skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say I want to get a little RPI that comes with a small LED screen and a button to generate a five-digit initial login code. Then you connect over wifi through your phone can select from a dropdown menu what you want your home server to do. Let's even say that the only entry is something ridiculously easy like "Quote of the Day."

The only other requirement-- the box gets automatically updated like a Chromebook does.

Are there any extant FOSS home server projects that can achieve this minimum level of usability and reliability? If so I'd like to know about them. If not then Moxie wins.
Well Virginia ain't Norway. This happens a couple times a decade. People don't tend to prepare that well for shit that happens a couple times a decade.

Here at least they don't. Maybe in Norway.
> It is possible in theory that code that’s less carefully optimized exhibits different behavior, or that the benchmarks chosen here are simply not as amenable to compiler optimization as they could be

I think that's very relevant.

A lot of compiler optimisation work is about allowing programmers to write more natural code without losing efficiency. That won't show up as a speed gain in cases where the programmers were writing the "low level" form in the first place.
This means Netflix operates as a production and post studio for their many and talented film-makers. The stuff with the red N on the poster -- some of it is REALLY good -- uses Netflix-operated handling.

Any video production goes through a lot of steps from raw studio footage to edited, finished product. This web site says that Netflix processes and people handle a lot of that.

Also it looks like 4K is their minimum standard now. I bet the higher resolution makes it easier, with big*ss GPUs to clean up the raw footage.

(Footage? WTF? Video measured by distance? Maybe we should say "frameage" or "pix.")
This pretty much ended around Blu-ray/HD-DVD switch from DVD. It was pretty standard to have a dedicated 2.0 Lt/Rt (sometimes a Lo/Ro) mix that was typically included as the first (default friendly) audio track on the DVD. This was convenient for people that did not have a surround system. Ideally, these were separate mixes vs automated downmix. They typically sounded good in stereo only. With the HD formats, it became the norm to no longer include the stereo source on the disc. Now, the expense of this specific mix could be avoided.

Who in the world only has 2 speakers? /s
The study seems to limit itself to 3 months which is basically a vacation. I'm curious if those adolescents think after a year that their quality of life is better.
Wild garlic is really good, and in season sold in normal supermarkets. As are kiwiberries. The raspberry is nice as well, though hard to collect in large quantities. Those and pawpaws are not in the store because their shelf-life is non-existent. I also like sweet cecily, though understand that some people don't like the licorice/anis aroma. Elderberry depends a little on the recipe, but for example elderberry soup I try to have every year.

I wouldn't vouch for the others (that I have not tried), knowing very well that many plants on such lists tend to taste unpleasant.
I said >COVID is imminent danger to the people with underlying conditions and they should practice maximum precautions(distance, masks etc. plus Vitamin D intake).

So what is alternative? Let kids down the drain with their education and childhood.
I wonder if Hylang can be used to work on this book, for someone approaching Lisp from a Python background, or the impedance mismatch between Hylang and CL is too high to allow that.
It's not. Sweden also has public tax returns. They are just either in printed form per post code or paywalled for a specific individual. I think this is by design to make it harder to pry.
> Imagine a world where you’re no longer being spied on because NSA, Apple and Microsoft no longer have backdoor access to your computer.

I'm in NH so this actually affects me but this language is a bit much.
The C70 has the same sensor as the C300 MKIII so that could be why.
But then you question why isn't the A7s III or FX3 approved when the FX6 is approved and they all share the same sensor.
And this means we can’t do things like force disconnect an eGPU or whatever on acpi events.

I think I figured out my issue with systemd. It does not apply Chesterton Fence when redeveloping things… and how could it, when it redevelops so much.

Maybe it’s fine if it’s all you’ve ever know (or you never hacked on your system) but those that did have lost something.
When you can’t afford you can download pirated version and donate if you feel that the book gave you value.
I met most of my friends via IRC in the 90s...

I miss the excitement of reconnecting to the bouncer and reading chat log. Something you just don't get from slackbot.
I looked into a million wiki/documentation projects and my absolute favorite for consumption (reading and navigation) was Docusaurus [1].

The only problem is that Docusaurus is intended for static public documentation, so it does not provide user-accounts or multi-topic content-management that you would expect from bigger wiki-like projects.

I wish Docusaurus would expand its scope to serve as a wiki, rather than single-purpose documentation - but I understand these are different use-cases altogether.

