skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...

and some other directives documented on the same page.
what's "review board"?

also, it's triply bothersome because... i've been doing this > 20 years. that certainly doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, and am never wrong, but it does get tiresome to have whitespace arguments take up time 2 decades in. On top of this, there's actually an automated linter that we all adhere to, but these are 'extra' style things that someone likes to focus on outside of the linter. It's just wasteful of the company's time, more than anything else.
If you use a Mac, you don’t have much choice about your init system and probably don’t get into idealogical arguments about them as often as Linux users do.

Plus, there’s always the BSDs, which don’t use systemd but still feel very clean and cohesive.
Most of the problem I have it is with the imperialistic culture that came with it and with the serious security bugs that they keep sweeping under the rug.

It is easier to configure and is convenient to have one holistic system in a lot of ways, but...

They pushed for Gnome to have a hard dependency on it so that everyone would be _forced_ to use it instead of just letting it be accepted by merits.

They have a track record of labeling serious bugs as non-issues, ignoring them, or just not filing them as CVEs. Serious issues keep coming up.

I don't think the code is high-quality, but even more than that I have a problem with the people being controlling, dismissive, and deceptive.
Can machine learning help cure breast cancer?
The 'scientific method', of course, is that which is done by scientists.
I wonder too.

One idea I have: In these countries you don't really need that much more because you're already cushioned against risk. You also don't need to provide a cushion to anyone around you (since everyone's taxes are already doing that). Which means, below you is not the gaping abyss but a shrub that is a little bit thorny.
I don't like the word "manipulating". It is like a trade union negotiating better terms. If they do it voluntarily without intimidating the drivers then I don't see any problem. They should not feel guilty.

Also, in a Lyft's statement:

> Over 75% drive less than 10 hours a week to supplement existing jobs.

I wonder, are those 75% working part-time or full-time? It must be tiring driving 2 more hours after 9-hour working day.
this is absurd. these people are reactionaries. they should know that false accusations almost never happen and if they act in good faith they'll be fine. instead they're going to professionally penalize women. classic.
"You literally need six figures in your bank account to do a startup" isn't a thing that people actually argue. Paul might be technically correct but he's arguing against a strawman. In this context, rich is a shorthand for financial privilege, which doesn't tend to come in the form of dollars in your bank account when you're young.
I like this and I see the need for it, being a long time Make user and supporter. Will give this a try.
My experience with systemd has be extraordinarily positive. I like the unified syntax of unit files. I know that's like 50% of what systemd does, but it does it extraordinarily well.

Is systemd-nspawn secure enough now we can forget docker et all? I liked the idea of a "chroot" being supported by the service manager.
if you're living in a tent eating rice and beans and getting your wifi from google fi 10k will last a very long time. I'm not being facetious, a friend went this route.
Sometimes the best way to grasp an abstract concept is to translate it to a real life example (usually a stupid example).
So I'll try to explain recursion to you with an <stupid> example, let's say that you want to take a shower, but you have your pijamas and your underwear on. What you must do is take all your clothes, one by one, and then get into the shower and take the bath.
You first take off your pijama shirt (you have 2 pieces left), you then remove your pijama pants (1 piece left) and finally you remove your underwear. Notice that this is a repetitive pattern that must be repeated a couple of times in this case (in other case, you might have more clothe pieces, so you will do this process more). Finally when you're naked, you ask yourself: do I need to remove another piece? NO!, you reply, and you proceed to go and take the bath.

In recursion, you have 3 main components:
-A function that performs the same action a repeated number of times, except for when you meet a base case (end of the recursion)
-A value that must be tracked and modified in order to perform the said action n times, and know when to stop doing it
-A base case that stops the repeating action, and usually performs another 1 time action.

In our example, our components are:
- Function <undress to take a shower> that performs the repeated action of taking a piece of cloth off.
- Value tracked, which is the <number of pieces of cloth you have left to get naked>, and on each iteration or call of the function will be reduced by 1 (asuming you're taking 1 piece at a time).
- Base case, which would be <when you have no pieces of cloth left to remove = you're naked> and you can perform the last 1 time executed action which is <take the bath>.}

Notice the importance of the base case, otherwise your program will keep iterating and the program will get stucked.

