skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Systemd was a relatively simple service that just manages services on a cpu. I had the mental model of systemd as a cronjob on boot with status management.

What else does it do besides that, that warrants such an enormous complexity? I'm sure i'm missing out on a ton of features with this simple model but I haven't seen anyone else use it otherwise in the wild than a service manager.
Oslo is also the 'Tesla capital of the world', wonder if their high NCAP safety ratings have had an impact as well?
Moxie's talk is a critique of decentralization, so how is this a "taste of his own medicine"?
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Plus it sounds like someone played Hamlet extremely well.

"You should have seen that rendition... It was... extraordinary."
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Seems like a fairly straightforward, good, solution would be for countries to update legislation such that restricted airspaces apply to augmented reality too.

Then it would be required of Niantic (rather than its cooperation hoped for) to ensure none were in such areas.
Maybe a smartwatch reading the heart rate of the owner and noticing stimulation could trigger the same functionality as well.
For me it is a revolution, I read everything on ebook and love it! :)
It is 20s, but not a new decade :)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
Can someone explain to me in laymen's terms what this does? It renders the motherboard inoperable? Kills the display? How do you recover from this if you ACCIDENTALLY unplug it?
I think Google have pushed themselves into a corner, where it would be difficult for them to win. Companies like Microsoft and Apple which don't care about Employee unrest would continue to wrestle contracts like JEDI and Chinese market, and continue growing.

Bing continues to operate and censor in China, but nobody bats an eye. But people don't encourage boycotting MSFT because of it. Apple Maps works in China too. China is a substantial market for Apple. Apple keeps removing Apps on the behalf of the Chinese government (recently removed an App used by Hong Kong protestors), and on iOS it is almost impossible for a non tech user to install apps outside of app store.

I think what all this will do is encourage companies to refrain from things like "Don't be evil", since once you do that the geanie is out of the bottle, and you won't just be compared to your peers, but be held to a substantially higher standard.
According to the book "American Kingpin", they had worked their way into the administration staff for the Silk Road, and used the site admin IM chat to ensure that he was using his laptop and actually signed into his account before rushing him in the library.
Just finished it. Fantastic read even by today's standards.
The section on Nationalism indicates to me that we're heading towards a period of major, great-power conflict. I could see it being a lot of smaller, officially unrelated wars or one big one.

Since WW2 we have enjoyed the longest ever period without direct conflict between great powers. How much longer can we expect this to last?
I don't understand the chart in the Wikipedia article. How is Palau at the top?
Those last few paragraphs of the story are not meant as an apology to the reader. They are hinting at a broken system of accountability.

Journalist in Canada can face multi-year struggles to extract any information from Ottawa under the current system.

For further reading on this, please consider CJFE:
https://www.cjfe.org/broken_promises_cripple_trudeau_s_acces...
6. is interesting because nuclear weapons are hardly the worst weapon possible. Even a relatively small mass accelerated to relativistic speeds would be more dangerous than a nuke, or even a very large mass at far lower speeds (asteroid). Similarly a genetically engineered biological weapon would probably be far more effective if total destruction is your goal.
At which big company do you think senior executives care about human rights? I am not saying Google shouldn't strive to do better than others, but just curious.
I don’t exactly understand the point either. Public transit is clearly more efficient when you look at it from a system perspective. A subway can carry 30000/person per hour and a car lane full of cars at 1.2 person/car isn’t anywhere close from those numbers. What is there to argue really? I’m sure you can get door to door faster in a car when you have an empty road and follow a path that doesn’t exist on public transit but you can’t argue that if everyone was driving that it would scale in any kind of way better. Car lanes are just not carrying the same amount of passengers on top of requiring a parking space on both end (which is highly expensive real estate in any larger city)
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My New Years' Resolution is to divest myself of Google.
What's the answer? I grew up in the late 2000s and really believed the internet would challenge existing power structures to change. I think in a lot of ways it did. Even as a fairly technically sophisticated user I can't seem to think what to do about the backslide though. Maybe good open source tools? Maybe a career in cybersecurity? It seems like the bad has more resources and incentives than the good now.
Blech. Somebody get docker working on *BSD so I can drop Linux.
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While I love these productivity tools -- if I might call a habit tracker that -- as much as the next person, I know myself well enough to know why it won't work for me: the effort of entering in the data.

I have found that if it doesn't automatically extract the data, it will be hard to stick to as soon as I travel, or even experience a minor disruption in my schedule.

However, we have a bunch of gadgets: get the reading from my kindle, get the exercise from my fitbit, get the coding from github etc.

Why do I have to enter this stuff?

(Consider this a free idea for the HN community to exploit as you best see fit).

