skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Managing services on CentOS is the same as managing them on Debian which is the same as managing them on OpenSUSE.

It's not really the same, some systemd-based distros diverge a lot and anything non-systemd much more so, including FreeBSD. Even something as basic as network configuration could be completely different on systemd distros, like Ubuntu with its netplan weirdness and Archlinux going into the opposite direction and forcing you to choose how to deal with network yourself from the start.

But still, if you want any sanity in your deployment across different distros - you simply have to avoid using systemd or other host's init and service management systems for anything and bring your own service management with you. It could be as simple as a script starting from root's cron at @reboot (this particular trick survived for decades for example).
> they must take whatever Uber / Lyft give them

No, they don't. No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to work. Uber/Lyft's offer is take-it-or-leave-it, but leaving it is always an option.
The Art of the Late Start
The only reality show I've watched was Swamp Loggers---they seemed to have half a clue and be interested in the actual work involved. I understand the show was cancelled because the production company wanted them to drama-it-up.

Flipped over to watch one of the other logging shows and in the first scene they were loading logs over the cab of the truck (!), which was occupied by the driver at the time (!). Nope.
The process doesn't stop with the fine, they're still required to become compliant, and further violations can lead to more fines.
The moment it stops being free Debian drops/forks it.

Furthermore, if Red Hat can monetize a system manager daemon, well ... I mean, good for them.

Oracle tried with the JVM (they had some commercial features).

Furthermore, if systemd provides a lot of basic facilities (global/user services, device management, login sessions, cron, ntp, DNS resolving) someone ought to maintain and support it, and if a for-profit company does it, I don't mind if they try to cover those expenses. (As long as it's also GPL2.)
Id say its largely due to the culture found on SO.
That's imperialism, not authoritarism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
Exactly. I could make my stuff super rock solid if I could focus on that for the next few years. I am sure we can improve but the main reason for failing software is the speed we are developing at. And the fact that organizational learning gets prevented by constantly hiring “fresh” people who have no knowledge of the work that was done previously.
This is not a matter of faith in some group of people ("them"). What's your point? That the whole nuclear industry, full of scientists and engineers can't be trusted with their studies?
> We still see a pretty high rate of security vulnerabilities in it.

Prove it. As someone else pointed out, there were 5 CVEs for systemd in 2017 and 7 so far this year most of which are low severity. If you think the mess of shell scripts and programs that systemd replaces had less than that you're simply delusional.
> I will switch from self-hosting my email to $2.99/month email accounts at Rackspace.

As someone who has spent the last year or so migrating consulting clients off of Rackspace services - I have to ask... Why Rackspace email?
I started using groupme in 2014 in college and it's the de facto standard for group chats now, at least where I went to school (45k undergrads). The barrier to create a new groupchat is low and it pulls people from your contacts, so it was easy to set one up for a class, your roommates, your dorm, your floor, your fraternity, your pledge class, your fraternity and a sorority, your extra curriculars and intramurals, your friends from highschool, the people you work with, and an assortment of niche interests with people from those groups (I have one for xbox live, game of thrones, sports talk, people who are in town, people who aren't in town, people who want to play pickup sports, making a groupme for a 1 off event planning, etc). It's a great platform and it's already spread like wildfire among my peers, at least.
Nasa’s full Artemis plan revealed: 37 launches and a lunar outpost
I hate to pull politics into this, but their coverage of the 2016 Presidential really opened my eyes to their biases. Bernie Sanders was not treated as a serious candidate through then entire race, but they absolutely fawned over Hillary Clinton. The same is happening now for all 230 candidates v Joe Biden. Any story they air treats most candidates as fringe, but Biden as the only serious contender.

Honestly, I love NPR, but. . .
The Archlinux Wiki is my go-to for that kind of thing:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd

Also, check the related articles on the right sidebar on the top of the article.

It doesn't document everything, but it quickly gets you to learning the overview, the basics, and what's most important for general usage of systemd.

If you really want absolutely everything the references are the man-pages. Excluding those that document C functions, there seems to be 256 systemd man-pages in total. 36 are regular commands (section 1; like systemctl), 64 are file formats (section 5; like systemd.service), 139 are system administration commands (section 8; like daemons like systemd-networkd), and 17 are miscellaneous topics (section 7; like bootup).

I would consider the manpages of section 1 and 5 to be the important ones, and just section 1 is enough if you never intend to read or write a service or other unit file yourself.

