skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, while systemd really does provide something that SysV init never could, it is hardly without flaws. In the past, it has had several severe security problems (up to and including privilege escalation vulnerabilities) that the developers have not always handled well. It's a "move fast and break things" kind of software, which in the realm of essential operating system components is not a good quality.

I agree on pulseaudio though, my only real gripe with that is documentation.
The plastics are made from carbon directly harvested from the ground (oil). Burying them is carbon neutral with respect to atmospheric carbon. The carbon in the paper comes from the atmosphere and burying it is therefore a carbon sink.
Sounds like parents buy one and let the teenager use it rather than get a moped or a scooter.
As someone living not in the US, I feel the same. I see all sorts of giveaways and deals (ie, free echo dot if you buy a newspaper subscription), but I've never met anyone who uses one. Never seen one in a friends house. Here it seems like they're desperately trying to get people to use them (to the point of giving them away), and failing. I figured it was probably a cultural split between US / everywhere else.

Another thing is I think we don't like voice activated control in general. An American colleague used to use voice activated calling all the time on his phone. I've literally never seen anyone else use that, unless they're driving.
Governments have always controlled it (SSL encryption ‘export’ limitations, for example); what we’ve moved past is the idea that those governments which control it are uniquely those which sit in Washington DC.
> I just don't trust the banking system enough to keep my money with any bank

I don't trust banks that much either but it is the less risky thing considering my in existing skill at financial stuff(I did not consider bitcoins or stock market because it feels like gambling with my or my son future, and I think I am risk adverse)
I'm guessing it's because of Cuba.

I'd wonder why the US is still embargoing Cuba after all these years. What's the endgame? What's the goal? The Cuban regime is still there and the Soviets are long gone. It seems petty and spiteful.
I'm not here to be your enemy, so please don't make me out to be one. I wasn't raised vegetarian by any means, and I know fully well meat tastes amazingly good, and that having a varied diet is important. But heart disease, diabetes and many types of cancers are worryingly linked with the consumption of meat, dairy and eggs. As the documentary Forks Over Knives [1] makes abundantly clear, a whole foods plant-based diet is in every way a life extension technology.

> Is that something to be ashamed of?

Wanting to feel satiated is nothing to be ashamed of. What is arguably shameful, however, is how the bacon gets made [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnlwqEii2I

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
Why would DuckDuckGo donate to causes like peace in the world?
Even though it is a good cause, it's not related to DDG. They have a privacy first approach and have donated money to similar organisations.

They do this every year - duckduckgo.com/donations
Pretty much. I'll refer to something that happened to me a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783724
I was paid to build an open source project for one of them, and it isn't Tor.
I read that as the following:

1. half of all Ami _buyers_ have one car and will continue to drive their existing car

2. half of all Ami _buyers_ have at least two children, and those children will the ones driving the Ami

3. 40% of those _driving_ Amis are under 18

4. 60% of those _driving_ Amis are over 18
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What? More like commits every other day for several years.

https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commits/master?after=19d2...
> There is a nice nod to the 2CV in the Ami’s flip-up windows, while other simple, money-saving ideas include identical doors (meaning one opens backwards and the other frontwards) and similarly interchangeable front and rear panels.

The windows are a nice touch, and the identical doors and interchangeable panels are, frankly, ingenious!

Something I didn't see mentioned in the article was the range - as a city car, I guess it's not that important, but does anyone know what it is?
Snowden criticises Amazon for hiring former NSA boss
Ami is small car, much like a cart, only 20000 are produced per year. It's hard to make a profit with a such low volume.

Only 250 parts are used compared to 30 000 for a standard car.

Source (in French) https://www.caradisiac.com/la-citroen-ami-la-meilleure-amie-...
> Rust is trying to be a better C++. And it addresses C++ issues directly in ways that are relatable to C++ programmers.

Just as importantly, it's trying to be a better C++ and it addresses C++ issues directly in ways that are relatable to non-C++ programmers.

For devs used to higher level languages, C++ is horrifying, it's a footgun wrapped in grenades, with an internet as full of legacy bad advice as VBA. Rust is a promise that you can get C++-type performance without blowing your foot off or falling into a million traps along the way unless you really want to.
Quicksy: Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery (for Android)
The epistemal value of epidemiological studies is very low. Nothing can be done to fix it.
Public transport and an umbrella should comfortably get you to a friend's house on a weekend in rain. What's the point of living in a city otherwise.
Not at all. Its a step in the right direction. Who wants to go to work full of sweat or go meet friends quite a few km away and show up sweating.

