skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Create my own distribution?

> What tangible and meaningful alternatives do I have other than encouraging people not to use systemd?

Sure, if you think you can actually “test every single program and make everything opt-in.” I think you will however find that making everyone happy and having new features are just simply contradictory by the very definition. At some point you will want new stuff and you’ll have to break something.

The best you could do is adopt BSD’s model and fork tmux and other userland and ship outdated/patched versions. It’s a ton of work, of course.

I am not actually seriously suggesting you create your own distro, after all you can probably just fix the annoying issue with systemd and move on with your life, and Systemd actually makes it easy for your by making it a configuration switch and supporting the non-default workflow.

I am simply suggesting you put yourself in the position of someone that has to make those decisions and really think about it from that perspective. Everything’s always a trade off.
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Golang position?
Then I guess my dream system marries the two concepts, somehow. I don't think we should accept CSS just because it's what we have; far too many people find it confusing and dislikable.

At this point, I'm starting to look into things that "transpile" to CSS.
Kali Linux has built in Trojan developed by UK intel community
Kali linux has built in Trojan for viewing screen and downloading hard drive contents.

rm /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/EasyScreenCast@iacopodeenosee.gmail.com/ -rf

Also within the kernel is hidden code to view your screen.

Be warned, Kali is not safe for anyone.

Whitehat Kali Tester
I watched this burn in test a few weeks ago. It looks like a great test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcLasaRCzY
getting close to the digital nomad life
>How do you explain the cost of education

1. Value of a service is how much the market is willing to pay.

2. In the times of abundant, easy access to service X, a high price tag is indicator of quality and rarity. I.e., it's a feature, not a bug.
Something's wrong with a society if that is the case. You can't imagine how much this statement shocks me. Not doubting it in any way, just a considerable shock.
And I have built a very similar, perhaps even slightly larger, system, only in MySQL with TokuDB :)

These free old-fashioned RDBMSs really can go fairly big and stay really fast; much bigger and faster than the noSQL stuff I also use.

One thing that pushes people towards noSQL is that it is easier to get started; but I think that I've saved buckets of time in the long run by going with a conventional relational database.

ymmv but its always worth thinking 'is this problem too big for a classic free RDBMS?' and the answer is almost always 'hell, no!'
Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World [pdf]
The display looks amazing, however the computer itself looks horribly ugly.
> As a German I have to say that registers for people are a great idea! We have had very positive experiences with labeling people. While we had to do this in an analog way the last time, the label itself really helped a lot with "dealing" with people who were a problem.

Sarcasm aside, Bavaria passed a law this past year which allows police to use DNA evidence to infer physical characteristics about a suspect's appearance. The same law also allows police to arrest people they suspect may commit a crime in the near future.

So, this principle is still alive and well in Germany.
Yeah, Amazon reminds me of Google a few years ago: Language settings are a clusterfuck. My Amazon.de is in English, Alexa and generally digital accounts are connected to Amazon.de (otherwise I'd lose prime video and prime music without paying twice).

English books work fine, but for some reason, I can't add skills while Alexa is in English. I need to switch it to German, add skills, switch it back to English for it to work.
I'm not saying it's either-or, just that any approach to this needs to factor in poverty at levels that is incomprehensible to the Western middle class.

And yes, vaginas are great but any membrane suffers when in prolonged contact with foreign material. And again, access to antibiotics and antifungals is a worthwhile consideration when using small-but-still-higher risk sanitary products.
> Since the very start.

Technically not quite the very start (but it was added in iPhoneOS 2.1 so close enough).
But cookies that save your search queries are personal data and require opt-in? You can consider anything not to be "personal data". I still really want this to be opt-in, not opt-out.
I get the joke but I’ve seen references to at least one study that found 35% of sick days were taken on Monday which is more than random chance.
The bug was in the kernel (it should not have allowed userspace to write arbitrary UEFI variables), but AFAIR it was exposed by systemd because it eagerly mounted the UEFI variable filesystem provided by the kernel into /sys/something/efivars.
Cycling tends to have more expensive gear, but have you ever heard runners geek out about shoes, socks, chafing remedies, mobile hydration solutions, “gels,” etc.? Definitely not opposite ends of the spectrum.
>>One of the question is about the religion (for tax purposes). I'm surprised Germany still uses this kind of registry.

Forward thinking? Never know when they might need a list of people by religion, ethnicity, invalid status. Better to have and not use, than to need and not have it...or something :)
I am sure it works the other way - I have an atypical background and a few years ago I interviewed with a French company in the UK.

When they realised I didn't have a degree - they reacted like I had leprosy, IBM also had the same reaction.