[1] https://docusaurus.io/docs
Or allowing the home hardware to do the mix for them. This is when it sounds the worst in my not so humble opinion.
Well-Commented If Statements Make Software Robust
I thought there was some interesting history in the book and certain common lisp implementations like SBCL are incredibly fast and powerful (some real secret alien technology there), but I thought that I could generally make shorter and clearer programs in just about any common scripting language (Python, Perl, PowerShell...etc). Granted, I know those languages better, but the book honestly didn't want to make me write Lisp. Homoiconicity is insanely powerful, but I find that specific syntax for certain things is easier for me to read and write up to a certain point.
Yeah this seems like the obvious caveat. You don’t need to mandate vaccines if most people take them by choice…
They were black on green which is fine, white on green is hard to read, only white on yellow would be worse for the way our cone cells are distributed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Par...

NASA, ESA and CSA have collaborated on the telescope since 1996. [...] ESA is providing the NIRSpec instrument, the Optical Bench Assembly of the MIRI instrument, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher, and manpower to support operations. The CSA will provide the Fine Guidance Sensor and the Near-Infrared Imager Slitless Spectrograph plus manpower to support operations.

Several thousand scientists, engineers, and technicians spanning 15 countries have contributed to the build, test and integration of the JWST. A total of 258 companies, government agencies, and academic institutions are participating in the pre-launch project; 142 from the United States, 104 from 12 European countries, and 12 from Canada. Other countries as NASA partners, such as Australia, have or will be involved in post-launch operation.
Nothing from NIKON?
This is their studio PRODUCTION standard. It has very little to do with the exotic capabilities, or not, of each viewing endpoint.
Yeah OpenRC is pretty great and much lighter than systemd. It's way better than sysvinit. Less daemons running than systemd and it doesn't try to be more than just an init system. I use alpine on all my servers for this reason. And because it's so minimalistic as a distribution, I can just install what I need and nothing else at all. On a desktop system with the OS being suspended, USB devices coming and going systemd makes more sense I think.

But on the desktop I use FreeBSD which has a different system again.

By the way alpine is also working on a full service manager init system (like systemd) but more minimalistic, based on s6 service manager. Looking forward to seeing how that pans out.

https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html

When something comes from the alpine team I have a much higher confidence that I'll like it than from RedHat :) I don't care for Gnome either as it has become so opinionated.
I don't fault any schools for struggling from March 2020 to June 2020, being thrown into the pandemic and remote learning with no warning. But I was absolutely astonished to see that most administrators took the summer of 2020 off, assuming that everybody would be back in school that fall and things would be normal. They wasted several months of time that could've been spent planning contingencies and how remote learning might work better than just pure zoom.

I always thought that schools should have considered something I saw done at a SANS training course once. While there were ~20 people in attendance, there were also several people attending virtually. Those virtual attendees had a surrogate in the room, whose job was to monitor chat/messages from the virtual attendees and raise his hand to ask a question to the instructor - as if they were there in person. This allowed the instructor to teach the course as he normally would, using a full projection screen, white board, and other materials.

This surrogate method would have allowed teachers to be in their classrooms drawing on blackboards, using charts, posters, and other instructional aids they've spent years building, instead of having to pivot completely to PowerPoint. It's a shame to see absolutely no creativity or thinking outside the box among school administrators.
I would like a source for this too, having not worn a mask once in the entire 2 years of what I'll call a "hoax". The way the media talked about it, I should've been dead a year ago. I've been on public transportation, malls, grocery stores.

I'm probably a lot healthier than you since I'm not breathing in moist bacteria culture growing over your mouth and whatever material the mask is made out of all day.
And besides, it works in kerbal space program.
It's surprisingly common for government agencies to request that you send them Word documents or install some proprietary software.
The bomb defusal scene in Archer was an absolute classic for this. https://youtu.be/_4jxLxZrMfs
>I don't see how bitcoin can at all be a positive thing on a systemic level when it's primary purpose is financial speculation and scamming

I understand this is all opinion on both sides. I would add this opnion risks overlooking, say, Argentinian free-lancers who are paid in crypto because the system surrounding them makes it untenable to use conventional banking. Or the jewler buying precious metals with litecoin to avoid credit card fees. Escaping a failed economic system like refugees in Venezuela receiving crypto remittance definitely seems like a systemic improvement for them.

I guess you could call using it for transaction to buy precious metal speculative, but even in that system the actual crypto transaction isn't speculative as it merely acts as a unit of trade to buy an underlying "speculative" investment (personally I don't consider PMs speculative investment but rather store of value that I don't desire the volatility to appreciate or depreciate.)

>its primary cost is massive amounts of CO2

So you hate electricity? Join the Amish.

>mass murders are financially beneficial to funeral directors

But this isn't true. The people killed have to die sometime, their death is assured to the funeral directors. Them living longer just means they're more likely to reproduce and generate a new human who in turn dies someday. Funeral directors are worse off by mass murder. I think this excellent allegory points out your economic short-sightedness. Funeral directors want people to live highly reproductive lives, not short lives.

