skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ops person here. When you set up a node, you set up all its networking, its services, its packages, its configuration, etc. It doesn't matter what your technology is - you set it up to do whatever it needs, and then hopefully you never have to re-do that again. Systemd's hydra of services affected a lot of that, so we had to learn all the weird gotchas to get newer distros to work properly.

And it's not just a little different, it's more complex. This increases the number of bugs, the time to test and roll out changes, integration work, etc. So the process is more complex. And the operation is also more complex, meaning more training for anyone who's used to how things worked for 30 years. Doing minor ops work now requires looking at 5 different manuals, requiring extra software, adding configuration management where it wasn't before, changing support instructions, healthchecks/automation tasks, migrations to newer disk images while supporting legacy functionality, etc.

And here's the part that really kills me. Alternatives to all the parts of systemd already existed; if you really needed a better system, you could pick up any similar software and make it work! But then distributions start rolling this out en-masse for all new releases, and we don't have a choice to opt-in. It was a breaking change that did nothing for us that we didn't already do for ourselves, even requiring more work than before.

Do our systems boot faster now? My EC2 instances still seem to take forever to spin up, and physical machines still take ~5 minutes to POST, so I'm going to say no. Can we do new things that we couldn't before? No. Are our systems more stable now? No. Are they less complex? No. So while some people talk up the theoretical benefits, I as an ops person have not seen them. But I still have to look up man pages to remember the three different filesystem trees systemd keeps files in, or the wonky configuration files, or what 5 extra commands I need to get something done.

If you're going to make breaking changes, at least have it make my life easier after I get used to it. Systemd has not done that. And it seems to just keep getting heavier.
Then make the browser block attempts of sending out that kind of data? That's all what the browser can do. Javascript can't force a browser to do something the browser doesn't want to.
Stripe Adds Cohort Analytics to Billing Dashboard
Ethics are irrelevant here. There's nothing unethical about ads. If you don't want to view ads in exchange for the content then you can pay for it or visit a different site.
It seems like the solution to this would be more frequent scans, so doctors can determine what's a static anomaly, and what is actually changing over time.
The issue with the "american inventors" query is a well known issue in information retrieval called "compound intrusion." The phrase "american inventors" occurs most often in web documents as a substring of "african american inventors" and unless you specifically exclude that from the results, it tends to dominate, producing the list of people you see there. If you search for "US inventors" you get a more reasonable list, because "US" isn't a substring of "african american."
Technology Companies Plummet on Wall Street After Google Veto Huawei
Correction... Was. It's an independent company now.
https://www.mailgun.com/blog/mailgun-becomes-an-independent-...
Of course that's what's happening. Collusion != coercion. Collusion is voluntary.

What is really happening here is that Uber wants the drivers to play a multi-player prisoner's dilemma, and the drivers want to coordinate cooperation. Uber wants to force the price to the lowest that the market will bear and the drivers want to force the price to the highest the market will bear. The rules of capitalism are specifically designed to produce the former outcome.
Well that gives me hope that my experience was an anomaly. I was 200 miles from home with a disabled car so after calling several places I felt like I was out of options.
This is dependent on a particular workplace's culture, not an inherent aspect of the technology.
All features that make for a great press release, and lots of media buzz that may tempt people to buy the cars.

Fixing bugs and regressions in the existing software? Not so much.
Targeted ads long predate tech companies. Not every publication gets printed with the same ads. Some metro areas get different ads than others. Same with television. The content itself may be the same nation wide, but local stations run their own ads to better target certain populations. You're providing the publication with your name and address - do you really think they aren't using that to deliver more fine grained ads?
Thank you for detailed explanation I get it now.
For those of you who have worked with Google Glass, is the "corner of the eye" design better than if the display were projected in some way onto the lens of the glasses?
Why not? Figure the driver takes 10 min to pick up another passenger. That’s another 10 min worth of driving and we’ll just say it all goes to Lyft. Driver makes $20, Lyft makes $5, 10 minutes are “wasted”.
I've always found most consultants to be sales people that you pay to sell you more stuff.

> A government must have in-house expertise if it is to undertake difficult, complicated projects.

This goes for companies as well.
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IQ and conscientiousness, as we measure them, are correlated with income.

I believe it remains to be shown that "competence" is also correlated with income.
Yeah, just look at the number of people that demand antibiotics, even if a doctor thinks its viral, and the number of doctors that capitulate to those demands.
Not true. In the case that your MVP is actually worth something, you don't want to be spending all your time paying off tech debt when you could be focusing on growth.
A lot has changed since 2011 but even back then the MR scanner should always have been full and the next patient should have been waiting outside. If a scanner is very early or late you call the next patients and alter scheduling. Anything else is a waste of time and money.
Everyone and their grandmother is an "influencer" on Instagram. Sounds so cringey.
A union is basically collusion/price fixing.
Uh, he went from the Leaf to the Tesla, i.e the Leaf is the Nokia and the Tesla is the iPhone.
> the most significant cultural difference between Canadians and Americans was that Americans take overconfidence as a sign of competence whereas Canadians perceive it as an attempt to intimidate or take advantage of someone.

