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This is so annoying. I hate being bounced around like this.

There used to be an issue with amazon with this where you’d try to buy an ebook and be bounced into the app, but you can’t buy ebooks in the app because amazon don’t want to pay Apple 30% of the cost. I just had to delete the amazon app to buy the book. Luckily their website works just as well.
It's basically saying that nothing is changing. 'Exploring alternatives' is a nebulous phrase that says they're sticking with the status quo and keeps the options open but doesn't commit anyone to actually doing anything.
Anyway, you should be aware of risk when buying a piece of hardware which depends on a service (like OTA updates or cloud connection).
The real problem I have with systemd isn't the technology itself, as much as the attitude of the people who run it.

Off the top of my head, issues I've seen with systemd:

* At some point there was no way to say, "bring up this service once the network is up". I mean, there was technically a "network" target, but it considered "localhost" as a network. So if, say, you have automounted NFS, the automounter starts running before your main interface has DHCP. This setup been a widely-used configuration for decades; the systemd maintainers didn't care.

* At some point, if you typed "reboot ; exit" in an ssh session, the "reboot" would hard-kill your ssh session and your shell before the "exit" would be run; so your ssh connection would then hang until the machine came up again and refused a TCP resend request.

* The whole thing with systemd reading the kernel's command-line, deciding that "debug" was meant for it, and spamming the logs making it completely unable to boot; and forcing the kernel to introduce a work-around to hide "debug" from systemd.

* The whole interface renaming thing that's happening in Debian now; every time our project has upgraded our test systems from jessie to stretch, and then stretch to buster, we've had to spend dozens of man-hours figuring out why our network configurations aren't working.

The problem here isn't so much that there are these sorts of bugs; the problem is that there seems to be an attitude of, "Well my set-up works; yours doesn't matter." That's not the attitude such a core piece of infrastructure should have.

Compare this to Linus' nearly fanatical insistence that things in userspace should continue to work. If Lennart Pottering had the same attitude towards breaking existing systems that Linus has, systemd would probably be incredibly popular.
I see some ~100 products at https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html -- which one(s) did you have in mind?
Options were submitted by potential voters. No one submitted this option, therefore it wasn't part of the vote.
Here in HK, SCMP is generally not believed to be independent of the party.

SCMP is owned by Alibaba Group, one of the largest companies in mainland China. Do you really think it's possible for Alibaba to have _any_ part of it that's outside of the CCP's grasp?
> Proposal E "Support for multiple init systems is Required" has been firmly rejected.

> In case the message were not clear enough, the runner up option is Proposal E "Focus on systemd".

Typo here, Its proposal F: Focus on systemd which is the runnerup and like you said E has been rejected.
If you want actual coverage I would go to bellingcat
My apologies, you are correct. Turkey is also 230V it appears. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/World_Ma...
No phones, though. It's pretty much impossible (especially for the non-technical person) to use anything but iOS or Android and actually be able to do stuff other than calling people.
I completely agree with point 1. Everyone said the first month would be the hardest, but halfway through my 9th month, I still think it's the hardest thing to do.
The thing is, now it's become such an integral part of my daily routine that I cannot move forward without it. That consistency has programmed my brain to cling on to it, and it being hard does not matter anymore.
Something no trainer/exercise junkie will tell you
I did not read the parent comment as critical. Pointing out bias is useful whenever you link to a news source. All news sources have bias.
I don't know if it still applies, but studio speakers used to be notorious for bad sound. I would also hope that you wouldn't be considering guitar amp-type speakers as well.
> the runner up option is Proposal F "Focus on systemd". Proposal F is also the most voted option.

I'd say that in this voting system a statment like that is not really important
in any way. You'd have to compare it to sum of options that don't focus on
systemd as an example or some other combinations.

* fixed proposal letter in the quote
Hum, not exactly : It assesses that those interested in having other init working for a package where that support is not directly provided by upstream nor the maintainer can do the work themselves and they will get the community's help by having their patches reviewed and discussed in a timely manner. Which was not a given.
Intuition = knowing enough to see that "something" does not work out. Knowing enough facts to see that something is inconsistent with then.
And this is basically Machiavellian political theory. Acting in an immoral or unethical way is not necessarily a bad thing if it is warranted to bring about a good thing.
This isn't about lack of ability to petition the courts, it's about the courts having been petitioned many times and deciding that yes, far more essential businesses than airbnb can in general ban you with no explanation or recourse. In such case arbitration might actually be in the users favour as it might force disclosure of the considerations leading to the ban.
According to Ian Jackson, it was other options and not option B that were the options that encompassed not telling people to go screw themselves.

* https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/3482.html

* https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/3999.html
They should not. Mine was a factual statement. I'm not saying they should be doing things differently; else they would become something else than a startup accelerator.