> Of course it can be individually beneficial - mass murders

Now we have entered clown world where mass murder is the example given. How many mass murders actually happened specifically and only because of the existance of crypto? The only example even close I'm aware of is Ross Ulbricht's alleged murder plot that was never even prosecuted thus we have no idea if it was true.

>advocating for something immoral because it benefits them financially

So basically anyone advocating for using dollars? I see crypto like a hammer, it's a tool that can be used morally, immorraly, or merely in a morally neutral fashion.

>Which is about all I expect from libertarians, to be fair.

Is this supposed to be some sort of ad-hominem attack?

>Which is about all I expect from libertarians

I have a hard time making sweeping generalizations about morality based on one's political choice.
I wonder what the optimal number of James Webb space telescopes would be? The cost per unit as a function of number built has been debated, but what about the marginal utility (benefit) ? If you built two instead of one, you would get lots of benefit from the second - an entirely independent set of scientists could decide what to do with it, and maybe explore entirely different subjects. If you made ten thousand of them though, the last one would be nearly useless, because there aren’t enough smart people to make proper use of it. My guess is that after a couple of them, the marginal utility falls off very quickly.
10 years and I still can't figure out how to view custom service logs, darn, so I redirect them into a logfile.txt in my .service files. Well, okay.

I don't care how it works and didn't take part in condemning it back then either, and I think that probably it made something better (? not that I felt it), but from a pure sudo-user perspective it is a strange ini-based tech-ridden(?) launcher to me. I've managed small networks before it and haven't really experienced any trouble that it supposed to remove(?).

Tldr: I still don't know what it is and what is it for. Servers worked before and after it, maybe that is already a good experience.
Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs
I thought that the green bubbles were WhatsApp messages when I started reading the post. Outside the USA iMessage is something that only people with an iPhone use when messaging other people they know having an iPhone. All the group chats are on systems that run both on Android and iOS because you don't know what the other people are using and frankly it doesn't matter. And only banks and credit cards are sending SMSes. They are slowly moving to push messages on their own apps.
I know someone who makes her own dyes to color her own yarn for knitting.

And yet with vanishingly few exceptions, not even the most hardcore crafters want to dye their own yarn.

Thus it is for servers.
"It's a class of error that would be caught by even the most basic testing. "

You could say that about anything and everything in software.

It's not acceptable that testing needs to be run for something the language should 100% accommodate.

The whole point of the language is to provide algorithmic clarity and avoid these things.

This isn't really an issue of 'trade offs' is just a bad feature of the language that should have been remedied more than a decade ago.

The lack of proper declaration of variables is even more absurd, there's only downside to that.
That's interesting. How is made?
Top of the list is Munich based ARRI. A fascinating story by itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arri
It would be like Apple paying off forum sites to do something like that, graying out Android users in any public discourse. Android phones are more popular in African American communities, so Apple is already doing segregation-like stuff with these hard to read text bubbles.
That's got to be pretty recent and only in certain markets though. I've yet to see a read receipt from SMS (U.S.).
On mobile, it tells me I have NaN% of my life left.
So much so. I wish it was easier to cultivate at home, it tastes just like chicken.
ask them to email it to you?
If we're going to be pedantic, "idempotent" (or rather non-idempotent) as used in the description is rather vapid and meaningless. Idempotency is a quality that describes the result of an action; as such, only actions can be thought of as idempotent. Applying the word idempotent to any noun that does not describe an action (such as "dataflow" in this case) is meaningless.

What does it mean for a dataflow to be idempotent in the first place? What purpose does it then serve to describe a dataflow as non-idempotent? What they meant to say, I guess, is that the dataflow may contain multiple actions for the same unit, and that systemd makes no guarantees about the end state of the unit in such a case. But even then, it is the execution which should be described as non-idempotent, and not the dataflow.
If it were up to me, if the camera doesn't have Global Shutter, it should not be allowed. Nothing more annoying to me than when flash/strobes appear on partial multiple frames. <shudder> Then again, if it were up to me, it would not be allowed to be called cinema unless it used global shutter.
The ARRL Handbook is a good place to dig into the basics. You can go in several directions from there, but that'll get you started.
> There were similar debates taking place online around the dawn of e-commerce.

I don't remember any debates in the 1990's about this. Some people built stuff, others just closed their physical shops and moved on to something else, or added online versions with delivery and survived. There was no debate per se, or if there was then it was by doing, not frigging talking.

Also, it didn't take Amazon 10 years to take over shopping. In 1999 Bezos himself famously said he's the most surprized person on Earth by how sucessful Amazon had become. It was obvious to most people e-commerce was there to change shopping forever, except for those who ran high street shops.
How NASA Does Software Testing and QA
If they’re using messaging apps, which most internet users are, they’re creating content.
Why did you install iTunes in the first place? It’s an optional download and doesn’t come pre-installed. To remove iTunes, drag it’s icon in the Applications folder to the recycling bin.
The claim is false; process substitution can be cobbed together with named fifos,* and those are "ancient".