Interesting...

I'm an American, but apparently more Canadian in attitude about this. I've always taken overconfidence (or, worse, braggadocio) as a sign of incompetence.
Yes... but no...

Resemblance to reality as UI design smell... Just because we have head tracking and stereo display, doesn't mean a UI should at all resemble reality. Years ago, when cell phones were new, and UI design was focused on onboarding novice users in an untrained culture, there was the idea of skeuomorphic ui design - the app should resemble the familiar physical thing. The calendar app should have lined pages, that flip around a spiral binding, surrounded by a textured leather margin. We don't do that anymore. It would be silly. As is 3D UI's resembling "spear chucking" reality. So yes, tossing xterms in the air, and 3D UI's that resemble VR games, are both common and bad ideas. Quietly assuming VR-gaming-like things cover the entire 3D UI design space, and drawing conclusions built on that assumption, is another common and bad idea.

> Splitting information across multiple depths is harmful

Frequently jumping between dissimilar depths is harmful. Less frequent, sliding, and similar depths, can be wonderful, allowing much denser and easily accessible presentation of information. I so wish my laptop had a native 3D display... DIY anaglyph and shutter glasses are a pain.

A general takeaway is... Much current commentary about "VR", is coming from a community focused on a particular niche, current VR gaming. One with particular and severe, constraints and priorities... that very don't characterize the entirety of a much larger design space. And that community, and commentary, has been really bad at maintaining awareness of that. So it's on you.
That's quite disingenuous to what's really happening. The companies in the US claiming their "recycling" service are probably well aware of what's going on, and China probably isn't making any promises that they're recycling anything. The US companies accept money for "recycling" material, maybe cut off the power cord for reuse, then pay China to take the rest as junk.

And it's a given that if you're transporting garbage to a landfill, some of it isn't going to make it that far and will eventually end up in the ocean. Maybe they are just dumping it as you say, but just the fact that some of it ends up there isn't evidence of that fact.
OTA updates have had literally deadly consequences. There was an issue in which "autopilot" poorly recognized left-exits, including a particular one in California. It got some publicity and was fixed by an OTA update. Good! Except that a couple of months later another OTA update reverted whatever part of the "autopilot" model had learned not to drive straight into a concrete wall separating a left exit, and it killed someone. So yes, ML combined with OTA can certainly be dangerous, but Tesla fans will soon show up in droves to explain why that man's death is his fault, or the fault of anyone but Tesla.

As far as fraudulent claims, Musk has repeatedly made statements related to self-driving that some people consider to be well beyond the pale of optimism, including promising that every Tesla sold after a certain would include all hardware needed for full self-driving, and then doing the same thing a few years later, apparently rendering the first statement factually false in retrospect.

Musk has made many, many, many statements about timelines that have not worked out, and some that probably still won't work out, and some people label that fraudulent. I think it's just naïve, but as the CEO of a public-traded company, his naïveté is pretty stunning and has resulted in fines.
OCC was definitely dramatized. The parent comment's suggestions though are indeed TOH-style mechanic shows.
Yeah, emotions, money and politics aside, more information is surely better, even if not now, in the long run as processes improve.
> Maybe I watched you closely to learn exactly what you were thinking about buying.

If creepy shopkeepers following you round was a thing I suspect it would be illegal already.
A downside to MicroG is that it relieves some of the demand coming from people averse to Google snooping, so there's less demand for a genuine alternative.

Running MicroG makes you still under Google's thumb.

Additionally, Google can pull the rug out from under you at any time (by breaking MicroG with technical changes, or ToS).

(Personally, I've temporarily switched to a dumbphone for essential voice/SMS, while PostmarketOS gets developed for various Web/app purposes, and am also looking at the Librem 5 work.)
Of course it might make sense. We’ve not been built for longevity but for high reproduction rates. Dying with 40 is not a big deal if you’ve got enough offspring.

Also: have you tried to apply your logic to smoking? Many people I know enjoy smoking. How come evolution has optimized us for that? Just because we can handle something in the short run doesn’t mean it’s good for us in the long run.
The pixel 1 so worked great for me, but was a pain to unlock
Proponents: Newer reactors are safer than older designs. The old designs are still safer than any other alternative and much safer than fossil fuels, but the newer designs are even better and we should build those.

Opponents: Don't build new reactors.