Edit: you might be able to do this with an IFTTT/Zapier type service hooked up to Google sheets.
I thought it was now basically the law that this must be named thisbeetledoesnotexist.com
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The 21st century is 2001-2100 because we count them and the first century was 1-100 (there is no 0AD).

But nobody refers to decades as the nth decade. We in fact refer to them by their leading digit. So no, it’s the 20s again.
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None of the examples given relate to violence. Quashed for being unpopular, immoral, etc. yes. But well out of the definition of hate speech.

I think the definition of hate speech does a pretty good job at highlighting the core issue: no violence. Doesn't mean your message must be popular or in line with the popular views of society at the time.

I can't find a good reason to advocate violence against a group based on blanket criteria. Can you find one? Any of your examples were more about instigating violence against someone or about receiving more rights?
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Systemd doesn't just troll through a directory of symlinks to shell scripts and fire them off.

It's parsing a DSL for the .service scripts, building dependency graphs, making lists, checking them twice, and so forth.
I have been using https://github.com/burnash/gspread for a while now, very happy with it. Does Sheetfu do anything better?
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Define "without problems".

We currently utilise 50% -- the best, most fertile, productive 50% -- of the earth's landmass. What remains is marginal land, scrub, forests, permafrost, mountains, savannah, deserts etc, or is simply too hot or too cold for us to live comfortably. We're mistreating land with over fertilisation and suffering steady soil loss everywhere that's adopted post-war industrial agriculture. Many of those bits of rubbish land, forests and wildlife preserves we're not using are chopped up by pipelines, roads, rail affecting viability of the species broken up and interfering with natural migration and regrowth. Wildlife and wilderness has no chance.

We're clear cutting forest to make monoculture grazing land, or to plant thousands of acres of uninterrupted soya, palm oil and other major crops. As environmental awareness grows we're doing that at accelerated rate. Europe was clearcut in liveable areas in the Middle Ages, yet we've shown little to no sign of most noticing our colossal destructive impact. We just started importing big trees and colonising.

Borneo has gone from essentially untouched in the 1980s to 50% cleared now. Earth overshoot day puts us as needing 1.7 earths to sustain the current rate of regrowable use (it only considers replaceable resources, not mining and minerals). 10bn would push that up to over 2.

A sustainable population would probably be 1 or 2bn, if we want to allow a little room for the unforeseen.
Most cars around Romania are German made and used, most recently clocked or written off in that country. But the issue is driving culture and lack of policing I think. Romania had cameras and they were removed, the government claims, because they are against EU regulation. Naturally that's BS, and most laws are made in favor of law breakers not sure why.
Good points regarding HTTP, but XMPP is an excellent example on how decentralisation can be detrimental to the user experience.

A large percentage of XMPP users are using a lowest-common-denominator client like Pidgin that supports only a small fraction of XEPs. The excellent Conversations client for Android is only on par with Signal if you use it to talk to other Conversations users using a modern server like Prosody. Good luck with simple tasks like sending a picture, otherwise :(

The only truly successful decentralized application protocol besides HTTP is SMTP, and even that is becoming increasingly centralized, with vendors like Google extending it with extra features on their own platform.

This kind of "protocol ossification" of decentralized protocols is unfortunate, and can be seen even in core internet protocols. Any attempt to improve upon TCP like Multipath TCP has faced huge issues with overly restrictive middleboxes and very slow propagation of new kernels, leading to userspace TCP reimplementations like gQUIC, now standardized as HTTP/3.0.
Indeed. It's reasonable to assume no belt = no survival, but not always. Anecdote time:

Knew some kids on HS who liked to party hard. They drove drunk and somehow flipped their car. One of my friends wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was flung violently from the car -- but lived. Even made a full recovery, eventually. The driver and another passenger were crushed.
I just built the Steamboat Willie LEGO set. Was wondering what prompted that particular curiosity; copyright extension leveraging seems a plausible motivation.
It seems very arbitrary to go against the public's common assumption on this one.
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Fun to make too, though it does take a while to get it up and running
Western business practices is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title. The internet has been a weapon for a while now. The authoritarians are late to the party and they are putting their specific spin on it, but we've been doing it for some time now. NSA, Cambridge Analytica, mass surveillance by big-business, general manipulation through media (e.g. news outlets, advertisement). The authoritarian regimes function differently, so they do it differently. I've no sympathy for them, but pointing fingers saying "they've weaponized the internet" is severe hyperopia.
I was going to say the same! E-books have been wonderful for me, my friends and family. They make travelling so much easier, and have definitely made me read more.