Here's an online index of the manpages:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/index.html
You should always check that the medication you have received from the chemist is the one you expected to get. If I were handed an unfamiliar drug I would immediately ask the pharmacist what was going on and ask for an explanation of the likely effects.
Had TOH offered the Generation Next apprenticeships 20+ years ago, I would have jumped at the opportunity to spend a few months working alongside these master craftsmen. They've been a great example of the skill and hard work it takes to do things the right way and turn a busted old house into a beautiful home.
Related, what it takes to get a generic drug approved in Canada:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health...
I think we can safely agree as of now GDPR is having ~zero effect (bar the annoying overlays) and quickly becoming another cookie law.
>just need to be better than us

People say this, but I suspect that "epsilon better" is not enough. Personally, I think that to give up my (fallble) agency, I would require an order of magnitude better, perhaps two.
One of my first jobs was working with devices that emulated paper tape via a serial connection to talk to CNC machines that had a device installed into the old papertape reader to give it a serial port instead. G-Code was loaded by one of the old terminal emulator serial connect software (Procomm? Telix? I can't recall) via a cheap old PC and modem. The machine didn't know it wasn't paper tape. They will probably need to hack up something along the same lines to pretend to be a card printer/reader. Sounds like a job for a Raspberry Pi or similar.
Just wanted to take a second to thank Sam for all that he has done over the past 5 years for YC. Also, I am very excited to work even more closely with Geoff as he takes on this new role.
Or they'll just keep making more money by expanding, until GDPR hits are viewed with the same level respect as the pirate community views DMCA takedowns.
Thanks for the lead, will read up on this.

In my SQL biased mind I think of the decision as a dataset defined by some filters and joins. When new data meets the criteria, it triggers an action for that set.
the trouble is that the burden is wrongly on consumers to file complaints with the FDA if they find that their generic medications are not performing in the way that they should.

based on my experience inside the biotech/biopharma industry within several different roles, i think that ideally the FDA would be terrorizing the pharma companies producing generics such that each new manufacturing lot of medications would be tested for bioequivalence in small cohorts of patients before hitting the market.

of course, this will never happen because it would be expensive and time consuming for manufacturers of generics, who rely on volume to make a profit (traditionally -- i know this is changing as they are currently raising prices like wild). so, consumers get the shaft and nothing is done because the perfect solution has the imperfection of reducing revenues.

it's a tough problem, though. i'm fairly certain that doctors know that you get what you pay for with many generics -- but i'm also fairly certain that doctors understand not everyone can afford brand name medication.
I would think so. One of the Stratasys engineers at their skunkworks division in Minnesota walked me through their process for printing something as large as a full-size table (upside down to minimize support material). The technology is really impressive but the uses seem few and far between.
I would suppose it's a matter of time until APRS [0] over amateur radio bands is figured out. Send whatever message you want, range with hand-held devices of several miles. Now you get to try and jam everything from 144Mhz to the multi gigahertz range. I do wonder if a lack of implementation is technical knowledge or the fact that APRS-capable equipment is a bit more pricey than a burner phone.

As sibling comment points out, sending a trigger signal without wires over distance is a problem that has already been solved many ways. It's going to take a lot of fingers to plug the holes in that dike.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_Sys...
Edsger, that is.
For email I'm using s default email program on my phone (5 different emails) and Protonmail App for Protonmail email address.
I changed Chrome with DuckDuckGo and Brave.
YouTube... I really don't know yet what to do.
Google maps... Im trying Here Maps...
Signal Instead Fb Messenger, Google, WhatsApp.
Yes I am continuing my role as CEO of the accelerator. We've got a great batch coming up this summer.
I think that greed is easier to manage when expanding into underserved & undercapitalized markets - in that environment most capital increase becomes an easily spread general improvement in life quality.

When trying to balance inequality in well-capitalized, mature markets, you fundamentally have to trade one set of ownership against another on a much more frequent basis. To replace one set of capital investments with another (even when the new investments are an improvement), requires displacement of the old owners and old industry; see fossil fuels and climate crisis as a major example. Government becomes a battleground between the capital interests and is often where progress is neutralized.
How do you get people to update their info without your intervention?
While this is cool (and old), it is only a band-aid... it would be much better if the mobile apps would be native linux apps or maybe web-apps
Pretty much. It's kind of like tech, in which you can more or less break employers in to FAANG, non-FAANG, and small consulting shops. The big white-shoe firms (the legal equivalent of FAANG) pay enormous salaries to even their junior associates (a first-year associate's salary is almost 200k at this point), but the gap between them and the equivalent of non-FAANG companies is way, way higher than it is for tech. Like in tech, independents have a pretty wide distribution, but the ceiling is a lot higher than it is in tech for a very small number of extremely elite lawyers in niche fields.
News from a few weeks ago https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/02/first-world-war-...:

”Deadly mustard gas has leaked from a First World War underwater “weapons cemetery” in the North Sea, close to the Belgian coast”

Those were trace amounts, so there is not much immediate danger, but things can get worse.

