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It's important to realize that "a replacement for systemd" is neither achievable nor desirable.

systemd has grown fast and conquered large market shares because it was backed up by a company, which put a lot of money and manpower into it - to write it, to integrate it, to advertise it. The only thing that has not been correctly funded in systemd is research and design.

systemd is only Open Source if you read the license; all its other aspects are proprietary - it's software made by a company and aiming to capture a market. It is impossible to compete with systemd on the same grounds, because no real Open Source developers will have as many resources as Red Hat.

And even if it was possible, the result of such an attempt would simply be another integrated behemoth, powered by money and marketing instead of good technical decisions. (Or even worse, powered by ideology - can you imagine a systemd-like controlled by the FSF?) In the end, the situation for the users would be even worse than it is today. You don't fight Goliath with Goliath; you don't fight Microsoft's hegemony by buying Apple products.

About interface compatibility: the author of the DnE article (vezzy-fnord) has written uselessd, and finally abandoned the project because the systemd interfaces are so tightly integrated with the systemd design in the first place that it's impossible to be compatible without simply being a systemd clone, which he did not want uselessd to be. No, interface compatibility is not an option, because it would simply acknowledge the validity and superiority of the systemd architecture, and nobody wants a copy of systemd.

I believe that the way to provide an alternative to systemd is to provide all the functionality that the systemd users like, but in a technically better, less integrated, more unixish way.

With s6, s6-linux-init and s6-rc, I now have respectively a process supervision system, a simple init process and a service manager, which should be sufficient for a majority of applications. The next important thing that sysadmins like in systemd seems to be cgroup management, so I'd like to study the thing soon and assess what needs to be done next; but for now, I believe that the s6 family of programs is now viable as a serious alternative to systemd, and I would love to give it a broader audience.
> For instance, consider self-checkout machines replacing casheers in shops.

In my experience, half the machines are out of order. The other half are working, but they need a person to stand there full-time to help the customers with items that don't scan and make sure that people don't just walk out of the store without paying. You also need someone to maintain those machines. If I had to guess, I'd say they don't really save the store any money since they still end up employing the same number of people. I'm also starting to see less of them than before, suggesting they were more of a fad.

> Others run against each other, in a zero-sum-game, each cancelling out the results of another one.

I think I understand where you're going with this. A competitor engages in a behavior that results in a benefit so long as nobody else is doing it (ie leafleting), but once everyone is doing it, it benefits nobody, but you still have to keep doing it because everyone else is?

That's not leafleting. That's marketing as a whole.

I suppose you can say that marketing/advertising is a bullshit job (and you wouldn't be the first), but that's just a fundamental outcome of human nature and capitalism. It's always been around and doesn't have anything to do with technology.

If anything, technology gave us things like AdWords, etc., automated ways of marketing. I imagine there are fewer people employed in advertising/marketing today than before largely because of those technological changes.
> Ironically, focus on a growth mindset may actually distract people from doing things that actually do have reproducible research showing they lead to more mental horsepower (e.g. regular aerobic exercise).

Can you point me to you resources regarding research-backed activities/exercises? Thanks!
People in gentrifying neighborhoods always blame the people moving in for, apparently, bullying the poor helpless landlords into increasing the rent. I'm really not sure how that mindset propagates, but the landlords must love it.
3 questions:
1. What's the lifetime of an individual battery?
2. Are the batteries replaceable?
3. Will we ever see this tech in consumer level PC power supplies? If we did, would it be of any use in an environment without backup generators?
What about "non-consensual death is the most vile thing"? Or maybe not "the most vile", but "an extremely vile thing". In this hypothetical new world, people may still choose to die if they will it.

Also, presumably in this future world, most suffering will be greatly, greatly reduced through other advances.
I sit down and read through the textbook, taking notes on anything that seems remotely important, doing every exercise and problem set (preferably those with answers). I try to really grok the material and integrate it with existing knowledge before moving on. Much slower pace than any of my college courses, but I'm really starting to pick this up.

When I get bored of this, I play some games :) Or switch to another topic briefly.

As far as testing mastery, my only test is if the material in the book starts to become more intuitive. If I can do the calculations in my head or figure out the relevant formulas and equations without referring to old notes. I've also thought about setting up Anki, but for circuits it seems like a lot of work to figure out how to make usable cards.
The situations are radically different. The reason gentrification is even a thing is because of the massive wealth imbalance between whites and minorities. It's not "oh my god these people are going to ruin my culture" it's "Oh great the people are flying in to price me out of my home in 3 years."
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Apple may make 92% of the profit of the phone industry, but without Android competition they would be making a lot more money:

- a good portion of the people currently carrying Android phones would buy an iPhone instead of a Windows or Blackberry phone if Android wasn't an option

- viable competition provides pressure on Apple to keep prices down and/or add more features to their phones at their current price. (For example, without Android pressure, Apple would probably still be shipping 3.5 or 4 inch phones)
Here is a page linking the writeups of the studies that were referenced in the article. https://faculty.washington.edu/scheryan/research.htm

One question which perhaps should be made explicit: Who ought to be responsible for remedying the negative stereotypes that young women hold about computer programmers and STEM workers? And who is affected most negatively by attitudes such as they hold?