Hope that this helps.
Yeah I was going to say 10k is a trip to ER after a small accident.
> Our successful societies originated in a state of constant (public) surveillance

Not at all true. Especially in contrast to today. People actually had a lot of privacy on every possible metric.

edit: Or asked differently: What was surveilled and through which channels?
Nobody is boring cities on Mars with diggers designed to bore small sewer tunnels. Boring Co still has a long way to go to demonstrate basic competence at digging small tunnels and this is an area where obstacles increase with scale.
I've seen it, a life ruined because of it
To be precise: Gentoo allows one to run with or without systemd, and both ways are supported.
Slack Bug Allows Remote File Hijacking, Malware Injection
I'm surprised Julian Assange hasn't committed suicide. In my life from what's observable, I doubt anyone believes the law is upheld by the current generation of people in power. People of authority will just ignore the rights when convenient and honour them when an agenda is being pushed. I think Assange has his past to thank for how his life situation panned out. In his younger age people actually cared about honouring the rights of the accused more so than today.
If you think that you are lucky to have good friends and helpful colleagues, maybe turn it around and think to yourself - they are lucky to have me!

Personally, I consider people who are humble or even low self-esteem as more interesting. Maybe it even correlates with intelligence? Idk, but the fact that you might feel like you lack confidence can actually make you look more interesting to people.

I know many people (including me) who try to minimize contact with with over-confident people when possible.
According to Julian's lawyers it's a violation of international law. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1127706444185448449
I've read a couple dozen self-help books over the last few years. This one changed my mindset more deeply than any other:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25692561-how-to-be-an-im...

I went from being "socially awkward, and I feel awkward about it" to "socially awkward, but that's OK" largely because of this book.
I remind you, developed WTO member countries are obliged to facilitate technology transfers to lesser developed countries by WTO charter.

It might be a surprise to most HN readers, but that clause was put in WTO charter by... USA
No, because JS runs in the browser sandbox and has no access to the rest of your machine. That's very different to running a bash script from curl.
> If the maintainers of GNOME betray your trust, it sounds like you should hate this hypothetical GNOME for the same reasons you apparently hate systemd. Or just fork it. If enough people agree with you, a disentangled fork will inevitably be maintained.

And then they move on to the next project and introduce a hard-dependency on systemd there. RedHat has more programmers than me, they're always going to be able to add systemd dependencies faster than I can fork things. The only way users will ever be able to have a choice of init system is if the community can agree that hard-depending on systemd is indeed a betrayal, and publicise this.

> it's naive to assume that what was good for open source in its infancy is still what's best for open source in its coming maturity.

Open source succeeded because it was easy to improve and replace things piecemeal. That's still as important as ever.

> [0] Given that the open source movement has monumentally benefited from monolithic design principles in the form of the Linux kernel, I think that hypothesis is demonstrably absurd and easily rejected.

Linux has suffered from its monolithic approach to kernel-space development, but the damage was mitigated by an extreme commitment to providing a solid API to userspace that never gets broken. So most progress took place in userspace and wasn't affected. There's no analogous boundary for systemd.
Seems like Yeoman? https://yeoman.io/
Depends where you live? Hard to say what diff people in diff situations and in diff places need and/or consider a safety net.
You are misinterpreting that research.

It’s the best individual predictor when compared against other predictors, but not very predictive on its own.

I.e. Iq is more predictive than inherited wealth, but iq + inherited wealth is more predictive than either individual factor.
Depends on the state, but federally, independent contractors are excluded from the right to form or participate in unions as defined by the National Labor Relations Act.

EDIT: independent contractors are excluded from the protections of their union actions.
Nothing is really new, they just went away for a bit and came back.
+1

A docker image would be much better than a random script.
Having nothing to lose is an advantage, but you also need to consider what the worst case scenario is. That's where the safety net comes in. A lot of people don't have anywhere to go if things truly go south.
Complicated to be around a group of people that has so strong opinions about what it is to be a "real man", and that they think they deserve so more money and respect than the market (and the consumer) is willing to pay.
Infamous Forum for Instagram Hackers Gets Hacked by Other Hackers
OpenRC isn’t the default but is portable to FreeBSD and NetBSD.

See https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?init
This is an interesting dynamic - the colluding drivers wait for Lyft/Uber to determine the surge pricing and the point-person for the drivers informs of the price increase to a target that is acceptable. Now how does the pricing affect the demand for the rides? Will a Lyft user switch to Uber if the collusion is affecting only 1 application (vice versa too)?
>Musk's "secured" bid of $420 for a company that today traded unter 200, less than a year later.

This keeps being repeated ad nauseam but what's the relationship between the 'going private' tweet and today's stock price?

It's been proven that the Saudi asked Musk multiple times to take Tesla private between early 2017 and summer 2018 but other shareholders resisted the attempt (with far less capital at hand than the Musk and the Saudi).

Remember that non-accredited shareholders (like me) would also have been forced to sell at that time, if the company was to be delisted (which wasn't Musk's intention but still does not undermine the "funding secured" tweet one bit).

In fact, today's stock price makes a strong case for the company to be taken private and even a stronger one for the attempt to do it when it was above $350.
Where did I say this was a good or bad thing? Nowhere.

