skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, and the (Siemens, at least) trains also take like 30 minutes to boot up. And rebooting a train is often a way to fix problems. So delays can happen because a train is sitting on some important piece of track while rebooting.

This reboot time sounds absurd until you hear the tech stacks running on these trains. I don't remember the details, but it was real Rube Goldberg stuff. Something like System 7 code running on a soft PLS because the real PLS is EOL but the soft PLS can only run on Windows 95 so you run a virtual Windows 95 on top of some obscure hypervisor, and I think there might be another layer to the story as well. Just anything to avoid changing the actual code that runs the train because that would trigger a recertification process.
A timeline of IBM keyboard history
My experience is that a 20 year old exe file has a greater chance of running in wine than it would in windows, and a 20 year old Linux executable is going to fail because the shared libraries it depends on are unobtainable
Three days early?
It does: archinstall. Its been a thing for I think 2 years now.
When i read it now it is ridiculous how high the tip rate is. Yes 18-25% a lot of them tip on the taxed total bill which is bananas
Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the NIH
Is it? I'm pretty sure Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 continued to function on Windows Vista (released some ten years after the game) and in Windows 7 everything besides saving worked, and iirc there was a trick for that as well. These things can last a long time

Weird example perhaps but that's one of the oldest totally unmaintained things I used back in my Windows days. WINE may also be a way to run older Windows wares without needing a whole VM setup

On Android, I also use software written for Android 4 on Android 10 without problems. The permission model got more strict so it asks you for giving some blanket permissions because those weren't granular at that SDK/API version (iirc network and storage access are two of the three main ones), but after that one-time confirmation it works perfectly, and from f-droid I also trust that it doesn't abuse these permissions

Of course, there's also plenty of counterexamples. GOG exists for a reason, patching up games to run on modern OSes. I guess it's a risk but I don't generally expect most things to break with every version upgrade
iCloud Advanced Data Protection exists. you’re welcome:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756
The Atari Mindlink enters the chat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Mindlink
So 99% of the videogames?
FridayGPT is also not really open about the need for an API key on their landing page.
Only in the FAQ they mention it.
Seems a bit shady to me.

There are also other AI tools listed there.
https://buyoncesoftware.com/?category=AI

As soon as the AI models run on an external server a buy once model does no longer work (or atleast not with an acceptable one time price).
The constant server cost is just to high.
All TVs at home are blocked by MAC on the wifi router, so there's definitely a way to turn off this bullshit.
Yeah finding some random links through google that one does not go through to -to some degree- verify/vouch for is identically bad practice. Researchers do not cite studies that just happen to come up in their google searches, they actually try to assess the quality of the research, understand the methods/results etc. Nothing like this happened here. Giving such a wall of links as an argument to a discussion without checking their quality or relevance is more akin to trolling behaviour than academic research.
Something is better than nothing, but this feels ripe for abuse. If this gets any real traction and trust from a large user base

- baiting into an expensive one-time-fee and pull the rug becomes that much more viable. In particular it becomes a good place to promote FOSS projects reskins that will be left behind once it gets exposed.

- having a crazy high one time fee and 99.9% operate the subscription tiers will be enough to put the name on the list, which could enough publicity to cover the entry price.

The directory management still gets the money, so I'm also not sure how much incentives they actually have to stop the abuse. What am I missing ?
On windows you shouldn't be able to do (most of) these directly with apps running under admin, though that's a small consolation when the browser is a normal process.

I'm not sure if we'll get away from these anytime soon as any out of the box solution will inherently limit the user's freedom that has persistently been there for decades on PCs
While the directory is a good idea, the FAQ did not address the one question that immediately came to mind: how is software that requires online activation handled? I've been bitten by vendors who offered perpetual licenses before, only to discover that they dropped support for perpetual licenses and have them push a subscription license on me. (To that software vendor: sorry, but you reneged on your promise. I'm not going to be fooled twice.)
This is most apparent when watching movie trailers.
Thanks for the info! Maybe the tax forms are on a per ward basis or per bishop?
Chimp as Engineer=> Human as Ueberingenieur

(English: Over-engineer)

https://youtu.be/OWFq3ykkwP0

(Also :Shermanic <= Surmanic :()
It was a direct response to a question with the answer they were looking for. It was provided in good faith, previously researched and sourced by me within the last 12 months.

I am the OP and someone asked for evidence and the only answer after an hour, falsely stated there was no evidence. I didn't want to challenge anyone directly so I posted what I thought were the top few more convincing links I have compiled out of 30+.

I am disappointed that I am getting downvoted and this is somehow being made into something political when people deserve to see the evidence for and against supplementing fluoride the drinking water of every living thing because the government wants to improve the health of our teeth. It is a fair question to ask.
I can't tell which operating system the software is for.
Windows and Android are OK to pretty good when it comes to backward compatibility.