What I'm saying is that their moral contribution to society, as a startup accelerator, is minimal.

Indeed, I believe this is true of virtually all the Silicon Valley.

[Edit: Fixed typo.]
I've been using VeraCrypt for a few years now, and have nothing bad to say about the experience - it's really easy to setup and operate.
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The true solution is Zoning Reform. Property owners would build many more units themselves, with their own capital, if allowed to build enough units to make it worthwhile. This doesn't happen because many current property owners (skewing older and wealthier) enjoy the current density and property values based on the current scarcity of units. Rent control is a weak solution to affordability, and has almost no or negative impact on gentrification, and no or negative impact on housing stock growth. Rent control seems like it's for the renter, but it's actually just the only political solution allowed by owner-occupied current property owners. Zoning Reform is the free market solution, allowing an owner of a property to build what they want on their own land. (Solve the homeless problem too...). Time will tell if the democratic scales tip from the NIMBY homeowners to those currently priced out of unit ownership.
Moving to SaaS business model 101: is it worth it?
Yep, agreed. I'm at least 4 times more productive working from home than from any office I've worked in, and I don't do the "strict separation" thing either. I never put shoes on, for example, and I'll wander around the house, clean, cook, whatever if I need to think through some problem.

However, I love my job. I can imagine that if it felt like more of a chore, and I didn't really want to do it, I might need that "strict separation" to put me in a work mindset.
As long as breaking regulation is on average profitable the market dictates that regulation will be broken.

So depending on the risk/reward it most certainly can happen.
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Here is a list of English words with two consecutive a’s: https://www.morewords.com/contains-by-length/aa

Despite having a cumulative 8 years of foreign language courses against three different languages, I have no clue how you’re expecting me to pronounce “paal”.

Is it “pal” - like friend / buddy? “Pail” - like something you’d carry water in? Something else?
Moved... past tense. The bulk of distros completed the move a while ago.

Sure, systemd has it's issues (notably scope creep) but for most use cases it is arguably an improvement.
Let’s say I have $1m in cash and I want to buy a house worth $1m. I could either buy the house with my cash, or take out a loan to buy the house and invest my cash into another asset.

Almost any investment will produce a greater yield than the interest cost of the mortgage because the mortgage is secured debt. A mortgage might cost 3% while stocks can return 7-10% or more.

In this scenario, taking on the debt even though you don’t need to is financially advantageous most of the time. In this sense debt is a tool.

Debt is also a tool that lets you afford a house that you can’t buy with cash on hand but where your income is easily enough for principal + interest. What’s better: a) saving for 30 years after you start working and buying a house in cash (maybe paying higher rent that whole time?) or b) taking on a mortgage, getting your house now (as soon as it’s responsible), and paying it off over 30 years. Most people will choose the latter.

Thus debt is a tool that also allows you to buy things far sooner (in life or business) than you could afford to with cash.

There are other things that can be done with debt like borrowing against existing assets (to avoid having to liquidate the entire asset just to get a little cash) or borrowing against expected revenue streams and so on. Most of these tools permit greater economic growth than is possible without.
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Here is a video of the motorbike running in the Himalayas https://youtu.be/uNKIqbdIS9o
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Not by Ian Jackson's analysis. By M. Jackson's analysis, it is still not a given.

> A,B,F (#3,2,1)

> Maintainers do not have to write them and do not need to accept them.

* https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/3999.html
Any of that data is going to be mixed in with any studies on people who were (presumably) correctly diagnosed with attention disorders, because in the US, the "medication" is prescribed at triple the rate of the prevalence of the disorders: 15% vs 5%.

Source:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-pharma-s-manu...

Additionally: being someone who was misdiagnosed, and made to feel sick for 8 years resulting in very poor appetite, increased anxiety and intrusive thoughts, and stunted physical and social growth.
Yes! scrolled all the way down for this. In the non-tech world, a GUI/form builder + relational database that was extendible through a decent scripting language all in one package would be huge.
Ask HN: Is it surprising that people participate in social media?
I find it very difficult to relate to anyone participating actively in social media. Usually by the time I have formed a statement that expresses a point I want to make, I have convinced myself it's not worth saying.

Do others share this natural inclination? Have you ever overcome this? What motivates you to post opinions or respond at all, if you do? Is this a minority point of view, or is this a result of self defined sampling bias? Has anybody studied this?
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Fair point. I was more referring to the fact that the Debian project itself isn't actively looking at / working on anything to replace systemd.
1.) I have never seen essay about mouse selection. While possible, that would be purely exercise in structure. Structure exercises exists, but again rarely about topic like mouse selection. Just a bad match to format.

