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If an open source project has great docs, it will attract people for whom the project would be useless without great docs. That doesn't guarantee it will attract more contributors, or encourage people to get involved, or ensure that the maintainer will be happier and more successful over time. It just means they attract more consumers who feel entitled to the maintainer's labour and attention.

More so, "great docs" tends to mean "docs that tell me exactly how to solve my problem so I don't have to think about it". Otherwise the docs are "bad". It's all about Hickey-esque subjective "ease" and not objective simplicity and excellence. This is why "read the source code" or "read the tests" is treated as a sin here: they demand some kind of interpretative effort from the reader, some sense of adventure, and so on. The author also assumes a priori that the source code will be bad and the tests will be unreadable... but at the same time expects that you will write stellar docs and handhold everyone with the patience of a saint.

If everyone demanded this, there'd be no real open source. Forks would never get picked up, ideas wouldn't get recycled unless they were actively taught, and there wouldn't be an ecosystem.

What this person is basically saying is that it isn't enough to release your code, no, you must in fact write a book and then start a school, and spend all your time patiently dealing with students.

If that's your ambition, great, but the idea that this is the baseline you need to do is absurd. Personally I dislike the kind of student described here very much. I didn't get along with them in college either.

Btw, you can try writing all the docs you want, but nobody will ever tell you why your docs are bad and what would make them better. Just doesn't happen.
Ok. Now compare Mississippi to those places on wealth inequality, life expectancy, education, health care, social mobility, etc...
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It does. Don’t forget, only a king can go backwards.
A more worthwhile aspiration would be narrower and more concrete, such as building AI systems that reduce medical diagnostic errors by 30%. Or in education, improving math proficiency in students by 15%. Or systems that could enhance energy grids to reduce carbon emissions by 20%. Such goals not only have clear metrics for success but serve concrete human needs, just as AI builders like Altman and Hassabis originally envisioned.

It's not one or the other. AI labs are building foundational models and the next layer will build on top of them to improve medical diagnostics, education, etc. There are plenty of LLM wrapper startups with those exact goals.
Oh, of course—no one in the past was hyped or excited about airplanes or cars. The Wright brothers took their first flight in complete obscurity, and Henry Ford quietly introduced the Model T with no fanfare whatsoever. No crowds gathered, no newspapers breathlessly covered these developments, and certainly, no one had strong opinions about how these technologies would reshape the world. Just pure, quiet progress.

And as for hype—what else could possibly spread information besides media? In the past, it was newspapers, expositions, and public demonstrations that built excitement. Today, it’s social media amplifying discussions. But surely, widespread interest in a technology today must mean it’s all just empty propaganda, because, as history shows, real groundbreaking innovations only succeed when no one is paying attention.

That’s why the iPhone was a total flop—Apple really should have just quietly released it in a few stores and hoped people figured it out instead of, you know, making a big deal about it.
Even in warfare, what dictate the end of it is politics, most war stop because of that, killing yourself just because "gun go brrr" in a democratic country is stupid, and probably is going to back fire, no one normal like people shooting each other for nothing and putting innocents in risk
So in a non-perturbative QFT calculation which has a well defined particle-number operator, that's just "an approximation" within the theory? What is it approximating?
Unfortunately I'm only able to use browsers which run on linux so I can share history between my phone and all other computers.

If Orion had a linux version, maybe I'd consider it, but the firefox-skin on webkit lets me share history even if I can't install extensions, and my history is more important.

A browser that only works on iOS and macOS doesn't have a better privacy policy for me in practice, apple collects all sorts of information that my linux devices don't.
Beyond what everybody else has said, I wonder how much of that difference is due to the healthcare in Mississippi being counted as part of GDP instead of as a state service? Ever ballooning healthcare costs are the cancer that is eating the developed world alive.
I guess I have too? So has everyone I’ve ever played with.
Contracts only bind the people who are party to them, so they couldn't go after the publisher on the same grounds. And there is a lot of case law around suing publishers so they probably know they would lose a lawsuit on other grounds (and maybe get an anti-slap ruling against them which could cost a lot of money).

One thing I don't understand though is I thought arbitration could only award monetary relief? I didn't realize that they could issue injunctions like this which I thought constituted an equitable remedy.
There’s a link on the page of the game.
>but what's the value of uv over pdm beyond performance

uv is not written in python so it doesn't suffer from the bootstrap problem of having a python version installed to begin using it. Users (new and even experienced) get confused and annoyed when they try to use python tooling in the same venv as their application instead of using pipx.

