skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems but with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to easily install complete and ready-to-use server software stacks with a set of console/whiptail based shell dialogs and scripts. Read all info at https://dietpi.com/. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
Your comment makes me wonder whether SCOTUS could have just nullified the part of the law which forbade state actors from filing suit. That could have given standing to sue the AG, for instance.
I mean I think I would be fine with a world where anyone could buy the stuff so long as they went through and passed a class on how to use it. I think that would be a fine middle-ground.
As we can see, nobody picks up things like the New York Times any more, the newsstands' too crowded.
The work was probably done by a contractor. In that case it’s not a work of the US Government and the government can be assigned copyright.
Between vesting grants of tokens at discounted prices, salaries in tokens, and yield farming earnings, the quantity of your tokens increase over time and the any rally in prices amplifies your earnings by orders of magnitude. Linear is O(n) so better than linear is closer to O(nlogn) and less than exponential O(n^2).

Vesting in the crypto space quite frequently is measured in months instead of years. Just industry standard because the lifecycle is so much faster, so it would be hard/impossible to attract talent with longer vesting periods. 3-6 months being common, 9-12 months being tolerable and standard, 18-36 months being the longest I've ever seen.

This is just in comparison to the crypto speculators, who have to put up capital and hope to sell at higher prices. Linear risk model for them.

Not sure what a source would look like. It would require someone doing an analysis of many projects. Just can't think of a person that would care enough to do such an analysis, yet. Maybe a recruiter? There's always the option to just lead with the assumption that this post is grounded in an existing reality, a lot of people earn in crypto and that would inherently have a different risk profile than investing their own money. Significant overlapping similarities to buying a company's shares versus earning a company's stock's.
> choose between Windows Forms, WinUI3, Win32 and WPF

The focus now is on Electron web apps... it's harder and harder to find/write native apps. I guess you just confirmed this.
Taproot changes this. Smart contracts are going to be a lot more feasible now.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I need a flu vaccine every year. We’re just rapidly responding/thinking this is out of the norm because we are trying to wait for our baseline infrastructure for taking care of sick people (nurses, group home staff, etc.) to meet capacity (of course, it might just not!)
Against what? Other currencies that are also inflating?
Yeah but they too good at hunting the ones who aren't going to enter my house. They're little psychos[1], but I love my little psychos.

[1]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
In my experience with measuring display characteristics (research lab working between computer and human vision), this is typical. One device we've worked with a couple of years ago, also with OLED, used different panels depending on the regional version, European or Asian. The spectra were measurably different, but visually there was only a very slight variation in color temperature.

Most of these differences can be adjusted for in software, which would be trivial considering Apple's competency in color science.
Thank you for providing the video, the situation is appalling.
The point of a puzzle game is a pastime - often considered to be “wasting” time.
It's a joke -- it means they enjoyed the puzzle game.
You're not grasping the part where there is material work and labour in most parts of the value chain including maintenance, inspection, and distribution of builds.

Only 15% of that $20 goes to Apple - while that may be a few points to high, it's not egregious.

The rest of that money goes to the person responsible for maintaining the build, which is 'work'.

"That's unacceptable and repugnant, "

This is a completely naive view, tantamount to saying 'People should work for me, for free, because I said so, and it's repugnant for them not to!'.

"what I want to achieve with this free software is that anyone be able to access it without barriers whatsoever, including payment. "

For 'source code' - this is already possible, because 'source code' can fairly easily be provided 'for free'.

But a maintained and up-to-date build, for specific platforms, with all of the unavoidable regulatory overhead - has cost.

If you want that to be 'free' - again you're expecting someone to labour for you.

There's an easy answer to this -> it's $20 on the App Store.

If you want to do free labour and make it free, you can do that.

But otherwise this 'moral indignation' and 'repugnance' at people who are unwilling to labour for you, for free, is a problem.
Provide a VPC endpoint
One of the greatest ironies of the 20th-21st centuries is that the lower and upper classes are closer to each other (in living a life driven by primal forces), than the middle classes are to either.

Everything you've written is a middle class construct that doesn't exist on either---extreme---end of the class spectrum. These abstract constructs posit that there can be facts, truths, and "good" -- when the reality is that all the forces behind everything that impacts us are human in nature.

We're all working to push our agendas, and reach our own ends (almost always unconsciously or unaware of the deeper reasons).

So long as you keep off-loading all of your thinking and decision-making to others (in this case, the other would be Platonian woo-woo aether concepts), you're instigating the proliferation of middle class "intellectual" propaganda, and further widening the rift between you and the lower classes (one could even say, you're building a moat, because you're pushing the upper classes even further away).
Why do you fear it? You didn't fear it the 14 bn years before you existed, did you?
Not to mention that any decent network firewall with up-to-date signatures would probably just end up blocking the “patch.”
It took me until the footnote to remember that this is Simom Tatham, who indeed also authored a fine no-nonsense collection of little puzzle games, which has been ported to a bunch of platforms.