I described things that could happen if the practice becomes too exploitative.

Also, I can see the argument that it violates the TOS for the drivers. The drivers agree to drive for the price determined by the service. They are then using exploits to manipulate that price.

If they don't want to drive for X fare, then they shouldn't be in their car.

And this is an incredibly complicated situation because there are at least three different principles involved. The driver, the company, and the passenger.

In some way, the passenger is being taken advantage of. The passenger _also_ has a contract with the company. And that part assumes that the price is determined fairly and not being manipulated by outside forces.
>The dynamic basically foists the burden of making men feel comfortable on to women

To be fair, it puts an increased burden on both parties. Any situation in which people cannot even socialize comfortably is not ideal for productive work.

It's obvious that there is sexual tension between individuals at work sometimes. Given that relationships at work are fairly taboo even assuming both parties are interested, there are not obvious pathways to resolve this without risking your career. Anytime I've ever had any interest in a coworker, the main thought I've had in my mind has usually been to try not to even THINK about getting involved. But, work is just work. Gotta get paid. if I were to to prioritize my actions on my terminal values, what I really want in life, notwithstanding the risk described above, I would try to pursue these relationships.
> Gaming on an aeroplane is great, but that's a case where gaming-as-a-service is never going to work for obvious reasons.

With current geo-synchronous satellites, correct. With the upcoming low earth orbit internet satellite constellations of which there are at least 3 announced and the spacex starlink constellation is literally launching their first batch of 60 satellites this week, this should be doable.
Why bother? There is zero upside and infinite downside.
I don't know what kind of life you've lived where you think $6,730 a year is affordable, but it's a lot. Most people I know would have greatly improved prospects if they had that much money to spare. Education would be low on the list. First would be fixing their failing cars/homes.

$560/month to spare would change my life. I already got a good STEM degree on Georgia's HOPE Scholarship (traditional job prospects wiped out by SaaS), so it would go to a good used car, a proper studio computer, and some clothes that aren't years old and falling apart. Plenty of people I know found themselves in debt with degrees no one would hire them for without experience. Not even stereotypically useless degrees. They were pushed into it by everyone they were supposed to be able to trust, sometimes even outright manipulated and lied to by family.
This is a case for more women managers.
Or to the British police surely, they're who've arrested him and it is Britain that will decide where he goes next.
For me, what's unethical about Google's behavior is that they have mislead people about what they do with it. They've used dark patterns in their UI to keep people from opting out. And they've turned over data to police and governments voluntarily without warrants.
TikTok owner ByteDance’s long-awaited chat app is here
> Chats based on hashtags.

> you split chats into channels of ~50

You are describing Kik
Remember back when everyone's computers were infected with this crap because everyone installed p2p crap like Kazaa?

Do non-tech savvy people still have a reason to install software? Don't most people just need a web browser?
Paper here: https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/papers/vdm-tifs20...
There's a happy middle ground here. Patents expire after 20 years and that's a form of tech transfer. Maybe China's 1 year is too short and the US' 20 years is too long?
I went through most of the documentation but I still don't understand how this will help me in any way. I don't understand what it is?

> Become a hero

Marketing jargon like this is IMO very tiring. I am a hero because I use your product? Ok, I guess that is a very loose definition of that word.

I don't want to be negative really, but I have actually no clue what this product does or what problem it solves.
Yes, but then how would Ecuador secure its IMF loans?
Interesting. So what use cases is Docker good for? Why is it so popular if systemd suffices?
>Maybe it's better these days (my car is ~5 years old), but it's just impressively bad in my car at least.

I honestly don't think it's getting any better. At best, it's just getting different - but maybe worse as manufacturers try to add more "smart" features.

Was a passenger in a <1 year old BMW 5 series for about a week this year for a roadtrip. There were so many stupid behaviours with the software that we effectively gave up using it for anything except bluetooth music. Trying to use the built in GPS navigation was awful.

Also a passenger in a new SUV style vehicle for two weeks last year, I forget what brand. It too had utterly bizarre behaviours that it wouldn't explain anywhere, and it took a variety of experimentation to figure out. For instance, Bluetooth pairing is disabled once the car is in put into gear, and is not re-enabled until you turn the car off and turn it back on again.
However it doesn't tell you this, it just doesn't show bluetooth options in the menu anywhere. So I spent hours going through every menu item (as a passenger, mind) over a few days until I finally figured it out.