Maybe creative writing profs can play a role by writing some stories that make STEM sound more enticing.
EDIT: Two attendees of the Sydney F# user group have now since announced they are moving to NYC to join Jet.com.
> I don't actually have any textbook recommendations for you, but with respect to Comp. Sci., keep in mind that there is a difference between Comp. Sci. and programming. Obviously there is a large overlap, and you can use a lot of Comp. Sci. theory in every day programming, but programming is a discipline unto itself.

Agreed. One of my recent revelations was I spent too much time in college and early working years trying to be a good _programmer_ and it really hurt my underlying knowledge. Especially in computer engineering where very few CS theory classes were required. As I say to others, I've got the programming muscle... now let's make a longer lever.
Did I say that persecuted nerds have the right to cordon off CS as a refuge for their culture? I thought that I said the opposite. Your later comments suggest that you break things down exactly as I do: it's ok for nerds to be nerds, and it's ok for nerds to cluster in tech, but it's not ok to promote the idea that only nerds can do tech, or to promote an stereotype that goes beyond reality.

Did you read my comment carefully? Was I unclear at some point? Do you disagree that a lot of male nerds are resisting the diversity movement because they feel that it attacks them, and that this article notwithstanding, often the diversity movement does attack them?
Dislike is not usually the best measurement.

Next time try this kind of voting questions:

I use systemd and like it

I use upstart and like it

I use launchd and like it

I use traditional init daemon and and like it

30% of like should be quite impressive
Nope. No promise or guarantee of any job/income level is ever included in loan documents. Both parties are only bound to whatever is included in the contract.

Have you ever heard the term 'caveat emptor'?
> bitch

Unfortunately, that's how college kids talk. I wish they wouldn't be so crude, but the language isn't CS-specific. That women in general are doing so well in college in general relative to men suggests crude language on the part of college men is not a serious problem. In the professional world, that kind of denigration would be completely unacceptable.

> Also, let me tell you this story of two friends I knew who applied at a certain internet start-up on Market Street in San Francisco in 2014

I don't think it's reasonable to generalize from this anecdote. Maybe he aced his interviews and she flubbed them.
>then what's the difference between the "real" consciousness and the simulation?

Well, isn't that the whole idea? Objectively, there is no difference. If there was, uploading wouldn't ever be possible.

The only potential difference is the subjective impression of "this consciousness that I am now is the same consciousness that I was yesterday" versus "this new consciousness is an exact clone of mine, but is not really 'me'".

This incremental upload technique simply tricks your subjective self into thinking there is absolutely no change in continuity.
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I once read tha claim that wheat causes Alzheimer's.

The idea that Alzheimer is Type 3 diabetes it not new. I also remember a paper which claimed that nasal applied insulin improves Alzheimer symptoms.

Assuming that Alzheimer could be a type of diabetes and taken into account a connection between Diabetes I and Celiac disease, the idea that Wheat consumption could trigger Alzheimer is not absurd.
I think around last August : )
Two things never cease to amaze me:

A. How prescient some of these guys and gals from the 1960's and 1970's (or perhaps, further back than that) were. John McCarthy, Douglas Engelbart, Vannevar Bush, etc... all of these folks saw so much of today's technology landscape so many years before most of the technology actually existed (or, before it was practical / cheap / readily available).

B. How far we still have to go, to realize some of these 1960's / 1970's visions. For all we've accomplished, there are still things that Engelbart, McCarthy, Bush, Licklider, etc. spoke about back then, that we don't have yet. Of course, some of that is down to political / economic issues, and not just technological ones. For example, some of the things that McCarthy describes in this paper sound a lot like applications of the Semantic Web, which still isn't fully realized for a combination of reasons: technological, economic, political, etc.

The good news, I suppose, is that you can go back and read some of these older papers and still find interesting ideas for things to work on. Heck, there's probably a handful of really good startup ideas buried in the works of McCarthy, Engelbart, Licklider, Bush, W. Ross Ashby, Norbert Weiner and other luminaries of that era.
What about how, by design, billboards distract drivers' eyes from the road? The article (and comments here so far) have not mentioned this.