Ironically I am further down the track to Ceng status than many who have a CS degree.
> For a long while it was common for me to start the work day at 5 AM and end around 11:30 PM. I don’t eat breakfast or lunch — don’t want to waste the hours when I could be working.

Not healthy
Interesting paper on inequality

Conclusions:

>Even on the most optimistic assumptions, and even if we sustain the rate of increase in attention to poverty
seen since the early 1990s, relying on global economic growth seems an almost certain route to ensuring
that the poor are, indeed, “always with us”: such benefits as may trickle down from global growth to the
poorest will almost inevitably be countered by the adverse effects of climate change and the costs of
adaptation.

>[improvements in growth have failed to make] the prospect of poverty eradication a realistic one, at least before the 23rd century, and, in all probability, ever
These are specific types of lenses that are for both nearsightedness and farsightedness.
Posting from a throwaway account since I don't really like to draw attention to this in general.

I intentionally decided not to attend a university and instead work hard and learn in the field. Instead of CS classes I read the core works and learned concepts through building things and working with experts around me. There are amazingly smart people in every company who love to teach others what they know.

Over the course of 20 years I worked at fortune 500s, tech giants, and startups, learning and building every day.

Eventually I was given the opportunity to build small teams and learn to effectively lead people. Through lots of help from those around me and research about effective leadership, I was able to move up as I demonstrated execution and results.

Today I hold the title of VP of Engineering at a growing startup in the enterprise space. We're doing very well and I'm continuing to learn every day.

The message here? It's not for everyone, but a degree is a piece of paper. It may get you in the door, but so will a track record. You may find you need both, but you certainly need the last one to make a successful career in any industry.
Expirybot – Test, fix and monitor your PGP keys
Yes, CSS is a hot mess for a few reasons that all basically boil down to historical baggage.

CSS was designed for an era where the web was made of documents, probably closer to the environment of a modern ebook than a modern web app. In an ebook, you might want to set your fonts and spacings and so on, maybe even throw in a table or two, but the idea of "I want this box to appear exactly here"... well, you don't even know where here is! The paper size might be different, or the user might have custom fonts, or who knows what. The goal wasn't fine-grained control over visual design, but consistency across an organisation's published material.

Of course, "fine-grained control over visual design" is exactly what everyone wanted, even in the early days, so CSS grew in features and scope until today we have this decades-tall stratified monument to the art of pleasing everybody: a fully-featured typesetting, layout, visual design, animation and user interface language. But, however rich its top layers, the whole thing rests on a base of document publishing, and that can't be changed because You Can't Break The Web.

HTML has this problem also, which is why so many sites look like <body><div id="container"></div><script src="app.js">. In truth, the whole modern web is built on hacks that pretend apps are documents. A lot of that hackery (React, Vue, etc) is incredibly clever and sophisticated, but it's hacks all the same, and it only exists because the web is an app platform that wasn't built for apps. This hits CSS hardest because developers solve developer problems, and design isn't a developer problem. Unlike the DOM, the CSSOM isn't yet swaddled in enough layers of JS to fit in app world. That said, check out the various "CSS-in-JS" projects for some valiant attempts in progress.

I would say if you really want to really get CSS, you should start by using it as it was intended, typesetting simple documents with only CSS1 features (check it out, https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1/ is so simple it makes your heart sing). Then work your way up through CSS2's additions, especially the positioning stuff (https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/changes.html#q1). Only once that feels coherent should you drink deep from the firehose: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2018/#css

Or you could do what the rest of us do and pretend CSS makes sense while only using carefully-memorised avoid-the-dragons patterns, copy-pasting stuff from css-tricks, and fiddling with the result in the web inspector until it works. And, meanwhile, pray for Houdini: https://houdini.glitch.me/
Is it different from e.g. Wakatime?
You've done great work as a whole, as you probably know. Try not let the lowlifes get to you.
If the implementation is complicated enough, the code that opens the mic and the code that accepts the call are so far away from each other that its impossible to see. That's why keeping things simple is the greatest art in programming.
Endurance sports by definition require time, something that is not in abundance when you are poor and working long hours.

You also may think that long distance running is simple and pure and has a low barrier to entry. But take a look at the money that has gone into the shoes, clothes, specialist accessories and bags, travelling to races, paying entry fees, and so on that a dedicated runner spends their money on.

I also think that the more someone focuses on money the more they generally feel like they have something to prove. Endurance sports are a, relatively, accessible way of demonstrating excellence in something.
>Sure there are web 'apps' now too, but most websites are not apps (thankfully).