<older designs have problems that still kill fewer people than any other alternative>

Opponents: See? See? You said...

Proponents: ...that newer designs are safer than older ones and even older ones are safer than alternatives. Which remains true.

...

Politics occurs here. When you ask whether something is safe, in practice what you're asking is if it's safe relative to alternatives. So solar is safe because it's safer than coal, and nuclear is safe because it's safer than solar.

But there is also an absolutist definition of safe which requires an inhuman perfection that no real technology could ever meet. Not solar, not nuclear, not biofuels, it's just an unattainable standard.

So you ask if something is safe, people say yes (meaning it's safe relative to alternatives), then you apply the impossible standard and claim that they're lying.

If you want to stop nuclear over safety with any credibility you would also have to be willing to stop everything with a worse safety record. But that's every known alternative whatsoever.
We don’t advocate less frequent scans, we advocate targeted scans. Because the probability of a positive result being a false positive depends heavily on the population. In a population with a high baseline frequency, the probability of a positive being false is relatively low; in a population with a low baseline frequency, the likelihood of a positive being false is relatively high.

So, you don’t mammogram every person with a breast. You mammogram people with advanced age, genetic predisposition, etc. so as to select for a population with a reasonable baseline frequency. Various professional bodies and the USPTF put a lot of effort into determining what the optimal screening population is.

Clinical decision rules are an extremely active part of medical research. Trying to figure out a reasonable predictive model to say “definitely follow up on this” or “definitely don’t” is a huge field in medicine. For instance, in patients ≥35 years old with incidental pulmonary nodules on CT imaging, we have the Fleischner Guidelines for when and which follow-up is appropriate. But it required a number of prospective external validation studies in order to properly validate it, and it’s for one super specific population: under-35 incidental pulmonary nodule on non-cancer-screening CT. So, you can imagine how much work there is to be done for the other 10,000 kinds of incidentalomas.
I think they're joking about how the article awkwardly restates the entire name repetitively, not implying people would use it that way in real life.

For reference, the entire phrase "Glass Enterprise Edition 2" matches 10 times in that incredibly short article.
Promising approach... will test it in detail
Mimetic Traps
One of the clever things Dan Gilbert did when he bought a big chunk of the downtown area was to start his own security force and put cameras everywhere. Suddenly crime dropped and so did the major excuse of why companies stayed in the suburbs.

But people were getting carjacked at gas stations and party stores. So the city started Project Greenlight. In exchange for putting in the cameras the city promised priority on police response. Suddenly all crime stopped and other Detroit merchants demanded they be allowed to join the project.

A lot of people are scared about the 'surveillance state' but this is how Detroit is taking back the city from the criminals and it's working.
It's easy for a multi-millionare to say "money isn't wealth."
The rules of capitalism are specifically designed to drive the price down as low as possible, in the ideal case, to the actual marginal cost of production. That's good for the buyer, bad for the seller, so sellers try all kinds of ways to get around this, some of which are legal (IP protection) and some are not (collusion, price-fixing). If you want to argue that we should change the rules I will not dispute you. But that the moment, that's where things stand.
Off-topic, just spreading knowledge. Check out IsoPSA [1], which is a simple blood test procedure superior to PSA (unfortunately, not available in US, yet).

[1] https://www.cleveland-diagnostics.com/isopsa
> My argument is the flip side of (and generalization of) the usual claim that poor people are discouraged to try anything entrepeneurial.

Being poor is what made me an entrepreneur! When you have nothing to lose, then there's little risk in rolling those dice.
This looks really interesting. However they don't seem to list any prices without you first giving them all your personal contact information. Would you mind sharing the price?
The patents issues was FUD, but now it's completely irrelevant, the patent clause was removed a while ago.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. – Bertrand Russell
I hope you're considering a Firefox add-on next!
Absolutely we should be trying to do better. But we do that by steering towards a future that is acceptable, not by trying to turn back time to somewhere we used to be.
> How is Techcrunch able to figure out the owner of this database, and why did the researcher expect them to be able to?

Relationships in the industry and resources.
> IQ and conscientiousness, as we measure them, are correlated with income.

They are? Do you have studies indicating this?
Something in our evolution must have rewarded people who listened to that guy in the cave who was a big talker. Seriously.
A Case Against "Why X is not my Favorite Y" Being Considered Harmful.
Sorry if my text brings mixed message to you; alas, English is not my native language. No, I wasn't being sarcastic at all, I truly believe in what I wrote and I'm practicing it on a daily basis in my code and during code review.
Briefing: European firms say forced tech transfers rising in China
Could turn out as a big problem for Huawei
I feel there is an argument that this is one of the reasons people are gravitating to private chats. They’re invitation only. You’re not running the risk of your offhand snark about something with political ramifications getting besieged by bots and drones the way you are on Twitter.

