skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at their new flexible layout feature. The way the feature is designed around the css layout spec makes for a killer feature IMHO. Finally getting designers talking and thinking within the constraints that devs are bound by.
DOSBox will do it fine and much faster than 86box.

EDIT: Ok, install. Well, using DOSBox in full screen would be pretty close to a screen of its era, save for being flat.
If the top 1% paid their employees more, then there would be less reliance on the state and more people would be paying more tax.

As it stands, people who are in work are still requiring state help because they are not earning enough.
So much depends on how you measure it. But median individual income in the US is quite a bit higher than 19k no matter how you measure it.

Real, adjusted, individual including non working and part-time population above 15yo: $38k/yr

Including only full-time workers: $57k

Median household income: $71k

The US has enough problems, no need to make up much smaller income numbers than the reality.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
> But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West.

Yes, I definitely hear you. If you're living well within your means then sure.
But on the other hand, a shocking number of Americans don't live within their means and are strapped with credit card debt. In those situations even a small number of instances of this kind of "oh, it's just $20 / month" reasoning start to add up.

> It probably increases my productivity by that much per day.

Again, this doesn't matter if you're on the edge of cash flow positivity and can't actually turn that productivity into dollars. Your employer isn't going to pay you $20 / month more because they can't measure your productivity with that much granularity.
Minecraft released in 2009 with a price of $13 a copy. How'd that work out for them?

I am a bit older as a gamer so to hear that "2006 the market was small" is crazy to me! I grew up playing MUDs and believe me, the market for text games in 2006 was a lot bigger than it is today! From my perspective, monetizing the kids from the 80s/90s who loved text games with the best text game of all time as they turn 20s and 30s in the 2006... that's the best time in history to sell a text game.

I think that as part of DF being monetized, the graphics would be replaced, as it was for Steam, and potentially had it been done in 2D back in the 2000s, they could have envisioned and scaled into a 3D implementation by now. Who knows!
That a law is broken by people does not mean we don't need it.
https://amazing.photos

Project description: Create amazing photos of you based on an enhanced Stable Diffusion model.

The app produces results that are better than any others I have seen.

My secret: I grade each generated photo and then only show those that pass the quality tests.
Although, "writing C++ in Rust with unsafe everywhere" does grant you the right to append "X written in Rust" when you finally do your Show HN, leading to a 26.7% increase in upvotes, so there is that.
DOSBox-X has internet support with NE2000.
So we should be against wind power because it helps Facebook track people?

Well that's novel at least, but I'm going to file it with Trump and Putin's "opinions" on wind (that the sound causes cancer and they disturb the worms) as clear and obvious BS.
I just looked and the post from yesterday now says [flagged]. I don't really know what that means in a HN context.
Cool. Did similar thing years ago for a game and hve to say: it's not the mesh that gives nightmares, it's the texturing :))
Have you tried any of the 24 Ghz/mmWave presence sensors which supposedly don't have the lack of movement problem?
> Rather than dereferencing an invalid pointer doing "whatever this CPU does", suddenly all C implementations now have to do whatever, for example, a VAX did.

Dereferencing an invalid pointer doesn't do "whatever this CPU does," it does completely unpredictable things. I think that's part of the problem (to the extent it's a problem)
Q. Why do you work hard?

A. Because you choose to.

Choosing to work means taking action in the world, which is where you can stop looking for a cause outside yourself. How did you choose, you can still ask. But you choose to work because you choose to work. It's because of this that you can say you have a good work ethic. A choice is something that you take responsibility for. Not your parents, or your work ethic, or the way you were raised.
My experience as someone who used Android, then iPhone for a few years, and am now back to Android, is that the quality of many apps is identical or better on Android, at least for apps that I use every day. There is also F-Droid, where many apps are low quality but I'll have the opportunity to look at the source code, which is usually not the case on the iPhone.

The iPhone apps are all geared toward monetization now. If you want a decent podcast player, you're expected to pay for it, either with dollars or ad eyeballs.
Nobody really wants to collaborate on an iOS app. Android has a few options for community-supported players that are quite good.

A lot of iPhone apps want a monthly subscription even if they don't really improve. The ones that ask for one-time payments tend to hide their features in multiple one-time payments. Many smaller apps don't have the residuals that keep their developer interested. They never end in an open source state where someone who cares could take them over, so eventually your investment goes to zero. In this, it's a lot like Windows, except on Windows you can usually rely on backwards compatibility.

Sometimes, using something that has been pushed out the door by a developer who needed to scratch an itch and doesn't care about the aesthetics is preferable to a gorgeous app that lost compatibility at iOS 7, forcing you to buy a different app after an upgrade.