The thing is, web apps are also just a more complex version of the same '1 dimensional flow of text and pictures,' just maybe with Canvas and a lot of javascript. There's no real difference between a web app and a document, as far as HTML/JS/CSS is concerned. The dirty secret of the whole "the web used to be documents but now it's applications" meme is that the applications are still documents.
> "too monolithic" ... "too many binaries"

> We can't win

Juxtaposing two unrelated issues usually isn't a winning strategy.
Priming the RISC-V Pump – NXP Creates Open-ISA.org
And I ate seeds,

and got stung by bees

for three long days

until Park Rangers finally found me.
re 1

I remember my Mum saying that if we had stayed in Brum (Birmingham UK) they would have tried to pull strings to get me into king edward's one of my gradparents was a headmaster :-)

For non Uk people that's Tolkien's old school and regularly is ranking 1 or 2 in the Country.
DHH: Paying Tribute to the Web with View Source
AliOS Things – Alibaba's IOT RTOS
Bouldering has that effect on me. Give it a try if there is a gym close to you
Note that the registry for this is not central but managed by the towns instead. So it's very decentralized and data in this aggregated form doesn't exist. An often used trick by towns is to pretend some person didn't move away from the town, thus not decreasing the number of people who live there, thus increasing the number of various funds that are paid based on how many citizens the town has. So those registries often aren't 100% accurate.
Death of WhatsApp Means Rise of Telegram and Cryptocurrencies
> Try unraveling the interdependencies.

These dependencies between services have been there the entire time. At least now they're clearly expressed.
Education is not just about information.
The Causal Path Entropy and Its Relation to Empowerment
Ditto.

I've switched to OpenBSD for nearly all personal work. We're still on RHEL/CentOS at work though.

I haven't figured out how to get xmonad running on OpenBSD yet or my workstation at work would be on it too.
Sure, but I imagine that they're going to tell to outside contributors how they're going to improve their asking, listening, discussing and inclusion :)
Apple Disables Group FaceTime as Temporary Workaround to Major Privacy Bug
Using systemd automount and NFS you can easily get pid1 unresponsive, hung in uninteruptible sleep forever.
>In two years as VP of Engineering at Reddit he grew the engineering team from 35 to 170 and led the major initiative to redesign and re-architect the 13-year-old site.

>led the major initiative to redesign and re-architect the 13-year-old site.

The redesign that everyone, including me, hates with a passion? I continuously have to revert to the old design, the new design is horrible.
Also not to be confused with another brother - Trevor, an autist savant with double degree in mathematics and music, as well as a chessmaster.

That's what you get when a pediatrician and a mathematics/physics teacher have kids. Who would've known. (Not trivializing at all. Complimenting, if anything.)

They're so cute too. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/brilliant-brothers-dr-t...
> Most of that is a public information, that you can look up.

So, Victor, is that why you're hiding behind a pseudonym and avoiding questions?
the rich like endurance sports because they're safe

What a peculiar thing to say. You can get caught in a rip tide swimming in the sea, collapse from heat exhaustion while running, any number of things.

never worry about taking a kick to the temple

In MMA which I assume you are referencing the ref can stop the fight instantly and there’s always a fully equipped hospital a short drive away. It’s massively safer than an ultramarathon or a full triathlon and that’s even before you get to the self-navigating and self-supporting stuff.
Not to mention laptops and desktops are getting RISC-based co-processors these days (e.g. Apple's T2 is present in the current iMac Pro, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini and MBA).

In fact now that I think about it, pretty much every SSD contains a controller SoC which is almost certainly RISC, so even in a standard laptop you get at most a 1:1 ratio of RISC:CISC. And modern GPUs (including IGP) would be RISC in a VLIW configuration, if each computation core is counted as a RISC chips the ratio quickly gets ridiculous.
> According to the New York Times, the total cost of running a marathon—arguably the least gear-intensive and costly of all endurance sports—can easily be north of $1,600.

I know people who run upwards of 50 marathons a year (some who are 100+) and they ain't paying out $1600+ for each one. Most of them wouldn't even count as "affluent", never mind "rich". A lot of them don't spend hours a week training, either (but then none of them are going to win many races since they're 4-6h types.)
When in doubt collect all the data.
The title is wrong: this is not a statement by Microsoft, but by a single individual, as explicitly pointed out by said individual.
I don't think that's what he meant. It can be sending empty audio, but the whole path needs to be up and running.
Also he is now a CPO.
iFaggots still boycotting Huawei?
Generally from what I've seen in the market founders will typically either come around to accepting the terms or will raise money from non-VC source (corporates, PE funds, etc).
I agree with the time aspect, but not the money. Running has possibly one of the lowest barriers to entry, money-wise, of any sport. You need a pair of trainers, but unless you're running pretty seriously any comfortable pair will do. That's it. A good pair of running shoes costs $100, and it's all you need to compete at all but the highest levels. Compared to swimming, cycling, or literally any sport that requires equipment to play, the costs are tiny.
FreeRTOS doesn't come with a hardware abstraction, it doesn't include any drivers.
> It is my opinion that Lennart Poettering is the software equivalent of Thomas Midgley Jr., the inventor of both leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons.

