skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, for a very long time the Linux devs were emphatic that cgroups should be not be treated as an actual isolation/security barrier. This was flagrantly ignored and like most things in the Linux ecosystem, the functionality was eventually kinda-sorta backfilled based on the community's refusal to accept anything else. Meanwhile, FreeBSD and Solaris had quietly provided coherent tools to accomplish the same ends securely for many years.

The story of the BSDs and illumos is really a tragedy about the complete and total disconnect between technical quality+value and technology adoption. People utilize technology products as fashion statements first and foremost, and the Linux fashion was easily the most desirable -- indeed, aside from PC v. Mac, it's the only one generally known by average technophiles.

As a technical entrepreneur, I've discovered the sad reality that it's really only the most superficial 10% of any functionality that drives virtually all adoption. Everything else is marketing, even in supposedly heavily-technical endeavors like running an open-source kernel. The more you invest in engineering beyond that initial superficial component, the less you have to invest in brand promotion.

One can choose to gratify their own sense of righteousness and ignore this, and that is certainly a valid option to take, but then they shouldn't be surprised to see their lunch eaten by someone who took the other side of the bargain.
A minor correction: vaccinated people with no previous health issues of note actually can catch measles if herd immunity isn't strong enough to actually stop the disease from spreading at a population level.
+1 for Textual, and for building it from source.
I will try these. Some of the ones that interest me seem to have a ton of people but such little chatter. IRC still reminds me of the days of AIM where people congregated online. People are always "online" with their phones these days so it's nice to use IRC to get that "online community" feel.
https://github.com/lukeb42/psyrcd
Neither discomfort and misery give you happiness. But with wealth and in comfort you have more resources to focus on what is really important to you!
SoCal is not just the Mecca of BJJ in the US, I think it has become the Mecca of BJJ in the world. IBJJF Worlds has been held in Long Beach, CA since 2007. (And was last weekend!)

But, I also submit that the NY area is the central place for jiu jitsu on the US east coast.
> I have been lucky enough to be able to work and live in several countries around the world. One thing in common I noticed in all these places is that guys and girls don't have time and don't want to commit to a stable long relation.

This could be selective though. If you're living in expat communities in global hubs, everyone knows people are there for only a short time, so its not worth investing in long term commitment.
1) Termius supports local terminal on Android and Desktop as the OSes allow it. We are constantly looking for ways to add similar functionality on iOS but can't see an appropriate way.

2) iOS 13 brings a lot of benefits for Termius users, including mouse support and on-top keyboard. We will add mouse support, but cannot give ETA yet.
I mentioned in another comment that I've been working on something targeted more at the personal vacation space: https://www.naverator.com

TripIt is good for business travelers and works for personal, but it's very utilitarian. I definitely see space in the market for something more visual & pleasure-oriented.
> How many parents have you ever heard say, "I wish I didn't have kids"?

More and more, now that the taboo is breaking down to some degree. This has been the subject of some recent press reporting.[0][1]

That said, it is disturbing to me, at least, how people’s having children might rewire their brains. They might like their new role only because of certain changes in brain chemistry that result from parenthood. Their fondness for being parents is therefore something forced on them in a way, it is not a matter of actual choice.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/09/love-re...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/11/breakin...
I don't, but I use weechat (wee-slack) for 99% of my desktop slack. Less obtrusive than the stand alone and web clients. And way less resource hungry.

I don't use slack outside of work, but I always have the idea of using weechat more - for irc and/or other protocols.

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
How did you buy Inbox? Wasn't it free?

Seems like a false equivalence "free skin on top of Gmail" != paid-for service like this one.
One shouldn't take information from random websites as fact, this included.

If it did turn out to be true though, it would explain a lot about the company culture and the antics of their employees.

Only in crypto will you find company executives aggressively trolling large companies in their industry simply for disagreeing with them.
That was exactly the early thought and why the commonly accepted image of an atom with a nucleous and orbiting electrons looks just like a solar system.

Of course that’s not at all what atoms look like or how they behave.
What have you personally done to change that? To reduce your ecological impact? To improve the world.

There's an old saying that if you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem. You don't think raising a child under the auspices of being environmentally aware, and that their influence would extend beyond yours is a good thing? That if you and your partner only have one child, you are generationally reducing the population while allowing your views to seed and grow.