I think, also, the reason why you see this explicit example of the mastodon app being superior, is because the people who care include designers who are willing to donate their time. They themselves use iPhones and don't care about making the Android version because it's not their itch to scratch. That's fine, but it is a contrived example.

Finally, show me the syncthing client that works well on iOS.
jeeeesus, do you dump old beer and banana peels into that thing or does it take unleaded?
>But another big issue is at stake that has received much less attention: depending on the outcome of the case, individual users of sites may suddenly be liable for run-of-the-mill content moderation. Many sites rely on users for community moderation to edit, shape, remove, and promote other users’ content online—think Reddit’s upvote, or changes to a Wikipedia page. What might happen if those users were forced to take on legal risk every time they made a content decision?

>In short, the court could change Section 230 in ways that won’t just impact big platforms; smaller sites like Reddit and Wikipedia that rely on community moderation will be hit too, warns Emma Llansó, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Free Expression Project. “It would be an enormous loss to online speech communities if suddenly it got really risky for mods themselves to do their work,” she says.

Hacker News too? Dang?
Who’s he exploiting and how?

Related description and background on “poverty porn” which by definition requires non-consensual exploitation:

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_porn
On one hand it's shitty. But I also don't see why I should pay (and pay for them too) if they don't have to...
By that logic few companies produce anything. All distributors and resellers are no different than Pirate Bay. Movie studios are no different. Movie theatres are no different. HN is no different.

I think that may be too reductive of a worldview.
The problem is actually even worse than that. Abolishing the police effectively means ending the state. Who pays taxes without the police? The courts have no means of enforcing judgements against tax-evaders without the police, and without taxes, the rest of the state ceases to function.
Typical Apple, making you pay extra for something that should come standard.
I was saying 1,000,000 requests, which is the same for any time period
just tested -- only reads first char, at least with echo
(also any character which is not used is used as "h")

echo apm > /proc/sysrq-trigger

I'm too scared to test with your urandom stuff...
You're commenting even after someone has already provided a legitimate good use of this tech, and are the third person to write as if it were established that it's unethical to develop this tech. I never said that it's fine to do unethical things because others will do it anyway, and I wish you wouldn't imply that I did. From the get-go, it was an open discussion whether the development was good/bad/neutral, and my original comment was to clarify that jakelazaroff's comment probably misinterpreted what they quoted from the use of "must".

My position is that development is not unethical. I'm not trying to justify this position because I don't think it needs to be. When I said "others will do it anyway", it's not a justification and my original comment wasn't even about my position on this. My comment was referring to the usefulness of stopping the implicit always-ethically-neutral development of a tech in order to stop the potential misuse of it. I'm saying that even if they stopped the development of this one repo, or a few, or all others implementing this tech, it'd be ineffective. This repo is just one bit of the tech. Most of the tech is in its dependencies. If someone wants it and has nefarious uses in mind, they don't really really need this repo for that.
Honestly this is why TikTok ended up being so successful. Short videos, straight to the point, with the Reddit vibe of "this is from an actual human". I routinely try out new recipes I've seen on TikTok (not the trendy influencer recipes that just look good though, actual recipes from people) and am never disappointed. It takes like 30 seconds to get the gist of the recipe, and the details are in description or comments without any fluff.
Also, I consider a union part of the labor movement. The police are not part of a countries productive output, they are not labor.
What is described in the article reminds me of how Philip K. Dick’s “autofac” would probably have worked, had he known of 3d printing then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac
Out of curiosity, are there tax options (specifically, retroactive ones) for this situation?

As near as I know: (1) they formed a company at some point in the past (S-corp?), (2) they did constant work per year, (3) they had some donations per year, (4) they suddenly had a large amount of revenue in 2022

I'm guessing they didn't fully account for their time/expenses in prior years.

If they didn't, are there options to go back and amend previous returns in amounts that would be meaningful? (Assuming they have proof, etc.)
FWIW, Twitter had been run by a manchild (Jack Dorsey) for over a decade and didn't collapse under the weight of his stupidity or ego. I also hate Elon Musk, but it's quite possible that profiting from the hate and vitriol on the internet doesn't require many IQ points.
Don’t know what vegan communities you’re a part of, but none of the ones I’ve been in care about fig wasps, or the other incidental insects that inevitably get eaten accidentally due to eating lots of vegetables.
I have home assistant running with quite a few esp32's running esphome with random sensors/bulbs scattered around the house.