A sincere thank you to all who make E-books more accessible, like Project Gutenberg, Calibri, IRC servers, Libgen etc.
How much of that fragmentation simply come from legit players stop playing Ingress? Over here the community notably shrank and people don't defend their home base anymore as strong (even in legit ways)
I wouldn't really try to put a name on it other than Pivotal Process or Pivotal Methodology... I was just googling around to see if they even name it and found these articles...

https://infocus.dellemc.com/rahul_bhandari/software-developm...
(corporate version)

https://pivotal.io/agile
(this one bugs me a bit since it really just compares against waterfall)

https://medium.com/@ryanjjones10/what-is-the-pivotal-process...
(this one is more accurate)
In case you're serious and unaware: it's a contraction of "would have," hence the apostrophe. It's not a single word spelled weirdly.
What if someone plugs in a rubber ducky or some other kind of sophisticated USB while you turn your head for just a second?

There are USB devices that are so small, you can barely even see them in the port when plugged in.

Perhaps a hard-to-remove USB plug? (like child-proof plugs you might see in an electrical outlet)
If you refer to this decade as the 2020's, then it's stupid to say the 2020's refer to 2021-2030.
What benefits does a distributed ledger such as blockchain provide enterprise scale users?
> Putin and Trump can affect the information at everyone's fingertips always with social media and online information.

> Indeed, any powerful entity can buy anything online: clicks, bots, comments, views, accounts, literally anything they want to say can reach millions of people. This would be ameliorated by ethical and moral information platforms, which we seem to not use and not build for profit reasons.

There's still a marketplace of ideas. Powerful entities will be competing with other powerful entities for bandwidth and attention. The people themselves will decide which messages they wish to pass on and spread and which they don't. If it was as simple as you say, the person with the most money would always win. While that does happen, we can see the from the results of the 2016 election that it doesn't always work that way. Clinton spent far more on traditional advertising and guerrilla internet tactics (c.f. Correct The Record) and didn't win because her message didn't resonate with enough people.

Long story short: free will still drives the internet and outcomes. Advertising isn't very effective and when it is, advertisers will be competing against each other for the limited access to that scarce effectiveness.
When I visited the USA for a conference, I looked up a nice coffee place that was just across the street from the academic campus where I was staying. I went to the nearest crossing point, waited for several cycles of the traffic lights, and still couldn't deduce when it was safe to cross.

The road markings were black and white stripes, which mean "cars must always stop for pedestrians crossing here" where I live (UK). The description above chimes with my experience. Who does have priority when the light is red but cars are still turning right?

In the end, I went back and had the nasty coffee in the university. It seemed to dangerous to try to cross.

Edit: this is different in different states? It was in North Carolina for reference.
I've never met anyone who believed that RISC-V was going to give them a sub-dollar microcontroller that ran Linux before. That seems like a fairly unreasonable expectation, given today's market and RISC-V's position in it.
It's not pronounced "of", it's more like "ev", exactly like the contraction of words it's made up of. Would have.
A $3T program that doesn't "dramatically affect" the lives of "most renters" for the better will be a hard sell.

In fact, it would make the lives of the middle/lower class worse off because the tax is in the form of VAT and the removal of welfare benefits.
True that tools have improved but also it’s no longer an exception (like wartime exceptions), but an accepted quotidian thing that’s used like propaganda to dominate people.
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Shared medium (i.e. wireless spectrum) means anybody can do that, without being too conspicuous. A wire is significantly harder to DoS ;)

(Plus I tried several solutions to do this; BT is not really well suited for proximity detection, teeming with false positives and false negatives)
that argument depends on the cooperation of the centralized parties in power, whose motivations are not necessarily aligned with (in fact, are usually opposed to) a person's desire to be forgotten.
Well, they are user-first... if you look at humans as resources and managers as users.
The word should be pronounced the way the contraction actually is would (ha)ve.

But people are lazy. And words like caramel get blurred over. Or the one that bugs me the most of saying ‘ta’ instead of to.

My favorite is the Futurama universe where the word ask is official changed to ax instead.
And this really wasn't the author's fault—it's completely logical that if your story contains a tweet, you should attempt to embed it in the way Twitter recommends.

This is Twitter, not some random framework!
They published 14 articles tagged with systemd in the last half of 2019. You are overstating this, and the fact that your "phoronixrly" username was created a few minutes before your comment suggests that you know it.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=systemd
So what about the CO2 produced in the manufacture of items?