People forget that bike riders, once its past a certain amount of distance will sweat + are exposed to the elements. Sure ebikes help with this. But nobody in my country is going to go to work in a full suit + on a bike.
I have a pretty decent experience in lua, js, python, perl and a few in other scripting languages, and personally wouldn't just throw js away in general. Yes, it is a legacy freak, but some latest parts of it are at least worth adopting in other languages. To name a few, constructing objects ({a, ...b, c:[...d, e]}), destructuring, arrow functions conciseness, proxies, default arguments. This helps much in scripting and libraries for scripting. Also I find separate objects and arrays being a better approach than just lua-tables. I like lua, really, but some parts of it... you have to struggle with constantly. Select and "..." sematics in general, meta restrictions, a bloaty syntax.

Imo, the next language with a little stricter typing than both js and lua, which takes best parts of these and gets rid of bad practices, and with a typed version in mind, will be a big win for everyone.
> seemingly renders compliance managers unable to tell the difference between categorically different things

Because it renders them liable. The whole system will turn against you if you give it an opportunity to nail you for using discretion.

And this happens everywhere in society after a certain size is reached due to the need to hold people accountable without actually being able to fully evaluate who or what is to blame (due to the situation being too complex or not having all the facts/data). But politically, someone(s) has to go down.
Film review: Five stars for the ‘exquisite’ Ammonite
Sadly, there is no good way to stream sound over wifi from my android phone to the rock64 connected to amplifier
Is this a hit piece? I’ve never once had a problem with goodreads. Am I alone?
My comment was very Europe-centric, as the car is only for sale there, but I should've clarified my statement, sorry. From my experience here in the Czech Republic, most towns either have adequate public transport or are small enough that walking everywhere is viable.
“But It Works”
Did you threaten them that you would change languages again if they called you over the weekend?
You can have a look at the Leetcode forums. A lot of people share their experience there.
It does not seem to be possible to run this outside the Roblox Engine:

From the site:
https://roblox.github.io/luau/

"Luau is currently only runnable from the context of the Roblox engine, which exposes a large API surface documented on Roblox developer portal."
>saying that they will process payments unless the payment is prohibited by government sanctions

if they say that they will process payments unless prohibited by government sanctions and then do not process payments that is not prohibited I guess they would be getting sued for those payments.
Japan’s Love-Hate Relationship with Cats
> However when people refer to Windows or macOS as OS, they also include the whole collection of standard software as part of the OS. Control panels, browsers, GUI frameworks, etc

I'd add hardware drivers to that list too. Many are of course written by 3rd parties, but to the average consumer they are "part of the OS".
Is San Francisco's tech exodus real or a fantasy?
I think Sex Detectors... don't want your tenant to have sex and leave stains on your furniture! Sex is for hotels!

"If you wanted to have sex, you should've checked the tenancy agreement before you signed it."

Edit: this was my attempt at a joke! it's satirical
Yes they would, the fines are up to 250,000 per incident. If you share a name with someone on the AML list, good luck opening up a financial account anywhere and if you do manage to get an account, being able to fund the account from another source.
Not in the UK. Only in Silicon Valley, at a handful of companies, is this kind of comp normal. Seems silly to compare a government job to inflated stock-based salaries.
Never seen one in the wild in the uk
> The point was that the most common complaints about systemd are indeed issues people have with systemd and not with poor packaging or something. This contrasts with pulseaudio where most of the early criticism was caused more by distros doing a poor job with it than the users having fundamental issues with the design of pulseaudio.

Fair. I think many would contest that and say they indeed had issues with PulseAudio itself, not because you're wrong, but because the understanding as to why PA sucked for many is just not there and never was. I feel systemd is in a similar position. It's not poor distro packaging, bur it is rather a fundamental misunderstanding of what systemd even is.

From most of the complaints I've heard, they fundamentally misunderstand what systemd is even trying to do, there are certainly better ways of doing them, but I feel the debate is not even at the level where there's understanding of systemd and critiquing it.

In a sense, OpenRC is not even a direct competitor.

> What does that pinephone issue have to do with systemd? Sounds more like a bootloader issue (or if not, the kernel lacking a feature) to me.

It's not bootloader related or kernel related. There are other distros for the PinePhone, like Mobian, where suspend works properly. The issue is Alpine's init system can't do the job. systemd can.
Two of the three on that list are legal in at least one of the countries involved.

Moreover potential major bodily harm versus potential loss of savings don’t seem directly comparable.
Can America’s Premier Lightning Lab Revive Its Renegade Spirit?
The comment you are replying to is not talking about the emacs helm but rather the synth.
This is an incredibly irresponsible plan. Give me real solutions or stop this shit. WILL-NOT-WORK.

With this 60's mentality YOU-WILL-END-KILLING-SOMEONE

Can people, in the age if internet, learn a single thing about abyssal ecosystems? Do you know where most (if not all) abyssal fishes born? ALL ARE SURFACE FISHES. All are linked directly with fisheries.