2.) The style of writing in your second example would not get you good grade in writing course. Simple as that, while long enough, it is not good enough.

Depth of argument is not contradictory to good sentence structure. Or to good overall structure. The essay is not actually graded on smartness of argument, but on whether you present them well.

And yes, writing courses focuse on writing elements of text. Just like programming assignement focuses on coding and less on your work being useful.

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What you did there is trying to hack writing assignment. It typically does not work, teachers are typically not that dumb. They would however simply call that "bad writing" or "did not put in effort" rather then flattering "hacking the text".
No, they need to be allowed to use fossil fuel infrastructure to develop just like us.

The arrogance we have developed such that none of us in the first world uses or have used electric bikes predominately in our families, now, or a 100 years ago by our ancestors when they first appeared and were about technologically the same as today.

This, it's good enough for them idea is astounding. This road has been well travelled.
You can hang yourself in C by having code that would dereference a NULL pointer that never actually would be executed, yet the compiler “optimises” your code based on it. Is that “real”?
The enterprise software industry seems quite overcrowded these days. Lots of companies still doing negative OI (Tableau, Salesforce, etc.). Lots of competition. Very little improvement over stuff that was made 30 years ago like Excel. Compare that with the enterprise hardware industry. Plenty of opportunities there. You got 3D printing, insects farming, vertical hydroponics, batteries, solar and wind energy, fusion, cleaner nuclear, more sustainable fashion, more sustainable travelling, scaling remote work for multinationals, etc..

I love my data science work, but I see immense untapped opportunities in more traditional fields.
Completely new platform from completely inexperienced vendor, mass produced, with more shiny tech than the major car manufacturers have today combined (lvl 3 AD, augmented reality, V2X, eye tracking, holographic assistant?, etc). All done in 2 years...good luck. No doubt they might get a car out eventually but it wont be the car advertised here and the timeplan is still very optimistic.
I think the guy needs to read a bit more physics. Electricity travels at about 2/3 the speed of light in copper wires.
I loved working there. Everyone was great.

Everyone fears getting fired for the first few days, until you realize they don't really just fire you on a whim. Then you get over it.

People don't get fired for making mistakes, so there really isn't any blame shifting or undercutting. Making mistakes is encouraged -- it means that you're innovating and trying new things.

Making the same mistakes repeatedly is what gets you in trouble.

The main difference between Netflix and other places is that at other places, when your current skills are no longer needed, they will move you into a new job and give you time to ramp up.

At Netflix, they will say, "here is a big fat severance check, let us know if you need any glowing references".
So true. The reply is like "by these other huge famous companies have them too".

Ok. That's great. How about the small product companies that have like 20 or 200 engineers as opposed to 2,000 or 20,000?
Just as an FYI - the statsmodels python package just released numerous new time series tools in version 0.11 rc1 [1] and also has functions for quantile regression [2]

[1] https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/releases
[2] https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/examples/notebooks/generated...
Not a single shot of the bike going around a corner...

Those footpegs look very low. At 0:32 it looks like the rider's toes are only an inch away from the ground.
Yes, technology can benefit any field; I know it. But this doesn't make all this startup business around things which are completely divorced from reality worth to pursue.

Productivity growth is a myth of the money-centric attitude that I'm criticizing; I don't see how it could confute my point.
TL;DR: they used to be black or white but changed to yellow for colour TV.
If your own decision is to smoke my lungs with your passive smoke, then you should at least get a fine.
I hope it does involve removing sysvinit. Compared to alternatives like runit or s6, sysvinit increases bloat (because every service needs to include it's own daemonising and logging code) and makes systems brittle and difficult to debug (because the classic daemonisation process is subtle and easy to get wrong). If I had to build a stripped-down, ultra-stable, long-running system, I definitely wouldn't want to build it on sysvinit.
I wrote a comment on another post where I explain the cache optimization benefits of ECS, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674818
What's the proposed mechanism that would disincentivize people from moving somewhere where rents are more affordable?
There are Task.WhenAll and Task.WhenAny, but I think GP is referring to it being easier to do the naïve thing and write sequential awaits instead.

Does anyone know if there are warnings or linters that will catch this in C#, at least if done within one function?
Only Patch "reviewing" is guaranteed, not patch acceptance.
Reviewing and discussion were not a given before this vote. This proposition at least ensure that. The maintainer will not be forced to accept patches that he deems unfit just for the sake of supporting other init systems though.
Games are engineered products in heavily constrained environments. General software is more like: clever ways to automate annoying tasks. General software can be maximally lazy or elegant or both. Games are clever yet practical and efficient. What baffles me is how often I find a game design to be far more elegant than that of common software..
There should not be any opt-out for recycling because everyone foots the cost of a shitty planet to save your $50 credit.
The issue isn't actually so much about writing init scripts, as about all the other bits of functionality that systemd has been aquiring. One example apparently is logind. Important key packages have (as I understand it) started depending on functionality provided by logind; I think something like "Gnome Desktop". Which would mean, if you want to run Debian with Gnome, you have to run systemd.