My question is, what do you use the manage the automations? Do you use the native home assistant automation, or node-red, etc? I've even looked a bit into Room assistant[0]

[0] https://www.room-assistant.io/guide/#how-it-works
> an on-going electro-chemical reaction that we’re just observing the outputs of and concluding that we’re controlling it somehow?

Who is the "we" in that sentence, that is not in control?
best to withhold judgement until one’s death

sometimes you’re ahead sometimes you’re behind
Not at all a C partisan, but this blog is pretty amazing, with a bunch of interesting asides. A sort of hyperlinked version of somebody's entire worldview, and this is the entrypoint. Good job on the output
You gotta admit DFs name / description generation is just gobbledygook most of the time. Tastefully applied, AI bullshit generators will do wonders to readability.
For example HTTP request. Anything, actually. Some rough code:

function Item({id}) {
const r = usePromise(async (signal) => {
const resp = await fetch(`/item/${id}`, {signal});
return await resp.json();
}, [id]);
if (r.status == "pending") {
return <div>Loading</div>;
}
if (r.status == "rejected") {
return <div>Error: {r.reason}</div>;
}
return <div>{r.value}</div>;
}

It's really like useEffect but provides better support for cancellation and properly tracks promise. Rewriting this snippet with useEffect correctly would require quite a lot of code (although rewriting this snippet with useEffect incorrectly is possible with not a lot of code, but you don't want to write incorrect code). Which has to be repeated everywhere.

Again, this task is better solved by react-query or its alternatives. What I'm writing is not strictly web-site, but rather a web-interface on embedded device and web-server is not remote web-server but thing that works on the same device, so for now I decided not to use those libraries which made for slightly different use-cases.
This article is written from a top-down perspective, as if morality is about how some higher power should allocate benefits and burdens:

> These episodes illustrate what seems to be one of the enduring themes of our age: socially dominant groups, recipients of myriad unearned advantages, willfully refusing to acknowledge them, despite persistent efforts from socially disadvantaged groups.

A more useful understanding of morality is that it’s a framework for cultivating individually and socially desirable behavior. If you’re a member of one of those “socially disadvantaged groups” you can’t do anything about the unearned advantages held by other people. All you can do is control your own actions.

From that perspective, it’s better for a member of a socially disadvantaged group to discount luck altogether-act is if nothing is holding them back—whether it’s true or not. I probably wouldn’t be here in America if my dad had sat around dwelling on the happenstance of his having been born in a third world village, or thinking about the unearned privileges reaped by British colonization of his homeland.
With this kind of money, you can absolutely get someone to do all the work you need to make your tax mostly disappear. Heck, they probably find your number and call you directly, you would only have to say "Yes, I want to save a couple million dollars".

I'm not saying it's good, but at the moment it's just so easy, risk-free and completely legal.
I really wonder what’s happening at all the video/audio call intelligence startups that raised over the last few years [1][2][3]. I would pay to be a fly on the wall during their strategy meetings this morning.

I guess another footnote in the history books for Microsoft decimating a recently emerged biz niche.

[1] Airgram - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/otter-ai-airgram-transcrib...

[2] OtterAI - https://venturebeat.com/business/otter-ai-raises-50-million-...

[3] Supernormal - https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/supernormal-raises-10m-to-...
My experience with Zapier is that you quickly hit a point where you’re building an ultra complex expression or manipulating json in a less than ideal editor. Also your zap is basically the ast of the code you would have written and grows quickly. Code is far more terse.

That said, long running durable workflow tools that are targeted at devs all have challenges. There’s room for a Goldilocks solution. I’d imagine temporal will win though.
Then you need 4 languages and each of them has slightly broken interactions. Hell is the code we write.
> not wasting tons of precious energy and talent

If it's China and the government owns that energy and talent then yes. If it is a free country, then the government has no businesses telling us how to best invest our resources and talent.
As a complete aside, happy birthday bud!
Billionaire founder of a large and influential private equity firm that has helped create a business environment increasingly focused on market power and monopoly rather than innovation notices his entire worldview is now aligned with the party that has made protecting the interests of people like him its one core non-negotiable value.

Clearly this is the fault of the hippies and angry working class people on social media.
why would you post this here, who cares?
People are mad because of Copenhagen ethics https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
No there is some truth in this statement. Since 1990 the US has started between 3 and 6 (depending how you count) illegal foreign interventions while talking a big game about a "rules based international order". Understandable how russians who are deeply cynical anyway would see through those slogans and realize that might still makes right.

Now I'm not defending anything Russia is doing, but if this was a US invasion all energy and communications infrastructure would have been destroyed by air strikes and missiles before the 24th of february.

