skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The systemd supporters are soon going to take away the ability to run pretty much all background processes (including using "&" in a shell) by killing those processes when your X session logs out."

WUT?

(goes and downloads FreeBSD...)

I've been a Linux user since 1993 and SystemV init was something definitely in need of replacement. But this was not even close to the most pressing problem in the Linux ecosystem. The most pressing problems were and are things like the clunkiness of package management, the inadequacy of the root/userland permission model, and general user experience and UI issues. Systemd is not addressing any of that and may actually be making some of those problems worse.

After using systemd a bit, I've become a hater too. It's a clean slate reboot of init and yet it's somehow managed to be more arcane and confusing than sysV-init. That's an accomplishment, but not an admirable one. It tries to do way too many things at once in one vertically integrated system, has an arcane confusing non-intuitive syntax and configuration scheme, and just generally feels "enterprise" in the "over-engineered mess" pejorative sense of the term. Whenever I use it I find myself thinking "why would you do it like that?" and "who wanted that?" over and over again. It feels like the sort of system that's deliberately engineered for obtuseness so high priced consultants can be paid to operate it. Maybe it is.

Unfortunately FreeBSD's init system seems at first glance to be even more primitive than Linux's old sysV-init. Checking out the docs it looks like a trip back to the 1970s.

Is service management with a simple graph of dependencies really that hard? Come on. Good programmers solve these kinds of problems all the time on a much larger scale. We've got OSS hackers building distributed systems, fault tolerant databases, cryptocurrency, and 'permanent decentralized web' protocols and we can't solve init?
A Python Script to Generate a Zip Bomb – Silicon Valley S3E07
The alternative theory is that modern medicine was born around the time of World War II. That was the time when the pharmaceutical industry really took off and, for the first time in human history, permitted physicians to treat disease.

Before that, with the notable exception of surgery, they could only give a prognosis and hope for the best. Now they can prescribe pills that do work. There was a reason that Hitler promoted homoeopathy and all sorts of natural healing stuff - he could claim his Germanic naturopaths did not perform worse than the (traditionally Jewish) medical faculties of the time. [1]

[1] Before anyone throws about accusations of antisemitism - this is the thesis that Viktor Klemperer makes in this "Lingua Tertii Imperii". It's recommended reading about the insanity of Nazi Germany.
That's a speedy step forward ;)
As someone pointed out elsewhere in the discussion, app subscriptions mean DRM that's basically guaranteed to kill your ability to run the software once it gets old and everyone loses interest. If there aren't enough people buying old games for the publishers to keep them working, it's unlikely enough people would be willing to subscribe to make it worth their while maintaining the subscription processing.
I think http://donate.money would be a great place for this.
Why are companies still reluctant to hire remote workers in foreign countries?
Though some companies are remote friendly and hire overseas remote devs and designers, many are still reluctant to do it. What are the main reasons behind this?
Windows 10 is still windows NT. The NT native API is widely used these days. It would be a huge departure for MS to stop supporting it in future versions of windows.
Public speaking. I joined Toastmasters [1] at the start of the year and highly recommend it. Friendly, supportive atmosphere. Challenging, assuming you're not currently comfortable speaking in front of groups. Lots of people who've been there a while comment on howit's improved their careers. One of the most useful bits is learning to evaluate other people's speeches, a skill which can be applied in a variety of situations, and (so I'm told - I'm still learning) leaves a very positive impression on people.

[1] https://www.toastmasters.org/
Zuboff's Laws
You're right. We took Wales' last lineup, but it will very probably be a different lineup against Slovakia. We'll update the prediction shortly before the game, when we know who's going to play.
I think the problem is that the FSF's definition of freedom still stems from a time where everybody being a programmer was seen as a realistic and achievable goal.

The actual situation is that we have two groups that care about different things: Users and developers.

Users' biggest concern is that the software helps them achieve what they want to do. They care about restrictions like DRM if it hinders them in doing what they want to do. The only way free software can help here is that other people (developers) can remove those restrictions. Proprietary software can easily offer the same freedoms for users.
The DAO Will Give Birth to the Companies That Otherwise Wouldn’t Have Existed
>> The specific signature of this weekend’s utility power failure resulted in an unusually long voltage sag (rather than a complete outage)

It is false to assume that the state of the electrical supply is either on or off. This may come as a surprise, but not to me. In 2008, Eskom (South Africa's electricity suppliers) experienced similar faults. The mains supply voltage is 220v here. At one point, some devices started to fail in my house, and others, such as lights, continued to work, but significantly dimmer. We measured 180v at the plugs. There were similar outages in my area last year, where an outright cut-off was preceded by voltage drops. This outage is interesting because it is an example of a bug owing to false assumptions!