Here they are playable online on Tatham's site: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

And here's the Android version: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/
Why is that immoral?

You leave traces, its normal thing to question retrospectively when you don't deliver and its a rule rather then a fluke. I couldn't care less when or how you work if you close tickets assigned to you, but when you don't for a prolonged time (which is not 7 days, but more like months), I will look into your daily commits, login times, IM activity etc. Its supportive material for decision, not blackmailing. Its wrong to misinterpret those facts, but taking them as a fact is normal.
I believe shares exist to raise capital to exploit a natural resource in this case. But if I already have a profitable mine, I doubt I'd have much incentive to invite others to share ownership of that mine. However, if I have a hole in the ground that doesn't produce anything of value, then it's in my interest to sell shares of it since that might be my only income.

Just a thought really - in spite of hearing many good Twain quotes in my life, this was a new one to me, so I'm kind of working through it.
Are you referring to this?

"But I've always been able to deal with this by pointedly reminding the most demanding people that I'm not at their beck and call. Most of those companies who mistake me for a contracted vendor are prepared to recognise their mistake once I point it out, and the more self-aware ones even apologise. I've not even found it necessary to be especially rude: a plain statement of the facts of life normally does the job. If one of them is rude to me, then the quintessentially British approach of a faint frown and a tone of mild reproof (or its email analogue) generally gets good results – probably a lot better than mouthing off like a sweary 13-year-old in return."

It is easier if you are a native English speaker, because you have a wide range of expressions at your disposal to express disdain or irritation without going nuclear.

It is also easier if you are the single author and not fighting with others in the same code base.

So I don't think easy in general to react maturely, especially if you have made large contributions to a shared code base and some pushy person comes along and makes demands (sometimes the impolite person is another contributor, which makes things worse).

EDIT: Perhaps you meant that the person making requests should not be a jerk, in which case of course I fully agree.
Complete bullshit.

First, even "financially" (thought what does it even mean???) holding crypto is not the same as holding a stock of a bankrupt company. Bankruptcy is a process with many mandated "financial" steps with set dates none of which are required from crypto.

Second, there are things beyond "financiality", such as easiness and reliability of "creating a derivative", and finding a buyer for it. So the premise of the whole comment is 100% useless in reality.
With Delphi (it has free hobby edition) and / or Lazarus one can build simple hello world literally in seconds. Same with QT (I do not use it as I am not fond of their licensing shenanigans). The rest of the discussion looks like people are trying to find the best way to hurt themselves.

One can easily build windows GUI "hello world" using notepad and mingw but anything more serious would throw one in a world of hurt. Win32 was designed to be wrapped into something more manageable, not used directly for large GUI apps.
Sony fires Playstation executive allegedly caught in pedophilia sting
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/surveillance/human_r...

This is absolutely nuts. Also how would he know that he wasn't bitten if it brushed up against him.
> https://mobile.twitter.com/taylorogan/status/146940457943982...

Damn, the part where he tried to take over and the car wouldn't let him for a while, was downright scary

Reminds me of a famous quote...

> "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

I fell like there should be a hardware way of taking over that overwrites anything the software does.
Whatever you say about Microsoft and the amount of overlapping technologies they have, their documentation is best in class.

There's a barely supported, legacy API from Windows 2000 that is still used by some legacy screen readers to actually access whatever is on the screen. It's meticulously documented and the documentation seems maintained and up to date.

Apple is the exact opposite, the API that screen readers use to communicate with web browsers isn't even mentioned anywhere. If you ever need to learn about it, the usual answer is "go Read the Safari source code and figure things out from there." It's gotten so bad that the documentation for Dotnet bindings of some Swift methods has apparently gotten better than the documentation of those methods themselves.
> Any questions?

I'm not timr, but I share a lot of his concerns, so I'll try to answer. I think your model of how he is thinking is probably wrong. Some people (including me) care tremendously about the truth of an argument, independent of whether making that argument leads to a desirable social outcome. His "agenda" is likely a strong philosophical belief that it's more important to base policy on a solid scientific foundation than to reach an apparently preferred conclusion, because this is more likely to reliably reach a long term positive result. At least, that's what it feels like internally for me.

Despite your claims, the situation is not simple. Take this paper for instance. At this point, I'm pretty convinced that it is irredeemably flawed. That is, while boosters are probably a good idea for most people, I don't think it will be the case that greater than 1% of the doubly vaccinated but unboosted population will die of Covid in the next year. I think there are methodological problems with their approach that make their specific conclusions mostly meaningless. Unfortunately, despite these flaws, this is probably a higher quality study than most that are being relied upon to make policy.