The non-systemd crowd wrote elogind in response to this. But of course, now elogind is in a situation like WordPerfect was with Microsoft Word back in the 90's -- trying to remain compatible with a moving target.

So the point of this vote is to answer the question: How does a package manager of a package like the "Gnome desktop" interact with the non-systemd crowd, when they want to depend on a new feature that's in logind but not in elogind?

Option F is basically, "The package manager says, 'systemd is our primary init system; we depend on systemd's logind period.'"

Option B is, "The package manager says, 'I'm making this dependency change. Hope you can manage to get elogind up to scratch before the release; otherwise your package will be broken, but that's not my problem.'"

Options D and H were variants on, "The non-systemd people have 6 months to get elogind up to parity with logind. Before 6 months, a breaking change would have to be reverted before release; after 6 months, a breaking change is allowed in a release."

Personally I think H was the best option; the fact is they're all actually quite close. 425 people voted, and the deltas between them are 22, 31, and 34. The community is really quite divided still.
It's worth noting that ISO 8601:2004 actually defines 1BC as Year 0 – mostly to keep the leap years algorithm correct for negative years.

With a zero-based numbering system it makes sense to consider the decade to be ending in 3 days.
Too bad that housing-as-an-investment was allowed to spiral out of control. It converted a moderated tradition into a gambling-den.

A prospective landlord might have been required to live in their building for a minimum of a year first. That dampener would slowed down the fission reaction. But oh no, regulation is bad. Trickle-down is good.

We've already experienced the result ... tens of thousands of homeless. Who -should- pay?
Why is the problem with pgp? Everybody agrees? But why? It's secure and versatile?
The problem isn't so much systemd as an init system as systemd as an everything system. I gave an all-in systemd distro a try this year but quickly went back to something more relaxed after realizing just how bad systemd timers are compared to crontab. It takes writing two 15 line config files and then a long system call to get it to reload the config. It'd be fine for just init but as it swallows more system processes it gets unweildly fast.
Sounds good to me. I only use my phone for web browsing, chatting and taking pictures, plus a few easily replaceable commodity apps. The hardest thing to replace would be whatsapp since they really have us RestOfTheWorlders locked in good.

The reason I stick to iOS is because Android is insufficiently focused on security and privacy, but if an OpenBSD of phones came along I'd happily use it.
Here's the repository. Look it up and tell us.

* https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/devotee.git/
Who is your target market? If for example it’s students then you can post a job on websites like WayUp, look for interns to help you spread the word. There is a fee on such websites but you do get interns plus people who are interested in your product to try it in the process. If your target market is actors for example then you can do similar things in casting websites...get the idea?
I’m quite excited about possibilities of 3D printing entire hull (especially Using SLA printer). You could make it entirely of different characteristic or particularly easy to maintain certain aspects...
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Double sided solar panels could be a good improvement but not groundbreaking.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like the West to rip out all fossil infrastructure as soon as possible, so we're using electric cars and bikes too. I figure it's better for us and them.

Why is it any different to the developing world experience of mobile phones? They expanded directly to mobiles without any landline phase first, and because of that have been surprisingly successful. Do you claim Western arrogance here?

If we simply shrug and let all the developing countries go via the worst of Victorian era coal, then 20th century oil, RCP 8.5 starts to look like an optimistic pipe dream. Everyone will suffer.
I got 2 angles on this essay:

1) As far as I am concerned, it just shows PG's colors where he stands on the spectrum, and that is: Useful on its own. It also appears to refute its own point.

2) The accidental moderate serves a different purpose: it diffuses the left vs right as being black and white set in stone. The worst thing in a political discussion is saying "you are X on political spectrum" (or any name calling) and ignore whatever the other person has to say. It is akin to being Republican or Democrat (or any other 2 political parties) without considering the candidates or viewpoints they expressed.

That being said before I opened the essay I expected it to be about the act of (self-)moderation, so I was disappointed.
To some extent the reality doesn't matter. If the market perceives me as washed up just because I'm 55 then I'd be foolish not to have an alternative lined up. No matter how enthusiastic or flexible you are you will always be trying to push past recruiters perceptions.
I've been traveling in Turkey few months ago. Was extremely impressed by the resources this vast country have and by the wealth its citizens (in Istanbul) used to have.

Turkey have healthy infrastructure to develop these kind of industry. I believe that they can afford paying top talents from all over the world to come there and boost this industry