There have also been incidences where certain cables have been stolen [1] and that has caused the opposite: voltage spikes.

[1] I couldn't tell you which, or what kind, but I remember it has something to do with "the neutral"
"Again useful during driving, I also found the ability to skip music with my hands still on the steering wheel to be incredibly helpful."

I feel like that's significantly less important nowadays, with literally every single new car offering bluetooth connectivity and music controls directly on the wheel, you can use them without even looking.
There's a testable hypothesis right there.
It is generally speaking, but many people have that ability without being labeled as a 'sales man' and I believe many sales men lack it as well (but they may be good at sales because the product would sell itself).

I would also say it's kind of magical.. some sort of energy transmission..
Airplanes have to go faster than the stall speed. Stall speed is typically ~60mph or more, and air resistance goes up as the square of the speed (times the aerodynamc cross section). Airplanes aren't really that much more aerodynamic than modern cars.
Thiel Says ‘Real Bubble’ Is in Government Bonds, Negative Rates
Talk less. Smile more. Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11612401
Yup, and I think it may have similar repercussions.

Generally though, investment banking is generally pretty successful at making people rich (whichever side they're on) -- maybe a similar effect will be observed on Netflix's software.
How is their explanation incorrect? Your explanation is simply a rewording of theirs. Of course, apart from that you are disagreeing that it exists at all for health insurance. But the fact that consumers have "skin in the game" as it were in addition to the insurance doesn't mean there's no potential for moral hazard. No doubt, if there were no personal wellbeing implications of treating yourself unhealthily, moral hazard would be even more severe, but it still exists in some non-zero quantity as long as you have insurance. Does it explain all the effects that the article claims it explains? Not necessarily.
Yes CloudAMQP is such a service. It includes a free plan. If you are going to use Celery and CloudAMQP, I'd advice using the recommended settings[1], otherwise Celery will produce a large number of connections + messages.

(Disclaimer: I work with CloudAMQP)

[1] https://www.cloudamqp.com/docs/celery.html
> Smart people doing remarkable things don't seem to have a place in our society anymore, neither in academia nor in the private economy. Sure there are exceptions.

I think smart people doing remarkable things have greater visibility than they have at any point in the recent past due to the internet and platforms like YouTube, etc. It is easier than ever to share and discover knowledge now than it ever has been in the past..

The biggest problem I see is that there is limited compensation for participating in these endeavors. I think this is an issue from the standpoint that some research is very costly or requires resources that the average person cannot obtain. There is still a great number of discoveries that can be made by people working in labs they have made wherever they found space.
But aren't they supposed to lead/guide/educate the public about the activities of the communists/socialists from outside/inside who are keen on destroying the free market based good humane democracy in the USA?

Where were these intellectuals (mostly humanities professors) when the USA was being attacked from within during the occupy movement? The occupy movement was hijacked by the corrupt and vicious communists/socialists beyond salvation. It's fortunate for the citizens of USA and for the entire world too that this movement failed.

But we did see that these intellectuals, were on the forefront to actually mislead the people to go behind the occupy.

Although, some points raised by the occupy movement were good, their overall direction got more aligned with vicious elements.

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Yes, the draws exist, but every other argument you've posted cannot be applied to the first round of group games. Chances are huge that all of the times are going to want to start strong.

As the researchers said multiple times, they're going to be updating their algorithms all of the time and take into account the things they've missed in the current version.
Mass automobile ownership off of manufacturing capacity built for WW2...
A copy of their source code is supposedly on file with the Library of Congress, but I can't find proof of this as I search right now.
Try some Lucene based software and tell me how it goes.
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. If you have money, you will have more opportunities than if you don't. Same with having a big network. But you can develop a professional network just by talking or writing - it takes some time, but it's not as much of a gamble as getting rich. It's fine to "behave very awkwardly". You're not asking these people to be your friends, you're talking about an industry that you're interested in.

Why is it necessary? Well, think of you and job openings as nodes on a graph. Each job is only going to look out through its network until it finds someone to fill it. The more connections you have, the better your odds of being found early in the search - which in this case, means being found at all. People are just nodes on the graph between you and a job. Again, they don't have to be social connections. It's in their best interests to find a good candidate quickly too.
Bank accounts add huge amounts of value to my life. If my credit card is stolen and used fraudulently, I'm not going to revert to cash :)

Twitter, and Linked In too, have not added any value. And so when they start to become the cause of security concerns I'm going to use them as an excuse to shut my accounts on them.

It gets worse though, because I would bet that most people who do close their accounts on Twitter/Facebook/Linked In et al walk away thinking all of their data has been magically erased. I suspect that this is not the case, so the mere fact that you ever had an account on these platforms leaves you vulnerable to their security risks ad infinitum. That wouldn't be true of a bank.
Windows was designed for an era where context switches were around 80µsec (nowadays they're closer to 2µsec), so a lot of that hard work has already paid for itself.