And then if an accident occurs because a driver was distracted by a billboard, we blame the driver for not paying attention? The odds are increasingly stacked against them.
The concern on my end is that of course there are tons of people out there who will do nothing wrong. I have a couple rifles and handguns. I don't hunt. I go to the range once in a while--that's about it. I don't bother anyone and nobody bothers me. This is likely the majority.

Unfortunately, our current laws are currently not working and with the conversation constantly turning to mental illness after a shooting (while it may have something to do with it of course) we see the anger about what happened die down over time with no changes made regarding gun laws or mental illness and how it relates to background checks. This cannot continue.

I don't care if a solution manifests as more laws around background checks or something else but our current situation is clearly a complete and utter failure.
I've been that Ted, and honestly, I'm happy in how this turned out. The "group of friends" were jerks and I would be worse off if I got accepted by them.

Also, the example is interesting in this context because it's usually Teds who become programmers. Or at least it used to be back when programming wasn't a popular career choice but something you did because you were into technology and building things.
62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings
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You seem to dislike the idea of asking for notification support in the daemons themselves. Granted, it's impractical, but it's the only way to avoid race conditions which are rare for most services, but very real for a few programs that may take ages to get ready.
How would you address the problem of slow starters without support from the daemons, while keeping a "the dependency graph is always respected" invariant?
* Budget cuts
* Firing teachers and making the rest work longer hours

The private equity playbook is fairly consistent.
Is this a scam or a trap? Do landlords really collude with student loan institutions, or are landlords simply leveraging 1. the necessity of their resource and 2. the lack of rent control? There's no basic regulation on what fraction of income landlords can charge tenants, and landlords get critical financial information on tenants. If loans are so easy to obtain, there's zero incentive for landlords not to gouge tenants (by progressively raising rents).

I don't see how any explicit fraud is happening. I also don't see how things will ever get better without tighter regulation of rents. Well I guess we could turn down loans and kill the demand ...
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It also has really good modding support, which is fun.
Thanks for the recommendation! I gave macspice a try already and really wasn't impressed. LTSpice just has much better GUI support. I know it's a terrible thing to admit on HN, but when it comes to simulation models, a GUI is a really nice thing to have.
Thanks for being mature enough to actually answer my question, as opposed to those who just downvoted.

I can honestly say I wasn't aware of that mode of usage. It seems alittle counterproductive, though I suppose you can always depend on Facebooks feed ranking to not show you posts from all the randos.
Meh... I actually somewhat like billboards, at least when I'm making long drives on the Interstate. They're something to look at that's more interesting than farm combines, cows, empty fields, old barns, etc. I especially like the ones that mark off "landmarks" on certain trips... like when I drive down I-40 from Raleigh towards Wilmington, I know when I start seeing the billboards for boat dealerships and coastal golf plantations, that I'm nearly to Wilmington. They help remind me that I am actually getting somewhere. (Of course, so do mile markers, but counting those gets boring, and they're too frequent).

To be fair, I suppose none of this has much to do with "urban" billboards in particular though... other than to say that outdoor advertising, in general, really doesn't bother me. If anything, cities seem like they ought to have plenty of outside advertising.
Does anyone else feel that targeted statistical studies would advance this discussion far more than yet another anecdote? The state of understanding of this situation could be much improved. And yet, despite how strongly people feel about this issue, the studies are still sparse to non-existent.
How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
One downside is if entire segments of the population have no stake in supporting STEM education, or in keeping STEM careers in the US.
As a third data point: I (UK national) set up a company (also IT consulting) in HK just a few months ago without any problems. I still had to fly to HK for the bank account, but they set it up the same day.

Lloyds has terrible, terrible customer service. I mistakenly chose them as my bank when I did consultancy through a limited company in the UK. Never again.
This isn't strange at all. I interact with scientists fairly regularly and very few are fans of science fiction in any sense of the phrase.

Most scientists are normal people with an aptitude for a certain discipline, enjoy working on interesting problems, and had the luck of having encountered a mentor or two who steered them toward research. None of the ideas that drive the creation of sci fi are necessary to be a scientist. It really is just another career.

In fact, I can't think of a single scientist I (personally) know who became a scientist because of sci fi. (Which isn't to say that they don't exist.)
Again, you're making the argument that because someone doesn't understand how something can affect them negatively that you should be allowed to take advantage of that.

That is literally called FRAUD in the US: "the deception of someone for the purpose of financial gain".

and stop calling it private, it wont be fucking private when (not if, but when) your network gets breached.

All the big tech companies have had data breaches, but suddenly your network is going to out-shine them all? God that's laughable.