Only problem that those are temporary objects that have to be created in the file system, and cleaned up.

However, temporary objects (files, no fifos) are also used in here doc implementations.

Process substitution is a late feature simply because the creativity juice in Unix (tm) dried up some time before the middle 1990's, leaving the FOSS reimplementations of Unix to carry the development torch.

Those projects had to balance among other goals like quality/robustness and compatibility.

(If we look at the quality of the FOSS tools compared to the Unix originals, we could also remark that "quality and robustness was late in coming to Unix". But we equivocate on Unix, because GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix!)

Features appearing in FOSS utilities like GNU Bash take time to make into Unix (tm).

Process substitution is not yet in the standard, therefore it is not in in fact in Unix (tm).

Shell scripting is a conservative activity. The language isn't very good and so improving it is like kicking a dead horse in some ways; the most important matter in any new shell release is that old scripts keep working. (Like configuration scripts for the build systems of nicer languages).

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* See GNU Bash manual: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash....:
" Process substitution is supported on systems that support named pipes (FIFOs) or the /dev/fd method of naming open files. "
I took from the article that they are referring to fleet cars, which sounds about right
The blue bubble snobs or the green bubble plebs?
There is not. There used to be. They removed it. The only way to create a local account during install is to refuse to connect to the internet.
Oh... the stories I could tell about Australian gov IT!

I have a theory that for a long time now Australia has been "too rich" in the sense that government inefficiency and waste effectively aren't perceived as important and is simply being ignored.

A friend of mine got a senior gov IT person drunk one Friday evening and asked him what he thought about the failure of the project to deliver on time and budget. (At that point it was already delayed by 2 years and a hundred million over budget).

He replied: "There is no such metric as success or failure for this project."

You see, only government budget line items have success or failure metrics. Those are all in the billion-dollar range, and are tracked by the Treasury, properly audited, and can qualify as "failing". Anything less than that goes into the "Other" category and isn't tracked to any significant degree.

Everyone involved in these things is a contractor or a consultant, and to them delays and budget overruns are a success, not a failure.

As I was saying, nobody seems to care about this, so the profligate waste will continue until we have a proper economic crisis that will force everyone to tighten their belts and stop wasting money quite as much...
You're looking at desktop. This doesn't exist on iOS Google Chat, for example.
That's not intrinsic value
You’re right, I didn’t think through the triangle.

Still, as I’ve said, there are square-shaped manhole covers too.

http://manhole.co.il
> the logind way is probably safer to abstract behind a user friendly GUI.

How so? The canonical solution would be to ship a default `lid_down` script that could take the currently-active policy as set by the GUI as an input. But the nice thing is that adding/tweaking policies is a fully-supported operation, you just edit the script and the GUI config mechanism to support them.
I had iphones from the 3G on up to about 2 years ago, when I thought I'd try android. I was surprised when group txt messages stopped working for me, even after I did whatever apple told me to do to disable iMessage after the fact.
The whole time I thought we were using txt messages as a kind of least common denominator, but really it wasn't sms. I doubt if more than 50% of ppl using it realize they're locking themselves in when they start. To me, now that I'm used to Android, it's a reason not to go back to iOS.

Now I just need to convince my spouse to switch
I also don't have a static ip at home, but have a hub-star private network that runs over Cisco routers over the Comcast network that allows multiple employees to share in the resources, from the single connection with public facing IPs, with pretty low latency through the private network. It's all done on the cheap, but fast enough I can remote into the office and work on 3d models or photoshop. Certainly fast enough for routing side projects for testing. Obviously this is more complex and costly than the initial home setup of a single node. But even in more rural situations it should be easy to build up networks of like minded people with local ISPs which could share resources like this. Apply for /24, get it setup with an ISP, and then VPN the rest of the traffic in from fellow customers.
Bullish...
Very true, I even think satoshi wrote that somewhere on bitcointalk back in the day, something along the lines of "I have designed bitcoin, it solves byzantine general problem. This solution is extremely complex so it should hide the fact what ive really made is a ponzi scheme"
Funny you should say that.

WhatsApp became popular worldwide in part due to supporting such a vast amount of devices; including what would be known these days as 'feature phones'. It even works on some of Nokia's 'retro' phones such as the 8110.
Nikon does video cameras?
It's not that close. The moon is 384,400km away, and JWST will be 1.5 million km away (i.e., around 4x as far as the moon). It would be a pretty serious undertaking to get to it and get back.