We could achieve the same, just much cheaper, dumping it directly in the New York port.
How UFO culture took over America
I would say it’s not much different with regular banks in the US, as they can and do refuse service with no recourse if you do something they seem suspicious.
Jellyfish: Toxic but fascinating
Right. Re-reading the thread that suddenly seems obvious and my comment a bit pointless.

To add something more substantive: Every large city here has a couple of "zero packaging" store that lets you bring your own containers for all kind of dry goods, like sibling posts mentioned. Sometimes you have to use containers you bought in the store (so they know the weight), often you just weigh the containers going in, so they can subtract the weight going out. I still have two containers with the weight written on them in a marker pen.

Note that these are tiny stores, and the prices are fairly high (obviously the produce tends to be organic and regionally produced, where possible). This is not yet a mass phenomenon. It might be getting there, though, since I've seen regular supermarkets with a small selection of dry goods available in that way. Or maybe it's just a fad.

In a similar vein, some supermarket chains let you bring reusable containers to the meat/deli counter: they weigh the product on a little slip of plastic (like they usually do already), but instead of packing everything in one or two additional bags of plastic, they use your tupperware. Employees are not allowed to touch your containers, though (food safety). I'm sure they love that. I've never seen it done in practice.

For some reason, there's often a big hubbub about the plastic bags you get at those counters as well as in the fruits & veggie aisles. For things like onions and bananas (come with their own packaging) or apples and peaches (gotta rinse them thoroughly anyway) I usually simply don't use any extra packaging (no, cashiers don't mind). And it seems a bit farcical to worry about an extremely thin plastic bag when you're buying meat. I guess every bit helps. At the same time, the waste created by those bags, which weigh so little you need specialist equipment to get an estimate, always seemed trivial compared to almost all the prepackaged stuff in the supermarket. It's probably because those plastic bags are particularly harmful if they reach rivers or the ocean, though I'm not sure if this is a widespread problem here.

When you bring your own cup to the coffee to go place, you usually get a 5-10% discount; this is true for most places, especially the chains who realize that this is cheap way to get good publicity and customer retention. While also not the norm, I think this is something that some people actually do.
My use case is small children and music. It's incredibly convenient to say "alexa, play songs by pink fong" or whatever they're in the mood for, while cleaning or cooking or what have you, compared to getting a phone or tablet out and browsing to the music app and trying to find the same song or playlist.

Additionally, my oldest child can put music on for herself with her voice, but can't read or spell enough to do it otherwise.
Per the same agency:

> Athletes require slightly more protein than the rest of the population. According to the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), endurance athletes require between 1.2 and 1.4g per kg of body weight daily, while those competing in strength and speed events need between 1.2 and 1.7g per kg of body weight. These intakes can easily be achieved by eating a normal balanced diet.

This is in line with what most people aim for in macros. 1.2 g protein / kg body weight means way more than 50 grams per day.

I did not dispute that you can get proteins from plants. I am however not sure of their profiles; proteins are a group of compounds, not a single one. Typically since animals eat plants and not the other way around, animal-sourced proteins are a superset of vegetable ones.
I can see the argument for it, but I think that, especially at present, more harm is being done by a belief that expert opinion should be subject to obsessive outside scrutiny (by whom?) than this fairly academic concern about damaging the growth of knowledge.

For all that people like to point out the conservativeness of past experts rejecting ideas ultimately proven correct, few like to engage with the fact that almost all of those ideas were ultimately championed from within the establishment, not by radical outsiders.
I hope the EU will come up with a central bank backed alternative soon.
Dynamic rendering for high LightHouse score with Nuxt
Show HN: Apache Kafka in a Nutshell
To me, there are more benefits in using a bike: maintenance, cost, health benefits, it's probably also more secure

I've taken the bus for years at that age (10-18 years old) to go to school, I regret so much not using a bike, I could have woken up later and have more freedom (not have to wait for buses)
Modelling explains why blues and greens are nature's brightest colors
To be fair, the british had plenty of other things on their plate in 1812 (consider Tchaikovsky).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent#Background
If you (like me) can't wait for the official release, use asdf to install the master branch. I've been using Elixir 1.11 for a while now and haven't run into any issues!
The environmental footprint is not that clear-cut here, because humans are generally bad at turning food into energy, so cycling has a footprint of anywhere between 22g/km (vegan diet) to ~80g/km(average US diet rich in beef) of CO2 per kilometer.

Meanwhile a kilometer of driving this vehicle in France has a footprint of ~7g.

The battery's manufacturing footprint sits at around 450kg of CO2 - and this is something that has to be "paid off", but it's entirely possible within the car's lifecycle.

Basically unless you're vegan, it's likely more environmentally friendly in France to drive this.
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This looks fantastic. In the past I've often used bits and pieces from lodash and d3 to do these sort of data manipulations.