Russia is a lot worse of course, where war crimes are a matter of course and not singular occurrences but I just wanted to give some perspective to the people with no memories. I'd still rather be in the siege of Fallujah than the second siege of Grozny.
This is only a couple of years after Sarah Everards murder by an officer - how officers acted in towards women in the vigil after her death wasn't exactly great either.
i'm sure that was Brexit. now if you earn a high wage, work for a big company that has big time lawyers. you will have your skilled visa in about 2 weeks depending on the country.

let's not start on the nightmare called h1b.

yeah current cost of living in the uk, is kinda fucked but us isn't faring better. if you only look at raw salary number then yeah US is ahead, but once you start factoring other things - uk / us are on par.
The similar thought that stuck with me was regarding the human immune system. The thought that there's a myriad of things constantly happening in the human body, a continuous contest of different lifeforms, and that the immune system is the things that tries to keep on top of it all. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing. It really makes me think just how complex, interconnected, ever-changing everything is.
Everything is relative. I'm in IT - in fact in a decently high paying and relevant part of it, being a devops specialist - in the West (in Italy) and I make ~1700 euros a month, and this is with 10 years of experience in the sector. I'm not getting ripped off, this is by far the highest salary I've had and I make about as much as my parents do after working for 45 years.

I still cannot afford, after house, car and living expenses, to spend 20 euros a month for an AI chat app, or 150 a year for an IDE.

For reference, I do most of my work in standard vscode with almost no plugins and/or emacs, depending on what I'm doing, on the company provided dell/windows laptop. The only subscriptions, personal or work, that I pay for are netflix, spotify, xbox game pass, nintendo online and amazon prime - and we're thinking of dropping netflix and spotify lately since they're increasing prices and lowering in value.
If it's anything like other countries, then they make substantially less than what a proportional taxation would imply.

In the us for example the top 1% pay 6 times the taxes than the bottom 50% on a dollar for dollar basis
> Imagine if we encouraged this sort of behavior and Instagram was full of people helping others instead of people showing their ass.

Instagram is full of people filming themselves helping poor people. Mostly in public, mostly not asking for permission to film and I hate it. It's charity porn, it's demeaning, degrading, patronising and most of all attention-grabbing.

They're using other people for their own benefit (views, likes, subscribes).
Thank you for the correction, you are correct. This is the drawback of arguing on a forum where you are not using your first language. But I hope that even if that was doubled up it did not stop anybody from understanding what I meant.
Maybe not the origin but here is the story told by Alan Watts:
https://youtu.be/j4TZMxkxySc
The perfect PaaS: Does it exist? Or impossible to build?
My likely unpopular opinion is that it will be hard to make money with Open AI API. The main moat, i.e. competitive advantage in such applications is the model, and infra serving it. Application won't be that hard to reproduce.

If you find a good application with more or less wide market, it will be quickly copied by larger players. Also, the majority of profits will likely go to OpenAI unless there will be other competing providers.
The fallback doesn't have to change the state of the switch. Just leave the state alone on disconnect/reconnect from the network/controller.

In the case of power outages where the whole device loses power... presumably these devices have some sort of nonvolatile memory and can afford to keep track of their last state. That's one bit for a basic on/off switch. :)
Yeah the announcement could sure look better. Something like release notes that are linked from the download page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5
mrdeepfakes.com is a site where deepfakes are being shared publicly, so your comment doesn't have much to do with the comment you actually replied to.
I lived in the Philippines for a number of years. Traveled extensively in the country, too, visiting several provinces and tourist traps.

Many of your criticisms are accurate. But I don’t know if I’d agree about the country having “too much freedom”.

There is a very real government force in play. It’s just incredibly corrupt. A small number of families essentially control the country with their wealth, and the government has to do what those families want. Or else.

Shortly before I left, a local news outlet called Rappler was pushing hard against the new president at the time, Duterte. He didn’t like that, so he essentially threw the majority of the journalists in jail on trumped up charges. This of course scared off any other would be journalists from reporting on much of anything meaningful. That’s not freedom, that’s tyranny.
I wish they didn't tbh, it makes me sad.

Not allowing rebinding does provide a little bit of encouragement towards factoring things better, but I have seen manys a `X1` `X2` in my time :(
The major lesson is "don't make indie games if you want to make money". There are 34 games released per day on steam. Most will have revenue under $1000 (and probably most will have revenue below $100).

Unless you have a talented team, marketing plan, and lots of capital you can burn for a gamble; or are willing to just do it for fun for years and don't care if it succeeds -- don't quit your job to make indie games. Otherwise you're playing Russian roulette. For every hollow knight, Dwarf Fortress, Celeste, there are 1000s of other titles you've never heard of.