There is so much negativity in the world... kind of lines up with the article title itself, and is more of the same problem than the solution. Even then, you aren't helping the world by actively not having children.
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Ayn rand herself actually had a pretty good explanation of why this may be. She differentiated between a writer's technical skill and their "sense of life", and said that one could appreciate a writer's skill but hate what their writing revealed about their unconscious attitudes about the universe, or conversely think a writer is trash but love what they have to say. I found the Fountainhead incredibly appealing when I first read it; you're right that it strikes a strong chord in people. But she breaks a lot of rules of what is by modern standards considered to be good writing. Her literary influences, though, were Victor Hugo and Ian Fleming (the James Bond author). So that's interesting company to keep. They both have that same vice, the love of the monologue. Fleming calls himself out on it in an essay that's been circling round lately.
> This is also meaningless, scientifically: there is nothing you can measure which is outside the universe. Things like a holographic universe are inherently untestable.

This is incorrect. Are you familiar with the inverse-square law? In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the rate at which any force decays over a distance is inversely proportional to the square of the distance. This generalizes to n dimensions; but instead of the drop off rate being inversely proportional to the square of the distance, it becomes inversely proportional to the n - 1th power of the distance.

Suppose our universe is a 3-dimensional embedding of a n-dimensional manifold. Every local force we could empirically test would adhere to the inverse-square law, i.e. have drop off over distance k of ~ 1/(k^2). But theoretically speaking we could empirically test the dimensions of the manifold we reside in by identifying which power of distance is proportional to the drop off rate of extremely small forces where the compactified dimension can be detected.

For practical purposes this would require us to increase the precision with which we can empirically test (and reason about) forces at the subatomic level.
All the time. Easily the best forum I’ve found for asking a quick question on occasion. Not every community is super lively but there’s some good ones and it’s nice to see the regulars after all these years.

And it’s nice that after a while just by taking a break and checking the conversation out, you’ll start answering people’s questions too. Always nice to help someone out.

Freenode will always have a place in my heart and an open window on my desktop.
I once heard of the hypothesis that once the last proton decays, the universe will once more be completely uniform in every way. With nothing to distinguish any part of the universe from any other part, space becomes meaningless and the universe has once more entered a state of nothingness much like how it was "before" the Big Bang.

So, in a sense, the heat death is not so different from the big bounce.

Unfortunately I did not bother to bookmark what I had read, and can no longer find a name or anything referring to it on the internet.
Absolutely. Every time I want to learn about a new tech or have questions about an open source project, my first port of call is freenode. I've had some excellent help and discussions, even in the last couple of months.
Jack Parsons, cofounder of NASA JPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
> i'd give up everything i have now to simply enjoy humanity for a change.

Everything but security which, unfortunately, is worth giving up a lot of other things to have.

I'd move to my wife's home country tomorrow if we could live without fear of our child being kidnapped. My wife's uncle was kidnapped and murdered, another aunt and cousins bound in their home by robbers, and another cousin held for a day by a group of illegally armed militiamen from a neighboring country.

Other than that it's paradise!
> I don't think it's as hard as you'd imagine.

I think it's very hard. The best article ever written on this subject is "So You Want to Compete with Steam" [1] and it applies as equally well to Playstation/Xbox.

[1] https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...
I made this comment in an older thread but haven't gotten an answer on... the circumstances seem off to me:

The thing that has me scratching my head is how this chain of events unfolded.

I get that your fraud algorithm flagged it because of lack of established payment. how is this possible if what the tweet referred to as "locking us out of all of our backups and work"? surely an account history of any significance would have an established payment record. From their tweets they mention that they had 5 droplets and some storage of a not insignificant number of records (~500k) and that a script is required to be run every 2-3 months to process some data and that script spins up 10 droplets during that time. seems like it will take 13 hours to process the data based on row count and per record time.[0] I am struggling to see how they didn't have payment history. can you elaborate?

In addition another thing I'd think would help assuage fears of a complete lockout is some process where you can request and download the db or a snapshot of the virtual machine.

[0] https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529322902007809
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Ha, nice one! :)
Sure he would be punished, but who'd call him out for it? I guess it'd rather be the people coming into the subway station after the train has left than the ones in the train.
We have laws against monopolies and trusts to prevent this very thing, but the government is reluctant to enforce them. Not enforcing the 14th amendment's "Equal Protection" clause is the real spoiler here.
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Steven Crowder is a comedian -- granted I'm not that familiar with his podcast.