Anyone know if there are any performance comparisons anywhere? I know that in the past Mike Bostock has suggested array processing may be a lot faster[0], and on the Github [1] it mentions it's designed to be fast.

I really think this, in combination with other parts of the ecosystem like vega can be a game changers for how people use open data. One obstacle to get government to start publishing high quality machine readable open data has been that relatively few users want it - most seem stuck in the world of Excel.

With tools like this and Observable, the task of loading it in and charting it become a few simple commands that work even with large datasets. This in turn makes the case for publishing it much stronger. I talk about this a little more here [2].

[0] https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/manipulating-flat-arrays
[1] https://github.com/uwdata/arquero
[2] https://medium.com/@robin.linacre/first-impressions-of-the-o...
Seems like this is derived from a dissatisfaction with maintenance, but all I'm seeing is that they're maintaining things just fine. Yes, there are a lot of open PRs, but there are also quite a few merged, reviewed, and closed PRs. While I do support forks in the spirit of FOSS, I disagree that YT-dl is being poorly maintained and find that it continues to work well for my needs.

To the person who started the fork, what happened when you inquired about the apparent problem via email?
> Not at all. Its a step in the right direction. Who wants to go to work full of sweat or go meet friends quite a few km away and show up sweating

When considering what the right direction is, you should consider convenience, but also environmental impact. It's a trade-off to be made.
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On top of that PulseAudio appeared to be quite buggy at the beginning for quite some amount time, even after distributions started defaulting to it. I have read that most of those issues were actually driver bugs but that did not stop it getting a bad reputation.

I think this bad reputation is also part of the reason why the hate on systemd escalated that much.
I agree that distance/range is a problem, but I could see this as a way to get to school, to an after-school activity or to a shop in a nearby town. 50km should be enough for that and the speed, while much worse than a proper car, doesn't look so bad once you factor in waiting for a bus/waiting after the bus arrives/having to synchronize your schedule with parents.
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The Global Lockdown of Locks: Locks can be replaced with tasks
PayPal was the first free electronic way to send and receive money to people in the US, to my knowledge. Which is a sad indictment of the US’s infrastructure.

Even today, so many people use Venmo, which is still PayPal. Apple Cash seems to work well, but still involves an unnecessary middleman like PayPal.

Zelle is the only half decent solution, that doesn’t involves third parties.
So, I do this also (mostly for keeping things running on remote systems), and I just mostly use Emacs within tmux.

The only annoying part is needing to hit C-b twice to move one space backwards.

I really should remap the tmux keys, but at this point I'm used to it.
They seem a bit silly until you get one and then the idea of going without it feels frustrating. I have a couple (kitchen/living room and bedroom). I use it daily for setting timers when cooking, turning on/off the lights and adjusting them (e.g. turning to a specific setting if I'm watching a movie) and when I finish reading in bed at night I can just tell it to turn off all the lights to save me getting out of bed and getting back in the dark.

Obviously none of this is necessary and could be done in other ways but it's useful and relatively cheap (I got both echo dots in sales and 3 out of 4 bulbs in sales too).

Edit: I presume you're talking about Alexa in general and not this specific landlord product.
Searching code for usages of a piece of legacy code that you know is probably not used anywhere can be a good way for juniors to learn the code base, though.
I pushed a workaround and provided extra instructions in the demo, so anyone experiencing errors should try that.
> people are free to make their own choices.

As long as it doesn't impact too much the rest of society. For instance, people aren't free to drive a tank on the highway.

If we believe data on global warming, and if we consider it's an issue to be addressed (and most people believe both), some choices which are available now should be restricted in the future.
> I agree on pulseaudio though, my only real gripe with that is documentation.

Yep not great but still better than that confusing mess called asoundrc.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...

because it is exploitative?

You use your brand, widely known, to sell inferior product for cheap. I would call it an 'official' counterfeit. Worst case - some of those inferior products were sold at higher markup!
> I tell them this is analogous to walking into a dentist’s office and proclaiming, “Look how great my teeth look—and without a day of brushing! Do you want to be my first dentist?” Yuck.

Interesting comparison since a dentist's job is to fix problems (so why would they prefer a customer with no problems?). For other roles, it certainly sucks to fix the mess no one wanted to deal with anymore, but this is often the only thing that motivates hiring you in the first place.
Managed scripting languages you mean, C++ is quite high level and managed languages like Swift, D and C# offer similar concepts.
I don't know where you live and how garbage disposal works where you live, but in general I would urge people not to do this. Proper garbage can bags are important because they don't spill out easily. This makes the job of the garbage disposal people much easier. Imagine having someone overworked and underpaid, working on autopilot and at fast pace, and suddenly your trash spills out. You will ruin that person's day.