MacOS Software sadly does break sometimes.
Is there a reason to expect this republican to hold views that differ significantly from the rest of the party?
> Also, don't forget the Jacobian and gradient aren't the same thing!

Every gradient is a Jacobian but not every Jacobian is a gradient.

If you have a map f from R^n to R^m then the Jacobian at a point x is an m x n matrix which linearly approximates f at x.
If m = 1 (namely if f is a scalar function) then the Jacobian is exactly the gradient.

If you already know about gradients (e.g. from physics or ML) and can't quite wrap your head around the Jacobian, the following might help (it's how I first got to understand Jacobians better):

1. write your function f from R^n to R^m as m scalar functions f_1, ..., f_m, namely f(x) = (f_1(x), ..., f_m(x))

2. take the gradient of f_i for each i

3. make an m x n matrix where the i-th row is the gradient of f_i

The matrix you build in step 3 is precisely the Jacobian. This is obvious if you know the definition and it's not a mathematically remarkable fact but for me at least it was useful to demystify the whole thing.
> Advocating for more redistribution is taking steps away from that, in the direction people don't realize they don't want to go in.

with shared ownership (e.g a cooperative business) there isn't a forced redistribution in the first place, i think thats the point of the original poster?
It's called open source - I'm confident in 30 years time there will still be a vim port to whatever OS is in vogue.
Approaching the Wood
I don’t think the support depends on distros much, I think the main variable is hardware. If you have a desktop PC bought in the last ~5 years the support should be OK, for the hardware older than that the support is not guaranteed. GeForce GT 730 (launched in 2014) doesn’t support Vulkan, Intel only supports Vulkan on Windows starting from Skylake launched in 2015.

Then there’re quality issues. If you search internets for “Windows Vulkan issue” you’ll find many end users with crashing games, game developers with crashing game engines https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/100807 recommendations to update drivers or disable some Vulkan layers in registry, etc.

On Windows, Vulkan is simply not as reliable as D3D. The reasons include market share, D3D being a requirement to render the desktop, D3D runtime being a part of the OS supported by Microsoft (Vulkan relies solely on GPU vendors), and D3D being older (first version of VK spec released in 2016, D3D11 is from 2009).

Another thing, on Linux, the situation with Vulkan support is less than ideal for mobile and embedded systems. Some embedded ARM SoCs only support GLES 3.1 (which BTW is not too far from D3D 11.0 feature-wise) but not Vulkan.
I used to feel bad for South Dakotans. Now I feel bad for all of us.
You can buy a "smart" TV with ads for cheap, and get a generic replacement motherboard to dumb it down.
I think the argument they make is fair. The levels that the US aims to have fluorinated water concentrations. If theres a bad actor county well thats on them not the standard thats set.
Interesting article, important issues, but it seems to conflate at least a couple of different things? Overall the theme is bad norms, but one issue is insufficient diversity in normative samples, and the other is the difference between "multivariate norms" and "univariate norms".

I'm not sure the problem is so much a myth of a universal patient as much as it is inadequately modeled variance. Maybe those are the same problem though at some level though.
If it depends on a network service that isn't included in the purchase, then it's definitely not a thing you purchased

The OS upgrade example you give is different from a required server I think, because

- that's under your control: you can choose to keep an old system around, run emulation or WINE, depending on how important this is to you

- they don't have ongoing costs, like they do with a service, so there's no reason for them to stop providing the thing you thought you purchased
We bought a projector. Would definitely recommend this if you have a wall that works for it. No unsettling frame smoothing, a minute or two warm up that adds just enough friction and no smart functions or ads.
> As soon as the AI models run on an external server a buy once model does no longer work (or atleast not with an acceptable one time price). The constant server cost is just to high.

Tell this to Rabbit and their R1 device, which comes with unlimited LLM usage. I guess they just rate limit through having a bad UX though. /s

But yes, you're right, this is what I was getting at, LLM usage is expensive enough to need a subscription model.
>but it was actually in 2013, 12 years ago. I didn't think it was that long ago.

I know some people will say this is because of age. But I want to suggest I often thought of COVID years 2019 to 2023s as a single year / event. For reasons I cant quite fathom. So when I think of 2015 it would only be like a 2023-2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. So around 4-5 years ago.
If I remember correctly it actually is a typo. Someone typed "verloren" wrong and thought it was a good name for the game. The story behind names is often not so glamorous.
I always answer that question honestly. Doesn't seem to get me into trouble. Often breaks the ice.
I think vibe coding is missing the point of AI coding. You need more rigour, not less, to produce complex and reliable software. I use RooCode + memory bank, and use both a product brief and Gherkin-like spec files to guide the agent. I will create the spec files for classes or modules, sometimes using agent help, then tell it to implement the spec. It works really well.
Something like 10% of SNAP benefits go towards purchases of soda pop and other sugary drinks made by PepsiCo/etc.
Not sure about the manifest but recently I've seen talk about some banking apps using SBSLaunchApplicationWithIdentifierAndURLAndLaunchOptions (undocumented function in SpringBoardServices) [0] to try to launch another app on the phone by the bundle id, and they can determine if it's installed or not.