> don't you need to have the original data available anyway, in case it needs to be retransmitted? Do the overlapped TX operations (on Windows) complete only once the the data has also been acked?

I don't know. My knowledge of Windows is almost twenty years old at this point.

If I recall correctly, the TCP driver actually makes a copy when it makes the packet checksums (since you have the cost of reading the pages anyway), but I think behaviour this is for compatibility with Winsock, and it could have used a copy-on-write page, or given a zero page in other situations.
I had a Pebble Steel and quite liked it but switched to the Apple Watch when it came up. I agree with some of the other points here:

* Apps suck 99% of the time

* Apps are slow

* The UI is hard to use (especially while moving)

* Siri is SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWWWWW

When siri does work it's awesome but I find myself just saying "Hey Siri" (to activate my phone) or holding down the home button for a second to activate it much more often. The watch is just too slow most of the time and nothing is more frustrating than telling it to do something, it failing, and then me having to go do it on my phone. Also when most people ask me about it I say "I like it but it's far too expensive for most people to justify, I even have a hard time self-justifiying it to myself now that I've had it". Notifications, weather, upcoming events, time, fitness/activity? All great and it's why I wear it daily but it's been months since I launched an app on it. I'll see where Apple goes with it but I'm very much so considering switching back to a Pebble Time or other Pebble device as they are cheaper.
You're right. Somehow it made sense to me when reading the article, but reading your comment I see how it doesn't make sense as stated.

I probably implied the "who" since there was no way to have a group qualified by two conditions like these end up so high. (regardless of totals of the two percentages)
>that don't actually want it.

Why is it the company's responsibility to determine if a user "really wants it" or not? If the subscription is live, the assumption is that the service is desired. Personal accountability.
“Nobody has invented warp drive or time travel. They’re fairly mundane inventions that may have some relevance to the military,”

None of the ones they have released from secrecy. Anything as incredible as those examples is more likely to stay secret.
This is how I feel about my LG Urbane android watch. The battery lasts three days, the notifications are great, the turn by turn nav is great, screen is always on, great performance, etc. I paid about $100 more than you, but I do get a nice color screen as opposed to the e-paper display, which is nice. I really don't like the look of e-paper and frankly, OLED isn't that great either. I suspect a mirasol-like display will eventually be the future for wearables. I also do not bother with watch apps. No one is pointing a gun at your head to install and use watch apps. Its perfectly fine to use a AW device for its basic functionality.

I think the idea that all watches need to be charged nightly and are a pain to use just isn't true anymore. Its a shame the Moto 360 and the Apple Watch became the first big e-watches. In retrospect, they were both fairly poor efforts, especially in terms of battery life.
Anyone got any advice on Django-CMS vs Wagtail vs Mezzanine? We want to build a job site with a blog component. Any reason to choose or not choose any of them?
Commercial awareness for sure: tech skills are nothing without sales aka a sound understanding of the business perspective.
It is my personal opinion that soccer has a very high luck component. Often four or five plays decide the game. Frequently enough it is even decided by a referee call. It makes the game attractive because even an inferior team has a decent chance against a superior team. It may be just a lucky shot and then you close your defense.
This is especially true in undergrad papers.
Lucky you, I pulled the plug a little to late, and now I pay a dear price.

Risk aversion is NOT bad. For 1 success they are hundreds of failures. Even though I accepted the game, it retrospectively feels like going for business is signing a pact with the devil. Either you win, and it is okay, or you lose and damages are doubled since your are marked with the seal of failure.

We live in a time where people want heroes and success stories, not reasonable persons that are boringly facing uncertainty.

When you take a risk of winning, you also take a risk of losing.

My epitaph will tell: "Si l'échec est la meilleure manière d'apprendre alors de mon vivant, j'ai vaincu Karpov et Kasparov".
This sounds like a Radiohead lyric.
Photographer's Dashboard Camera Captures Alleged “Keyless” Car Thief
It's a little known story, but there used to be 80+ people working on dwarf fortress years ago. One of them came up with a plan very similar to yours. However, when things didn't work out and he wasn't able to pull it off he went mad. He ended up killing a secretary with a plastic plant, cutting himself with a shard from a glass which was knocked off the table. He went back to his cubicle where he bled to death. The rest of the staff arrived later and upon seeing this also went mad. Only the two brothers survived because someone accidentally built the cube walls so their area no longer connected to the rest of the office and they never found out about it. They toil away on it to this day.
Ransomware and the New Economics of Cybercrime
Self-Driving Cars Will Teach Themselves to Save Lives–But Also Take Them
Yes, but if your customers have a lot of valuable data in your service, cancelling would make them loose that data. You can technically use this to extort money from your users. Not a viable business plan in the long run, for sure, but there are plenty of businesses that would try, I think.
JavaScript engines tend to be relatively standalone, and developed relatively separately. V8 and Chakra are both developed pretty separately to Chromium and Edge.
When I was working at a video editing shop, I used SikuliX to automate a lot of common, repetitive tasks (like inputting chapter names to chapter markers in Adobe Premiere). It's really great for automating easy repetitive tasks
I think that if you are concerned about freedom, then you need to use an OS that is not controlled a commercial entity. OS X, iOS, Windows, Android, ChromeOS, and Ubuntu all have issues; even though some of them are open source.
I just emailed the people at Moller this week asking them what the biggest challenge in making a flying car was. Their reply was:

Thanks for reaching out to Moller International. Your question is a good one, with a multitude of answers. For now, I’ll explain 3 of the biggest factors. First, there is a lot of FAA and government regulations regarding aircraft. Airworthiness certification is a lengthy process, and depending on the level at which a company wishes to test, operate, and potential sell their aircraft, the process can take anywhere from a few months to a few years. Second, as stated previously, time is a major factor not only for development, but also testing, marketing, etc. In aviation, there are no “unimportant” parts at 10,000 ft. Safety is always a top priority throughout the entire process. Third, and finally, funding. Companies like Moller International depend greatly on their investors and supporters to keep the lights on. Until there is a product being sold, and cash being brought in regularly, a company must depend on some other source of funding. Aircraft programs are not known to be easy and cheap; these programs are some of the more expensive ones out there, especially in the private sector. With all of this said, all of us here at Moller International are working hard to ensure the latter two have as minimal an impact as possible. We have been working in cooperation with the FAA to get things going as quickly and safely as possible. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Talking about shared memory benefits and overheads in Python is a pretty abstract problem, if you account for how much objects Python interpreter creates and what OS does under certain load levels.

I'm merely advocating a different model for concurrency in Python :)
Very well, then I'll also point out that among the people still talking about the GIL are those who know enough about Python to successfully take steps to remove it, which is pretty much the highest possible level of knowledge of Python you can ask for. This is probably a topic "in the air" precisely because of the story of someone's most recent attempt/implementation of this a couple of days ago.

It is not the case that only "people who don't really know Python" are talking about the GIL and considering the problem unsolved. If you were right, these people would not be talking about it.

I would strongly, but politely, suggest that you should consider the possibility that there either things you don't know about the issue or problems that others have that you don't. It's not like Celery is the only obscure library nobody's ever heard of that has this basic approach; "multiprocessing" is built into the standard library now, for instance.
I actually think a "gamified" feedback system will lead to a bad outcome, especially because it builds a false hope that $random_user with $points > big_number will solve all my problems.

A good system would have a few "core people" who work together over a span of years on several successful projects. By a few, I mean 3-7.

If we can attract Bunnie Huang, all the better. :)
10+Insidious+Reasons+Cutting+Salt+Should+be+Conquered
Actually, that's my point. They were accepted and told that their product was no good straight away, thus forcing them to pivot. So why were they accepted with a poor product, when other applicants who had stronger ideas were turned away?

A selection process that supposedly values the skills of the people over the combination of skills and product will lead to people like this guy not knowing why they were selected, and not being able to handle pivoting. It's something YC should stop doing before it causes real damage.
Why most of the laptops are terribly overpriced and ugly?
Wait, now - you want to exacerbate sprawl and worsen suburban inefficiency, and this is supposed to be a benefit? I think you have just convinced me that personal flying vehicles are a terrible idea to be opposed at all costs.
It is for the community.

Personally I consider GIL to be an awesome idea and it'd work if we went with a concurrency model that avoids implicit locking
> Port Talbot needs to diversify, like any other place.

How's it going to diversify if all the money and labour's tied up in the steel industry instead of actually being spent on diversifying? Everybody's back to working in the steel industry just as before, and it's not like any of the workers have the money or training to bring new industry to the area. Oh wait, they could've had just that.
> Does anyone think: "I'll eat McDonalds twice a week, smoke a pack a day, and drink all I want because I'm insured." Come on...

No, they will think like well I have earned through hard work to enjoy simple pleasures of life. Expectation is government or someone should take care of them with that bazillion dollar healthcare budgets.
Is Cloud Services Right for Your Business?
Yes, for now we only predict win / lose. It is fairly reasonable to assume that draws are more likely to arise if the winning probabilities are close to 50/50 (and less likely if there is a big difference) - but you are also right that there are some contextual factors that influence this.

You know the saying, "all models are wrong, but some are useful" - our model is clearly too simple to encode many of these complex patterns, but we believe that's alright!