Considering that Midgley Jr. is (indirectly) responsible for the suffering and potentially death of many humans and other beings, I submit that this (in spirit) triggers Godwin's Law. The debate is therefore over.
Focus on how you work, not why
> I am not actually seriously suggesting you create your own distro, after all you can probably just fix the annoying issue with systemd and move on with your life, and Systemd actually makes it easy for your by making it a configuration switch and supporting the non-default workflow.

Given the extraordinary scope of systemd, what happens with the next major issue? Having to perpetually work around poorly designed software is infuriating.

> I am simply suggesting you put yourself in the position of someone that has to make those decisions and really think about it from that perspective. Everything’s always a trade off.

Why should the onus be on the end user? Perhaps the distributions should be making choices that are less antagonistic of their users (e.g. upstart instead of systemd).

You're right about the tradeoffs though, and one of the tradeoffs for buying into systemd is angry users.
My understanding is that this is pentile, meaning each ‘pixel’ is either R+G, or G+B; not the R+G+B pixel you’d expect. In practice this means 4k brightness detail, but only 2k colour detail.

That aside, 1080p isn’t past the threshold of imperceptibility. 4k totally is, but doubling a common res means you get all the benefits without non-integer scaling issues or changes in screen real-estate.
I think back to the old Cat Stevens song "I Want To Live In A Wigwam", except now I think maybe one day I'd like to live in a Faraday cage.

Computers, like guns, drugs, and any other invention of man are not inherently evil. All these things can be used for good or evil. Unfortunately, the fly in the ointment is human nature. With the convergence of cheaper but increased computing power and the monetization of personal information, I fear what the future holds. I hope I'm wrong, but it looks to me that humanity is doomed to forever live in a state total surveillance and control. We're seeing it happening already. Just the other day I saw an article that said that Sweden is going to tax people on the miles they drive. The very next day I saw another article saying Los Angeles is planning to do the same thing.

Sigh... I'm glad I'm old.
I realized the above might not have been clear: you can potentially negotiate the length of vesting period, but not the existence of vesting period.
Yeah, plus a brag.
> While this data might end up aggregated at some level, I'm not entirely sure that a registry like this is required to exist in the first place.

Yeah, and the crazies in the German government really want to create a centralized digital registry for health data. Cases like this show what a very bad idea this is.
Yes because the Tim Cook of all people doesn’t know anything about supply chain management and producing at scale.
Didn't not Couldn't.

These access issues [commonly] aren't bugs, they're laziness. Shared volumes to speed up collaboration, no granular permissions, or relying on threat of access audit to keep people in line. In most of these networks, mechanisms exist that could have limited access to those that need it.

And part of that is the technological culture of how we've been taught to share files. We still commonly rely on third parties to handle big transfers.
I couldn't get past the paywall to find out..
GNAA is certainly NOT something you want to google at work.
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Most consumer laptops are probably used quite often for watching movies, but this shouldn't be an issue. My laptop has a 3:2 screen and I don't even notice the black bars when watching a video. An OLED display would be even better for this as the bars are as really black.
> But take a look at the money that has gone into the shoes, clothes, specialist accessories and bags, travelling to races, paying entry fees,

Taking one marathon I've done, shoes (which get used a lot) were £110 (because I have wide feet and have to buy Hoka/Altra); travel was £40 (train to the coast) + £4 (Brompton hire); accommodation was £90 (B&B); entry was £40; kit was about £40; £324 total. If I had a car, I could have swapped £134 of that for about £30 in petrol. The shoes and kit will last for at least a year and should be amortised.

You could probably do a marathon for £130 all told. Which is not nothing but it's a pretty low barrier to entry when you consider the cost of other sports.

> so on that a dedicated runner spends their money on

Anecdata: I know a lot of dedicated runners (50+ marathons/ultras a year, etc.) and almost none of them spend money on specialist accessories, bags, shoes, kit, etc.
The pixel density always needs to be considered together with the typical viewing distance.

A UHD 15.6" display with a viewing distance of 34 inches (86cm) results in 170 pixels per degree which is quite high.

It's a very subjective thing. Some people value it higher than others.

For example going from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 on your 5.8" phone screen provides only limited value, yet many people still go for it.
It's incredible to me that people to this day are trying to make Apple look as bad as Google when all it takes is a look at the business models...