And for normal munitions, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_in_the_Battle_of_Messi... probably lists a few of the scariest (a few 10,000+ kg stashes of explosives buried in Belgium since World War One. One of them exploded in 1955 after a lightning strike, showing that they were still dangerous after fortie-is years; a few others still buried somewhere)
Some of the lyrics are real gems, like this Drake verse:

And you know wassup
Like how to blast up,
Whatever you wanna go
Peace sign in the underground though
That is a much better theory then mine that AI wrote the article and just messed up a couple details.
its "worst case" pales in comparison to fossil fuel's "guaranteed outcome by 2100."

I'm fairly certain nuclear catastrophe is far worse than global warming.
I adapt by taking Uber/Lyft instead. I got fed up with crazy people threatening and attacking me on public transportation. Thankfully, I'm fortunate enough that I can afford to be driven around. I hope that in the future such a pleasant experience can be made available to everyone in the form of autonomous vehicles.
This story fits well with the recent hype about progress with nuclear fusion power.

Nukes are a big waste of money in the power market. They are only good for weapons of deterrence.

Billions USD that countries spend on fusion power research should be spent elsewhere.
I'd wager their lobbying efforts would increase roughly in parallel with their revenue (or something like that).
I wonder if we and the units will survive long enough to see some of these units start breaking down due to physics. Though I guess that would be so far into the future, that there is simply no way.
It's currently being looked into by the EU but it's very likely even Adsense is in violation of GDPR.

Also, haven't looked at every company they list, but maybe they're covering their bases by listing every company part of adchoices? https://youradchoices.com/participating
Shall we quietly let them burn their money at the altar of the Basilisk? Or perhaps encourage them, so as to put it into more hands?
How are you rolling the dice? Don't you get the same drug each time? I always do. And why monthly? For high blood pressure I get 98 tablets in a packet, that's fourteen weeks.
But what if the product is a flop? Part of the benefit of "quick and dirty" is that you can quickly verify the market and iterate on product fit.
I emailed ico about an issue, they told me to get in touch with the company, who ignored me. I followed up with ICO again, and didn't hear anything after. Was really disappointed.
Could you provide some more details?
Street Face Scanning Tests have begun in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg&ab_channel=BBCClick
Rust would have been more appropriate. Something like SystemD at such a low level in terms of hardware and service management should not be done in a language with a garbage collector imho.
Techcrunch (and tumblr and yahoo and others) is part of something called Oath, you're probably only going to see the consent overlay/redirect if you have an IP that shows as being within the EU.

You will have the option to accept or configure what "partners" you want to track you when you're on Oath sites. There is a list of hundreds of these partners with links to each of their privacy policies and a switch to turn them on or off.

The problem is partly that they are defaulting to tracking you and sharing information with partners, under GDPR it is supposed to be the default to not tracking and share data. It is also supposed to be equally easy to choose tracking vs not-tracking, with the Oath dialogue the option to turn it all off is not as easy or prominent as the option to accept tracking.

Sorry about the image not being in english, but the language is automatically set based on location.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/PFM1W69
Ok, so they agreed to entertain offers. They can always say no. They have accepted those rides, so there is no possible argument to be made.

Grouping together to drop off and artificially increase prices when a flight lands sounds great because these are “the little guys”. If Google were doing it you would lose your shit.
> labels that adorn Camembert boxes (a tyriosémiophile).

This word tyriosémiophile, appears nowhere on google but within reference to this article. Does anyone know what it is? OR what it is meant to mean?
Many large companies use geo-targeting to selectively show you legal disclaimers for whatever country you are accessing from. I imagine TC is showing him a large landing page to comply with GDPR and not for us in the USA.
About as intuitive as comic chat - seems you need a mobile and phone number to get going with Whatsapp.
In other words, the GDPR is the Data Protection Directive but with significant teeth.
I love watching their youtube channel for the comments. So many things they do aren't up to code depending on location and it's amazing to see what is kosher and what isn't just depending on where the house is.
An Interview with Brian Dean from Backlinko
To be fair, the ones sending death threats are contributing negatively, while the fork effort is a positive contribution to the situation. We'd appreciate not being lumped in with the worst offenders, if you'd be so kind.
If you want to see the poster child for this problem, consult the sources for procmail.

In the really-not-very-distant past, a clear majority of e-mail went through procmail.
"people that value freedom and privacy"

Come on man, it's so hard to have conversations when people say shit like this...
I still watch the show and as I'm closing on my first house this week I am more dedicated to watching it. However, for a long time they have done these super expensive houses with cutting edge techniques that don't really reflect the homes of most homeowners or the techniques available to most (the current house is a midcentury modern house with EIGHT different sets of stairs.)
They have recently done more modest homes in Detroit and Charleston but even then they did two houses at a time which meant they were more superficial than I would like. Ask This Old House is more my speed.
> White collar crime is still crime.

