US's government, but it looks like legal, but is it fair? Is it procedural justice?
It makes systems "feel" way more responsive. It's a huge quality of life increase. Apple Silicon's user/product story has basically changed how people view this stuff forever.
I and most people I know are part of that 70% of people
who would never buy a car without CarPlay. Even my elderly relatives who are not GREAT with tech in general seem to love it.
I don't use gists. Haven't found a need I guess.

If they work and there's nothing missing, what effort would they put into them?
The hard work of building a motherboard still has to be done de-novo...

I think the idea is that you contact the same ODM that Meta is using and they reuse the existing design. Of course they usually don't tell you which ODM that is so you have to guess. Overall the selective openness is still pretty annoying.
> I do remember when Youtube would show more than 2 search results per page on my 23" display.

Wait what?! You "Consume Content" on a COMPUTER? What are you some kinda grandpa? Why aren't you consuming content from your phone like everyone else? Or casting it from your phone to your SMART TV! Great way to CONSUME CONTENT!

CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
CONSUME CONTENT
Do you feel they would have paid someone to make the thumbnail if they didn't AI generate it or would we just have had a thumbnail that's less interesting?
Found a video with the sound. It sounds cleaner live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muBnqHqOrG0
> You do need to develop a very thick skin in OSS to be able to thrive.

Yet, users or submitters of open-source must be coddled? One of the chief complaints about Linus Torvolds is his blunt communication style in response to poor quality code.

So OSS developers must be able to accept very harsh critism or even insults but always be kind to users who offer nothing in return?
> “In the context of social media platforms used by nearly half of Americans, it’s not hard to imagine how a platform that facilitates so much commerce, political discourse, and social debate could be covertly manipulated to serve the goals of an authoritarian regime, one with a long track record of censorship, transnational repression, and promotion of disinformation.”

Mark Warner (D-VA), Senate Intelligence Committee Chair

That's the crux of it for me. Not protecting the data of Americans.
The great shine of RISC-V is its openness. That's the point when compared to ARM architecture.

I wonder how a truly open project like that could be affected by geopolitics interests, and also, if it would really be effective.
Bird burning Biden's beautiful bermuda.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_VH-92_Patriot