Oh, and when that happens, you will be sanctioned by every consumer protection agency, and bankrupted by class-action suits. Have fun!!!
Yes, I count most of marketing industry as a big pile of zero-sum games. As for what it has to do with technology, I noticed people replaced out of service jobs by machines (either directly or through effectivity gains) to migrate towards jobs in ad industry. So yesterday's shop clerks are today's Social Media Marketers and/or graphics designers. In this way I see marketing as an ever growing sponge sucking people in and giving them bullshit jobs.
That's the theory. The practice as I can observe at my state school is that the administration asks "how many students did we graduate this year" when they should be asking "how rigorously were the students taught". It would be in the students' best interest if there was presssure for the faculty to do an acceptable job, but since tuition constitutes a substantial part of the university's operating income the focus is on recruitment and retention, where it really doesn't belong.

There are some Young Turks protesting the status quo amongst the faculty, but none amongst the administration, the students or their parents.

On the other hand, if the university was tax-funded, then the interests of faculty, administration and well-performing students would be aligned. At the moment they are not.
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You (and others on this thread, on both sides) are pretending that there's no gradation between "roving bands of cannibal looters" (the "Mad Max" scenario) and "Tyrannical government controls every single aspect of your daily life" (the "1984" scenario), when in fact there is a very large amount of space between those two scenarios.

That is a fundamentally dishonest argument.

There are honest discussions of exactly where the boundaries on government power should lie, but this isn't one of them.
> "emo bitch"

"that guy was kind of a dick" is an offhand comment that just means "rude" or "jerk" and you hear it all the time from college age women when referencing the slightest deviations from their standards of behavior. It refers to the male genitalia in a negative connotation and is terefor far more explicit than the dog word.
First, don't think that you're behind because you have a degree in ME and not CS (I too have a ME degree, and that's never stopped me). So, be excited!

Second, I would suggest maybe not going the code bootcamp route. Sometimes they're really good immersion training in web development, but sometimes they can end up basically as developer puppy mills.

Instead, you may want to consider finding ways to use your mechanical engineering experience to find things code might make better. Cross-disciplinary work like that is really valuable.
BTW I realize that my terminology was really confusing. By "paid content", I meant "content that you pay for". You appear to have responded to the part of my post about sponsored content. Just want to make sure that you weren't also reading the part of my comment about paid content and thinking of sponsored content.
It is just chaos, it has no meaning. Life and information exist between chaos and order.
It seems like a borderline example. I feel that the "brogrammer" stereotype was invented up mainly because the nerd stereotype was too sympathetic. I'm genuinely curious if there are examples of the kind of stereotypes in the article being promoted right now by tech companies.

As an aside, these sorts of critiques of mainstream/White culture are somewhat contradictory in that they criticize any specific cultural identity as being exclusive and insular, and yet whenever this is lacking, they point to how boring mainstream/White culture is. Even lack of crime can be turned into evidence of boringness. For example, for every article on the negative effect of nerd culture on diversity, there is an article complaining about the decline of nerd culture and the rise of corporatism. The latter tend to be highly revisionist and pretend that the tech industry was founded by LSD taking hippies who coded inside isolation tanks. But the contradiction is still stark.
Both of these examples do rely on the non-existence of a local monopoly, which I would expect the government to enforce. I'm not advocating a government-free environment here; there would also presumably be rules about the minimum quality of education. It's worth noting that charter schools have done very well in DC.

I think you're underestimating the amount of work done in hospitals that can be scheduled ahead of time - there really is a ton of it, especially for older folks. Not all hospital visits are to the ER.

Also, single purpose hospitals would be a bad idea - what if you're delivering a baby and the mother starts bleeding profusely? They'd all need to have their own ER (and the attendant facilities). You'd really just have specialized hospitals, which already exist.
-48V.

I'm trying to find out why negative is used, but the answers seem to vary a lot...
"But if you aren’t able to make it here, it’s almost certainly not because of any bias," says white male journalist.

His point seems to be that Silicon Valley can't possibly be doing anything wrong because it's wildly rich and successful. I think people who find that argument persuasive and people who don't probably don't have much to say to each other.

It's a little weird that Forbes pulled this -- if only because I've seen plenty of other dumbass things on their site that they seem to have been okay with.
If you stop projecting and read my comment again, you'll see that I'm not saying that life was better for the indigenous folks in Australia. I said that 'apartheid' was a weird term to use for the Australian experience. I said 'arranged'; you inserted the word 'better'.

'Apartheid' is a description of a particular political idiom. It's not a catch-all term for 'colonial oppression'.
Was it different in the past? Thinking back, the main "hackers" have been Keano Reeves, Angeline Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Justin Long.

Now that I think of it, was the reality of hacking being primarily male ever displayed in popular media?