People also get confused and annoyed if they use mac and run `brew upgrade` and find themselves with python 3.13 or just any version that is new (yes we can pin to python@3.11 or whatever) so pyenv is a good option.

So now you have pdm, pipx, and pyenv to manage all this stuff. With uv all this hassle goes away.
I see what you mean. You can use it with mise that has build support.
Not a problem, let's educate you a little. When graphed together GDP growth and real wages in the US show a disparity that clearly indicates that increases in GDP go somewhere other than working Americans. This being the case GDP metrics don't communicate meaningful information about quality of life.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
I'm from the era that when I was taught Assembly, half way through the class we'd written vi (the editor), and when finishing that one semester we had a working C compiler. When I write C, I drop into Assembly often, and tend to consider C a macro language over Assembly. It's not, but when you really understand, it is.
AKA "The Seneca Effect". There's a book written on that: https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/seneca.pdf
Nodezator v1.5.4 released: Renamed parent project, bug fixes and more
I like how these engineers think they found a bug but were actually just beaten by the correct implementation of the rules of checkers hahaha
> I am a casual user of python and I don't want to touch it unless I have a damn good reason to use it.

I... what? Python is a beautiful way to evolve beyond the troglodyte world of sh for system scripts. You are seriously missing out by being so pertinently against it.
Just a note that - 'one can' does not mean everyone can. And this can be applied between any two languages or tasks. An AI will simply have better broad knowledge than practically anyone at a task they are unfamiliar with so they can massively reduce the friction of getting started.
He still right, nonviolent means are effective, go ahead start shooting each other in front of a school because "violence is the only mean" and see how many support you
> there is a "you" set of particles one can talk about

We know that particles don't have identity though - exchange of identical particles is a symmetry and physics would be very different if it wasn't. I won't claim it's compelling, but to me that suggests that a particle is more like a pattern or a field excitation than a thing with its own concrete existence.

> Why do we not perceive reality in terms of these other representations?

What would be different if we did? I mean obviously at a macroscopic level particles moving through space is a model that gives a good approximation and is easy to think in, but that doesn't mean they're any more physically real than e.g. temperature.
I don't know what they talk about there, but it sounds like some kind of thermodynamic approximation is involved there. Does thermodynamics survive Lorentz transformation?
why choose borda count?
I do do that, can you please share your fish script to autoload it? I have something for Poetry envs, but not venv dirs.
From a screenwriter perspective this would be an uphill battle - the risk of a studio / production company facing legal retaliation by social media enterprises would be financially unwise. In the US making money is the goal of cinema, art is a distant second.
I will admit that of all the surveillance technology, this one had me scratching my head, because, while I accept I am not exactly a target audience, I just did not really believe people choose to not just use those devices, but spend money on them.

Some time ago, we got free alexa echo dots from contractor. They sold on ebay in record time. My hand is clearly not on the pulse of America.
I've never liked any answer I've gotten to questions like "what's the weather like."

I look at the forecast in my weather app -- the whole fullscreen thing -- and follow some sort of mental algorithm that I can't fully specify to arrive at the conclusion about what to wear/bring. The spoken data feels like it's missing something, or maybe it's just transmitted in a sequence that my brain can't work with.

It's not that I don't trust it, exactly. It's that I can't use it for the task I'm trying to do. Never could. I have this problem with a lot of voice interfaces, and it suggests to me that either a) they're not very good, or b) my brain is not designed for that kind of UX.
> You're mechanically implementing somebody else's design.

Only if the customer also provides the backend design, specifications for all interaction etc etc though.

But that's just a bit of nitpicking.
I slightly edited my post while you were writing yours. I'm aware of the article but I still think it could be clearer. I'm a big fan of constructive proofs but that does not seem the case for most mathematicians, so i find a lot of stuff in math very unsatisfying and have to rediscover it myself via different routes. Educational for sure but not always so easy.

And yes, of course there are many possible matrix reps, sorry i was not being precise. The ones i was referring to are the ones given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Clifford_alg...
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I don't know if they're really trying, they're just talking about it.
True, however I only saw this happens to achieve max perf. I have very limited experience so this is confirmation bias from my end.
>> while programmers do in fact program, they “work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals.” That seems like a clue.

I wonder if this conclusion is drawn from keyword searches on job postings. It is true that not many position titles these days include "programmer" - usually it is software engineer or developer. Of course, there is no difference other than terminology has shifted.
"11 years ago, the Chevron refinery exploded. It wasn’t a surprise."

https://apen4ej.medium.com/11-years-ago-the-chevron-refinery...