You have to be someone who people want to connect with. And if you stop being that kind of person you run the risk of getting kicked out.
We are already doing this. Look at Weather simulations and other Tech promising simulation of User/Behavior to determine Selling trends. If we just mix these together we can image in future we will be able to create pretty realistic Test Bed. Maybe Neuromorphic chips
What's the primary Cancer type? I'm assuming multiple myeloma?
I think there is a severe lack of imagination going on here. A pencil is a 3D interface.

This is as good a time as any to post this eight-year old gem from Bret Victor:
http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Focals is trying the consumer market. https://www.bynorth.com/
Some scans are very fast. For a basic knee scan done well it’s 10-15 minutes of imaging time and lumbar spine scans are a couple of minutes longer. With 2 staff the changeover can be a minute of 3. With good scheduling the scans that are similar are booked back to back and equipment changes are minimal.
Nasa's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field
> The unrealistic element in TOH is possibly down to sponsors or donations

Or budget.

How does This Old House select project houses?

This Old House chooses two projects each season.

The fall project is usually located in or around our base of Boston, so that the crew can stay close to home for a significant part of the season.

The winter project is generally located in a mild climate where outdoor work may be undertaken during the winter months.

The renovations are completely funded by the homeowners and not by This Old House, though the show arranges for product discounts and donations where possible. All donated items are considered gifts and the homeowners pay taxes on them.
Not tried the projected on to glasses way; but the corner of the eye works great - not super distracting but also easy to view.
True, but that doesn't make it false.

"Wealth" is one of those terms (like "success") that is pretty squishy, though. People can, and do, disagree about what they mean.
> The reasoned response to climate breakdown is to start taking it seriously at a global level.

Agreed! That should be the number one priority.

I also agree that it is unlikely that AGI will fix climate change for us in time.

What it might help with is adaptation. If all our attempts in trying to control the giant intricate set of climatic and ecological feedback loops we are disturbing don't work, then it might help us with designing appropriate technologies to cope with what the world has become.
Implementing Inverse Bidirectional Typechecking
I’m sure there are perfectly good reasons having to do with logistics, but I find it hilarious that they put the sound system in before they had the radiators built.

Doing the important work first :)
MicroG still talks to Google servers in some cases - e.g. their push notification module will keep a long-polling connection to Google infrastructure to receive notifications.
Why go with the organization's preference?
After being connected through WhatsApp with a number of groups of family and friends, I recently decided to disconnect. I am on WhatsApp, but I no longer participate in group chats. I took this step after I felt that my time was no longer mine. I mostly played along for the FOMO. I still do 1:1 chats as and when needed.

After this change I feel liberated. I am able to think more independently, avoid group think and have more meaningful 1:1 conversations. For now I am planning to stick to this change.
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,110 years. Source: Wikipedia.
Limiting patient information for fear of false positive seems like a backwards step.
I have way too many cases of systemd startup items hanging with their timeout for no good reason.

Worse, my most complicated high-uptime machine usually does not shut down in a reasonable time. Systemd says "waiting for session user cracauer" (something like it) for whatever reason. It also hung on undoing swapspace, when that swapspace was a custom stack of block layers. I don't need swapspace to be "shut down". It went into 20 minutes something always stating another timeout when one expired. I mean, WTF?

The problem here is that I had to do an unclean shutdown on that machine (reset button) multiple times, and that I really can't have.

This also illustrates a point I have been making about Linux and the BSDs from day one: When the BSDs boot or shut down the keyboard is connected to the rc scripts. You can do Control-C for SIGINT and Control-\ for SIGQUIT, The latter makes everybody in the stack leave a coredump on disk.

Now, compare these two:

1)
in BSD when there is a startup or shutdown item taking too long or hanging I can abort that single item and I can later debug what was going on with the coredumps.

2)
on a Linux system with systemd I cannot "cut through" startup or shutdown items I don't want to wait for, and there is no way to debug any of that if the machine doesn't actually come up completely, or if thing happen at shutdown. The only interaction I can conduct is the reset button.

To add insult to injury, systemd also hides a lot of error messages that would traditionally be dumped on the console, and instead of giving me that error message systemd captures it and print on the screen instructions how to get that error message (which usually are longer than the error message was, WTF?). Instructions that I cannot follow because somebody detached my keyboard, and because I will never be in that machine in an up state while that context is available.

This also invalidates the point that systemd could be one platform that you learn once and then use on a wide basis. The debugging abilities are nowhere close to adequate, so you have to learn by try-n-error.
There are certainly automated tools for converting systemd unit files into the service definitions used by other systems.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/worked-example.html

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/converting-systemd-uni...

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/convert-syste...