They were using this trick to detect unauthorized apps on the phone.

https://blog.verichains.io/p/technical-analysis-improper-use...

[0] - https://gist.github.com/wh1te4ever/c7909dcb5b66c13a217b49ea3...
> There's strong signs you didn't read the article you linked.

What could possibly indicate I didn’t read the article? Of course I read it.
Isn’t your assumption of my bad faith also explicitly against HN’s guidelines?

> On iOS you can register URL schemes in a plist, these aren't "external applications you intend to query" and the list does not have to be "very short and motivated"

I’m also an iOS developer- and yes it does.
While the web site author can't predict the future to know what kind of rug-pull is coming, I'd agree that any software that has any online dependency whatsoever should at least have an asterisk next to it on a list like this.
5 years could be enough
I agree that an observational study cannot prove that the reduction in these cases is due to the rise of cashless payments. The researchers themselves say it is “multifactorial.” However, that has absolutely nothing to do with “sample size.” There is no sampling here.

The relative size of the population of people using cash vs. the population of kids sticking things up their nose also has nothing to do with whether is study is valid.

The study is essentially making an observation and then presenting a hypothesis: in 2012, the use of cash began to decline in the UK, and over the next 10 years, there was a significant decline in the number of cases reported to the NHS where kids had to have a foreign object removed. Given that 75% of cases historically involved coins, the authors make a totally reasonable inference that the decline in the use of cash in the UK over this exact period likely played a big role. They also name several other factors that may have contributed.

Your strong reaction to this study seems disproportionate and misguided. It’s not the most powerful or compelling study, but there’s nothing blatant wrong with it.
Note that Tiny Glade implemented their own Vulkan renderer, although they do use the rest of the Bevy code base, I think. At least the ECS.

Bevy's WGPU renderer is a lot less fancy than Tiny Glade's Vulkan renderer.
Now do doom!
Only 5 years? Women voting seems like an easy segue from "DEI policy" or from "politics are so ugly now we need to protect the women from it".

I won't be surprised if we see some calls to have voting _by household_ come back, potentially under the (nonsense) guise of fighting rigged elections.
I have too much light but otherwise, great suggestion. Short throw laser projectors are the brightest I have seen but even they get washed out in this Florida sun.
To me, anything that needs a server cannot be "buy once", because that would imply that the server availability for forever is included in the purchase. Which obviously is not and neither should it be.

You do make a good point that all, even local only software has a "best before" date, but online software is different: it has a hard expiry date. It is also prone to gradual price hikes and enshitification.
I was about to recommend VueScan which I purchased once way back in 2004 and have used ever since using the same license, but I was disappointed to learn that they have now moved to a subscription model (guess my perpetual license got grandfathered in). How disappointing!

This motivated me to check another perpetual license I've had for a while -- MediaMonkey (license bought in 2006). Looks like this is still available as a lifetime license!
This is why I haven't connected my smart TV to my WiFi. It just has a Google TV + HDMI from my PC. At least with Google TV, the only ads I see are random sportsball ads when YouTube has some partnership deal and those are easy enough to ignore.
Yeah being taciturn was really the worst thing you could do
we've so lost the plot on this thread about my original comments. i said that vinyl is the better input control than a jog wheel. i'm not talking about using vinyl as the medium for playing back the sound. i'm talking about using vinyl as the control surface using Serato timecoded vinyl so that you can use the vinyl as the control surface which then controls whatever digital file system you want. you can still use that to beat match, loop, effects, whatever. but it will still be a 12" piece of physical vinyl that can be used to control things.

there is no elitism or snobbism about vinyl regarding music. it is solely about being a much better input mechanism.
Another source: spend 4.5B, lose 1, 45M subscribers, engage 3.5hrs/day - invest if AI is overhyped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht5GlAaoOzM
I like the premise but don't like the pricing. Google search ads would be a much better investment. Add something that makes it unique like reviews of the software as well, not just a bio and two product links.
I wish it could handle larger disks and had a decent browser.
ROOL is seeking:
* Funding partners
* Experienced embedded software engineers
* Community advocates

So they have non of those. What’s the point then?
> use AI video upscaling

I want to see what he made, not what something trained on stolen work thinks it might look like.
It sounds like you can turn the feature off entirely, which seems semi reasonable — the ads support the updated scenic content, and you can opt out. but i’d bet it shows ads in other places too.
Not that I know of? I double-checked the handbook and there's nothing in there that mentions requesting tax forms, so it's certainly not official policy and if it did happen it should be reported. (We're very bureaucratic, lol)

The only tax form I can think of is a form they send me so I can deduct it from taxes (as it's legally a tax-deductible donation).