Keep in mind that Brewster bought the building because it looked like the icon, not vice versa. Not exactly the amount of thought that might be expected of an archival institution.
> That it’s actually usable? Great healthcare is pointless if you cannot afford to go to the doctor.

And yet Americans seem to survive more often with a healthcare they supposedly do not use than Italians and Frenchmen with a healthcare they use.

> Sure, but what standard of high school degree?

Surely you aren't implying that the standards of an American HS degree are so low that the education that that huge percentage of the population with a middle school degree or lower is receiving is comparable to it?
https://archive.ph/PFfrR
and how many software engineers, in my eyes they are still the same thing :P but I am old.
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> why haven’t graphics programs always done that

Memory constraints at first. Then inertia.
Because you can just lie much more easily than your registrar can.
I agree. But if we follow that logic then any compiler specific feature of either or clang is fair game, even if it’s not standard. MSVC doesn’t support it when compiling in C mode, for example.
The quality of the community seem to depends on the level of effort each member has to put into formulating their input.

X, Reddit etc are low effort.

I evaluated X for similar purpose. It felt useful but really wasn't to me. X has the "building in public", but it generally stimulates clickbailt style interaction, and strong focus on irrelevant details because colorful things draw attention more than deeper things. It easily becomes a distraction because of the dopamine centered habits developed.

I suggest GitHub. Upload your projects, however small. It's often good learning experience to iterate over old projects and improve, rather than forgetting code deep in some folder structure later lost in data migration. Engage with projects you like, by participating in their discussion page and more.

ChatGPT etc in my experience is superior to broad style community interaction.
> "It was working until yesterday, how come?" EU will ask.

How long does this process typically take? When do you think EU consumers either get the functionality back or receive compensation?
Energy capacity?
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Making this example even worse, both Firefox and Chrome are open source (except for a few proprietary add-ons). An EU company wouldn't even need to make their own browser. They could just hard-fork one of those.
If the employee entered into a legal contract that limits their speech, then they, of course, should face consequences if they breach said contract. Such contracts may be crap, Facebook may be horrible, Zuck may be whatever C word you think rhymes with his name, but a contract should be kept.
I suspect the actual issue is that the publisher is not a party to whatever contract there exists between the author and Meta.

Unfortunately for free speech, it is no longer the case (if it ever was) that publishers have strong financial resources compared to an increasing number of those who want to hide things.
> This kind of apathic statement is not very useful.

Except for corporations who want to exploit us to no end. I’m sure they love this type of defeatist attitude. There’s no one easier to take advantage of than someone who confirms they have given up and won’t fight back.
> At the same time, neither QUIC nor HTTP/3 are included in the standard libraries of any major languages including Node.js, Go, Rust, Python or Ruby.

.NET actually looking like it has decent support for any teams that are interested[0] (side note: sad that .NET and C# are not considered "major"...). There is an open source C library that they've published that seems rather far along[1]

Support for Windows, Linux[2], and Mac[3] (the latter two with some caveats).

Overall, I think for most dev teams that are not building networking focused products/platforms, HTTP/3 is probably way down the stack of optimizations and things that they want to think about, especially if the libraries available have edge cases and are too early for production. Who wants to debug issues with low-level protocol implementations when there are features to ship, releases to stabilize, and defects to fix?

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/networ...

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/msquic

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/networ...

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/networ...
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> continually pay money to have a name

...and to host associated services to resolve this name to an IP address, as well as administrative overhead

I'd rather not that my domain name is funded by ads and sponsorships, the way that "X, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch, etc all" are (no love for open source or decentralised platforms btw? The more commercial the better, except when it costs you money?)
I'd say the first sentence was unduly aggressive and name-calling, and the question at the end was a personal attack.
Although that seems to be the most logical answer, on the PinePhone plugging the most basic wired keyboard (that does not even have a backlight) reduces the luminosity of the screen to the minimum. Small device tend to be very fiddly with power requirements even for simple tasks (e.g. the older raspberry pi models).
I've been down voted on simple provable facts where the down voter doesn't disagree: literally they just don't like my facts.

HN is horribly broken.
A strong chilling effect by going after the author directly - no late night talk shows, podcasts, etc.

My plan if I was at Macmillan? Send out the book’s Editor on tour, on the double. At this level, the Editor is well qualified to speak to the contents and integrity of the work.