So we're going to ban all accounts or at the very least demonetize all accounts who use synonyms for various sexual orientations now? Are we that delicate and totalitarian?
Maybe a different class of games will do best on a streaming platform.
Someone who has kids, and raises them to respect the environment, while also planting trees and actively working to improve the planet is far more "good" than someone who just sits around being lonely doing nothing.
I advise anyone even remotely curious about how to use postures better to get on and lurk in that channel. Some incredibly useful tidbits come up.
Yes -- though my company is looking to move away from it sometime soon (sadly?), so my use will decrease. It won't disappear entirely, at least for now, as there are other uses outside the company's control.
A friend of a friend told me that people, such as diplomat families who have to quickly settle but often relocate, will deliberately but routinely eat at the same restaurant, say, every Thursday evening. After a couple of weeks they'll find staff or other regular diners will engage with them and build relationships.
Can you elaborate on this?:

> It's for the same reason Canadians largely ignore the extraordinarily vast environmental destruction in their resource extraction territories
There is difference with free software and proprietary software. NextCloud instance is free software and holds encrypted information. Maybe there could be ways to intercept password by the ISP.

This application is proprietary software, and you don't know nothing what is going on in background. Just as majority of Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS steal people's data.

See: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

There are torrents with information to download with all details of many major websites. It means NO SECURITY.

So if I a stranger from street asks you to give him your notes, you won't give him. But you see him face to face.

If a faceless guy online, which you don't know where is he located, asks you to give him all your notes, you even pay to him to give him.
He also wanted to use chemical weapons against the indians, and there is some evidence he may have ordered them used against iraqis/kurds in 1921.
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I was about to recommend iSH too so here is the link [1] for anyone interested. The major advantage of iSH, besides being free, is its ability to function offline. Many other SSH clients where just proxies to a server which wasn’t useful on air-gapped or NAT networks.

[1]: https://ish.app/
I wouldn't necessarily say slower, but rather different. The folks in the 50s/60s couldn't imagine how something called the Internet would change the world.
It does have the same effect of chilling unpopular speech, but not to the same degree. And crucially, at least the license-granting body cannot deny the license.
This resonates with me strongly. I remember reading G.K. Chesterton writing about how the most certain people in the world are locked up in the asylum, absolutely certain of completely false things ("I am Napoleon") while the rational among us grasp even our religious beliefs with a certain amount of healthy uncertainty.

Political comment threads strikes me as a good example of people on every side of every issue being 100% convinced of things that could not possibly all be true.
"Buying into" isn't only about money. A lot of people put time and effort into Inbox, Reader etc. and they were badly burned when Google decided they weren't making enough millions of dollars.
Right. I'm using stock Ubuntu LTS with Docker and my software is in docker images or otherwise easily deployable. Changes to the host system configuration are documented, so re-creating a host from scratch is not a problem.

Things like automatic failover and high availability in general are cool, but your SLOs should be set according to your business model, e.g. they need to make business sense.

I do understand how people like VPSs at $5 or $10/month (I've used one like that myself for years), and I do understand why companies that need massive scalability use AWS. But I do not understand why people in the middle (which I think includes a significant fraction of this audience) assume that a provider like AWS is the best solution.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts. I've been running a business on Hetzner servers for years now. And this is not necessarily a recommendation to use Hetzner: there are many providers which will offer low-cost physical servers. I think in spite of the cloud hype, these make sense for many applications.
Absolutely. Freenode is still running strong, and is probably the best place for live support for a ton of open source projects and Linux distros.

I've tried various other popular chat options (like Discord and Telegram) and have been really frustrated by some of their limitations -- particularly in regards to logging, where afaik there's no way to get the logs off their servers and on to my own machine for archiving, offline browsing/searching, advanced regex searches, etc. There's also no way to get the logs if you're not logged in, or if you ever lose access to the servers for some reason.

Discoverability on these alternate chat platforms is also really poor. At least on IRC I could always try typing in a channel like #gentoo or #linux or #debian or #ocaml or #scheme or #lisp or #emacs or #vim, etc, and have a pretty good chance of these subject-related channels existing. On Discord and Telegram, I have to find a link to the channel somehow or get invited. Which is great for private channels, but for channels that you want anyone with an interest in the subject to join, it's simply awful.

That said, they do have some advantages, like integrated images, video, and audio.. and if you need those features, then vanilla IRC certainly isn't good enough. But for me, who does 99.9% of my chatting in plain text, those other features are very rarely necessary and IRC suits my needs just fine. Also, with IRC one could at least always post links to external image/video/audio hosting sites, if you wanted to share that sort of media... which, again, is good enough for me most of the time. In fact, things like videos and images poping up all over the place on chat platforms like Telegram and Discord are just annoying most of the time anyway.
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I don’t usually worry about my neighbors eyeballs being compromised and data extricated.
> I don’t think I’m overselling myself too much to expect that I could argue circles around the average uneducated person.