EDIT: Section 34.4, 34.5.2, and 34.5.6 are applicable.

34.4:

> Confidentiality of Tithing and Other Offerings

> The amount of tithing and other offerings paid by a donor is confidential. Only the bishop and those who are authorized to handle or view these contributions should have access to this information. Stake presidencies, bishoprics, and clerks should never inappropriately discuss a member’s tithing status. Nor should they discuss the total amount of tithing or other offerings received.

34.5.2:

> Receiving Tithing and Other Offerings

> The Lord has given bishops the sacred trust of receiving and accounting for the tithes and other offerings of the Saints (see Doctrine and Covenants 42:30–33; 119). Only the bishop and his counselors may receive tithes and other offerings. Under no circumstances should their wives, other members of their families, clerks, or other ward members receive these contributions. The only exception is when Aaronic Priesthood holders are assigned to collect fast offerings (see 34.3.2).

> Church leaders and members should not leave donations unattended.

34.5.6:

> Donation Statements

> Donor Statements of Contributions are available to all members at donations.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Leaders should encourage members to regularly review their donor statements. Where applicable, official tax statements are also available at donations.ChurchofJesusChrist.org, from the local unit, or from the area office.
My kid brother watched TTA and that was also my introduction to them.
Windows as a service? Sounds frightening but surely it must be the way they are headed. Glad we have wine.
You need some kind of special decoration for "you buy a license to use the app, not a specific version of the app", like VueScane or FL Studio (you pay for a lifetime license to "the thing", not "whichever version of the thing happened to be the current version when you bough it").

And maybe a badge of shame for "buy once, and yeah, you own that version, but you get punished for not upgrading by skipping a version meaning you now pay full price again" like DxO... Yeah it's "you own it" but my goodness is it the worst possible way to offer that.
"Get featured for $99", "Add entry for $20". Doesn't sound very independent, but rather one big ad.
Windows backward compatibility counter example: Paint Shop Pro 7.04 still works great here after almost a quarter century.
Like a lot of things in any OS it depends how far off the beaten track you go. I think there's a lot of gaming newcomers to linux where their main exposure for wine is via steam, which generally wraps things up for them and hides the details behind their launcher. If you need to go diving into the details for compatibility or you'd like to separate things out with prefixes then it's definitely much less polished and elegant, but I'd argue you could say the same thing about windows for compatibility with some old games or sites like PCGamingWiki.com would be a lot smaller as the combinations of windows (or DOS)+drivers+hardware over the years hasn't resulted in perfect consistent compatibility.
If jumping off a cliff (or a steep dune, like the wright brothers did) counts as flying, then it's been done many times before mankind, even.

The first actual flight, with the aeroplane taking off and flying instead of a human jumping off a cliff/dune, was Vuia's.

You cherry picked the wrong quote, read the entire articles.
Yeah I agree the OS upgrade is different, but it is somewhere on a spectrum right?

> If it depends on a network service that isn't included in the purchase, then it's definitely not a thing you purchased

Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but there's a distinction between services provided by the software supplier, and services that aren't.

Example, could a Twitter client (RIP) be buy-once? Well, yes from the supplier, but no because Twitter turned down their public API access. I think a Twitter client could be sold in the spirit of buy-once.

The clearer case though is something like LocalCan, where it depends on a service provided by the supplier, and that could go away, and I think therefore shouldn't be classed as buy-once (although this is not something I'm decided on, hence looking for input here).
So what's so bad about pdfs?
Who was turned away at the border though?

The architect and designer Jørn Utzon apparently never attempted to return after a falling out over funding and refused two invitations (to the opening and to return and design interiors ).

Perhaps the tour guide and yourself are thinking about the conducter who lobbied for the Opera House and got the project started as a concept.
Ah I see, I thought you were referring to my first point.
Before anyone asks, you can buy a TV that’s dumb. Look on Sony or Samsung or business kiosk TVs. I bought some Sony kiosk TVs for conference rooms when building out an office ones. They can be left on forever have the same great quality and cost a little bit more. But they’re dumb in the end and they turn on fast.
I’ve seen from customers selecting entropy sources is the speed of ‘built-in’ entropy sources, to the point where they will actively look for faster ones and pay quite a bit more when they do genuinely need them. The market is there.

Sure and customers buy Monster cables because they've been told they sound better. I'm sure there's a market, but exactly what is this genuine need and do they really understand their own problem? Also for more than a decade now modern systems have a fast entropy source with on chip RNG such as RDRAND and this extends to the embedded context.
Patents don’t last forever.