For context, understand that I've been laid out in bed for most of the last week recovering from my recent Covid booster. I still believe that for me, taking a Covid booster probably was a better choice than not taking one. I don't currently believe that it produces the best health outcomes for a 14 year old boy, but I'm open to the possibility that it's best for society as a whole to put young males at slightly greater risk for the benefit of the rest of society. Please consider that you might be overconfident in how obvious the answers are.
I thought this was such a fantastic response, particularly the sections where he talks about how he responds to companies demanding he reply as if he has a contract with them.

The main point being that, with the log4j issue (and others before that), the thing that's struck me when maintainers complain about not being appreciated or that they are working as hard as they can, unpaid, is that maintainers are under no obligation to respond at all, and that you can't control how other people will react.

As someone who's dealt with anxiety for a long time (and as a former opensource primary maintainer), I can most definitely commiserate with feeling burdened by the expectations of others, but one of the best things I learned from therapy is that you can't control others emotions, you can only attempt to understand why you react as you do in certain situations.
Just use QT instead,
There are some people that are susceptible to the idea of new information being more canonical than the prior information they were initially exposed to, as opposed to merely an alternate amongst many alternates.
The biggest sham in public education is this idea of "a teacher's salary" as if an english teacher is equivalent to a math or chemistry teacher. While we can go for hours about the intangible values present in all subjects #allsubjectsmatter, the reality is that someone qualified to be a STEM teacher is accepting a loss in opportunity cost in our current system.

Why would someone with a math background take $40k to teach a bunch of kids math when they can learn a bit of python and make $140k doing data science? Some do, but outside of rare exceptions, you aren't going to get the best talent.

You also end up with teachers who can't be bothered to learn how the subject is used in the real world. I barely put effort into learning matrices or complex numbers in high school.

"You just have to learn it, There aren't any practical uses for it" said my highschool algebra teacher told me when I asked what these are used for.
I’ve used my local BN group to de clutter my home, highly recommend it!
> I hope even the dumbest 20% of people can understand that $40k per year is not sufficient pay for almost everywhere in the country, much less Baltimore.

When I read a comment like this, I'm reminded of how much of a bubble HN is. $40k a year is higher than the median personal income of the US, which is higher than the median personal income of Baltimore.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

https://datacommons.org/place/geoId/2404000?utm_medium=explo...
Response to “GraphQL is not meant to be exposed over the internet”
The advertisers who’s advertisements are shown care. And because they pay more for targeted ads the website cares.

The ad industry believes targeted ads are cheaper and more effective in aggregate than un-targeted ads.

Also if the website is selling PII to “partners” as another revenue stream the the website cares.
Maybe they use:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
He is, and St. Nicholas was already shown with a red (bishop's) robe and white beard hundreds of years ago:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_von_Myra#/media/Datei...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_von_Myra#/media/Datei...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_von_Myra#/media/Datei...

(which doesn't mean that the Christians 'invented' Santa Claus of course, since the early European missionaries often 'adopted' earlier pagan traditions)
Of course, this is only enforced when it suits them ( at a protest ).
That waste is pretty bad too. Maybe not on par with fission reactor waste, but definitely up there with fossil fuel waste.
Perhaps, we view it as in our interests that people in other countries aren’t starving?
Some great offline GPS (cell-free) map apps for Apple iOS are

- Sygic,

- Topo Map+,

- 2GIS

- Starwalk - Night Sky 2

- and my fav, Genius Map

all works without WiFi, cell coverage, nor NFC/bluetooth
Fire ants seemed at first a scourge in Texas but they also eliminated certain pests. During the time I presided over a condominium we had no need of termite or carpenter ant control, thanks to our ever-alert fire ants.

Once the pests are gone, if necessary you can reduce the fire ants' population with say, Amdro. By simply paying attention, you can keep your lawn and buildings in a steady state vis-a-vis insect pests.

I was not so successful with alleged mice/rats. Some tenants insisted there were rats present. We do have an abundance of possums but I've never seen a rat or mouse here and baby possums are often mistaken for rats. So I put out some mouse/rat bait boxes. The results over the first season was only two dead very small baby possums, indeed small enough to enter the rat/mouse trap, eat the anticoagulant and die before leaving. After that I threw out the rat/mouse traps.
VS has a debugger, which I find useful during development. Not sure if VSCode does.