Everyone thinks they are better than average ;)
IME, every time I go to buy a new PC (haven't bought a new PC since 2006!) I'm told to "wait" until the next, better buttkicker or core i13 comes out. I end up not buying anything.
Venus has more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere and has the added bonus of the surface being pressurized like you are deep sea diving....
>there's a ton of fertile years left.

There might be, there might not be. There will likely not be many years left where the woman is most easily able to conceive a child.
I fail to see how I'm the irrational one here. I've backed up what I'm saying with some statistics. You on the other hand, have not.

You also have claimed that I was strawmanning when I wasn't, and you are now resorting to personal attacks.
What scares me the most these days is that a lot of vendors have a policy of "we're shutting you down, but we won't tell you why or how you can fix things so that it doesn't happen again".

I have had friends who have had their Twitter or Youtube accounts shut down with no explanation from the companies involved. Just recently, MailChimp shut down a brand new account for my SaaS (we had only 4 subscribers added, and hadn't sent out any email campaigns yet!) with a refusal to give us an explanation why. We set up another account and did everything exactly the same way (including tediously replicating lots of email templates manually) without the same thing happening. Why was the first account shut down? We will never know, it seems.

I am all for using AI to detect dark patterns and raising a flag, but I think these companies need to bring a more human aspect into the after effects. Surely a legitimate operator will always email in with a "WTF?" whereas a nefarious actor will simply automatically move on to the next thing?
This is a lovely initiative. Thanks for sharing.
I signed up for an HN login to tell you how much I enjoyed this comment, brother.
Well, by your logic, killing all the people in the most overpopulated areas would be a great thing to do. That and/or sterilize them all.

/sarcasm
Thank you for creating one of the essential apps for mobile devices to be able to use ssh.

I'd like to see Termius go beyond SSH. Add in scp / rsync support for file transfers. Add VNC / RDP support for virtual desktops. Or at least X11 forwarding.
they have a 'democracy sausage' - i think it also may be compulsory to eat one.
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> Stadia is not available in Hawaii.

> Stadia is not available in Guam.

Is this a bandwidth issue? Alaska is Ok though?
Which places are different?
And why do you think Android requires physical action from both parts (nfc touch)?

Because this was a thing even during the Nokia times.
What do you mean by seriously autistic? You said in another post he does tasks around the house and took care of your wife when she fell ill. A seriously autistic person would not be able to do that. A seriously autistic person would require constant adult supervision.

Are you sure he's not just under-socialized and addicted to porn and video games? How does he spend his days? He might simply be a western hikikomori.
An algo or human being can only identify something as undesirable based on social norms of the times... There are many socially acceptable groups and ideas that have fringe or even mainstream elements to them that have undesirable elements that are simply tolerated. And often the implications of socially acceptable ideas is not fully understood when they are in vogue, and their critics are labelled as simply hateful bigots that are not progressive.

But really it's impossible at any given time to separate wheat from chaff and ideas mutate so that racial hatred becomes cultural hatred which still maintaining similar elements and a similar out-group vs an in-group. Is that crypto-racism? Maybe, you can never tell as it's like fashion oblivious to those who live in it... because you can only see it through the lens of its critics.
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Of course, Ryan @ Co-Founder of Advertising Your Business.io. Since 1995 and my usage has only increased over the years.
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I am behind a firewall at work so I use web clients. I used to use https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/ but now I've moved to https://www.irccloud.com/ (the free version).
"Epistemic Learned Helplessness," is simply shorthand for, "We are all finite and have an incomplete understanding for everything, yet we must still pragmatically make our way in the world."

You don't have to instantly believe arguments. Sit back and gather data to assess the predictive power of the model.
Last night, I said something to my spouse about a conversation I had with a "single serving friend", and she didn't know what I was talking about. I said it was a Fight Club reference, then went farther and explained that I had a five minute conversation with a complete stranger (just walking down the street together), and I had to explain this idea to her, because she's an introvert and would never, ever engage in a conversation with a stranger.
At 4am next Tuesday morning Google actually says 9-18 minutes. I assume they have quite a lot of data to model this on, so blame them!
When I wasn't working in the office, I did my work in coffee shops during grad school. I still try not to work at home now, and walk to a local coffee shop if I need to work on a weekend. Working in a public place made grad school more tolerable. Even though I was doing my work, I felt like part of my community and I was able to interact with other people. I even did make some friends doing it.

It sounded to me like WhompingWindows is a grad student, so I heartily endorse they try this approach. Just be in public spaces more. It helps.
So you want war? War is the way scarce resources tends to be managed at scale...