Against whom should be tally up the CO2, the user of the manufactured item or the producer of the manufactured item?
If a purpose of the discussion is to understand a problem and consider what we can do to fix it, then it is relevant. Invasive advertising has acclimated us, legitimized and provided a vast mechanism for user manipulation. And you are correct there are other mechanisms and methods.
If big is the problem than maybe we should break these monopolies up.
You all are correct but no one cares. Numbers ending with 0 is what gets attention. Going back to the year 1 doesn't add much anyway since we are pretty sure that the count of years since the birth of Jesus (whoever he was historically) is off.
> [...] rule that will trigger xscreensaver to lock the screen every time any USB drive is removed
Haha, was going to post this. Nobody waits for the lights in Amsterdam or any of the other sizable Dutch cities. Maybe part of that is that if you walk through a red light and get hit by a car the driver still takes at least 50% of the blame? And speeds in the inner city are very low due to bikes and now small scooters being on the same roads as well.
My understanding is that Trump's trade war was apart of the America First economic policy to reduce the US trade deficit. This had the added benefit of making manufacturing more viable in the US.
If you add blank+comment+code, you get remarkably close to the results of the parent comment.
What would I have to do to use gdb as a C repl? I'm not very familiar with gdb other than using the backtrace to debug segmentation faults.
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If you are doing proper OpSec, you would have whole disk encryption anyway, in which case destroying the computer is largely unnecessary, I think.

That said, the caveat of XKCD 538 (https://www.xkcd.com/538/) still applies.
So `let` is being used to define a var that is lexically scoped to... the global environment?! I've noticed you can do this in Javascript as well. As a Lisp programmer, its very jarring and seems like a bad practice. Is there a reason you would do this?
I think the same mantra is also responsible for the rise in succes. It's an enormously attractive proposition to get paid a lot, work on world's largest dataset with world's most advanced hardware - while all doing good, akin to working for an NGO. The downside is that if you want to get rid of that proposition you're still stuck with a larger than average pool of idealistically driven employees.

As for now one of the few companies I have the desire to work for is Apple due to their stance on privacy - though I find it difficult to completely respect them due to their stance on China, which is entirely conflicting with their western stance regarding privacy and ethics.
The difference in great power wars since WW2 is we now have nuclear weapons (yes apart from the bombing of Japan). As long as we fight proxy wars (Vietnam, Syria) then we haven't used them, but I can't see a war between for example the US and China over Taiwan or European states and Russia not devolving into nuclear war very quickly.
Saw a demo 20 years ago at Infosec(UK) of a company selling a dongle which with corresponding pass, acted as a proximity authentication and locking when you walked away.

Today, most laptops have cameras which can offer the same level of proximity detection if you away from the laptop. That would make this type of solution doable via software that way, albeit a bit more of a software load overhead.

But for some killcord, I'd also have an alarm.
It can do whatever you want it to do. The examples in the article were:

• whenever any USB drive is removed, trigger xscreensaver to lock the screen:

> ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", RUN+="DISPLAY=:0 xscreensaver-command -lock"

• whenever a specific USB drive is removed, shut down the computer:

> ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{ID_MODEL}=="Micromax_A74", RUN+="shutdown -h now"
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I've noticed a trend on Phoronix -- most articles and especially articles on controversial topics (systemd, BSDs, pulseaudio, etc.) are very low effort. Like literally pasting a few images from GitStats (like this case), quoting a mailing list entry with no context, or running your standard desktop test suite and issuing a performance verdict based on it...

Seems to me like the main purpose for such articles is not to inform, but to generate clicks by having a controversial project in its title...
> It is easy to fall into nihilism..... but, fortunately, it is difficult to maintain, and hardly anyone holds it for long.

I guess I'm one of the few :\
> [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/20/extincti

So some political activist used his free speech right to make some inconsiderate comments about historic events, and then numerous other public figures used their own free speech rights to point out that they disagree with those comments, and his publisher used their right of freedom of contract to cancel his book publishing deal.

Where exactly is the "caps on free speech" here? According to the article no legal or police action was taken against him? Should the people who disagreed with his comment have been prevented from criticizing him in public? Should book publishers be required to publish anything from anyone?
The article shows two different configurations, one that simply triggers the screensaver with a lock screen, the other to fully shut the machine down. Recovery from both of those is fairly straightforward.
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From our perspective, even if another species had colonized millions of stars, it would still be like looking for dust on a mountain.
It locks the screen by executing "xscreensaver-command -lock"

So this is a "kill cord" in the meaning of a jetski, power boat, or treadmill where pulling out the kill cord triggers a fast but nondestructive stop.
'Your' is Pivotal. I'm just talking about how they do things and what I learned there.

At Pivotal, an iteration is a week and it doesn't make any sense to make it longer than that. What would a longer than 1 week iteration really be? Are you making them longer only because you don't want as many retros?

I said:
"The idea is to have one hour at the end of a week closeout team bonding where anything can get laid out on the table."

You said:
"In our retros everything is on the table for discussion, but it sounds like that's not the case at Pivotal."

There is a disconnect somewhere cause I'm pretty sure we are saying the same thing. =)