Edit: looks like there is an extension for C# and C++
But why would his puzzle game collection waste someone else's time ? He's the one collecting the games or doing the puzzles so why would it waste anybody else's time but his ?
Fingerprint sensors on tuxified Android phones
OP stated:

> at this point my only question is whether these places go broke in my lifetime or not

I think that would be hard to do when running a $30+ billion budget surplus.
It’s easy to say Chandler is just “easy suburban streets”, but for a computer to drive by itself it’s completely non-trivial. In any case, they are already giving private beta rides in SF, so you will soon see how they tackle dense urban streets. They recently started mapping NYC, so I assume that’s coming in the near future too.

Waymo (and others) are very clear that geofencing and prior knowledge of roads are necessary for safe operations. Their safety standards are extremely high because there’s no driver for fallback — the vehicle is responsible end-to-end. Geofencing allows them to validate extensively and that means when they say it works, it really does.

I think the mapping argument is pretty overblown at this point. Most of them have figured out how to do it efficiently and keep it up-to-date.
If you've got a laser mouse, put a 'screen saver' on an old phone and set the mouse on the phone...
The answer is not to close open source projects, but establish healthy boundaries between your audience and yourself. And no, you don't have to be healthy to establish those boundaries, but you do need these boundaries if you want to be healthy.

Rather than giving up and closing a project, my answer to abuse and unreasonable demands is to be liberal with ignoring and blocking. It's not my fault that someone chose to berate me, but it's my choice to keep giving them a way to do it. But most of the time, a simple "I will do it when I have time" is more than enough. I believe in carefully curating the online places I manage in order to maintain a healthy atmosphere. I choose health and well-being above "popularity at all costs".

About the projects, I'm not gonna dox myself, and I don't think the cross-examination is warranted or even in the spirit of this site. I believe my post stands by itself. You can doubt all you want, but that only solidifies my belief I'm doing the right thing.
that is not only issue here. Pharma are provided with immunity and they are known to extort other government too. Imagine giving cash, power and immunity to these mammoths.
What, you’re not persuaded that the concept of immutability popped into existence in the late 2000s with the appearance of Clojure?
The name comes from the fact that Purescript is a purely functional programming language (ie. controlled side effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_programming

As a joke, I've heard some call JavaScript "ImpureScript" :)
401k matching might solve this problem? Are any governments doing this? It’s a really strong incentive to contribute the maximum every year, and while it does cost some money, it’s peanuts compared to the long term liability of a pension. With (tax free) compounding interest, the employee would probably end up better off in most cases when they retire.
Why is that wrong? :)

Was there a rule that mouse jigleres are forbidden ? You change a game, I adapt to game, its normal behavior and its expected. You cant blame people for being creative. Companies do that kind of gray zone stuff all the time to optimize taxes and nobody seem to have a problem with it and consider immoral.
> That's a total mischaracterization. It's more of a shot across the bow, a warning along the lines of "you really want to open this Pandora's box?"

Fine reasoning, except it's already open. SCOTUS allowed the law to stand. Any barrier to laws of that type will have to come from the US Congress or the state legislatures.
The problem is that self-driving is almost entirely about edge-cases. And machine learning can optimistically only reach about 99% accuracy, so that last 1% of edge cases is where the real problem lies.
WPF hello world app gonna build in couple seconds on any machine.

WinUI3 is a mess. I have a fast desktop PC, first time it took longer than 1 minute. BTW, the installation package size for “Hello world” app made from the default template is 92.6 MB without dependencies, and 139MB with a few dependent libraries.
We are very risk averse of taking vaccines, while they are incredibly safe and barely have any risk associated with them. Probably more harm is done because people are too afraid of taking a vaccine than the opposite (not only looking at covid19 vaccines). The biggest harm done by taking vaccines you don't really need is probably that the money could have been used for something more useful.
Agreed. I was very happy when it was announced in 2019 that Cargo got offline support: https://www.ncameron.org/blog/cargo-offline/

You can even prefetch popular libraries: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-prefetch
Can confirm that fully automatic AR-15 is effect against both rats and mice.
The new generations would be (and are!) quicker to adapt to and create new norms. It used to be that just a few generations ago the middle and elder generations were the carriers of experience and wisdom vital to thriving in the world. This is still true to a certain extent but new societal norms created in large part thanks to the steady (or exponential) march of technological progress are more easily adapted to by the younger generations.

In addition, term lengths could be placed on more than government roles to prevent excessive solidification of rules and procedures.
CPP is woefully inadequate to survive on in most of Canada.
"[...]The behavior of the pro-Zwarte Piet hooligans you're defending [...]"

How am I defending them? I am calling them out as scum. These are the same people turning violent on the police in Rotterdam a month ago because football was not allowed to have public in the stadiums. They are out for the kicks and are looking to amuse themselves in this way.

If you have a good solution for dealing with scum, please share.