In every case, the number of either unlabelled or poorly labelled buttons is overwhelming.
MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries
would they have to have more control over the liquidity of the market to be price fixing?
I don't think they are allowed to set prices. Furthermore, they are probably somehow punished if they don't accept the orders that app offers.
Right to erasure: How to get an organisation to delete your personal data
Stealing documents and releasing them to the public irresponsibly does not make you a journalist.
This is a horrible marketing piece...I'm assuming it bootstraps a go project because one of the files was go, but nowhere does it say what language/framework you're bootstrapping...at first I assumed it was just another express.js bootstrapper...
I really recommend pipethis [1] for these scenarios. It's based on public-key cryptography, so an attacker who gains control of the server can't just update the hash (hosted on the same server).

[1] https://github.com/ellotheth/pipethis
Are you suggesting I'm in the market?

Not even close. I just wondered what kind of cars were collected and where they ended up (museum, another private collector) mostly because it sounds like it may have been an interesting set. I just visited a car museum in Riga, Latvia and there were all kinds of interesting brands and vehicles that you'd only find there and nowhere else.
Guess what, all you need to prove in order to get a new "valid" cert is that you control the server. And, if you control the server then you already have access to the original certificates, so you probably don't even need new certs.
>It's just naive to pin something as complex as depression

No it's not. Twin-based heritability studies show depression risk has about 10% heritability across all cases and 50% heritability among severe cases. There is a genetic component to the disease.

That complexity is mediated by dozens of genes, but each one gene contributes a percentage to that heritability. Single genes can and will be found which link genotype to phenotype. It is just a matter of time and money.
Feel free to adjust your numbers if you like. Personally, I have a hard time spending that much in a year.

The idea, though, is to save up enough that you don't need to think about losing your job as an existential threat. That's an easily attainable goal for a software guy, and it puts you in a nice position in a lot of ways.
I think there’s a world that a lot of tech people don’t consider. Let’s say Tesla rolls out their self driving taxi service. And let’s say it’s decent. Not great. It kills people infrequently and Tesla manages to argue its way out of liability...

Wouldn’t that be a pretty good business? It has some severe ethical costs, but... a lot of people are ok with that. What should be doesn’t really effect the market’s reaction to things or even consumer preferences.
I agree with what you're saying in general, but there's also problems in play in academics that are broader than just bad statistics. The article tries to convey the nature of this problem, but the "chasing a unreplicable effect" or "science sometimes takes awhile to work itself out" is just the tip of the iceberg.

This touches close to home because it's in my area of research, and for years I had many discussions with colleagues about this very same genetic effect and its problems. This SLC6A4 candidate gene research was not just a fluke of incompetence (unless by incompetence you mean much of an entire biomedical field of researchers), and it persisted wildly, with huge amounts of methodological research and money behind it.

Papers advocating for this type of research (and even more statistically problematic research) were published in Nature, with lots of methodological arguments, by established quantitative experts. This doesn't mean it's correct, just that by all superficial indications, it was solid. You had to question these authority figures, and a body of research, in good journals, the actual nature of the argument, and even then you were branded a naysayer or curmudgeon.

Even when people started questioning the effect, then you had people start advocating for more complex interactions (as intimated at in the article) that just amounted to unintentional (or intentional) data fishing and p-hacking with a theoretical cover.

When I started pointing out how problematic this all was to my colleagues, I had some of them outright explain to me that they thought it might be bunk, but it was popular, and if they found something significant, and it landed them a paper in a prestigious journal, why wouldn't they publish it? That is, you gotta publish what's popular because that's how you build an academic career.

I can't begin to explain all the shady stuff I've seen with the SLC6A4 effect being discussed in this article. Some of it was probably completely unintentional, and some of it probably amounts to conscious p-hacking and fishing.

The worst part about this, that's hard to convey, is that, yes, science probably works itself out eventually most of the time? But there's such a focus on popularity and prestige, fads, regardless of veridicality, and much less so on boring rigor and correctness, that entire careers can be made or broken on complete nonsense. The person who catapaults a completely empty finding to fad status has a career elevated permanently, to a nice named-chair-full professor position. The person who is trying to be rigorous, maybe even dispute the finding or disprove it? Much less clear what happens to them, and often it's a thankless task. That is, the fad makes a career, and even after the fad is discredited, people shrug and say "oh well, that person just happened to have a good idea that was wrong." The people who do the hard work of replicating it, disproving it? Well, that's not interesting or worthwhile to reward.

Academics is really broken, at least in many fields.
You are probably thinking of the Circus of Nero, which was the place where St. Peter was crucified upside-down. Peter was buried in a nearby necropolis, which is now the site of St. Peter's basilica. Drawings I've seen show that the east end of Circus of Nero site intersects the southern portion of St. Peter's Square. Also, the obelisk in the center of St. Peter's Square was previously in the center of the Circus of Nero, similar to the obelisk of the Circus Maximus shown in the video. There are enough similarities between the two places that confusion is understandable.