As they’re not bound by this ruling, it can be a useful talking point about the merit of the book - “I wouldn’t be here if Meta wasn’t embarrassed by the truth” has a nice ring to it.
Appreciate you sharing! Public APIs for-the-public are super interesting. I'd love to see more creative uses of these APIs to keep our governments and politicians accountable.
And Rust developers drop down and manage memory directly when they need to and even inline assembly, sometimes.
I graduated in 1999 and probably should have stayed for grad school. I had good enough grades my Alma Mater was basically sending me letters my senior year "Hey you're just about guaranteed to get in if you apply!" It's hard to say as if I'd just gotten a master's I would have been getting out in the middle of the crash (bad) but if I'd stayed through getting a Phd I would have had a very different traectory.

But the whole .com boom was way too exciting. I knew lots of people who dropped out. I started out working at Cisco but then left to go to a networking startup and got there just in time for stuff to start blowing up. When I left Cisco the assigned Financial Advisor I had a Morgan Stanley recommended I take a loan for something like $200k to take my options with me or something. I was like 24 and had almost no savings, there was no way I was going to do that. Cisco ended up tanking from 200+ down to the 10-20 range months after I left IIRC. I remember telling a co-worker who got laid off at the same time that I felt stupid as I had spent a lot of my earnings paying off my car I had bought brand new and I also had a motorcycle. He remarked he had kept driving his 20 year old Honda Accord but had no more money than me because he'd lost everything in the stock market crash.

As others have said 9/11 was some kind of weird marker for a lot of us that it was all over. The company I worked for made it about another year after that but I have vivid memories of everyone doom watching the news in the kitchen at work before the CEO came and told us to go home for the day on 9/11. I went home and went out and rode my bicycle all afternoon where I had no way to get any news, it made me feel better.

When I got laid off it was like every single one of my friends was laid off too. All of us at once, and it wasn't layoffs, it was companies completely going under.

There was a lot of malfeasance too. I knew people who had jobs where there was almost zero work as the company was a borderline scam. People were either playing video games at their desk all day waiting for management to figure out what they were going to work on or they were studying for their next job.

I was super lucky. Both my roommate and I got laid off at the same time, we ended up breaking our lease and going separate ways. I lived with my parents for a while, but I only actually was laid off about 6 weeks before finding a contract job. Neither my finances nor my career really took much of a hit, but my confidence took a major hit that realistically took 5-6 years to really come out of.
To finish the story here, a look back:

https://bsalert.com/news/2596/Who_Are_You_Better_Than.html

People in this country perennially choose wanting to be "better than" over wanting to be happy.
It's great if you are a wealthy business owner or investor, and you want to push deregulation propaganda, because deregulation would allow you to get even richer.
I very much enjoy Severance, but this illustrates why I'm not a huge fan of mystery stories in general. I spend my time playing "Clue, red herring, or mistake?" Severance clearly invites you to look very, very closely, but there are things that will eventually have to be overlooked. I hope that the show resolves itself before those become aggravating.

I've avoided recommending Severance to a friend, who would enjoy its performances and aesthetic but would be very annoyed at the characters making obvious mistakes.
If you cannot exam the result, you better not touch anything LLM generated.
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History of Null Pointer Dereferences on macOS
Interesting. I thought crypto lockers were kinda extinct though because most companies have their backup ducks in a row now so threat actors tend to go for blackmail of data exposure now.

Also, most XDRs detect this behaviour really well now.
The bullying is not possible because the argument made is weaker, bullying is possible because the argument is made by a party with fewer resources.
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False dichotomy. After a certain age you should let them have a voice in their educational goals, and before they are able to express their preferences you should be helping them figure out what those are. You should be creating a family environment where your kids feel like people, and where they feel safe no matter what happens. You should be teaching your children to think critically and stand up for what they believe in, and setting a good example for them in terms of your personal values. If you don't have a self-consistent set of ethical values, and expect everyone else to determine those for you, I hate to break it to you, but you shouldn't have had kids.
It's actually dihydrogen monoxide, and it is no laughing matter. People that ingest it regularly end up getting hooked and dying if they stop. Thanks for building awareness.

(Your reactors comment made me laugh)
We’re talking about a rust rewrite of a fairly core level library. I don’t think C is inherently unsuitable or difficult to hire for. If the library was in Fortran then maybe.

But yes you are technically correct, congratulations.
I'm pretty sure black box testing is not a dark art around here.