Oh comon. We know that most of the fanatics would like to see Gates in Chains.

> Anyway, I think we've seen the whole repertoire by now, whataboutism, name calling, strawmen, I'm out of here.

LOL. I always find it funny once you call out Linux fanatics on their nonsense they run away by claiming all sorts of things of their opponent. I didn't name call you, I just said you fit a pattern of a stereotype that I seen before, that isn't an Ad-hominem attack that is pattern recognition.

You provided no evidence other than the usual nonsense of pretending that Microsoft don't have a right to protect their IP and the conspiracy theories that Microsoft are this all powerful entity.
I'm in over a dozen groupchats among my friends and they all have a purpose or topic. Works pretty well! I don't think chat apps are that great if you didn't already know the bulk of the people in them in real life. The rapid fire mess that is 99% of popular twitch chats is an example of what happens with a wide open chat lobby.
The Woodwright's Shop (https://www.woodwrightschool.com/): he's been doing this for longer than I've been alive, he's in freakin' great shape, and he has the sharpest tools known to man.

[Edit: Holy poop! "BlockChain Implementation w/ Roy Underhill" (https://www.woodwrightschool.com/classes/blockchain-implemen...).

Hometime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hometime_(U.S._TV_series)) with Dean Johnson and (as the Dianne and I liked to joke) this season's TV wife.
> I’ve always hosted all of my email on my own servers just to save money.
> I will switch from self-hosting my email to $2.99/month email accounts at Rackspace.

I think this is really smart, assuming Rackspace does a good job of delivering mail. I don't think self-hosting email ever makes sense from a cost savings perspective.

What is you're time worth? A single hiccup and you've blown base $3 per month or heck $50 per month in cost savings.

I currently point the MX records of all my domains to my existing Fastmail account.
Hm, hexapodia as the key insight?
Well, I'd say it has more to do with having billions of dollars to throw at the effort, and a small but enthusiastic niche of tech folks with good salaries and an appreciation for pretty touchscreens and no real concern about driving dynamics. Followed by some image-seekers who hope that a Model 3 in their driveway could be mistaken for a Model S.

Sales are already faltering and money is getting very tight over at Tesla; one of the reasons I opted out of buying a P3D and instead am waiting for a Model Y is because by the time that hits the markets we'll have a better idea on whether Tesla has a real future or not.
I didn't care much about the problem systemd was solving, I was content to let the init process go through without touching it.

Then one day several years ago I did an apt-get dist-upgrade and my system didn't boot after that. I have personally hit way more issues with unbootable systems or having to drop into single user mode to fix some BS with systemd. That was enough to make me dislike it, or convert into a hater, and switch most of my personal usage away from Linux.

I think it's gotten better since then. I still dread updating Linux boxes, because I know that some percentage of those updates will have a systemd bug introduced resulting in a non-bootable system or one where I have to manually fix it up.
Illegal aliens are a net loss of around $113b cost to the taxpayers. More than they bring in and it's just a little more than I want to spend. If California complains about having $1b funding pulled for their rail project imagine having 113b pulled. At least be honest that you don't know what you're talking about.

https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-b...
While this is accurate, I think the subtext of it conflicts with the common anecdotal claims (including mine) far preferring Uber over actual licensed taxis.
Logo misuse & similar stuff is probably treated very differently from GDPR issues.
Naw, IRC was v1. It worked quite well, was well thought out, and standardized. Perfect? No. Good enough for the time and use-case? Yes.

Slack and its kin are v2, capturing the requirements that have changed with the changing userbase. I only wish they were standardized, so we could have non-first party implementations (with the benefits that come with that).
Hi, ops guy; Fuck systemd.

Boot time: A possible 5-10 extra seconds from sysvinit is the problem here not the 5 minutes of BIOS/EFI POST time for those server boxen?

Logs: Where's the storage of the log data in journalctl and what tools can I use to read that data in a small PXE rescue environment? But hot damn I didn't have to ls /var/log so that's nice.

Sarcasm aside how does it make your life any easier? I got a stack of FIXMEs to work on to get our infrastructure working, lot alone stable, on systemd.
The overlays are the start of something bigger, and are a significant change as is. Websites now are forced to tell you who's tracking you and let you turn off that tracking en masse without being unable to use the site.
Groupme is big for this at my university.
Where can I see that it was enforced.
They are sometimes indiscriminant but also we have attacks where they wait until a target is traveling bast and manually trigger detonation.
Hi Geoff! What excites you most about YC and the direction it's headed?
Well, it was an interview of a book author; it sounds like the book has a lot of detail in it. And the fact that generics are not actually identical, but reverse-engineered best efforts was a bit scary.

I was a kid in the "generics are identical but cost less" generation. I agree this felt like a piece funded by big pharma, but I also can't help but feel I was probably really naive about what a generic really is.